12-letter words containing f, e, r, o
- followership — the ability or willingness to follow a leader.
- food allergy — an allergy to a specific type of food
- food counter — a counter in a shop, bar, cafeteria, etc where food is sold or served
- food service — the preparation, delivery, serving, etc., of ready-to-eat foods: The cafeteria employs over 20 people in food service.
- foolhardiest — Superlative form of foolhardy.
- foot soldier — an infantryman.
- foot-lambert — a unit of luminance or photometric brightness, equal to the luminance of a surface emitting a luminous flux of one lumen per square foot, the luminance of a perfectly reflecting surface receiving an illumination of one foot-candle. Abbreviation: fL.
- footsoldiers — Plural form of footsoldier.
- footsoreness — The characteristic of being footsore.
- for a change — contrary to the norm
- for a giggle — as a joke or prank; not seriously
- for a season — for a while
- for a wonder — to think or speculate curiously: to wonder about the origin of the solar system.
- for all time — forever, for eternity
- for evermore — forever; always
- 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.
- foraminifera — any chiefly marine protozoan of the sarcodinian order Foraminifera, typically having a linear, spiral, or concentric shell perforated by small holes or pores through which pseudopodia extend.
- forbearances — Plural form of forbearance.
- forbearingly — In a forbearing manner.
- forced entry — entry into a building by force, eg by forcing a lock
- forced march — any march that is longer than troops are accustomed to and maintained at a faster pace than usual, generally undertaken for a particular objective under emergency conditions.
- forced-draft — using a flow of air or air forced through a pipe or system of pipes by fans or blowers: a forced-draft central heating system.
- forcefulness — full of force; powerful; vigorous; effective: a forceful plea for peace.
- forcibleness — The quality of being forcible.
- fore and aft — situated at or toward the front, as compared with something else.
- fore-and-aft — located along or parallel to a line from the stem to the stern.
- 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.
- forebearance — Misspelling of forbearance.
- forebodement — The act of foreboding.
- forebodingly — a prediction; portent.
- forebuilding — (architecture,historical) An outer defense work of a castle used to protect the entrance to the keep.
- forecarriage — the front part of a carriage
- 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.
- foregathered — Simple past tense and past participle of foregather.
- foregrounded — Simple past tense and past participle of foreground.
- forehandedly — Prudently, with thrift and foresight.
- foreign bill — a bill of exchange drawn on a payer in one country by a maker in another.
- foreign body — object lodged where it does not belong
- foreign-born — born in a country other than that in which one resides.
- foreign-flag — (of a vessel or aircraft) having a registry under a nationality other than one's own: rivalry between U.S.-flag freighters and foreign-flag ships.
- 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.
- foreordained — to ordain or appoint beforehand.