4-letter words starting with f
- fino — a pale, very dry sherry of Spain.
- fins — Plural form of fin.
- fips — Federal Information Processing Standards
- fiqh — the system of jurisprudence: the legal foundation of Islamic religious, political, and civil life.
- fire — combustion
- firk — (transitive) To carry away or about; carry; move.
- firm — not soft or yielding when pressed; comparatively solid, hard, stiff, or rigid: firm ground; firm texture.
- firn — névé.
- firs — Plural form of fir.
- firy — Obsolete form of fiery.
- fisc — a royal or state treasury; exchequer.
- fise — A breaking wind.
- fish — (loosely) any of various other aquatic animals.
- fisk — James, 1834–72, U.S. financier and stock speculator.
- fiss — (transitive, nonstandard) To split apart into multiple entities.
- fist — Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. a small mongrel dog, especially one that is ill-tempered; cur; mutt.
- fits — Plural form of fit.
- fitt — Alternative form of fit (section of a poem or ballad).
- five — a cardinal number, four plus one.
- fixe — Archaic form of fix.
- fixt — a simple past tense and past participle of fix.
- fizz — to make a hissing or sputtering sound; effervesce.
- fla. — Florida
- flab — flabby flesh; unwanted fat: Daily exercise will get rid of the flab around your waist.
- flag — flagstone (def 1).
- flak — antiaircraft fire, especially as experienced by the crews of combat airplanes at which the fire is directed.
- flam — a drumbeat consisting of two notes in quick succession, with the accent on the second.
- flan — Spanish Cookery. a dessert of sweetened egg custard with a caramel topping.
- flap — to swing or sway back and forth loosely, especially with noise: A loose shutter flapped outside the window.
- flat — horizontally level: a flat roof.
- flaw — Also called windflaw. a sudden, usually brief windstorm or gust of wind.
- flax — any plant of the genus Linum, especially L. usitatissimum, a slender, erect, annual plant having narrow, lance-shaped leaves and blue flowers, cultivated for its fiber and seeds.
- flay — to strip off the skin or outer covering of.
- flea — any of numerous small, wingless bloodsucking insects of the order Siphonaptera, parasitic upon mammals and birds and noted for their ability to leap.
- fled — simple past tense and past participle of flee.
- flee — to run away, as from danger or pursuers; take flight.
- fleg — a scare; a fright
- flem — of or relating to Flanders, its people, or their language.
- flet — (rare, or, dialectal) Floor; bottom; lower surface.
- flew — a simple past tense of fly1 .
- flex — to bend, as a part of the body: He flexed his arms to show off his muscles.
- fley — to frighten; terrify.
- flib — /flib/ (WPI) A meta-number, said to be an integer between 3 and 4. See grix, N.
- flic — a police officer; cop.
- flid — (UK, slang, derogatory, offensive) A stupid or physically uncoordinated person; a retard.
- flie — Obsolete spelling of fly.
- flim — a five-pound note
- flip — to toss or put in motion with a sudden impulse, as with a snap of a finger and thumb, especially so as to cause to turn over in the air: to flip a coin.
- flir — the abbreviation for forward looking infrared radar
- flit — to move lightly and swiftly; fly, dart, or skim along: bees flitting from flower to flower.