Index of English words, starting with "fi"

(1) - Filiation (n.) The assignment of a bastard child to some one as its father; affiliation.
(2) - Filiation (n.) The relationship of a son or child to a parent, esp. to a father.

(1) - Filibuster (v. i.) To delay legislation, by dilatory motions or other artifices.
(2) - Filibuster (v. i.) To act as a filibuster, or military freebooter.
(3) - Filibuster (n.) A lawless military adventurer, especially one in quest of plunder; a freebooter; -- originally applied to buccaneers infesting the Spanish American coasts, but introduced into common English to designate the followers of Lopez in his expedition to Cuba in 1851, and those of Walker in his expedition to Nicaragua, in 1855.

(1) - Filiform (a.) Having the shape of a thread or filament; as, the filiform papillae of the tongue; a filiform style or peduncle. See Illust. of AntennAe.