10-letter words containing f, o, s
- formalness — being in accordance with the usual requirements, customs, etc.; conventional: to pay one's formal respects.
- formations — Plural form of formation.
- formatives — Plural form of formative.
- formatters — Plural form of formatter.
- formicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of formicate.
- formlessly — In a formless manner.
- formulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of formulate.
- formulised — formulate.
- fornicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fornicate.
- forseeable — Misspelling of foreseeable.
- forstalled — Simple past tense and past participle of forstall.
- forsterite — the magnesium end member, Mg 2 SiO 4 , of the olivine group.
- forsythias — Plural form of forsythia.
- fort bliss — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center NE of El Paso in W Texas.
- fort boise — a fort formerly near Boise, in SW Idaho: an important post on the Oregon Trail.
- fort lewis — a military reservation in W central Washington State, SW of Tacoma.
- fort meigs — Fort. Fort Meigs.
- fort smith — a city in W Arkansas, on the Arkansas River.
- fortalices — Plural form of fortalice.
- fortissimo — (a direction) very loud.
- fortnights — Plural form of fortnight.
- fortransit — (language) Fortran Internal Translator. A subset of Fortran translated into IT on the IBM 650. It was in use in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Compilation took place in several steps (using punched cards as the only input/output media). FORTRANSIT was converted to IT Internal Translator which was converted into SOAP and thence to machine code. In the SOAP -> machine code step, the user had to include card decks for all the subroutines used in his FORTRANSIT program (including e.g. square root, sine, and even basic floating point routines).
- fortressed — Simple past tense and past participle of fortress.
- fortresses — Plural form of fortress.
- fortuities — Plural form of fortuity.
- fortuitism — the doctrine that evolutionary adaptations are the result of chance
- fortuitous — happening or produced by chance; accidental: a fortuitous encounter.
- forwarders — Plural form of forwarder.
- fosfomycin — A broad-spectrum antibiotic, 3-methyloxiran-2-ylphosphonic acid, obtained from certain Streptomyces bacteria.
- fossicking — Present participle of fossick.
- fossil gum — any gum, found chiefly in the earth, that was yielded by a now fossilized tree.
- fossilised — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of fossilized.
- fossilized — Geology. to convert into a fossil; replace organic with mineral substances in the remains of an organism.
- foster son — a boy raised like one's own son, though not such by birth or adoption.
- fosterling — foster child.
- fosterment — The act of fostering or encouraging something.
- founderous — likely to cause foundering; miry; swampy.
- foundlings — Plural form of foundling.
- four flush — a useless poker hand, containing four of a suit and one odd card
- four-flush — to bluff.
- fourierism — the social system proposed by François Marie Charles Fourier, under which society was to be organized into phalanxes or associations, each large enough for all industrial and social requirements.
- fourposter — a bed with four corner posts, as for supporting a canopy, curtains, etc.
- fourscorth — eightieth
- foursquare — consisting of four corners and four right angles; square: a solid, foursquare building.
- foxe basin — an ocean passage in Nunavut Territory, Canada, connected with Hudson Bay by the Foxe Channel.
- frabjously — In a frabjous manner; wonderfully, fabulously.
- framboesia — yaws.
- frameworks — Plural form of framework.
- franchisor — Also, franchisor [fran-chahy-zer, fran-chuh-zawr] /ˈfræn tʃaɪ zər, ˌfræn tʃəˈzɔr/ (Show IPA). a person or company that grants a franchise.
- freak show — a display of people or animals with unusual or grotesque physical features, as at a circus or carnival sideshow.