This page gathers the 6,610 dictionary entries of which at least one sense is labelled “US” by Wiktionary. The definition shown is that sense; each word leads to its full entry. Page 21 of 66: from “ethnoburb” to “fellow”.
- ethnoburb noun A suburban residential and business area with a notable cluster of a particular ethnic minority population.
- Eurotrash noun European expatriates or visitors to the United States lacking a work ethic and focused on entertainment or leisure.
- everclear noun Any home-brewed distilled grain alcohol, especially one with a very high concentration of alcohol (such as 90-some percent, that is…
- everlasting adv Used as an intensifier: extremely, very.
- everwhere adv Wherever.
- evet noun Any other newt or salamander.
- excelsior noun The size of type between Norse and brilliant, standardized as 3-point.
- exceptant noun Someone who makes an exception.
- excess verb To declare (an employee) surplus to requirements, such that he or she might not be given work.
- exclamation point noun The symbol !; an exclamation mark.
- exclusionary rule noun A doctrine which requires that evidence obtained as the result of an illegal act on the part of law enforcement personnel (such as a…
- excuse me phrase Said as a request to repeat information.
- excuse you phrase An indignant response to an individual who has behaved rudely or insolently and has failed to apologize.
- executive privilege noun The right of the president of the United States and other members of the executive branch to maintain confidential communications and to…
- executive producer noun A job title of varying meaning, common in entertainment, computing and many other industries; often a person in charge of other producers.
- exhausted combination noun The combination, in a patent claim, of a novel device with conventional elements in a conventional manner.
- exodust verb Of an African-American: to leave a state in the Southern United States as part of a mass migration, especially the Exodus of 1879.
- exoduster noun An African-American who migrated from a state along the Mississippi River in the Southern United States to Kansas, mostly between 1879 and…
- exord noun An execute order: an order to implement a specified plan.
- expansion team noun A new team in a sports league, usually from a city that has not hosted a team in that league before, formed with the intention of…
- exploratory committee noun An organization established to help determine whether a potential candidate should run for an elected office.
- explorer noun A participant in the Exploring program, which focuses on career exploration.
- express lane noun A traffic lane on a limited-access road, intended for faster traffic, that has even more limited access.
- expressway noun A divided highway, especially one whose intersections and direct access to adjacent properties have been eliminated.
- expungement noun The process by which the record of a criminal conviction is erased, destroyed or sealed.
- extemp noun extemporaneous speaking; a competitive event in schools and colleges in which students speak persuasively or informatively about current…
- extend verb To reenlist for a further period.
- extension cord noun An electrical cord with a plug one end, and a single socket or a multi-port socket at the other end, used for powering one or more devices…
- extenuation noun Thin garments.
- extraordinary rendition noun The sending of untried criminal suspects to countries outside the USA for interrogation or imprisonment.
- exvangelical noun A former evangelical.
- eye noun A burner on a kitchen stove, hob, or cooktop.
- Eye-talian adj Italian, usually in reference to an Italian American person or Italian American culture.
- eyeball queen noun A gay man who derives sexual pleasure from observing other people, especially when they are engaging in a sexual activity.
- eyecup noun An eyebath.
- f noun Initialism of Fujita (followed by a number when used in a rating on the Fujita scale and indicating the intensity of a tornado).
- F-1 noun A nonimmigrant visa granted for educational pursuit.
- face card noun A playing card with a face, properly a jack, queen, or king but (inexact, sometimes proscribed) sometimes also an ace or joker.
- facility noun A toilet.
- factoid noun An interesting item of trivia; a minor fact.
- factorize verb To warn not to pay or give up goods.
- faculty noun The academic staff at schools, colleges, universities or not-for-profit research institutes, as opposed to the students or support staff.
- faded adj High on drugs; stoned.
- fag noun In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric.
- faggot noun A man considered effeminate.
- fail adj Unsuccessful; inadequate; unacceptable in some way.
- faith-based adj of civic associations connected with religious groups, specifically of such organizations sponsored by government funds
- faithfully adv A conventional formula for ending a letter, used when the salutation addresses the person for whom the letter is intended using an…
- faithless elector noun A delegate selected to participate in an electoral college and assigned to a particular candidate who votes for a different candidate…
- fakeout noun Synonym of fakeaway (“homemade meal intended to replicate takeout food”).
