12-letter words containing f, o
- foolhardiest — Superlative form of foolhardy.
- foot soldier — an infantryman.
- foot traffic — the wear and tear caused to a surface by people walking on it
- foot-binding — (formerly in China) the act or practice of tightly binding the feet of infant girls to keep the feet as small as possible.
- foot-lambert — a unit of luminance or photometric brightness, equal to the luminance of a surface emitting a luminous flux of one lumen per square foot, the luminance of a perfectly reflecting surface receiving an illumination of one foot-candle. Abbreviation: fL.
- foot-poundal — a foot-pound-second unit of work or energy equal to the work done by a force of one poundal when its point of application moves through a distance of one foot in the direction of the force. Abbreviation: ft-pdl.
- footdragging — the act or practice of acting with deliberate slowness
- footlessness — the state of being footless
- footplateman — a member of a locomotive crew who stands on the footplate to operate the controls
- footslogging — Present participle of footslog.
- footsoldiers — Plural form of footsoldier.
- footsoreness — The characteristic of being footsore.
- for a change — contrary to the norm
- for a giggle — as a joke or prank; not seriously
- for a season — for a while
- for a wonder — to think or speculate curiously: to wonder about the origin of the solar system.
- for all that — the whole of (used in referring to quantity, extent, or duration): all the cake; all the way; all year.
- for all time — forever, for eternity
- for evermore — forever; always
- for instance — a case or occurrence of anything: fresh instances of oppression.
- for starters — a person or thing that starts.
- for the best — of the highest quality, excellence, or standing: the best work; the best students.
- for-instance — an instance or example: Give me a for-instance of what you mean.
- foraging ant — any of several ants, as army ants, that forage as part of a large group.
- foraminifera — any chiefly marine protozoan of the sarcodinian order Foraminifera, typically having a linear, spiral, or concentric shell perforated by small holes or pores through which pseudopodia extend.
- forasmuch as — since
- forbearances — Plural form of forbearance.
- forbearingly — In a forbearing manner.
- forbiddingly — In a forbidding manner.
- forced entry — entry into a building by force, eg by forcing a lock
- forced march — any march that is longer than troops are accustomed to and maintained at a faster pace than usual, generally undertaken for a particular objective under emergency conditions.
- forced-draft — using a flow of air or air forced through a pipe or system of pipes by fans or blowers: a forced-draft central heating system.
- forcefulness — full of force; powerful; vigorous; effective: a forceful plea for peace.
- forcibleness — The quality of being forcible.
- 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.
- fore-topmast — the spar or section of a pole mast serving as the topmast of a foremast on a ship.
- fore-topsail — a topsail set on a foremast on a ship.
- 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.
- forecarriage — the front part of a carriage
- forecastable — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- foreclosures — Plural form of foreclosure.
- foredestined — Simple past tense and past participle of foredestine.
- foregathered — Simple past tense and past participle of foregather.
- foregrounded — Simple past tense and past participle of foreground.
- forehandedly — Prudently, with thrift and foresight.