8-letter words containing n, o, r
- forspend — to exhaust financially
- forspent — worn out; exhausted.
- forstand — (transitive) To stand against; oppose; withstand.
- forswink — to exhaust through toil
- forsworn — past participle of forswear.
- forswunk — overworked
- forthink — to regret or rethink
- fortuned — Simple past tense and past participle of fortune.
- fortunes — Plural form of fortune.
- forzando — sforzando
- founders — Plural form of founder.
- foundery — Alternative form of foundry.
- fourness — The property of being four in number.
- fourteen — a cardinal number, ten plus four.
- fraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- fractons — Plural form of fracton.
- franchot — a male given name, form of Francis.
- fredonia — a town in W New York.
- freeborn — born free, rather than in slavery, bondage, or vassalage.
- freefone — A Freefone telephone number is one which you can dial without having to pay for the call.
- freetown — an independent republic in W Africa: member of the Commonwealth of Nations; formerly a British colony and protectorate. 27,925 sq. mi. (72,326 sq. km). Capital: Freetown.
- fricando — fricandeau.
- friction — surface resistance to relative motion, as of a body sliding or rolling.
- frissons — Plural form of frisson.
- frobnitz — /frob'nits/, plural "frobnitzem" /frob'nit-zm/ or "frobni" /frob'ni:/ (TMRC) An unspecified physical object, a widget. Also refers to electronic black boxes. This rare form is usually abbreviated to "frotz", or more commonly to frob. Also used are "frobnule" (/frob'n[y]ool/) and "frobule" (/frob'yool/). Starting perhaps in 1979, "frobozz" /fr*-boz'/ (plural: "frobbotzim" /fr*-bot'zm/) has also become very popular, largely through its exposure as a name via Zork. These variants can also be applied to nonphysical objects, such as data structures. Pete Samson, compiler of the original TMRC lexicon, adds,q "Under the TMRC (railway) layout were many storage boxes, managed (in 1958) by David R. Sawyer. Several had fanciful designations written on them, such as "Frobnitz Coil Oil". Perhaps DRS intended Frobnitz to be a proper name, but the name was quickly taken for the thing". This was almost certainly the origin of the term.
- frocking — a gown or dress worn by a girl or woman.
- frogging — any tailless, stout-bodied amphibian of the order Anura, including the smooth, moist-skinned frog species that live in a damp or semiaquatic habitat and the warty, drier-skinned toad species that are mostly terrestrial as adults.
- frogling — A young or little frog.
- frondage — (collectively) the fronds (of a plant)
- frondent — abounding in fronds; leafy
- frondeur — a rebel; rioter.
- frondizi — Arturo [ahr-too r-oh;; Spanish ahr-too-raw] /ɑrˈtʊər oʊ;; Spanish ɑrˈtu rɔ/ (Show IPA), 1908–1995, Argentine lawyer and political leader; president of Argentina 1958–62.
- frondose — bearing fronds.
- front up — to pay (money) at the beginning of a business arrangement
- frontage — the front of a building or lot.
- frontals — Plural form of frontal.
- frontend — Alternative form of front end.
- fronters — Plural form of fronter.
- frontier — the part of a country that borders another country; boundary; border.
- fronting — the foremost part or surface of anything.
- frontlet — Also, frontal. a decorative band, ribbon, or the like, worn across the forehead: The princess wore a richly bejeweled frontlet.
- frontman — a performer, as a singer, who leads a musical group.
- frontmen — Plural form of frontman.
- frontons — Plural form of fronton.
- froshing — Present participle of frosh.
- frosting — a degree or state of coldness sufficient to cause the freezing of water.
- frostnip — The first stage of frostbite.
- frothing — an aggregation of bubbles, as on an agitated liquid or at the mouth of a hard-driven horse; foam; spume.
- frounced — Simple past tense and past participle of frounce.
- frown on — to contract the brow, as in displeasure or deep thought; scowl.