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Fishgigs
- noun - an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish
Fishlike
- - Like fish; suggestive of fish; having some of the qualities of fish.
Fishwife
- noun - A woman who uses coarse language, especially a nagging woman.
- someone who sells fish
Fiveling
- - A compound or twin crystal consisting of five individuals.
Fixating
- verb - attach (oneself) to a person or thing in a neurotic way; "He fixates on his mother, even at the age of 40"
- become fixed (on); "Her eyes fixated on a point on the horizon"
- make fixed, stable or stationary; "let's fix the picture to the frame"
- pay attention to exclusively and obsessively; "The media are fixating on Princess Diana's death"
Fixation
- noun - (histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body
- an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely
- an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone
- Obsession or mania
- the activity of fastening something firmly in position
Fixative
- noun - a compound (such as ethanol or formaldehyde) that fixes tissues and cells for microscopic study
- a varnish dissolved in alcohol and sprayed over pictures to prevent smudging
Fixities
- noun - the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment
- the quality of being incapable of mutation; "Darwin challenged the fixity of species"
Fizzling
- verb - end weakly; "The music just petered out--there was no proper ending"