wild pitch | an errant pitch that the catcher cannot be expected to catch and that allows a base runner to advance a base |
field goal | a score in American football, a score made by kicking the ball between the opponents' goal posts |
basket field goal | a score in basketball made by throwing the ball through the hoop |
field trip | a group excursion (to a museum or the woods or some historic place) for firsthand examination |
wild-goose chase | the fruitless pursuit of something unattainable |
outdoor sport field sport | a sport that is played outdoors |
track and field | participating in athletic sports performed on a running track or on the field associated with it |
field game | an outdoor game played on a field of specified dimensions |
field hockey hockey | a game resembling ice hockey that is played on an open field, two opposing teams use curved sticks try to drive a ball into the opponents' net |
Wild West Show Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show | a spectacular show organized in by William F. Cody that featured horseback riding and marksmanship on a large scale, toured the United States and Europe |
field work | an investigation carried out in the field rather than in a laboratory or headquarters |
dark ground illumination dark field illumination | a form of microscopic examination of living material by scattered light, specimens appear luminous against a dark background |
left field leftfield | the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is expected to field balls in the left third of the outfield (looking from home plate) |
center field centerfield | the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is expected to field balls in the central third of the outfield |
right field rightfield | the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is expected to field balls in the right third of the outfield (looking from home plate) |
quarterback signal caller field general | (American football) the position of the football player in the backfield who directs the offensive play of his team, quarterback is the most important position on the team |
field trial | a test of young hunting dogs to determine their skill in pointing and retrieving |
field press censorship | security review of news (including all information or material intended for dissemination to the public) subject to the jurisdiction of the armed forces |
field field of operation line of business | a particular kind of commercial enterprise, they are outstanding in their field |
Bosworth Field | the battle that ended the Wars of the Roses (), Richard III was killed and Henry Tudor was crowned as Henry VII |
Flodden Battle of Flodden Field | a battle in , the English defeated the invading Scots and James IV was killed |
skylark Alauda arvensis | brown-speckled European lark noted for singing while hovering at a great height |
field sparrow Spizella pusilla | common North American finch of brushy pasturelands |
wild duck | an undomesticated duck (especially a mallard) |
field spaniel | large usually black hunting and retrieving spaniel with a dense flat or slightly wavy coat, cross between cocker and Sussex spaniel |
wild dog | any of various undomesticated mammals of the family Canidae that are thought to resemble domestic dogs as distinguished from jackals or wolves |
field cricket Acheta assimilis | common American black cricket, attacks crops and also enters dwellings |
silkworm giant silkworm wild wilkworm | larva of a saturniid moth, spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon |
field mouse fieldmouse | any nocturnal Old World mouse of the genus Apodemus inhabiting woods and fields and gardens |
vole field mouse | any of various small mouselike rodents of the family Cricetidae (especially of genus Microtus) having a stout short-tailed body and inconspicuous ears and inhabiting fields or meadows |
aperea wild cavy Cavia porcellus | South American cavy, possibly ancestral to the domestic guinea pig |
wild horse | undomesticated or feral domestic horse |
wild ass | any of several equine mammals of Asia and northeast Africa |
African wild ass Equus asinus | a wild ass of Africa |
wild boar boar Sus scrofa | Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come, introduced in United States |
ox wild ox | any of various wild bovines especially of the genera Bos or closely related Bibos |
Asian wild ox | genus of Asiatic wild oxen |
wild sheep | undomesticated sheep |
wild goat | undomesticated goat |
airfield landing field flying field field | a place where planes take off and land |
ball field baseball field diamond | the baseball playing field |
binoculars field glasses opera glasses | an optical instrument designed for simultaneous use by both eyes |
center field centerfield center | the piece of ground in the outfield directly ahead of the catcher, he hit the ball to deep center |
field artillery field gun | movable artillery (other than antiaircraft) used by armies in the field (especially for direct support of front-line troops) |
field coil field winding | the electric coil around a field magnet that produces the magneto motive force to set up the flux in an electric machine |
field-effect transistor FET | a transistor in which most current flows in a channel whose effective resistance can be controlled by a transverse electric field |
field-emission microscope | electron microscope used to observe the surface structure of a solid |
field glass glass spyglass | a small refracting telescope |
field hockey ball | ball used in playing field hockey |
field hospital | a temporary military hospital near the battle lines |