9-letter words starting with fo
- forestage — the part of a stage in front of the proscenium or the closed curtain, as the apron or an extension of the apron.
- forestair — an external staircase
- forestall — to prevent, hinder, or thwart by action in advance: to forestall a riot by deploying police.
- forestays — Plural form of forestay.
- foresters — Plural form of forester.
- forestial — Of, like or having to do with a forest.
- forestick — the front log in a wood fire, as in a fireplace.
- forestine — relating to forests
- foresting — a large tract of land covered with trees and underbrush; woodland.
- forestock — (firearms) forearm; handguard.
- foreswear — Alternative spelling of forswear.
- foresworn — Simple past tense and past participle of foreswear.
- foretaste — a slight and partial experience, knowledge, or taste of something to come in the future; anticipation.
- foreteach — to teach (something) ahead of time
- foretells — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foretell.
- forethink — to have prescience of
- foretoken — a sign of a future event; omen; forewarning.
- foretooth — a tooth in the front of the mouth; incisor.
- forewarns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of forewarn.
- foreweigh — to assess in advance
- forewings — Plural form of forewing.
- forewoman — a woman in charge of a particular department or group of workers.
- forewomen — Plural form of forewoman.
- forewords — Plural form of foreword.
- forfaiter — a person or company engaging in forfaiting
- forfeited — a fine; penalty.
- forfeiter — One who incurs a penalty of forfeiture.
- forfended — Simple past tense and past participle of forfend.
- forficate — deeply forked, as the tail of a bird.
- forfochen — exhausted
- forgather — to gather together; convene; assemble.
- forgeable — (metallurgy) That can be forged (shaped under heat and pressure).
- forgeries — Plural form of forgery.
- forget it — certainly not
- forgetful — apt to forget; that forgets: a forgetful person.
- forgetive — inventive; creative.
- forgetter — One who forgets, fails to remember something.
- forgiving — disposed to forgive; indicating forgiveness: a forgiving soul; a forgiving smile.
- forgotten — a past participle of forget.
- forjaskit — exhausted
- fork bomb — (programming) A particular species of wabbit that can be written in one line of C: main() {for(;;)fork();} or shell: $0 & $0 & on any Unix system, or occasionally created by an egregious coding bug. A fork bomb process "explodes" by recursively spawning copies of itself using the Unix system call "fork(2)". Eventually it eats all the process table entries and effectively wedges the system. Fortunately, fork bombs are relatively easy to spot and kill, so creating one deliberately seldom accomplishes more than to bring the just wrath of the gods down upon the perpetrator. See also logic bomb.
- fork over — an instrument having two or more prongs or tines, for holding, lifting, etc., as an implement for handling food or any of various agricultural tools.
- forkballs — Plural form of forkball.
- forkiness — the state of being forky
- forklifts — Plural form of forklift.
- forlornly — desolate or dreary; unhappy or miserable, as in feeling, condition, or appearance.
- form drag — the portion of the resisting force encountered by a body moving through a fluid that is due to the irregularity of shape of the body, reducible to a minimum by streamlining.
- form feed — (character) (FF, Control-L, ASCII 12) The character used to start a new page on a printer. This is done by "feeding" a new page (or "form") through the printer.
- form nail — a nail used in building temporary structures, having a stop on its shank to prevent its being driven in all the way and to leave the head free for pulling.
- form room — a room in a school for a particular form or the room where a particular form register their attendance