Words that Start with F

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Words that Start with F

This section will provide you with more information on the words that start with F.

Interesting notes about the letter F:

• The letter F is the sixth letter of the English alphabet.
• It is a consonant.
• It normally makes one distinct sound \ f \, but may be soft of or hard doff.
• The letter F was “Waw,” the hook, and was possibly a mace as used by the Phoenicians in 500 B.C. or so.
• The Greeks used a version of Waw, which looked like F, calling it “digamma” for their number “6.”
• The Etruscans used it for V, and the Romans updated it to F.

The following are a couple of examples of words starting with F.

Animals that start with F

• Fowl: a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl
  • My favorite kind of fowl on the farm is chicken.
• Fox: alert carnivorous mammal with pointed muzzle and ears and a bushy tail; most are predators that do not hunt in packs
  • Everyone wonders what kind of noise a fox makes.
• Ferret: musteline mammal of prairie regions of United States; nearly extinct
  • My friend’s pet ferret had soft, grey fur.

Places that start with F

• Facility: a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry
  • The county’s school buses all stay at one facility so that they can be maintained.
• Field: a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
  • The field looks empty now, but in a few weeks it will be full of corn.

Words that describe people

• Fastidious: giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness
  • He is so fastidious about keeping his truck clean that you could eat off the floors.
• Fashionable: being or in accordance with current social fashions
  • Our store is fashionable in order to attract younger customers.
• Famous: widely known and esteemed
  • The girls couldn’t believe that they were meeting the famous singer. 

Words that describe an idea

• Fundamental: serving as an essential component
  • Because his ideas were fundamental, we were able to use them for different projects.
• Flawless: without a flaw
  • The plan would have to be flawless if it was going to work.

Words that describe a place/event

• Furnished: provided with whatever is necessary for a purpose (as furniture or equipment or authority)
  • It was a relief that the apartment was fully furnished!
• Fuchsia: having a purplish-red colour
  • The birght fuchsia wall energized the nursey room. 
• Frosty: covered with frost
  • The greenhouse became frosty once the snoe began to fall. 

Longest words that start with F