5-letter words starting with f
- fatwa — an Islamic religious decree issued by the ʿulama.
- faugh — Expressing disgust.
- fauld — a piece below the breastplate, composed of lames and corresponding to the culet in back.
- fault — a defect or imperfection; flaw; failing: a fault in the brakes; a fault in one's character.
- fauna — the animals of a given region or period considered as a whole.
- fauns — one of a class of rural deities represented as men with the ears, horns, tail, and later also the hind legs of a goat.
- faurd — favoured
- faure — Gabriel Urbain [ga-bree-el oor-ban] /ga briˈɛl urˈbɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1845–1924, French composer.
- faust — Johann [yoh-hahn] /ˈyoʊ hɑn/ (Show IPA), c1480–c1538, German magician, alchemist, and astrologer.
- fauve — (sometimes lowercase) any of a group of French artists of the early 20th century whose works are characterized chiefly by the use of vivid colors in immediate juxtaposition and contours usually in marked contrast to the color of the area defined.
- favel — a fallow-coloured horse
- faves — Plural form of fave.
- favor — something done or granted out of goodwill, rather than from justice or for remuneration; a kind act: to ask a favor.
- favus — Pathology. a skin disease, especially of the scalp, characterized by dry yellow encrustations that have an unpleasant odor, usually caused by the fungus Trichophyton schoenleinii.
- fawns — Plural form of fawn.
- fawny — of a color like fawn.
- faxed — (obsolete) Having a head of hair; hairy.
- faxer — facsimile (def 2).
- faxes — Plural form of fax.
- fayal — an island in the Azores, in the N Atlantic. 66 sq. mi. (171 sq. km).
- fayed — Simple past tense and past participle of fay.
- fayre — (archaic) fair, beautiful.
- fayth — Obsolete spelling of faith.
- fayum — a province in N central Egypt: many archaeological remains. 691 sq. mi. (1790 sq. km).
- fazed — to cause to be disturbed or disconcerted; daunt: The worst insults cannot faze him.
- fazes — to cause to be disturbed or disconcerted; daunt: The worst insults cannot faze him.
- fc-al — Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop.
- 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.
- feard — (archaic) Simple past tense and past participle of fear.
- feare — Obsolete spelling of fear.
- fears — Plural form of fear.
- feart — afraid
- fease — to execute an action, condition or obligation
- feast — any rich or abundant meal: The steak dinner was a feast.
- feats — Plural form of feat.
- feaze — to untwist (the end of a rope).
- fecal — of, relating to, or being feces.
- feces — waste matter discharged from the intestines through the anus; excrement.
- fecit — he made (it); she made (it): formerly used on works of art after the name of the artist. Abbreviation: fe., fec.
- fedex — to send or ship by Federal Express.
- 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.
- fee's — a charge or payment for professional services: a doctor's fee.
- feeds — Plural form of feed.
- feels — Plural form of feel.
- feely — Tending to feel things by physically touching them.
- feens — Satan; the devil.
- feese — (obsolete) The short run before a leap; a run-up.
- feete — Plural form of foote.
- feets — (dialect) Plural form of foot.
- feeze — a state of vexation or worry.