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14-letter words containing f, o

  • foraminiferous — Having small openings, or foramina.
  • forbidden city — a walled section of Peking, built in the 15th century, containing the imperial palace and other buildings of the imperial government of China.
  • force of habit — behavior occurring without thought and by virtue of constant repetition; habit.
  • force the pace — to adopt a high speed or rate of procedure
  • forced landing — aircraft: emergency descent
  • forced savings — a reduction in consumption that occurs when there is full employment and an abundance of loans
  • forcible entry — entry into a building by force, eg by forcing a lock
  • fore-and-after — Nautical. a sailing vessel with a fore-and-aft rig. a beam running fore and aft across a hatchway to support hatch covers laid athwart the hatchway. a vessel having a sharp stern; a double ender.
  • forehand drive — (in racket sports) a type of shot made on the forehand side
  • forehandedness — Quality of being forehanded.
  • foreign legion — a military unit consisting of foreign volunteers in the service of a state.
  • foreign office — the department of a government that handles foreign affairs.
  • foreign policy — a policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations, designed to achieve national objectives.
  • forenoon watch — the watch from 8 a.m. until noon.
  • foreordination — previous ordination or appointment.
  • foreseeability — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
  • foreshortening — Fine Arts. to reduce or distort (parts of a represented object that are not parallel to the picture plane) in order to convey the illusion of three-dimensional space as perceived by the human eye: often done according to the rules of perspective.
  • forest of dean — a royal forest in Gloucestershire, in W England. About 180 sq. mi. (475 sq. km).
  • forest reserve — an area of forest set aside and preserved by the government as a wilderness, national park, or the like.
  • forest service — a division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, created in 1905, that protects and develops the national forests and grasslands.
  • forethoughtful — full of or having forethought; provident.
  • forget oneself — to cease or fail to remember; be unable to recall: to forget someone's name.
  • forisfamiliate — to free from paternal authority
  • forklift truck — vehicle for lifting heavy loads
  • form criticism — a method of textual analysis, applied especially to the Bible, in which the origin and history of certain passages are traced by isolating their literary forms, as miracle story, saying, or apothegm, on the assumption that they were fixed by oral tradition prior to compilation in written form.
  • formal grammar — a set of syntactically valid formation rules of a formal language
  • formal methods — (mathematics, specification)   Mathematically based techniques for the specification, development and verification of software and hardware systems.
  • formally valid — (of an inference or argument) when the inference is justified by the form of the premises and conclusion alone. Thus Tom is a bachelor; therefore Tom is unmarried is valid but not formally so, while today is hot and dry; therefore today is hot is formally valid
  • format-fortran — Fortran Matrix Abstraction Technique Fortran
  • formidableness — The quality of being formidable.
  • formosa strait — an arm of the Pacific Ocean between China and Taiwan, connecting the East and South China Seas.
  • formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
  • fort jefferson — a national monument in Dry Tortugas, Fla.: a federal prison 1863–73; now a marine museum.
  • fort mcclellan — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in NE Alabama, NE of Anniston.
  • fort-de-france — an island in the E West Indies; an overseas department of France. 425 sq. mi. (1100 sq. km). Capital: Fort-de-France.
  • forthrightness — The characteristic or quality of being forthright.
  • fortifications — Plural form of fortification.
  • fortified wine — a wine, as port or sherry, to which brandy has been added in order to arrest fermentation or to increase the alcoholic content.
  • fortuitousness — The quality of being fortuitous.
  • fortune cookie — a thin folded wafer containing a prediction or maxim printed on a slip of paper: often served as a dessert in Chinese restaurants.
  • fortune hunter — a person who hopes to prosper, especially through marriage to someone of wealth.
  • fortune-hunter — a person who hopes to prosper, especially through marriage to someone of wealth.
  • fortune-teller — a person who claims the ability to predict the future.
  • fortunetelling — the act or practice of predicting the future.
  • fortysomething — A person whose age is between forty and forty-nine years, inclusive; someone in his or her forties.
  • forward buying — the purchase of merchandise in quantities exceeding demand
  • forward market — future commodities trading
  • foster brother — a boy brought up with another child of different parents.
  • foundation day — former name of Australia Day.
  • foundationally — the basis or groundwork of anything: the moral foundation of both society and religion.
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