5-letter words containing a, f, s
- flabs — flabby flesh; unwanted fat: Daily exercise will get rid of the flab around your waist.
- flags — flagstone (def 1).
- flans — Plural form of flan.
- flaps — something flat and broad that is attached at one side only and hangs loosely or covers an opening: the flap of an envelope; the flap of a pocket.
- flash — a precedence code for handling messages about initial enemy contact or operational combat messages of extreme urgency within the U.S. military.
- flask — the armored plates making up the sides of a gun-carriage trail.
- flats — horizontally level: a flat roof.
- flaws — Plural form of flaw.
- flays — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flay.
- fleas — Plural form of flea.
- foals — Plural form of foal.
- foams — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foam.
- fossa — a pit, cavity, or depression, as in a bone.
- fracs — Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
- frags — Plural form of frag.
- fraps — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of frap.
- frass — insect excrement.
- frats — Plural form of frat.
- frays — Plural form of fray.
- fupas — a wide area of protruding fat in the upper pubic region.
- fusan — Pusan.
- gaffs — Plural form of gaff.
- hafts — The handle of a knife, ax, or spear.
- halfs — (nonstandard) Plural form of half (Alternative form of halves).
- laffs — Plural form of laff.
- leafs — one of the expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant.
- loafs — to idle away time: He figured the mall was as good a place as any for loafing.
- musaf — the religious service celebrated by Jews in addition to and immediately after the morning service on the Sabbath and festivals.
- naifs — Plural form of naif.
- ofays — a contemptuous term used to refer to a white person.
- ofgas — Office of Gas Supply: merged with Offer in 1999 to form Ofgem
- s afr — South Africa
- safar — the second month of the Muslim calendar.
- safer — secure from liability to harm, injury, danger, or risk: a safe place.
- sarfu — South African Rugby Football Union
- scaff — food
- scanf — The C library routine that reads data from the standard input stream stdin into the locations given by each entry in its argument list. The first argument is a format string which controls interpretation of the input and each subsequent argument points to a variable with a type that corresponds to a type specifier in the format-string.
- scarf — a long, broad strip of wool, silk, lace, or other material worn about the neck, shoulders, or head, for ornament or protection against cold, drafts, etc.; muffler.
- shaef — Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces
- shaft — a long pole forming the body of various weapons, as lances, halberds, or arrows.
- sheaf — one of the bundles in which cereal plants, as wheat, rye, etc., are bound after reaping.
- skaif — a wheel on which diamonds and other gems are ground or polished.
- snafu — a badly confused or ridiculously muddled situation: A ballot snafu in the election led to a recount. Synonyms: snarl, bedlam, tumult, disarray, disorder, confusion, mess; foul-up. Antonyms: order, efficiency, calm.
- snarf — to eat quickly and voraciously; scarf (often followed by down or up).
- sofar — a system for determining a position at sea by exploding a charge under water and measuring the time the shock waves take to reach three widely separated shore stations at known distances from each other.
- sofia — a republic in SE Europe. 42,800 sq. mi. (110,850 sq. km). Capital: Sofia.
- softa — a Turkish Muslim theological student.
- staff — a group of persons, as employees, charged with carrying out the work of an establishment or executing some undertaking.
- sulfa — related chemically to sulfanilamide.
- swarf — an accumulation of fine particles of metal or abrasive cut or ground from work by a machine tool or grinder.