Finnish–English dictionary

föhn-tuuli

A warm dry wind blowing down the north sides of the Alps, especially in Switzerland.

foinikia

The Semitic language spoken by the inhabitants of Phoenicia.

foinikialainen

Of, from, or related to the country or civilisation of Phoenicia.

foinikian kieli

The Semitic language spoken by the inhabitants of Phoenicia.

fokka

(nautical, usually with a modifier) Any of a variety of specialty triangular staysails set forward of the foremast.

fokstrotti

A ballroom dance with a slow-slow-quick-quick rhythm.

fokus

(linguistics) The most important word or phrase in a sentence or passage, or the one that imparts information.

folio

A very thin sheet of metal.

folivori

(biology) A herbivore that eats mostly foliage.

follikkeli

(anatomy) A small cavity or sac, such as a hair follicle.

fonaatio

(phonetics) The process of producing vocal sound by the vibration of the vocal folds that is in turn modified by the resonance of the vocal tract.

fondi

A decorated cloth hung at the back of a stage.

fondue

A dish made of melted cheese, or chocolate etc., or of a boiling liquid into which food can be dipped.

fondyy

A dish made of melted cheese, or chocolate etc., or of a boiling liquid into which food can be dipped.

foneemi

(phonology) An indivisible unit of sound in a given language. A phoneme is an abstraction of the physical speech sounds (phones) and may encompass several different phones.

fonografi

(British, historical) A device that records or plays sound from cylinder records.

fontti

In digital typesetting, a set of glyphs in a single style, representing one or more alphabets or writing systems, or the computer code representing it.

fööni

(chiefly, _, UK) A small electrical appliance for drying hair, by generating a stream of hot air.

foorumi

A place for discussion.

footbag

(countable) A small beanbag or sandbag used as a ball in a number of sports and games. It is typically controlled by the feet, but in some sports every part of the body except the hands and arms may be used.

force majeure

(law) An unavoidable circumstance, especially one that prevents someone from fulfilling a legal (usually contractual) obligation.

fore

(golf) An exclamation yelled to inform players a ball is moving in their direction.

forkata

(ambitransitive, computing) To spawn a new child process by duplicating the existing process.

forkkaus

Such a pronged tool having a long straight handle, generally for two-handed use, as used for digging, lifting, mucking, pitching, etc.

forkki

Such a pronged tool having a long straight handle, generally for two-handed use, as used for digging, lifting, mucking, pitching, etc.

formaali

In accordance with established forms.

formaalistaa

To give something a formal or official standing.

formaalisti

In a formal manner.

formaatti

The layout of a publication or document.

formaldehydi

(organic compound) The simplest aldehyde, HCHO, a colourless gas that has many industrial applications; it dissolves in water to give formol (10%) and formalin.

formalisoida

(transitive) To give something a definite form; to shape.

formalistinen

Of or pertaining to formalism; formalistic

formaliteetit

(countable) A specific requirement for obtaining a legal status, conducting a transaction, etc.

formatiivi

A language unit, typically a morph, that has a morphological function (that is, forming a word from a root or another word).

formatiivinen

(linguistic morphology) Pertaining to the formation of words; specifically, of an affix: forming words through inflection.

formatoida

Change a document so it will fit onto a different type of page.

Formosa

A partly-recognized country in East Asia consisting of a main island and 167 smaller islands. Official name: Republic of China. Capital: Taipei. [from 20th c.]

formuloida

(transitive) To put into a clear and definite form of statement or expression.

fornikaatio

(religion, law) Sexual intercourse by people who are not married to each other, or which is considered illicit in another way.

forte

(music) Loud.

fortuna

(uncountable) Any of several smaller wooden tabletop games developed from the original bagatelle in which the pockets are made of pins.

fosfaatti

(chemistry) Any salt or ester of phosphoric acid.

fosfiitti

(chemistry) any salt or ester of phosphorous acid

fosfori

(chemistry) Pertaining to the element phosphorus; containing phosphorus, especially in its higher valency (5). [from 18th c.]

fossiili

(figuratively, colloquial) Something or someone that is very old or old-fashioned, or is not willing to change and adapt.

fossilisoitunut

in a state of fossilisation

foto

(photography) A picture created by projecting an image onto a photosensitive surface such as a chemically treated plate or film, CCD receptor, etc.

fotogeeninen

Generated or caused by light.

fotoni

(particle) The quantum of light and other electromagnetic energy, regarded as a discrete particle having zero rest mass, no electric charge, and an indefinitely long lifetime. It is a gauge boson.

fotoninen

of, or relating to photons or to photonics

fotosynteesi

(biochemistry, organic chemistry) Any process by which plants and other photoautotrophs convert light energy into chemical energy.

fotosynteettinen

Of, relating to, or employing photosynthesis.

frägätä

(transitive, military, and, video games, slang) To hit with the explosion of a fragmentation grenade.

