6-letter words containing f, o, n
- fonner — Comparative of fon.
- fontal — pertaining to or coming from a fountain or spring.
- foonly — 1. The PDP-10 successor that was to have been built by the Super Foonly project at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory along with a new operating system. The intention was to leapfrog from the old DEC time-sharing system SAIL was then running to a new generation, bypassing TENEX which at that time was the ARPANET standard. ARPA funding for both the Super Foonly and the new operating system was cut in 1974. Most of the design team went to DEC and contributed greatly to the design of the PDP-10 model KL10. 2. The name of the company formed by Dave Poole, one of the principal Super Foonly designers, and one of hackerdom's more colourful personalities. Many people remember the parrot which sat on Poole's shoulder and was a regular companion. 3. Any of the machines built by Poole's company. The first was the F-1 (a.k.a. Super Foonly), which was the computational engine used to create the graphics in the movie "TRON". The F-1 was the fastest PDP-10 ever built, but only one was ever made. The effort drained Foonly of its financial resources, and the company turned toward building smaller, slower, and much less expensive machines. Unfortunately, these ran not the popular TOPS-20 but a TENEX variant called Foonex; this seriously limited their market. Also, the machines shipped were actually wire-wrapped engineering prototypes requiring individual attention from more than usually competent site personnel, and thus had significant reliability problems. Poole's legendary temper and unwillingness to suffer fools gladly did not help matters. By the time of the Jupiter project cancellation in 1983, Foonly's proposal to build another F-1 was eclipsed by the Mars, and the company never quite recovered. See the Mars entry for the continuation and moral of this story.
- forend — Part of a rifle, underneath the barrel, where it is supported by the hand.
- forint — an aluminum coin and the monetary unit of Hungary, equal to 100 fillér. Abbreviation: F., Ft.
- forman — Milos [mee-lawsh] /ˈmi lɔʃ/ (Show IPA), (Jan Tomas Forman) born 1932, U.S. film director, born in the former Czechoslovakia.
- fornax — a faint constellation in the S hemisphere lying between Cetus and Phoenix
- forney — a steam locomotive having no front truck, four driving wheels, and a four-wheeled rear truck.
- fornix — any of various arched or vaulted structures, as an arching fibrous formation in the brain.
- forren — foreign
- foshan — Pinyin, Wade-Giles. a city in S central Guangdong province, in SE China, near Canton.
- founde — Obsolete spelling of found; Simple past tense and past participle of find.
- founds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of found.
- founts — font2 .
- foxing — material used to cover the upper portion of a shoe.
- franco — Francisco (Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco-Bahamonde"El Caudillo") 1892–1975, Spanish military leader and dictator: chief of state 1939–47; regent of the kingdom of Spain 1947–75.
- franko — Ivan [ee-vahn] /iˈvɑn/ (Show IPA), 1856–1916, Ukrainian writer.
- fresno — a city in central California.
- fripon — a knave; a rogue
- froing — Only used in toing and froing. present participle of fro.
- fronde — either of two rebellious movements against the ministry of Cardinal Mazarin in the reign of Louis XIV, the first led by the parlement of Paris (1648–49) and the second by the princes (1650–53)
- fronds — Plural form of frond.
- fronts — Plural form of front.
- frownd — Obsolete spelling of frowned.
- frowns — Plural form of frown.
- frozen — past participle of freeze.
- fulton — Robert, 1765–1815, U.S. engineer and inventor: builder of the first profitable steamboat.
- funlog — Functional programming plus unification. "Lazy" in the sense that expressions are reduced only if they are not unifiable.
- fusion — the act or process of fusing; the state of being fused.
- futons — Plural form of futon.
- fynbos — (botany) Vegetation unique to the Cape Floral Kingdom made up chiefly of Proteaceae, restios and Ericaceae.
- goffin — (language) A definitional constraint language for declarative parallel programming. Goffin systematically integrates equational constraints and functions within a uniform framework of concurrent programming. Goffin is an embedding of a functional language kernel (Haskell) into a layer of constraint logic, which allows logical variables inside functional expressions. In order to preserve referential transparency, functional reduction suspends until logical variables become bound. Logical variables are bound by equational constraints, which impose relations over expressions. Hence, constraints are the means to structure the concurrent reduction of functional expressions.
- goniff — a thief, swindler, crook, or rascal.
- if not — if this is not the case
- in for — about to endure
- in-off — a shot that goes into a pocket after striking another ball
- inflow — something that flows in; influx.
- infold — enfold.
- inform — to give or impart knowledge of a fact or circumstance to: He informed them of his arrival.
- konfyt — a fruit preserve
- nonfan — a person who is not a fan
- nonfat — without fat or fat solids; having the fat solids removed, as skim milk: nonfat milk.
- normfr — Norman French
- notify — to inform (someone) or give notice to: to notify the police of a crime.
- of kin — related
- offend — to irritate, annoy, or anger; cause resentful displeasure in: Even the hint of prejudice offends me.
- offing — the state or fact of being off.
- olefin — any member of the alkene series.
- omnify — (transitive) To render universal; to enlarge.
- on-off — so as to be no longer supported or attached: This button is about to come off.