4-letter words containing f, s
- flys — Plural form of fly (a type of carriage).
- fmcs — Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
- fobs — a small pocket just below the waistline in trousers for a watch, keys, change, etc. Compare watch pocket.
- foes — a person who feels enmity, hatred, or malice toward another; enemy: a bitter foe.
- fogs — Plural form of fog.
- fons — a member of a people living mainly in Benin.
- fops — Plural form of fop.
- fosi — Formatting Output Specification Instance
- foss — a moat or defensive ditch in a fortification, usually filled with water.
- frcs — Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons
- frgs — Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
- fris — a fine frieze-like fabric
- fros — Plural form of fro.
- frps — Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society
- frsc — Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- fsck — 1. (operating system) file system check. The Unix program that checks a file system for internal consistency and bad blocks etc. and can repair some faults. fsck is often used after a crash when the file system has been left in an inconsistent state, e.g. due to incomplete flushing of buffers. 2. (jargon) Used on Usenet newsgroup alt.sysadmin.recovery as substitute for "fuck" and became more main-stream after the Communications Decency Act.
- fubs — fob2 .
- fuds — a fuddy-duddy.
- fugs — Plural form of fug.
- fums — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fum.
- funs — something that provides mirth or amusement: A picnic would be fun.
- furs — Plural form of fur.
- fusa — (sumo) the four knotted tassels hanging from the roof of the dohyo; symbolising the four seasons.
- fusc — dark-brown; dusky-brown
- fuse — Electricity. a protective device, used in an electric circuit, containing a conductor that melts under heat produced by an excess current, thereby opening the circuit. Compare circuit breaker.
- fuss — an excessive display of anxious attention or activity; needless or useless bustle: They made a fuss over the new baby.
- fust — (obsolete) To decay.
- gifs — Plural form of gif.
- hpfs — High Performance File System
- ispf — Interactive System Productivity Facility
- ntfs — NT File System
- oafs — Plural form of oaf.
- offs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of off.
- ospf — Open Shortest-Path First Interior Gateway Protocol
- rtfs — (jargon) 1. Read The Fucking Source. Variant form of RTFM, used when the problem at hand is not necessarily obvious and not answerable from the manuals - or the manuals are not yet written and maybe never will be. For even trickier situations, see RTFB. Unlike RTFM, the anger inherent in RTFS is not usually directed at the person asking the question, but rather at the people who failed to provide adequate documentation. 2. Read The Fucking Standard; this oath can only be used when the problem area (e.g. a language or operating system interface) has actually been codified in a ratified standards document. The existence of these standards documents (and the technically inappropriate but politically mandated compromises that they inevitably contain, and the impenetrable legalese in which they are invariably written, and the unbelievably tedious bureaucratic process by which they are produced) can be unnerving to hackers, who are used to a certain amount of ambiguity in the specifications of the systems they use. (Hackers feel that such ambiguities are acceptable as long as the Right Thing to do is obvious to any thinking observer; sadly, this casual attitude toward specifications becomes unworkable when a system becomes popular in the Real World.) Since a hacker is likely to feel that a standards document is both unnecessary and technically deficient, the deprecation inherent in this term may be directed as much against the standard as against the person who ought to read it.
- safe — secure from liability to harm, injury, danger, or risk: a safe place.
- safi — a seaport in W central Morocco, on the Atlantic Ocean coast.
- scqf — Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework
- seif — a long narrow sand dune parallel to the prevailing wind direction.
- self — a person or thing referred to with respect to complete individuality: one's own self.
- serf — a person in a condition of servitude, required to render services to a lord, commonly attached to the lord's land and transferred with it from one owner to another.
- sfax — a seaport in E Tunisia, in N Africa.
- sfbi — Shared Frame Buffer Interconnect (Intel)
- sffa — Sales Force Automation
- sflv — Unifies logic and functional programming. SASL+LV with unification moved from actual/formal parameter matching to equational clauses. "Static Analysis of Functional Programs with Logical Variables", G. Lindstrom in Programming Languages Implementation and Logic Programming, P. Deransart et al eds, LNCS 348, Springer 1988.
- sift — to separate and retain the coarse parts of (flour, ashes, etc.) with a sieve.
- skyf — a cigarette or substance for smoking; a smoke
- sncf — Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer: the French national railway system
- sofa — a long, upholstered couch with a back and two arms or raised ends.
- soft — yielding readily to touch or pressure; easily penetrated, divided, or changed in shape; not hard or stiff: a soft pillow.