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faucheur: a scyther; harvestman; daddy longlegs
faucheux: harvestman, daddy longlegs
fauchon: falchion
fauché: skint, broke or otherwise lacking money
fauché comme les blés: broke, skint (lacking money; bankrupt)
faucille: a sickle (agricultural implement)
faucille et marteau: hammer and sickle
fauciller: to sickle (to cut with a sickle)
faucon: falcon; war hawk (supporter of aggressive or warlike foreign policy)
faucon crécerelle: common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus)
faucon hobereau: Eurasian hobby (Falco subbuteo)
faucon pèlerin: peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus)
fauconneau: eyas
fauconnerie: falconry
fauconnier: falconer (a person who breeds or trains hawks)
faufil: tacking thread
faufilage: tacking (in sewing)
faufiler: to baste; to worm one's way, to slink (about)
faufilure: basting stitch
faujasie: Faujasia
faujasie à feuilles de saule: Faujasia salicifolia (Pers.) C. Jeffrey
faujasite: faujasite
faulknérien: Faulknerian
fault: obsolete spelling of faut (third-person singular present indicative of falloir)
faumar: hammer and sickle
faune: faun; tree grayling (butterfly Hipparchia statilinus)
faune: fauna, wildlife
faunesque: faunlike
faunesse: satyress, fauness
faunique: faunistic
faunistique: faunal, faunistic
faunistiquement: faunally, faunistically
faussaire: forger
fausse alarme: false alarm
fausse alerte: false alarm
fausse analogie: false analogy
fausse barbe: mole; double-crosser
fausse bonne idée: a good idea in theory but not in practice, not such a good idea
fausse chanterelle: A false chanterelle, Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca.
fausse couche: miscarriage
fausse couleur: false colour
fausse girolle: A false chanterelle, Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca.
fausse manip: error, mistake, slip up
fausse manœuvre: error, mistake, slip up
fausse modestie: false modesty, humblebragging
fausse note: false note, wrong note, bum note (incorrect note which is sung or played in a musical performance); fault, flaw, slip up, mistake
fausse patte: proleg; southpaw
fausse piste: wrong track, false lead, red herring
fausse-braie: faussebraye
faussement: falsely; untruly
fausser: to falsify, to render invalid; to skew, to distort (a result)
fausser compagnie: to give (someone) the slip, to slip away from
fausset: faucet (tap used to stop the flow of liquid from a vessel)
fausset: (singing) falsetto (type of singing voice)
fausseté: falseness, falsity, falsehood (property of being false); falsehood (false statement)
faussé: falsified; distorted, skewed
faustien: Faustian
faute: error, mistake; fault, blame; wrong, misdemeanor; foul, fault (infraction of the rules)
faute avouée est à moitié pardonnée: a fault confessed is half redressed
faute d'orthographe: misspelling