Index of English words, starting with "fi"

(1) - Fishing (n.) Pertaining to fishing; used in fishery; engaged in fishing; as, fishing boat; fishing tackle; fishing village.
(2) - Fishing (n.) A fishery.
(3) - Fishing (n.) The act, practice, or art of one who fishes.
(4) - Fishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fish

(1) - Fishy (a.) Extravagant, like some stories about catching fish; improbable; also, rank or foul.
(2) - Fishy (a.) Consisting of fish; fishlike; having the qualities or taste of fish; abounding in fish.

(1) - Fissile (a.) Capable of being split, cleft, or divided in the direction of the grain, like wood, or along natural planes of cleavage, like crystals.

(1) - Fission (n.) A process by which certain coral polyps, echinoderms, annelids, etc., spontaneously subdivide, each individual thus forming two or more new ones. See Strobilation.
(2) - Fission (n.) A method of asexual reproduction among the lowest (unicellular) organisms by means of a process of self-division, consisting of gradual division or cleavage of the into two parts, each of which then becomes a separate and independent organisms; as when a cell in an animal or plant, or its germ, undergoes a spontaneous division, and the parts again subdivide. See Segmentation, and Cell division, under Division.
(3) - Fission (n.) A cleaving, splitting, or breaking up into parts.