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 : Violent anger or frenzy.

Noun : A state of intense excitement.

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.

Verb : (intransitive) To have a frown on one's face.

force

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

Noun : Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.

Noun : (countable) Anything that is able to make a substantial change in a person or thing.

facet

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

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

Noun : One of a series of things, such as steps in a project.

fiend

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

Noun : A very evil person.

Noun : (obsolete) An enemy; a foe.

focus

Noun : (countable, optics) A point at which reflected or refracted rays of light converge.

Noun : (countable, geometry) A point of a conic at which rays reflected from a curve or surface converge.

Noun : (uncountable, photography, cinematography) The fact of the convergence of light on the photographic medium.

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.

Noun : The strong part of a sword blade, close to the hilt.

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

foyer

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

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

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

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.

Adjective : (obsolete) Unbounded by restrictions, limitations, etc.; free.

faint

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

Adjective : Lacking courage, spirit, or energy; cowardly; dejected

Adjective : Barely perceptible; not bright, or loud, or sharp

fling

Noun : An act of throwing, often violently.

Noun : An act of moving the limbs or body with violent movements, especially in a dance.

Noun : An act or period of unrestrained indulgence.

forum

Noun : A place for discussion.

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

Noun : A form of discussion involving a panel of presenters and often participation by members of the audience.

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.

Verb : (transitive, archaic) To scorn.

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

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.

Adjective : (of a person) Contemptible; unruly; misbehaved.

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 : Inflammable or easily ignited.

folio

Noun : A leaf of a book or manuscript.

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

Noun : (by extension, printing)

fetch

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

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

Verb : (nautical) To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.

feint

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

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 : (figuratively) Something feigned; a false or pretend appearance; a pretence or stratagem.

freak

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

Noun : A hippie.

Noun : A drug addict.

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 : (by extension) Bare arms, bare legs, bare torso.

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 sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid.

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

Verb : To participate in a foray.

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

Noun : A furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.

Noun : A workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.

Noun : The act of beating or working iron or steel.

flirt

Noun : A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion

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

Noun : An act of flirting.

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 : (Roman mythology) The goddess of animals, nature, spring and fertility; she is also the consort of Faunus.

fight

Verb : Senses relating to physical conflict:

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

Verb : (transitive) To conduct or engage in (battle, warfare, a cause, etc.).

fleer

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

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

Noun : (archaic) Mockery; derision.

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 : (Internet, somewhat dated) An aggressively insulting criticism or remark.

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.

Noun : (obsolete) Smell; odor.

fairy

Noun : (uncountable, obsolete) The realm of faerie; enchantment, illusion.

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.

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.

Noun : (figurative) Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.

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 : (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.

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.

frith

Noun : (rare, archaic, poetic) Peace; security.

Noun : (obsolete) Sanctuary, asylum.

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To protect; guard.

fence

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

Noun : (informal) Someone who hides or buys and sells stolen goods, a criminal middleman for transactions of stolen goods.

Noun : (by extension) The place whence such a middleman operates.

fatal

Adjective : (rare, archaic) Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny.

Adjective : (rare, archaic) Foreboding death or great disaster.

Adjective : Causing death or destruction.

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

Adjective : Vague or imprecise.

Adjective : Not clear; unfocused.

fetor

Noun : An unpleasant smell.

frory

Adjective : (now rare) Frosty; frozen.

Adjective : Covered with a froth resembling hoar frost.

faine

Noun : Obsolete spelling of fane. [(obsolete) A weathercock, a weather vane.]

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.]

fault

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

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

Noun : (morality) A failing of character; less severe than a vice.

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.

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

Noun : The flowing in of the tide, opposed to the ebb.

fluid

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

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

faith

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

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

Noun : A religious or spiritual belief system.

feast

Noun : A holiday, festival, especially a religious one

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

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.

Adjective : Strange or unusual, often in an unpleasant way.

Adjective : (UK, Ireland, informal) Showing unexpected resentment.

frill

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

Noun : (figurative) A substance or material on the edge of something, resembling such a strip of fabric.

Noun : (photography) A wrinkled edge to a film.

foist

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

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

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

fremd

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

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

Adjective : (obsolete) Wild; untamed.

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

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.

Adjective : (obsolete, rare) Obtained through a felony; stolen.

false

Adjective : Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.

Adjective : Based on factually incorrect premises.

Adjective : Spurious, artificial.

flaky

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

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.

fumid

Adjective : (obsolete) Smoky or vaporous.

fixed

Adjective : Attached; affixed.

Adjective : Unable to move; unmovable.

Adjective : Unable to change or vary.

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

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 .

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

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.

Noun : (LGBTQ, less common) A person whose gender is feminine-leaning, such as a feminine non-binary person.

flake

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

Noun : A scale of a fish or similar animal

Noun : (archaeology) A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.

fluke

Noun : A lucky or improbable occurrence, with the implication that the occurrence could not 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.

Adjective : (medicine) Limited to a small area.

Noun : (geometry, obsolete) One of two lines perpendicular to the axis of a cone such that the cosine of the angle between the line and the axis is equal to the ratio of the cosines o the semiangles of the cone.

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 : Those served by a particular pastor or shepherd.

frisk

Adjective : (archaic) Lively; brisk.

Noun : A little playful skip or leap; a brisk and lively movement.

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

finis

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

fuggy

Adjective : Muggy; stuffy; poorly ventilated.

Adjective : Dazed or lethargic.

frush

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

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

Verb : (historical, transitive) To straighten up (the feathers on an arrow).

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

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

Noun : Food and lodging; board.

Verb : To start (an institution or organization).

Verb : To begin building.

finch

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

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.

fleck

Noun : A flake.

Noun : A lock, as of wool.

Noun : A small spot or streak; a speckle.

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.

Noun : A sailor's jersey.

flung

Noun : An act of throwing, often violently.

Noun : An act of moving the limbs or body with violent movements, especially in a dance.

Noun : An act or period of unrestrained indulgence.

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 : The dull sound so produced.

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