2-Letter Words Starting with F

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Flechette

Inexperienced people

In a fleering manner.

The battleships are at sea

Feel oddly thrilled for a moment

Run off with pins and needles for a short time

Flemish

Quince quality

Fleshly

Fleshment

Fletching

Flexitime

Flichter

Flicker

Flighty

Like an ostrich

Loud and dark always on the ground

Insubstantial quality

Weakness, fragilty

Obduracy

Flitter

Aircraft that doesn't need a runway

Aircraft that excels at water landings

Aircraft with pontoons

To aggregate into small lumps.

Clothed with small flocks or flakes; woolly.

Inundate tech VIP Bill (wordplay)

Curt & Bill's favorite parts of dams (wordplay)

Surge protectors

Corps of Engineers concern

Cause of inundation

Bank threat

Run-down hotels

Seedy hotels

Cheap hotels

""Floppier , floppiest Tending to flop; loose and flexible. See Synonyms at limp .""

The blooming perfume comes at the end

Blooming

The quality of being florid.

FLORIGEN a plant hormone

""Pl. florilegia (-j - ) A collection of excerpts from written texts, especially works of literature.""

Flouncy

Fish lost its balance (wordplay)

Struggled and sank when crossing lake

Struggled awkwardly.

The ground I got rid of did well

The ground I got rid of did very well

How I did well from the ground I got rid of

One who flourishes.

Grows in waves

Bloom's in our selfish play

Thrives

Flowerage

Diminutive form

Flowery

Having no flowers.

Delicate; graceful

Delicate

Vessels in river block up

Devo's headgear resembled these

Some sill decorators

Measuring devices used in water pipes

Flowstone

Wasn't consistent

Isn't steady

""Fluffier , fluffiest a. Of, relating to, or resembling fluff.""

Cornet's cousin

Trumpetlike instrument

Brass instrument

Fluidity

Fluidizer

Flummery

FLUORESCE

FLUORESCE

Glows with radiant energy

Prepare clues for Everyman to begin with, Sunday lights up

""To subject to fluoridation, as of water; to add fluoride to.""

""FLUORINE a gaseous element, also FLUORIN""

Fluster

Flutterer

Pitch accommodating perfect batting

Like a nervous stomach

Pitch restricting perfect batting

""Belonging to rivers or streams; existing in or about rivers; produced by river action; fluvial; as, fluviatile starta, plants. as, fluviatile starta, plants.""

Powerboat platforms

Bird one's seen on the web (wordplay)

Winger tucking contract inside leaflet

Shrewd fielder in sticky leg trap

*Covered with black dots

Buzzer beater (wordplay)

Thing causing a buzz kill (wordplay)

Low-tech pest-control device

Boxers under 113 lbs.

False miterwort

""Belonging to, or having the texture or nature of, a leaf; having leaves intermixed with flowers; as, a foliaceous spike. as, a foliaceous spike.""

""Folksier , folksiest Informal Simple and unpretentious in behavior.""

Ramblin' Jack Elliott, for one

Pete Seeger, for example

Peter, Paul or Mary

Fondness

Soft spot

Fellow has not managed to get a Frenchwoman to show soft spot

Foolfish

Foolish

Back (or forward?)

Otto Graham is one

Soccer player, abroad

Way over water

Crossing to pay for game for four

Way across the highway

FOOTLESS without feet

G.I.'s small trunk

G.I.'s trunk

Soldier's stowage

Some flat markers

Certain masonry items

Forbearer

Moderate use of compass (wordplay)

Patient under provocation

Why there are patient porters

Forbidder

FORCEFUL full of strength

Forcemeat

Slightly odd foreign parts to entertain a fighting force preparing in advance

Foreboder

Forebody

Ominously prophetic

Border cut off in fog that swirls? It's ominous

Dread keeping man in check, shrouded in gloom

Forebrain

""CADDIE to serve as a golfer's assistant, also CADDY""

Forecast

Predicter (of, eg, weather)

Rain man (wordplay)

One predicting the future

Close after mixing in crew's quarters

Rook's after front place on board

Divine, the French crew's accommodation

Forecheck

Denied right to redeem a mortgage

Is this what the bank did so as not to be open after four, say (wordplay)

Foreclose

Where one may get a gall on at gar ages

Most garages have them and Dublin used to, by the sound of them

Foredate

Foredoom

He came earlier for the fancy feather

One very high up a tree given warning by priest

He's back on the line with new offer (change of heart)

Forefend

Digit for pointing

Digit next to the thumb

Is on hand to forge finer settlement

Golfers in the lead (wordplay)

Meet old boy being entertained by dad

Golf course (wordplay)

Rally mostly visible in warm spotlight

It's not back in the picture

Circumspect

Early.

