8-letter words containing fo
- parfocal — of or relating to different eyepieces (of telescopes or microscopes) that all focus their images in the same plane, so that they can be interchanged without readjusting the instrument.
- pass for — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
- pediform — in the form of a foot; footlike.
- perforce — of necessity; necessarily; by force of circumstance: The story must perforce be true.
- perforin — a protein produced by killer cells of the immune system that causes disintegration of targeted cells by forming pores in their membranes.
- pet food — feed for domestic animals
- pettifog — to be a pettifogger
- pfortran — Parallel Fortran
- piciform — of or relating to birds belonging to the six families which make up the order Piciformes. The best-known of these six is the Picidae family and the entire order is made up of mainly tree-haunting birds
- pickford — Mary (Gladys Marie Smith) 1893–1979, U.S. motion-picture actress, born in Canada.
- piedfort — a coin or pattern struck on a blank thicker than that used for the regular issue.
- piliform — having the form of a hair; resembling hair.
- pinafore — a child's apron, usually large enough to cover the dress and sometimes trimmed with flounces.
- pisiform — having the shape of a pea; pea-shaped.
- planform — the outline of an object viewed from above.
- platform — a horizontal surface or structure with a horizontal surface raised above the level of the surrounding area.
- play for — sport: represent, be on the side of
- polyfoam — a rigid, semirigid, or rubbery foam composed of minute bubbles of air or carbon dioxide embedded in a polymer matrix, often polyurethane: used in mattresses, padding, insulation, etc.
- poriform — resembling a pore in form.
- postform — to remould or reshape plastic after reheating
- prefocus — to focus (something) in advance
- pro-form — a word used to replace or substitute for a word, phrase, or clause belonging to a given grammatical class, as a pronoun used to replace a noun or noun phrase, there used to replace an adverb or adverbial phrase of place, as in I parked the car near the entrance and left it there, or so used to substitute for a clause, as in Have they come? I think so.
- proforma — according to form; as a matter of form; for the sake of form.
- profound — penetrating or entering deeply into subjects of thought or knowledge; having deep insight or understanding: a profound thinker.
- pub food — food served in a pub
- pull for — favour, support
- puriform — resembling pus; purulent.
- pyriform — pear-shaped.
- ramiform — having the form of a branch; branchlike.
- raniform — resembling a frog, froglike
- reforest — to replant trees on (land denuded by cutting or fire).
- reformat — 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.
- reformed — (initial capital letter) of, relating to, or characteristic of Reform Jews or Reform Judaism: a Reform rabbi.
- reformer — a person devoted to bringing about reform, as in politics or society.
- reinform — to inform again or anew
- remiform — shaped like an oar.
- renforce — to reinforce
- reniform — kidney-shaped: a reniform leaf; hematite in reniform masses.
- retiform — netlike; reticulate.
- rockford — a city in N Illinois.
- root for — to encourage a team or contestant by cheering or applauding enthusiastically. Synonyms: cheer, cheer on, shout for, applaud, clap, boost, support.
- rotiform — shaped like a wheel.
- sainfoin — a Eurasian plant, Onobrychis viciifolia, of the legume family, having pinnate leaves and clusters of pink flowers, used for forage.
- save for — Save for means the same as save.
- scaffold — a temporary structure for holding workers and materials during the erection, repair, or decoration of a building.
- sea foam — the foam of the sea.
- send for — to cause, permit, or enable to go: to send a messenger; They sent their son to college.
- set foot — tread, walk
- setiform — bristle-shaped; setaceous.
- sign for — acknowledge receipt