10-letter words containing o, s, i
- folivorous — any chiefly leaf-eating animal or other organism, as the koala of Australia that subsists on eucalyptus.
- folk music — music, usually of simple character and anonymous authorship, handed down among the common people by oral tradition.
- folklorish — (colloquial) Typical or similar to folklore.
- folklorist — the traditional beliefs, legends, customs, etc., of a people; lore of a people.
- folksiness — friendly or neighborly; sociable.
- folksinger — A person who sings folk songs.
- followings — a body of followers, attendants, adherents, etc.
- followship — the practice of doing what other people suggest, rather than taking the lead
- fonticulus — a fontanelle of the cranium
- fontinalis — a type of aquatic moss
- foodgrains — Plural form of foodgrain.
- foolishest — Superlative form of foolish.
- footlights — Usually, footlights. Theater. the lights at the front of a stage that are nearly on a level with the feet of the performers.
- footprints — Plural form of footprint.
- forclosing — Present participle of forclose.
- foreigners — Plural form of foreigner.
- foreignism — a foreign custom, mannerism, etc.
- foreladies — Plural form of forelady.
- foreseeing — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
- forestlike — Like a forest.
- forfeiters — Plural form of forfeiter.
- forinsecal — foreign
- formalised — Simple past tense and past participle of formalise.
- formalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of formalize.
- formations — Plural form of formation.
- formatives — Plural form of formative.
- formicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of formicate.
- formulised — formulate.
- fornicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fornicate.
- forsterite — the magnesium end member, Mg 2 SiO 4 , of the olivine group.
- forsythias — Plural form of forsythia.
- fort bliss — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center NE of El Paso in W Texas.
- fort boise — a fort formerly near Boise, in SW Idaho: an important post on the Oregon Trail.
- fort lewis — a military reservation in W central Washington State, SW of Tacoma.
- fort meigs — Fort. Fort Meigs.
- fort smith — a city in W Arkansas, on the Arkansas River.
- fortalices — Plural form of fortalice.
- fortissimo — (a direction) very loud.
- fortnights — Plural form of fortnight.
- fortransit — (language) Fortran Internal Translator. A subset of Fortran translated into IT on the IBM 650. It was in use in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Compilation took place in several steps (using punched cards as the only input/output media). FORTRANSIT was converted to IT Internal Translator which was converted into SOAP and thence to machine code. In the SOAP -> machine code step, the user had to include card decks for all the subroutines used in his FORTRANSIT program (including e.g. square root, sine, and even basic floating point routines).
- fortuities — Plural form of fortuity.
- fortuitism — the doctrine that evolutionary adaptations are the result of chance
- fortuitous — happening or produced by chance; accidental: a fortuitous encounter.
- fosfomycin — A broad-spectrum antibiotic, 3-methyloxiran-2-ylphosphonic acid, obtained from certain Streptomyces bacteria.
- fossicking — Present participle of fossick.
- fossil gum — any gum, found chiefly in the earth, that was yielded by a now fossilized tree.
- fossilised — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of fossilized.
- fossilized — Geology. to convert into a fossil; replace organic with mineral substances in the remains of an organism.
- fosterling — foster child.
- foundlings — Plural form of foundling.