Prudent.

Forehoof

Xenophile's love

People from abroad get undeclared jobs

Ferries go off carrying new people from abroad (wordplay)

"Me no speak English," for example.

Me no speak English, for example.

JUDGED judge

Forejudge

Some jury heads

Forelock

A female ancestor.

Prearrange fire on road, slippery

Predetermine

Predetermine Fed's choice of letter? American with it

PASSED pass

... about going into back of athlete"s Herald

Mention of boundary by horse in field for trailer (wordplay)

Father is more entertaining around two hospital areas

Soothsayer's art

Predicting

Give a warning

Advance warning to rewash food fresh

Warning cry of course with silhouette

Foreshank

Foresheet

Foreshock

Foreshore

Foreshow

Foresight

Forespeak

SPOKEN speak

Forestage

Acts in advance of.

Thwarts by advance action

Hinders all in the woodlands

Words in Texas's topography

Forestry

Foreswear

TASTED taste

Advance warnings

One who predicts.

Foretoken

TOPMAN a seaman in the top sail

TOPMEN topman

Given advanced notice

Cautioned in advance.

Gave notice beforehand

Forfeiter

Forfeit

Giving up (of a pot, say)*

Penalty on account of bad ref I oft rue

Forfend

Forgather

Forgetter

Leaving on a jet plane, say

Leaving (something) behind

Never mind, it's all for possession

Possible to excuse lover if bag is repaired

Forklift

Forlorn

Given legal status supporting African country's education

Formalise

""Concerned with or characterized by rigorous adherence to recognized forms, especially in religion or art; using formalism; as, highly formalized plays like "Waiting for Godot".as, highly formalized plays like "Waiting for Godot".""

""FORMALIZE To give form, or a certain form, to; to model.""

Formalize

FORMAL a social event that requires evening dress

Formamide

Formative

Formatter

Having awesome power

Hard to overcome.

Record I had accomplished hard to beat

FORMLESS lacking structure

Reduced to a systematic form; reduced to a formula.

Devises, as a theory

FORMULIZE To reduce to a formula; to formulate.

Formulize

Vaulted like an oven or furnace; arched.

Fornicate

Fortalice

Loud and then soft, in music

Strong suit with set of keys sounds loud then soft

Tends to be fortified with energy by soft type with old musical accompaniment

Fortifier

Fortitude

Fortress

In favor of Rapunzel (wordplay)

Keeps for locks

U. S. bombing planes.

Fortuity

Forwarder

Forward

Fossicker

Out of date, like one who got into rock ages ago (wordplay)

In foreign fields revolutionary is so stuck in the past

Flossie is finally furious when Dotty gets set in her ways

Converted into a fossil; antiquated; firmly fixed in views or opinions.

Fossilize

Fosterage

Child in charge of rising currency

Foreign Office has money for charge

Foulness

Sinking fast

Came across a piece of jewellery we're told, sticking in mud

Fountain

Fourplex

Military decoration.

Outspoken quartet's address (wordplay)

Outspoken quartet's address?

That's firmly for sixteen, perhaps

FOURTEEN a number

Good February date

It's about the middle of the month the youth interrupted the quarter

Recruiters at a TV station (wordplay)

Foxiness

Foxtrot

Foziness

Fraction

Incomplete

Disconnected.

River contains shredded garment with bits broken off

Working men grafted and split up

In bits

Disorganized

Frankincense and myrrh, but not gold

Frambesia

Framboise

""Of, pertaining to, or causing a type of mutation consisting of the insertion or deletion of one or more nucleotides in the nucleic acid structure of a gene, when the number of base pairs inserted or deleted is not a multiple of three. If the addition or deletion occurs in multiples of three, the unaffected nucleotides in the genome remain in the proper order ("frame") to be correctly translated into protein; in such cases of insertions or deletions not causing a frame shift, a functional though altered protein may be produced by the organism. Frameshift mutations cause more profound changes in the composition of the protein resulting from translation of the mutated gene.not causing a frame shift, a functional though altered protein may be produced by the organism. Frameshift mutations cause more profound changes in the composition of the protein resulting from translation of the mutated gene.""

Theoretical structures

FRANCHISE Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.