2-Letter Words Starting with F

Prevent from crossing over marsh

Avoid bog in river crossing

Ward off

Word seen on cornerstones

Gave a start

Established, set up

Fract

Frag

Put stamp on US officer's restraining order

Frap

Lost one's cool big-time

Blew one's top

Lost one's cool

Fresh

Bit one's nails, perhaps

Was constantly anxious

Embroidered with gold or silver

Made more dressy

With ruff

Ruffled

Like a surrey's top (wordplay)

Bang on in style (wordplay)

Like the surrey in "Oklahoma!"

Gambolled, leapt playfully

Searched a yegg

Searched, in a way

Frit

Like an Afro

Tightly curled.

Frock

Frog

Leaved, as ferns

Covered (for)

Led, as a jazz band

Led, as a band

Like glass with roughened surface

Describing nontransparent glass.

Like some bulbs

Formed rising bubbles

Effervesced

Foamed

Looked upon with disfavor.

Wrinkled one's forehead

Showed displeasure

Frug

Plain adjective (wordplay)

America the Beautiful adjective

'America the Beautiful' adjective

Confused (by alcohol)

Drunk ran away clutching posh theologian

Confused, due to drink

Gassed up the Jaguar, say

(of car) having petrol

Filled with petrol

Didn't feel at all well

Made a mess of things

Dropped the ball

Having several sides Brit. sp.

Having several sides: Brit. sp.

Took into account with in

Did a math job

Resolved into mathematical quantities.

Faggot

Nautical pulley

""Curved and tapering to a point, also FALCATE""

Left land unplanted.

Female became different and stumbled

Lost one's footing

Hesitated to have the key changed

Ready to eat a horse (wordplay)

Ma fished, being starved

Made fish pie for the hungry

Had little piggies

Perhaps this distant racket may mean the sow has been delivered

Made speedy and tight (wordplay)

Buckled or clamped

Nailed, say

Made young (wordplay)

Engendered plump cattle full of energy

Brought forth

Got fine reception with old copper

Got one's brain around

Understood female in diamonds

Tired, really weary

Corpulent guide, terribly weary

Plump guide stumbled, exhausted

Readied for slaughter

Ready for market

Fed lots and lots of corn

Treated with partiality

Preferred over all others

Preferred or privileged

Gave prominence to

Gave high billing

Star director included in the cast

Whipped

Fellow

Fenagle

Having a fender

Ferrel

Dug around, with "out"

Hunted rabbits, in a way

Discovered after a search, with 'out'

Ferrule

Became much worse

Out-of-the-way payment embarrassed and rankled

Gone to the bad. Is that the matter there (wordplay)

Put in chains

In leg irons

In shackles

Played with one's hands, say

Had ants in one's pants

Couldn't remain still

Filiate

Removed the bones, of a fish say

Boned the fish

Removed the bones of a fish

Flicked a finger

Rid of impurities

It gets to be so strained

Percolated or strained

Advanced via bamboozlement

Achieved through trickery

Got via guile

Acted like an angel (wordplay)

Backed up, in a way

Obtained or provided money for

Maneuvered tactfully or adroitly

Used extreme subtlety

Used a ruse

Identified as guilty

Identified in a lineup

Gave a felon's name to the cops

Having a finial

Female in cast carrying one over

Completed fiendish arrangement

Find he is bound over

With "The," a Stravinsky ballet

Ballet by Stravinsky

Stravinsky ballet, with 'The'

Growth in recently burned clearings

Yukon official flower

Growth in a recently burned clearing

An ingrate, perhaps, from 23 down

Franklin stove fuel

It may come in cords

A mammal that has separated toes

Of rock, split or cracked

Get cracked enough to have been a fisherman, perhaps

'By the sound of it, went angling, perhaps, with cracks (8)'

Like 100 vis-a-vis 20

Like the symmetry of a starfish

Liquored up and lit (wordplay)

How peaches may be served

How steak au poivre is served

Fancy having machine for catching fish!

Kind of catfish

Nickname for Ford's first V-8 engine

Displayed proudly or ostentatiously

Sported shamelessly

Displayed brazenly

Seasoned (US sp.)

Added vanilla, perhaps

Like some carbonated water

Source of a yellowish oil

Source of some health food store oil

Steroid scandal substance

Fleech

Flench

Fletch

A shot from Barneveld, for instance

Shrank back from danger or pain

Shrank in fear

Recoiled as from threat

Flitch

Walked with exaggerated motions

Trimmed with wide ruffles

Student found out about the church - and moved abruptly

How the blooming forte got deeper

Female slimmed down and blossomed

Blooming well got down the it at last

Just left a dusting, say

Came down without sticking, usually

Agitated

Fool, oddly obstinate and single-minded

Of light rays, converged on a point

Foreign Office swore to be single-minded

Fed grain

Covered with leaves

Like a leaf

Leaves with the foal tied like this

Oil producer enters destined to be hammered

Didn't take the lead, but succeeded

Kept up with

Went after food well cooked

Stirred up, as trouble

Cause trouble for the omen in a deft way

Stirred up.

Forbode

Avert

Front drive in SW19 (wordplay)

Style of tennis stroke

Kind of tennis stroke

Front of the head

Place for bangs

Above the eyes

Head may be head of fox or antelope

Head in the direction of antelope

Promontory.

