| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| fodgeting | present participle & vb. noun | of Fidget |
| foamingly | adverb | With foam; frothily. |
| focalized | imp. & past participle | of Focalize |
| focillate | verb t. | To nourish. |
| focimeter | noun | An assisting instrument for focusing an object in or before a camera. |
| foddering | present participle & vb. noun | of Fodder |
| fodientia | nounpl. | A group of African edentates including the aard-vark. |
| foetation | noun | Same as Fetation. |
| foeticide | noun | Same as Feticide. |
| fogginess | noun | The state of being foggy. |
| foiningly | adverb | With a push or thrust. |
| foliating | present participle & vb. noun | of Foliate |
| foliation | noun | The process of forming into a leaf or leaves., The manner in which the young leaves are dispo/ed within the bud., The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina., The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses., The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments. See Tracery., The property, possessed by some crystalline rocks, of dividing into plates or slabs, which is due to the cleavage structure of one of the constituents, as mica or hornblende. It may sometimes include slaty structure or cleavage, though the latter is usually independent of any mineral constituent, and transverse to the bedding, it having been produced by pressure. |
| foliature | noun | Foliage; leafage., The state of being beaten into foil. |
| foliomort | adjective | See Feuillemort. |
| foliosity | noun | The ponderousness or bulk of a folio; voluminousness. |
| folk lore | Tales, legends, or superstitions long current among the people. | |
| folkmoter | noun | One who takes part in a folkmote, or local court. |
| following | present participle & vb. noun | of Follow, One’s followers, adherents, or dependents, collectively., Vocation; business; profession., Next after; succeeding; ensuing; as, the assembly was held on the following day., (In the field of a telescope) In the direction from which stars are apparently moving (in consequence of the earth’s rotation); as, a small star, north following or south following. In the direction toward which stars appear to move is called preceding. |
| fomalhaut | noun | A star of the first magnitude, in the constellation Piscis Australis, or Southern Fish. |
| fomenting | present participle & vb. noun | of Foment |
| fool-born | adjective | Begotten by a fool. |
| fooleries | plural | of Foolery |
| foolhardy | adjective | Daring without judgment; foolishly adventurous and bold. |
| foolishly | adverb | In a foolish manner. |
| footboard | noun | A board or narrow platfrom upon which one may stand or brace his feet, The platform for the engineer and fireman of a locomotive., The foot-rest of a coachman’s box., A board forming the foot of a bedstead., A treadle. |
| footcloth | noun | Formerly, a housing or caparison for a horse. |
| footfight | noun | A conflict by persons on foot; — distinguished from a fight on horseback. |
| footglove | noun | A kind of stocking. |
| footlight | noun | One of a row of lights in the front of the stage in a theater, etc., and on a level therewith. |
| footpaths | plural | of Footpath |
| footplate | noun | See Footboard (a). |
| footprint | noun | The impression of the foot; a trace or footmark; as, “Footprints of the Creator.” |
| foot-sore | adjective | Having sore or tender feet, as by reason of much walking; as, foot-sore cattle. |
| footstalk | noun | The stalk of a leaf or of flower; a petiole, pedicel, or reduncle., The peduncle or stem by which various marine animals are attached, as certain brachiopods and goose barnacles., The stem which supports which supports the eye in decapod Crustacea; eyestalk., The lower part of a millstone spindle. It rests in a step. |
| footstall | noun | The stirrup of a woman’s saddle., The plinth or base of a pillar. |
| footstone | noun | The stone at the foot of a grave; — opposed to headstone. |
| footstool | noun | A low stool to support the feet of one when sitting. |
| fopperies | plural | of Foppery |
| foramines | plural | of Foramen |
| forasmuch | conj. | In consideration that; seeing that; since; because that; — followed by as. See under For, prep. |
| forbearer | noun | One who forbears. |
| forbidden | past participle | of Forbid, Prohibited; interdicted. |
| forbidder | noun | One who forbids. |
| forbruise | verb t. | To bruise sorely or exceedingly. |
| forceless | adjective | Having little or no force; feeble. |
| forcemeat | noun | Meat chopped fine and highly seasoned, either served up alone, or used as a stuffing. |
| forcement | noun | The act of forcing; compulsion. |
| forcipate | adjective | Alt. of Forcipated |
| foreboded | imp. & past participle | of Forebode |
| foreboder | noun | One who forebodes. |
| forebrace | noun | A rope applied to the fore yardarm, to change the position of the foresail. |
| forebrain | noun | The anterior of the three principal divisions of the brain, including the prosencephalon and thalamencephalon. Sometimes restricted to the prosencephalon only. See Brain. |
| forecited | adjective | Cited or quoted before or above. |
| foreclose | verb t. | To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude. |
| forefence | noun | Defense in front. |
| foregleam | noun | An antecedent or premonitory gleam; a dawning light. |
| foregoing | present participle & vb. noun | of Forego |
| foreguess | verb t. | To conjecture. |
