12-letter words containing f, o, r, e, n
- 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.
- 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.
- foredestined — Simple past tense and past participle of foredestine.
- 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.
- foreordinate — foreordain.
- foreseeingly — by way of foreseeing
- foreshortens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foreshorten.
- forest green — Lincoln green.
- forestalling — Present participle of forestall.
- foretokening — Indication in advance.
- foretriangle — the triangular area formed by the deck, foremast, and headstay of a sailing vessel
- forked chain — branched chain.
- forlorn hope — a perilous or desperate enterprise.
- formlessness — The quality of being formless.
- fornicatress — (obsolete) A woman guilty of fornication.
- forsakenness — past participle of forsake.
- fort benning — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in W Georgia, S of Columbus; the largest infantry post in the U.S.
- fort kearney — a former fort in S Nebraska, near Kearney: an important post on the Oregon Trail.
- fort mchenry — a town in NE Illinois.
- fort pickens — Andrew, 1739–1817, American Revolutionary general.
- fortepianist — the player of a fortepiano
- fortruncible — A cross between Fortran and RUNCIBLE for the IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
- forty-niners — a person, especially a prospector, who went to California in 1849 during the gold rush.
- forty-second — next after the forty-first; being the ordinal number for 42.
- forward line — the soldiers at the forward most position in an army force
- fotheringhay — a village in NE Northamptonshire, in E England, near Peterborough: Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned here and executed 1587.
- foundationer — a person supported by funds from a foundation, or serving as a member of a foundation
- foundry type — type cast in individual characters for setting by hand.
- four hundred — the exclusive social set of a city or area.
- four-channel — Audio. quadraphonic.
- four-corners — a point in the SW U.S., at the intersection of 37° N latitude and 109° W longitude, where the boundaries of four states—Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico—meet: the only such point in the U.S.
- four-engined — (of an aircraft) having four engines
- fourdriniers — Plural form of fourdrinier.
- fourfoldness — the quality of consisting of four parts
- fourteenthly — in (the) fourteenth place
- fractionated — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionate.
- francophones — Plural form of francophone.