13-letter words starting with for
- for a kickoff — the beginning of something
- for chrissake — for Christ's sake
- for dear life — the condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally.
- for one thing — the first reason is
- for sb's part — When you are describing people's thoughts or actions, you can say for her part or for my part, for example, to introduce what a particular person thinks or does.
- for sb's sake — When you do something for someone's sake, you do it in order to help them or make them happy.
- for the birds — any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
- for the world — If you say that you would not do something for the world, you are emphasizing that you definitely would not do it.
- for the worse — into a less desirable or inferior state or condition
- for values of — (jargon) A common rhetorical maneuver at MIT is to use any of the canonical random numbers as placeholders for variables. "The max function takes 42 arguments, for arbitrary values of 42". "There are 69 ways to leave your lover, for 69 = 50". This is especially likely when the speaker has uttered a random number and realises that it was not recognised as such, but even "non-random" numbers are occasionally used in this fashion. A related joke is that pi equals 3 - for small values of pi and large values of 3. This usage probably derives from the programming language MAD (Michigan Algorithm Decoder), an ALGOL-like language that was the most common choice among mainstream (non-hacker) users at MIT in the mid-1960s. It had a control structure FOR VALUES OF X = 3, 7, 99 DO ... that would repeat the indicated instructions for each value in the list (unlike the usual FOR that generates an arithmetic sequence of values). MAD is long extinct, but similar for-constructs still flourish (e.g. in Unix's shell languages).
- for-instances — an instance or example: Give me a for-instance of what you mean.
- foramen ovale — the small, oval opening in the wall that separates the atria of the heart in a normal fetus: it allows blood to bypass the nonfunctioning fetal lungs until the time of birth when it gradually closes up
- foraminiferal — Of, pertaining to, or resembling the foraminifers; foraminiferous.
- foraminiferan — any chiefly marine protozoan of the sarcodinian order Foraminifera, typically having a linear, spiral, or concentric shell perforated by small holes or pores through which pseudopodia extend.
- forbiddenness — a past participle of forbid.
- force a smile — to make oneself smile
- force majeure — an unexpected and disruptive event that may operate to excuse a party from a contract.
- forced labour — labour done because of force; compulsory labour
- forcing house — a place where growth or maturity (as of fruit, animals, etc) is artificially hastened
- fore clipping — a word formed by omitting the first part of the form from which it is derived.
- forearm smash — a blow like a punch delivered with the forearm in certain types of wrestling
- foreconscious — the preconscious.
- forefeelingly — by way of forefeeling
- foregrounding — Present participle of foreground.
- foreign agent — a spy for a foreign country
- foreign-owned — owned by an individual who is resident in a different country or by a company whose headquarters are in a different country
- foreknowledge — knowledge of something before it exists or happens; prescience: Did you have any foreknowledge of the scheme?
- forementioned — Mentioned earlier or above; already cited.
- foreordaining — Present participle of foreordain.
- foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
- foreshortened — Simple past tense and past participle of foreshorten.
- foresightedly — In a foresighted manner.
- foresightless — lacking foresight
- forest ranger — any of the officers employed by the government to supervise the care and preservation of forests, especially public forests.
- forge welding — the welding of pieces of hot metal with pressure or blows.
- forget-me-not — either of two small Old World plants, Myosotis sylvatica or M. scorpioides, of the borage family, having a light-blue flower commonly regarded as an emblem of constancy and friendship.
- forgetfulness — apt to forget; that forgets: a forgetful person.
- forgivingness — disposed to forgive; indicating forgiveness: a forgiving soul; a forgiving smile.
- forgotten man — a person no longer in the mind of the general public.
- forgottenness — the status of being forgotten
- fork luncheon — déjeuner à la fourchette.
- forked tongue — lying or deceitful talk
- form function — (jargon) The shape of something designed. This term is currently (Feb 1998) in vogue among marketroids.
- form of words — the type of words and phrases used
- form the fool — to play the fool or behave irritatingly
- formal review — (project) A technical review conducted with the customer including the types of reviews called for in DOD-STD-2167A (Preliminary Design Review, Critical Design Review, etc.)
- formal system — an uninterpreted symbolic system whose syntax is precisely defined, and on which a relation of deducibility is defined in purely syntactic terms; a logistic system
- formal theory — an uninterpreted symbolic system whose syntax is precisely defined, and on which a relation of deducibility is defined in purely syntactic terms; a logistic system
- formalisation — Alternative spelling of formalization.
- formalization — to make formal, especially for the sake of official or authorized acceptance: to formalize an understanding by drawing up a legal contract.
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