Index of English words, starting with "fa"

(1) - Faucet (n.) The enlarged end of a section of pipe which receives the spigot end of the next section.
(2) - Faucet (n.) A fixture for drawing a liquid, as water, molasses, oil, etc., from a pipe, cask, or other vessel, in such quantities as may be desired; -- called also tap, and cock. It consists of a tubular spout, stopped with a movable plug, spigot, valve, or slide.

(1) - Faugh (interj.) An exclamation of contempt, disgust, or abhorrence.

(1) - Fault (v. i.) To err; to blunder, to commit a fault; to do wrong.
(2) - Fault (v. t.) To interrupt the continuity of (rock strata) by displacement along a plane of fracture; -- chiefly used in the p. p.; as, the coal beds are badly faulted.
(3) - Fault (v. t.) To charge with a fault; to accuse; to find fault with; to blame.
(4) - Fault (n.) Failure to serve the ball into the proper court.
(5) - Fault (n.) A lost scent; act of losing the scent.
(6) - Fault (n.) In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault, etc.
(7) - Fault (n.) A dislocation of the strata of the vein.
(8) - Fault (n.) A moral failing; a defect or dereliction from duty; a deviation from propriety; an offense less serious than a crime.
(9) - Fault (n.) Anything that fails, that is wanting, or that impairs excellence; a failing; a defect; a blemish.
(10) - Fault (n.) Defect; want; lack; default.

(1) - Faultless (a.) Without fault; not defective or imperfect; free from blemish; free from incorrectness, vice, or offense; perfect; as, a faultless poem.