5-letter words containing f, i
- frail — having delicate health; not robust; weak: My grandfather is rather frail now.
- frain — (rare, or, dialectal, chiefly, Scotland) to ask, inquire; demand.
- freit — (Scotland) A superstitious object or obvservance; a charm, an omen.
- friar — Roman Catholic Church. a member of a religious order, especially the mendicant orders of Franciscans, Dominicans, Carmelites, and Augustinians.
- frick — Henry Clay, 1849–1919, U.S. industrialist, art patron, and philanthropist.
- frics — Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
- fried — cooked in a pan or on a griddle over direct heat, usually in fat or oil.
- frier — a person or thing that fries.
- fries — Charles Carpenter, 1887–1967, U.S. linguist.
- frigg — wife of Odin and chief of the goddesses.
- frigs — Plural form of frig.
- frill — a trimming, as a strip of cloth or lace, gathered at one edge and left loose at the other; ruffle.
- friml — Rudolf, 1881–1972, U.S. composer and pianist, born in Austria-Hungary.
- frink — /frink/ The unknown ur-verb, fill in your own meaning. Found especially on the Usenet newsgroup news:alt.fan.lemurs, where it is said that the lemurs know what "frink" means, but they aren't telling. Compare gorets.
- frise — a rug or upholstery fabric having the pile in uncut loops or in a combination of cut and uncut loops.
- frisk — to dance, leap, skip, or gambol; frolic: The dogs and children frisked about on the lawn.
- frist — (obsolete) A certain space or period of time; respite.
- frith — firth.
- frits — Plural form of frit.
- fritt — Ceramics. a fused or partially fused material used as a basis for glazes or enamels. the composition from which artificial soft porcelain is made.
- fritz — on the fritz, not in working order: Our TV went on the fritz last night.
- frize — (architecture) archaic form of frieze.
- frizz — the state of being frizzed.
- fruit — any product of plant growth useful to humans or animals.
- fslic — Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation
- fugie — a cock that runs from a fight
- fugio — a former US copper coin worth one dollar, the first authorized by Congress (1787)
- fugit — (finance) The optimal date to exercise an American option (or a Bermudan option).
- fukui — Kenichi [ke-nee-chee] /kɛˈni tʃi/ (Show IPA), 1918–98, Japanese chemist: Nobel Prize 1981.
- fumid — Smoky, vaporous.
- fundi — the base of an organ, or the part opposite to or remote from an aperture.
- fungi — a taxonomic kingdom, or in some classification schemes a division of the kingdom Plantae, comprising all the fungus groups and sometimes also the slime molds.
- funic — (anatomy) funicular.
- fusil — a light flintlock musket.
- fusin — Fuxin.
- fuxin — a city in central Liaoning province, in NE China.
- gif89 — Graphics Interchange Format
- giffy — Obsolete form of jiffy (brief moment).
- gifts — Plural form of gift.
- gliff — a fright
- glift — a moment
- gonif — ganef.
- grief — keen mental suffering or distress over affliction or loss; sharp sorrow; painful regret.
- griff — griffin2 .
- grift — (sometimes used with a plural verb) a group of methods for obtaining money falsely through the use of swindles, frauds, dishonest gambling, etc.
- grilf — Girl-friend. Like newsfroup and filk, a typo incarnated as a new word. Seems to have originated sometime in 1992.
- hafiz — (Shams ud-din Mohammed) c1320–89? Persian poet.
- haifa — a seaport in NW Israel.
- hanif — (Islam) Any person, from before the time of Muhammad, who followed a non-pagan monotheistic religion.
- hefei — a province in E China. 54,015 sq. mi. (139,899 sq. km). Capital: Hefei.