Nouns starting with F

• fixed storage — Noun – English ～ (computer science) memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed
• flower store — Noun – English ～ a shop where flowers and ornamental plants are sold
• fairy story — Noun – English ～ a story about fairies; told to amuse children
• fairy story — Noun – English ～ an interesting but highly implausible story; often told as an excuse
• funny story — Noun – English ～ an account of an amusing incident (usually with a punch line); "she told a funny story"; "she made a funny"
• Florida strangler fig — Noun – English ～ a strangler tree native to southern Florida and West Indies; begins as an epiphyte eventually developing many thick aerial roots and covering enormous areas
• Florida strap fern — Noun – English ～ common epiphytic or sometimes terrestrial fern having pale yellow-green strap-shaped leaves; Florida to West Indies and Mexico and south to Uruguay
• Fleet Street — Noun – English ～ British journalism
• Fleet Street — Noun – English ～ a street in central London where newspaper offices are situated
• family Strelitziaceae — Noun – English ～ woody plants with erect stems of tropical South America and South Africa and Madagascar; in some classifications included in the family Musaceae
• field strength — Noun – English ～ the vector sum of all the forces exerted by an electrical or magnetic field (on a unit mass or unit charge or unit magnetic pole) at a given point in the field
• family Streptomycetaceae — Noun – English ～ higher bacteria typically aerobic soil saprophytes
• family Strigidae — Noun – English ～ a family of nocturnal birds of the order Strigiformes
• first strike — Noun – English ～ the initial use of nuclear weapons to attack a country that also has nuclear weapons; considered feasible only when the attacker can destroy the other country's ability to retaliate; "the Pakistani president promised no first strike against India"
• furring strip — Noun – English ～ strip used to give a level surface for attaching wallboard
• flight strip — Noun – English ～ an airfield without normal airport facilities
• four-stroke internal-combustion engine — Noun – English ～ an internal-combustion engine in which an explosive mixture is drawn into the cylinder on the first stroke and is compressed and ignited on the second stroke; work is done on the third stroke and the products of combustion are exhausted on the fourth stroke
• four-stroke engine — Noun – English ～ an internal-combustion engine in which an explosive mixture is drawn into the cylinder on the first stroke and is compressed and ignited on the second stroke; work is done on the third stroke and the products of combustion are exhausted on the fourth stroke
• forehand stroke — Noun – English ～ (sports) a return made with the palm of the hand facing the direction of the stroke (as in tennis or badminton or squash)
• family Stromateidae — Noun – English ～ butterfishes: harvest fishes; dollar fishes

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