3-letter words containing f
- few — not many but more than one: Few artists live luxuriously.
- fey — British Dialect. doomed; fated to die.
- fez — a felt cap, usually of a red color, having the shape of a truncated cone, and ornamented with a long black tassel, worn by men in Egypt and North Africa: formerly the national headdress of the Turks.
- ff. — In a book or magazine, when ff. is written it refers to the page or line mentioned and two or more pages or lines after it.
- ffa — free from alongside (ship)
- ffp — Formal FP. A language similar to FP, but with regular sugarless syntax, for machine execution. See also FL.
- fft — Fast Fourier Transform
- ffv — First Families of Virginia: the first families of colonists to settle in Virginia during the 17th century
- fgl — 1. Flow Graph Lisp. A distributed dataflow language for AMPS (Applicative Multi-Processing System). "A Loosely-Coupled Applicative Multi-Processing System", R. Keller et al, NCC, AFIPS June 1979, pp.613- 622. 2. Function Graph Language. Related to FEL.
- fgm — FGM is the practice of cutting off some or all of the outer sex organs of a girl or woman. FGM is an abbreviation for 'female genital mutilation'.
- fha — Federal Housing Administration
- fhg — Fraunhofer Gesellschaft
- fhs — Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
- fia — (in Britain) Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries
- fib — a small or trivial lie; minor falsehood.
- fic — A fanfic.
- fid — a stout bar of wood or metal placed across a lower spar so as to support a higher one.
- fie — Used to express disgust or outrage.
- fig — dress or array: to appear at a party in full fig.
- fil — fils.
- fin — Slang. a five-dollar bill.
- fip — (US, obsolete) fippenny bit.
- fir — any coniferous tree belonging to the genus Abies, of the pine family, characterized by its pyramidal style of growth, flat needles, and erect cones.
- fis — Family Income Supplement
- fit — adapted or suited; appropriate: This water isn't fit for drinking. A long-necked giraffe is fit for browsing treetops.
- fiv — feline immunodeficiency virus, a disease affecting the immune system of cats
- fix — to repair; mend.
- fiz — (rare) alternative spelling of fizz.
- fji — Fiji (international car registration)
- fld — field
- fli — Flash Lights Impressively.
- flo — a female given name, form of Florence.
- flq — Front de Libération du Québec: a Quebec separatist organization using terrorist tactics, esp in the 1960s and 1970s
- flt — flight
- flu — influenza.
- fly — to move through the air using wings.
- fmb — Federal Maritime Board
- fmc — Federal Maritime Commission
- fmd — foot-and-mouth disease
- fml — Alternative case form of FML (fuck my life).
- fmn — flavin mononucleotide; a phosphoric ester of riboflavin that acts as the prosthetic group for many flavoproteins
- fmq — A BNF-based paser generator with an error corrector generator, by Jon Mauney.
- fms — Flexible Manufacturing System (factory automation).
- fmv — video
- fnc — Federal Networking Council
- fob — a small pocket just below the waistline in trousers for a watch, keys, change, etc. Compare watch pocket.
- foc — father of the chapel
- fod — /fod/ [Abbreviation for "Finger of Death", originally a spell-name from fantasy gaming] To terminate with extreme prejudice and with no regard for other people. From MUDs where the wizard command "FOD
" results in the immediate and total death of , usually as punishment for obnoxious behaviour. This usage migrated to other circumstances, such as "I'm going to fod the process that is burning all the cycles." Compare gun. In aviation, FOD means Foreign Object Damage, e.g. what happens when a jet engine sucks up a rock on the runway or a bird in flight. Finger of Death is a distressingly apt description of what this generally does to the engine. - foe — a person who feels enmity, hatred, or malice toward another; enemy: a bitter foe.
- fog — a second growth of grass, as after mowing.