- fall noun The time of the year when the leaves typically fall from the trees; autumn; the season of the year between the autumnal equinox and the…
- fall off a truck verb Of an item of merchandise, to come into a person's possession without having been paid for; to be acquired illegally; to have been stolen.
- fall off the back of a truck verb Of an item of merchandise, to come into a person's possession through illegal or otherwise dubious means.
- fallway noun A well or opening, through the successive floors of a factory or warehouse or the decks of a ship, providing access for goods, material, or…
- family-friendly adj Devoid of material deemed inappropriate for children such as sexually-explicit text or images, use of profanity, or references to the use…
- fancy pants noun A person wearing fancy clothing; a member of a social elite.
- fandub noun An anime title that has been dubbed by fans.
- fanny noun The buttocks; arguably the most nearly polite of several euphemisms.
- fanny fart noun A (normal) fart.
- fanny pad noun An unsprung separate pillion seat on a motorcycle.
- fantasize verb To indulge in fantasy; to imagine things only possible in fantasy.
- farb noun A historical reenactor (especially an American Civil War reenactor) whose efforts at a historically accurate portrayal are, in the opinion…
- fark verb To subject a website to a high volume of requests, such that the server stops responding.
- farm upstate noun The place an animal (or by extension, person, concept, etc) notionally goes when they are dead; used as a euphemism for a state of literal…
- fart off verb To waste time; to behave pointlessly or disrespectfully.
- fascinator noun A type of wool or lace headscarf.
- fast times noun A period of time characterized by quickly-paced activity, especially involving extravagant or risky conduct, sexual behavior, or other…
- fatback noun A layer of fat, along the back of a pig, used as a cut of meat or to make lard
- father-daughter day noun A day designated for fathers and their daughters to spend time together and celebrate their relationship; often the second Sunday of…
- fathom noun A man's armspan, generally reckoned to be six feet (about 1.8 metres). Later used to measure the depth of water, but now generally replaced…
- fatigue noun Attributive form of fatigues (“military clothing worn when doing menial tasks”).
- fatigues noun Military clothing worn when doing menial tasks.
- faucet noun An exposed plumbing fitting; a tap or spigot; a regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir.
- faunch verb To bite the bit, especially when restless; to champ.
- favorite adj US standard spelling of favourite.
- favorite person noun A person on whom someone with borderline personality disorder is intensely emotionally dependent.
- favorite son noun A successful man from a particular area.
- fay noun A white person.
- FBI noun Female body inspector.
- featherbedding noun The employment of more workers than is necessary, typically because of labor union rules (or sometimes deals with organized crime, a…
- feature verb To think about, understand, or imagine.
- feature back noun In American football, a back, usually a running back, that gets the most carries and most yardage in a game.
- feces noun Digested waste material (typically solid or semi-solid) discharged from a human or other mammal's stomach to the intestines.
- federal noun A law-enforcement official of the FBI.
- federal government noun The national government of the United States, in contrast to government at the state or local level.
- federal law noun A legislation enacted by the national government of a country with a federal system, such as the United States.
- federal question noun a cause of action brought in a court under the United States Constitution or a federal statute. A federal question gives rise to federal…
- federal question jurisdiction noun The authority that a United States federal court has to hear a cause of action brought under the United States Constitution or federal…
- federale noun Alternative letter-case form of Federale: A member of the Mexican Federal Police.
- federalist noun A member of the Federalist Party, an 18th- and 19th-century conservative, liberal US political party which was one of two major parties…
- federalization noun The unification of states to form a federal union.
- feds noun The federal level of government, viewed as a collective group of people. Typically its law enforcement agencies and officers.
- Fedzilla noun The US federal government regarded as a rapacious monster with an appetite for political power, money, etc.
- feeb noun Someone who is feeble-minded; an idiot.
- feeder noun A judge whose law clerks are often selected to become clerks for the Supreme Court.
- feel noun A feeling; an emotion.
- feel the Bern verb To support the American politician Bernie Sanders (born 1941), especially during his 2016 or 2020 campaigns for the Democratic presidential…
- feeze noun A state of worry or alarm.
- feist noun A small, snappy, belligerent mixed-breed dog; a feist dog.
- fellow noun A physician undergoing a fellowship (supervised subspecialty medical training) after having completed a residency (specialty training…