10-letter words containing f, o
- 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.
- forty-five — a cardinal number, 40 plus 5.
- forty-four — a cardinal number, 40 plus 4.
- forty-nine — a cardinal number, 40 plus 9.
- fortypenny — being 5 inches (13 cm) long: a fortypenny nail. Symbol: 40d.
- forward of — If one thing is forward of another, especially on a ship or aircraft, the first thing is in front of the second thing or further ahead.
- forwarders — Plural form of forwarder.
- forwarding — Sports. a player stationed in advance of others on a team. Football. a lineman. Basketball. either of two players stationed in the forecourt.
- 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.
- foudroyant — striking as with lightning; sudden and overwhelming in effect; stunning; dazzling.
- found poem — a composition made by combining fragments of such printed material as newspapers, signs, or menus, and rearranging them into the form of a poem.
- foundation — the basis or groundwork of anything: the moral foundation of both society and religion.
- foundering — (of a ship, boat, etc.) to fill with water and sink.
- 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-a-cat — four old cat.
- four-color — noting or pertaining to a process for reproducing colored illustrations in a close approximation to their original hues by photographing the artwork successively through magenta, cyan, and yellow color-absorbing filters to produce four plates that are printed successively with yellow, red, blue, and black inks.
- four-cycle — noting or pertaining to an internal-combustion engine in which a complete cycle in each cylinder requires four strokes, one to draw in air or an air-fuel mixture, one to compress it, one to ignite it and do work, and one to scavenge the cylinder.
- four-flush — to bluff.
- four-wheel — having four wheels.
- fourbagger — home run.
- fourchette — Anatomy. the fold of skin that forms the posterior margin of the vulva.
- fourfooted — Having four feet.
- 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.
- fourragere — an ornament of cord worn on the shoulder.
- fourscorth — eightieth
- foursquare — consisting of four corners and four right angles; square: a solid, foursquare building.
- fourteener — a line, especially an iambic line, consisting of 14 syllables.
- fourteenth — next after the thirteenth; being the ordinal number for 14.
- foveolated — Foveolate.
- foxborough — a town in E Massachusetts.
- foxe basin — an ocean passage in Nunavut Territory, Canada, connected with Hudson Bay by the Foxe Channel.
- frabjously — In a frabjous manner; wonderfully, fabulously.
- fractional — pertaining to fractions; comprising a part or the parts of a unit; constituting a fraction: fractional numbers.
- fractioned — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- 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.
- franconian — a group of West Germanic dialects or languages, consisting of Frankish and the dialects descended from Frankish.