forage | (noun) the act of searching for food and provisions | Synonyms: foraging |
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(noun) bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle | Synonyms: eatage, grass, pasturage, pasture |
forager | (noun) someone who hunts for food and provisions | - |
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foraging | (noun) the act of searching for food and provisions | Synonyms: forage |
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foram | (noun) marine microorganism having a calcareous shell with openings where pseudopods protrude | Synonyms: foraminifer |
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foramen | (noun) a natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure | Synonyms: hiatus |
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foraminifer | (noun) marine microorganism having a calcareous shell with openings where pseudopods protrude | Synonyms: foram |
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foray | (noun) a sudden short attack | Synonyms: maraud, raid |
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(noun) an initial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of competence) | - |
forbear | (noun) a person from whom you are descended | Synonyms: forebear |
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forbearance | (noun) a delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges; refraining from acting | - |
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(noun) good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence | Synonyms: longanimity, patience |
forbiddance | (noun) the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof) | Synonyms: inhibition, prohibition |
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(noun) an official prohibition or edict against something | Synonyms: ban, banning, forbidding |
forbidding | (noun) an official prohibition or edict against something | Synonyms: ban, banning, forbiddance |
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force | (noun) a putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base | Synonyms: force-out, force out, force play |
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(noun) an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists) | Synonyms: violence |
(noun) physical energy or intensity | Synonyms: forcefulness, strength |
(noun) a powerful effect or influence | - |
(noun) (of a law) having legal validity | Synonyms: effect |
(noun) group of people willing to obey orders | Synonyms: personnel |
(noun) a unit that is part of some military service | Synonyms: military force, military group, military unit |
(noun) a group of people having the power of effective action | - |
(noun) one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority | Synonyms: power |
(noun) (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity | - |
forcefulness | (noun) physical energy or intensity | Synonyms: force, strength |
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forcemeat | (noun) mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs | Synonyms: farce |
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forceps | (noun) an extractor consisting of a pair of pincers used in medical treatment (especially for the delivery of babies) | - |
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ford | (noun) the act of crossing a stream or river by wading or in a car or on a horse | Synonyms: fording |
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(noun) a shallow area in a stream that can be forded | Synonyms: crossing |
fording | (noun) the act of crossing a stream or river by wading or in a car or on a horse | Synonyms: ford |
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fore | (noun) front part of a vessel or aircraft | Synonyms: bow, prow, stem |
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forearm | (noun) the part of the superior limb between the elbow and the wrist | - |
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forebear | (noun) a person from whom you are descended | Synonyms: forbear |
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foreboding | (noun) an unfavorable omen | - |
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(noun) a feeling of evil to come | Synonyms: boding, premonition, presentiment |
forebrain | (noun) the anterior portion of the brain; the part of the brain that develops from the anterior part of the neural tube | Synonyms: prosencephalon |
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forecarriage | (noun) a small wheeled carriage attached under the front end of a plow beam. | Synonyms: fore carriage, wheeled forecarriage |
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forecast | (noun) a prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop | Synonyms: prognosis |
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forecaster | (noun) someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge) | Synonyms: predictor, prognosticator, soothsayer |
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forecasting | (noun) a statement made about the future | Synonyms: foretelling, prediction, prognostication |
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forecastle | (noun) living quarters consisting of a superstructure in the bow of a merchant ship where the crew is housed | Synonyms: fo'c'sle |
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foreclosure | (noun) the legal proceedings initiated by a creditor to repossess the collateral for loan that is in default | - |
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forecourt | (noun) the outer or front court of a building or of a group of buildings | - |
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foredeck | (noun) the deck between the bridge and the forecastle | - |
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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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forfeit | (noun) the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc. | Synonyms: forfeiture, sacrifice |
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(noun) a penalty for a fault or mistake that involves losing or giving up something | Synonyms: forfeiture |
(noun) something that is lost or surrendered as a penalty | Synonyms: forfeiture |
forfeiture | (noun) the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc. | Synonyms: forfeit, sacrifice |
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(noun) a penalty for a fault or mistake that involves losing or giving up something | Synonyms: forfeit |
(noun) something that is lost or surrendered as a penalty | Synonyms: forfeit |
forge | (noun) a workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering | Synonyms: smithy |
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(noun) furnace consisting of a special hearth where metal is heated before shaping | - |
forger | (noun) someone who operates a forge | - |
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(noun) someone who makes copies illegally | Synonyms: counterfeiter |
forgery | (noun) criminal falsification by making or altering an instrument with intent to defraud | - |
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(noun) a copy that is represented as the original | Synonyms: counterfeit |
forgetfulness | (noun) tendency to forget | - |
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(noun) unawareness caused by neglectful or heedless failure to remember | - |
forging | (noun) shaping metal by heating and hammering | - |
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forgiveness | (noun) the act of excusing a mistake or offense | Synonyms: pardon |
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(noun) compassionate feelings that support a willingness to forgive | - |
forgiver | (noun) a person who pardons or forgives or excuses a fault or offense | Synonyms: excuser, pardoner |
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forgivingness | (noun) tendency to be kind and forgiving | Synonyms: kindness |
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forgoing | (noun) the act of renouncing; sacrificing or giving up or surrendering (a possession or right or title or privilege etc.) | Synonyms: forswearing, renunciation |
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forint | (noun) the basic unit of money in Hungary | - |
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