Nouns starting with F

• filtration surgery — Noun – English ～ eye surgery that opens a passage allowing excess aqueous humor to drain into surrounding tissues; a treatment for glaucoma
• father surrogate — Noun – English ～ a man who takes over all the functions of the real father
• Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act — Noun – English ～ an act passed by Congress in 1978 to establish procedures for requesting judicial authorization for foreign intelligence surveillance and to create the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court; intended to increase United States counterintelligence; separate from ordinary law enforcement surveillance
• Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court — Noun – English ～ a secret federal court created in 1978 by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act; responsible for authorizing wiretaps and other forms of electronic surveillance and for authorizing searches of suspected spies and terrorists by the Department of Justice or United States intelligence agencies
• frontal suture — Noun – English ～ the suture between two halves of the frontal bone (usually obliterated by the age of 6)
• fri svømning — Noun – Danish ～ svømmedisciplin hvor deltagerne selv må bestemme h ...
• fairy swallow — Noun – English ～ fancy domestic pigeon having blue-and-white plumage and heavily muffed feet
• fire-swallower — Noun – English ～ a performer who pretends to swallow fire
• fencing sword — Noun – English ～ a sword used in the sport of fencing
• Ficus sycomorus — Noun – English ～ thick-branched wide-spreading tree of Africa and adjacent southwestern Asia often buttressed with branches rising from near the ground; produces cluster of edible but inferior figs on short leafless twigs; the biblical sycamore
• Fagus sylvatica purpurea — Noun – English ～ variety of European beech with shining purple or copper-colored leaves
• Fagus sylvatica — Noun – English ～ large European beech with minutely-toothed leaves; widely planted as an ornamental in North America
• Fagus sylvatica pendula — Noun – English ～ variety of European beech with pendulous limbs
• Fagus sylvatica atropunicea — Noun – English ～ variety of European beech with shining purple or copper-colored leaves
• Ficus carica sylvestris — Noun – English ～ wild variety of the common fig used to facilitate pollination of certain figs
• family Sylviidae — Noun – English ～ in some classifications considered a subfamily (Sylviinae) of the family Muscicapidae: Old World (true) warblers; American kinglets and gnatcatchers
• fissure of Sylvius — Noun – English ～ the deepest and most prominent of the cortical fissures; separates the frontal lobes and temporal lobes in both hemispheres
• family Symplocaceae — Noun – English ～ a dicotyledonous family of order Ebenales
• family Synchytriaceae — Noun – English ～ a fungus family of order Chytridiales
• Fallot's syndrome — Noun – English ～ a congenital heart defect producing cyanosis; characterized by four symptoms: pulmonary stenosis and ventricular septal defect and malposition of the aorta over both ventricles and hypertrophy of the right ventricle

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