5 Letter Words That Start With F

flush

Noun : A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees, etc.

Verb : (transitive) To cause to take flight from concealment.

Verb : (intransitive) To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover.

furor

Noun : A general uproar or commotion.

Noun : A state of intense excitement.

Noun : Violent anger or frenzy.

fancy

Noun : The imagination.

Noun : An image or representation of anything formed in the mind.

Noun : An opinion or notion formed without much reflection.

frail

Adjective : Easily broken physically; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish.

Adjective : Weak; infirm.

Adjective : (medicine) In an infirm state leading one to be easily subject to disease or other health problems, especially regarding the elderly.

frown

Noun : A wrinkling of the forehead with the eyebrows brought together, typically indicating displeasure, severity, or concentration.

Noun : (Canada, US) A downturn of the corners of the mouth, typically expressing sadness.

Noun : Any facial expression that indicates disapproval or displeasure.

force

Noun : Ability to influence; strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect.

Noun : (physics) A physical quantity that denotes ability to push, pull, twist or accelerate a body and which has a direction and is measured in a unit dimensioned in mass × distance/time² (ML/T²): SI: newton (N); CGS: dyne (dyn).

Noun : (uncountable) The generalized abstraction of this concept.

facet

Noun : Any one of the flat surfaces cut into a gem.

Noun : (figurative) One among many similar or related, yet still distinct things.

Noun : (computing) A criterion that can be used to sort and filter, such as the colour or size of products in an online store.

fiend

Noun : A very evil person.

Noun : (informal) An addict or fanatic.

Noun : A devil or demon; a malignant or diabolical being; an evil spirit.

focus

Noun : (uncountable) Concentration of attention.

Noun : (countable) Something to which activity, attention or interest is primarily directed.

Verb : (transitive) To direct attention, effort, or energy to a particular audience or task.

flora

Noun : Plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.

Noun : A book describing the plants of a country, region, time, etc.

Noun : The microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body.

folly

Noun : Foolishness that results from a lack of foresight or lack of practicality.

Noun : Thoughtless action resulting in tragic consequence.

Noun : (architecture) A fanciful building built for purely ornamental reasons.

flare

Noun : A sudden bright light.

Noun : A source of brightly burning light or intense heat.

Noun : A type of pyrotechnic that produces a brilliant light without an explosion, used to attract attention in an emergency, to illuminate an area, or as a decoy.

favor

Noun : A kind or helpful deed; an instance of voluntarily assisting (someone).

Noun : Goodwill; benevolent regard.

Noun : A small gift; a party favor.

forte

Noun : A strength or talent; a strong point.

Verb : (music) Loudly, as a dynamic in a piece of music.

Adjective : (music) Loud.

foyer

Noun : A lobby, corridor, or waiting room, used in a hotel, theater, etc.

Noun : (UK) A hostel offering accommodation and work opportunities to homeless young people.

Noun : The crucible or basin in a furnace which receives the molten metal.

field

Noun : A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; an area of open country.

Noun : (usually in the plural) The open country near or belonging to a town or city.

Noun : A wide, open space that is used to grow crops or to hold farm animals, usually enclosed by a fence, hedge or other barrier.

front

Noun : The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves.

Noun : The side of a building with the main entrance.

Noun : A field of activity.

frank

Adjective : Honest, especially in a manner that seems slightly blunt; candid; not reserved or disguised.

Adjective : (medicine) Unmistakable, clinically obvious, self-evident.

Noun : (uncountable) Free postage, a right exercised by governments (usually with definite article).

faint

Verb : (intransitive) To lose consciousness through a lack of oxygen or nutrients to the brain, usually as a result of suddenly reduced blood flow (may be caused by emotional trauma, loss of blood or various medical conditions).

Adjective : (of a being) Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to lose consciousness

Noun : The act of fainting, syncope.

fling

Noun : A short romantic, oftentimes sexual, relationship.

Noun : An act or period of unrestrained indulgence.

Noun : An act of throwing, often violently.

forum

Noun : (Internet) An Internet message board where users can post messages regarding one or more topics of discussion.

Noun : A place for discussion.

Noun : A gathering for the purpose of discussion; a symposium.

fetid

Adjective : Foul-smelling, stinking.

Noun : (rare) The foul-smelling asafoetida plant, or its extracts.

frore

Adjective : (archaic) Extremely cold; frozen.

frame

Verb : (transitive) To fit, as for a specific end or purpose; make suitable or comfortable; adapt; adjust.

Verb : (transitive) To construct by fitting together or uniting various parts; fabricate by union of constituent parts.

Verb : (transitive) To bring or put into form or order; adjust the parts or elements of; compose; contrive; plan; devise.

flout

Verb : (transitive) To express contempt for (laws, rules, etc.) by word or action.

