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- faddishness — The state or condition of being faddish.
- fairy bread — slices of white bread covered with small beads of brightly coloured sugar, served as a children’s snack
- fanfaronade — bragging; bravado; bluster.
- fanny adams — absolutely nothing at all
- fatheadedly — in a fatheaded manner
- featherhead — featherbrain.
- feeder road — a secondary road used to bring traffic to a major road.
- fellermelad — (jocular, UK, Ireland, usually with
- fiddleheads — Plural form of fiddlehead.
- field grade — military rank applying to mid-level army officers, as majors, lieutenant colonels, and colonels.
- fifth grade — the fifth year of school, when children are ten or eleven years old
- figureheads — Plural form of figurehead.
- first grade — school year: age 6-7
- fish ladder — a series of ascending pools constructed to enable salmon or other fish to swim upstream around or over a dam.
- flower head — an inflorescence consisting of a dense cluster of small, stalkless flowers; capitulum.
- flowerheads — Plural form of flowerhead.
- flumadiddle — utter nonsense.
- flying head — a read/write head supported on a thin cushion of air over a rotating magnetic disk.
- footbreadth — a measurement equalling a breadth of a foot
- foreshadows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foreshadow.
- forge ahead — move forward with determination
- form leader — a pupil elected by other pupils to lead or represent their form
- fraud squad — law: police department
- fredrikstad — a port in SE Norway at the entrance to Oslo Fjord. Pop: 69 867 (2004 est)
- free trader — a person who advocates free trade.
- free-trader — a person who advocates free trade.
- freeloaders — Plural form of freeloader.
- freeloading — to take advantage of others for free food, entertainment, etc.
- from abroad — from a foreign land or lands
- frontloaded — Simple past tense and past participle of frontload.
- fruit salad — a cold dish consisting of various types of small or cut-up fruit, usually served as a dessert or first course.
- fur brigade — (formerly) a convoy of canoes, horses, or dog sleighs that transported furs and other goods between trading posts and towns or factories
- gallbladder — a pear-shaped, muscular sac attached to the undersurface of the right lobe of the liver, in which bile is stored and concentrated.
- garnet jade — a green grossularite, used as a gem: not a true jade.
- gas bladder — air bladder (def 2).
- gas-bladder — a vesicle or sac containing air.
- gasconading — extravagant boasting; boastful talk.
- get it made — to be assured of success
- gingerbread — a type of cake flavored with ginger and molasses.
- girdlestead — the waist
- glad-hander — to greet warmly.
- gladfulness — The quality of being gladful.
- goldthreads — Plural form of goldthread.
- gonadectomy — (surgery) The procedure to remove an ovary or testis.
- gonadotrope — a gonadotropic substance.
- gradability — a measure of a truck's pulling power expressed as the steepest grade the truck can climb with a full load.
- gradational — any process or change taking place through a series of stages, by degrees, or in a gradual manner.
- grade point — Education. a numerical equivalent to a received letter grade, usually 0 for F, 1 for D, 2 for C, 3 for B, and 4 for A, that is multiplied by the number of credits for the course: used to compute a grade point average.
- grade sheet — a piece of paper on which a student's grades are recorded
- graded area — (in dialect geography) an area whose dialect has been influenced by the dialect of one or more neighboring focal areas. Compare focal area, relic area.