2-Letter Words Starting with F

Like a lot (wordplay)

Destined (to be)

Destined to be free, wrote Jean Ingelow

Predestined, you say, to be celebrated

Threw a party for

Honored at a party

Stinking, perhaps breath

Offensive, in a sense (wordplay)

Eliciting a "What died in here?", maybe

State of disorder

Fussy officer on a ship

Acute distress

Observed a religious holiday, perhaps

Saved on groceries, maybe

Didn't admit anything (wordplay)

Like cows before slaughter

Ready for slaughter

Calf of 19 down

Like billiard tables

Took every chip from, in poker slang

Covered with a type of cloth.

Fett

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

Flite

Blew notes? Groovy!

Like coffee filters

Pan could have done this to ruffles.

Flyte

Diet of junk causing a rotten smell

As a matter of diet, that's very bad

Foul-smelling

Paid, as a bill

Word with bare or flat

Ending with web and sure

Fiddled (around)

Goofed (around)

Like many gems

Surfaced like a diamond.

Like a cut diamond

Bound together, as sticks.

Experienced a syncope

Fiend, at being clobbered, passed out

Swooned, lost consciousness

Faith

A wading bird

He got into a daft mess, the twit!

Stupid person (informal)

Overweight boss is a fool

Bearing the blame

Didn't serve well

Deducted style points from

Had an epiphany (wordplay)

Took every course (wordplay)

Enjoyed a banquet

Made a mock attack.

Made a deceptive move

Faked, as in boxing

Brought in the paper, say

Got the stick, maybe

Got key cut

Lined, as a furnace hearth

Filet

Were riveted (on), as one's eyes

Having a one-track mind

Made stable.

Popular truck type

Truck type with no sides

Heavy-machinery carrier

Fell from true pitch

Sang off key.

Lowered in pitch

Moved along rapidly and lightly

Passed quickly

Sped

Flint

Dealt casually (with)

Played the coquette

Acted the coquette

Made moth moves

Aped a butterfly

Went from place to place.

Moved like a ghost

Offered securities for sale

Didn't go under

Showed contempt for

Treated with contemptuous disregard

Ignored, as authority

Imposed fraudulently (on)

Passed off fraudulently

Imposed (on)

Talked nonsense

Sole robber (wordplay)

Dr. Scholl's product

Step on it

Fract

Bit one's nails, perhaps

Was constantly anxious

Embroidered with gold or silver

Frit

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

Plain adjective (wordplay)

America the Beautiful adjective

'America the Beautiful' adjective

Having several sides Brit. sp.

Having several sides: Brit. sp.

Took into account with in

Did a math job

Resolved into mathematical quantities.

Faggot

""Curved and tapering to a point, also FALCATE""

Female became different and stumbled

Lost one's footing

Hesitated to have the key changed

Made speedy and tight (wordplay)

Buckled or clamped

Nailed, say

Made young (wordplay)

Engendered plump cattle full of energy

Brought forth

Got fine reception with old copper

Got one's brain around

Understood female in diamonds

Tired, really weary

Corpulent guide, terribly weary

Plump guide stumbled, exhausted

Readied for slaughter

Ready for market

Fed lots and lots of corn

Gave prominence to

Gave high billing

Star director included in the cast

Whipped

Dug around, with "out"

Hunted rabbits, in a way

Discovered after a search, with 'out'

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

Played with one's hands, say

Had ants in one's pants

Couldn't remain still

Filiate

Removed the bones, of a fish say

Boned the fish

Removed the bones of a fish

Rid of impurities

It gets to be so strained

Percolated or strained

Fancy having machine for catching fish!

Kind of catfish

Nickname for Ford's first V-8 engine

Kansas, for example

It lacks topographic relief

Level region with no hills

Displayed proudly or ostentatiously

Sported shamelessly

Displayed brazenly

Fletch

A shot from Barneveld, for instance

Flitch

Like a leaf

Leaves with the foal tied like this

Oil producer enters destined to be hammered

Stirred up, as trouble

Cause trouble for the omen in a deft way

Stirred up.

Basis for operation.

Rock climber's support

Place to stand

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)

Fortune

Promoted growth and development of

Helped to develop

Looked after

Having a fovea

Fright

Frowst

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

Forked

Fantasy

Home on the grange.

Ranch, for example

Dream fast shattered at cultural centre

Malformed, as plant stems

Washed out the 'a' coming in 'brainless'

Swollen-faced and dull

Stupid old man almost dead unfortunately

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

Like some party rooms

Added colorful decor to

Decorated, in a way.