Noun : The act by which something is flouted; violation of a law.

Noun : A mockery or insult.

feral

Adjective : Wild; untamed.

Adjective : Of an animal, wild but descended from domestic or captive ancestors; thus, in the wild, although not necessarily of the wild type.

Noun : A domesticated (non-human) animal that has returned to the wild; an animal, particularly a domesticated animal, living independently of humans.

fresh

Adjective : Newly produced or obtained; recent.

Adjective : (of food) Not dried, frozen, or spoiled.

Adjective : (of plant material) Still green and not dried.

fiery

Adjective : Of or relating to fire.

Adjective : Burning or glowing.

Adjective : Hot or inflamed.

folio

Noun : A page of a book, that is, one side of a leaf of a book.

Noun : A leaf of a book or manuscript.

Noun : (by extension, printing) A page number. The even folios are on the left-hand pages and the odd folios on the right-hand pages.

fetch

Verb : (transitive, ditransitive) To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.

Verb : (transitive) To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.

Noun : (also figuratively) An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.

feint

Noun : (boxing, fencing) A blow, thrust, or other offensive movement resembling an attack on some part of the body, intended to distract from a real attack on another part.

Noun : (often military) A movement made to confuse an opponent; a dummy.

Verb : (intransitive, boxing, fencing, also often military) To make a feint or mock attack.

freak

Noun : (slang, chiefly derogatory) A person who is extremely abnormal in appearance, social behavior, sexual orientation, gender identity, or business practices; an oddball, a unique person, originally in a displeasing or alienating way.

Noun : An enthusiast, or person who has an obsession with, or extreme knowledge of, something.

Noun : (dated outside certain expressions) Someone or something that is markedly unusual or unpredictable.

fable

Noun : A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, etc. as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables.

Noun : Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.

Noun : Fiction; untruth; falsehood.

float

Verb : (intransitive, of an object or substance) To be supported by a fluid of greater density (than the object).

Verb : To be supported by a liquid of greater density, such that part (of the object or substance) remains above the surface.

Verb : (transitive) To cause something to be suspended in a fluid of greater density.

flesh

Noun : The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.

Noun : The skin of a human or animal.

Noun : Animal tissue regarded as food; meat (but sometimes excluding fish).

feign

Verb : To make a false show or pretence of; to counterfeit or simulate.

Verb : To imagine; to invent; to pretend to do something.

Verb : To make an action as if doing one thing, but actually doing another, for example to trick an opponent; to feint.

foray

Noun : A brief excursion or attempt, especially outside one's accustomed sphere.

Verb : To participate in a foray.

Verb : To do or attempt something outside one's typical area of expertise.

forgo

Verb : To do without (something enjoyable); to relinquish.

Verb : (literary) To refrain from, to abstain from.

fraud

Noun : (law) The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.

Noun : Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved or unlawful gain.

Noun : The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.

forge

Verb : To form or create with concerted effort.

Verb : To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully.

Verb : To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate.

flirt

Verb : (intransitive) To play at courtship; to talk with teasing affection, to insinuate sexual attraction in a playful (especially conversational) way.

Noun : An act of flirting.

Noun : Someone who flirts a lot or enjoys flirting; a flirtatious person.

fauna

Noun : (uncountable) Animals considered as a group; especially those of a particular country, region, time.

Noun : (countable) A book, cataloguing the animals of a country.

Noun : A female given name from Latin.

fight

Verb : (transitive) To engage in combat with; to oppose physically, to contest with.

Verb : (intransitive) To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc.

Noun : A physical confrontation or combat between two or more people or groups.

fleer

Verb : (archaic) To make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn

Noun : (archaic) Mockery; derision.

Verb : (archaic) To grin with an air of civility; to leer.

flame

Noun : The visible part of fire; a stream of burning vapour or gas, emitting light and heat.

Noun : A romantic partner or lover in a usually short-lived but passionate affair.

Noun : Burning zeal, passion, imagination, excitement, or anger.

flick

Noun : A short, quick movement, especially a brush, sweep, or flip.

Noun : (informal) A motion picture, movie, film; (in plural, usually preceded by "the") movie theater, cinema.

Noun : (fencing) A cut that lands with the point, often involving a whip of the foible of the blade to strike at a concealed target.

flair

Noun : A natural or innate talent or aptitude.

Noun : Distinctive style or elegance.

Verb : (transitive) To add flair.

fairy

Noun : (mythology) A mythical being of human form with magical powers, known in many sizes and descriptions, although often depicted in modern illustrations only as a small sprite with gauze-like wings, especially one that is female. Fairies are revered in some modern forms of paganism.

Noun : An enchantress, or creature of overpowering charm.

Adjective : Like a fairy; fanciful, whimsical, delicate.

flash

Verb : (transitive) To cause to shine briefly or intermittently.

