fallible
1: likely to fail or be inaccurate; "everyone is fallible to some degree" [ant: {infallible}] 2: having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings; "I'm only human"; "frail humanity" [syn:...
falling
1: suddenly losing an upright position; "they ran from the falling tree"; "a falling wall crushed the car" [ant: {standing}] 2: decreasing in amount or degree; "falling temperature" 3: becoming lower ...
falling off
1: a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality; "the team went into a slump"; "a gradual slack in output"; "a drop-off in attendance"; "a falloff in quality" [syn: {slump}, {slack}, {drop-off...
falling out
1: a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions); "they hoped to avoid a break in relations" [syn: {rupture}, {breach}, {break}, {severance}, {rift}]
falloff
1: a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality; "the team went into a slump"; "a gradual slack in output"; "a drop-off in attendance"; "a falloff in quality" [syn: {slump}, {slack}, {drop-off...
Fallopian tube
1: either of a pair of tubes conducting the egg from the ovary to the uterus [syn: {uterine tube}, {oviduct}]
Fallot
1: French physician who described cardiac anomalies including Fallot's tetralogy (1850-1911) [syn: {Etienne-Louis Arthur Fallot}]
Fallot's syndrome
1: 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 t...
Fallot's tetralogy
1: 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 t...
fallout
1: the radioactive particles that settle to the ground after a nuclear explosion [syn: {radioactive dust}] 2: any adverse and unwanted secondary effect; "a strategy to contain the fallout from the acc...
fallout shelter
1: a shelter to protect occupants from the fallout from an atomic bomb
fallow
1: left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season; "fallow farmland" 2: undeveloped but potentially useful; "a fallow gold market" n : cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing se...
falls
1: a steep descent of the water of a river [syn: {waterfall}]
false
1: not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality; "gave false testimony under oath"; "false tales of bravery" [ant: {true}] 2: arising from error; "a false assumption"; "a mistaken view of t...
false alarm
1: a warning that is given about something that fails to occur
false alumroot
1: plant growing in clumps with mostly basal leaves and cream or pale pink fringed flowers in several long racemes; Alaska to coastal central California and east to Idaho [syn: {fringe cups}, {Tellima...
false asphodel
1: a plant of the genus Tofieldia having linear chiefly basal leaves and small spicate flowers
false azalea
1: straggling shrub of northwestern North America having foliage with a bluish tinge and umbels of small bell-shaped flowers [syn: {fool's huckleberry}, {Menziesia ferruginea}]
false baby's breath
1: Eurasian herb with ample panicles of small white flowers; naturalized in North America [syn: {wild madder}, {white madder}, {white bedstraw}, {infant's-breath}, {Galium mollugo}]
false beachdrops
1: fleshy tawny or reddish saprophytic herb resembling the Indian pipe and growing in woodland humus of eastern North America; in some classifications placed in a separate genus Hypopitys [syn: {pines...
false belief
1: a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning [syn: {fallacy}]
false bittersweet
1: twining shrub of North America having three-valved yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds [syn: {bittersweet}, {American bittersweet}, {climbing bittersweet}, {staff vine}, {waxwork}, {Celastrus s...