Filtrate

From the horse's mouth

To begin, pass direct

From direct experience

On the canvas

Ten inflated and deflated

Pressed, rolled out

Praise somewhat dishonestly

Gratified the vanity of.

Praised apartment to deter alteration

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

Like a research paper

Coming before, in time.

Was older than

Lost as a penalty

Surrendered the lead with a penalty (wordplay)

Gave up being a quadruped, by the sound of it

Put into shape, because tangled

Made neat, because tangled

Like port? I'd offer it stirred

With extra alcohol, as wine

Strengthened against attack

Foxhunt

Needing to be reset, perhaps

State of Ali's jaw against Ken Norton

Beckham's relationship with FIFA (wordplay)

Fraught

Freight

Wasted (with "away").

Squandered (away)

Spent frivolously and unwisely

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.""

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

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""

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

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

FECUNDATE To make fruitful or prolific.

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

FESTINATE Hasty; hurried.

Having a fringed border; fimbriate.

Swerved

How a surprise might catch you

Downright and firm: Colloq.

Downright and firm Colloq.

Flichter

Wasn't consistent

Forecast

Words in Texas's topography

TASTED taste

Forklift

Reduced to a systematic form; reduced to a formula.

Vaulted like an oven or furnace; arched.

Fortress

Fountain

Foxtrot

Fraction

Working men grafted and split up

In bits

Disorganized

Freeboot

Revisited.

Father Ted, entertaining affected queen, may be patronised

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

Alarmed, unnerved

The fridge is rearranged to hold new chicken

Scared female put back on the correct path

Fructify

Shaking one's head, maybe

Prevented from progressing

Disappointingly unsuccessful

FULGURATE To flash as lightning.

""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.

""A place conjured up by the imagination, often populated by bizarre inhabitants: a fictional fantasyland teeming with unicorns and elves.""

Not a member of the "brain trust."

Wished one joy

Offered congratulations to

English word

Having windows; characterized by windows.

Furnished with fibrils; fringed.

FICTIONIZE

Whipped

FLOCCULATE To aggregate into small lumps.

""FLUORIDATE To subject to fluoridation, as of water; to add fluoride to.""

FLUORINATE

Footfault

Footslog

Sagacious; prudent; provident for the future.

Anticipated and prevented

Prevented, as action

Got ahead of.

Foretoken

Forgather

Prone to cussing

Given to swearing

Prone to cursing

""FRATERNIZE To associate or hold fellowship as brothers, or as men of like occupation or character; to have brotherly feelings.""

""Open; frank; unreserved; liberal; generous; as, freehearted mirth. as, freehearted mirth.""

Past tense or past participle

Timorous - find a theatre (anagram)

Lacking boldness or courage ( 2 words)

Chicken and fat hen I trade in exchange

Grouped in a fascicle; fascicled.

""Having a feather-edge; also, having one edge thinner than the other, as a board; -- in the United States, said only of stuff one edge of which is made as thin as practicable.""

Fianchetto

Deliberately obstructed progress - Tiberius fled (anagram)

Floodlight

""(Individual Sports & Recreations / Swimming, Water Sports & Surfing) US and Canadian an oblong board or piece of polystyrene plastic used by swimmers in training or practice Brit word float FRANKALMOIGN (Historical Terms) English legal history a form of tenure by which religious bodies held lands, esp on condition of praying for the soul of the donor [from Anglo-French fraunke almoigne , from fraunke frank + almoign church treasury, alms chest]""

Came together

Met old man being entertained by Dad, bloke at the paper

Make a wish here at beginning of spring

Wellspring (2 words)

Chief source

""FRACTIONATE To separate into different portions or fractions, as in the distillation of liquids.""

FRAGMENTATE

FRAGMENTIZE

FANTASTICATE

Being comfortable about lying (wordplay)

Pampered, left inefficient

Treated with excessive indulgence

Giddy; frivolous; foolish.

FICTIONALISE fictional

FICTIONALIZE

FIELDSTRIP

Created impressions for digital records

Criminal deferring pint, impressed by police (wordplay)

12 flatbed barges on the move

Knocked for six

Knocked for a loop.

Reduced in perspective

Reduced need for reform after warning to Clare

Silly act, that man ran off with bride

Silly female put away her book and showered

Past tense or past participle

FRACTIONALIZE

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