2-Letter Words Starting with F

Pin used in splicing rope

Wooden pin Naut.

Wooden pin used in splicing rope.

Rising star, perhaps

Root out half of 1 down - it's key!

Diamond in the rough, for example

Lion or tiger

Any animal of the cat family

EIsa or Sylvester

Stinking, perhaps breath

Offensive, in a sense (wordplay)

Eliciting a "What died in here?", maybe

The ... (John B Keane)

Play first, say

Wrigley, for one

Mr. Hyde, for one

Mr Hyde for one

What? The Devil!

Accompanied a drum, perhaps

Blew by a drummer, maybe

Blew by a drummer (wordplay)

Rounded the edges of, perhaps

Ready to be polished, perhaps

Put in a cabinet say

Getting just a slap on the wrist, say

Punished for littering maybe

Fed in (anagram)

Norwegian coast feature (var.)

Part of Norway's landscape (var.)

Oslo, for one

Leaving work early, perhaps

Leaving work early perhaps

Downsized so to speak

Bolted from stable (wordplay)

Like some prices

Cheated in horse racing

Hit too high, say, with 'out'

Hit too high, say, with "out"

Hit too high say with out

Like oil and water (wordplay)

Likely to change oil perhaps

Smooth in motion

Prepared chicken, perhaps

Like rice, maybe

Like Oreos at carnivals, perhaps

Went down in history (wordplay)

Didn't hit the books (wordplay)

Did not succeed, perhaps at exam

Joined with into

Joined with into

Cleared, weatherwise

About five fried bits make it so keen

Passionate swine leaves viewfinders

... as keen, with loud Verdi composition

Crossed one's fingers, perhaps

Served a whopper junior (wordplay)

Told a little white lie

Fidge

Fig

Occupied the whole of

Like ravioli and tortellini

What new guy did to former guy's shoes

Made into a movie

Shot in Hollywood.

Made a movie

Was a stoolie

Acted the snitch

Ratted (on)

Like some classic cars

Like a '55 T-Bird

Fortified outside pub, like a fish (wordplay)

Re-strengthened (with "up")

Tightened, with "up"

Recovered from a decline

Went for a bite (wordplay)

Went for snappers, say

How Jonah caught food (wordplay)

Tight attachment (wordplay)

Word with two or close

It may follow two or tight

Hunk of a lout given the gear (wordplay)

Like some sheets

Like many carpets

Effervesced

Bubbled

Spumed

Flite

Having a ruddy complexion

Ruddy in appearance

Lord if sloshed is fussy

Diet of junk causing a rotten smell

As a matter of diet, that's very bad

Foul-smelling

Thwarted with sword (wordplay)

Put a stop to, as a plot

Thwarted, as a villain

Foin

Though in favour of an offer, say no

Bar supporting bridge venture (wordplay)

Refuse permission, do not allow

Fordo

Sat start then (wordplay)

Female diner's poor companion (wordplay)

It's half-day closing mate!

Beginning to freeze stiff (wordplay)

Beginning to freeze solid!

Cold and unresponsive

Friz

A brown seaweed

""Shining brightly, also FULGENT""

A number to be multiplied by another

Experienced a syncope

Fiend, at being clobbered, passed out

Swooned, lost consciousness

Faith

Took a shine to

Had a yen for

Had a taste for

A wading bird

Pretended to be affected by

Pretended to feel

Pretended, dissembled

Made a mock attack.

Made a deceptive move

Faked, as in boxing

Carried from Dover to Calais, say

Traveled to Staten Island, perhaps

Crossed the Upper Bay.

Having tough, threadlike tissues

Benign tumour

Played at a hoedown, perhaps

What Nero did while Rome burned

Emulated Jean-Luc Ponty

Took as questions

Dealt with, as a difficult question

Got together, as a Ryder Cup team

Understood 1d (wordplay)

"Exactly what I thought"

Reckoned it meant 'with pattern'

Got with a five-finger discount

Stole placed in case outside church

Pilfered, stole thing of small value

Filet

Were riveted (on), as one's eyes

Having a one-track mind

Made stable.

CARBONATED BEVERAGES...

In need of Viagra, perhaps

Limp, as stale celery

Soft and limp

Threshed or thrashed

Complicated a lifeguard's rescue

Thrashed (about)

Ignited a bic (wordplay)

Launched, with a finger

Flint

Threw a coin

Tossed coin or slangily lost temper

Did a somersault.

