Word origins

• evenhoodEquality; equity; justice.
• evenlightThe light of evening; twilight.
• evenlikeEvenly.
• -everAttached to interrogatives, forms indefinite pronouns and adverbs.
• ever afterforever, for eternity
• every dayAs frequently as every day; daily.
• evetideevening
• evil eyeA wicked look conveying dislike or envy that in many cultures is believed to be able to cause bad luck or injury; also, the ability to cause bad luck or injury through such a look, supposed to be possessed by some people.
• evil-speakingThe act of speaking ill or maliciously of something or someone; blasphemy, slander; gossip.
• ewe lambA female lamb.
• ewererA servant responsible for linen, handwashing, and providing water for the bath.
• eweryAn office or place of household service where the ewers and table linen were kept.
• ewteTo pour; pour in.
• excitativeThat causes excitation
• exequyFuneral rites.
• exhortativeAppearing to exhort; in an urging manner.
• exponeTo expound; to explain.
• expounderA person who expounds or explains
• expugnTo take by storm; capture.
• eye-appleThe eyeball or pupil
• eyelyVisible or apparent to the eye; evident; obvious.
• eye-pitThe eye socket; the concave area of the face around each eye.
• eyesalveAn ointment for the eye.
• eyotA little island, especially in a river or lake.
• faintlessWithout faintness or fainting
• fair-manneredwell-mannered
• faithlyfaithfully; truly
• faitourA charlatan or imposter, especially one pretending to be ill, or to tell fortunes.
• fall offTo become detached or to drop from.
• fallow deerA ruminant mammal of the genus Dama belonging to the family Cervidae.
• falsedomThe sphere or realm of falseness.
• fambleA hand.
• famishTo starve (to death); to kill or destroy with hunger.
• fangleTo fashion, manufacture, invent, or create.
• fangtoothA beryciform fish of the monotypic family Anoplogastridae, with long sharp teeth.
• far and wideOver a great distance or large area; nearly everywhere.
• FarcetA village and civil parish in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England, south of Peterborough (OS grid ref TL2094).
• fardelA fourth part: a quarter of anything.
• farerOne who fares or travels, a traveller, tripper
• farewayA road, route, or passage used for travelling over or through.
• fareworthyHaving the right to go as one pleases; free to go; capable of leaving (a place); able to depart (at one's will); unrestrained.
• farfetfar-fetched
• farforthTo a great extent; far.
• farlieAn unusual or unexpected thing; a wonder.
• farnessThe state of being far off, or the degree to which something is far; distance, span; remoteness
• farterSomeone or something that farts.
• farthing loafA loaf (of bread) sold for a farthing.
• fastgangA fasting.
• father-in-lawOne's spouse's father.
• fathershipThe state of being a father
• father-slayerOne who kills or murders one's father; a patricide
• fattishSomewhat fat
• fauldA piece of armor worn below a breastplate to protect the waist and hips.
• favorerOne who favors.
• faxed starA comet; meteor.
• fayneA surname from Middle English.
• feaberryA gooseberry.
• feastlyOf, relating to, or characteristic of a feast; festive.
• featherlessHaving no feathers.
• feathernRelating to or consisting of feathers.
• featlyProperly; suitably.
• featousNeat, pretty.
• feblessefeebleness; weakness; frailty
• feddleFiddle (musical instrument).
• feelefoldManifold; multiple, various; varied, diverse
• feelnessThe state, condition, or quality of feeling; perception; sensitivity
• feelsomeCharacterised or marked by feeling; pleasurable to the touch; nice to feel.
• fee tailAn estate in land in common law in which the land is inherited, but cannot be sold, devised by will, or otherwise alienated by the owner, but which passes by operation of law to the owner's heirs upon his death.
• feezeA state of worry or alarm.
• feignednessQuality of being feigned.
• felloeThe rim of a wooden wheel, supported by the spokes.
• fellowessA female fellow.
• fellowlyFellowlike; companionable, sociable or sympathetic.
• felonousEvil, wicked.
• femeA woman.
• femerellThe lantern, louvre, or covering placed in the ridge of a hall roof for the purpose of ventilation or letting out the smoke of the fire kindled on a central hearth.
• fenneA dragon.
• fennishAbounding in fens; fenny.
• fenowedDecayed; mouldy.
• feredeCompanionship.
• feretoryA receptacle that houses relics of saints.
• ferventnessThe quality of being fervent.
• fewteSigns left by game that is hunted, such as tracks or scent, the track itself.
• fewterA support or holder for a spear, attached to a saddle or breastplate.
• FfrithA village in Llanfynydd community, Flintshire, Wales (OS grid ref SJ2855).
• fiddlestickOne of a pair of sticks, similar to drumsticks, used by a second player to percuss the strings of a fiddle while the main player plays via bow.
• fidgeTo fidget; jostle or shake.
• field houseA tent.
• field mintSynonym of corn mint (Mentha arvensis).
• field mouseA small vole such as the meadow vole.
• fieldwortgentian
• fiendkinA little fiend; an imp.
• fiendlyHostile.
• fiendshipThe state, quality, or condition of being a fiend.
• fiendyLike a fiend; fiendish
• fieri faciasIn English law, a writ of execution issued after judgment obtained in a legal action for debt or damages.
• fierinessThe quality of being fiery.
• figgy puddingAny of a variety of sweet and/or savory dishes traditionally served at Christmas, containing fruit (but not necessarily figs).
• fightyInclined or prone to fight.
• fig leafA leaf of the fig plant.