| foresail | (noun) the lowest sail on the foremast of a square-rigged vessel | - |
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| foresee | (verb) realize beforehand | Synonyms: anticipate, foreknow, previse |
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| (verb) picture to oneself; imagine possible | Synonyms: envision |
| (verb) act in advance of; deal with ahead of time | Synonyms: anticipate, counter, forestall |
| foreseeable | (adjective) capable of being anticipated | - |
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| foreshadow | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
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| foreshadowing | (adjective) indistinctly prophetic | Synonyms: adumbrative, prefigurative |
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| (noun) the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand | Synonyms: adumbration, prefiguration |
| 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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| foreshorten | (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, reduce, shorten |
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| (verb) shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth | - |
| foreshow | (verb) foretell by divine inspiration | - |
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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 |
| foresighted | (adjective) planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: farseeing, farsighted, foresightful, long, longsighted, prospicient |
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| foresightedness | (noun) providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: foresight, foresightfulness |
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| foresightful | (adjective) planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, long, longsighted, prospicient |
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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 |
| (verb) establish a forest on previously unforested land | Synonyms: afforest |
| 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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| forestall | (verb) act in advance of; deal with ahead of time | Synonyms: anticipate, counter, foresee |
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| (verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible | Synonyms: forbid, foreclose, preclude, prevent |
| 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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| forested | (adjective) covered with forest | - |
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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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| foreswear | (verb) turn away from; give up | Synonyms: quit, relinquish, renounce |
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| (verb) do without or cease to hold or adhere to | Synonyms: dispense with, forego, forgo, relinquish, waive |
| foretaste | (noun) an early limited awareness of something yet to occur | - |
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| foretell | (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, call, forebode, predict, prognosticate, promise |
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| (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
| (verb) foreshadow or presage | Synonyms: announce, annunciate, harbinger, herald |
| 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 |
| forethoughtful | (adjective) thoughtful of the future | - |
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| 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 | - |
| forever | (adverb) for a limitless time | Synonyms: eternally, everlastingly, evermore |
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| (adverb) for a very long or seemingly endless time | Synonyms: forever and a day |
| (adverb) invariably | Synonyms: always, constantly, incessantly, perpetually |
| forevermore | (adverb) at any future time; in the future | Synonyms: evermore |
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| forewarn | (verb) warn in advance or beforehand; give an early warning | Synonyms: previse |
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| 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 | (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 |
| frore | (adjective) very cold | - |
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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 |
| furthermore | (adverb) denoting additional information | Synonyms: in addition, moreover, what is more |
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| galore | (adjective) existing in abundance | Synonyms: abounding |
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| (adjective) in great numbers | - |
| 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 | - |
| (verb) cut into gores | - |
| (verb) wound by piercing with a sharp or penetrating object or instrument | - |
| 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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| hardcore | (adjective) extremely explicit | Synonyms: hard-core |
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| (adjective) intensely loyal | Synonyms: hard-core |
| 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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| 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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| honored | (adjective) having an illustrious reputation; respected | Synonyms: esteemed, honoured, prestigious |
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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 | - |
| ignore | (verb) be ignorant of or in the dark about | - |
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| (verb) give little or no attention to | Synonyms: disregard, neglect |
| (verb) bar from attention or consideration | Synonyms: brush aside, brush off, discount, dismiss, disregard, push aside |
| (verb) refuse to acknowledge | Synonyms: cut, disregard, snub |
| (verb) fail to notice | - |
| ignored | (adjective) disregarded | Synonyms: neglected, unheeded |
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| 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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| implore | (verb) call upon in supplication; entreat | Synonyms: beg, pray |
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| incorporeal | (adjective) without material form or substance | Synonyms: immaterial |
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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 | - |
| inshore | (adjective) (of winds) coming from the sea toward the land | Synonyms: onshore, shoreward |
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| (adjective) close to a shore | - |
| (adverb) toward the shore | - |
| 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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| labored | (adjective) lacking natural ease | Synonyms: laboured, strained |
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| (adjective) requiring or showing effort | Synonyms: heavy, laboured |
| 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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| marmoreal | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of marble | Synonyms: marmorean |
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| marmorean | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of marble | Synonyms: marmoreal |
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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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| mirrored | (adjective) like or characteristic of a mirror image | - |
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| monoreme | (noun) a galley that has one bank of oars. | - |
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| more | (adjective) (comparative of `much' used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree; above; more than | Synonyms: more than |
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| (adjective) (comparative of `many' used with count nouns) quantifier meaning greater in number | - |
| (adverb) used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs, indicates that the adjective or adverb is more of something | Synonyms: to a greater extent |
| (adverb) comparative of much; to a greater degree or extent | - |
| 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 |
| moreover | (adverb) denoting additional information | Synonyms: furthermore, in addition, what is more |
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| mores | (noun) (sociology) the conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group | - |
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| motored | (adjective) equipped with a motor or motors | Synonyms: motorised, motorized |
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| multicolored | (adjective) having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly | Synonyms: calico, motley, multi-color, multi-colored, multi-colour, multi-coloured, multicolor, multicolour, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured |
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| multistorey | (adjective) having more than one story | Synonyms: multistoried, multistory |
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