finnan haddie
- n haddock usually baked but sometimes broiled with lots of butter
fingerpost
- n a guidepost resembling a hand with a pointing index finger
fingerprint
- n a print made by an impression of the ridges in the skin of a finger; often used for biometric identification in criminal investigations
- n a generic term for any identifying characteristic
that tax bill had the senator's fingerprints all over it - n a smudge made by a (dirty) finger
- v take an impression of a person's fingerprints
fingerprinting
- n the procedure of taking inked impressions of a person's fingerprints for the purpose of identification
- v take an impression of a person's fingerprints
fingerroot
- n tall leafy European biennial or perennial having spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers; leaves yield drug digitalis and are poisonous to livestock
fingerspelling
- n an alphabet of manual signs
- v communicate by means of specific gestures, as an alternative to sign language