| foredge | (noun) the part of a book that faces inward when the book is shelved; the part opposite the spine | Synonyms: fore edge |
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| forefather | (noun) the founder of a family | Synonyms: father, sire |
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| (noun) person from an earlier time who contributed to the tradition shared by some group | - |
| forefinger | (noun) the finger next to the thumb | Synonyms: index, index finger |
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| forefoot | (noun) a front foot of a quadruped | - |
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| forefront | (noun) the position of greatest importance or advancement; the leading position in any movement or field | Synonyms: cutting edge, vanguard |
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| (noun) the part in the front or nearest the viewer | Synonyms: head |
| foreground | (noun) (computer science) a window for an active application | - |
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| (noun) the part of a scene that is near the viewer | - |
| foregrounding | (noun) the execution of a program that preempts the use of the processing system | Synonyms: foreground processing |
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| forehand | (noun) (sports) a return made with the palm of the hand facing the direction of the stroke (as in tennis or badminton or squash) | Synonyms: forehand shot, forehand stroke |
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| forehead | (noun) the part of the face above the eyes | Synonyms: brow |
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| (noun) the large cranial bone forming the front part of the cranium: includes the upper part of the orbits | Synonyms: frontal bone, os frontale |
| foreigner | (noun) a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country | Synonyms: alien, noncitizen, outlander |
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| (noun) someone who is excluded from or is not a member of a group | Synonyms: outsider |
| foreignness | (noun) the quality of being alien or not native | Synonyms: curiousness, strangeness |
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| foreknowledge | (noun) knowledge of an event before it occurs | Synonyms: precognition |
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| forelady | (noun) a woman who is foreperson of a jury | Synonyms: forewoman |
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| foreland | (noun) a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea) | Synonyms: head, headland, promontory |
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| (noun) land forming the forward margin of something | - |
| foreleg | (noun) the forelimb of a quadruped | - |
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| forelimb | (noun) the front limb (or the homologous structure in other animals, such as a flipper or wing) | - |
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| forelock | (noun) a lock of a horse's mane that grows forward between the ears | Synonyms: foretop |
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| (noun) a lock of hair growing (or falling) over the forehead | - |
| foreman | (noun) a person who exercises control over workers | Synonyms: boss, chief, gaffer, honcho |
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| (noun) a man who is foreperson of a jury | - |
| foremanship | (noun) the position of foreman | - |
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| foremast | (noun) the mast nearest the bow in vessels with two or more masts | - |
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| foremilk | (noun) milky fluid secreted for the first day or two after parturition | Synonyms: colostrum |
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| foremother | (noun) a female ancestor | - |
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| forename | (noun) the name that precedes the surname | Synonyms: first name, given name |
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| forenoon | (noun) the time period between dawn and noon | Synonyms: morn, morning, morning time |
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| forensics | (noun) scientific tests or techniques used in the investigation of crimes | - |
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| foreordination | (noun) (theology) being determined in advance; especially the doctrine (usually associated with Calvin) that God has foreordained every event throughout eternity (including the final salvation of mankind) | Synonyms: predestination, predetermination, preordination |
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| forepart | (noun) the side that is forward or prominent | Synonyms: front, front end |
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| forepaw | (noun) front paw; analogous to the human hand | - |
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| foreperson | (noun) the presiding member of the jury and the one who speaks on their behalf | - |
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| foreplay | (noun) mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse | Synonyms: arousal, stimulation |
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| forequarter | (noun) the front half of a side of meat | - |
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| forerunner | (noun) something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone | Synonyms: harbinger, herald, precursor, predecessor |
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| (noun) a person who goes before or announces the coming of another | Synonyms: precursor |
| (noun) anything that precedes something similar in time | Synonyms: antecedent |
| foresail | (noun) the lowest sail on the foremast of a square-rigged vessel | - |
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| foreshadowing | (noun) the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand | Synonyms: adumbration, prefiguration |
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| foreshank | (noun) a cut of meat from the upper part of a front leg | - |
