| 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 |
| (verb) wander and feed | - |
| (verb) collect or look around for (food) | Synonyms: scrounge |
| 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) | - |
| (verb) briefly enter enemy territory | - |
| (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, strip |
| forbear | (noun) a person from whom you are descended | Synonyms: forebear |
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| (verb) resist doing something | Synonyms: refrain |
| (verb) refrain from doing | Synonyms: hold back |
| 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 |
| forbearing | (adjective) showing patient and unruffled self-control and restraint under adversity; slow to retaliate or express resentment | Synonyms: longanimous |
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| forbid | (verb) command against | Synonyms: disallow, interdict, nix, prohibit, proscribe, veto |
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| (verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible | Synonyms: foreclose, forestall, preclude, prevent |
| 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 |
| forbidden | (adjective) excluded from use or mention | Synonyms: out, prohibited, proscribed, taboo, tabu, verboten |
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| forbidding | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: baleful, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening |
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| (adjective) harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance | Synonyms: dour, grim |
| (noun) an official prohibition or edict against something | Synonyms: ban, banning, forbiddance |
| forbiddingly | (adverb) in an unpleasant or menacing manner | - |
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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 | - |
| (verb) impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably | Synonyms: thrust |
| (verb) squeeze like a wedge into a tight space | Synonyms: squeeze, wedge |
| (verb) force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically | Synonyms: drive, ram |
| (verb) take by force | Synonyms: storm |
| (verb) do forcibly; exert force | - |
| (verb) urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate | Synonyms: impel |
| (verb) move with force | Synonyms: push |
| (verb) to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means | Synonyms: coerce, hale, pressure, squeeze |
| forced | (adjective) produced by or subjected to forcing | - |
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| (adjective) lacking spontaneity; not natural | Synonyms: constrained, strained |
| (adjective) forced or compelled | - |
| (adjective) made necessary by an unexpected situation or emergency | - |
| forceful | (adjective) characterized by or full of force or strength (often but not necessarily physical) | - |
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| (adjective) forceful and definite in expression or action | Synonyms: emphatic |
| forcefully | (adverb) with full force | - |
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| forcefulness | (noun) physical energy or intensity | Synonyms: force, strength |
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| forceless | (adjective) lacking force; feeble | Synonyms: unforceful |
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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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| forcible | (adjective) impelled by physical force especially against resistance | Synonyms: physical, strong-arm |
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| forcibly | (adverb) in a forcible manner | - |
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| forcipate | (adjective) shaped like a forceps; deeply forked | - |
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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 |
| (verb) cross a river where it's shallow | - |
| fordable | (adjective) shallow enough to be crossed by walking or riding on an animal or in a vehicle | - |
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| 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 | (adjective) situated at or toward the bow of a vessel | - |
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| (noun) front part of a vessel or aircraft | Synonyms: bow, prow, stem |
| (adverb) near or toward the bow of a ship or cockpit of a plane | Synonyms: forward |
| forearm | (noun) the part of the superior limb between the elbow and the wrist | - |
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| (verb) arm in advance of a confrontation | - |
| forebear | (noun) a person from whom you are descended | Synonyms: forbear |
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| forebode | (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, call, foretell, predict, prognosticate, promise |
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| foreboding | (adjective) ominously prophetic | Synonyms: fateful, portentous |
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| (noun) an unfavorable omen | - |
| (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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| (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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| foreclose | (verb) subject to foreclosing procedures; take away the right of mortgagors to redeem their mortgage | - |
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| (verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible | Synonyms: forbid, forestall, preclude, prevent |
| 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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| foredate | (verb) establish something as being earlier relative to something else | Synonyms: antedate, predate |
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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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| foredoom | (verb) doom beforehand | - |
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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 | - |
| forefend | (verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avert, avoid, debar, deflect, fend off, forfend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off |
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| 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 |
| foregather | (verb) collect in one place | Synonyms: assemble, forgather, gather, meet |
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| forego | (verb) lose (something) or lose the right to (something) by some error, offense, or crime | Synonyms: forfeit, forgo, give up, throw overboard, waive |
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| (verb) do without or cease to hold or adhere to | Synonyms: dispense with, foreswear, forgo, relinquish, waive |
| (verb) be earlier in time; go back further | Synonyms: antecede, antedate, forgo, precede, predate |
| foregoing | (adjective) especially of writing or speech; going before | - |
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| foregone | (adjective) well in the past; former | Synonyms: bygone, bypast, departed, gone |
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| 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 | - |
| (verb) move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent | Synonyms: highlight, play up, spotlight |
| foregrounding | (noun) the execution of a program that preempts the use of the processing system | Synonyms: foreground processing |
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| forehand | (adjective) (of racket strokes) made with palm facing direction of stroke | Synonyms: forehanded |
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| (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 |
| forehanded | (adjective) (of racket strokes) made with palm facing direction of stroke | Synonyms: forehand |
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| (adjective) having provided for the future | - |
| 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 |
| foreign | (adjective) relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world | Synonyms: strange |
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| (adjective) of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations (other than your own) | - |
| (adjective) not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced from an outside source | Synonyms: extraneous |
| (adjective) not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something | Synonyms: alien |
| 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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| foreknow | (verb) realize beforehand | Synonyms: anticipate, foresee, previse |
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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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| foremost | (adjective) ranking above all others | Synonyms: first, world-class |
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| (adjective) situated closest to the bow | - |
| (adjective) preceding all others in spatial position | Synonyms: frontmost |
| (adverb) prominently forward | Synonyms: first |
| (adverb) before anything else | Synonyms: first, first of all, first off, firstly |
| 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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| forensic | (adjective) used or applied in the investigation and establishment of facts or evidence in a court of law | - |
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| (adjective) of, relating to, or used in public debate or argument | - |
| forensics | (noun) scientific tests or techniques used in the investigation of crimes | - |
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| foreordain | (verb) foreordain or determine beforehand | Synonyms: predestine, preordain |
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| (verb) foreordain by divine will or decree | Synonyms: predestinate, predestine |
| foreordained | (adjective) established or prearranged unalterably | Synonyms: predestinate, predestined |
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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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| 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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