6-letter words containing f, i, s
- finers — Plural form of finer.
- finest — fines. Mining. crushed ore sufficiently fine to pass through a given screen. Compare short (def 29e). Agriculture. the fine bits of corn kernel knocked off during handling of the grain.
- finish — to bring (something) to an end or to completion; complete: to finish a novel; to finish breakfast.
- finsen — Niels Ryberg [neels ry-ber] /nils ˈrü bɛr/ (Show IPA), 1860–1904, Danish physician: Nobel Prize 1903.
- fiords — Plural form of fiord.
- firers — Plural form of firer.
- firsts — being before all others with respect to time, order, rank, importance, etc., used as the ordinal number of one: the first edition; the first vice president.
- firths — Plural form of firth.
- fiscal — of or relating to the public treasury or revenues: fiscal policies.
- fished — Simple past tense and past participle of fish.
- fisher — Andrew, 1862–1928, Australian statesman, born in Scotland: prime minister 1908–09, 1910–13, 1914–15.
- fishes — any of various cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates, having gills, commonly fins, and typically an elongated body covered with scales.
- fishie — (childish) diminutive of fish; alternative spelling of fishy.
- fisked — Simple past tense and past participle of fisk.
- fissi- — indicating a splitting or cleft
- fissle — bustle
- fisted — Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. a small mongrel dog, especially one that is ill-tempered; cur; mutt.
- fister — Someone partakes in fisting.
- fistic — of boxing; pugilistic: fistic heroes.
- fivers — Plural form of fiver.
- fixers — Plural form of fixer.
- fixism — (biology) The non-religious theory that the species alive today were identical to those of the past and that evolution does not happen.
- fizzes — to make a hissing or sputtering sound; effervesce.
- flails — Plural form of flail.
- flairs — Plural form of flair.
- flicks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flick.
- fliers — Plural form of flier.
- flimsy — without material strength or solidity: a flimsy fabric; a flimsy structure.
- flings — Plural form of fling.
- flints — Plural form of flint.
- flirts — Plural form of flirt.
- flisky — skittish; frisking; flighty
- fluids — Plural form of fluid.
- fluish — having flu-like symptoms; like someone who has the flu
- fogies — Plural form of fogey.
- foison — abundance; plenty.
- foists — to force upon or impose fraudulently or unjustifiably (usually followed by on or upon): to foist inferior merchandise on a customer.
- foisty — Mouldy, musty, fusty.
- folios — Plural form of folio.
- follis — a bag of copper or bronze coins with a fixed weight, used as money of account in the later Roman Empire.
- fortis — pronounced with considerable muscular tension and breath pressure, resulting in a strong fricative or explosive sound. In stressed position (p, t, k, ch, f, th, s, sh) and sometimes (h) are fortis in English as compared with (b, d, g, j, v, th̸, z, and zh), which are lenis. Compare lenis.
- fossil — any remains, impression, or trace of a living thing of a former geologic age, as a skeleton, footprint, etc.
- foxies — Plural form of foxie.
- frails — having delicate health; not robust; weak: My grandfather is rather frail now.
- fraise — Fortification. a defense consisting of pointed stakes projecting from the ramparts in a horizontal or an inclined position.
- friars — Plural form of friar.
- frills — a trimming, as a strip of cloth or lace, gathered at one edge and left loose at the other; ruffle.
- frisch — Karl von [kahrl von;; German kahrl fuh n] /kɑrl vɒn;; German kɑrl fən/ (Show IPA), 1886–1982, Austrian zoologist: Nobel Prize in Physiology 1973.
- frisco — San Francisco.
- frisee — an endive, Cichorium endivia, often used in salads