expletive /ek-, ik-splēˈtiv or eksˈpli-tiv/

1. Filling out
2. Added merely to fill up (a line of verse)

1. A swear-word of any kind
2. A meaningless oath
3. A word or anything present merely to fill a gap
4. A word inserted to fill up a sentence or line of verse
5. A meaningless word serving a grammatical purpose only

explēˈtory (also /eksˈpli-/) adjective

1. Serving to fill up
2. Expletive
3. Supplementary

• fashion victims
• fashious
• fashiousness
• fashiousnesses
• fast
• FAST
• fast and furious
• fast and furiously
• fast-and-loose
• fastback
• fastbacks
• fastball
• fastballs
• fast bowler
• fast bowlers
• fast bowling
• fast-breeder reactor
• fast-breeder reactors
• fast by
• fast-day
• fast-days
• fasted
• fasten
• fastened
• Fasten-e'en