9-letter words containing u, f, o
- formulism — adherence to or reliance on formulas.
- formulize — formulate.
- fort drum — a military reservation in Watertown in N New York, approximately 10 miles (16 km) E of Lake Ontario.
- fortitude — mental and emotional strength in facing difficulty, adversity, danger, or temptation courageously: Never once did her fortitude waver during that long illness.
- fortunate — having good fortune; receiving good from uncertain or unexpected sources; lucky: a fortunate young actor who got the lead in the play.
- fortuning — Present participle of fortune.
- fortunize — to make happy or fortunate
- fossulate — hollowed; grooved
- foul ball — a batted ground ball that is hit and played outside the foul lines, or that passes outside the foul lines at first or third base, or that is played outside the foul line between home and first or third base regardless of where hit.
- foul line — Baseball. either of the two lines connecting home plate with first and third base respectively, or their continuations to the end of the outfield.
- foul play — any treacherous or unfair dealing, especially involving murder: We feared that he had met with foul play.
- foul pole — either of two poles, one on each foul line, being the vertical continuation of the outfield fence or wall, used by the umpire as a sight line in determining whether a fly ball hit near the foul line is a fair or foul ball.
- foul shot — a throw from the foul line, given a player after a foul has been called against an opponent.
- foulbrood — any of several bacterial diseases of honeybee larvae, characterized by the putrefying of body tissues.
- fouled up — grossly offensive to the senses; disgustingly loathsome; noisome: a foul smell.
- fouled-up — Informal. confused, chaotic, or disorganized.
- found art — art comprised of found objects.
- foundered — (of a ship, boat, etc.) to fill with water and sink.
- foundling — an infant or small child found abandoned; a child without a known parent or guardian.
- foundress — a woman who establishes something, as an institution or religious order; founder.
- foundries — Plural form of foundry.
- foundrous — founderous.
- fountains — Plural form of fountain.
- four bits — 50 cents.
- four-door — (of a vehicle) having two doors on each side
- four-eyed — having or seeming to have four eyes.
- four-eyes — Slang: Usually Disparaging. a person who wears eyeglasses (sometimes used facetiously).
- four-lane — (of a highway) having two lanes for traffic in each direction: a four-lane thruway.
- four-part — arranged for four voices or instruments
- four-spot — a playing card or the upward face of a die bearing four pips; a domino, one half of which bears four pips.
- four-star — of or being a full general or admiral, as indicated by four stars on an insignia.
- fourpence — a sum of money of the value of four English pennies.
- fourpenny — Carpentry. noting a nail 1.5 inches (3.8 cm) long. noting certain fine nails 1.375 inches (3.5 cm) long. Symbol: 4d.
- fourscore — four times twenty; eighty.
- foursomes — Plural form of foursome.
- fourteens — Plural form of fourteen.
- fox brush — the tail of a fox.
- foxhounds — Plural form of foxhound.
- fra mauro — a walled plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 50 miles (80 km) in diameter.
- fractious — refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
- freak out — any abnormal phenomenon or product or unusual object; anomaly; aberration.
- freak-out — an act or instance of freaking out.
- freezeout — a game in which each player begins with a predetermined amount of money and must withdraw from the game once that amount is lost, until one player is left with all the winnings.
- fresh out — newly short of sth
- frictious — (rare) Of, related to, or caused by friction.
- fritz out — on the fritz, not in working order: Our TV went on the fritz last night.
- frivilous — Misspelling of frivolous.
- frivolous — characterized by lack of seriousness or sense: frivolous conduct.
- frogmouth — any Australian and Oriental bird of the family Podargidae, related to the goatsuckers, having a broad, flattened, froglike mouth.
- frouncing — Present participle of frounce.