formation | (noun) the act of fabricating something in a particular shape | Synonyms: shaping |
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(noun) the act of forming or establishing something | Synonyms: constitution, establishment, organisation, organization |
(noun) creation by mental activity | - |
(noun) a particular spatial arrangement | - |
(noun) an arrangement of people or things acting as a unit | - |
(noun) (geology) the geological features of the earth | Synonyms: geological formation |
(noun) natural process that causes something to form | - |
formative | (noun) minimal language unit that has a syntactic (or morphological) function | - |
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formatting | (noun) the organization of information according to preset specifications (usually for computer processing) | Synonyms: data format, data formatting, format |
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former | (noun) the first of two or the first mentioned of two | - |
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formicary | (noun) a mound of earth made by ants as they dig their nest | Synonyms: anthill |
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formication | (noun) hallucinated sensation that insects or snakes are crawling over the skin; a common side-effect of extensive use of cocaine or amphetamines | - |
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formidability | (noun) impressive difficulty | Synonyms: toughness |
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formol | (noun) a 10% solution of formaldehyde in water; used as a disinfectant or to preserve biological specimens | Synonyms: formalin |
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formula | (noun) something regarded as a normative example | Synonyms: convention, normal, pattern, rule |
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(noun) (mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems | Synonyms: rule |
(noun) a group of symbols that make a mathematical statement | Synonyms: expression |
(noun) a conventionalized statement expressing some fundamental principle | - |
(noun) directions for making something | Synonyms: recipe |
(noun) a representation of a substance using symbols for its constituent elements | Synonyms: chemical formula |
(noun) a liquid food for infants | - |
formulary | (noun) (pharmacology) a book containing a compilation of pharmaceutical products with their formulas and methods of preparation | Synonyms: pharmacopeia |
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formulation | (noun) inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and formulating it mentally | Synonyms: conceptualisation, conceptualization |
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(noun) the style of expressing yourself | Synonyms: expression |
(noun) a substance prepared according to a formula | Synonyms: preparation |
fornication | (noun) voluntary sexual intercourse between persons not married to each other | - |
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(noun) extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations | Synonyms: adultery, criminal conversation |
fornicator | (noun) someone who commits adultery or fornication | Synonyms: adulterer |
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fornicatress | (noun) a woman adulterer | Synonyms: adulteress, hussy, jade, loose woman, slut, strumpet, trollop |
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fornix | (noun) an arched bundle of white fibers at the base of the brain by which the hippocampus of each hemisphere projects to the contralateral hippocampus and to the thalamus and mamillary bodies | Synonyms: trigonum cerebrale |
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(noun) generally any arch shaped structure (but often it refers to the arched roof of an anatomical space) | - |
forsaking | (noun) the act of giving something up | Synonyms: abandonment, desertion |
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(noun) the act of forsaking | Synonyms: giving up |
forswearing | (noun) the act of renouncing; sacrificing or giving up or surrendering (a possession or right or title or privilege etc.) | Synonyms: forgoing, renunciation |
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forsythia | (noun) any of various early blooming oleaceous shrubs of the genus Forsythia; native to eastern Asia and southern Europe but widely cultivated for their branches of bright yellow bell-shaped flowers | - |
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fort | (noun) a fortified defensive structure | Synonyms: fortress |
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(noun) a fortified military post where troops are stationed | Synonyms: garrison |
forte | (noun) the stronger part of a sword blade between the hilt and the foible | - |
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(noun) an asset of special worth or utility | Synonyms: long suit, metier, speciality, specialty, strength, strong point, strong suit |
(noun) a musical composition or musical passage to be performed loudly | - |
forthcomingness | (noun) the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon | Synonyms: imminence, imminency, imminentness, impendence, impendency |
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forthrightness | (noun) the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech | Synonyms: candidness, candor, candour, directness, frankness |
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forties | (noun) the time of life between 40 and 50 | Synonyms: mid-forties |
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(noun) the decade from 1940 to 1949 | Synonyms: 1940s |
fortieth | (noun) position 40 in a countable series of things | - |
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fortification | (noun) the addition of an ingredient for the purpose of enrichment (as the addition of alcohol to wine or the addition of vitamins to food) | - |
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(noun) defensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built around a stronghold to strengthen it | Synonyms: munition |
(noun) the art or science of strengthening defenses | - |
fortissimo | (noun) a musical composition or musical passage to be performed very loudly | - |
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fortitude | (noun) strength of mind that enables one to endure adversity with courage | - |
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fortnight | (noun) a period of fourteen consecutive days | Synonyms: two weeks |
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fortress | (noun) a fortified defensive structure | Synonyms: fort |
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fortuitousness | (noun) the quality of happening accidentally and by lucky chance | - |
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fortuity | (noun) anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause | Synonyms: accident, chance event, stroke |
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fortune | (noun) an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another | Synonyms: chance, hazard, luck |
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(noun) an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome | Synonyms: luck |
(noun) a large amount of wealth or prosperity | - |
