farkleberry
- n shrub or small tree of eastern United States having black inedible berries
faquir
- n a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man
far cry
- n distance estimated in terms of the audibility of a cry
- n a disappointing disparity
far east
- n a popular expression for the countries of eastern Asia (usually including China and Mongolia and Taiwan and Japan and Korea and Indochina and eastern Siberia)
farad
- n the capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates
faraday
- n the English physicist and chemist who discovered electromagnetic induction (1791-1867)
farandole
- n a lively dance from Provence; all the dancers join hands and execute various figures
farc
- n a powerful and wealthy terrorist organization formed in 1957 as the guerilla arm of the Colombian communist party; opposed to the United States; has strong ties to drug dealers