5 Letter Words That Start With FO

force

Noun : Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect.

Noun : Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.

Noun : (countable) Anything that is able to make a substantial change in a person or thing.

focus

Noun : (countable, optics) A point at which reflected or refracted rays of light converge.

Noun : (countable, geometry) A point of a conic at which rays reflected from a curve or surface converge.

Noun : (uncountable, photography, cinematography) The fact of the convergence of light on the photographic medium.

forth

Verb : Forward in time, place or degree.

Verb : Out into view; from a particular place or position.

Verb : (obsolete) Beyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out.

forge

Noun : A furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.

Noun : A workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.

Noun : The act of beating or working iron or steel.

forgo

Verb : To let pass, to leave alone, to let go.

Verb : To do without, to abandon, to renounce.

Verb : To refrain from, to abstain from, to pass up, to withgo.

forte

Noun : A strength or talent.

Noun : The strong part of a sword blade, close to the hilt.

Adjective : (music) Loud. Used as a dynamic directive in sheet music in its abbreviated form, "f.", to indicate raising the volume of the music. (Abbreviated in musical notation with an f, the Unicode character 1D191.)

forum

Noun : A place for discussion.

Noun : A gathering for the purpose of discussion; a symposium.

Noun : A form of discussion involving a panel of presenters and often participation by members of the audience.

foray

Noun : A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid.

Noun : A brief excursion or attempt, especially outside one's accustomed sphere.

Verb : To participate in a foray.

found

Noun : Food and lodging; board.

Verb : To start (an institution or organization).

Verb : To begin building.

folly

Noun : Foolishness that results from a lack of foresight or lack of practicality.

Noun : Thoughtless action resulting in tragic consequence.

Noun : (architecture) A fanciful building built for purely ornamental reasons.

folio

Noun : A leaf of a book or manuscript.

Noun : A page of a book, that is, one side of a leaf of a book.

Noun : (by extension, printing)

fossa

Noun : (anatomy) A pit, groove, cavity, or depression.

Noun : (astronomy) A long, narrow, shallow depression on the body of an extraterrestrial body, such as a planet or moon.

Noun : A large nocturnal reddish-brown catlike mammal (Cryptoprocta ferox) of the civet family, endemic to the rainforests of Madagascar. It is slender, long-tailed and has retractile claws and anal scent glands.

foyer

Noun : A lobby, corridor, or waiting room, used in a hotel, theater, etc.

Noun : The crucible or basin in a furnace which receives the molten metal.

Noun : (UK) A hostel offering accommodation and work opportunities to homeless young people.

forty

Noun : (slang) A bottle of beer containing forty fluid ounces.

Adjective : Resembling or characteristic of a fort.

foist

Verb : (transitive) To introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant.

Verb : (transitive) To force another to accept especially by stealth or deceit.

Verb : (transitive) To pass off as genuine or worthy.

focal

Adjective : Belonging to, concerning, or located at a focus.

Adjective : (medicine) Limited to a small area.

Noun : (geometry, obsolete) One of two lines perpendicular to the axis of a cone such that the cosine of the angle between the line and the axis is equal to the ratio of the cosines o the semiangles of the cone.

fount

Noun : Something from which water flows.

Noun : A device from which poultry may drink.

Noun : (figuratively) That from which something flows or proceeds; a source.

foggy

Adjective : Obscured by mist or fog; unclear; hazy

Adjective : (figuratively) Confused, befuddled, etc.

Adjective : Being, covered with, or pertaining to fog (“tall grass etc that grows after, or is left after, cutting; moss”)

folks

Noun : The members of one's immediate family, especially one's parents

Noun : (US) People in general; everybody or anybody.

Noun : (US, slang, rare, southern Louisiana) The police.

forma

foley

Noun : (uncountable, US) The creation of sound effects, and their addition to film and TV images.

Noun : (countable, US) A foley artist.

Noun : (medicine, colloquial) A Foley catheter.

fovea

Noun : (anatomy) A slight depression or pit in a bone or organ.

Noun : (anatomy) The retinal fovea, or fovea centralis, responsible for sharp central vision.

fosse

Noun : A ditch or moat.

Noun : A surname.

Noun : (anatomy) Alternative form of fossa [(anatomy) A pit, groove, cavity, or depression.]

foods

Noun : (uncountable) Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.

Noun : (countable) A foodstuff.

Noun : (uncountable, figuratively) Anything that nourishes or sustains.

fordo

Verb : (obsolete) To kill, destroy.

Verb : (obsolete) To annul, abolish, cancel.

Verb : (archaic) To do away with, undo; to ruin.

forme

Noun : Obsolete form of form. [(heading, physical) To do with shape.]

