| 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 | (adjective) come upon unexpectedly or after searching | - |
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| (noun) food and lodging provided in addition to money | - |
| (verb) use as a basis for; found on | Synonyms: base, establish, ground |
| (verb) set up or lay the groundwork for | Synonyms: constitute, establish, institute, plant |
| (verb) set up or found | Synonyms: establish, launch, set up |
| 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 |
| (verb) break down, literally or metaphorically | Synonyms: break, cave in, collapse, fall in, give, give way |
| (verb) sink below the surface | - |
| (verb) stumble and nearly fall | - |
| (verb) fail utterly; collapse | Synonyms: fall flat, fall through, flop |
| 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 | (adjective) being one more than three | Synonyms: 4, iv |
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| (noun) a playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows four pips | Synonyms: four-spot |
| (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 |
| fourfold | (adjective) having four units or components | Synonyms: four-fold, quadruple, quadruplex, quadruplicate |
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| (adjective) four times as great or many | Synonyms: four-fold, quadruple |
| (adverb) by a factor of four | Synonyms: four times |
| fourhanded | (adjective) (of card games) involving or requiring four players | - |
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| fourpence | (noun) a former English silver coin worth four pennies | Synonyms: groat |
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| fourpenny | (adjective) used of nail size; 1 1/2 in or 3.8 cm long | - |
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| fourscore | (adjective) being ten more than seventy | Synonyms: 80, eighty, lxxx |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the product of ten and eight | Synonyms: 80, eighty, LXXX |
| 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 | (adjective) characterized by firm and unwavering conviction | - |
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| (noun) (geometry) a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four-sided regular polygon | Synonyms: square |
| (adverb) with firmness and conviction; without compromise | Synonyms: squarely, straightforwardly |
| (adverb) in a square position | - |
| fourteen | (adjective) being one more than thirteen | Synonyms: 14, xiv |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of thirteen and one | Synonyms: 14, XIV |
| fourteenth | (adjective) coming next after the thirteenth in position | Synonyms: 14th |
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| (noun) position 14 in a countable series of things | - |
| fourth | (adjective) coming next after the third and just before the fifth in position or time or degree or magnitude | Synonyms: 4th, quaternary |
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| (noun) the musical interval between one note and another four notes away from it | - |
| (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 | - |
| (adverb) in the fourth place | Synonyms: fourthly |
| fourthly | (adverb) in the fourth place | Synonyms: fourth |
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| 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 |
| (verb) hunt fowl in the forest | - |
| (verb) hunt fowl | - |
| 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 | - |
| (verb) become discolored with, or as if with, mildew spots | - |
| (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fuddle, throw |
| (verb) deceive somebody | Synonyms: flim-flam, fob, play a joke on, play a trick on, play tricks, pull a fast one on, trick |
| 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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| (verb) hunt foxes, on horseback and with dogs | - |
| foxily | (adverb) in an subtle, cunning manner | Synonyms: artfully, craftily, cunningly, knavishly, slyly, trickily |
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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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| (verb) dance the foxtrot | - |
| foxy | (adjective) marked by skill in deception | Synonyms: crafty, cunning, dodgy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily |
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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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| fusiform | (adjective) tapering at each end | Synonyms: cigar-shaped, spindle-shaped |
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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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| godforsaken | (adjective) located in a dismal or remote area; desolate | Synonyms: waste, wild |
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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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| henceforth | (adverb) from this time forth; from now on | Synonyms: henceforward |
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| henceforward | (adverb) from this time forth; from now on | Synonyms: henceforth |
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| hereinbefore | (adverb) in the preceding part of the current text | - |
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| heretofore | (adverb) used in negative statement to describe a situation that has existed up to this point or up to the present time | Synonyms: as yet, hitherto, so far, thus far, til now, until now, up to now, yet |
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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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| (adverb) without delay; speedily | - |
| (verb) move hurridly | Synonyms: belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hasten, hie, pelt along, race, rush, rush along, speed, step on it |
| hundredfold | (adverb) by a factor of one hundred | Synonyms: a hundred times |
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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 |
| imperforate | (adjective) not perforated; having no opening | - |
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| info | (noun) a message received and understood | Synonyms: information |
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| infolding | (noun) the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface | Synonyms: introversion, intussusception, invagination |
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| infomercial | (noun) a television commercial presented in the form of a short documentary | Synonyms: informercial |
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| inform | (verb) give character or essence to | - |
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| (verb) impart knowledge of some fact, state of affairs, or event to | - |
| (verb) act as an informer | - |
| informal | (adjective) not formal | - |
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| (adjective) used of spoken and written language | - |
