4-letter words containing a, f
- feal — Archaic. faithful; loyal.
- fear — a river in SE North Carolina. 202 miles (325 km) long.
- feat — a noteworthy or extraordinary act or achievement, usually displaying boldness, skill, etc.: Arranging the treaty was a diplomatic feat.
- fema — Federal Emergency Management Agency: a federal agency that coordinates the response to disasters in the U.S.
- feta — a soft, white, brine-cured Greek cheese made from sheep's milk or goat's milk.
- fhsa — (formerly, in Britain) Family Health Services Authority
- fiar — (Scotland, law) One in whom the property of an estate is vested, subject to the estate of a liferenter.
- fiat — an authoritative decree, sanction, or order: a royal fiat. Synonyms: authorization, directive, ruling, mandate, diktat, ukase.
- fica — Federal Insurance Contributions Act
- fifa — international soccer federation
- fila — a threadlike structure; filament.
- fina — Alternative form of fixing to: used to express a desire or future action.
- fla. — Florida
- flab — flabby flesh; unwanted fat: Daily exercise will get rid of the flab around your waist.
- flag — flagstone (def 1).
- flak — antiaircraft fire, especially as experienced by the crews of combat airplanes at which the fire is directed.
- flam — a drumbeat consisting of two notes in quick succession, with the accent on the second.
- flan — Spanish Cookery. a dessert of sweetened egg custard with a caramel topping.
- flap — to swing or sway back and forth loosely, especially with noise: A loose shutter flapped outside the window.
- flat — horizontally level: a flat roof.
- flaw — Also called windflaw. a sudden, usually brief windstorm or gust of wind.
- flax — any plant of the genus Linum, especially L. usitatissimum, a slender, erect, annual plant having narrow, lance-shaped leaves and blue flowers, cultivated for its fiber and seeds.
- flay — to strip off the skin or outer covering of.
- flea — any of numerous small, wingless bloodsucking insects of the order Siphonaptera, parasitic upon mammals and birds and noted for their ability to leap.
- flsa — Fair Labor Standards Act
- fmha — Farmers Home Administration
- fnal — Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Illinois, USA).
- foad — (chat) fuck off and die.
- foaf — [Usenet] Friend Of A Friend. The source of an unverified, possibly untrue story. This term was not originated by hackers (it is used in Jan Brunvand's books on urban folklore), but is much better recognised on Usenet and elsewhere than in mainstream English.
- foal — a young horse, mule, or related animal, especially one that is not yet one year of age.
- foam — a collection of minute bubbles formed on the surface of a liquid by agitation, fermentation, etc.: foam on a glass of beer.
- foia — Freedom of Information Act
- fora — a website or section of a website that is used for public discussion of a specific topic and on which users can submit or read messages: You should post your questions on a parenting message board and get support from other parents.
- fpga — field-programmable gate array
- frab — to harass; to nag
- frac — (oil drilling) To use hydraulic fracturing (fraccing).
- frad — (communications) Frame Relay Access Device.
- frae — from
- frag — to kill, wound, or assault (especially an unpopular or overzealous superior) with a fragmentation grenade.
- frak — (euphemistic) fuck.
- fram — Ferroelectric Random Access Memory
- fran — Francis Asbury ("Fran") born 1940, U.S. football player.
- frap — to bind or wrap tightly with ropes or chains.
- frat — fraternity (def 1).
- frau — a married woman; a wife.
- fray — a raveled or worn part, as in cloth: frays at the toes of well-worn sneakers.
- ftam — File Transfer, Access, and Management: an application layer protocol for file transfer and remote manipulation (ISO 8571).
- fuga — (music, dated) A fugue.
- fula — Fulani.
- fupa — a wide area of protruding fat in the upper pubic region.