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| foreshock | (noun) a tremor preceding an earthquake | - |
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| foreshore | (noun) the part of the seashore between the highwater mark and the low-water mark | - |
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| foresight | (noun) providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: foresightedness, foresightfulness |
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| (noun) seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing | Synonyms: farsightedness, prevision, prospicience |
| foresightedness | (noun) providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: foresight, foresightfulness |
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| foresightfulness | (noun) providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: foresight, foresightedness |
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| foreskin | (noun) a fold of skin covering the tip of the penis | Synonyms: prepuce |
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| (noun) a fold of skin covering the tip of the clitoris | Synonyms: prepuce |
| forest | (noun) the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area | Synonyms: wood, woods |
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| (noun) land that is covered with trees and shrubs | Synonyms: timber, timberland, woodland |
| forestage | (noun) the part of a modern theater stage between the curtain and the orchestra (i.e., in front of the curtain) | Synonyms: apron, proscenium |
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| forestalling | (noun) the act of preventing something by anticipating and disposing of it effectively | Synonyms: obviation, preclusion |
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| forestay | (noun) an adjustable stay from the foremast to the deck or bowsprit; controls the bending of the mast | - |
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| forester | (noun) someone trained in forestry | Synonyms: arboriculturist, tree farmer |
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| forestiera | (noun) any plant of the genus Forestiera | - |
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| forestry | (noun) the science of planting and caring for forests and the management of growing timber | - |
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| foretaste | (noun) an early limited awareness of something yet to occur | - |
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| foretelling | (noun) the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means | Synonyms: divination, fortune telling, soothsaying |
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| (noun) a statement made about the future | Synonyms: forecasting, prediction, prognostication |
| forethought | (noun) judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger | Synonyms: care, caution, precaution |
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| (noun) planning or plotting in advance of acting | Synonyms: premeditation |
| foretoken | (noun) an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come | Synonyms: augury, preindication, sign |
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| foretop | (noun) a lock of a horse's mane that grows forward between the ears | Synonyms: forelock |
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| (noun) a platform at the head of a foremast | - |
| forewarning | (noun) an early warning about a future event | Synonyms: premonition |
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| forewing | (noun) either of the anterior pair of wings on an insect that has four wings | Synonyms: fore-wing, fore wing |
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| forewoman | (noun) a woman in charge of a group of workers | - |
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| (noun) a woman who is foreperson of a jury | Synonyms: forelady |
| foreword | (noun) a short introductory essay preceding the text of a book | Synonyms: preface, prolusion |
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| foreyard | (noun) a yard on the lower mast of a square-rigged foremast of a ship used to support the foresail. | Synonyms: fore-yard |
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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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| furore | (noun) a sudden outburst (as of protest) | Synonyms: furor |
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| (noun) an interest followed with exaggerated zeal | Synonyms: craze, cult, fad, furor, rage |
| gametophore | (noun) a modified branch bearing gametangia as in the thalloid liverworts | - |
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| gore | (noun) the shedding of blood resulting in murder | Synonyms: bloodshed |
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| (noun) a piece of cloth that is generally triangular or tapering; used in making garments or umbrellas or sails | Synonyms: panel |
| (noun) coagulated blood from a wound | - |
| gosmore | (noun) European weed widely naturalized in North America having yellow flower heads and leaves resembling a cat's ears | Synonyms: California dandelion, capeweed, cat's-ear, Hypochaeris radicata |
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| gynophore | (noun) the stalk of a pistil that raises it above the receptacle | - |
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| hackamore | (noun) rope or canvas headgear for a horse, with a rope for leading | Synonyms: halter |
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| hellebore | (noun) any plant of the Eurasian genus Helleborus | - |
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| (noun) perennial herbs of the lily family having thick toxic rhizomes | Synonyms: false hellebore |
| herbivore | (noun) any animal that feeds chiefly on grass and other plants | - |
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| honoree | (noun) a recipient of honors in recognition of noteworthy accomplishments | - |
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| horehound | (noun) a candy that is flavored with an extract of the horehound plant | - |