Verb : (intransitive) To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.

Verb : (intransitive) To be visible briefly.

frost

Noun : A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process as dew, except that the temperature of the frosted object is below freezing.

Noun : The cold weather that causes these ice crystals to form.

Verb : (transitive) To cover with frost.

farce

Noun : (uncountable) A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method.

Noun : (countable) A motion picture or play featuring this style of humor.

Noun : (uncountable) A situation abounding with ludicrous incidents.

fossa

Noun : A large nocturnal reddish-brown catlike mammal (Cryptoprocta ferox) of the civet family, endemic to the rainforests of Madagascar. It is slender, long-tailed and has retractile claws and anal scent glands.

Noun : (anatomy) A pit, groove, cavity, or depression.

Noun : (astronomy) A long, narrow, shallow depression on the body of an extraterrestrial body, such as a planet or moon.

frith

Noun : A forest or wood; woodland generally.

Noun : (British, dialectal) Land with mostly undergrowth and few trees; also, land in between forests or woods; pastureland which is not in use.

Noun : Brushwood or undergrowth, sometimes in the form of a hedge.

fence

Noun : A thin artificial barrier that separates two pieces of land or forms a perimeter enclosing the lands of a house, building, etc.

Verb : (transitive) To enclose, contain or separate by building fence.

Verb : (transitive) To defend or guard.

fatal

Adjective : Causing death or destruction.

Noun : A fatality; an event that leads to death.

Noun : (computing) A fatal error; a failure that causes a program to terminate.

foggy

Adjective : Obscured by mist or fog; unclear; hazy.

Adjective : (figuratively) Confused, befuddled, etc.

Adjective : Being, covered with, or pertaining to fog (“tall grass etc that grows after, or is left after, cutting; moss”)

fuzzy

Adjective : Vague or imprecise.

Adjective : Not clear; unfocused.

Adjective : Covered with fuzz or a large number of tiny loose fibres like a carpet or many stuffed animals.

fetor

Noun : An unpleasant smell.

frory

Adjective : (now rare) Frosty; frozen.

Adjective : Covered with a froth resembling hoar frost.

faine

Adjective : Obsolete spelling of fain. [(chiefly UK, dialectal, or poetic) Often followed by of: glad, well-pleased.]

Verb : Obsolete spelling of fain. [Chiefly preceded or followed by would.]

Verb : Obsolete spelling of fain. [(transitive) (archaic or obsolete, rare) To be delighted or glad about (someone or something); to rejoice in; also, to favour or prefer (someone or something).]

fault

Noun : (typically uncountable) Culpability; the responsibility for a blameworthy event.

Noun : A defect, imperfection, or weakness; more severe than a flaw.

Noun : A mistake or error.

flood

Noun : An overflow of a large amount of water (usually disastrous) from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.

Verb : To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall.

Noun : (figuratively) A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.

fluid

Noun : A liquid (as opposed to a solid or gas).

Noun : Any substance which can flow with relative ease, tends to assume the shape of its container, and obeys Bernoulli's principle; a liquid, gas or plasma.

Noun : (specifically, medicine, colloquial, typically in the plural) Intravenous fluids.

faith

Noun : (metonymic) A religious or spiritual belief system.

Noun : A conviction about abstractions, ideas, or beliefs, without empirical evidence, experience, or observation.

Noun : A trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or ideal from prior empirical evidence.

feast

Noun : A very large meal, often of a ceremonial nature.

Noun : A holiday, festival, especially a religious one

Noun : Something delightful

filth

Noun : Dirt; foul matter; that which soils or defiles.

Noun : Smut; that which sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution.

Noun : (derogatory, uncountable) A vile or disgusting person.

funny

Adjective : Amusing; humorous; comical.

Noun : (informal) A joke.

Noun : (Internet slang, chiefly ironic) Humor in general.

frill

Noun : A strip of pleated fabric or paper used as decoration or trim.

Noun : (figurative) Something extraneous or not essential; something purely for show or effect; a luxury.

Noun : (zoology) The relatively extensive margin seen on the back of the heads of reptiles, with either a bony support or a cartilaginous one.

foist

Verb : (transitive) To force another to accept especially by stealth or deceit; to stick.

Verb : (transitive) To introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant.

Verb : (transitive) To pass off as genuine or worthy.

fremd

Noun : (childish, Internet) Humorous alteration of "friend".

Adjective : (rare, chiefly dialectal) Strange, unusual, out of the ordinary; unfamiliar.

Adjective : (rare, chiefly dialectal) Not kin, unrelated; foreign.

first

Adjective : Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest.

Adjective : Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest.

Adjective : Of or belonging to a first family.

felon

Noun : (criminal law) A person who has committed a felony (“serious criminal offence”); specifically, one who has been tried and convicted of such a crime.

