5-letter words starting with f
- fetis — (obsolete) neat; pretty; well made; graceful.
- fetor — a strong, offensive smell; stench.
- fetta — Alternative spelling of feta.
- fetus — (used chiefly of viviparous mammals) the young of an animal in the womb or egg, especially in the later stages of development when the body structures are in the recognizable form of its kind, in humans after the end of the second month of gestation.
- feuar — (legal, Scotland) One who holds a feu.
- feuds — Plural form of feud.
- fever — an abnormal condition of the body, characterized by undue rise in temperature, quickening of the pulse, and disturbance of various body functions.
- fewer — not many but more than one: Few artists live luxuriously.
- feyer — Comparative form of fey.
- feyly — In a fey way.
- fezzy — wearing a fez
- ffccc — Floppy Fortran coding convention checker.
- fgrep — (tool) A variant of the Unix grep command which searches for fixed (uninterpreted) strings rather than regular expressions. Surprisingly, this is not always faster.
- fhlbb — Federal Home Loan Bank Board
- 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.
- fifty — a cardinal number, ten times five.
- figgy — containing figs: a figgy cake.
- fight — a battle or combat.
- filar — of or relating to a thread or threads.
- filch — to steal (especially something of small value); pilfer: to filch ashtrays from fancy restaurants.
- filed — Simple past tense and past participle of file.
- filer — a long, narrow tool of steel or other metal having a series of ridges or points on its surfaces for reducing or smoothing surfaces of metal, wood, etc.
- files — Plural form of file.
- filet — A kind of net or lace with a square mesh.
- fille — a girl or young woman
- fills — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fill.