9-letter words containing a, r, n, o
- fornicate — to commit fornication.
- forsaking — Present participle of forsake.
- forssmann — Werner [German ver-nuh r] /German ˈvɛr nər/ (Show IPA), 1904–79, German surgeon: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1956.
- fortran d — A data-parallel Fortran developed by Ken Kennedy at Rice University. E-mail: Theresa Chapman <[email protected]>.
- fortran i — An early version of Fortran designed by John Backus at IBM for the IBM 704. The design was begun in 1954 and a compiler released in April 1957.
- fortran m — Parallel extensions to Fortran with processes and channels by Ian Foster <[email protected]>.
- fortran v — Preliminary work on adding character handling to Fortran by IBM ca. 1962. This name as never really used.
- fortunate — having good fortune; receiving good from uncertain or unexpected sources; lucky: a fortunate young actor who got the lead in the play.
- forwander — to wander far
- foscarnet — a drug used to treat herpes viruses
- fossarian — fossor.
- found art — art comprised of found objects.
- four-lane — (of a highway) having two lanes for traffic in each direction: a four-lane thruway.
- fractions — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- fragonard — Jean Honoré [zhahn aw-naw-rey] /ʒɑ̃ ɔ nɔˈreɪ/ (Show IPA), 1732–1806, French painter.
- francisco — a male given name, Spanish form of Francis.
- francolin — any of numerous Eurasian and African partridges of the genus Francolinus, having sharply spurred legs.
- franconia — a medieval duchy in Germany, largely in the valley of the Main River.
- frankfort — a state in the E central United States. 40,395 sq. mi. (104,625 sq. km). Capital: Frankfort. Abbreviation: KY (for use with zip code), Ken., Ky.
- freemason — a member of a widely distributed secret order (Free and Accepted Masons) having for its object mutual assistance and the promotion of brotherly love among its members.
- freewoman — a woman who is free or at liberty, esp one who is not a slave or serf
- frication — an audible, constrained rush of air accompanying and characteristic of fricatives.
- frigatoon — a Venetian sailing ship with a square stern
- frogspawn — The eggs of a frog, which are surrounded by transparent jelly.
- front man — a performer, as a singer, who leads a musical group.
- frontager — an owner of property or land which immediately faces a beach or street
- frontages — Plural form of frontage.
- frontalis — A muscle of the head, sometimes considered to be part of the occipitofrontalis muscle.
- frontally — In a frontal manner.
- frontenac — Comte de (kɔ̃t də). title of Louis de Buade. 1620–98, governor of New France (1672–82; 1689–98)
- frontlash — an action or opinion that is in reaction to a backlash.
- frontload — Alternative form of front-load.
- frontpage — Alternative spelling of front page.
- frontward — in a direction toward the front.
- fructosan — any of the class of hexosans, as inulin and the like, that yield fructose upon hydrolysis.
- furcation — forked; branching.
- gaberones — former name of Gaborone.
- gain over — persuade
- gainsboro — A light bluish grey colour.
- gangboard — a raised walk on a sailing ship, crossing the waist and connecting the forecastle directly with the quarterdeck.
- garbanzos — Plural form of garbanzo.
- garnishor — (legal) A person who garnishes; one who obtains a garnishment against another.
- garotting — to execute by the garrote.
- garrisons — Plural form of garrison.
- garroting — a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- garryowen — (rugby union) A high short punt onto or behind the defending team.
- gear down — Machinery. a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. an assembly of such parts. one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear.
- gear knob — a gear lever
- generator — a machine that converts one form of energy into another, especially mechanical energy into electrical energy, as a dynamo, or electrical energy into sound, as an acoustic generator.
- geocorona — a belt of ionized hydrogen surrounding the earth at the outer limit of the exosphere.