4-letter words starting with f
- fase — Fundamentally Analyzable Simplified English. L.E. McMahon, Bell Labs.
- fash — (Scotland, Geordie, Northern England) To worry; to bother, annoy.
- fast — moving or able to move, operate, function, or take effect quickly; quick; swift; rapid: a fast horse; a fast pain reliever; a fast thinker.
- fate — something that unavoidably befalls a person; fortune; lot: It is always his fate to be left behind.
- fats — Antoine ("Fats") born 1928, U.S. rhythm-and-blues pianist, singer, and composer.
- faun — one of a class of rural deities represented as men with the ears, horns, tail, and later also the hind legs of a goat.
- faux — artificial or imitation; fake: a brooch with faux pearls.
- fava — A fava bean; a bean (seed or seed pod) of the plant Vicia faba or the plant itself.
- fave — (informal) Favorite (US) or favourite (UK).
- fawn — a young deer, especially an unweaned one.
- faye — a female given name, form of Faith.
- fays — Plural form of fay.
- faze — to cause to be disturbed or disconcerted; daunt: The worst insults cannot faze him.
- fcap — foolscap
- fcca — Fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants
- fcic — Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
- fcii — Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute
- fcsc — Foreign Claims Settlement Commission
- fddi — Fiber Distributed Data Interface
- fdic — Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
- fdse — full-duplex Switched Ethernet
- feal — Archaic. faithful; loyal.
- fear — a river in SE North Carolina. 202 miles (325 km) long.
- feat — a noteworthy or extraordinary act or achievement, usually displaying boldness, skill, etc.: Arranging the treaty was a diplomatic feat.
- feb. — Feb. is a written abbreviation for February.
- fec. — fecit
- feck — Effect, value; vigor.
- feds — the Fed, Informal. the Federal Reserve System.
- feeb — a feeble-minded person.
- feed — to give a fee to.
- feel — to perceive or examine by touch.
- feen — Satan; the devil.
- feep — /feep/ 1. The soft electronic "bell" sound of a display terminal (except for a VT-52); a beep (in fact, the microcomputer world seems to prefer beep). 2. To cause the display to make a feep sound. ASR-33s (the original TTYs) do not feep; they have mechanical bells that ring. Alternate forms: beep, "bleep", or just about anything suitably onomatopoeic. (Jeff MacNelly, in his comic strip "Shoe", uses the word "eep" for sounds made by computer terminals and video games; this is perhaps the closest written approximation yet.) The term "breedle" was sometimes heard at SAIL, where the terminal bleepers are not particularly soft (they sound more like the musical equivalent of a raspberry or Bronx cheer; for a close approximation, imagine the sound of a Star Trek communicator's beep lasting for five seconds). The "feeper" on a VT-52 has been compared to the sound of a '52 Chevy stripping its gears. See also ding.
- feer — Alternative form of fear.
- fees — Plural form of fee.
- feet — a plural of foot.
- fefc — Further Education Funding Council
- feis — (Irish) An Irish festival, usually including folk music, dancing, and sports.
- fele — (dialectal, or, obsolete) Greatly, much, very.
- fell — simple past tense of fall.
- felt — simple past tense and past participle of feel.
- fem. — fem. is a written abbreviation for female or , feminine.
- fema — Federal Emergency Management Agency: a federal agency that coordinates the response to disasters in the U.S.
- feme — a woman or wife.
- fems — Plural form of fem.
- fend — to ward off (often followed by off): to fend off blows.
- feni — (India) An alcoholic drink made in Goa, India, from fermented cashew apples or coconut toddy (sap).
- fens — low land covered wholly or partially with water; boggy land; a marsh.
- fent — a piece of waste fabric
- feod — Obsolete form of feud (estate granted to a vassal by a feudal lord in exchange for service).