| fortify | (verb) add alcohol to (beverages) | Synonyms: lace, spike |
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| (verb) make strong or stronger | Synonyms: beef up, strengthen |
| (verb) add nutrients to | - |
| (verb) prepare oneself for a military confrontation | Synonyms: arm, build up, gird |
| (verb) enclose by or as if by a fortification | Synonyms: fort |
| fortissimo | (adjective) (chiefly a direction or description in music) very loud and strong | - |
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| (noun) a musical composition or musical passage to be performed very loudly | - |
| (adverb) a direction in music; to be played very loudly | Synonyms: very loudly |
| fortitude | (noun) strength of mind that enables one to endure adversity with courage | - |
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| fortnight | (noun) a period of fourteen consecutive days | Synonyms: two weeks |
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| fortnightly | (adjective) occurring every two weeks | Synonyms: biweekly |
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| (adverb) every two weeks | Synonyms: biweekly |
| fortress | (noun) a fortified defensive structure | Synonyms: fort |
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| fortuitous | (adjective) occurring by happy chance | - |
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| (adjective) having no cause or apparent cause | Synonyms: causeless, uncaused |
| fortuitously | (adverb) by good fortune | Synonyms: as luck would have it, fortunately, luckily |
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| fortuitousness | (noun) the quality of happening accidentally and by lucky chance | - |
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| fortuity | (noun) anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause | Synonyms: accident, chance event, stroke |
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| fortunate | (adjective) having unexpected good fortune | - |
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| (adjective) presaging good fortune | Synonyms: rosy |
| (adjective) supremely favored | Synonyms: golden |
| fortunately | (adverb) by good fortune | Synonyms: as luck would have it, fortuitously, luckily |
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| fortune | (noun) an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another | Synonyms: chance, hazard, luck |
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| (noun) an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome | Synonyms: luck |
| (noun) a large amount of wealth or prosperity | - |
| (noun) your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) | Synonyms: circumstances, destiny, fate, lot, luck, portion |
| fortuneteller | (noun) a person who foretells your personal future | Synonyms: fortune teller |
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| fortunetelling | (noun) the practice of predicting people's futures (usually for payment) | - |
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| forty | (adjective) being ten more than thirty | Synonyms: 40, twoscore, xl |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the product of ten and four | Synonyms: 40, XL |
| forum | (noun) a public facility to meet for open discussion | Synonyms: assembly, meeting place |
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| (noun) a public meeting or assembly for open discussion | - |
| forward | (adjective) at or near or directed toward the front | - |
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| (adjective) used of temperament or behavior; lacking restraint or modesty | - |
| (adjective) of the transmission gear causing forward movement in a motor vehicle | - |
| (adjective) moving forward | Synonyms: advancing, forward-moving |
| (noun) a position on a basketball, soccer, or hockey team | - |
| (noun) the person who plays the position of forward in certain games, such as basketball, soccer, or hockey | - |
| (adverb) at or to or toward the front; forward | Synonyms: forrad, forrard, forwards, frontward, frontwards |
| (adverb) in a forward direction | Synonyms: ahead, forrader, forwards, onward, onwards |
| (adverb) toward the future; forward in time | Synonyms: ahead |
| (adverb) forward in time or order or degree | Synonyms: forth, onward |
| (adverb) near or toward the bow of a ship or cockpit of a plane | Synonyms: fore |
| (verb) send or ship onward from an intermediate post or station in transit | Synonyms: send on |
| forwarding | (noun) the act of sending on to another destination | - |
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| (noun) the advancement of some enterprise | Synonyms: furtherance, promotion |
| forwardness | (noun) prompt willingness | Synonyms: eagerness, readiness, zeal |
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| (noun) an advanced stage | - |
| (noun) offensive boldness and assertiveness | Synonyms: bumptiousness, cockiness, pushiness |
| forwards | (adverb) in a forward direction | Synonyms: ahead, forrader, forward, onward, onwards |
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| (adverb) at or to or toward the front; forward | Synonyms: forrad, forrard, forward, frontward, frontwards |
| foryml | (noun) (chemistry) the negative univalent acyl radical CHO that occurs in aldehydes | - |
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| fossa | (noun) largest carnivore of Madagascar; intermediate in some respects between cats and civets | Synonyms: Cryptoprocta ferox, fossa cat |
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| (noun) a concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression) | Synonyms: pit |
