4-letter words containing f, l
- fley — to frighten; terrify.
- flib — /flib/ (WPI) A meta-number, said to be an integer between 3 and 4. See grix, N.
- flic — a police officer; cop.
- flid — (UK, slang, derogatory, offensive) A stupid or physically uncoordinated person; a retard.
- flie — Obsolete spelling of fly.
- flim — a five-pound note
- flip — to toss or put in motion with a sudden impulse, as with a snap of a finger and thumb, especially so as to cause to turn over in the air: to flip a coin.
- flir — the abbreviation for forward looking infrared radar
- flit — to move lightly and swiftly; fly, dart, or skim along: bees flitting from flower to flower.
- flix — The soft fur of some animals, especially the beaver.
- flob — to spit
- floc — Also, flock. a tuftlike mass, as in a chemical precipitate.
- floe — Also called ice floe. a sheet of floating ice, chiefly on the surface of the sea, smaller than an ice field.
- flog — to beat with a whip, stick, etc., especially as punishment; whip; scourge.
- floo — Dated form of flu.
- flop — to fall or plump down suddenly, especially with noise; drop or turn with a sudden bump or thud (sometimes followed by down): The puppy flopped down on the couch.
- flor — A film of yeast that develops on the surface of some wines during fermentation, produced deliberately in during the production of sherry.
- flow — to move along in a stream: The river flowed slowly to the sea.
- flox — (molecular biology) To sandwich a DNA sequence between two recombinase binding sequences such as
- flpl — Fortran List Processing Language. A package of Fortran subroutines for handling lists by H. Gelernter et al, ca 1960.
- flsa — Fair Labor Standards Act
- flub — a blunder.
- flue — a fishing net.
- flus — influenza.
- flux — a flowing or flow.
- flye — (weightlifting) An exercise performed by moving extended arms through an arc while the elbows are kept at a fixed angle, especially those done to exercise the chest muscles.
- flys — Plural form of fly (a type of carriage).
- fmpl — Frobozz Magic Programming Language
- fnal — Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Illinois, USA).
- foal — a young horse, mule, or related animal, especially one that is not yet one year of age.
- focl — An expert system shell and backward chaining rule interpreter for the Macintosh. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- foil — to cover or back with foil.
- fol. — folio
- fold — to confine (sheep or other domestic animals) in a fold.
- folk — Usually, folks. (used with a plural verb) people in general: Folks say there wasn't much rain last summer.
- foll — (knitting) follow; following.
- fool — to trick, deceive, or impose on: They tried to fool him.
- foul — grossly offensive to the senses; disgustingly loathsome; noisome: a foul smell.
- fowl — the domestic or barnyard hen or rooster; chicken. Compare domestic fowl.
- frl. — Fräulein
- ft-l — foot-lambert
- fuel — combustible matter used to maintain fire, as coal, wood, oil, or gas, in order to create heat or power.
- fula — Fulani.
- fule — (dialectal, chiefly, Scotland) fool.
- full — completely filled; containing all that can be held; filled to utmost capacity: a full cup.
- furl — to gather into a compact roll and bind securely, as a sail against a spar or a flag against its staff.
- fyle — (Scotland, transitive) Alternative form of file.
- gfdl — GNU Free Documentation License
- golf — a game in which clubs with wooden or metal heads are used to hit a small, white ball into a number of holes, usually 9 or 18, in succession, situated at various distances over a course having natural or artificial obstacles, the object being to get the ball into each hole in as few strokes as possible.
- gulf — a portion of an ocean or sea partly enclosed by land.