Adjective : (chiefly poetic) Of a person or animal, their actions, thoughts, etc.: brutal, cruel, harsh, heartless; also, evil, wicked.

Adjective : (by extension) Of a place: harsh, savage, wild; of a thing: deadly; harmful.

false

Adjective : Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.

Adjective : Based on factually incorrect premises.

Adjective : Spurious, artificial.

flaky

Adjective : (informal, of a person) Unreliable; likely to make plans with others but then abandon those plans.

Adjective : (informal, of a thing) Unreliable; working only on an intermittent basis; likely due to malfunction.

Adjective : Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.

fumid

Adjective : (obsolete) Smoky or vaporous.

fixed

Adjective : Unable to move; unmovable.

Adjective : Unable to change or vary.

Adjective : Unlikely to change; stable.

frond

Noun : (botany) The leaf of a fern, especially a compound leaf.

Noun : Any fern-like leaf or other object resembling a fern leaf.

fagot

Verb : (transitive) To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle.

Noun : (music, obsolete) A fagotto, or bassoon.

Noun : (UK, Ireland, obsolete) A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company .

femme

Noun : A woman, a wife; (now chiefly Canada, US) a young woman or girl.

Noun : (LGBTQ) A lesbian or other queer woman whose appearance, identity etc. is seen as feminine as opposed to butch.

Adjective : (chiefly Canada, US, journalism, entertainment) Pertaining to a femme; feminine, female.

flake

Noun : A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything

Noun : A scale of a fish or similar animal

Verb : To break or chip off in a flake.

fluke

Noun : A lucky or improbable occurrence that could probably never be repeated.

Verb : To obtain a successful outcome by pure chance.

Verb : (snooker) To fortuitously pot a ball in an unintended way.

focal

Adjective : Belonging to, concerning, or located at a focus.

Noun : The central or most important element of something; a focal element.

Adjective : (medicine) Limited to a small area.

flock

Noun : A number of birds together in a group, such as those gathered together for the purpose of migration.

Noun : A large number of animals associated together in a group; commonly used of sheep, but (dated) also used for goats, farmed animals, and a wide variety of animals.

Noun : A large number of people.

frisk

Noun : The act of frisking, of searching for something by feeling someone's body.

Verb : (transitive) To search (someone) by feeling their body and clothing.

Verb : (intransitive) To frolic, gambol, skip, dance, leap.

finis

Noun : Of a book or other work: the end.

fuggy

Adjective : Muggy; stuffy; poorly ventilated.

Adjective : Dazed or lethargic.

frush

Adjective : Easily broken; brittle; crisp.

Verb : (obsolete, transitive) To break up, smash.

Verb : (obsolete, intransitive) To charge, rush violently.

feted

Adjective : Honoured; celebrated.

fayre

Adjective : (archaic) Fair, beautiful.

Noun : (dated) A fair, a market.

Noun : (dated) Fare.

fleet

Noun : A group of vessels or vehicles.

Noun : Any group of associated items.

Noun : A large, coordinated group of people.

fudge

Noun : (chiefly uncountable) A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream.

Noun : (US) Chocolate fudge.

Noun : (uncountable) Light or frothy nonsense.

flask

Noun : A container used to discreetly carry a small amount of a hard alcoholic beverage; a pocket flask.

Noun : A narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc.

Noun : (sciences) Laboratory glassware used to hold larger volumes than test tubes, normally having a narrow mouth of a standard size which widens to a flat or spherical base.

found

Verb : To start (an institution or organization).

Verb : To begin building.

Verb : To use as a foundation; to base.

finch

Noun : Any bird of the family Fringillidae, seed-eating passerine birds, native chiefly to the Northern Hemisphere and usually having a conical beak.

Noun : Any bird of other families of similar appearance to members of family Fringillidae.

Noun : Any Eurasian goldfinch (of species Carduelis carduelis, syn. Fringilla carduelis).

fleck

Noun : A small spot or streak; a speckle.

Noun : A flake.

Noun : A small amount.

frock

Noun : A dress, a piece of clothing, which consists of a skirt and a cover for the upper body.

Noun : An outer garment worn by priests and other clericals; a habit.

Verb : (transitive) To clothe (somebody) in a frock.

flung

Noun : A short romantic, oftentimes sexual, relationship.

Noun : An act or period of unrestrained indulgence.

Noun : An act of throwing, often violently.

foehn

Noun : A warm dry wind blowing down the north sides of the Alps, especially in Switzerland.

Noun : (meteorology) A similar katabatic wind developing on the lee side of a mountain.

faddy

Adjective : Having characteristics of a fad.

Adjective : fussy, having particular tastes or whims

flump

Verb : (intransitive) To move or fall heavily, or with a dull sound.

Verb : (transitive) To drop something heavily or with a dull sound.

Noun : An instance of the dull sound so produced.

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