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| (noun) any of various aromatic herbs of the genus Marrubium | - |
| immunoelectrophoresis | (noun) electrophoresis to separate antigens and antibodies | - |
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| immunofluorescence | (noun) (immunology) a technique that uses antibodies linked to a fluorescent dye in order to study antigens in a sample of tissue | - |
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| incorporeality | (noun) the quality of not being physical; not consisting of matter | Synonyms: immateriality |
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| inflorescence | (noun) the flowering part of a plant or arrangement of flowers on a stalk | - |
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| (noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms | Synonyms: anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, flowering |
| insectivore | (noun) small insect-eating mainly nocturnal terrestrial or fossorial mammals | - |
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| (noun) any organism that feeds mainly on insects | - |
| ionophoresis | (noun) the motion of charged particles in a colloid under the influence of an electric field; particles with a positive charge go to the cathode and negative to the anode | Synonyms: cataphoresis, dielectrolysis, electrophoresis |
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| iontophoresis | (noun) therapy that uses a local electric current to introduce the ions of a medicine into the tissues | Synonyms: electromotive drug administration, EMDA, ionic medication, iontotherapy |
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| jamboree | (noun) a gay festivity | Synonyms: blowout, gala, gala affair |
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| kinetochore | (noun) a specialized condensed region of each chromosome that appears during mitosis where the chromatids are held together to form an X shape | Synonyms: centromere |
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| laborer | (noun) someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor | Synonyms: jack, labourer, manual laborer |
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| lakeshore | (noun) the shore of a lake | Synonyms: lakeside |
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| longshoreman | (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockhand, dockworker, loader, lumper, stevedore |
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| lore | (noun) knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote | Synonyms: traditional knowledge |
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| macrospore | (noun) larger of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants; develops in ovule into a female gametophyte | Synonyms: megaspore |
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| madrepore | (noun) corals having calcareous skeletons aggregations of which form reefs and islands | Synonyms: madriporian coral, stony coral |
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| majorette | (noun) a female drum major | Synonyms: drum majorette |
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| (noun) a female baton twirler who accompanies a marching band | Synonyms: drum majorette |
| manticore | (noun) a mythical monster having the head of man (with horns) and the body of a lion and the tail of a scorpion | Synonyms: mantichora, manticora, mantiger |
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| mastigophore | (noun) a usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals | Synonyms: flagellate, flagellate protozoan, flagellated protozoan, mastigophoran |
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| mayoress | (noun) a woman mayor | - |
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| (noun) the wife of a mayor | - |
| megaspore | (noun) larger of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants; develops in ovule into a female gametophyte | Synonyms: macrospore |
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| mentoree | (noun) one who is being mentored | Synonyms: mentee |
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| microspore | (noun) smaller of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants; develops in the pollen sac into a male gametophyte | - |
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| monoreme | (noun) a galley that has one bank of oars. | - |
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| moreen | (noun) a heavy fabric of wool (or wool and cotton) used mostly in upholstery or for curtains | - |
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| morel | (noun) any of various edible mushrooms of the genus Morchella having a brownish spongelike cap | - |
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| morello | (noun) cultivated sour cherry with dark-colored skin and juice | - |
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| (noun) any of several cultivated sour cherry trees bearing fruit with dark skin and juice | Synonyms: Prunus cerasus austera |
| mores | (noun) (sociology) the conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group | - |
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| noreaster | (noun) a storm blowing from the northeast | Synonyms: northeaster |
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| norepinephrine | (noun) a catecholamine precursor of epinephrine that is secreted by the adrenal medulla and also released at synapses | Synonyms: noradrenaline |
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| norethandrolone | (noun) a synthetic progestational hormone (trade name Norlutin) used in oral contraceptives and to treat endometriosis | Synonyms: norethindrone, norethindrone acetate, Norlutin |
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| norethindrone | (noun) a synthetic progestational hormone (trade name Norlutin) used in oral contraceptives and to treat endometriosis | Synonyms: norethandrolone, norethindrone acetate, Norlutin |
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