9-letter words containing f, o, i, e
- fivescore — (archaic) Hundred.
- fixed oil — a natural vegetable or animal oil that is nonvolatile, as lard oil, linseed oil, etc.
- flerovium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Fl; atomic number: 114.
- flexional — Anatomy. the act of bending a limb. the position that a limb assumes when it is bent.
- flip over — turn upside down
- floodlike — a great flowing or overflowing of water, especially over land not usually submerged.
- floodtide — the tide when it has risen from low to high water
- floriated — made of or decorated with floral ornamentation: floriated design; floriated china.
- floricane — a plant stem that grows for a year before bearing fruit and flowers, as in the bramble or raspberry.
- floridean — of or relating to members of the botanical genus Florideae (red algae)
- flossiest — Superlative form of flossy.
- flowerier — Comparative form of flowery.
- flowerily — In a flowery way.
- flowering — bearing flowers.
- foaminess — The state or quality of being foamy.
- focalized — Simple past tense and past participle of focalize.
- focalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of focalize.
- foederati — Plural form of foederatus.
- foeticide — feticide.
- fogginess — The characteristic or quality of being foggy.
- foie gras — the liver of specially fattened geese or ducks, used as a table delicacy, especially in the form of a paste (pâté de foie gras)
- foilborne — (of a vessel) moving on the water on hydrofoils, with the hull out of the water.
- foliature — a cluster of leaves; foliage.
- foliolate — pertaining to or consisting of leaflets (often used in combination, as bifoliolate).
- foliolose — with leaves composed of folioles
- folketing — the unicameral parliament of Denmark.
- follicles — Plural form of follicle.
- fomenting — Present participle of foment.
- food mile — a unit used to measure the distance that a food product travels from where it is produced to where it is sold or consumed
- fool file — (jargon) A term found on Usenet for a notional repository of all the most dramatically and abysmally stupid utterances ever. An entire subgenre of sig blocks consists of the header "From the fool file:" followed by some quote the poster wishes to represent as an immortal gem of dimwittery; for this usage to be really effective, the quote has to be so obviously wrong as to be laughable. More than one Usenetter has achieved an unwanted notoriety by being quoted in this way.
- fooleries — Plural form of foolery.
- foot line — Printing. a line at the bottom of a page of type, especially a black line or a line containing the folio.
- footering — Present participle of footer.
- fopperies — the clothes, manners, actions, etc., of a fop.
- forbidden — a past participle of forbid.
- forbidder — One who forbids.
- force fit — assembly of two tightly fitting parts, as a hub on a shaft, made by a press or the like.
- forcipate — having the shape of or resembling a forceps.
- forebrain — Also called prosencephalon. the anterior of the three primary divisions of the brain in the embryo of a vertebrate, or the part of the adult brain derived from this tissue including the diencephalon and telencephalon.
- forecabin — the forward cabin on a vessel
- forechoir — antechoir.
- forecited — previously cited.
- foregoing — previously stated, written, or occurring; preceding: The foregoing paragraph presents the problem.
- foreigner — a person not native to or naturalized in the country or jurisdiction under consideration; alien.
- forelimbs — Plural form of forelimb.
- forenight — (Scotland) The evening, between twilight and bedtime.
- forensics — pertaining to, connected with, or used in courts of law or public discussion and debate.
- forepoint — to predetermine or indicate in advance
- foreright — (archaic) ready, directly forward, going before.
- foresails — Plural form of foresail.