| fosse | (noun) ditch dug as a fortification and usually filled with water | Synonyms: moat |
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| fossil | (adjective) characteristic of a fossil | - |
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| (noun) the remains (or an impression) of a plant or animal that existed in a past geological age and that has been excavated from the soil | - |
| (noun) someone whose style is out of fashion | Synonyms: dodo, fogey, fogy |
| fossiliferous | (adjective) bearing or containing fossils | - |
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| fossilisation | (noun) becoming inflexible or out of date | Synonyms: fossilization |
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| (noun) the process of fossilizing a plant or animal that existed in some earlier age; the process of being turned to stone | Synonyms: fossilization |
| fossilise | (verb) convert to a fossil | Synonyms: fossilize |
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| (verb) become mentally inflexible | Synonyms: fossilize |
| fossilised | (adjective) set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs | Synonyms: fossilized, ossified |
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| fossilist | (noun) a specialist in paleontology | Synonyms: palaeontologist, paleontologist |
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| fossilization | (noun) becoming inflexible or out of date | Synonyms: fossilisation |
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| (noun) the process of fossilizing a plant or animal that existed in some earlier age; the process of being turned to stone | Synonyms: fossilisation |
| fossilize | (verb) convert to a fossil | Synonyms: fossilise |
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| (verb) become mentally inflexible | Synonyms: fossilise |
| fossilized | (adjective) set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs | Synonyms: fossilised, ossified |
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| fossilology | (noun) the earth science that studies fossil organisms and related remains | Synonyms: palaeontology, paleontology |
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| fossorial | (adjective) (of limbs and feet) adapted for digging | - |
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| foster | (adjective) providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties | Synonyms: surrogate |
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| (verb) help develop, help grow | Synonyms: nurture |
| (verb) promote the growth of | Synonyms: cultivate, further |
| (verb) bring up under fosterage; of children | - |
| fosterage | (noun) helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community | Synonyms: breeding, bringing up, fostering, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringing |
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| (noun) encouragement; aiding the development of something | Synonyms: fostering |
| fostering | (noun) helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community | Synonyms: breeding, bringing up, fosterage, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringing |
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| (noun) encouragement; aiding the development of something | Synonyms: fosterage |
| fosterling | (noun) a child who is raised by foster parents | Synonyms: foster-child, foster child |
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| fothergilla | (noun) any of several deciduous low-growing shrubs of the genus Fothergilla having showy brushlike spikes of white flowers in spring and fiery red and orange autumn color; grows from Alabama to the Allegheny Mountains | Synonyms: witch alder |
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| foul | (adjective) (of a baseball) not hit between the foul lines | - |
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| (adjective) disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter | Synonyms: filthy, nasty |
| (adjective) characterized by obscenity | Synonyms: cruddy, filthy, nasty, smutty |
| (adjective) (of a manuscript) defaced with changes | Synonyms: dirty, marked-up |
| (adjective) offensively malodorous | Synonyms: fetid, foetid, foul-smelling, funky, ill-scented, noisome, smelly, stinking |
| (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repellent, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
| (adjective) especially of a ship's lines etc | Synonyms: afoul, fouled |
| (adjective) violating accepted standards or rules | Synonyms: cheating, dirty, unsporting, unsportsmanlike |
| (noun) an act that violates the rules of a sport | - |
| (verb) become soiled and dirty | - |
| (verb) make unclean | - |
| (verb) spot, stain, or pollute | Synonyms: befoul, defile, maculate |
| (verb) make impure | Synonyms: contaminate, pollute |
| (verb) commit a foul; break the rules | - |
| (verb) hit a foul ball | - |
| (verb) become or cause to become obstructed | Synonyms: back up, choke, choke off, clog, clog up, congest, crap up |
| foulard | (noun) a light plain-weave or twill-weave silk or silklike fabric (usually with a printed design) | - |
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| fouled | (adjective) made dirty or foul | Synonyms: befouled |
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| (adjective) especially of a ship's lines etc | Synonyms: afoul, foul |
| foully | (adverb) in a wicked and shameful manner | - |
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| (adverb) in an unfair and insulting manner | Synonyms: insultingly |
| 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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