8-letter words containing f, o, n
- foghorns — Plural form of foghorn.
- foilsman — a person who fences with a foil.
- foist on — If you say that someone foists something on you, or foists it upon you, you dislike the way that they force you to listen to it or experience it.
- foisting — Present participle of foist.
- foldings — Plural form of folding.
- folkland — a former type of land tenure
- folksong — Alternative spelling of folk song.
- fomented — Simple past tense and past participle of foment.
- fomenter — One who incites or promotes.
- fomorian — one of a race of pirates or sea demons who raided and pillaged Ireland but were finally defeated: sometimes associated with the hostile powers of nature.
- fondants — Plural form of fondant.
- fondling — to handle or touch lovingly, affectionately, or tenderly; caress: to fondle a precious object; to fondle a child.
- fondness — the state or quality of being fond.
- fontaine — Henri [French ahn-ree] /French ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1854–1943, Belgian statesman: Nobel Peace Prize 1913.
- fontanel — one of the spaces, covered by membrane, between the bones of the fetal or young skull.
- fontange — Often, fontanges. commode (def 4).
- fontanne — Lynn, 1887–1983, U.S. actress, born in England (wife of Alfred Lunt).
- foo yong — a Chinese dish made of eggs mixed with chicken, crab meat, etc, and cooked like an omelette
- foodbank — a charitable organization which distributes food aid to people in financial difficulty
- fool hen — any of various grouse, as the spruce grouse, that can be killed easily because of their relative tameness.
- foot-net — sneakernet
- foot-ton — a foot-pound-second unit of work or energy, equivalent to 2240 foot-pounds and equal to the energy expended in raising a ton of 2240 pounds a distance of one foot against the force of gravity.
- footings — Plural form of footing.
- footling — foolish; silly: ridiculous, footling remarks.
- footlong — approximately one foot in length: Their specialty is footlong hotdogs.
- footnote — an explanatory or documenting note or comment at the bottom of a page, referring to a specific part of the text on the page.
- footworn — worn down by the feet: a footworn pavement.
- foozling — Present participle of foozle.
- for gain — If you do something for gain, you do it in order to get some advantage or profit for yourself, and for no other reason.
- for long — a considerable time
- for once — for a change, for the first time
- for rent — available for hire
- foraging — food for horses or cattle; fodder; provender.
- foramina — an opening, orifice, or short passage, as in a bone or in the integument of the ovule of a plant.
- foraying — a quick raid, usually for the purpose of taking plunder: Vikings made a foray on the port.
- forborne — past participle of forbear1 .
- forceone — A programming language by Andrew K. Wright.
- forcings — Plural form of forcing.
- fordonne — in a state of exhaustion
- foredone — fordone.
- forefend — forfend.
- foregone — that has gone before; previous; past.
- forehand — (in tennis, squash, etc.) of, relating to, or noting a stroke made from the same side of the body as that of the hand holding the racket, paddle, etc. Compare backhand (def 5).
- forehent — to seize in advance
- foreigns — Plural form of foreign.
- foreking — A preceding king.
- foreknew — Simple past tense and past participle of foreknow.
- foreknow — to know beforehand.
- foreland — a cape, headland, or promontory.
- forelend — to give or grant beforehand