2-Letter Words Starting with F

Fortifier

Fortify

""Pl. fortissimos A note, chord, or passage played fortissimo.""

Banging, to Beethoven (wordplay)

Stronghold I'm in is very very noisy

Like the ends of some crescendos

Fortitude

Fortnight

Fortuity

Bringing good luck

This gets a chance to start to be strong 30 across

Passing on hawk-like ring

Fossicker

Fossick

Out of date, like one who got into rock ages ago (wordplay)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

Child in charge of rising currency

Foreign Office has money for charge

2008 album by Zac Brown Band, with "The"

Artificial jet of water

Cosmetic base for trust in the NHS

Sinking fast

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

They often sound like this

Some adoptees

Fountain

Sport on horseback

Chasing doglike animals

"Tally ho!" sport

Foxiness

Foziness

Insignificant part, one length

Not the whole of trial can collapse

Like parts that could be oral, in fact

Fraction

Creating a split

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.""

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

Short honest soldier hears Sting and Cream

Creamy almond-flavoured filling - a finger pan (anagram)

Cream in cooking vessel around which a finger whipped!

Its blooms are used in leis

Fragrant flower used in leis

Shrub in far gap in ground

Alpha males' group (wordplay)

Men's group.

Galsworthy's brotherhood

Buddy up with

Be chummy with.

Associate with.

Murder of a brother

Killing of a brother

The killing of a brother

Fraught

Herb with white flowers that emit hot flammable vapour in hot weather

""Freakier , freakiest Strange or unusual; freakish.""

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

Freckly

Freebase

Sterile female twin calf

Unregulated market accepted defective calf

FREEZING the process of freezing

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

Fremitus

FRENZIED frenzy

Tonic

Readily crumbled; brittle: friable asbestos insulation.

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

Unlike Damon or Pythias

Half-day's interminable all alone

Friday, finish at Leslie's alone

More favorable.

More amicable

Drunk diner, one moving quickly around, becoming more affectionate (wordplay)

Clumsy fielders in uncompetitive games

Exhibition football games

Amicably finish with girl after 24 hours

Buddy's craft (wordplay)

Bone of a buddy (wordplay)

Quaker's transport (wordplay)

Adjective meaning resembling

Alarmed, unnerved

The fridge is rearranged to hold new chicken

Scared female put back on the correct path

""The state of being frigid; want of heat, vigor, or affection; coldness; dullness.""

Causing cold or freezing

Frills and trims and extraneous things

Guard's excitement (wordplay)

High-spirited playfulness

25 plough through Tuckhouse (wordplay)

Plant register found in monastery

Plant of the lily family

Wastrels

Wasting bit by bit.

Frivoller

Frivol

""Frizzier , frizziest Tightly curled; frizzly.""

Frizzly

Frogfish

Playing - prepared for defeat

Gambolling about

Kittenish fools involved with crime

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

Lively, playful

Fromenty

FRONTAL a bone of the skull

Arctic dangers

Chilly quality

Unfriendly attitude

Extreme cold

Beer characteristic

In a frowning manner.

Frowsty

Fructify

Fructify

Animals that primarily eat foods like bananas

Certain vegan

Yes: bananas, pecans, sunflower seeds; No: steak, broccoli, bread

Holiday doorstops (wordplay)

Yuletide sweets

Fruiterer

FRUITFUL productive

""Fruitier , fruitiest Of, containing, or relating to fruit.""

Fruitwood

Frumenty

Fugacity

In a fugitive manner.

Fulfiller

Fulfill

Fulgurite

Pertaining to soot; sooty; dark; dusky.

""FULMINATE To thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to detonate; to explode with a violent report.""

Fulminate

Where things are treated with smoke and vapor

In the manner of one who fumbles.

Treating to remove infestation

Means of dealing with some infestations

Fumigator

Fumitory

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

Funnel

English word

Furbisher

Furbish

Furcation

Furmenty

Furnisher

Providing John's partner with gin supply

Fitting out a vessel in maritime industry

Furniture

""A white to yellow crystalline powder, C 12 H 11 ClN 2 O 5 S, used as a diuretic.""

Furriery

Further

The quality of being fusible.

Fusillade

Fusionist

FUSTIGATE To cudgel.

Beats American childrenOs game in 'Three Sisters'

Fusulinid

FUTILE ineffective

Futility

Like much sci-fi

Fruit is cut, prepared for 7

Mixed fruit is cut ahead of time

Futurity

""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

""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.""

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

Faintness

It makes mediocre coffee (wordplay)

Carnival setting, often

Livestock show site

Fairleader

Faithless

Fallalery

""The state of being fallible; liability to deceive or to be deceived; as, the fallibity of an argument or of an adviser. as, the fallibity of an argument or of an adviser.""

""Capable of being falsified, counterfeited, or corrupted.""

Faltering

To make familiar or acquainted; same as familiarize.familiarize.

Breeder of contempt

It's said to breed contempt

""To make familiar or intimate; to habituate; to accustom; to make well known by practice or converse; as, to familiarize one's self with scenes of distress. as, to familiarize one's self with scenes of distress.""

Famishment

In a very zealous style

Fanaticism

FANATICIZE To cause to become a fanatic.

Fanaticize

Fanciness

FANTASISE

Fantasizer

Imagining

Ludicrously, wonderfully odd

FARCICAL {absurd=adj}

Farewell

Starchy, mealy

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

""Formed of various materials; mixed; as, a farraginous mountain. as, a farraginous mountain.""

Cheap beer makes my bum look big in this

Dress circle

Cheap drink! It makes for an expansive habit

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

Create a Wall Street critter (wordplay)

Current, cool or hot

With style.

In a fashionable manner.

Fatiguing

Fattiness

Petty nagger

Nitpicker

Favoritism

Practicability; probability

Likelihood that something can be achieved

Feathery

Feathering

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.""