4-letter words containing f
- gruf — (obsolete) forwards; with one's face to the ground.
- guff — empty or foolish talk; nonsense.
- gulf — a portion of an ocean or sea partly enclosed by land.
- haaf — deep-sea fishing grounds off the Shetland and Orkney Islands.
- hafe — Eye dialect of have.
- haff — a pool or lake of water that is fresh, not very deep, and is situated at the mouth of a river
- haft — a handle, especially of a knife, sword, or dagger.
- half — one of two equal or approximately equal parts of a divisible whole, as an object, or unit of measure or time; a part of a whole equal or almost equal to the remainder.
- hdfl — A single assignment language.
- heaf — (Northern England) A piece of mountain pasture to which a farm animal has become heafed; a heft.
- heft — weight; heaviness: It was a rather flimsy chair, without much heft to it.
- hfea — Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority
- hfmd — hand, foot, and mouth disease
- hoff — Eye dialect of off.
- hoof — the horny covering protecting the ends of the digits or encasing the foot in certain animals, as the ox and horse.
- howf — a haunt, esp a public house
- hpfs — High Performance File System
- href — (web) (hypertext reference) The attribute of an HTML "a" (anchor or link) tag, whose value gives the URL of the web page or other resource that the link points to. For example, FOLDOC href definition would display an anchor pointing to this dictionary.
- huff — a mood of sulking anger; a fit of resentment: Just because you disagree, don't walk off in a huff.
- iaaf — International Amateur Athletic Federation
- ibfg — Internationaler Bund Freier Gewerkschaften (International Confederation of Free Trade Unions)
- idef — ICAM Definition.
- ietf — Internet Engineering Task Force
- ifac — International Federation of Automatic Control, involved in informatics related to control systems.
- ifad — International Fund for Agricultural Development
- ifdl — (language) Independent Form Description Language.
- iffy — full of unresolved points or questions: an iffy situation.
- ifip — 1. International Federation for Information Processing. 2. A subset of ALGOL.
- ifni — a former Spanish enclave on the W coast of Morocco, ceded to Morocco 1969.
- iitf — Information Infrastructure Task Force
- impf — imperfect
- infn — Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare: an Italian State research organisation.
- info — information.
- ioof — Independent Order of Oddfellows
- irtf — Internet Research Task Force
- ispf — Interactive System Productivity Facility
- jafa — an offensive name for a person from Auckland
- jefe — leader; chief; boss.
- jeff — a male given name, form of Jeffrey.
- jfcl — /jif'kl/, /jaf'kl/, /j*-fi'kl/ (obsolete) To cancel or annul something. "Why don't you jfcl that out?" The fastest do-nothing instruction on older models of the PDP-10 happened to be JFCL, which stands for "Jump if Flag set and then CLear the flag"; this does something useful, but is a very fast no-operation if no flag is specified. Geoff Goodfellow, one of the jargon-1 co-authors, had JFCL on the licence plate of his BMW for years. Usage: rare except among old-time PDP-10 hackers.
- jfcu — Jamaica Fishermen Co-operative Union
- jfdi — (chat) Just fucking do it.
- jfet — Junction Field Effect Transistor
- jfgi — (chat, web) Just Fucking Google It. See STFW.
- jfif — JPEG File Interchange Format
- jiff — a very short time; moment: to get dressed in a jiffy.
- keef — kef (def 2).
- kerf — a cut or incision made by a saw or the like in a piece of wood.
- khaf — see kaf
- kief — kef.