Nouns starting with F

• Falkland Islands — Noun – English ～ a group of over 100 islands in the southern Atlantic off the coast of Argentina; a British Crown Colony
• Frisian Islands — Noun – English ～ a chain of islands in the North Sea off the coast of northwestern Europe extending from the IJsselmeer to Jutland
• Friendly Islands — Noun – English ～ a monarchy on a Polynesian archipelago in the South Pacific; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1970
• Fiji Islands — Noun – English ～ a group of more than 800 islands (100 inhabited) in the southwestern Pacific; larger islands (Viti Levu and Vanua Levu) are of volcanic origin surrounded by coral reefs; smaller islands are coral
• fluorescein isocyanate — Noun – English ～ a fluorochrome commonly conjugated with antibodies for use in indirect immunofluorescence
• family Isoetaceae — Noun – English ～ quillworts; coextensive with the genus Isoetes
• fluorescein isothiocyanate — Noun – English ～ a fluorochrome commonly conjugated with antibodies for use in indirect immunofluorescence
• family Istiophoridae — Noun – English ～ sailfishes; spearfishes; marlins
• family Isuridae — Noun – English ～ in some classifications another name for the family Lamnidae
• factor IV — Noun – English ～ ion of calcium; a factor in the clotting of blood
• factor IX — Noun – English ～ coagulation factor whose absence is associated with hemophilia B
• family Ixodidae — Noun – English ～ hard ticks
• Francois Jacob — Noun – English ～ French biochemist who (with Jacques Monod) studied regulatory processes in cells (born in 1920)
• Frederick James Furnivall — Noun – English ～ English philologist who first proposed the Oxford English Dictionary (1825-1910)
• Fortunella japonica — Noun – English ～ shrub bearing round-fruited kumquats
• family Jassidae — Noun – English ～ family of small leafhoppers coextensive with the Cicadellidae and not distinguished from it in some classifications
• freedom from double jeopardy — Noun – English ～ a civil right guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution
• fan-jet — Noun – English ～ a jet engine in which a fan driven by a turbine provides extra air to the burner and gives extra thrust
• fan-jet — Noun – English ～ an airplane propelled by a fanjet engine
• family jewels — Noun – English ～ external male sex organs

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