6-letter words containing f
- furled — to gather into a compact roll and bind securely, as a sail against a spar or a flag against its staff.
- furore — a general outburst of enthusiasm, excitement, controversy, or the like.
- furors — Plural form of furor.
- furphy — a false report; rumor.
- furred — of or relating to fur, animal skins, dressed pelts, etc.: a fur coat; a fur trader.
- furrfu — (jargon) Written-only rot13 "Sheesh!". "furrfu" evolved in mid-1992 as a response to postings repeating urban myths on newsgroup news:alt.folklore.urban, after some posters complained that "Sheesh!" as a response to newbies was being overused.
- furrin — Eye dialect of foreign.
- furrow — a narrow groove made in the ground, especially by a plow.
- fusain — a fine charcoal used in drawing, made from the wood of the spindle tree.
- fusees — Plural form of fusee.
- fuseli — (John) Henry (Johann Heinrich Füssli) 1741–1825, English painter, illustrator, and essayist; born in Switzerland.
- fushih — Wade-Giles. former name of Yanan.
- fushun — a city in E Liaoning province, in NE China.
- fusile — formed by melting or casting; fused; founded.
- fusing — 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.
- fusion — the act or process of fusing; the state of being fused.
- fusker — a piece of software that generates obvious passwords and filenames in order to extract data that is held on free websites
- fussed — an excessive display of anxious attention or activity; needless or useless bustle: They made a fuss over the new baby.
- fusser — One who fusses; a fussy person.
- fusses — Plural form of fuss.
- fustet — the smoke tree, Cotinus coggygria.
- fustic — the wood of a large, tropical American tree, Chlorophora tinctoria, of the mulberry family, yielding a light-yellow dye.
- fusula — (in the spinneret of a spider) the terminal tube of a silk gland.
- fusuma — a sliding door in a Japanese house, especially one serving as a room partition.
- futile — incapable of producing any result; ineffective; useless; not successful: Attempting to force-feed the sick horse was futile.
- futons — Plural form of futon.
- futsal — a form of association football, played indoors with five players on each side
- futter — To fuck.
- future — time that is to be or come hereafter.
- futzed — Simple past tense and past participle of futz.
- futzes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of futz.
- fuzhou — a province in SE China, opposite Taiwan. 45,845 sq. mi. (118,739 sq. km). Capital: Fuzhou.
- fuzing — Present participle of fuze.
- fuzzed — loose, light, fibrous, or fluffy matter.
- fuzzes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fuzz.
- fuzzle — (obsolete) To make drunk; to intoxicate.
- fylfot — a swastika.
- fynbos — (botany) Vegetation unique to the Cape Floral Kingdom made up chiefly of Proteaceae, restios and Ericaceae.
- g clef — treble clef.
- g file — (messaging) (General file) A mid 1980s term for text files, usually short and unpublished found on BBSs. The g-files section on BBSs contain text files of general interest, viewable on-line; this is as opposed to files in the file transfer section, which are generally downloadable but not viewable on-line. When used on the Internet, this term generally refers to the types of file most often associated with old BBSs such as instructions on phreaking or making bombs.
- gadfly — any of various flies, as a stable fly or warble fly, that bite or annoy domestic animals.
- gaffed — an iron hook with a handle for landing large fish.
- gaffer — the chief electrician on a motion-picture or television production.
- gaffes — An unintentional act or remark causing embarrassment to its originator; a blunder.
- gaffle — to take hold of; seize.
- gamify — to turn (an activity or task) into a game or something resembling a game: Many exercise programs have been gamified, with badges and scores. The company develops gamified apps.
- ganefs — Plural form of ganef.
- gasify — Convert (a solid or liquid, especially coal) into gas.
- gaufer — a waffle
- geldof — Bob. Full name Robert Frederick Zenon Geldof. born 1954, Irish rock singer and philanthropist: formerly lead vocalist with the Boomtown Rats (1977–86): organizer of the Band Aid charity (from 1984) for famine relief in Africa. He received an honorary knighthood in 1986