10-letter words starting with fo
- foodgrains — Plural form of foodgrain.
- foodophile — (informal) A food lover.
- foodstuffs — a substance used or capable of being used as nutriment.
- fool along — to move or proceed in a leisurely way
- fool's cap — a traditional jester's cap or hood, often multicolored and usually having several drooping peaks from which bells are hung.
- foolbegged — foolish
- foolishest — Superlative form of foolish.
- foot brake — a brake that is operated by pressure on a foot pedal, as in an automobile.
- foot fault — a fault consisting in the failure of the server to keep both feet behind the base line until the ball is hit or to keep at least one foot on the ground while hitting the ball.
- foot level — a foot rule, hinged in the middle, having a spirit level in one section and a graduated arc from which the angle made by the two sections can be read.
- foot score — a line at each end of the rink that is at right angles to its length.
- foot valve — a nonreturn valve at the inlet end of a pipe
- foot-pound — a foot-pound-second unit of work or energy, equal to the work done by a force of one pound when its point of application moves through a distance of one foot in the direction of the force. Abbreviation: ft-lb.
- footballer — a football player, especially a member of a college or professional team.
- footboards — Plural form of footboard.
- footbridge — a bridge intended for pedestrians only.
- footcandle — Alt form foot candle.
- footguards — foot soldiers with ceremonial duties
- footlessly — in a footless manner; ineptly
- footlicker — A sycophant; a fawner; a toady.
- footlights — Usually, footlights. Theater. the lights at the front of a stage that are nearly on a level with the feet of the performers.
- footlocker — A small trunk or storage chest, originally stored at the foot of a bed.
- footnoting — Present participle of footnote.
- footplates — Plural form of footplate.
- footprints — Plural form of footprint.
- footstalls — Plural form of footstall.
- footstones — Plural form of footstone.
- footstools — Plural form of footstool.
- for a song — a short metrical composition intended or adapted for singing, especially one in rhymed stanzas; a lyric; a ballad.
- for effect — If you say that someone is doing something for effect, you mean that they are doing it in order to impress people and to draw attention to themselves.
- for shame! — you ought to be ashamed! here is cause for shame!
- for toffee — to be incompetent at a specified activity
- for-profit — (of a business or institution) initiated or operated for the purpose of making a profit: for-profit hospitals.
- forage cap — (formerly) a small, low, undress cap.
- foraminate — full of holes or foramina.
- forbearant — Forbearing.
- forbearers — to refrain or abstain from; desist from.
- forbearing — to refrain or abstain from; desist from.
- forbidding — grim; unfriendly; hostile; sinister: his forbidding countenance.
- force back — If you force back an emotion or desire, you manage, with an effort, not to experience it.
- force down — eat with difficulty
- force play — a situation in which a base runner is forced to advance to a base or to home plate as a result of the batter becoming a base runner or to make room for another base runner.
- force pump — a pump that delivers a liquid under pressure, so as to eject it forcibly.
- force-feed — to compel to take food, especially by means of a tube inserted into the throat: They force-fed the prisoners in the hunger strike.
- force-ripe — (of fruit) prematurely picked and ripened by squeezing or warm storage
- forcefield — Alternative spelling of force field.
- forcefully — full of force; powerful; vigorous; effective: a forceful plea for peace.
- forcipated — Like a pair of forceps.
- forclosing — Present participle of forclose.
- forclosure — Alternative form of foreclosure.