| foreigner | noun | A person belonging to or owning allegiance to a foreign country; one not native in the country or jurisdiction under consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger. |
| forejudge | verb t. | To judge beforehand, or before hearing the facts and proof; to prejudge., To expel from court for some offense or misconduct, as an attorney or officer; to deprive or put out of a thing by the judgment of a court. |
| foreknown | past participle | of Foreknow |
| foremeant | adjective | Intended beforehand; premeditated. |
| forenamed | adjective | Named before; aforenamed. |
| forenenst | preposition | Over against; opposite to. |
| fore part | noun | Alt. of Forepart |
| foreprize | verb t. | To prize or rate beforehand. |
| forereach | verb t. | To advance or gain upon; — said of a vessel that gains upon another when sailing closehauled., To shoot ahead, especially when going in stays. |
| foreright | adjective | Ready; directly forward; going before., Right forward; onward. |
| foreseize | verb t. | To seize beforehand. |
| foresight | noun | The act or the power of foreseeing; prescience; foreknowledge., Action in reference to the future; provident care; prudence; wise forethought., Any sight or reading of the leveling staff, except the backsight; any sight or bearing taken by a compass or theodolite in a forward direction., Muzzle sight. See Fore sight, under Fore, a. |
| foreskirt | noun | The front skirt of a garment, in distinction from the train. |
| foreslack | verb t. | See Forslack. |
| forespeak | verb t. | See Forspeak., To foretell; to predict. |
| forespent | adjective | Already spent; gone by; past., See Forspent. |
| forestaff | noun | An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies, now superseded by the sextant; — called also cross-staff. |
| forestage | noun | A duty or tribute payable to the king’s foresters., A service paid by foresters to the king. |
| forestall | verb t. | To take beforehand, or in advance; to anticipate., To take possession of, in advance of some one or something else, to the exclusion or detriment of the latter; to get ahead of; to preoccupy; also, to exclude, hinder, or prevent, by prior occupation, or by measures taken in advance., To deprive; — with of., To obstruct or stop up, as a way; to stop the passage of on highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market. |
| forestick | noun | Front stick of a hearth fire. |
| foreswart | adjective | Alt. of Foreswart, See Forswat. |
| foretaste | noun | A taste beforehand; enjoyment in advance; anticipation., To taste before full possession; to have previous enjoyment or experience of; to anticipate., To taste before another. |
| foreteach | verb t. | To teach beforehand. |
| forethink | verb t. | To think beforehand; to anticipate in the mind; to prognosticate., To contrive (something) beforehend., To contrive beforehand. |
| foretoken | noun | Prognostic; previous omen., To foreshow; to presignify; to prognosticate. |
| forewaste | verb t. | See Forewaste. |
| forewiten | pl. | of Forewite |
| forewiste | imp. sing. | of Forewite |
| forewomen | plural | of Forewoman |
| forewoman | noun | A woman who is chief; a woman who has charge of the work or workers in a shop or other place; a head woman. |
| forfeited | imp. & past participle | of Forfeit |
| forfeiter | noun | One who incurs a penalty of forfeiture. |
| forficate | adjective | Deeply forked, as the tail of certain birds. |
| forficula | noun | A genus of insects including the earwigs. See Earwig, 1. |
| forgather | verb i. | To convene; to gossip; to meet accidentally. |
| forgeries | plural | of Forgery |
| forgotten | past participle | of Forget, p. p. of Forget. |
| forgetful | adjective | Apt to forget; easily losing remembrance; as, a forgetful man should use helps to strengthen his memory., Heedless; careless; neglectful; inattentive., Causing to forget; inducing oblivion; oblivious. |
| forgetive | adjective | Inventive; productive; capable. |
| forgetter | noun | One who forgets; a heedless person. |
| forgiving | present participle & vb. noun | of Forgive, Disposed to forgive; inclined to overlook offenses; mild; merciful; compassionate; placable; as, a forgiving temper. |
| forkbeard | noun | A European fish (Raniceps raninus), having a large flat head; — also called tadpole fish, and lesser forked beard., The European forked hake or hake’s-dame (Phycis blennoides); — also called great forked beard. |
| forkiness | noun | The quality or state or dividing in a forklike manner. |
| forlornly | adverb | In a forlorn manner. |
| formalism | noun | The practice or the doctrine of strict adherence to, or dependence on, external forms, esp. in matters of religion. |
| formalist | noun | One overattentive to forms, or too much confined to them; esp., one who rests in external religious forms, or observes strictly the outward forms of worship, without possessing the life and spirit of religion. |
| formality | noun | The condition or quality of being formal, strictly ceremonious, precise, etc., Form without substance., Compliance with formal or conventional rules; ceremony; conventionality., An established order; conventional rule of procedure; usual method; habitual mode., The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal., That which is formal; the formal part., The quality which makes a thing what it is; essence., The manner in which a thing is conceived or constituted by an act of human thinking; the result of such an act; as, animality and rationality are formalities. |