Dealt casually (with)

Played the coquette

Acted the coquette

Made moth moves

Aped a butterfly

Went from place to place.

""A compound of fluorine, also FLUORIDE""

Imposed fraudulently (on)

Passed off fraudulently

Imposed (on)

Numbered each page of a Ms

Paged

Foredo

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.

Plain adjective (wordplay)

America the Beautiful adjective

'America the Beautiful' adjective

Like, eg, mushrooms

Nautical pulley

Ready to eat a horse (wordplay)

Ma fished, being starved

Made fish pie for the hungry

Tired, really weary

Corpulent guide, terribly weary

Plump guide stumbled, exhausted

Played with one's hands, say

Had ants in one's pants

Couldn't remain still

""A parasitic worm, also FILARIA""

Filiate

Removed the bones, of a fish say

Boned the fish

Removed the bones of a fish

Flicked a finger

""A sheet of microfilm, also FICHE""

Hollywood.

Moviedom

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

Where koi carp may live (wordplay)

Charity bazaar attraction.

Place to catch perch

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

A shot from Barneveld, for instance

Shrank back from danger or pain

Shrank in fear

Recoiled as from threat

Flitch

Just left a dusting, say

Came down without sticking, usually

Agitated

Covered with leaves

Like a leaf

Leaves with the foal tied like this

Oil producer enters destined to be hammered

One just mentioned

Mentioned earlier

What finance was in the 1900's.

Wildly excited or agitated

Overly excited

Fribble

Admitted into one's social network

Sent a Facebook request to

Connected with, on Facebook

Fright

Frivol

Frizzle

Fulmine

{furious=adj}

Children's paradise.

Lady in far off fantasy world

Enchanted realm

Falsify

Fancify

Fantasy

Faradise

Stimulated with electric currents

Stimulated with electric currents.

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

Feminise

Feminize

Like some mascara

""FIBRIN an insoluble protein, also FIBROIN""

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

From the horse's mouth

To begin, pass direct

From direct experience

Fission

Antioxidant from river in flood, iodine replacing oxygen

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

Focalise

Focalize

Lost as a penalty

Surrendered the lead with a penalty (wordplay)

Gave up being a quadruped, by the sound of it

Like port? I'd offer it stirred

With extra alcohol, as wine

Strengthened against attack

Fossick

Freight

Wasted (with "away").

Squandered (away)

Spent frivolously and unwisely

Frivol

Played like a porpoise

Romped

""The wood of any of several fruit-bearing trees, such as the apple, cherry, or pear, used especially in cabinetmaking.""

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

Furbish

Given vessel, trawled about

Equipped with tables,chairs etc

Provided, supplied

English word

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""

Patmos, perhaps. Here is ambience

The judge's bench, hopefully (wordplay)

Good reason for attraction

Imagined stains fade out

Imagined volunteers changing sides, following supporter

Went wild, maybe

Flames have come into view (wordplay)

Reflective airmen seen as provident

Exercising prudent planning

Female a distance away is enthralled

Irresistably attracted

Irresistibly interested

United with a male gamete to begin the development of an individual embryo; -- of female gametes.

FESTINATE Hasty; hurried.

FEUDALIZE To reduce toa feudal tenure; to conform to feudalism.

""A type of wallboard composed of wood chips or shavings bonded together with resin and compressed into rigid sheets, calle also particle board.particle board.""

Lie about piece of wood that is material

Story about poet incorporating old material

Edible fern frond

Ornamentation on bow or top of violin

Sailing-ship decor

Relative of a puppet.

Work out chairman's bust on board

Having a fringed border; fimbriate.

English word

Firebomb

Firefang

""FIREPLACE The part a chimney appropriated to the fire; a hearth; usually an open recess in a wall, in which a fire may be built.""

Swerved

Flichter

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

Forklift

Given legal status supporting African country's education

""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".""

FORMULIZE To reduce to a formula; to formulate.

Vaulted like an oven or furnace; arched.

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

In foreign fields revolutionary is so stuck in the past

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

Fountain

Fraction

FRANCHISE Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.

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

Alarmed, unnerved

The fridge is rearranged to hold new chicken

Scared female put back on the correct path

Fructify

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

Worked properly

FUSTIGATE To cudgel.

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

FANATICIZE To cause to become a fanatic.