8-letter words containing f, r, o
- fluorine — the most reactive nonmetallic element, a pale-yellow, corrosive, toxic gas that occurs combined, especially in fluorite, cryolite, phosphate rock, and other minerals. Symbol: F; atomic weight: 18.9984; atomic number: 9.
- fluorite — a common mineral, calcium fluoride, CaF 2 , occurring in green, blue, purple, yellow, or colorless crystals, usually in cubes: the principal source of fluorine, used also as a flux in metallurgy and for ornament.
- fluoroid — (crystallography) A tetrahexahedron.
- fly-over — overpass across a motorway
- flyovers — Plural form of flyover.
- foddered — Simple past tense and past participle of fodder.
- fodderer — a person who feeds cattle
- fog drip — water falling to the ground from trees, especially conifers, that have collected the moisture from fog.
- fogfruit — a wildflower of the Verbena family
- foghorns — Plural form of foghorn.
- folderal — Alternative spelling of folderol.
- folderol — falderal.
- folivore — any chiefly leaf-eating animal or other organism, as the koala of Australia that subsists on eucalyptus.
- folk art — artistic works, as paintings, sculpture, basketry, and utensils, produced typically in cultural isolation by untrained often anonymous artists or by artisans of varying degrees of skill and marked by such attributes as highly decorative design, bright bold colors, flattened perspective, strong forms in simple arrangements, and immediacy of meaning.
- folklore — the traditional beliefs, legends, customs, etc., of a people; lore of a people.
- folksier — Comparative form of folksy.
- follered — Simple past tense and past participle of foller.
- follower — a person or thing that follows.
- fomenter — One who incites or promotes.
- fomorian — one of a race of pirates or sea demons who raided and pillaged Ireland but were finally defeated: sometimes associated with the hostile powers of nature.
- foofaraw — a great fuss or disturbance about something very insignificant.
- foot rot — Also called fouls, stinkyfoot. Veterinary Pathology. an infection of sheep, causing inflammatory changes in the area of the hoofs and lameness.
- footcare — of or relating to the care of one's feet: a footcare specialist.
- footgear — covering for the feet, as shoes, boots, etc.
- footmark — a footprint.
- footrace — a race run by contestants on foot.
- footrest — a support for a person's feet, as an attachment to a barber's chair or a dentist's chair.
- footrope — the portion of the boltrope to which the lower edge of a sail is sewn.
- footrule — rigid measure, one foot in length
- footsore — having sore or tender feet, as from much walking.
- footwear — articles to be worn on the feet, as shoes, slippers, or boots.
- footwork — the use of the feet, as in tennis, boxing, or dancing.
- footworn — worn down by the feet: a footworn pavement.
- for free — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
- for gain — If you do something for gain, you do it in order to get some advantage or profit for yourself, and for no other reason.
- for good — morally excellent; virtuous; righteous; pious: a good man.
- for hire — available for rental
- for life — for the rest of one's life
- for long — a considerable time
- for loop — (programming) A loop construct found in many procedural languages which repeatedly executes some instructions while a condition is true. In C, the for loop is written in the form; for (INITIALISATION; CONDITION; AFTER) STATEMENT; where INITIALISATION is an expression that is evaluated once before the loop, CONDITION is evaluated before each iteration and the loop exits if it is false, AFTER is evaluated after each iteration, and STATEMENT is any statement, including a compound statement within braces "..", that is executed if CONDITION is true. For example: int i; for (i = 0; i < 10; i++) { printf("Hello\n"); } prints "Hello" 10 times. Other languages provide a more succinct form of "for" statement specifically for iterating over arrays or lists. E.g., the Perl code, for my $task (@tasks) { postpone($task); } calls function "postpone()" repeatedly, setting $task to each element of the "@tasks" array in turn. This avoids introducing temporary index variables like "i" in the previous example. The for loop is an alternative way of writing a while loop that is convenient because the loop control logic is collected in a single place. It is also closely related to the repeat loop.
- for love — motivated by love
- for once — for a change, for the first time
- for real — true; not merely ostensible, nominal, or apparent: the real reason for an act.
- for rent — available for hire
- for sale — available for purchase
- for show — in order to impress, for display only
- for size — If you try something on for size, you try it to see if it is suitable for you.
- for sure — free from doubt as to the reliability, character, action, etc., of something: to be sure of one's data.
- foragers — food for horses or cattle; fodder; provender.
- foraging — food for horses or cattle; fodder; provender.