Feoffment (n.) The instrument or deed by which corporeal hereditaments are conveyed.
Feofor (n.) Alt. of Feoffer
Feoffer (n.) One who enfeoffs or grants a fee.
Fer (a. & adv.) Far.
Feracious (a.) Fruitful; producing abundantly.
Feracity (n.) The state of being feracious or fruitful.
Ferae (n. pl.) A group of mammals which formerly included the Carnivora, Insectivora, Marsupialia, and lemurs, but is now often restricted to the Carnivora.
Ferae naturae () Of a wild nature; -- applied to animals, as foxes, wild ducks, etc., in which no one can claim property.
Feral (a.) Wild; untamed; ferine; not domesticated; -- said of beasts, birds, and plants.
Feral (a.) Funereal; deadly; fatal; dangerous.
Ferde () imp. of Fare.
Fer-de-lance (n.) A large, venomous serpent (Trigonocephalus lanceolatus) of Brazil and the West Indies. It is allied to the rattlesnake, but has no rattle.
Ferding (n.) A measure of land mentioned in Domesday Book. It is supposed to have consisted of a few acres only.
Ferdness (n.) Fearfulness.
Fere (n.) A mate or companion; -- often used of a wife.
Fere (a.) Fierce.
Fere (n.) Fire.
Fere (n.) Fear.
Fere (v. t. & i.) To fear.
Feretory (n.) A portable bier or shrine, variously adorned, used for containing relics of saints.
Ferforth (adv.) Far forth.
Ferforthly (adv.) Ferforth.
Fergusonite (n.) A mineral of a brownish black color, essentially a tantalo-niobate of yttrium, erbium, and cerium; -- so called after Robert Ferguson.
Feriae (pl. ) of Feria
Feria (n.) A week day, esp. a day which is neither a festival nor a fast.
Ferial (n.) Same as Feria.
Ferial (a.) Of or pertaining to holidays.
Ferial (a.) Belonging to any week day, esp. to a day that is neither a festival nor a fast.
Feriation (n.) The act of keeping holiday; cessation from work.
Ferie (n.) A holiday.
Ferier (a.) compar. of Fere, fierce.
Ferine (a.) Wild; untamed; savage; as, lions, tigers, wolves, and bears are ferine beasts.
Ferine (n.) A wild beast; a beast of prey.
Feringee (n.) The name given to Europeans by the Hindos.
Ferity (n.) Wildness; savageness; fierceness.
Ferly (n.) Singular; wonderful; extraordinary.
Ferly (n.) A wonder; a marvel.
Fermacy (n.) Medicine; pharmacy.
Ferm (n.) Alt. of Ferme
Ferme (n.) Rent for a farm; a farm; also, an abode; a place of residence; as, he let his land to ferm.
Ferment (n.) That which causes fermentation, as yeast, barm, or fermenting beer.
Ferment (n.) Intestine motion; heat; tumult; agitation.
Ferment (n.) A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.
Fermented (imp. & p. p.) of Ferment
Fermenting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ferment
Ferment (n.) To cause ferment of fermentation in; to set in motion; to excite internal emotion in; to heat.
Ferment (v. i.) To undergo fermentation; to be in motion, or to be excited into sensible internal motion, as the constituent oarticles of an animal or vegetable fluid; to work; to effervesce.
Ferment (v. i.) To be agitated or excited by violent emotions.
Fermentability (n.) Capability of fermentation.
Fermentable (a.) Capable of fermentation; as, cider and other vegetable liquors are fermentable.
Fermental (a.) Fermentative.
Fermentation (n.) The process of undergoing an effervescent change, as by the action of yeast; in a wider sense (Physiol. Chem.), the transformation of an organic substance into new compounds by the action of a ferment, either formed or unorganized. It differs in kind according to the nature of the ferment which causes it.
Fermentation (n.) A state of agitation or excitement, as of the intellect or the feelings.
Fermentative (a.) Causing, or having power to cause, fermentation; produced by fermentation; fermenting; as, a fermentative process.
