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-facient making; causing; bringing about.
facies in geology, the characteristics of a rock, such as appearance or composition, that distinguish it from others and indicate its origin.
facile acting or working in an easy, effortless manner. [3 definitions]
facilitate to make less difficult; help in progress.
facility a place planned or constructed for a specific activity. [3 definitions]
facing material applied to a surface as a covering, such as bricks to a cement wall or lining to a coat.
facsimile an exact copy or duplicate, as of something printed or pictorial; reproduction. [2 definitions]
fact something known or proved to be true, or established in law to be true. [4 definitions]
fact checker someone whose job it is to verify the accuracy of facts in a text before publication.
fact family in mathematics education, a group of equations in which each equation can be rearranged to produce another equation the family.
fact-finding involved in the discovery and determination of the facts. [2 definitions]
-faction the act or result of making or producing.
faction a group or party within, and often at odds with, a larger organization. [2 definitions]
factional of or relating to a faction.
factious inclined toward or promoting faction; divisive or dissentious. [2 definitions]
factitious not natural or genuine; artificial.
factoid a false or half-true statement or idea, often accepted as fact because of wide circulation and frequent repetition, as in print and electronic media.
factor something that has an influence on or is a partial cause of something that happens. [4 definitions]
factorable combined form of factor.
factorage the business of one that receives a commission for carrying out commercial, industrial, or financial transactions for another. [2 definitions]
factorial the product of a given series of whole numbers, achieved by multiplying a specific positive integer by all lesser positive integers.