8-letter words containing fo
- forwards — forward.
- forwaste — to waste completely
- forweary — to exhaust
- forzando — sforzando
- fossette — a small hollow or depression, as in a bivalve shell; dimple.
- fostered — to promote the growth or development of; further; encourage: to foster new ideas.
- fosterer — to promote the growth or development of; further; encourage: to foster new ideas.
- fostoria — a city in N Ohio.
- fostress — a female fosterer
- fotograf — Eye dialect of photograph.
- foucault — Jean Bernard Léon [zhahn ber-nar ley-awn] /ʒɑ̃ bɛrˈnar leɪˈɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1819–68, French physicist.
- foucquet — Jean or Jehan [both French zhahn] /both French ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), c1420–c80, French painter.
- fouettes — a whipping movement of the free leg, often executed during a turn.
- fougasse — a type of bread made with olive oil
- foul out — grossly offensive to the senses; disgustingly loathsome; noisome: a foul smell.
- foul tip — a pitched ball that glances off the bat into foul territory, usually near the catcher, ruled a strike if the catcher catches it before it hits the ground, otherwise ruled an ordinary foul ball.
- foulards — Plural form of foulard.
- foulmart — the European polecat, Mustela putorius.
- foulness — the state or quality of being foul: The foulness of the accusation incensed us all.
- foumarts — Plural form of foumart.
- founders — Plural form of founder.
- foundery — Alternative form of foundry.
- founding — simple past tense and past participle of find.
- fountain — a spring or source of water; the source or head of a stream.
- fountful — full of springs or founts
- four-bit — 50 cents.
- four-way — providing access or passage in four directions: a four-way entrance.
- fourball — a match for two pairs in which each player uses his own ball, the better score of each pair being counted at every hole
- fourchee — a type of heraldic cross
- fourfold — comprising four parts or members.
- fourness — The property of being four in number.
- fourplay — Quad play.
- fourplex — quadplex.
- foursome — a company or set of four; two couples; a quartet: to make up a foursome for bridge.
- fourteen — a cardinal number, ten plus four.
- fourthly — in the fourth place; fourth.
- foveated — having foveae; pitted.
- foveolae — a small fovea; a very small pit or depression.
- foveolar — a small fovea; a very small pit or depression.
- fowliang — Older Spelling. former name of Jingdezhen.
- fox bolt — an anchor bolt secured by a foxtail wedge forced into its end as it is screwed into a blind hole.
- fox fire — the luminescence of decaying wood and plant remains, caused by various fungi
- fox hunt — the hunting of foxes with hounds
- fox moth — a coppery-brown European eggar moth, Macrothylacia rubi, whose black-and-yellow woolly larvae are commonly found on heather and bramble
- fox trot — a slow gait in which a horse moves its forelegs in a trot and its hind legs in a long-striding pace
- fox wiki — (application) A wiki for the Fox (Free Objects for Crystallography) software.
- fox-fire — organic luminescence, especially from certain fungi on decaying wood.
- fox-trot — to dance a fox trot.
- foxberry — the cowberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea.
- foxglove — any Eurasian plant belonging to the genus Digitalis, of the figwort family, especially D. purpurea, having drooping, tubular, purple or white flowers on tall spikes, and leaves that are the source of digitalis in medicine.