2-Letter Words Starting with F

Forepart

Forepeak

Foreplay

Forerank

To advance or gain upon; said of a vessel that gains upon another when sailing closehauled.

They're adjacent to jibs

Roman war galley features

Jibs, for example

""SHANK to hit sharply to the right, as a golf ball""

""To predict, pa t FORESPAKE, FORESPOKE, pa p FORESPOKEN""

A duty or tribute payable to the king's foresters.

Gets in first with nothing but woodland!

Everybody would, say, first anticipate

Get ahead of.

Wood, say, fashioned to make on-board supports

FOREST to convert into a densely wooded area

SWEAR to utter a solemn oath

Sample free toast, perhaps

Sample of things to come

Hint of things to come

Forewarn

Feminine supervisor.

Foreyard

Meet the old man outside wild party being taken short!

In favour of returning label to his companion at rally

Convene

FORGE to counterfeit for fraudulent purposes

Forkball

Formalin

Give official recognition to models of realism

Give legal status to supporting African country's energy

Word of warning introducing African republic's structure

Purely structural approach supporting African country's millions

Artistic conservative

One is too punctilious to produce a catalogue

Prepare for shopping trip as a stickler for procedure (wordplay)

Figure touring country observed ceremony

Social rigidity

Representing country, attempt to ignore right protocol

Put into a contract

English word

In this arrangement you get the news

Class ace getting into new structure

Arrangement of things acting as a unit

Developmental (as years)

Having great influence on development

Layout I have for moulding

Put into shape, because tangled

Made neat, because tangled

Approving the subject, one that may organise the filing system

Ant-hill

Produced by mechanically followed rules

Unimaginative motor-racing clubs

Too predictable, as a plot

Stated; prescribed; ritual.

Put down on paper: '3D meat, flour'

Be unfaithful, when Orient FC a shambles

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Renouncers.

Abandoning, giving up

Giving up, withdrawing from

Because of attraction to opposite sex, Edward VIII perhaps abdicating

Lays off this for the sulphur one puts on

Early spring bloom

Shrub with showy bell-shaped flowers

A frosty hi to the flowering shrub

A small outwork of a fortification; a fortilage; called also fortelace. fortelace.

Blessed with good luck

Like lottery winners

Lucky yet strange turn o' fate

Sent on by car with journalist to cover fighting

Sent on

Sent on.

More ready for a screw (wordplay)

Shipping agent

Eagerly; hastily; obtrusively.

Forzando

""Fitted for digging, adapted for burrowing or digging; as, a fossorial foot; a fossorial animal. as, a fossorial foot; a fossorial animal.""

Care of another's child

Novel of hauntings? Not H. G. Wells!

Water sources

Water jets

One-half and three-fourths

Dissenting groups in cliques around regiment

Bits

Difficult to control; irritable

Difficult to control

Cross and quarrelsome

Needing to be reset, perhaps

State of Ali's jaw against Ken Norton

Beckham's relationship with FIFA (wordplay)

Injuries in frantic turf races

Some bone injuries

Breaks we don't like to get

Fragging

Breakable quality

Brittleness

Delicacy

'Small pieces, perhaps broken (9)'

Small pieces, perhaps broken

Archaeologist's finds

Aroma of cloth in European country

Country kid entering to offer bouquet

Scent badger in the country

The quality of being fragrant; sweetness of smell; a sweet smell; a pleasing odor; perfume.

Weak condition

Delicate nature

Faults of flimsy neckwear

Character flaws

See yaws .

FRAME to enclose in a border

FRAME to enclose in a border

Art hanger's profession (wordplay)

Structure, skeleton

Structural skeleton

Team in a pro league

Rights assigned by authorisation

Any pro sports team, for example

Francium

Partridge old dictator left at home

How in France one might buy this bird with nothing and get nothing back

Easily broken - gerbil fan (anagram)

French-Belgian compromise, easily broken

Flimsy deceit by the French called in

'Je suis happy', say

A girl's fan, peut-etre

French with many English words

FRANK to mark mail for postage

Setting of the world's largest book fair

Blasted city on the Oder.

German city

Northampton rugby union ground

Can and did show such quality

Fellow's point about status showing sincerity

Row on loch with fellow, finding open property

Like some twins

Kind of twin

Infernal pest of a brother

Fraught

Young ladies from Bonn.

Berlin maidens

Frazzle

Freaky

Panic attacks

Took in a drug by inhaling its fumes

FREEBASE to use a form of cocaine that is inhaled

Freebase

No charge for meals during term at sea!

