12-letter words containing f, e, o, s
- footsoreness — The characteristic of being footsore.
- for a season — for a while
- for instance — a case or occurrence of anything: fresh instances of oppression.
- for starters — a person or thing that starts.
- for the best — of the highest quality, excellence, or standing: the best work; the best students.
- for-instance — an instance or example: Give me a for-instance of what you mean.
- forbearances — Plural form of forbearance.
- forcefulness — full of force; powerful; vigorous; effective: a forceful plea for peace.
- forcibleness — The quality of being forcible.
- fore-topmast — the spar or section of a pole mast serving as the topmast of a foremast on a ship.
- fore-topsail — a topsail set on a foremast on a ship.
- foreadmonish — (rare, transitive) To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.
- forecastable — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- foreclosures — Plural form of foreclosure.
- foredestined — Simple past tense and past participle of foredestine.
- foreman-ship — a person in charge of a particular department, group of workers, etc., as in a factory or the like.
- forensically — pertaining to, connected with, or used in courts of law or public discussion and debate.
- forepleasure — the aggregate of pleasurable sensations that lead to a heightened physical or emotional response, as of those aroused in sexual intercourse that lead to an orgasm.
- forequarters — the forward end of half of a carcass, as of beef or lamb.
- foreseeingly — by way of foreseeing
- foreshadowed — Simple past tense and past participle of foreshadow.
- foreshadower — One who or that which foreshadows.
- foreshortens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foreshorten.
- foresightful — care or provision for the future; provident care; prudence.
- forest floor — the above- ground layer of a forest made up of tree roots, soil and decaying matter
- forest green — Lincoln green.
- forest grove — a town in NW Oregon.
- forestalling — Present participle of forestall.
- forestaysail — a triangular sail set on a forestay; the innermost headsail of a vessel.
- forethoughts — Plural form of forethought.
- foretopmasts — Plural form of foretopmast.
- foretopsails — Plural form of foretopsail.
- formal cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- formal dress — clothing for elegant or solemn occasions
- formlessness — The quality of being formless.
- formularizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of formularize.
- fornicatress — (obsolete) A woman guilty of fornication.
- forrest city — a city in E Arkansas.
- forsakenness — past participle of forsake.
- fort pickens — Andrew, 1739–1817, American Revolutionary general.
- fort stewart — a military reservation in SE Georgia, SW of Savannah.
- fortepianist — the player of a fortepiano
- fortresslike — Resembling a fortress in shape or impregnability.
- forty-niners — a person, especially a prospector, who went to California in 1849 during the gold rush.
- forty-second — next after the forty-first; being the ordinal number for 42.
- forward sale — the sale of something that is to be delivered and paid for at a later date
- fosphenytoin — a prodrug that produces phenytoin and is taken to prevent or treat seizures.
- fossil fuels — any combustible organic material, as oil, coal, or natural gas, derived from the remains of former life.
- foster child — a child raised by someone who is not its natural or adoptive parent.
- four-corners — a point in the SW U.S., at the intersection of 37° N latitude and 109° W longitude, where the boundaries of four states—Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico—meet: the only such point in the U.S.