5-letter words containing f, i
- fanti — a Kwa language spoken in Ghana that is mutually intelligible with Twi.
- faqih — an Islamic religious lawyer.
- faqir — fakir.
- farci — filled with with seasoned bread crumbs or other savory matter; stuffed.
- farhi — Nicole. born 1946, French fashion designer based in Britain: married to Sir David Hare
- farik — young wheat that has been fire-roasted, then threshed and dried: usually cooked by boiling.
- farsi — the modern Iranian language of Iran and western Afghanistan, written in the Arabic alphabet; modern Persian.
- fasti — The calendar in Ancient Rome, which gave the days for festivals, courts, etc., corresponding to a modern almanac.
- fdisk — (operating system, tool) (Fixed disk utility) An MS-DOS utility program which prepares a hard disk so that it can be used as a boot disk and file systems can be created on it. OS/2, NT, Windows 95, Linux, and other Unix versions all have this command or something similar.
- fecit — he made (it); she made (it): formerly used on works of art after the name of the artist. Abbreviation: fe., fec.
- fedin — Konstantin Aleksandrovich [kuh n-stuhn-tyeen uh-lyi-ksahn-druh-vyich] /kən stʌnˈtyin ʌ lyɪˈksɑn drə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1892–1977, Russian novelist and short-story writer.
- feign — to represent fictitiously; put on an appearance of: to feign sickness.
- feine — Obsolete form of feign.
- feint — a movement made in order to deceive an adversary; an attack aimed at one place or point merely as a distraction from the real place or point of attack: military feints; the feints of a skilled fencer.
- feist — Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. a small mongrel dog, especially one that is ill-tempered; cur; mutt.
- feith — Obsolete spelling of faith.
- felid — any animal of the family Felidae, comprising the cats.
- felis — a genus of mostly small cats, including the domestic cat, margay, puma, and ocelot, sharing with certain cats of related genera an inability to roar due to ossification of the hyoid bone in the larynx.
- felix — (Paul) Felix (Edler von Münzberg) [poul fey-liks eyd-luh r fuh n mynts-berk] /paʊl ˈfeɪ lɪks ˈeɪd lər fən ˈmüntsˌbɛrk/ (Show IPA), 1863–1942, Austrian composer, conductor, and writer.
- femic — of or relating to a group of rock-forming minerals in which iron and magnesium are essential components.
- feria — Ecclesiastical. a weekday on which no feast is celebrated.
- fermi — Enrico [en-ree-koh;; Italian en-ree-kaw] /ɛnˈri koʊ;; Italian ɛnˈri kɔ/ (Show IPA), 1901–54, Italian physicist, in the U.S. after 1939: Nobel Prize 1938.
- feti- — fetus
- fetid — having an offensive odor; stinking.
- fetis — (obsolete) neat; pretty; well made; graceful.
- fianc — short for fiancé or fiancée. Because this word exists predominantly in written form (esp. in text messages) it is not yet clear how it is pronounced.
- fiars — (in Scotland) the legally fixed prices for corn
- fiats — Plural form of fiat.
- fiber — a fine, threadlike piece, as of cotton, jute, or asbestos.
- fibr- — fibro-
- fibre — a fine, threadlike piece, as of cotton, jute, or asbestos.
- fibro — (uncountable) a building material consisting of fibres and cement pressed in to sheets.
- fices — Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. a small mongrel dog, especially one that is ill-tempered; cur; mutt.
- fiche — microfiche.
- fichu — a woman's kerchief or shawl, generally triangular in shape, worn draped over the shoulders or around the neck with the ends drawn together on the breast.
- ficin — an enzyme derived from the latex of the fig tree
- ficus — any of numerous chiefly tropical trees, shrubs, and vines belonging to the genus Ficus, of the mulberry family, having milky sap and large, thick or stiff leaves, including the edible fig, the banyan, and many species grown as ornamentals.
- fidel — a male given name.
- fides — (italics) Latin. (used with a singular verb) good faith; absence of fraud or deceit; the state of being exactly as claims or appearances indicate: The bona fides of this contract is open to question. Compare mala fides.
- fidge — (obsolete, dialectal, Scotland) To fidget; jostle or shake.
- fidil — Based on "maps", generalised arrays whose index sets ("domains") are arbitrary D-dimensional sets. Domains are first-class objects and may be constructed by union, intersection, etc.
- fidos — Plural form of fido.
- fiefs — Plural form of fief.
- field — Cyrus West, 1819–92, U.S. financier: projector of the first Atlantic cable.
- fiend — Satan; the devil.
- fient — a fiend
- fiery — consisting of, attended with, characterized by, or containing fire: a volcano's fiery discharge.
- fifer — a high-pitched transverse flute used commonly in military and marching musical groups.
- fifes — Plural form of fife.
- fifth — next after the fourth; being the ordinal number for five.