2-Letter Words Starting with F

A fast bowler often has problems with them at the end of his run-up

Rural walks

FOPPISH characteristic of a dandy

CHECK to {inspect=v}

Warning workers will get strokes

Strokes at Wimbledon

Court strokes

Bangs cover them

Go on ahead and browse, by the sound of it

Forehoof

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

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

Sail at a ship's front

Minor Earth tremor

Tremor preceding an earthquake

Part of a beach visible at low tide.

Certainly, that sounds like The Strand

Area between high and low water marks

Foreshow

Foreshow

Care taken at gunpoint (wordplay)

Caution - dubious gift horse!

Prudence becoming sore in battle

Meet the old man outside wild party being taken short!

In favour of returning label to his companion at rally

Convene

Early spring bloom

Shrub with showy bell-shaped flowers

A frosty hi to the flowering shrub

Immediately as with froth

Ahead, accompanied straight away

Quickly getting beside river first

Middle-age birthdays

Ruby anniversaries

Vacation duration, maybe

Was boxing champion, say, for two weeks

Period of two weeks

Foxfish

They're all in a pack

Hunters' helpers

I'm surprised about vote cutting money reserved for dogs

Foxhunt

Dogged duo in the field (wordplay)

Person helped by hounds

"Tallyho!" shouter

Team in a pro league

Rights assigned by authorisation

Any pro sports team, for example

Fraught

Inherited estates Law.

Estates not acquired under leases

Cycle for nothing (wordplay)

It costs nothing to go around with this

Costs nothing to go round on a bike

Freight

Engineers aboard aircraft or ship

About to enter aircraft carrier

Cargo-carrying ship or plane

To make French; to infect or imbue with the manners or tastes of the French; to Gallicize.

French

Deodorised free-range hens feed across river

Deodorized

Rejuvenated

Spray used after applying makeup

Something making pleasantly clean

Toning skin lotion

It may get you slapped

Invigorating quality.

Originality

Causes a start

Causes fear

Alarms, scares

Ghastly female? True!

Perhaps gets 14 down in a terrible way

Ghastly female? Correct

Fright

Frothy

Fuchsine

Furbish

""One who furbishes; esp., a sword cutler, who finishes sword blades and similar weapons.""

Furbish

Furlough

Given vessel, trawled about

Equipped with tables,chairs etc

Provided, supplied

One who supplies or fits out.

Provides with vessel and trawls around

Makes livable, as a house

Decks out Ulster woman in expensive wraps

Helped hide the claret (wordplay)

Promoter to pelt the king and queen

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

The business of a factor.

1983 Journey ballad

Fallfish

Awful hassle with food, such as pork pies

Lies

State of being famished.

Rural abodes

Flames have come into view (wordplay)

Reflective airmen seen as provident

Exercising prudent planning

Fashioner

Fashion

Cosby best seller

Bill Cosby best seller

Swayze film of '93

Country of origin

Where one's ancestors are from

Half ardent about Germany, for example

Lacking one parent

In need of a Big Brother

It sounds as if this is not nearly so bad as being an orphan

Adjective meaning resembling

Not beyond comprehension

Within the scope of a plumber

Clearly explained

Holmes fast becoming enigmatic

Beyond the scope of a plumber

Duff flashes Tom with description of 14 down

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) an evergreen garden shrub with shiny green leaves and umbels of pale green flowers; a bigeneric hybrid between Fatsia japonica moseri and Hedera hibernica : family Araliaceae

Get down at night here (wordplay)

Begat a soft place to sleep (wordplay)

Pamper like birds around Britain

Feathery

Feather

Boat for sailing with the boys, perhaps

Camaraderie that a student may hope for

All-for-one feeling

FETCHING fetch

Fetichism

Fetishism

Fetishist

At a frantic pace

Hectically

Chess position

Edible fern frond

Ornamentation on bow or top of violin

FIENDISH devilishly cruel

Fifteenth

Sailing-ship decor

Relative of a puppet.

