fatty acid
— Noun
– English
~ any of a class of aliphatic monocarboxylic acids that form part of a lipid molecule and can be derived from fat by hydrolysis; fatty acids are simple molecules built around a series of carbon atoms linked together in a chain of 12 to 22 carbon atoms
fatuity
— Noun
– English
~ a ludicrous folly; "the crowd laughed at the absurdity of the clown's behavior"
fatuousness
— Noun
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~ a ludicrous folly; "the crowd laughed at the absurdity of the clown's behavior"
fatwa
— Noun
– English
~ a ruling on a point of Islamic law that is given by a recognized authority
fatwah
— Noun
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~ (Islam) a legal opinion or ruling issued by an Islamic scholar; "bin Laden issued three fatwahs calling upon Muslims to take up arms against the United States"
faubourg
— Noun
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~ a New Orleans district lying outside the original city limits; used in combination with the names of various quarters of the city; "in Faubourg Sainte-Marie"
fauces
— Noun
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~ the passage between the back of the mouth and the pharynx
faucet
— Noun
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~ a regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir
fauld
— Noun
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~ a piece of armor plate below the breastplate
Faulkner
— Noun
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~ United States novelist (originally Falkner) who wrote about people in the southern United States (1897-1962)
fault
— Noun
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~ the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection; "they discussed the merits and demerits of her novel"; "he knew his own faults much better than she did"
fault
— Noun
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~ a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults"