7-letter words containing f, o, n
- fanfold — a pad or tablet of invoices, bills, blank sheets, etc., interleaved with carbon paper for making a copy or copies of the writing or typing on the uppermost leaf.
- fanions — Plural form of fanion.
- fantods — Usually, fantods. a state of extreme nervousness or restlessness; the willies; the fidgets (usually preceded by the): We all developed the fantods when the plane was late in arriving.
- fanwort — any aquatic plant belonging to the genus Cabomba, of the water lily family, having very small flowers and submerged and floating leaves.
- fashion — a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
- faulcon — Obsolete form of falcon.
- favicon — An icon associated with a URL that is variously displayed, as in a browser’s address bar or next to the site name in a bookmark list.
- feed on — eat sth
- felonry — the whole body or class of felons.
- fenelon — François de Salignac de La Mothe [frahn-swa duh sa lee-nyak duh la mawt] /frɑ̃ˈswa də sa liˈnyak də la ˈmɔt/ (Show IPA), 1651–1715, French theologian and writer.
- fenuron — a white crystalline compound, C 9 H 12 N 2 O, used as an herbicide.
- fermion — any particle that obeys the exclusion principle and Fermi-Dirac statistics; fermions have spins that are half an odd integer: 1/2, 3/2, 5/2, ….
- festoon — a string or chain of flowers, foliage, ribbon, etc., suspended in a curve between two points.
- fibroin — an indigestible protein that is a principal component of spider webs and silk.
- fiction — works of this class, as novels or short stories: detective fiction.
- fidonet — (messaging, networking, history) A worldwide hobbyist network of personal computers which exchanged e-mail, discussion groups, and files. Founded in 1984 and originally consisting only of IBM PCs and compatibles, FidoNet grew to include such diverse machines as Apple IIs, Ataris, Amigas and Unix systems. Though much younger than Usenet, by early 1991 FidoNet had reached a significant fraction of Usenet's size at some 8000 systems.
- finfoot — any of several aquatic birds of the family Heliornithidae, of South America, Asia, and Africa, related to the rails and coots and characterized by lobate toes.
- finnock — a young sea trout on its first return to fresh water
- finspot — any clinid fish of the genus Paraclinus, having an eyelike spot on the dorsal fin, as P. integripinnis, of California.
- fiorino — The monetary unit of Tuscany from 1826 to 1859, subdivided into 100 quatrini; a florin.
- fission — the act of cleaving or splitting into parts.
- fjolnir — (language) An Icelandic programming language for the IBM PC from the University of Iceland.
- flacons — Plural form of flacon.
- flagons — Plural form of flagon.
- flavone — a colorless, crystalline, water-insoluble compound, C 15 H 10 O 2 , the parent substance of a group of naturally occurring derivatives some of which have been used as yellow dyes.
- fletton — a type of relatively soft and porous brick made from Oxford clay, of which a large amount comes from near Fletton in Cambridgeshire
- fleuron — a floral motif, as one used as a terminal point or in a decorative series on an object.
- flexion — the act of bending.
- flodden — a hill in NE England, in Northumberland county: the invading Scots were disastrously defeated here by the English, 1513.
- florins — Plural form of florin.
- flotant — (in heraldry) flying in the air
- flotson — Dated form of flotsam.
- flounce — to go with impatient or impetuous, exaggerated movements: The star flounced out of the studio in a rage.
- flouncy — decorated with flounces: an elaborate flouncy blouse.
- flowing — moving in or as in a stream: flowing water.
- fluxion — an act of flowing; a flow or flux.
- foaling — a young horse, mule, or related animal, especially one that is not yet one year of age.
- foaming — a collection of minute bubbles formed on the surface of a liquid by agitation, fermentation, etc.: foam on a glass of beer.
- fobbing — Archaic. to cheat; deceive.
- focsani — a town in E central Romania.
- fodient — Fitted for, or relating to, digging.
- fog gun — a gun, fired at regular intervals, used as a warning signal in fog.
- fogbank — A bank of fog.
- fogging — a cloudlike mass or layer of minute water droplets or ice crystals near the surface of the earth, appreciably reducing visibility. Compare ice fog, mist, smog.
- foghorn — a deep, loud horn for sounding warning signals in foggy weather, as to ships.
- foiling — Present participle of foil.
- foining — Present participle of foin.
- folacin — folic acid.
- fold in — In cooking, if you fold in an ingredient or fold it into the other ingredients, you mix it very gently into the other ingredients.
- folding — to confine (sheep or other domestic animals) in a fold.