One just mentioned

Mentioned earlier

With trees of the turn of 8 down

Under a canopy

Planted trees on

Worry about nothing ancient predicted

Practiced pyromancy

Quartet said to have made a prediction (wordplay)

Author's note

Front-matter section

Preface of a sort

The lowest yard on a foremast

Fortune

Promoted growth and development of

Helped to develop

Looked after

Having a fovea

At one's wits' end

Worn to rags or tatters, exhausted

Emotionally burned out

Like Alfred E. Newman's face

Like Howdy Doody's face

Having been overexposed to the sun, maybe

Style of drawing - carte blanche (8;4,4)

Head fern (anagram)

Carte blanche, with "a"

System of property ownership

N. J. racetrack

Permanent tenure of land or property

Emulate Skelton's Freddie, maybe

Get some, but give none

Mooch regarding ELO is absorbed by trend

French

What finance was in the 1900's.

Wildly excited or agitated

Overly excited

Painted on fresh plaster

Fribble

Admitted into one's social network

Sent a Facebook request to

Connected with, on Facebook

Fright

Frivol

Frizzle

Having {frogeye=n}

Frounce

Frowst

Charcoal

Fuller

Fulmine

Moved through a central point.

Get 5 down, 22 across perhaps, and the editor with a fork

Forked

Heated in an enclosed chamber

Made to feel the heat, took guard to secure Ashes (wordplay)

Had argument after coat becoming creased

Like some brows

Wrinkled, as a brow

It's not the real Robin lying there

Lie has fooled Dicky

That's not really Robin lying there

Falsify

Fancify

Fanfold

Fantasy

Faradise

Stimulated with electric currents

Stimulated with electric currents.

Home on the grange.

Ranch, for example

Dream fast shattered at cultural centre

Malformed, as plant stems

""Growing in a bundle, tuft, or close cluster; as, the fascicled leaves of the pine or larch; the fascicled roots of the dahlia; fascicled muscle fibers; fascicled tufts of hair.as, the fascicled leaves of the pine or larch; the fascicled roots of the dahlia; fascicled muscle fibers; fascicled tufts of hair.""

Find a shoe badly made

Something old

Designed

Washed out the 'a' coming in 'brainless'

Swollen-faced and dull

Stupid old man almost dead unfortunately

Feed around at her like a bird

That's her in defeat like 10 across

These friends are birds

In a league

Formed an association

Banded together like states of America

Feminise

Feminize

Stirred up (disorder)

Turned to alcohol

Soured, as grapes

Ferrel

Like some party rooms

Added colorful decor to

Decorated, in a way.

Like some mascara

Filagree

With lacy ornamental work.

Delicately ornamented

Filtrate

Sale I find, after negotiation, agreed upon

Completed, modern style.

What radio bosses do to a troublemaker

One who stirs up trouble

Energetic person often fomenting trouble

Screen in front of grate

Hearth screen

It's useless when chocolate figure's misshapen and rigid, as Cockney says

Fission

Donned a plaid shirt, perhaps

On the canvas

Ten inflated and deflated

Pressed, rolled out

Praise somewhat dishonestly

Gratified the vanity of.

Praised apartment to deter alteration

Flavour

Flemish

Burnt with an unsteady light

Of light, shone unsteadily

Give tongue in what might be freed lightly

Flitter

""Having floral ornaments; as, floriated capitals of Gothic pillars. as, floriated capitals of Gothic pillars.""

Fluidise

Fluidize

At a loss

Confounded

Bewildered

Hot and bothered

In quite a state, put out

Having lost one's composure

Quivered and ran off with voice stifled

What the bird did and spoke out at last

Perhaps used its wings having spoken at last

Focalise

Focalize

Like a research paper

Pre-prepared for danger

Be forewarned and you'll be this

That sounds like a half an octopus - you have been warned

Presaged.

Coming before, in time.

Was older than

Named before; aforenamed.

Lost as a penalty

Surrendered the lead with a penalty (wordplay)

Gave up being a quadruped, by the sound of it

Forfend

Forjudge

Put into shape, because tangled

Made neat, because tangled

Like port? I'd offer it stirred

With extra alcohol, as wine

Strengthened against attack

Sent on by car with journalist to cover fighting

Sent on

Sent on.

Fossick

Discovered reed at sea sank

Came to grief

Filled with water and sank.

Foxhunt

Needing to be reset, perhaps

State of Ali's jaw against Ken Norton

Beckham's relationship with FIFA (wordplay)

Fraught

Took in a drug by inhaling its fumes

No charge for meals during term at sea!

Nothing to pay to keep you above water

A shipping term for complimentary meals (wordplay)

Freight

Deodorised free-range hens feed across river

Deodorized

Rejuvenated

Wasted (with "away").

Squandered (away)

Spent frivolously and unwisely

Frivol

Played like a porpoise

Romped

Topped right up to the top, by the sound of it, and so had all you wanted

By the sound of it, topped up to the brim and is satisfied

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

Guided into a smaller opening

Used a pouring aid

Furbish

Given vessel, trawled about

Equipped with tables,chairs etc

Provided, supplied

Helped hide the claret (wordplay)

Made up (story)

Created debt Africa is suffering

Constructed; invented

""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""

Imagined stains fade out

Imagined volunteers changing sides, following supporter

Went wild, maybe