Words that start with F

Fis forFly (Motion)

Flying is a way of moving through the air. Most things that fly do it because they have wings, but helicopters fly by using a rotor.

List of action and motion words, Verbs

John Talbot / CC BY-SA

A fly is a very common insect that can fly, as the name suggests. Flies lay their eggs in rotting food or dead animals in the wild, and in your house they lay their eggs in any of your food that they find. The eggs hatch into maggots.

Insects

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Fis forFlying fish

Flying fish are a type of fish with very big fins. They can jump out of the water to get away from things that want to eat them, and then they glide through the air for some distance before they fall back into the water again. They can glide for around 50-400 metres, and reach speeds of up to 70km/h. Flying fish eat plankton, and are themselves eaten by tuna and dolphins.

Fish, Weird exceptions

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Fis forFlying fox

A flying fox is a type of very large bat with a wingspan as wide as a person's arms and a face that looks a bit like a fox. It lives in warm places and mostly eats fruit and nectar.

Mammals, Australian animals, Weird exceptions

Mustang Joe / Public domain

Fis forFlying squirrel

Scientific name: tribe: pteromyini

Flying squirrels are a variety of squirrel that has a flap of skin joining its front and back legs. Flying squirrels can spread out this flap like a parachute to glide between trees.

Rodents, Weird exceptions

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Fis forFlyswatter

A flyswatter, or just flyswat is a hand-held device used for squashing flies and other insects. They are usually made out of plastic, and are slightly flexible.

List of devices

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Fis forFoal (Donkey)

A baby donkey is called a foal.

Babies

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Fis forFoal (Horse)

A foal is a baby horse.

Babies

Steve Jurvetson / CC BY-SA

Fis forFoam

Foam is made up of a lot of small bubbles, usually found on the top of a liquid like the sea or a glass of beer. Something that is full of bubbles may also be called foam, such as the foam padding found inside seat cushions.

Materials

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Fis forFob

A fob is either the small pocket in a waistcoat that you keep a watch in, or the chain attached to the kind of watch you keep in a waistcoat pocket. People used to keep their watches on chains in their pockets before it was popular to wear them on your wrist.