false bracken
1: resembles Pteridium aquilinum; of Queensland, Australia [syn: {Culcita dubia}]
false buckthorn
1: deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico [syn: {chittamwood}, {chittimwood}, {shittimwood}, {black haw}, {Bumelia lanuginosa}]
false bugbane
1: tall perennial of the eastern United States having large basal leaves and white summer flowers [syn: {Trautvetteria carolinensis}]
false calyx
1: a group of bracts simulating a calyx as in a carnation or hibiscus [syn: {epicalyx}, {calycle}, {calyculus}]
false chamomile
1: any of various autumn-flowering perennials having white or pink to purple flowers that resemble asters; wild in moist soils from New Jersey to Florida and Texas
false deathcap
1: agaric often confused with the death cup [syn: {Amanita mappa}]
false dogwood
1: evergreen of tropical America having pulpy fruit containing saponin which was used as soap by native Americans [syn: {China tree}, {jaboncillo}, {chinaberry}, {Sapindus saponaria}]
false dragon head
1: North American plant having a spike of two-lipped pink or white flowers [syn: {false dragonhead}, {obedient plant}, {Physostegia virginiana}]
false dragonhead
1: North American plant having a spike of two-lipped pink or white flowers [syn: {false dragon head}, {obedient plant}, {Physostegia virginiana}]
false face
1: a mask worn as part of a masquerade costume
false foxglove
1: sparsely branched North American perennial with terminal racemes of bright yellow flowers resembling those of the foxglove; sometimes placed in genus Gerardia [syn: {Aureolaria virginica}, {Gerardi...
false fruit
1: a fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part [syn: {pome}]
false garlic
1: pungent Old World wild onion [syn: {crow garlic}, {field garlic}, {stag's garlic}, {wild garlic}, {Allium vineale}]
false gavial
1: crocodile of southeast Asia similar to but smaller than the gavial [syn: {Tomistoma schlegeli}]
false glottis
1: the opening between the false vocal folds [syn: {rima vestibuli}, {rima respiratoria}, {glottis spuria}]
false goatsbeard
1: North American astilbe with panicles of creamy white flowers [syn: {Astilbe biternata}]
false gromwell
1: any of several North American perennial herbs with hairy foliage and small yellowish or greenish flowers
false hair
1: a covering or bunch of human or artificial hair used for disguise or adornment [syn: {hairpiece}, {postiche}]
false heather
1: North American decumbent evergreen heathlike plant with yellow flowers [syn: {golden heather}, {Hudsonia ericoides}]
false hellebore
1: perennial herbs of the lily family having thick toxic rhizomes [syn: {hellebore}]
false indigo
1: any of several plants of the genus Baptisia [syn: {wild indigo}] 2: dense shrub of moist riverbanks and flood plains of the eastern United States having attractive fragrant foliage and dense raceme...
false labor
1: painless contractions of the muscles of the uterus that continue throughout pregnancy with increasing frequency [syn: {Braxton-Hicks contraction}]
false lily of the valley
1: small white-flowered plant of western Europe to Japan [syn: {Maianthemum bifolium}] 2: small two-leaved herb of the northern United States and parts of Canada having racemes of small fragrant white...
false lupine
1: western United States bushy herb having yellow pealike flowers [syn: {golden pea}, {yellow pea}, {Thermopsis macrophylla}]
false mallow
1: genus of coarse herbs and subshrubs of arid North and South America having pink or scarlet flowers and globose fruits [syn: {globe mallow}] 2: an American plant of the genus Malvastrum
false mildew
1: any of various fungi of the family Peronosporaceae parasitic on e.g. grapes and potatoes and melons [syn: {downy mildew}]
false mistletoe
1: American plants closely resembling Old World mistletoe [syn: {mistletoe}]
false miterwort
1: plant with tiny white flowers hanging in loose clusters on leafy stems; moist woods from Alaska to central California and east to Montana [syn: {false mitrewort}, {Tiarella unifoliata}] 2: stolonif...
false mitrewort
1: plant with tiny white flowers hanging in loose clusters on leafy stems; moist woods from Alaska to central California and east to Montana [syn: {false miterwort}, {Tiarella unifoliata}] 2: stolonif...
false name
1: a name that has been assumed temporarily [syn: {alias}, {assumed name}]
false nettle
1: any of several flowering weeds of the genus Boehmeria lacking stinging hairs [syn: {bog hemp}]
false oat
1: coarse perennial Eurasian grass resembling oat; found on roadside verges and rough grassland and in hay meadows; introduced in North America for forage [syn: {tall oat grass}, {tall meadow grass}, ...