(noun) your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) | Synonyms: circumstances, destiny, fate, lot, luck, portion |
fortuneteller | (noun) a person who foretells your personal future | Synonyms: fortune teller |
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fortunetelling | (noun) the practice of predicting people's futures (usually for payment) | - |
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forty | (noun) the cardinal number that is the product of ten and four | Synonyms: 40, XL |
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forum | (noun) a public facility to meet for open discussion | Synonyms: assembly, meeting place |
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(noun) a public meeting or assembly for open discussion | - |
forward | (noun) a position on a basketball, soccer, or hockey team | - |
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(noun) the person who plays the position of forward in certain games, such as basketball, soccer, or hockey | - |
forwarding | (noun) the act of sending on to another destination | - |
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(noun) the advancement of some enterprise | Synonyms: furtherance, promotion |
forwardness | (noun) prompt willingness | Synonyms: eagerness, readiness, zeal |
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(noun) an advanced stage | - |
(noun) offensive boldness and assertiveness | Synonyms: bumptiousness, cockiness, pushiness |
foryml | (noun) (chemistry) the negative univalent acyl radical CHO that occurs in aldehydes | - |
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fossa | (noun) largest carnivore of Madagascar; intermediate in some respects between cats and civets | Synonyms: Cryptoprocta ferox, fossa cat |
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(noun) a concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression) | Synonyms: pit |
fosse | (noun) ditch dug as a fortification and usually filled with water | Synonyms: moat |
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fossil | (noun) the remains (or an impression) of a plant or animal that existed in a past geological age and that has been excavated from the soil | - |
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(noun) someone whose style is out of fashion | Synonyms: dodo, fogey, fogy |
fossilisation | (noun) becoming inflexible or out of date | Synonyms: fossilization |
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(noun) the process of fossilizing a plant or animal that existed in some earlier age; the process of being turned to stone | Synonyms: fossilization |
fossilist | (noun) a specialist in paleontology | Synonyms: palaeontologist, paleontologist |
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fossilization | (noun) becoming inflexible or out of date | Synonyms: fossilisation |
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(noun) the process of fossilizing a plant or animal that existed in some earlier age; the process of being turned to stone | Synonyms: fossilisation |
fossilology | (noun) the earth science that studies fossil organisms and related remains | Synonyms: palaeontology, paleontology |
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fosterage | (noun) helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community | Synonyms: breeding, bringing up, fostering, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringing |
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(noun) encouragement; aiding the development of something | Synonyms: fostering |
fostering | (noun) helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community | Synonyms: breeding, bringing up, fosterage, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringing |
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(noun) encouragement; aiding the development of something | Synonyms: fosterage |
fosterling | (noun) a child who is raised by foster parents | Synonyms: foster-child, foster child |
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fothergilla | (noun) any of several deciduous low-growing shrubs of the genus Fothergilla having showy brushlike spikes of white flowers in spring and fiery red and orange autumn color; grows from Alabama to the Allegheny Mountains | Synonyms: witch alder |
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foul | (noun) an act that violates the rules of a sport | - |
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foulard | (noun) a light plain-weave or twill-weave silk or silklike fabric (usually with a printed design) | - |
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foulmart | (noun) dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened | Synonyms: fitch, foumart, Mustela putorius, polecat |
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foulness | (noun) the attribute of having a strong offensive smell | Synonyms: fetidness, malodorousness, rankness, stinkiness |
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(noun) (of weather) the badness of the weather | Synonyms: raininess |
(noun) a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse | Synonyms: filth, filthiness, nastiness |
(noun) disgusting wickedness and immorality | - |
foumart | (noun) dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened | Synonyms: fitch, foulmart, Mustela putorius, polecat |
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found | (noun) food and lodging provided in addition to money | - |
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foundation | (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: creation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction, origination |
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(noun) lowest support of a structure | Synonyms: base, foot, fundament, groundwork, substructure, understructure |
(noun) a woman's undergarment worn to give shape to the contours of the body | Synonyms: foundation garment |
(noun) the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained | Synonyms: base, basis, cornerstone, fundament, groundwork |
(noun) education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge | Synonyms: grounding |
(noun) an institution supported by an endowment | - |
(noun) the basis on which something is grounded | - |
founder | (noun) a person who founds or establishes some institution | Synonyms: beginner, father, founding father |
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(noun) a worker who makes metal castings | - |
(noun) inflammation of the laminated tissue that attaches the hoof to the foot of a horse | Synonyms: laminitis |
foundering | (noun) (of a ship) sinking | Synonyms: going under |
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founding | (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: creation, foundation, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction, origination |
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foundling | (noun) a child who has been abandoned and whose parents are unknown | Synonyms: abandoned infant |
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foundress | (noun) a woman founder | - |
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foundry | (noun) factory where metal castings are produced | Synonyms: metalworks |
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fount | (noun) a plumbing fixture that provides a flow of water | Synonyms: fountain |
