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6-letter words containing f

  • fooled — Simple past tense and past participle of fool.
  • fooler — Someone or something who fools.
  • foonly — 1. The PDP-10 successor that was to have been built by the Super Foonly project at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory along with a new operating system. The intention was to leapfrog from the old DEC time-sharing system SAIL was then running to a new generation, bypassing TENEX which at that time was the ARPANET standard. ARPA funding for both the Super Foonly and the new operating system was cut in 1974. Most of the design team went to DEC and contributed greatly to the design of the PDP-10 model KL10. 2. The name of the company formed by Dave Poole, one of the principal Super Foonly designers, and one of hackerdom's more colourful personalities. Many people remember the parrot which sat on Poole's shoulder and was a regular companion. 3. Any of the machines built by Poole's company. The first was the F-1 (a.k.a. Super Foonly), which was the computational engine used to create the graphics in the movie "TRON". The F-1 was the fastest PDP-10 ever built, but only one was ever made. The effort drained Foonly of its financial resources, and the company turned toward building smaller, slower, and much less expensive machines. Unfortunately, these ran not the popular TOPS-20 but a TENEX variant called Foonex; this seriously limited their market. Also, the machines shipped were actually wire-wrapped engineering prototypes requiring individual attention from more than usually competent site personnel, and thus had significant reliability problems. Poole's legendary temper and unwillingness to suffer fools gladly did not help matters. By the time of the Jupiter project cancellation in 1983, Foonly's proposal to build another F-1 was eclipsed by the Mars, and the company never quite recovered. See the Mars entry for the continuation and moral of this story.
  • foorth — Eye dialect of fourth.
  • footed — having a foot or feet (often used in combination): a four-footed animal.
  • footer — British Informal. Rugby (def 3). soccer.
  • footie — footsie.
  • footle — to act or talk in a foolish or silly way.
  • footsy — Sometimes, footsies. the act of flirting or sharing a surreptitious intimacy.
  • foozle — act of foozling, especially a bad stroke in golf.
  • for it — liable for punishment or blame
  • forage — food for horses or cattle; fodder; provender.
  • forams — Plural form of foram.
  • forays — Plural form of foray.
  • forbad — to command (a person) not to do something, have something, etc., or not to enter some place: to forbid him entry to the house.
  • forbes — B(ertie) C(harles) 1880–1954, U.S. financial journalist, publisher, and financier.
  • forbid — to command (a person) not to do something, have something, etc., or not to enter some place: to forbid him entry to the house.
  • forcat — convict or galley slave
  • forced — strained, unnatural, or affected: a forced smile.
  • forcer — a coffer or chest.
  • forces — physical power or strength possessed by a living being: He used all his force in opening the window.
  • forded — a place where a river or other body of water is shallow enough to be crossed by wading.
  • fordid — Simple past tense and past participle of fordo.
  • foredo — fordo.
  • forego — forgo.
  • forend — Part of a rifle, underneath the barrel, where it is supported by the hand.
  • forest — Lee, 1873–1961, U.S. inventor of radio, telegraphic, and telephonic equipment.
  • forfar — a town in the Tayside region, in E Scotland.
  • forfex — (obsolete) A pair of shears.
  • forgat — a simple past tense of forget.
  • forged — to form by heating and hammering; beat into shape.
  • forger — to form by heating and hammering; beat into shape.
  • forges — Plural form of forge.
  • forget — to cease or fail to remember; be unable to recall: to forget someone's name.
  • forgit — Eye dialect of forget.
  • forgot — a simple past tense and past participle of forget.
  • forhoo — to forsake
  • forint — an aluminum coin and the monetary unit of Hungary, equal to 100 fillér. Abbreviation: F., Ft.
  • forked — having a fork or fork-like branches.
  • forker — a worker who uses a fork
  • formac — FORmula MAnipulation Compiler. J. Sammet & Tobey, IBM Boston APD, 1962. An extension of Fortran for symbolic mathematics. Versions: PL/I-FORMAC and FORMAC73.
  • formal — being in accordance with the usual requirements, customs, etc.; conventional: to pay one's formal respects.
  • forman — Milos [mee-lawsh] /ˈmi lɔʃ/ (Show IPA), (Jan Tomas Forman) born 1932, U.S. film director, born in the former Czechoslovakia.
  • format — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
  • formby — George. Real name George Booth. 1904–61, British comedian. He made many musical films in the 1930s, accompanying his songs on the ukulele
  • formed — external appearance of a clearly defined area, as distinguished from color or material; configuration: a triangular form.
  • formee — paty.
  • formel — An adult female hawk or eagle.
  • former — preceding in time; prior or earlier: during a former stage in the proceedings.
  • formes — Plural form of forme.
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