4-letter words starting with f
- free — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
- frei — Eduardo [e-dwahr-th aw] /ɛˈdwɑr ðɔ/ (Show IPA), 1911–82, Chilean statesman: president 1964–70.
- fren — (obsolete) A stranger.
- freq — (slang) frequency.
- fret — to feel or express worry, annoyance, discontent, or the like: Fretting about the lost ring isn't going to help.
- frey — the god of peace, prosperity, and marriage: one of the Vanir, originally brought to Asgard as a hostage.
- frgs — Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
- fri. — Fri. is a written abbreviation for Friday.
- frib — a short heavy-conditioned piece of wool removed from a fleece during classing
- frig — to copulate with.
- frim — (dialectal, archaic, or, obsolete) Flourishing, thriving.
- frio — a river in S Texas, flowing S and SE to the Nueces River SE of San Antonio. 220 miles (354 km) long.
- fris — a fine frieze-like fabric
- frit — Ceramics. a fused or partially fused material used as a basis for glazes or enamels. the composition from which artificial soft porcelain is made.
- friz — the state of being frizzed.
- frl. — Fräulein
- frob — (jargon, MIT) Any small device or object (usually hand-sized) which can be manipulated.
- froe — a cleaving tool having a wedge-shaped blade, with a handle set at right angles to it.
- frog — a triangular mass of elastic, horny substance in the middle of the sole of the foot of a horse or related animal.
- from — (used to specify a starting point in spatial movement): a train running west from Chicago.
- fros — Plural form of fro.
- frot — (slang) To publicly rub one's genitals against someone for sexual gratification, especially without the other's consent or knowledge.
- frow — a cleaving tool having a wedge-shaped blade, with a handle set at right angles to it.
- frps — Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society
- frsc — Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- frug — a dance deriving from the twist.
- frum — Yiddish. religious; observant.
- frye — (Herman) Northrop, 1912–91, Canadian literary critic and educator.
- fsck — 1. (operating system) file system check. The Unix program that checks a file system for internal consistency and bad blocks etc. and can repair some faults. fsck is often used after a crash when the file system has been left in an inconsistent state, e.g. due to incomplete flushing of buffers. 2. (jargon) Used on Usenet newsgroup alt.sysadmin.recovery as substitute for "fuck" and became more main-stream after the Communications Decency Act.
- ft-c — foot-candle
- ft-l — foot-lambert
- ftam — File Transfer, Access, and Management: an application layer protocol for file transfer and remote manipulation (ISO 8571).
- fth. — fathom
- fttp — Do you mean FTP or HTTP?
- fubs — fob2 .
- fuci — any olive-brown seaweed or alga of the genus Fucus, having branching fronds and often air bladders.
- fuck — to have sexual intercourse with.
- fuds — a fuddy-duddy.
- fuel — combustible matter used to maintain fire, as coal, wood, oil, or gas, in order to create heat or power.
- fuff — (dialect, intransitive) To puff.
- fufu — a doughlike West African dish of boiled and ground plantain, yam, or cassava, made into balls to go with soups or stews.
- fuga — (music, dated) A fugue.
- fugh — (obsolete) An exclamation of disgust; foh; faugh.
- fugs — Plural form of fug.
- fugu — any of several species of puffer fish eaten as a delicacy, especially in Japan, after the removal of the skin and certain organs which contain a deadly poison.
- fuji — a dormant volcano in central Japan, on Honshu island: highest mountain in Japan. 12,395 feet (3778 meters).
- fula — Fulani.
- fule — (dialectal, chiefly, Scotland) fool.
- full — completely filled; containing all that can be held; filled to utmost capacity: a full cup.
- fume — of food, cured or flavored by exposure to smoke; smoked.