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(noun) a specific size and style of type within a type family | Synonyms: case, face, font, typeface |
fountain | (noun) a plumbing fixture that provides a flow of water | Synonyms: fount |
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(noun) an artificially produced flow of water | Synonyms: jet |
(noun) a structure from which an artificially produced jet of water arises | - |
(noun) a natural flow of ground water | Synonyms: natural spring, outflow, outpouring, spring |
fountainhead | (noun) an abundant source | Synonyms: well, wellspring |
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(noun) the source of water from which a stream arises | Synonyms: head, headspring |
four | (noun) a playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows four pips | Synonyms: four-spot |
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(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one | Synonyms: 4, foursome, IV, Little Joe, quadruplet, quartet, quatern, quaternary, quaternion, quaternity, tetrad |
fourpence | (noun) a former English silver coin worth four pennies | Synonyms: groat |
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fourscore | (noun) the cardinal number that is the product of ten and eight | Synonyms: 80, eighty, LXXX |
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foursome | (noun) four people considered as a unit | Synonyms: quartet, quartette |
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(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one | Synonyms: 4, four, IV, Little Joe, quadruplet, quartet, quatern, quaternary, quaternion, quaternity, tetrad |
foursquare | (noun) (geometry) a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four-sided regular polygon | Synonyms: square |
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fourteen | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of thirteen and one | Synonyms: 14, XIV |
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fourteenth | (noun) position 14 in a countable series of things | - |
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fourth | (noun) the musical interval between one note and another four notes away from it | - |
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(noun) one of four equal parts | Synonyms: fourth part, one-fourth, one-quarter, quarter, quartern, twenty-five percent |
(noun) following the third position; number four in a countable series | - |
fovea | (noun) area consisting of a small depression in the retina containing cones and where vision is most acute | Synonyms: fovea centralis |
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fowl | (noun) a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl | Synonyms: domestic fowl, poultry |
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(noun) the flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food | Synonyms: bird |
fowler | (noun) someone who hunts wild birds for food | - |
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fox | (noun) alert carnivorous mammal with pointed muzzle and ears and a bushy tail; most are predators that do not hunt in packs | - |
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(noun) a shifty deceptive person | Synonyms: dodger, slyboots |
(noun) the grey or reddish-brown fur of a fox | - |
foxberry | (noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries | Synonyms: cowberry, lingberry, lingenberry, lingonberry, mountain cranberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea |
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foxglove | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Digitalis | Synonyms: digitalis |
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foxhole | (noun) a small dugout with a pit for individual shelter against enemy fire | Synonyms: fox hole |
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foxhound | (noun) medium-sized glossy-coated hounds developed for hunting foxes | - |
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foxhunt | (noun) mounted hunters follow hounds in pursuit of a fox | Synonyms: fox hunting |
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foxiness | (noun) shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception | Synonyms: craft, craftiness, cunning, guile, slyness, wiliness |
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foxtail | (noun) grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes | Synonyms: foxtail grass |
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foxtrot | (noun) a ballroom dance in quadruple time; combines short and long and fast and slow steps fixed sequences | Synonyms: fox-trot |
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foyer | (noun) a large entrance or reception room or area | Synonyms: antechamber, anteroom, entrance hall, hall, lobby, vestibule |
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gatefold | (noun) an oversize page that is folded in to a book or magazine | Synonyms: foldout |
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gentlefolk | (noun) people of good family and breeding and high social status | - |
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goatsfoot | (noun) short-stemmed South African plant with bluish flowers | Synonyms: goat's foot, Oxalis caprina |
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goosefoot | (noun) any of various weeds of the genus Chenopodium having small greenish flowers | - |
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griffon | (noun) breed of various very small compact wiry-coated dogs of Belgian origin having a short bearded muzzle | Synonyms: Belgian griffon, Brussels griffon |
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(noun) breed of medium-sized long-headed dogs with downy undercoat and harsh wiry outer coat; originated in Holland but largely developed in France | Synonyms: wire-haired pointing griffon |
(noun) large vulture of southern Europe and northern Africa having pale plumage with black wings | Synonyms: griffon vulture, Gyps fulvus |
(noun) winged monster with the head of an eagle and the body of a lion | Synonyms: griffin, gryphon |
haloform | (noun) compounds with the formula CHX3, where X is a halogen atom | - |
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hayfork | (noun) a long-handled fork for turning or lifting hay | - |
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heathfowl | (noun) large northern European grouse that is black with a lyre-shaped tail | Synonyms: European black grouse, Lyrurus tetrix |
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hindfoot | (noun) a rear foot of a quadruped | - |
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homefolk | (noun) the people of your home locality (especially your own family) | - |
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hotfoot | (noun) a practical joke that involves inserting a match surreptitiously between the sole and upper of the victim's shoe and then lighting it | - |
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hydrofoil | (noun) a speedboat that is equipped with winglike structures that lift it so that it skims the water at high speeds | Synonyms: hydroplane |
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(noun) a device consisting of a flat or curved piece (as a metal plate) so that its surface reacts to the water it is passing through | Synonyms: foil |