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15-letter words containing f, o, s

  • food supplement — a substance designed to make up for a deficiency in one's diet
  • fool's paradise — a state of enjoyment based on false beliefs or hopes; a state of illusory happiness.
  • foolscap octavo — a book size, 41⁄4 by 63⁄4 inches
  • foolscap quarto — a book size, 63⁄4 by 81⁄2 inches (foolscap quarto)
  • football season — annual period when soccer is played
  • for one's money — any circulating medium of exchange, including coins, paper money, and demand deposits.
  • for pity's sake — You can say for pity's sake to add emphasis to what you are saying, especially when you are annoyed or upset.
  • for some reason — for an unknown reason
  • for the present — being, existing, or occurring at this time or now; current: increasing respect for the present ruler of the small country.
  • for the sake of — for the good of
  • for their pains — You say that something was all you got for your pains when you are mentioning the disappointing result of situation into which you put a lot of work or effort.
  • force the issue — to compel decision on some matter
  • forecastle deck — a partial weather deck on top of a forecastle superstructure; topgallant forecastle.
  • forecastle head — the extreme fore part of a forecastle superstructure.
  • foreign affairs — politics: international relations
  • foreign mission — mission (def 10).
  • foreign service — a division of the U.S. Department of State or of a foreign office that maintains diplomatic and consular posts and personnel in other countries.
  • forensic expert — an expert in applying scientific, technical or medical knowledge to the purposes of law
  • foreshortenings — Plural form of foreshortening.
  • foresightedness — care or provision for the future; provident care; prudence.
  • forest of arden — a region of N Warwickshire, part of a former forest: scene of Shakespeare's As You Like It
  • formal calculus — an uninterpreted symbolic system whose syntax is precisely defined, and on which a relation of deducibility is defined in purely syntactic terms; a logistic system
  • formation rules — the set of rules that specify the syntax of a formal system; the algorithm that generates the well-formed formulae
  • former prophets — a subdivision of the books constituting the second main part of the Hebrew Bible, Joshua, Judges, I-II Samuel, and I-II Kings
  • forthcomingness — coming, forth, or about to come forth; about to appear; approaching in time: the forthcoming concert.
  • fortysomethings — Plural form of fortysomething.
  • foster daughter — a girl raised like one's own daughter, though not such by birth or adoption.
  • foul one's nest — grossly offensive to the senses; disgustingly loathsome; noisome: a foul smell.
  • foundationalism — (epistemology) The doctrine that beliefs derive justification from certain basic beliefs.
  • fountains abbey — a ruined Cistercian abbey near Ripon in Yorkshire: founded 1132, dissolved 1539; landscaped 1720
  • four-poster bed — bed: post at each corner
  • fourteen points — a statement of the war aims of the Allies, made by President Wilson on January 8, 1918.
  • fourteen-points — a statement of the war aims of the Allies, made by President Wilson on January 8, 1918.
  • fourth position — a position in which the feet are at right angles to the direction of the body, the toes pointing out, with one foot forward and the other foot back.
  • fovea centralis — a small pit or depression at the back of the retina forming the point of sharpest vision.
  • franz joseph ii — 1906–1989, prince of Liechtenstein 1938–89.
  • frederick soddyFrederick, 1877–1956, English chemist: Nobel prize 1921.
  • free atmosphere — the part of the atmosphere that lies above the frictional influence of the earth's surface.
  • free soil party — a former U.S. political party (1848–56) that opposed the extension of slavery in the Territories not yet admitted to statehood.
  • freestone state — Connecticut (used as a nickname).
  • fresnel mirrors — two plane mirrors so linked that a beam of light falling on them is reflected in slightly different directions, thus producing interference fringes in the area where this reflected light overlaps
  • fringing forest — gallery forest.
  • from sun to sun — from sunrise to sunset
  • front-page news — a story printed on the first page of a newspaper
  • frozen shoulder — joint stiffness at top of arm
  • fructifications — Plural form of fructification.
  • fulfill oneself — to realize completely one's ambitions, potentialities, etc.
  • full of oneself — full of pride or conceit; egoistic
  • fully fashioned — (of stockings, knitwear, etc) shaped and seamed so as to fit closely
  • functionalistic — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
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