Words that start with F

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Fis forFought

Fought is the past tense of fight.

Past tense

Photo of children who have found a snail

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Fis forFound

Found is the past tense of find. The children in the picture have found a snail. The opposite of found is lost.

Verbs, Past tense

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Fis forFount

A fount is a water source, like a spring, often capped with a decorative spout. It is also a shortened form of fountain.

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A fountain is a jet of water being squirted up into the air. When people make pretty fountains, they usually put lots of little jets of water together with a statue or something else interesting looking like a sculpture. You can find fountains of all sizes in most cities.

List of structures

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Fis forFour

There are four geese in the picture. If you cut something into four pieces, you get quarters. The number before four is three. The number that comes after four is five.

Numbers

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Fis forFourth

Something is fourth if it is the number four thing in a list. Fourth comes after third and before fifth.

Ordinal numbers

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Fis forFowl

A fowl is a domesticated farmyard bird. A fowl usually means a chicken but can also mean ducks, turkeys and pheasants.

Birds

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Fis forFox

Scientific name: family: canidae

Foxes are a small hunting animal, or carnivore, that is found all over the world. They eat smaller animals like rabbits and rats. The most common type of fox is the red fox, as shown in the picture. A female fox is called a vixen.

Canine, African animals

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Fis forFoxglove

Scientific name: digitalis purpurea

The digitalis, or foxglove, is a very attractive garden plant that has flowers in various shades of pink. It is a biennial, native to western Europe and parts of Asia and Africa. The entire plant is toxic, from roots to flowers. It is toxic fresh and dried, and if you have a vase of foxglove flowers, the water in the vase will be toxic too. A large enough dose will kill you, smaller doses cause hallucinations, nausea and severe headaches. It is toxic to people and animals, including cats and dogs.

Plants, Substances