2-Letter Words Starting with F

FRANCHISE Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.

Certain shop owner

One granted retail rights

McDonald's owner, for example

FRANCHISE Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.

Thunder and Lightning, for example

Thunder and Lightning, e.g

Individual stores of chains, often

FRANCHISE Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.

Francolin

Murder of a brother

Killing of a brother

The killing of a brother

Freckly

FREELANCE a person who acts independently or without authorization of an organization or of his superiors.

Day-rate charger, perhaps

Outside worker (wordplay)

Charitable surgeon (wordplay)

'Fargo' Oscar winner McDormand

Fargo Oscar winner McDormand

Moonlights

Frequence

Cushion-shaped piece of veal

Larded and braised veal fillet

Larded and braided veal fillet

Fricando

""FRICASSEE A dish made of fowls, veal, or other meat of small animals cut into pieces, and stewed in a gravy.""

Cooks bring in container holding special dishes

Cooks carrying carton containing small things on the menu (wordplay)

Fricative

Like stories about king, producing resistance to movement

It's not true about resistance being caused by abrasiveness

Crullers

Causing cold or freezing

Playing - prepared for defeat

Gambolling about

Kittenish fools involved with crime

Frisk a few seen as game for a laugh (wordplay)

Lively, playful

Hoopster's offensive area

Fructify

Fructify

Holiday doorstops (wordplay)

Yuletide sweets

""Somewhat shrubby in character; imperfectly shrubby, as the American species of Wistaria.""

Fugacity

Occasion on which a student is working

Working to sort out final count

Working out final count

Worked properly

FUNGICIDE Anything that kills fungi.

Some crop-dusting chemicals

Funicular

Furcation

Like much sci-fi

Fruit is cut, prepared for 7

Mixed fruit is cut ahead of time

""FABRICATE To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build; as, to fabricate a bridge or ship. as, to fabricate a bridge or ship.""

Car in a bit of trouble? Porky!

Framework shaped into a story

Deceptive invention

Fabricator

Tongue-in-cheek

(Done) with inappropriate humour

In fun

Freed from difficulty or impediment. Contrasted with delayed.delayed.

Facilitate

A smoother of the way

Facticity

Factional

Factitive

""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""

Factorship

Adjective meaning resembling

Factualism

Factualist

""FACTUAL actual, real""

""Having relation to the grant or exercise faculty, or authority, privilege, license, or the like hence, optional; as, facultative enactments, or those which convey a faculty, or permission; the facultative referendum of Switzerland is one that is optional with the people and is necessary only when demanded by petition; facultative studies; -- opposed to obligatory and compulsory, and sometimes used with to.as, facultative enactments, or those which convey a faculty, or permission; the facultative referendum of Switzerland is one that is optional with the people and is necessary only when demanded by petition; facultative studies; -- opposed to obligatory and compulsory, and sometimes used with to.""

In a very zealous style

Fanaticism

FANATICIZE To cause to become a fanatic.

Fanaticize

Fanciness

Ludicrously, wonderfully odd

FARCICAL {absurd=adj}

Starchy, mealy

Wingers come up with home winner and nil to America, which is corny

Fasciation

""FASCICULE A small bunch or bundle; a fascicle; as, a fascicule of fibers, hairs, or spines.as, a fascicule of fibers, hairs, or spines.""

Could I be more bored!

Able to draw

Beguiling

High interest (wordplay)

"Street" The Cure lives on

Delighted interest

Fascinator

FECUNDATE To make fruitful or prolific.

""The act by which, either in animals or plants, material prepared by the generative organs the female organism is brought in contact with matter from the organs of the male, so that a new organism results; impregnation; fertilization.""

Fecundity

""FELDSPATH A name given to a group of minerals, closely related in crystalline form, and all silicates of alumina with either potash, soda, lime, or, in one case, baryta. They occur in crystals and crystalline masses, vitreous in luster, and breaking rather easily in two directions at right angles to each other, or nearly so. The colors are usually white or nearly white, flesh-red, bluish, or greenish.""

Wished one joy

Offered congratulations to

Felicitate

FELICITATE Made very happy.

English word

In an intense manner

FETISHIST

Fetoscopy

Like medieval Europe's social structure

Like a Middle Ages social system

Fianchetto

Fiberscope

""Characterized by increased fibrosis and cystic spaces, especially in glandular tissue: fibrocystic disease of the breast.""

English word

Fictional

Fictioneer

Fictionist

FICTIONIZE

Fictionize

FICTIVE imaginary

Fiddleback

""The bow, strung with horsehair, used in playing the fiddle; a fiddle bow.""