Fermerere (n.) The officer in a religious house who had the care of the infirmary.
Fermillet (n.) A buckle or clasp.
Fern (adv.) Long ago.
Fern (a.) Ancient; old. [Obs.] "Pilgrimages to . . . ferne halwes." [saints].
Fern (n.) An order of cryptogamous plants, the Filices, which have their fructification on the back of the fronds or leaves. They are usually found in humid soil, sometimes grow epiphytically on trees, and in tropical climates often attain a gigantic size.
Fernery (n.) A place for rearing ferns.
Fernticle (n.) A freckle on the skin, resembling the seed of fern.
Ferny (a.) Abounding in ferns.
Ferocious (a.) Fierce; savage; wild; indicating cruelty; ravenous; rapacious; as, ferocious look or features; a ferocious lion.
Ferocity (n.) Savage wildness or fierceness; fury; cruelty; as, ferocity of countenance.
Feroher (n.) A symbol of the solar deity, found on monuments exhumed in Babylon, Nineveh, etc.
Ferous (a.) Wild; savage.
-ferous () A suffix signifying bearing, producing, yielding; as, auriferous, yielding gold; chyliferous, producing chyle.
Ferrandine (n.) A stuff made of silk and wool.
Ferrara (n.) A sword bearing the mark of one of the Ferrara family of Italy. These swords were highly esteemed in England and Scotland in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Ferrarese (a.) Pertaining to Ferrara, in Italy.
Ferrarese (n., sing. & pl.) A citizen of Ferrara; collectively, the inhabitants of Ferrara.
Ferrary (n.) The art of working in iron.
Ferrate (n.) A salt of ferric acid.
Ferre (a. & adv.) Alt. of Ferrer
Ferrer (a. & adv.) compar. of Fer.
Ferreous (a.) Partaking of, made of, or pertaining to, iron; like iron.
Ferrest (a. & adv.) superl. of Fer.
Ferret (n.) An animal of the Weasel family (Mustela / Putorius furo), about fourteen inches in length, of a pale yellow or white color, with red eyes. It is a native of Africa, but has been domesticated in Europe. Ferrets are used to drive rabbits and rats out of their holes.
Ferreted (imp. & p. p.) of Ferret
Ferreting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ferret
Ferret (n.) To drive or hunt out of a lurking place, as a ferret does the cony; to search out by patient and sagacious efforts; -- often used with out; as, to ferret out a secret.
Ferret (n.) A kind of narrow tape, usually made of woolen; sometimes of cotton or silk; -- called also ferreting.
Ferret (n.) The iron used for trying the melted glass to see if is fit to work, and for shaping the rings at the mouths of bottles.
Ferreter (n.) One who ferrets.
Ferret-eye (n.) The spur-winged goose; -- so called from the red circle around the eyes.
Ferretto (n.) Copper sulphide, used to color glass.
Ferri- () A combining form indicating ferric iron as an ingredient; as, ferricyanide.
Ferriage (n.) The price or fare to be paid for passage at a ferry.
Ferric (a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing iron. Specifically (Chem.), denoting those compounds in which iron has a higher valence than in the ferrous compounds; as, ferric oxide; ferric acid.
Ferricyanate (n.) A salt of ferricyanic acid; a ferricyanide.
Ferricyanic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, a ferricyanide.
Ferricyanide (n.) One of a complex series of double cyanides of ferric iron and some other base.
Ferrier (n.) A ferryman.
Ferriferous (a.) Producing or yielding iron.
Ferriprussiate (n.) A ferricyanate; a ferricyanide.
Ferriprussic (a.) Ferricyanic.
Ferro- () A prefix, or combining form, indicating ferrous iron as an ingredient; as, ferrocyanide.
Ferrocalcite (n.) Limestone containing a large percentage of iron carbonate, and hence turning brown on exposure.
Ferrocyanate (n.) A salt of ferrocyanic acid; a ferrocyanide.
Ferrocyanic (a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, a ferrocyanide.