frägi

(video games, slang) A successful kill in a deathmatch game. A point or score (when considered collectively) gained by successfully killing opponents in a deathmatch game.

fragmentaarinen

(geology) Composed of the fragments of other rocks.

fragmentaatio

(computing) The breaking up and dispersal of a file into non-contiguous areas of a disk.

fragmentoituminen

(computing) The breaking up and dispersal of a file into non-contiguous areas of a disk.

fraktaalinen

(mathematics) Having the form of a fractal; having to do with fractals.

fraktio

(countable) A group of people, especially within a political organization, which expresses a shared belief or opinion different from people who are not part of the group.

fraktioida

(transitive) To divide or break into fractions.

franchise

The authorization granted by a company to sell or distribute its goods or services in a certain area.

franchise-tuote

(chiefly, US, usually, in the plural) An item sold within a concession (see above) or from a concessions stand.

franchisen ottaja

A business operating under such authorization, a franchisee.

franchising

The establishment, granting, or use of a franchise.

franchising-oikeus

(chiefly, US) A right to operate a quasi-independent franchise of a larger company.

franchising-ottaja

A business operating under such authorization, a franchisee.

franchisingsopimus

The authorization granted by a company to sell or distribute its goods or services in a certain area.

frankeerata

(transitive) To place a frank on an envelope.

Frankfurt

The largest city in Hesse, in central Germany; in full, Frankfurt am Main.

frankki

One of the Franks, a Germanic federation that inhabited parts of what are now France, the Low Countries and Germany.

fransiskaani

A friar or nun of a religious order based on the rule of Francis of Assisi's original order, such as (Roman Catholicism) the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin (for men), Order of Friars Minor Conventual (men), Order of Saint Clare (women), or the Third Order of Saint Francis (men and women); or (Protestantism) certain orders in some Protestant churches, especially the Anglican Church and the Lutheran Church.

fransiskaanimunkki

A friar or nun of a religious order based on the rule of Francis of Assisi's original order, such as (Roman Catholicism) the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin (for men), Order of Friars Minor Conventual (men), Order of Saint Clare (women), or the Third Order of Saint Francis (men and women); or (Protestantism) certain orders in some Protestant churches, especially the Anglican Church and the Lutheran Church.

frappe

An iced, sweetened, beaten coffee drink, associated with Greek cuisine.

fraseeraus

(music) The way the musical phrases are put together in a composition or in its interpretation, with changes in tempo, volume, or emphasizing one or more instruments over others.

freelance

Of, or relating to a freelance; without employment contract.

freelancer

Someone who sells their services to clients without a long-term employment contract.

freesata

(archaic) To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to mollify; to assuage.

fregatti

(historical) A warship combining sail and steam propulsion, typically of ironclad timber construction, supplementing and superseding sailing ships of the line at the beginning of the development of the ironclad battleship. [mid 19th–late 19th c.]

freimi

(snooker) A complete game of snooker, from break-off until all the balls (or as many as necessary to win) have been potted.

frekvenssi

(uncountable, or, countable) The rate of occurrence of anything; the relationship between incidence and time period.

fretti

An often domesticated mammal (Mustela putorius furo) rather like a weasel, descended from the polecat and often trained to hunt burrowing animals.

freudilainen

Relating to or influenced by the Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud (1856-1939).

frigidi

(colloquial) Sexually unresponsive, especially of a woman.

friikki

(informal) A person who is very interested in a particular subject.

friikkiys

(uncountable, colloquial) The subculture of geeks; an esoteric subject of interest that is marginal to the social mainstream; the philosophy, events, and physical artifacts of geeks; geekness.

frikatiivi

(phonetics) Any of several speech sounds produced by air flowing through a constriction in the oral cavity and typically producing a sibilant, hissing, or buzzing quality; a fricative consonant.

frisbee

A disk-shaped gliding toy, sold under the brand name Frisbee.

friteerattu

A dish made by deep-frying food coated in batter.

fritsu

(originally, US, slang) A bruise-like mark made during petting by pressing the mouth to the skin on one’s partner’s body and sucking. [from 1934]

frittata

A crustless quiche: a molded omelette in which vegetables, cheese, etc., are mixed into the eggs and cooked together.

fruktoosi

(carbohydrate) A monosaccharide ketose sugar, formula C6H12O6.

frustraatio

The feeling of annoyance at impossibility from resistance or inability to achieve something.

fudge

(chiefly, _, uncountable) A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream.

fugu

A delicacy popular in Japan, consisting of the fish served raw as sushi or perhaps fried. It may, if improperly prepared, contain considerably deadly levels of neurotoxins.

fuksi

(US, Canada, Philippines) a person (of either sex) entering the first year of an institution, especially a high school (ninth grade for US, grade 9 for Canada, grade 7 for Philippines), a university, or legislative body

fuksia

A popular garden plant, of the genus Fuchsia, of the Onagraceae family, shrubs with red, pink or purple flowers.

fuksianpunainen

A purplish-red colour, the color of fuchsin, an aniline dye.

