Grandiloquent Dictionary

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famulus - ( )

  An assistant to a scholar or magician

farctate - ( )

  The state of being stuffed with food (overeating)

fashimite - ( )

  Someone who is a slave to fashion

favillous - ( )

  Resembling ashes

feaque - ( )

  A dirty, lazy man

feazings - ( )

  The frayed and unraveled ends of a rope

febriphobia - ( )

  A fear of fever

felinophobia - ( )

  A fear of cats

felly - ( )

  The outer wooden rim of a wheel

feriae - ( )

  Days in the ancient roman culture in which all people, including slaves, got a holiday

feriation - ( )

  Taking time off of one's work to relax or to travel

ferrule - ( )

  1.The metal tip on an umbrella

ferrule - ( )

  2. The threaded knob that holds a lampshade in place

ferrule - ( )

  3. A protective metal cap on the end of a cane or a tool handle

festinate - ( )

  To walk fast or to move rapidly

fettler - ( )

  A person skilled at repairing tools or machinery

fewterer - ( )

  A keeper of dogs or manager of a kennel

fibriophobia - ( )

  See febriphobia

fideism - ( )

  Reliance upon one's religion instead or reason for beliefs and truths

fidimplicitary - ( )

  A person who has implicit faith

filiopietistic - ( )

  The practice of worshipping one's ancestors

filipendulous - ( )

  Being suspended by a single thread

filipendulous - ( )

  Suspended by a single thread

fimicoloud - ( )

  Living in a dung heap

fissilingual - ( )

  Having a forked tongue

fittie-lan - ( )

  The near horse of the hindmost pair pulling a plough

flavescent - ( )

  Yellowish or turning yellow

fletcherize - ( )

  To chew each piece of food at least thirty times

flexiloquent - ( )

  Pertaining to someone who speaks ambiguously

floccillation - ( )

  The delirious picking at bedclothes by a sick person

floccinaucinihilipilification - ( )

  The categorizing of something that is useless or trivial

fluctisonant - ( )

  Having the sound of rolling waves

flyndrig - ( )

  An impudent or deceiving woman

fomentation - ( )

  The application of warm substances to diseased parts

foof - ( )

  To howl and whine like a wounded dog

formication - ( )

  The sensation of bugs crawling over one's body

fossick - ( )

  To search for gold in abandoned claims or to rummage around for anything valuable

franion - ( )

  A pleasure seeker or hedonist

fremescence - ( )

  The grumbling sound of an unhappy mob of people

friendorphobia - ( )

  A fear of forgetting a password

frisson - ( )

  A shudder of excitement that courses through the body

fritinancy - ( )

  The chirping or croaking sound of insects

frustling - ( )

  The shaking and showing of feathers by birds, or the strutting around of someone with fancy clothing

frustraneous - ( )

  unprofitable and completely useless

fruzz - ( )

  To rub hair the wrong way, as when petting a dog from tail to head

fucoid - ( )

  Resembling sea weed

fudgeon - ( )

  A fussy person

fulmination - ( )

  A loud and violent explosion, either literally or figuratively

fumifugist - ( )

  Something or someone which expels smoke

funambulist - ( )

  A tight rope walker

fungy - ( fun-jee )

  A type of deep dish blueberry pie

funkify - ( )

  To run away in fear

furfuraceous - ( )

  Covered with scales or dandruff flakes

furr-ahin - ( )

  The hindmost horse on the right pulling a plough

fuscoferuginous - ( )

  Having a dark rusty colour

fustilug - ( )

  A fat, clumsy, lazy, filthy slob

fyerk - ( )

  To flick away using one's finger and thumb

fysigunkus - ( )

  A person who lacks curiosity