Work out chairman's bust on board

Filefish

Squalor of poor in line seems hollow

English word

Firefight

Firehouse

Firelight

Firethorn

English word

Sole trader on the 24 (wordplay)

Sole distributor (wordplay)

Sole trader (wordplay)

School in part of China for those holding the bass

Swerved

Clashes involving dukes (wordplay)

Scraps first flights with both sides lost

Out-of-order sequences (wordplay)

Novel-plot devices

Certain movie scenes

""A board placed temporarily upon a milldam, to raise the water in the pond above its usual level; a flushboard.""

Camera attachments

Employed by old photographer to expose those in the plot

Flashcube

Flamboyant nature excels through endless bottle

Flashlamp

Glove box item

Stairway whip = shiner

Switch in aircraft that helps you to see

Flashover

Flashtube

Soles

Flatwash

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Flechette

Flemish

Quince quality

Fleshly

Fleshment

Fletching

Flichter

Flighty

Like an ostrich

Loud and dark always on the ground

Driveway accessory, perhaps

Night game requirement

Sports ground illuminator

Ground local fool and hot head and get one of them to clean up Wellington's mess

Baffle local idiot with hot material for cleaning where the shoes have been

Run-down hotels

Seedy hotels

Cheap hotels

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

Diagrams that show step-by-step progressions through systems: 2 wds.

Cornet's cousin

Trumpetlike instrument

Brass instrument

Bird one's seen on the web (wordplay)

Winger tucking contract inside leaflet

Shrewd fielder in sticky leg trap

Boxers under 113 lbs.

FOLKLORE the beliefs and traditions of a people

Foolfish

Foolish

Footcloth

Flog this to get theatrical aids

Sketches of Cambridge

Theatrical field

Forecheck

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)

Meet old boy being entertained by dad

Circumspect

Early.

Prudent.

Forehoof

A female ancestor.

Give a warning

Advance warning to rewash food fresh

Warning cry of course with silhouette

Foreshank

Foresheet

Foreshock

Foreshore

Foreshow

Foresight

Forgather

Plants named for a Scottish botanist

22 down river, OK (wordplay)

Direct and outspoken

Straight to the point

Fortnight

Good February date

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

Recruiters at a TV station (wordplay)

Sport on horseback

Chasing doglike animals

"Tally ho!" sport

""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.""

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.

Fraught

""FREAKISH quirkily unusual, also FREAKFUL, FREAKY""

Generous letters he has delivered outside

Generous

Case supporting idle property owner

One enjoying permanent tenure of a property

Someone with permanent and absolute tenure of land

Rambles around without constraints

Coasts unleash rollers

Costs nothing for them to get around without pedalling

Female anger over a number of goods

Crew packed in cloth between edges of fragile goods

/Cargo/

They carry cargoes about in men-of-war

Soldiers embark in aircraft and ships

Ships carrying bulk goods

Freight

Freshener

Tonic

Dude, nice triatomic molecule!

Like some fish (2 words)

Could it make ferret wash (wordplay)

Buddy's craft (wordplay)

Bone of a buddy (wordplay)

Quaker's transport (wordplay)

Alarmed, unnerved

The fridge is rearranged to hold new chicken

Scared female put back on the correct path

Frogfish

Confusion about right climbing plant for each insect

Beer characteristic

Furbisher

Furbish

Furlough

Furnisher

Providing John's partner with gin supply

Fitting out a vessel in maritime industry

Furtherer

Further

Factorship

""FADDISH inclined to take up fads, also FADDY""

Faithless

Famishment

""Most distant or remote; as, the farthest degree. See Furthest. as, the farthest degree. See Furthest.""

Cheap beer makes my bum look big in this

Dress circle

Cheap drink! It makes for an expansive habit

Create a Wall Street critter (wordplay)

Current, cool or hot

With style.

In a fashionable manner.

Fatheaded

Fatherhood

Countries of origin

Fatshedera

Union bosses' bunks (wordplay)

Union bosses' bunks?

He'd be faster changing 'Pampers'

""The thin, new growth around the edge of a shell, of an oyster.""

Not a member of the "brain trust."

Feathery

Feathering

Destitute of feathers.

""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.""

People sharing common beliefs

FETISHIST

Fianchetto

Fiddlehead