| encasement | (noun) the act of enclosing something in a case | Synonyms: incasement |
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| forecast | (noun) a prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop | Synonyms: prognosis |
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| (verb) judge to be probable | Synonyms: calculate, count on, estimate, figure, reckon |
| (verb) predict in advance | Synonyms: calculate |
| (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
| 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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| fracas | (noun) noisy quarrel | Synonyms: affray, altercation |
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| fricassee | (noun) pieces of chicken or other meat stewed in gravy with e.g. carrots and onions and served with noodles or dumplings | - |
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| (verb) make a fricassee of by cooking | - |
| incase | (verb) enclose in, or as if in, a case | Synonyms: case, encase |
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| incased | (adjective) covered or protected with or as if with a case | Synonyms: cased, encased |
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| incasement | (noun) the act of enclosing something in a case | Synonyms: encasement |
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| lowercase | (adjective) relating to small (not capitalized) letters that were kept in the lower half of a compositor's type case | - |
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| (noun) the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case | Synonyms: lower-case letter, minuscule, small letter |
| miscast | (verb) cast an actor, singer, or dancer in an unsuitable role | - |
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| mocassin | (noun) soft leather shoe; originally worn by Native Americans | Synonyms: moccasin |
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| moccasin | (noun) soft leather shoe; originally worn by Native Americans | Synonyms: mocassin |
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| newscast | (noun) a broadcast of news or commentary on the news | - |
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| newscaster | (noun) someone who broadcasts the news | - |
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| notecase | (noun) a pocket-size case for holding papers and paper money | Synonyms: billfold, pocketbook, wallet |
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| nutcase | (noun) someone deranged and possibly dangerous | Synonyms: crazy, looney, loony, weirdo |
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| occasion | (noun) an event that occurs at a critical time | Synonyms: juncture |
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| (noun) a formal or official social gathering or ceremony of people | Synonyms: affair, function, social affair, social function, social gathering, social occasion |
| (noun) a rational motive for a belief or action | Synonyms: ground, reason |
| (noun) an opportunity to do something | - |
| (noun) the time of a particular event | - |
| (verb) give occasion to | - |
| occasional | (adjective) occurring from time to time | - |
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| (adjective) occurring on a temporary or irregular basis | Synonyms: casual |
| (adjective) recurring or reappearing from time to time | Synonyms: periodic |
| (adjective) occurring or appearing at usually irregular intervals | Synonyms: episodic |
| occasionally | (adverb) sporadically and infrequently | Synonyms: at times, from time to time, now and again, now and then, on occasion, once in a while |
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| occasions | (noun) something you have to do | - |
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| opencast | (adjective) (of mines and mining) worked from the exposed surface | Synonyms: opencut |
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| outcast | (adjective) excluded from a society | Synonyms: friendless |
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| (noun) a person who is rejected (from society or home) | Synonyms: castaway, Ishmael, pariah |
| outcaste | (adjective) not belonging to or having been expelled from a caste and thus having no place or status in society | Synonyms: casteless |
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| (noun) a person belonging to no caste | - |
| overcast | (adjective) filled or abounding with clouds | Synonyms: cloud-covered, clouded, sunless |
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| (noun) a cast that falls beyond the intended spot | - |
| (noun) a long whipstitch or overhand stitch overlying an edge to prevent raveling | Synonyms: overcasting |
| (noun) the state of the sky when it is covered by clouds | Synonyms: cloud cover, cloudiness |
| (noun) gloomy semidarkness caused by cloud cover | Synonyms: cloudiness |
| (verb) sew with an overcast stitch from one section to the next | - |
| (verb) sew over the edge of with long slanting wide stitches | - |
| (verb) make overcast or cloudy | Synonyms: cloud |
| overcasting | (noun) a long whipstitch or overhand stitch overlying an edge to prevent raveling | Synonyms: overcast |
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| pillowcase | (noun) bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow | Synonyms: case, pillow slip, slip |
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| podcast | (verb) distribute (multimedia files) over the internet for playback on a mobile device or a personal computer | - |
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| precast | (adjective) of structural members especially of concrete; cast into form before being transported to the site of installation | - |
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| rebroadcast | (noun) a broadcast that repeated at a later time | - |
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| (verb) broadcast again, as of a film | Synonyms: rerun |
| recast | (verb) cast again, in a different role | - |
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| (verb) cast again | Synonyms: remold, remould |
| (verb) cast or model anew | Synonyms: reforge, remodel |
| recasting | (noun) changing a particular word or phrase | Synonyms: rephrasing, rewording |
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| roughcast | (noun) a rough preliminary model | - |
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| (noun) a coarse plaster for the surface of external walls | - |
| (verb) hew roughly, without finishing the surface | Synonyms: rough-hew |
| (verb) apply roughcast to | - |
| (verb) shape roughly | - |
| sarcasm | (noun) witty language used to convey insults or scorn | Synonyms: caustic remark, irony, satire |
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| sarcastic | (adjective) expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds | - |
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| sarcastically | (adverb) in a sarcastic manner | Synonyms: sardonically |
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| seedcase | (noun) the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves) | Synonyms: cod, pod |
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| showcase | (noun) a glass container used to store and display items in a shop or museum or home | Synonyms: case, display case, vitrine |
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| (noun) a setting in which something can be displayed to best effect | Synonyms: show window |
| simulcast | (noun) a broadcast that is carried simultaneously by radio and television (or by FM and AM radio) | - |
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| sportscast | (noun) a broadcast of sports news or commentary | - |
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| (verb) broadcast a sports event | - |
| sportscaster | (noun) an announcer who reads sports news or describes sporting events | Synonyms: sports announcer, sports commentator |
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| staircase | (noun) a way of access (upward and downward) consisting of a set of steps | Synonyms: stairway |
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| suitcase | (noun) a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes | Synonyms: bag, grip, traveling bag, travelling bag |
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| telecast | (noun) a television broadcast | - |
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| (verb) broadcast via television | Synonyms: televise |
| telecaster | (noun) a television broadcaster | - |
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| telecasting | (noun) broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects | Synonyms: television, TV, video |
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| typecast | (verb) identify as belonging to a certain type | Synonyms: type |
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| (verb) cast repeatedly in the same kind of role | - |
| uncase | (verb) get undressed | Synonyms: discase, disrobe, peel, strip, strip down, unclothe, undress |
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| uncastrated | (adjective) not castrated | - |
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| unsarcastic | (adjective) not sarcastic | - |
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| upcast | (noun) air passage consisting of a ventilation shaft through which air leaves a mine | - |
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| uppercase | (adjective) relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case | - |
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| (noun) one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis | Synonyms: capital, capital letter, majuscule, upper-case letter |
| videocassette | (noun) a cassette for videotape | - |
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| wormcast | (noun) fossil trail of a worm | - |
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| (noun) cylindrical mass of earth voided by a burrowing earthworm or lugworm | - |