| 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. |
| factory |
a building or set of buildings where products are manufactured. |
| factory farm |
a feeding center for agricultural animals which contains them within a small space and is designed to increase, to the maximum, the efficency of their use in food production. |
| factory farming |
a strictly controlled system of livestock farming in which animals are confined indoors under high density conditions to reduce costs and increase output. |