4-letter words starting with f
- flix — The soft fur of some animals, especially the beaver.
- flob — to spit
- floc — Also, flock. a tuftlike mass, as in a chemical precipitate.
- floe — Also called ice floe. a sheet of floating ice, chiefly on the surface of the sea, smaller than an ice field.
- flog — to beat with a whip, stick, etc., especially as punishment; whip; scourge.
- floo — Dated form of flu.
- flop — to fall or plump down suddenly, especially with noise; drop or turn with a sudden bump or thud (sometimes followed by down): The puppy flopped down on the couch.
- flor — A film of yeast that develops on the surface of some wines during fermentation, produced deliberately in during the production of sherry.
- flow — to move along in a stream: The river flowed slowly to the sea.
- flox — (molecular biology) To sandwich a DNA sequence between two recombinase binding sequences such as
- flpl — Fortran List Processing Language. A package of Fortran subroutines for handling lists by H. Gelernter et al, ca 1960.
- flsa — Fair Labor Standards Act
- flub — a blunder.
- flue — a fishing net.
- flus — influenza.
- flux — a flowing or flow.
- flye — (weightlifting) An exercise performed by moving extended arms through an arc while the elbows are kept at a fixed angle, especially those done to exercise the chest muscles.
- flys — Plural form of fly (a type of carriage).
- fmcg — FMCGs are inexpensive products that people usually buy on a regular basis, such as supermarket foods or toiletries. FMCG is an abbreviation for 'fast-moving consumer goods'.
- fmcs — Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
- fmha — Farmers Home Administration
- fmpl — Frobozz Magic Programming Language
- fmri — functional magnetic resonance imaging: a technique that directly measures the blood flow in the brain, thereby providing information on brain activity
- fnal — Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Illinois, USA).
- foad — (chat) fuck off and die.
- foaf — [Usenet] Friend Of A Friend. The source of an unverified, possibly untrue story. This term was not originated by hackers (it is used in Jan Brunvand's books on urban folklore), but is much better recognised on Usenet and elsewhere than in mainstream English.
- foal — a young horse, mule, or related animal, especially one that is not yet one year of age.
- foam — a collection of minute bubbles formed on the surface of a liquid by agitation, fermentation, etc.: foam on a glass of beer.
- fobs — a small pocket just below the waistline in trousers for a watch, keys, change, etc. Compare watch pocket.
- foch — Ferdinand [fer-dee-nahn] /fɛr diˈnɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1851–1929, French marshal.
- foci — a plural of focus.
- focl — An expert system shell and backward chaining rule interpreter for the Macintosh. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- foes — a person who feels enmity, hatred, or malice toward another; enemy: a bitter foe.
- foge — (UK, dialect, Cornwall, dated) A forge used for smelting tin.
- fogs — Plural form of fog.
- fogy — an excessively conservative or old-fashioned person, especially one who is intellectually dull (usually preceded by old): The board of directors were old fogies still living in the 19th century.
- fohn — a warm, dry wind descending a mountain, as on the north side of the Alps.
- foia — Freedom of Information Act
- foid — (geology, colloquial) Alternative form of feldspathoid.
- foil — to cover or back with foil.
- foin — a thrust with a weapon.
- foip — Fax over IP
- fol. — folio
- fold — to confine (sheep or other domestic animals) in a fold.
- folk — Usually, folks. (used with a plural verb) people in general: Folks say there wasn't much rain last summer.
- foll — (knitting) follow; following.
- fomo — a feeling of anxiety or insecurity over the possibility of missing out on something, as an event or an opportunity: If I say no to a party invitation, I get a bad case of FOMO.
- fond — having a liking or affection for (usually followed by of): to be fond of animals.
- fone — (obsolete) Plural form of foe.
- fong — Hiram L(eong) [lee-awng,, -ong] /liˈɔŋ,, -ˈɒŋ/ (Show IPA), 1907–2004, U.S. lawyer and senator from Hawaii 1959–77.