2-Letter Words Starting with F

Variety of brown date

White paint for the face

Taurus, for one

Mercury for one

Focus provider (wordplay)

Capacitance of a capacitor (electricity)

Unit of electricity

Electrical capacitance measure

Got on, managed

Came to pass.

Proceeded, made out

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

Glacier site maybe

Cruise destination perhaps

Norwegian inlet (J, not I)

South Sea Bubble, for one

South Sea Bubble for one

Swindler's crime

Let out of jail

No longer a slave

Sprung from the can

""A stranger, also FRAIM, FREMIT""

Prepared chicken, perhaps

Like rice, maybe

Like Oreos at carnivals, perhaps

Palm leaf: Poetic.

Part of a fern.

Palm tree part

Joined with into

Joined with into

Cleared, weatherwise

Padded, as a book, with wit or quotations.

Fard

What country artist did, perhaps

Cultivated member ate out

Cultivated fellow with battery

Like a tyrant

Was scared of

Afraid of getting sound in getting food

About five fried bits make it so keen

Passionate swine leaves viewfinders

... as keen, with loud Verdi composition

Re-strengthened (with "up")

Tightened, with "up"

Recovered from a decline

Intensified, with "up"

Wider at one end

Turned out at the end

Having a ruddy complexion

Ruddy in appearance

Lord if sloshed is fussy

Refused to allow

Declared illegal, since evil

Proscribed variable

Though in favour of an offer, say no

Bar supporting bridge venture (wordplay)

Refuse permission, do not allow

Cross about church being insincere

Kind of march or landing

Kind of landing or march

Crossed, as a shallow river

Crossed a stream

Crossed at a shallow spot

Fordo

Made a name for oneself (wordplay)

Painted Picassos, say

Emulated a smith

Split; man such a bare animal (Lear)

Like a liar's tongue

Like some tongues

Got together, as a band

Made to my measurements and figure

Moulded or constructed

Put in the picture (wordplay)

Set up, perhaps

In a jamb (wordplay)

Like cutoffs, often

Ravelled at the edges

Beginning to unravel

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

Rolled up, as the flag

Not out, as a flag

Rolled up the flag

Covered with ermine, maybe

In mink, perhaps.

Like certain coats.

A wading bird

Unlike an underdog

Blessed, in a way

Likely to win

Carried from Dover to Calais, say

Traveled to Staten Island, perhaps

Crossed the Upper Bay.

Ferule

Kind of pace

Like some brows

Highly excited

Having tough, threadlike tissues

Benign tumour

Understood 1d (wordplay)

"Exactly what I thought"

Reckoned it meant 'with pattern'

Laughed coarsely

Laughed scornfully.

Laughed derisively.

Dealt casually (with)

Played the coquette

Acted the coquette

Left speechless, maybe

Baffled by empty rifle found in overflow

Stunned ... just stunned

Prepared for frying, maybe

Prepared to fry, perhaps

Prepared chicken for frying, perhaps

""A compound of fluorine, also FLUORIDE""

Dined alfresco (wordplay)

Fear God (anagram)

Sought out food

Made a food search

Made an incursion

Made new ventures

Foredo

Prevent from crossing over marsh

Avoid bog in river crossing

Ward off

Pushy - send (on)

Saucy striker, perhaps

Presumptuous footballer (wordplay)

Silk fabric for scarves

Silk tie material.

Printed-silk fabric

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

Unreasonable French cockney 8 (wordplay)

Perverse dispute in distant day

Cape at S. tip of Chile.

Looked upon with disfavor.

Wrinkled one's forehead

Showed displeasure

Frug

Plain adjective (wordplay)

America the Beautiful adjective

'America the Beautiful' adjective

Took into account with in

Did a math job

Resolved into mathematical quantities.

Nautical pulley

Female became different and stumbled

Lost one's footing

Hesitated to have the key changed

Worker's feminine limb - part of it

Minor leaguer, informally

One up with roosters

Countryside for crops or livestock

It could be fallow or verdant

Countryside used for crops or livestock

Fry drama (anagram)

Marry fad (anagram)

Central part of agricultural unit

Had little piggies

Perhaps this distant racket may mean the sow has been delivered

Made young (wordplay)

Engendered plump cattle full of energy

Brought forth

Treated with partiality

Preferred over all others

Preferred or privileged

Gave prominence to

Gave high billing

Star director included in the cast

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

""A parasitic worm, also FILARIA""

""A sheet of microfilm, also FICHE""

Rid of impurities

It gets to be so strained

Percolated or strained

Identified as guilty

Identified in a lineup

Gave a felon's name to the cops

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

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)'

A piece of armor for the side of a horse

Seasoned (US sp.)

Added vanilla, perhaps

Like some carbonated water

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

Fed grain

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

(Increased) with an addition of 300%

Quadruple

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

Fuller

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

Forked

{furious=adj}

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

Children's paradise.

Lady in far off fantasy world

Enchanted realm

Faradise

Stimulated with electric currents

Stimulated with electric currents.

Home on the grange.

Ranch, for example

Dream fast shattered at cultural centre

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

Stirred up (disorder)

Turned to alcohol

Soured, as grapes

Ferrel

Like some mascara

""FIBRIN an insoluble protein, also FIBROIN""

Filagree

With lacy ornamental work.

Delicately ornamented

Filtrate

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

Praise somewhat dishonestly

Gratified the vanity of.

Praised apartment to deter alteration

Flavour

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.""

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

Bed's bottom end

Bedstead part

Bedstead attachment

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.

""A fatal disease of honeybee larvae caused by one of several types of bacteria, including Bacillus alvei.""

Discovered reed at sea sank

Came to grief

Filled with water and sank.

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

Facing the bow, for example

Facing ahead

Straight-on

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

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""

Patmos, perhaps. Here is ambience

The judge's bench, hopefully (wordplay)

Good reason for attraction

Farewell

Flames have come into view (wordplay)

Reflective airmen seen as provident

Exercising prudent planning

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

Get down at night here (wordplay)

Begat a soft place to sleep (wordplay)

Pamper like birds around Britain

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

""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.""