false pimpernel
1: weedy plant having short dry chafflike leaves [syn: {chaffweed}, {bastard pimpernel}]
false pregnancy
1: physiological state in which a woman exhibits symptoms of pregnancy but is not pregnant [syn: {pseudocyesis}]
false pretence
1: (law) an offense involving intent to defraud and false representation and obtaining property as a result of that misrepresentation [syn: {false pretense}]
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false pretense
1: (law) an offense involving intent to defraud and false representation and obtaining property as a result of that misrepresentation [syn: {false pretence}]
false ragweed
1: tall annual marsh elder common in moist rich soil is central North America that can cause contact dermatitis; produces much pollen that is a major cause of hay fever [syn: {burweed marsh elder}, {I...
false rue
1: slender erect perennial of eastern North America having tuberous roots and pink-tinged white flowers; resembles meadow rue [syn: {false rue anemone}, {Isopyrum biternatum}]
false rue anemone
1: slender erect perennial of eastern North America having tuberous roots and pink-tinged white flowers; resembles meadow rue [syn: {false rue}, {Isopyrum biternatum}]
false saber-toothed tiger
1: North American cat of the Miocene and Pliocene; much earlier and less specialized than members of the genus Smiledon
false saffron
1: thistlelike Eurasian plant widely grown for its red or orange flower heads and seeds that yield a valuable oil [syn: {safflower}, {Carthamus tinctorius}]
false sago
1: southeastern Indian cycad with palmlike foliage [syn: {fern palm}, {Cycas circinalis}]
false sarsaparilla
1: common perennial herb having aromatic roots used as a substitute for sarsaparilla; central and eastern North America [syn: {wild sarsaparilla}, {wild sarsparilla}, {Aralia nudicaulis}]
false scorpion
1: small nonvenomous arachnid resembling a tailless scorpion [syn: {pseudoscorpion}]
false smut
1: disease of rice; grains covered by a green powder consisting of conidia [syn: {green smut}]
false statement
1: a false statement [syn: {falsehood}, {falsity}, {untruth}] [ant: {truth}]
false tamarisk
1: Eurasian shrub resembling the tamarisk [syn: {German tamarisk}, {Myricaria germanica}]
false topaz
1: a yellow quartz [syn: {topaz}, {common topaz}]
false truffle
1: any of various fungi of the family Rhizopogonaceae having subterranean fruiting bodies similar to the truffle 2: any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruit...
false vampire
1: any New or Old World carnivorous bat erroneously thought to suck blood but in fact feeding on insects [syn: {false vampire bat}]
false vampire bat
1: any New or Old World carnivorous bat erroneously thought to suck blood but in fact feeding on insects [syn: {false vampire}]
false verdict
1: a manifestly unjust verdict; not true to the evidence
false vocal cord
1: either of the upper two vocal cords that are not involved in vocalization [syn: {false vocal fold}, {superior vocal cord}, {ventricular fold}, {vestibular fold}]
false vocal fold
1: either of the upper two vocal cords that are not involved in vocalization [syn: {false vocal cord}, {superior vocal cord}, {ventricular fold}, {vestibular fold}]
false wintergreen
1: evergreen of eastern North America with leathery leaves and numerous white flowers [syn: {Pyrola americana}, {Pyrola rotundifolia americana}]
false witness
1: a person who deliberately gives false testimony [syn: {perjurer}]
falsehood
1: a false statement [syn: {falsity}, {untruth}, {false statement}] [ant: {truth}] 2: the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting [s...
falsely
1: in an insincerely false manner; "a seduction on my part would land us with the necessity to rise, bathe and dress, chat falsely about this and that, and emerge into the rest of the evening as thoug...
falseness
1: the state of being false or untrue; "argument could not determine its truth or falsity" [syn: {falsity}] [ant: {truth}] 2: unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous [syn: {faithle...
