a·pos·tro·phe 2 
(ə-pŏstrə-fē)
(ə-pŏstrə-fē)n.
The direct address of an absent or imaginary person or of a personified abstraction, especially as a digression in the course of a speech or composition.
[Late Latin apostrophē, from Greek, from apostrephein, to turn away; see APOSTROPHE1.]
ap′os·trophic (ăp′ə-strŏfĭk) adj.
- functional neurological symptom disorder
- functional shift
- functionary
- function key
- functionless
- function word
- functor
- fund
- fundament
- fundamental
- fundamental fermion
- fundamental force
- fundamental interaction
- fundamentalism
- fundamentalist
- fundamentalistic
- fundamentally
- fundamental particle
- funded debt
- fundi
- fundic
- fundraise
- fundraiser
- fundraising
- fundus