9-letter words containing e, f, o, r
- fortunate — having good fortune; receiving good from uncertain or unexpected sources; lucky: a fortunate young actor who got the lead in the play.
- fortunize — to make happy or fortunate
- forty-one — a cardinal number, 40 plus 1.
- forwander — to wander far
- forwarded — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
- forwarder — a person who forwards.
- foscarnet — a drug used to treat herpes viruses
- fossicker — Someone who fossicks.
- fosterage — the act of fostering or rearing another's child as one's own.
- fostering — Encourage or promote the development of (something, typically something regarded as good).
- foundered — (of a ship, boat, etc.) to fill with water and sink.
- foundress — a woman who establishes something, as an institution or religious order; founder.
- foundries — Plural form of foundry.
- four-eyed — having or seeming to have four eyes.
- four-eyes — Slang: Usually Disparaging. a person who wears eyeglasses (sometimes used facetiously).
- four-lane — (of a highway) having two lanes for traffic in each direction: a four-lane thruway.
- fourpence — a sum of money of the value of four English pennies.
- fourpenny — Carpentry. noting a nail 1.5 inches (3.8 cm) long. noting certain fine nails 1.375 inches (3.5 cm) long. Symbol: 4d.
- fourscore — four times twenty; eighty.
- foursomes — Plural form of foursome.
- fourteens — Plural form of fourteen.
- foveiform — shaped like a small pit or depression
- fox grape — a vine, Vitis labrusca, chiefly of the northeastern U.S., from which numerous cultivated grape varieties have been developed.
- framboise — raspberry.
- framework — a skeletal structure designed to support or enclose something.
- freak out — any abnormal phenomenon or product or unusual object; anomaly; aberration.
- freak-out — an act or instance of freaking out.
- freakshow — Alternative spelling of freak show.
- free form — improvised style
- free from — not containing
- free gold — treasury gold, including the legal reserve, not restricted to the redemption of gold certificates or other specific uses.
- free love — the doctrine or practice of having sexual relations or living together without legal marriage or continuing obligation.
- free port — a port or special section of a port where goods may be unloaded, stored, and shipped without payment of customs duties.
- free soil — territory in which there is no slavery; esp., any territory in the U.S. where slavery was prohibited before the Civil War
- free vote — law: not based on political party
- free zone — a free-port area.
- free-born — born free, rather than in slavery, bondage, or vassalage.
- free-form — characterized by free form: free-form sculpture.
- free-soil — pertaining to or opposing the extension of slavery in the Territories.
- freeboard — Nautical. the distance between the level of the water and the upper surface of the freeboard deck amidships at the side of a hull: regulated by the agencies of various countries according to the construction of the hull, the type of cargo carried, the area of the world in which it sails, the type of water, and the season of the year. Compare load line. (on a cargo vessel) the distance between the uppermost deck considered fully watertight and the official load line. the portion of the side of a hull that is above the water.
- freebooty — plunder; loot; spoils.
- freeholds — Plural form of freehold.
- freeloads — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of freeload.
- 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.
- freestone — a fruit having a stone to which the flesh does not cling, as certain peaches and plums.
- freewoman — a woman who is free or at liberty, esp one who is not a slave or serf
- freeworld — the nations of the world that function chiefly under democratic and capitalistic systems rather than under totalitarianism or Communism.
- freezeout — a game in which each player begins with a predetermined amount of money and must withdraw from the game once that amount is lost, until one player is left with all the winnings.
- frenotomy — The surgical cutting of the frenum.
- frescoing — Present participle of fresco.