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FK Partizani Tirana

FK Partizani Tirana is an Albanian football club founded in Tiranë in 1946, a 17-time national champion and the only Albanian club to win an international trophy.

FK Sarajevo

FK Sarajevo (Fudbalski klub Sarajevo), Bosnian football club founded 1946 as SD Torpedo; two Yugoslav titles (1967, 1985), six Bosnian league titles, home at Asim Ferhatović Hase Stadium, former Vincent Tan ownership.

FK Vardar (ФК Вардар)

FK Vardar (ФК Вардар), also known as Vardar Skopje, is a football club in Skopje, North Macedonia, founded in 1947 and the country's most decorated club.

FK Ventspils

FK Ventspils, Latvian football club founded 1997 from the FK Venta and FK Nafta merger; multiple Virslīga champion and first Latvian club in a UEFA group stage (2009/10 Europa League); excluded by UEFA for seven years for match-fixing in 2021 and withdrew from the league.

FK Vojvodina

FK Vojvodina (Voša), Serbian football club founded 6 March 1914 in Novi Sad by gymnasium students; Yugoslav champion 1965/66 and 1988/89, Mitropa Cup 1977, Serbian Cup 2013/14 and 2019/20, home Karađorđe Stadium.

FK Voždovac

FK Voždovac (Zmajevi, Dragons) is a Belgrade football club founded 1912 as FK Dušanovac, renamed 1929, merged with Sloboda 1973; plays on a rooftop stadium with artificial turf.

FK Žalgiris

FK Žalgiris (Vilniaus Žalgiris) is a Vilnius football club founded in 1947 as Dinamo, Soviet Top League bronze medalist in 1987, and Lithuania's most decorated club with 11 championships, 14 cups, and 9 super cups; refounded by fans in 2009 after a 2008 collapse. Distinct from FK Kauno Žalgiris and Žalgiris Kaunas basketball.

FK Željezničar Sarajevo

FK Željezničar Sarajevo (Željo, Plavi), railway workers' club founded 1921, Bosnia's most decorated football club: 1 Yugoslav title (1972), 6 Bosnian titles, 6 cups; Grbavica stadium; 1985 UEFA Cup semi-final.

FK-3000

The FK-3000 is a Chinese self-propelled short-range air defense system by CASIC, pairing a 30mm cannon with up to 96 small missiles against drone swarms.

FKA Twigs

FKA Twigs (Tahliah Debrett Barnett, born 1988) is an English singer, dancer, and producer of experimental art pop; debut EP1 (2012), Mercury Prize-nominated LP1 (2014), Magdalene, CAPRISONGS, and the Grammy-nominated EUSEXUA (2025).

Fka.m4a

Fka.m4a is the performing alias of Jay Jackson, a London-born, Berlin-based DJ and producer of Italo disco, house, and techno who broke through with a viral 2021 HÖR set.

FKBP1A

FKBP1A (FKBP12, calstabin1) encodes the 12-kDa FK506-binding peptidyl-prolyl isomerase, receptor for tacrolimus and rapamycin, inhibitor complex partner of calcineurin and mTOR, and stabilizing subunit of ryanodine receptor calcium-release channels.

FKBP4

FKBP4 (FKBP52, FKBP59, Hsp56) is a human chromosome 12 gene encoding an FK506-binding immunophilin PPIase and Hsp90 co-chaperone that enables glucocorticoid, androgen, and progesterone receptor nuclear translocation.

FKBP5

FKBP5 (FKBP prolyl isomerase 5, protein FKBP51) is a human chromosome 6p21 gene encoding an FK506-binding glucocorticoid receptor co-chaperone whose variants interact with early-life stress to raise risk of depression and PTSD.

FKG inequality

The FKG inequality, or Fortuin–Kasteleyn–Ginibre inequality, is a correlation inequality of probability theory stating that two increasing events are positively correlated; proved in 1971, it is a standard tool in percolation and statistical mechanics.

FKP Scorpio

FKP Scorpio is a Hamburg concert and festival promotion company founded in 1990 by Folkert Koopmans, one of Germany's largest promoters and organizer of the Hurricane and Southside festivals.

FKRP-related limb-girdle muscular dystrophy R9

FKRP-related limb-girdle muscular dystrophy R9 (LGMDR9, formerly LGMD2I) is an autosomal recessive dystroglycanopathy from FKRP mutations impairing alpha-dystroglycan glycosylation, causing progressive proximal weakness, cardiomyopathy, and respiratory involvement; the c.826C>A founder mutation is common in Scandinavia and the UK.

FKU IK-3, Kharp

FKU IK-3, Kharp (Polar Wolf, Полярный волк) is a Russian special-regime men's penal colony in Kharp, Yamalo-Nenets Okrug, founded 1961, EU-sanctioned for torture, and where Alexei Navalny died in February 2024.

FL (complexity)

FL is the complexity class of functions computable by a deterministic Turing machine using only logarithmic space, the functional counterpart of L, and the class of logspace reductions.

FL Studio

FL Studio is a digital audio workstation by Belgian developer Image-Line, first released as FruityLoops by Didier Dambrin on 18 December 1997 and renamed FL Studio after a Kellogg's trademark challenge. Known for its pattern-based beatmaking workflow and Lifetime Free Updates policy.

FLAC

FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) is an open, patent-free lossless audio format, first specified in 2000, that compresses audio to 30-70% of its size with no data loss.

Flacara

Flacara (CSM Flacăra Moreni) is a Romanian football club from Moreni, founded in 1922, which reached Divizia A and played FC Porto in the 1989 UEFA Cup.

FLACC scale

The FLACC scale, standing for Face, Legs, Activity, Cry, and Consolability, is an observational pain scale for infants and young children, scoring five behaviors from 0 to 10.

Flaccid hemiplegia

Flaccid hemiplegia (ICD-11 MB53.1, ICD-10-CM G81.0) is one-sided paralysis with limp, low-tone muscles, seen acutely after cortical or internal capsule lesions and sometimes permanent.

Flaccid paralysis

Flaccid paralysis, also called acute flaccid paralysis (AFP), is loss of muscle tone from lower motor neuron lesions, caused by Guillain-Barré syndrome, poliomyelitis, acute flaccid myelitis, transverse myelitis, botulism, or myopathies, and tracked by WHO polio surveillance.

Flaccid tetraplegia

Flaccid tetraplegia is paralysis of all four limbs with limp, toneless muscles, unlike the stiffness of spastic tetraplegia; it typically reflects lower motor neuron damage or acute spinal shock.

Flacherie

Flacherie is a flaccid-dysentery syndrome of silkworms (Bombyx mori) caused by viruses such as BmIFV, BmDNV, and BmCPV-1 plus bacteria like Streptococcus, Bacillus, and Serratia marcescens; distinguished from pebrine, which Pasteur separated from it in 1867.

Flack (TV series)

Flack is a British comedy-drama series (2019-2020) created by Oliver Lansley, starring Anna Paquin as London PR fixer Robyn at Mills Paulson. Two six-episode seasons on W, Pop TV, and Amazon Prime Video; cancelled by Pop in March 2020.

Flaco Jiménez

Flaco Jiménez, born Leonardo Jiménez (1939–2025), was an American conjunto and Tex-Mex accordionist from San Antonio, Texas, known worldwide as the "King of Conjunto" and a multiple Grammy winner.

Flade Isblink

Flade Isblink is an ice cap in Kronprins Christian Land, northeastern Greenland, near Station Nord; at about 8,500 km2 it is Greenland's largest ice cap outside the ice sheet, with surging outlet glaciers, a 2015 subglacial lake drainage, and near-zero mass change in the 2000s.