fulminaatti

(chemistry) Any salt or ester of fulminic acid, mostly explosive.

fundamentaalinen

Related to a foundation, base, or basis; serving as a foundation.

fundamentaalisesti

In a fundamental or basic sense; reaching the very core of the matter.

fundamentalisti

One who reduces religion to strict interpretation of core or original texts.

fundamentti

(generic, singular) A basic truth, elementary concept, principle, rule, or law. An individual fundamental will often serve as a building block used to form a complex idea.

fundeeraus

(countable, UK, informal) A mental pondering, a thought.

fungiibeli

(originally, finance, and, commerce) Able to be substituted for something of equal value or utility.

funk

(uncountable, music genre) A style of music derived from 1960s soul music, with elements of rock and other styles, characterized by a prominent bass guitar, dance-friendly sound, a strong emphasis on the downbeat, and much syncopation.

funkis

(architecture) A doctrine, in several fields, that the function of something should be reflected in its design and the materials used in its construction.

funktio

What something does or is used for.

funktio-olio

(object-oriented programming) A function object.

funktionaali

(mathematics) A function that takes a function as its argument; more precisely, a function whose argument varies in a space of (real or complex valued) functions and whose value belongs to a monodimensional space.

funktionaalinen

(computing theory) Having semantics defined purely in terms of mathematical functions, without side-effects.

funktionalismi

(architecture) A doctrine, in several fields, that the function of something should be reflected in its design and the materials used in its construction.

funktori

(category theory) A category homomorphism; a morphism from a source category to a target category which maps objects to objects and arrows to arrows (either covariantly or contravariantly), in such a way as to preserve morphism composition and identities.

funtti

(Christianity) A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism.

fusku

(card games) A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.

futa

(originated, , late 19th C, now, commonly, US, Australia) Association football.

futis

(computing) A line of information printed at the bottom of a page to identify the contents or number pages. (Compare foot in printing.)

futurismi

(art) An early 20th century avant-garde art movement focused on speed, the mechanical, and the modern, which took a deeply antagonistic attitude to traditional artistic conventions.

futuristi

(arts) An adherent to the principles of the artistic movement of futurism.

futuristinen

In the style of futurism.

futuuri

Goodness in what is yet to come. Something to look forward to.

fuuga

(music) A contrapuntal piece of music wherein a particular melody is played in a number of voices, each voice introduced in turn by playing the melody.

fuula

An intentionally false statement; an intentional falsehood.

fuusio

(economics) The legal union of two or more corporations into a single entity, typically assets and liabilities being assumed by the buying party.

fuusioitua

(intransitive, physics, of an element) To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star.

fyllassa

A state of being drunk.

fylogeneesi

Evolutionary development of a species.

fylogenia

(systematics) The evolutionary history of groups of organisms, such as species or clades.

fyrkka

(slang, chiefly, US) Money, cash. [from 19th c.]

fysiikan lakien mukaan

According to the laws of physics.

fysiikka

The branch of science concerned with the study of the properties and interactions of space, time, matter and energy.

fysikaalinen

Having to do with the body as opposed to the mind; corporeal, bodily. [from 18th c.]

fysikaalisesti

According to the laws of physics.

fysikaalisuus

Physical attributes.

fysikalismi

(philosophy) A philosophical position holding that everything which exists is no more extensive than its physical properties; that is, that there are no kinds of things other than physical things, which all are of logically procedural nature, based on fundamental laws at their deepest level of causality.

fysiognomia

The art or pseudoscience of deducing the predominant temper and other characteristic qualities of the mind from the outward appearance, especially from the features of the face.

fysiologia

A branch of biology that deals with the functions and activities of life or of living matter (as organs, tissues, or cells) and of the physical and chemical phenomena involved.

fysiologinen

Of, or relating to physiology.

fysioterapia

(British, Commonwealth, Irish) Therapy that uses physical techniques such as massage, ultrasound, heat, and exercise.

fyysikko

A person whose occupation specializes in the science of physics, especially at a professional level.

fyysinen

Pertaining to the external or bodily appearance; corporeal; bodily.

G

(physics) Abbreviation of gravity; the unit of acceleration equal to that exerted by gravity at the earth's surface.

gaala

(uncountable) Pomp, show, or festivity.

gabardiini

(uncountable, countable) A type of woolen cloth with a diagonal ribbed texture on one side.

Gabriel

An archangel associated in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, with carrying messages from God.

gagaatti

The colour of jet coal, deep grey.

gaija

(primarily, nautical) A support rope or cable used to aid in hoisting or lowering.

gaijata

To equip with a support cable.

galaksi

(galaxy) Any of the collections of many millions or billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc. existing as independent and coherent systems, of which there are billions in the known universe. [from 19th c.]

galaksienvälinen

(astronomy) Occurring between galaxies.

galaksijoukko

(astronomy) A group of galaxies, nebulae, or stars that appear to the naked eye to be near each other.