Nouns starting with F

• Felix Mendelssohn — Noun – English ～ German musician and romantic composer of orchestral and choral works (1809-1847)
• fence mending — Noun – English ～ social action to improve poor relations (especially in politics); "they moved forward from a period of fence mending to substantive changes in the country"
• family Menispermaceae — Noun – English ～ herbaceous or woody climbers
• family Menuridae — Noun – English ～ lyrebirds
• family Menyanthaceae — Noun – English ～ a dicotyledonous family of marsh plants of order Gentianales
• fulminating mercury — Noun – English ～ a fulminate that when dry explodes violently if struck or heated; used in detonators and blasting caps and percussion caps
• family Meropidae — Noun – English ～ bee-eaters
• Fannie Merritt Farmer — Noun – English ～ an expert on cooking whose cookbook has undergone many editions (1857-1915)
• Franz Anton Mesmer — Noun – English ～ Austrian physician who tried to treat diseases with a form of hypnotism (1734-1815)
• Friedrich Anton Mesmer — Noun – English ～ Austrian physician who tried to treat diseases with a form of hypnotism (1734-1815)
• fat metabolism — Noun – English ～ a metabolic process that breaks down ingested fats into fatty acids and glycerol and then into simpler compounds that can be used by cells of the body
• fusible metal — Noun – English ～ an alloy with a low melting point and used as solder and in safety plugs and sprinkler fuses
• full metal jacket — Noun – English ～ a lead bullet that is covered with a jacket of a harder metal (usually copper)
• frozen metaphor — Noun – English ～ a metaphor that has occurred so often that it has become a new meaning of the expression (e.g., `he is a snake' may once have been a metaphor but after years of use it has died and become a new sense of the word `snake')
• Fritillaria micrantha — Noun – English ～ California herb with brownish-purple or greenish bell-shaped flowers
• family Micrococcaceae — Noun – English ～ spherical or elliptical usually aerobic eubacteria that produce yellow or orange or red pigment; includes toxin-producing forms as well as harmless commensals and saprophytes
• family Microdesmidae — Noun – English ～ worm fish
• family Microhylidae — Noun – English ～ narrow-mouthed toads and sheep frogs; some burrow and some are arboreal; found worldwide
• field-emission microscope — Noun – English ～ electron microscope used to observe the surface structure of a solid
• fluorescence microscopy — Noun – English ～ light microscopy in which the specimen is irradiated at wavelengths that excite fluorochromes

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