2-Letter Words Starting with F

Cut out the blubber

Defatted, as a whale

Stripped blubber

Flesh

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.

Moved like a ghost

Offered securities for sale

Didn't go under

Floc

How the birds got together and turned the key at last

Initially, freebie recorded as sold

Note recorded as beaten

Beat severely or sold

Filled beyond capacity

How Noah found things.

Deluged, awash

Left speechless, maybe

Baffled by empty rifle found in overflow

Stunned ... just stunned

Was a turkey

Split trousers pop damaged were useless

Laid an egg

Obeyed a dentist's directive

Heeded dental advice

Practiced some oral hygiene

Prepared for frying, maybe

Prepared to fry, perhaps

Prepared chicken for frying, perhaps

Showed contempt for

Treated with contemptuous disregard

Ignored, as authority

Bungled

Blew

Misspoke, as lines

Blundered - took a meal outside on the windy side

Bungled

Fell heavily

Didn't make the grade (wordplay)

Didn't pass

Washed out

""A compound of fluorine, also FLUORIDE""

Flooded with color.

Red in the cheeks

Illness got rid off, looking roseate

Concentrated on - like camera

(Of light) brought to a point

Zeroed in, with a camera

Imposed fraudulently (on)

Passed off fraudulently

Imposed (on)

Numbered each page of a Ms

Paged

Didn't paw

Held lovingly

Caressed lovingly

Talked nonsense

Sole robber (wordplay)

Dr. Scholl's product

Step on it

Goofed, in golf

Muffed on the green

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

Word seen on cornerstones

Gave a start

Established, set up

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

Confused (by alcohol)

Drunk ran away clutching posh theologian

Confused, due to drink

Gassed up the Jaguar, say

(of car) having petrol

Filled with petrol

Didn't feel at all well

Made a mess of things

Dropped the ball

Like, eg, mushrooms

Having several sides Brit. sp.

Having several sides: Brit. sp.

Took into account with in

Did a math job

Resolved into mathematical quantities.

Faggot

A band rich in metals in crystalline rocks

Nautical pulley

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

Left land unplanted.

Female became different and stumbled

Lost one's footing

Hesitated to have the key changed

Ready to eat a horse (wordplay)

Ma fished, being starved

Made fish pie for the hungry

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 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

Treated with partiality

Preferred over all others

Preferred or privileged

Gave prominence to

Gave high billing

Star director included in the cast

Whipped

Fellow

Fenagle

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

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

Liquored up and lit (wordplay)

How peaches may be served

How steak au poivre is served

A piece of armor for the side of a horse

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

Seasoned (US sp.)

Added vanilla, perhaps

Like some carbonated water

Source of a yellowish oil

Source of some health food store oil

Steroid scandal substance

Fleech

Flench

Fletch

A shot from Barneveld, for instance

Shrank back from danger or pain

Shrank in fear

Recoiled as from threat

Flitch

Walked with exaggerated motions

Trimmed with wide ruffles

Student found out about the church - and moved abruptly

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

Fool, oddly obstinate and single-minded

Of light rays, converged on a point

Foreign Office swore to be single-minded

Fed grain

Stuck in pea soup (wordplay)

Unable to see in any direction

Not able to see why one cannot take off

Covered with leaves

Like a leaf

Leaves with the foal tied like this

Oil producer enters destined to be hammered

Didn't take the lead, but succeeded

Kept up with

Went after food well cooked

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

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

Having a fovea

Dog bred to hunt

One followed on horseback

Baffle scoundrel with dog

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

Charcoal

Fuller

Fulmine

Moved through a central point.

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

It's not the real Robin lying there

Lie has fooled Dicky

That's not really Robin lying there

Falsify

Fancify

Fanfold

Fantasy

Faradise

Stimulated with electric currents

Stimulated with electric currents.

Home on the grange.

Ranch, for example

Dream fast shattered at cultural centre

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

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

Feminise

Feminize

Stirred up (disorder)

Turned to alcohol

Soured, as grapes

Ferrel

Like some party rooms

Added colorful decor to

Decorated, in a way.

Like some mascara

""FIBRIN an insoluble protein, also FIBROIN""

Filagree

With lacy ornamental work.

Delicately ornamented