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  • foraminiferal — Of, pertaining to, or resembling the foraminifers; foraminiferous.
  • foraminiferan — 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.
  • forbiddenness — a past participle of forbid.
  • forcing house — a place where growth or maturity (as of fruit, animals, etc) is artificially hastened
  • fore clipping — a word formed by omitting the first part of the form from which it is derived.
  • foreconscious — the preconscious.
  • forefeelingly — by way of forefeeling
  • foregrounding — Present participle of foreground.
  • foreign agent — a spy for a foreign country
  • foreign-owned — owned by an individual who is resident in a different country or by a company whose headquarters are in a different country
  • forementioned — Mentioned earlier or above; already cited.
  • foreordaining — Present participle of foreordain.
  • foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
  • forge welding — the welding of pieces of hot metal with pressure or blows.
  • forgivingness — disposed to forgive; indicating forgiveness: a forgiving soul; a forgiving smile.
  • fort sheridan — a military reservation in NE Illinois, on W shore of Lake Michigan S of Lake Forest.
  • fortnightlies — Plural form of fortnightly.
  • fosamprenavir — (pharmaceutical drug) An anti-retroviral prodrug of the protease inhibitor amprenavir. It is used to treat HIV infected patients.
  • fossil energy — heat energy released by burning fossil fuel
  • four-wheeling — traveling in a vehicle using four-wheel drive.
  • fractionalise — Alt form fractionalize.
  • fractionalize — Divide (someone or something) into separate groups or parts.
  • fractiousness — refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
  • fragmentation — the act or process of fragmenting; state of being fragmented.
  • frame of mind — mental state
  • frame pointer — A pointer to the current activation record in an implementation of a block structured language.
  • franz josef i — English name Francis Joseph I. 1830–1916, emperor of Austria (1848–1916) and king of Hungary (1867–1916)
  • free-floating — (of an emotional state) lacking an apparent cause, focus, or object; generalized: free-floating hostility.
  • french polish — French polish is a type of varnish which is painted onto wood so that the wood has a hard shiny surface.
  • french window — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
  • french-polish — to finish or treat (a piece of furniture) with French polish.
  • frequentation — the practice of frequenting; habit of visiting often.
  • friction feed — (printer)   A method some printers and plotters use to move paper by rotating one or both of a pair of spring-loaded rubber-coated rollers with the paper sandwiched between them. Friction feed printers are notorious for slipping when the rollers wear out, but can take standard typing paper. For printers with a sheet feeder, friction feed is more appropriate than sprocket feed which requires the holes in the paper to engage with the sprockets of the feed mechanism.
  • friction head — (in a hydraulic system) the part of a head of water or of another liquid that represents the energy that the system dissipates through friction with the sides of conduits or channels and through heating from turbulent flow.
  • friction pile — a pile depending on the friction of surrounding earth for support.
  • friction tape — a cloth or plastic adhesive tape, containing a moisture-resistant substance, used especially to insulate and protect electrical wires and conductors.
  • frighten into — If you frighten someone into doing something they would not normally do, you make them do it by making them afraid not to do it.
  • frise aileron — an aircraft wing control surface designed with its leading edge extending forward of its axis of rotation so that when the aileron's trailing edge is raised the leading edge extends below the bottom surface of the wing.
  • frivolousness — characterized by lack of seriousness or sense: frivolous conduct.
  • frontier post — an official point where people or vehicles cross over a border between countries
  • frontispieces — Plural form of frontispiece.
  • frontogenesis — the formation or increase of a front or frontal zone.
  • frumentarious — of or relating to wheat or a similar grain
  • fuel injector — injector (def 2b).
  • functionaries — Plural form of functionary.
  • furaciousness — the quality of being furacious or thievish
  • garnetiferous — containing or yielding garnets.
  • garrison life — the life of troops who maintain and guard a military base or fortified place
  • geminiflorous — having flowers arranged in pairs.
  • goldie's fern — a wood fern, Dryopteris goldiana, of northeastern North America, having large, golden-green, leathery fronds with blades that tilt backward.
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