falsetto
1: artificially high; above the normal voice range; "a falsetto voice" n : a male singing voice with artificially high tones in an upper register
falsie
1: a breast-shaped mass of padding worn in a brassiere
falsifiable
1: capable of being tested (verified or falsified) by experiment or observation [syn: {confirmable}, {verifiable}]
falsification
1: any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something [syn: {disproof}, {refutation}] 2: a willful perversion of facts [syn: {misrepresentaation}] 3: the act of rendering something false as...
falsify
1: make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story [syn: {distort}, {garble}, {warp}] 2: fake or falsify; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data" [syn: {fudge}, {manip...
falsifying
1: the act of determining that something is false [syn: {falsification}, {disproof}, {refutation}]
falsity
1: the state of being false or untrue; "argument could not determine its truth or falsity" [syn: {falseness}] [ant: {truth}] 2: a false statement [syn: {falsehood}, {untruth}, {false statement}] [ant:...
Falstaff
1: a dissolute character in Shakespeare's plays [syn: {Sir John Falstaff}]
falter
1: the act of pausing uncertainly; "there was a hesitation in his speech" [syn: {hesitation}, {waver}, {faltering}] v 1: be unsure or weak; "Their enthusiasm is faltering" [syn: {waver}] 2: move hesit...
faltering
1: unsteady in speech or action n : the act of pausing uncertainly; "there was a hesitation in his speech" [syn: {hesitation}, {waver}, {falter}]
falteringly
1: in an unsteady manner; "he walked unsteadily toward the exit"; "The wounded soldier was swinging unsteadily on his legs" [syn: {unsteadily}, {uncertainly}] [ant: {steadily}]
falun gong
1: a spiritual movement that began in China in the latter half of the 20th century and is based on Buddhist and Taoist teachings and practices
fame
1: the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed [syn: {celebrity}, {renown}] [ant: {infamy}] 2: favorable public reputation [ant: {infamy}]
famed
1: widely known and esteemed; "a famous actor"; "a celebrated musician"; "a famed scientist"; "an illustrious judge"; "a notable historian"; "a renowned painter" [syn: {celebrated}, {far-famed}, {famo...
familial
1: relating to or having the characteristics of a family; "children of the same familial background"; "familial aggregation" 2: tending to occur among members of a family usually by heredity; "an inhe...
familiar
1: well known or easily recognized; "a familiar figure"; "familiar songs"; "familiar guests" [ant: {unfamiliar}] 2: within normal everyday experience; common and ordinary; not strange; "familiar ordin...
familiar spirit
1: a spirit (usually in animal form) that acts as an assistant to a witch or wizard [syn: {familiar}]
familiar with
1: having fair knowledge of; "they were acquainted"; "fully acquainted with the facts" [syn: {acquainted(p)}, {acquainted with(p)}, {familiar with(p)}]
familiarisation
1: the experience of becoming familiar with something [syn: {familiarization}]
familiarise
1: make familiar or acquainted; "you should acquaint yourself with your new computer"; "We familiarized ourselves with the new surroundings" [syn: {familiarize}, {acquaint}]
familiarised
1: having achieved a comfortable relationship with your environment [syn: {adjusted}, {familiarized}]
familiarity
1: personal knowledge or information about someone or something [syn: {acquaintance}, {conversance}, {conversancy}] 2: usualness by virtue of being familiar or well known [ant: {unfamiliarity}] 3: clo...
familiarization
1: the experience of becoming familiar with something [syn: {familiarisation}]
familiarize
1: make familiar or acquainted; "you should acquaint yourself with your new computer"; "We familiarized ourselves with the new surroundings" [syn: {familiarise}, {acquaint}]
familiarized
1: having achieved a comfortable relationship with your environment [syn: {adjusted}, {familiarised}]
familiarly
1: in an intimately familiar manner; "Sid, as he was familiarly known by his friends, was one of the most respected and devoted members of the socialist minority group"
family
1: a social unit living together; "he moved his family to Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how many people made up his ho...
family Acanthaceae
1: widely distributed herbs and shrubs and trees; sometimes placed in the order Scrophulariales [syn: {Acanthaceae}, {acanthus family}]
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