| (adjective) having or fostering a warm or friendly and informal atmosphere | Synonyms: cosy, cozy, intimate |
| (adjective) not officially recognized or controlled | Synonyms: loose |
| informality | (noun) a manner that does not take forms and ceremonies seriously | - |
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| (noun) freedom from constraint or embarrassment | Synonyms: ease |
| informally | (adverb) without formality | - |
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| (adverb) with the use of colloquial expressions | Synonyms: colloquially, conversationally |
| informant | (noun) a person who supplies information | Synonyms: source |
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| (noun) someone who sees an event and reports what happened | Synonyms: witness, witnesser |
| informatics | (noun) the sciences concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving, and classifying recorded information | Synonyms: information processing, information science, IP |
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| information | (noun) (communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome | Synonyms: entropy, selective information |
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| (noun) knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction | - |
| (noun) a message received and understood | Synonyms: info |
| (noun) formal accusation of a crime | - |
| (noun) a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn | Synonyms: data |
| informational | (adjective) relating to or having the nature of information | - |
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| informative | (adjective) providing or conveying information | Synonyms: informatory |
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| (adjective) tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance | Synonyms: enlightening, illuminating |
| (adjective) serving to instruct or enlighten or inform | Synonyms: instructive |
| informatively | (adverb) in an informative manner | Synonyms: instructively |
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| informatory | (adjective) providing or conveying information | Synonyms: informative |
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| informed | (adjective) having much knowledge or education | - |
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| informer | (noun) one who reveals confidential information to the police or other authority | Synonyms: betrayer, blabber, rat, squealer |
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| informercial | (noun) a television commercial presented in the form of a short documentary | Synonyms: infomercial |
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| informing | (noun) a speech act that conveys information | Synonyms: making known |
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| (noun) to furnish incriminating evidence to an officer of the law (usually in return for favors) | Synonyms: ratting |
| infotainment | (noun) a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event | Synonyms: docudrama, documentary, documentary film |
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| iodoform | (noun) a yellowish crystalline solid with a penetrating odor; sometimes used as an antiseptic dressing | Synonyms: triiodomethane |
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| (noun) sweet smelling yellow solid haloform CHI3 | Synonyms: tri-iodomethane |
| keyfob | (noun) A small object fastened to a key chain or key ring and designed to be comfortably grasped. | Synonyms: key fob |
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| kinfolk | (noun) people descended from a common ancestor | Synonyms: family, family line, folk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept |
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| kinsfolk | (noun) people descended from a common ancestor | Synonyms: family, family line, folk, kinfolk, phratry, sept |
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| lentiform | (adjective) convex on both sides; shaped like a lentil | Synonyms: biconvex, convexo-convex, lenticular |
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| malformation | (noun) something abnormal or anomalous | Synonyms: miscreation |
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| (noun) an affliction in which some part of the body is misshapen or malformed | Synonyms: deformity, misshapenness |
| malformed | (adjective) so badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly | Synonyms: deformed, distorted, ill-shapen, misshapen |
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| manifold | (adjective) many and varied; having many features or forms | Synonyms: multiplex |
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| (noun) a pipe that has several lateral outlets to or from other pipes | - |
| (noun) a set of points such as those of a closed surface or an analogue in three or more dimensions | - |
| (noun) a lightweight paper used with carbon paper to make multiple copies | Synonyms: manifold paper |
| (verb) make multiple copies of | Synonyms: multiply |
| (verb) combine or increase by multiplication | Synonyms: multiply |
| metformin | (noun) an antidiabetic drug (trade name Glucophage) prescribed to treat type II diabetes | Synonyms: Glucophage |
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| microfossil | (noun) a fossil that must be studied microscopically | - |
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| milfoil | (noun) ubiquitous strong-scented mat-forming Eurasian herb of wasteland, hedgerow or pasture having narrow serrate leaves and small usually white florets; widely naturalized in North America | Synonyms: Achillea millefolium, yarrow |
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| millionfold | (adverb) by a factor of a million | Synonyms: a million times |
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| misfortunate | (adjective) deserving or inciting pity | Synonyms: hapless, miserable, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched |
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| misfortune | (noun) unnecessary and unforeseen trouble resulting from an unfortunate event | Synonyms: bad luck |
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| (noun) an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes | Synonyms: bad luck, ill luck, tough luck |
| misinform | (verb) give false or misleading information to | Synonyms: mislead |
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| misinformation | (noun) information that is incorrect | - |
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| moorfowl | (noun) reddish-brown grouse of upland moors of Great Britain | Synonyms: Lagopus scoticus, moor-bird, moorbird, moorgame, red grouse |
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| morbilliform | (adjective) of a rash that resembles that of measles | - |
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| multiform | (adjective) occurring in or having many forms or shapes or appearances | - |
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| newfound | (adjective) newly discovered | - |
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