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12-letter words containing fo

  • flagelliform — long, slender, and flexible, like the lash of a whip.
  • flashforward — a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which a future event or scene is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.
  • fleet-footed — able to run fast.
  • flop forging — forging of both sides of a piece from the same die, the sides being identical.
  • foam plastic — a kind of light cellular plastic made by creating bubbles of gas in the liquid material and solidifying it: often used as an insulator
  • foamed metal — a uniform foamlike metal structure produced when hydrogen bubbles are evolved from metal hydrides uniformly dispersed throughout a host metal or metal alloy: used as a structural material because of its shock-absorbing properties and light weight.
  • focal length — the distance from a focal point of a lens or mirror to the corresponding principal plane. Symbol: f.
  • focalization — (optics) Putting into focus.
  • focus puller — the member of a camera crew who adjusts the focus of the lens as the camera is tracked in or out
  • foefie slide — a rope, fixed at an incline, along which a person suspended on a pulley may traverse a space, esp across a river
  • foetoprotein — Alternative spelling of fetoprotein.
  • foggy bottom — a low-lying area bordering the Potomac River in Washington, D.C.
  • folding door — a door with hinged sections that can be folded flat against one another when opened.
  • folding rule — a rule composed of light strips of wood joined by rivets so as to be foldable, all the opening and closing parts being in parallel planes.
  • folding seat — a seat that can be folded down
  • folie a deux — the sharing of delusional ideas by two people who are closely associated.
  • folinic acid — a crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 20 H 23 N 7 O 7 , produced by fermentation or derived from folic acid, used in medicine in the treatment of certain anemias.
  • folk singing — the singing of folk songs, especially by a group of people.
  • folk society — an often small, homogeneous, and isolated community or society functioning chiefly through primary contacts and strongly attached to its traditional ways of living.
  • folkloristic — the traditional beliefs, legends, customs, etc., of a people; lore of a people.
  • folliculitis — inflammation of hair follicles.
  • followership — the ability or willingness to follow a leader.
  • folsom point — a flint point characteristic of the Folsom tradition, typically leaf-shaped and fluted, with small basal extensions, and used on a projectile, as a spear, for hunting game.
  • fomentations — Plural form of fomentation.
  • food allergy — an allergy to a specific type of food
  • food counter — a counter in a shop, bar, cafeteria, etc where food is sold or served
  • food fascist — a person who shows extreme, intolerant views in relation to food
  • food pyramid — successive levels of predation in a food chain represented schematically as a pyramid because upper levels normally consist of decreasing numbers of larger predators.
  • food science — the study of the nature of foods and the changes that occur in them naturally and as a result of handling and processing.
  • food service — the preparation, delivery, serving, etc., of ready-to-eat foods: The cafeteria employs over 20 people in food service.
  • food stylist — a person whose job is to arrange food in an attractive way for professional photographs or broadcasts.
  • food subsidy — a financial aid supplied by a government, as to industry, farmers, or consumers, in order to make low-cost food available to the poor
  • food vacuole — a membrane-enclosed cell vacuole with a digestive function, containing material taken up in by the process of phagocytosis.
  • foodlessness — Absence of food.
  • foolhardiest — Superlative form of foolhardy.
  • foot soldier — an infantryman.
  • foot traffic — the wear and tear caused to a surface by people walking on it
  • foot-binding — (formerly in China) the act or practice of tightly binding the feet of infant girls to keep the feet as small as possible.
  • foot-lambert — a unit of luminance or photometric brightness, equal to the luminance of a surface emitting a luminous flux of one lumen per square foot, the luminance of a perfectly reflecting surface receiving an illumination of one foot-candle. Abbreviation: fL.
  • foot-poundal — a foot-pound-second unit of work or energy equal to the work done by a force of one poundal when its point of application moves through a distance of one foot in the direction of the force. Abbreviation: ft-pdl.
  • footdragging — the act or practice of acting with deliberate slowness
  • footlessness — the state of being footless
  • footplateman — a member of a locomotive crew who stands on the footplate to operate the controls
  • footslogging — Present participle of footslog.
  • footsoldiers — Plural form of footsoldier.
  • footsoreness — The characteristic of being footsore.
  • for a change — contrary to the norm
  • for a giggle — as a joke or prank; not seriously
  • for a season — for a while
  • for a wonder — to think or speculate curiously: to wonder about the origin of the solar system.
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