Fiduciary

Fieldpiece

At last restricting new spies in terms of resources (wordplay)

Fingerpick

FINICAL {finicky=adj}

FINICKIN {finicky=adj}

Finnicky

July 3rd purchase, perhaps

Snack for an arsonist (wordplay)

Fourth of July popper

Flagrancy

It's a Miss Piggy quality!

Showy behaviour

Extravagant elaborateness

FLAMBOYANCE

Flatulence

Flichter

Flippancy

Flocculant

FLOCCULATE To aggregate into small lumps.

Flocculate

FLOCCULATE To aggregate into small lumps.

Floorcloth

Feature of some jellyfish

The unfolding of blossoms

Bloom

""Moving irregularly in an oscillatory manner, especially up and down; as, fluctuating prices.as, fluctuating prices.""

Ups and downs

""A yellowish red, crystalline substance, C20H12O5, produced by heating together phthalic anhydride and resorcin; so called, from the very brilliant yellowish green fluorescence of its alkaline solutions. It has acid properties, and its salts of the alkalies are known to the trade under the name of uranin. C20H12O5, produced by heating together phthalic anhydride and resorcin; so called, from the very brilliant yellowish green fluorescence of its alkaline solutions. It has acid properties, and its salts of the alkalies are known to the trade under the name of uranin.""

Type of lighting

Glowing in the dark

Winter bug + smelter stuff + aroma

Fluorescer

FLUORESCE

An instrument for observing or exhibiting fluorescence.

X-ray imaging technique

Kingbirds, pewees, etc.

Outfielders (wordplay)

Certain birds.

Flyspeck

Some personal storage trunks

Some storage trunks

Camp gear containers

Patient self-control

Tolerate a knight in power, showing self-control

Restraint

The act of forbidding; prohibition; command or edict against a thing.

Adjective meaning resembling

Forecaddy

Nostradamus and others.

They look ahead

Golf players

Meteorologist's job

Forecastle

Forecheck

Forecheck

CLOSING a conclusion

Repossession of a sort

Homeowner's nightmare

Said to be supporting, before the end, the legal process

Forelock

Forereach

Forereach

Strictly following conventional usage

Formicary

FORNICATE To commit fornication; to have unlawful sexual intercourse.

How's your father, if air con not working (wordplay)

Fornicator

Frank about the future (wordplay)

About to arrive

About to appear

""To separate into different portions or fractions, as in the distillation of liquids.""

Fraction

Fractious

Fragrancy

Many McDonald's restaurant owners

Franchiser

FRANCHISE Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.

Franchisor

French-speaking

Father and grotesque friend in panic mode

So as to be distraught with fear or anxiety

FRANTIC wild with anxiety

Like killing a brother

Brother-murdering

Fratricide

Double-dealing

Deliberate trickery

Criminal deception

Most puzzle constructors

Working here and there

Past tense or past participle

Frenchify

FRENETIC a {madman=n}

Frequency

Fricandeau

Frontcourt

Fructify

""A brown carotenoid pigment, C 40 H 60 O 6 , found in brown algae.""

""One charged with the performance of a function or office; as, a public functionary; secular functionaries. as, a public functionary; secular functionaries.""

Function

FUNGISTAT

Coat he found in dream promotion

Prosecution, advancement

Futuristic

Fabrication

FACELESS hidden identity

Facileness

""FACILITATE To make easy or less difficult; to free from difficulty or impediment; to lessen the labor of; as, to facilitate the execution of a task. as, to facilitate the execution of a task.""

The act of facilitating or making easy.

""Freeing from difficulty or impediment; as, facilitative changes in the economic structure.as, facilitative changes in the economic structure.""

Facilitator

Inducing or aiding in facilitating neural activity.

Battle in recast film as result of in-fighting

FACTIOUS turbulent

Factitious

Factuality

Fallacious

FANATICIZE To cause to become a fanatic.

FANCIFUL indulging in fancies

FANTASTIC Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical.

Fantastico

In a fascicled manner.

Grouped in a fascicle; fascicled.

Fascination

""FASCIOLE a band of colour, also FASCIOLA""

""FASCIOLE a band of colour, also FASCIOLA""

Feeble and ineffectual attitude

Fecundation

FELICITATE Made very happy.

Compliment

Felicitator

Felicitous

Femtosecond

One of a complex series of double cyanides of ferric iron and some other base.

One of a series of complex double cyanides of ferrous iron and some other base.