2-Letter Words Starting with F

Aircraft that doesn't need a runway

Aircraft that excels at water landings

Aircraft with pontoons

(Chemistry) a substance added to a suspension to enhance aggregation of the suspended particles

Clothed with small flocks or flakes; woolly.

Regular current deposits placed here

Land adjacent to a river, often

Bad place to live when the river rises

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

The blooming perfume comes at the end

Blooming

""Ornamentation by means of flower forms, whether closely imitated or conventionalized.""

Plant bearing dense clusters of flowers

Rose with clusters of flowers

Rose with flower clusters

The quality of being florid.

FLORIGEN a plant hormone

Flotation

Flouncy

Flouncing

Fish lost its balance (wordplay)

Struggled and sank when crossing lake

Struggled awkwardly.

Flowstone

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

Cornet's cousin

Trumpetlike instrument

Brass instrument

Fluidise

Fluidize

Throwing for a loop

""FLUORINE a gaseous element, also FLUORIN""

Fluster

Pitch accommodating perfect batting

Like a nervous stomach

Pitch restricting perfect batting

Flyblow

Focalise

Focalize

Foliation

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

Ramblin' Jack Elliott, for one

Pete Seeger, for example

Peter, Paul or Mary

Following

Fondness

Soft spot

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

Footnote

Sole signs (wordplay)

Profits, not false impressions

Crime clues in mud

Some flat markers

Certain masonry items

Having foramina; full of holes; porous.

Moderate use of compass (wordplay)

Patient under provocation

Why there are patient porters

In favour of orders being stern

The purpose of the auction at the stern (wordplay)

In favor of competing at Christie's (wordplay)

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

Ominously prophetic

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

Dread keeping man in check, shrouded in gloom

Forebrain

Foredate

Forefend

Digit for pointing

Digit next to the thumb

Is on hand to forge finer settlement

Golfers in the lead (wordplay)

Golf course (wordplay)

Rally mostly visible in warm spotlight

It's not back in the picture

Circumspect

Early.

Prudent.

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.

Prearrange fire on road, slippery

Predetermine

Predetermine Fed's choice of letter? American with it

... 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

Foreshank

SPOKEN speak

Words in Texas's topography

Foretoken

TOPMAN a seaman in the top sail

TOPMEN topman

Given advanced notice

Cautioned in advance.

Gave notice beforehand

Forfeit

Forfend

Leaving on a jet plane, say

Leaving (something) behind

Never mind, it's all for possession

Taking rights away from obscure fellow mostly faking clothes

Forlorn

FORMAL a social event that requires evening dress

Formation

Format

Vaulted like an oven or furnace; arched.

Fornicate

""An unmarried person, male or female, who has criminal intercourse with the other sex; one guilty of fornication.""

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

Fortify

Fortnight

Passing on hawk-like ring

Fossick

Child in charge of rising currency

Foreign Office has money for charge

Foulness

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

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)

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

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

FRAGRANT having a pleasant perfume

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

Frankfurt

Alpha males' group (wordplay)

Men's group.

Galsworthy's brotherhood

Buddy up with

Be chummy with.

Associate with.

A flu turned nasty and deceptive

Bent fault under quakes

Intended to deceive

Fraught

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

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

Freebase

A woman who has been freed from slavery. Correlative of freedman.freedman.

A woman who has been freed from slavery.

Generous letters he has delivered outside

Generous

FREELANCE a person who acts independently or without authorization of an organization or of his superiors.

Day-rate charger, perhaps

Outside worker (wordplay)

Charitable surgeon (wordplay)

'Fargo' Oscar winner McDormand

Fargo Oscar winner McDormand

Moonlights

Sterile female twin calf

Unregulated market accepted defective calf

Freeness

Apricot and peach

FREEZING the process of freezing

Freight

FRENZIED frenzy

Frequence

Revisited.

Father Ted, entertaining affected queen, may be patronised

Visited, if Quentin drops in, having got released to go outside

Familiar face

Habitue.

Queenly dances interrupted by tango led by father again and again

Often

Freshener

Tonic

Cushion-shaped piece of veal

Larded and braised veal fillet

Larded and braided veal fillet

Fricando

Like stories about king, producing resistance to movement

It's not true about resistance being caused by abrasiveness

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)

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.""

Guard's excitement (wordplay)

High-spirited playfulness

Wasting bit by bit.

Frivol

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

Playing - prepared for defeat

Gambolling about

Fromenty

FRONTAL a bone of the skull

Hoopster's offensive area

Frontward

Chilly quality

Unfriendly attitude

Extreme cold

Beer characteristic

In a frowning manner.

A state of being frozen.

Certain vegan

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

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

Frumenty

""Somewhat shrubby in character; imperfectly shrubby, as the American species of Wistaria.""

Fulfill

Pertaining to soot; sooty; dark; dusky.

Fullerene

Fullness

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

Fulminate

In the manner of one who fumbles.

Treating to remove infestation

Means of dealing with some infestations

Occasion on which a student is working

Working to sort out final count

Working out final count

Worked properly

Fundament

Merriment authentic in cathedral? It's without joy!

Lacking joy and merriment, having little energy in fact

FUNGICIDE Anything that kills fungi.

Some crop-dusting chemicals

Funicular

""Having the form of a funnel, or tunnel; that is, expanding gradually from the bottom upward, as the corolla of some flowers; infundibuliform.""

Funnel

English word

Furbish

Furcation

Furmenty

Furnisher

Providing John's partner with gin supply

Fitting out a vessel in maritime industry

Furniture

Further

Fusionist

Fusulinid

FUTILE ineffective

""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

Factional

""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""

""FACTUAL actual, real""

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

Faintness

It makes mediocre coffee (wordplay)

Carnival setting, often

Livestock show site

Falseness

Faltering

Famishment

In a very zealous style

Fanaticism

FANATICIZE To cause to become a fanatic.

Fanaticize

Fanciness