ferecrystalAny of a class of layered materials consisting of atomically thin layers of a transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) stacked alternately with metal monochalcogenide layers.
FergusonA surname transferred from the given name originating in Scotland from Clan Fergusson and now widespread in the English-speaking world.
FergusonianRelating to Charles A. Ferguson (1921–1998), American linguist, known for his work on diglossia and as one of the founders of sociolinguistics.
fergusoniteA mineral composed of oxides of various rare earth elements.
ferinePertaining to wild, menacing animals; feral.
FerioA syllogism having a universal negative as its first premise, a particular affirmative as its second premise, and a particular negative as its conclusion, and structured according to the first figure.
FerisonA syllogism having a universal negative as its first premise, a particular affirmative as its second premise, and a particular negative as its conclusion, and structured according to the third figure.
ferityThe quality or fact of being wild or in a wild state.
FerizajThe sixth largest city in Kosovo, located in the southeast of the country; it is the seat of its eponymous municipality and district.
ferkTo rummage, in order to search for something; to dig amongst articles or move things aside in order to try and find something.
fermentationAny of many anaerobic biochemical reactions in which an enzyme (or several enzymes produced by a microorganism) catalyses the conversion of one substance into another; especially the conversion (using yeast) of sugars to alcohol or acetic acid with the evolution of carbon dioxide
fermentomeThe collection of products of a fermentation
fermentorThe vessel in which fermentation takes place
fermetureThe mechanism for closing the breech of a breech-loading firearm, in artillery consisting principally of the breechblock, obturator, and carrier ring.
FermeuseA town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
fermiAn obsolete name of the unit of length equal to one femtometre (10⁻¹⁵ m).
FermianOf or relating to the nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi (1901–1954).
FermiologyThe study of the configuration (shape and size) of Fermi surfaces.
fermionAny elementary or composite particle that has half-integer spin and thus obeys Fermi–Dirac statistics and the Pauli exclusion principle (equivalently, a particle for which the wavefunction of any system of identical such particles changes sign whenever two are swapped); a baryon, a lepton or a quark;
fermionicOf, pertaining to, or characteristic of fermions.
fermoriteA hexagonal-dipyramidal mineral containing arsenic, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and strontium.
FermoyAn inland town in east County Cork, Ireland (Irish grid ref W 8098).
fernAny of a group of some twenty thousand species of vascular plants classified in the division Pteridophyta that lack seeds and reproduce by shedding spores to initiate an alternation of generations.
ferningA characteristic fern-like pattern on a slide viewed under low power on a microscope, used as a sign when testing for ovulation or the presence of amniotic fluid.