9-letter words containing o, f, n
- florulent — (obsolete) Flowery; blossoming.
- flotation — an act or state of floating.
- flouncing — a strip of material gathered or pleated and attached at one edge, with the other edge left loose or hanging: used for trimming, as on the edge of a skirt or sleeve or on a curtain, slipcover, etc.
- flounders — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flounder.
- flour bin — a small container for flour
- flowering — bearing flowers.
- flowingly — moving in or as in a stream: flowing water.
- flowstone — a layered deposit of calcium carbonate, CaCO 3 , left by thin sheets of flowing water, as in a cave.
- fluminous — Pertaining to a river or rivers; flowing, fluent.
- flunk out — to fail in a course or examination.
- fluxional — an act of flowing; a flow or flux.
- fly front — a flap of material down one side of the front opening of a garment to conceal buttons, fasteners, or the like, as on a coat or dress.
- flyperson — (theatre) Someone who operates a fly system in a theatre.
- foaminess — The state or quality of being foamy.
- foamingly — in a foaming manner
- focusings — Plural form of focusing.
- focussing — a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity: The need to prevent a nuclear war became the focus of all diplomatic efforts.
- fogginess — The characteristic or quality of being foggy.
- foilborne — (of a vessel) moving on the water on hydrofoils, with the hull out of the water.
- foiningly — by means of a thrust or push
- fold-down — designed to be folded out for use and collapsed when not in use: a fold-down tray on the back of an airplane seat; a fold-down trailer for camping.
- foliation — the act or process of putting forth leaves.
- folk song — a song originating among the people of a country or area, passed by oral tradition from one singer or generation to the next, often existing in several versions, and marked generally by simple, modal melody and stanzaic, narrative verse.
- folk-sing — an informal gathering for the singing of folk songs.
- folketing — the unicameral parliament of Denmark.
- folksongs — Plural form of folksong.
- follow-on — following or evolving as the next logical step: Aircraft manufacturers can expect follow-on sales for spare parts.
- following — the act of following.
- fomenting — Present participle of foment.
- fongafale — the capital of Tuvalu, on Funafuti Island, in the South Pacific Ocean.
- font name — a Christian name; baptismal name; first name.
- fontanels — Plural form of fontanel.
- fonticuli — fontanelles
- fontology — (XEROX PARC) The body of knowledge dealing with the construction and use of new fonts (e.g. for window systems and typesetting software). It has been said that fontology recapitulates file-ogeny. Unfortunately, this reference to the embryological dictum that "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" is not merely a joke. On the Macintosh, for example, System 7 has to go through contortions to compensate for an earlier design error that created a whole different set of abstractions for fonts parallel to "files" and "folders" - ESR
- food bank — an agency, group, or center that collects food and distributes it to the needy.
- foodborne — Transmitted through food.
- foodchain — Alternative spelling of food chain.
- foodgrain — Cereal (grain grown as human food).
- foot line — Printing. a line at the bottom of a page of type, especially a black line or a line containing the folio.
- footering — Present participle of footer.
- footnoted — Simple past tense and past participle of footnote.
- footnotes — Plural form of footnote.
- footpoint — (astronomy) The region at which tubes of magnetic field liness reach the surface of the photosphere to form coronal loops.
- footprint — a mark left by the shod or unshod foot, as in earth or sand.
- footstone — a stone placed at the foot of a grave.
- foraminal — an opening, orifice, or short passage, as in a bone or in the integument of the ovule of a plant.
- foraneous — Of or pertaining to a market or forum.
- forbidden — a past participle of forbid.
- forboding — Alternative form of foreboding.
- forcement — (obsolete) The act of forcing; compulsion.