4-letter words starting with f
- ferd — (obsolete or historical) An army, a host.
- fere — a companion; mate.
- ferm — (obsolete) Rent for a farm.
- fern — a female given name.
- fery — Eye dialect of very.
- fess — a teacher.
- fest — an assembly of people engaged in a common activity (often used in combination): filmfest; gabfest; love-fest; poetry fest.
- feta — a soft, white, brine-cured Greek cheese made from sheep's milk or goat's milk.
- fete — a day of celebration; holiday: The Fourth of July is a great American fete.
- fets — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fet.
- feud — fee (def 4).
- fewe — Archaic spelling of few.
- fgdc — Federal Geographic Data Committee
- fghc — Flat GHC. A flat variant of GHC in which guard calls can be only to primitives. See also KL1.
- fhsa — (formerly, in Britain) Family Health Services Authority
- fhss — Frequency-Hopping Spread Spectrum
- fiar — (Scotland, law) One in whom the property of an estate is vested, subject to the estate of a liferenter.
- fiat — an authoritative decree, sanction, or order: a royal fiat. Synonyms: authorization, directive, ruling, mandate, diktat, ukase.
- fibs — Plural form of fib.
- fica — Federal Insurance Contributions Act
- fice — Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. a small mongrel dog, especially one that is ill-tempered; cur; mutt.
- fico — fig1 (def 4).
- fict — fiction
- fide — in bad faith; not genuine.
- fido — a system for evaporating the fog above airfield runways by the heat from burners.
- fids — Plural form of fid.
- fief — a fee or feud held of a feudal lord; a tenure of land subject to feudal obligations.
- fifa — international soccer federation
- fife — Also called Fifeshire [fahyf-sheer, -sher] /ˈfaɪf ʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in E Scotland.
- fifi — a type of mountaineering hook
- fifo — first-in first-out
- fift — (ordinal) obsolete spelling of fifth.
- figs — Figures.
- fiji — an independent archipelago of some 800 islands in the S Pacific, N of New Zealand, composed of the Fiji Islands and a smaller group to the NW: formerly a British colony, now a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 7040 sq. mi. (18,235 sq. km). Capital: Suva.
- fike — (ambitransitive) To feign; dissemble; flatter.
- fikh — the system of jurisprudence: the legal foundation of Islamic religious, political, and civil life.
- fila — a threadlike structure; filament.
- file — a powder made from the ground leaves of the sassafras tree, used as a thickener and to impart a pungent taste to soups, gumbos, and other dishes.
- filk — Lb music About or inspired by science fiction, fantasy, horror, science, and/or subjects of interest to fans of speculative fiction; frequently, being a song whose lyrics have been altered to refer to science fiction; parodying. (However, much filk music is original rather than parodic.).
- fill — to make full; put as much as can be held into: to fill a jar with water.
- film — a thin layer or coating: a film of grease on a plate.
- filo — stack
- fils — a coin and monetary unit of Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, the 100th part of a dinar.
- fina — Alternative form of fixing to: used to express a desire or future action.
- find — to come upon by chance; meet with: He found a nickel in the street.
- fine — of superior or best quality; of high or highest grade: fine wine.
- fing — (rare) Finger.
- fini — finished; done.
- fink — a strikebreaker.
- finn — a native or inhabitant of Finland.