| formalize | verb t. | To give form, or a certain form, to; to model., To render formal., To affect formality. |
| formation | noun | The act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping., The manner in which a thing is formed; structure; construction; conformation; form; as, the peculiar formation of the heart., A substance formed or deposited., Mineral deposits and rock masses designated with reference to their origin; as, the siliceous formation about geysers; alluvial formations; marine formations., A group of beds of the same age or period; as, the Eocene formation., The arrangement of a body of troops, as in a square, column, etc. |
| formative | adjective | Giving form; having the power of giving form; plastic; as, the formative arts., Serving to form; derivative; not radical; as, a termination merely formative., Capable of growth and development; germinal; as, living or formative matter., That which serves merely to give form, and is no part of the radical, as the prefix or the termination of a word., A word formed in accordance with some rule or usage, as from a root. |
| formicary | noun | The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill. |
| formicate | adjective | Resembling, or pertaining to, an ant or ants. |
| formulary | adjective | Stated; prescribed; ritual., A book containing stated and prescribed forms, as of oaths, declarations, prayers, medical formulaae, etc.; a book of precedents., Prescribed form or model; formula. |
| formulate | verb t. | To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression. |
| formulize | verb t. | To reduce to a formula; to formulate. |
| fornicate | adjective | Alt. of Fornicated, To commit fornication; to have unlawful sexual intercourse. |
| forsaking | present participle & vb. noun | of Forsake |
| forslugge | verb t. | To lsoe by idleness or slotch. |
| forsythia | adjective | A shrub of the Olive family, with yellow blossoms. |
| fortalice | noun | A small outwork of a fortification; a fortilage; — called also fortelace. |
| forthward | adverb | Forward. |
| forthwith | adverb | Immediately; without delay; directly., As soon as the thing required may be done by reasonable exertion confined to that object. |
| fortifier | noun | One who, or that which, fortifies, strengthens, supports, or upholds. |
| fortified | imp. & past participle | of Fortify |
| fortilage | noun | A little fort; a blockhouse. |
| fortition | noun | Casual choice; fortuitous selection; hazard. |
| fortitude | noun | Power to resist attack; strength; firmness., That strength or firmness of mind which enables a person to encounter danger with coolness and courage, or to bear pain or adversity without murmuring, depression, or despondency; passive courage; resolute endurance; firmness in confronting or bearing up against danger or enduring trouble. |
| fortnight | noun | The space of fourteen days; two weeks. |
| fortunate | noun | Coming by good luck or favorable chance; bringing some good thing not foreseen as certain; presaging happiness; auspicious; as, a fortunate event; a fortunate concurrence of circumstances; a fortunate investment., Receiving same unforeseen or unexpected good, or some good which was not dependent on one’s own skill or efforts; favored with good forune; lucky. |
| fortunize | verb t. | To regulate the fortune of; to make happy. |
| forwander | verb i. | To wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness. |
| forwarded | imp. & past participle | of Forward |
| forwarder | noun | One who forwards or promotes; a promoter., One who sends forward anything; (Com.) one who transmits goods; a forwarding merchant., One employed in forwarding. |
| forwardly | adverb | Eagerly; hastily; obtrusively. |
| forwweary | verb t. | To weary extremely; to dispirit. |
| foryetten | p. p. of Foryete. | |
| fossilism | noun | The science or state of fossils., The state of being extremely antiquated in views and opinions. |
| fossilist | noun | One who is versed in the science of fossils; a paleontologist. |
| fossilize | verb t. | To convert into a fossil; to petrify; as, to fossilize bones or wood., To cause to become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, as by fossilization; to mummify; to deaden., To become fossil., To become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, beyond the influence of change or progress. |
| fossorial | adjective | Fitted for digging, adapted for burrowing or digging; as, a fossorial foot; a fossorial animal. |
| fossulate | adjective | Having, or surrounded by, long, narrow depressions or furrows. |
| fostering | present participle & vb. noun | of Foster |
| fosterage | noun | The care of a foster child; the charge of nursing. |
| fothering | present participle & vb. noun | of Fother |
| foundered | imp. & past participle | of Founder |
| foundling | verb t. | A deserted or exposed infant; a child found without a parent or owner. |
| foundress | noun | A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund. |
| foundries | plural | of Foundry |
| fourpence | noun | A British silver coin, worth four pence; a groat., A name formerly given in New England to the Spanish half real, a silver coin worth six and a quarter cents. |
| fourscore | noun | Four times twenty; eighty., The product of four times twenty; eighty units or objects. |
| foveolate | adjective | Having small pits or depression, as the receptacle in some composite flowers. |
| fowlerite | noun | A variety of rhodonite, from Franklin Furnace, New Jersey, containing some zinc. |