5-letter words starting with f
- falun — a city in central Sweden: iron and pyrites mines. Pop: 55 009 (2004 est)
- famed — very well known and, often, highly regarded; famous.
- fames — widespread reputation, especially of a favorable character; renown; public eminence: to seek fame as an opera singer.
- famil — (travel) A free or low cost trip for travel agents or consultants, provided by a travel wholesaler or airline as a means of promoting their service.
- fanal — A lighthouse, or the apparatus placed in it for giving light.
- fancy — imagination or fantasy, especially as exercised in a capricious manner.
- faned — (dated, fandom slang) The editor of a fandom publication, most commonly a fanzine.
- fanes — a temple.
- fango — clay or mud, especially a clay obtained from certain hot springs in Battaglio, Italy, used as a hot application in the treatment of certain diseases.
- fangs — Plural form of fang.
- fanne — (dated, fandom) A female science fiction fan.
- fanny — the buttocks.
- fanon — Frantz (Omar) [frants oh-mahr;; French frahnts aw-mar] /frænts ˈoʊ mɑr;; French frɑ̃ts ɔˈmar/ (Show IPA), 1925–61, West Indian psychiatrist and political theorist, born in Martinique; in Algeria after 1953.
- fanos — a town in central Italy, on the Adriatic Sea: cathedral; Roman ruins.
- fanti — a Kwa language spoken in Ghana that is mutually intelligible with Twi.
- fanum — a temple or sacred place
- faqih — an Islamic religious lawyer.
- faqir — fakir.
- farad — the standard unit of capacitance in the International System of Units (SI), formally defined to be the capacitance of a capacitor between the plates of which there appears a potential difference of one volt when it is charged by a quantity of electricity equal to one coulomb. Symbol: F.
- farah — Sir Mo(hamed). born 1983, British long-distance runner, born in Somalia: winner of the 5000 metres and the 10,000 metres at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics
- farce — a light, humorous play in which the plot depends upon a skillfully exploited situation rather than upon the development of character.
- farci — filled with with seasoned bread crumbs or other savory matter; stuffed.
- farcy — a form of glanders chiefly affecting the skin and superficial lymphatic vessels of horses and mules.
- fared — the price of conveyance or passage in a bus, train, airplane, or other vehicle.
- farer — the price of conveyance or passage in a bus, train, airplane, or other vehicle.
- fares — Plural form of fare.
- fargo — William George, 1818–81, U.S. businessman: pioneered in express shipping and banking.
- 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.
- farle — a thin, circular cake of flour or oatmeal.
- farls — Plural form of farl.
- farms — Plural form of farm.
- farro — emmer.
- farry — (obsolete) A farrow.
- farse — A vernacular paraphrase inserted into Latin liturgy.
- farsi — the modern Iranian language of Iran and western Afghanistan, written in the Arabic alphabet; modern Persian.
- farts — Plural form of fart.
- farty — (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a fart; flatulent.
- fassa — Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia
- fasti — The calendar in Ancient Rome, which gave the days for festivals, courts, etc., corresponding to a modern almanac.
- fasts — Plural form of fast.
- fat32 — File Allocation Table
- fatah — a militant nationalist Palestinian political faction opposed to Israel
- fatal — causing or capable of causing death; mortal; deadly: a fatal accident; a fatal dose of poison.
- fated — subject to, guided by, or predetermined by fate; destined.
- fates — something that unavoidably befalls a person; fortune; lot: It is always his fate to be left behind.
- fath. — fathom
- fatly — in the manner of a fat person; ponderously.
- fatso — a fat person (used as a term of address).
- fatty — consisting of, containing, or resembling fat: fatty tissue.