8-letter words containing e, n, r, o
- farnesol — a colorless, unsaturated, liquid alcohol, C 15 H 26 O, having a slight floral odor, extracted from the flowers of the acacia, cassia oil, or the like: used in perfumery.
- fear not — You say 'fear not' or 'never fear' to someone when you are telling them not to worry or be frightened.
- feedhorn — a part of a satellite dish that collects the signal reflected from the main surface reflector and channels it into a low-noise amplifier.
- fencerow — the uncultivated land on each side of and below a fence.
- ferguson — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- fermions — Plural form of fermion.
- flaperon — a control surface functioning both as a flap and as an aileron.
- florence — Italian Firenze. a city in central Italy, on the Arno River: capital of the former grand duchy of Tuscany.
- florigen — a hypothetical plant hormone produced in the leaves and transported to the apex to initiate flowering.
- flounder — to struggle with stumbling or plunging movements (usually followed by about, along, on, through, etc.): He saw the child floundering about in the water.
- fluorene — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 13 H 10 , used chiefly in the manufacture of resins and dyes.
- fluorine — the most reactive nonmetallic element, a pale-yellow, corrosive, toxic gas that occurs combined, especially in fluorite, cryolite, phosphate rock, and other minerals. Symbol: F; atomic weight: 18.9984; atomic number: 9.
- fomenter — One who incites or promotes.
- for once — for a change, for the first time
- for rent — available for hire
- forborne — past participle of forbear1 .
- forceone — A programming language by Andrew K. Wright.
- fordonne — in a state of exhaustion
- foredone — fordone.
- forefend — forfend.
- foregone — that has gone before; previous; past.
- forehand — (in tennis, squash, etc.) of, relating to, or noting a stroke made from the same side of the body as that of the hand holding the racket, paddle, etc. Compare backhand (def 5).
- forehent — to seize in advance
- foreigns — Plural form of foreign.
- foreking — A preceding king.
- foreknew — Simple past tense and past participle of foreknow.
- foreknow — to know beforehand.
- foreland — a cape, headland, or promontory.
- forelend — to give or grant beforehand
- foremean — to intend in advance
- forename — a name that precedes the family name or surname; first name.
- forenoon — the period of daylight before noon.
- forensic — pertaining to, connected with, or used in courts of law or public discussion and debate.
- foreplan — to plan in advance
- forerank — the first rank
- foreruns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of forerun.
- foreseen — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
- foreskin — the prepuce of the penis.
- forewarn — to warn in advance.
- forewent — simple past tense of forego1 .
- forewind — a favourable wind
- forewing — either of the anterior and usually smaller pair of wings of an insect having four wings.
- foreworn — forworn.
- forfends — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of forfend.
- forgiven — to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.
- forinsec — foreign
- fornenst — next to; near to: They walked fornenst one another down the sidewalk.
- fornices — any of various arched or vaulted structures, as an arching fibrous formation in the brain.
- forsaken — past participle of forsake.
- forspend — to exhaust financially