Nothing to pay to keep you above water

A shipping term for complimentary meals (wordplay)

Work on spec, perhaps

Home work (wordplay)

Like many writers

Goes on the cuff

Lives off others

Bums for deals without energy

Dish that caused cafes rise, perhaps

Dish of fried meat in thick sauce

Dish with thick sauce

Stinging arachnid

The type of consonant ending "buzz", "hiss" and "puff"

Doughnut.

Italian omelets

Eggy fare

Parts of houses facing the street

Straight on

No backing for what's so little fishy about on high

Facing the bow, for example

Facing ahead

Straight-on

Frottage

FROWARD disobedient

Close quality

Financial prudence

Quality of most millionaires, according to "The Millionaire Next Door"

Fruitage

Nut consumed at teatime!

Christmas baked good

Holiday dinner finale

Check Ford's initial corrosion speed

Thwart or baffle

Prevent from progressing

Evanescent

Lightening.

Emit flashes

Some gridiron pros

Neville and Cole, for example

Some football players

Fullface

Thundering; fulminating.

Protest loudly and bitterly

Explode with anger, criticism

Explode with violence

Fumarase

Fumarate

Openings for volcano vapors

Volcano vents

""FUMAROLE a hole which emits volcanic vapours, also FUMEROLE""

Fumigant

It's great gas when I'm up in the fug with a boy

If mud was plastered round entrance it would have smoked

Inevitable about turn by Russian aircraft getting debugged

Smokes out, as bugs

One who smokes out

Underlying basis - foundation

(Of a railway) cable-operated

Using a cable

Of a mountain railway

Furanose

""An animal whose skin is covered with fur, especially fur that is commercially valuable.""

Furcate

A branching like a. fork.

Furcraea

Furfural

Furfuran

Furnace

Bodies flying (wordplay)

Plane parts

Bodies providing electrical devices to protect English prisoner

Barrage (of shots)

One gets fired if all used together!

One gets fired for ideas full of change!

Criticize severely

Cudgel.

Fabricant

Made up (story)

Created debt Africa is suffering

Constructed; invented

Fabricate

Liar

FABULIST a {liar=n}

In an incredible way

Features the clergy society for cleaning up what's on top

Surrounders of light switches

FACILE easily persuaded

Is it a fact? Lie to make it easier

Make less difficult

Make (something) easy

Going places (wordplay)

Ladies' skills (wordplay)

Unfortunately cities fail to provide resources

Kinds of clones

Exact reproductions for Vera

Exact copies

FACTIOUS turbulent

Partisan keeps it contrived

Fabricated data about Italian debt

Not natural.

Player in story can be taken into consideration

Factorage

Factorial

""FACTORIZE To give warning to; said of a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, the warning being to the effect that he shall not pay the money or deliver the property of the defendant in his hands to him, but appear and answer the suit of the plaintiff""

Factorize

The business of a factor.

""FACTUAL actual, real""

""FACTUAL actual, real""

""FACTUAL actual, real""

Faggoting

Patmos, perhaps. Here is ambience

The judge's bench, hopefully (wordplay)

Good reason for attraction

""A block, or ring, serving as a guide for the running rigging or for any rope.""

Fairness

Dylan's fair version of little people's homes

1983 Journey ballad

Falconry

Faldstool

Like a mistaken belief

False note? Ring up with promises to pay

Deceptive, misleading

Fallfish

""A well or opening, through the successive floors of a warehouse or manufactory, through which goods are raised or lowered.""

Awful hassle with food, such as pork pies

Lies

Falsework

Falsifier

Falsify

Black sheep, at times? (letters 5-8)

In an intimate manner

Kinfolk welcoming storyteller in a friendly way

Adjective (-ic)

State of being famished.

Amos's condition (wordplay)

Renown

Maniacs fit to bust - displaying this

Within such, the madness of maniac fits (wordplay)

Excessive zeal

To cause to become a fanatic.

In a whimsical way

Fancify

Fancywork

Fanfold

Imagined stains fade out

Imagined volunteers changing sides, following supporter

Fantasise

Female assistant upset make-up people (wordplay)

Supporter has time and gives help on the radio for make-up people

Went wild, maybe

FANTASIZE

Dreams supporters welcome volunteers with measurements

PRETENDS

Italian word also used by Shakespeare for dandy

Fantastic

Fantasy

""Puppets caused to perform evolutions or dramatic scenes by means of machinery; also, the representations in which they are used.""

Faradise

Faradize

Farandole

FARCICAL {absurd=adj}

Farewell

A woman working on a farm; a farmeress.

Rural abodes

Farmstead

RIGHT HAND (wordplay)

HAND that picks crops

Farriery

Flames have come into view (wordplay)

Reflective airmen seen as provident

Exercising prudent planning

Act of bandaging

""Pertaining to a fascicle; fascicled; as, a fascicular root. as, a fascicular root.""

Fascicule

A little bundle; a fascicle.