9-letter words starting with fo
- fortieths — Plural form of fortieth.
- fortified — to protect or strengthen against attack; surround or provide with defensive military works.
- fortifier — to protect or strengthen against attack; surround or provide with defensive military works.
- fortifies — to protect or strengthen against attack; surround or provide with defensive military works.
- fortilage — (obsolete) A little fort; a blockhouse.
- fortition — Phonetics. a phonological process that strengthens consonant articulation at the beginnings of syllables, causing devoicing or the formation of stops.
- fortitude — mental and emotional strength in facing difficulty, adversity, danger, or temptation courageously: Never once did her fortitude waver during that long illness.
- fortnight — the space of fourteen nights and days; two weeks.
- fortran d — A data-parallel Fortran developed by Ken Kennedy at Rice University. E-mail: Theresa Chapman <[email protected]>.
- fortran i — An early version of Fortran designed by John Backus at IBM for the IBM 704. The design was begun in 1954 and a compiler released in April 1957.
- fortran m — Parallel extensions to Fortran with processes and channels by Ian Foster <[email protected]>.
- fortran v — Preliminary work on adding character handling to Fortran by IBM ca. 1962. This name as never really used.
- 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
- forty-one — a cardinal number, 40 plus 1.
- forty-six — a cardinal number, 40 plus 6.
- forty-two — a cardinal number, 40 plus 2.
- forwander — to wander far
- forwarded — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
- forwarder — a person who forwards.
- forwardly — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
- foscarnet — a drug used to treat herpes viruses
- fossarian — fossor.
- fosse way — a Roman road in Britain between Lincoln and Exeter, with a fosse on each side
- fossicked — Simple past tense and past participle of fossick.
- fossicker — Someone who fossicks.
- fossilify — (dated) To fossilize.
- fossilise — Alternative spelling of fossilize.
- fossilist — One who is versed in the science of fossils.
- fossilize — Geology. to convert into a fossil; replace organic with mineral substances in the remains of an organism.
- fossilogy — (archaic, 1776-19th century) The science or study of fossils.
- fossorial — digging or burrowing.
- fossulate — hollowed; grooved
- fosterage — the act of fostering or rearing another's child as one's own.
- fostering — Encourage or promote the development of (something, typically something regarded as good).
- 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.