Noun : (printing) Alternative form of form (“type etc. secured in a chase”) [(heading, physical) To do with shape.]

fours

Noun : (poker slang) A pair of fours.

Noun : (UK, prison slang) The cells located on the third floor.

Noun : (finance, archaic) Shares at a rate of four percent.

foehn

Noun : A warm dry wind blowing down the north sides of the Alps, especially in Switzerland.

Noun : (meteorology) A similar katabatic wind developing on the lee side of a mountain.

foyle

Noun : A river in Ireland which forms part of the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, before flowing through Derry (Londonderry) and into Lough Foyle and the Atlantic Ocean.

Verb : Obsolete spelling of foil [(transitive) To cover or wrap with foil.]

forex

Noun : Short for foreign exchange. [The exchange of currency from one country for currency from another country.]

fonda

Noun : An inn or hotel in a Spanish-speaking country.

Noun : A surname.

Noun : A city in Iowa

forms

Noun : (heading, physical) To do with shape.

Noun : The shape or visible structure of a thing or person.

Noun : A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold.

fools

Noun : (derogatory) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.

Noun : (historical) A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).

Noun : (literature) A stock character typified by unintelligence, naïveté or lucklessness, usually as a form of comic relief; often used as a source of insight or pathos for the audience, as such characters are generally less bound by social expectations.

fogey

Noun : A dull person (especially an older man) who is behind the times, holding antiquated, over-conservative views.

fondu

Noun : (printing) The graded shift from one color into another.

Noun : (ballet) Involving a lowering of the body by bending the knee of the supporting leg.

Noun : Alternative spelling of fondue [A dish made of melted cheese, or chocolate etc., or of a boiling liquid into which food can be dipped.]

folic

Adjective : Of or relating to foliage; pteroylglutamic, as in folic acid.

folia

Noun : La Folía (Spanish), or Follies of Portugal (English), also known as folies du Portugal or folies d'Espagne (French), La Follia (Italian), and Folia (Portuguese), is one of the oldest remembered European musical themes, or primary material, generally melodic, of a composition, on record.

Noun : a well-known, simple musical framework that has been used for songs, dances and sets of variations.

Noun : a genus of larvacean tunicates (class Appendicularia) in the family Oikopleuridae.

foxed

Adjective : Of paper, having yellowish-brown stains.

footy

Noun : (uncountable, Britain) Football (association football) (soccer in US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand)

Noun : (uncountable, Australia) The game or sport of football, usually Australian rules football or rugby league, but not soccer.

Noun : (countable, Australia) The ball used in a game of footy.

forza

Noun : a series of racing video games with two main sub-series: Forza Motorsport and Forza Horizon.

Noun : (Italian for "force" and "strength") a series of simulation racing games for Xbox consoles, Microsoft Windows, iOS and Android devices published by Xbox Game Studios.

foxes

Noun : a 1980 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Adrian Lyne, in his feature film directorial debut, and written by Gerald Ayres.

Noun : the soundtrack to the 1980 film of the same name, starring Jodie Foster, Scott Baio, Sally Kellerman, Randy Quaid as well as The Runaways' lead singer Cherie Currie.

Noun : dog-like omnivorous mammals.

forse

foamy

Adjective : Full of foam.

Noun : Alternative spelling of foamie [An inexpensive surfboard made of extruded polystyrene foam]

folds

Verb : (transitive) To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.

Verb : (transitive) To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.

Verb : (transitive) To draw or coil (one’s arms, a snake’s body, etc.) around something so as to enclose or embrace it.

folie

Noun : (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illnes

fogie

Noun : Alternative spelling of fogey [A dull person (especially an older man) who is behind the times, holding antiquated, over-conservative views.]

forks

Noun : Any of several types of pronged (tined) tools (physical tools), as follows:

Noun : A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting.

Noun : Any of several types of pronged tools for use on farms, in fields, or in the garden or lawn, such as a smaller hand fork for weeding or a larger one for turning over the soil.

fowls

Noun : (archaic) A bird.

Noun : A bird of the order Galliformes, including chickens, turkeys, pheasant, partridges and quail.

Noun : Birds which are hunted or kept for food, including Galliformes and also waterfowl of the order Anseriformes such as ducks, geese and swans, together forming the clade Galloanserae.

foose

Noun : A surname.

fonts

Noun : (Christianity) A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism.

Noun : A receptacle for oil in a lamp.

Noun : (typography) A set of glyphs of unified design, belonging to one typeface (e.g., Helvetica), style (e.g., italic), and weight (e.g., bold). Usually representing the letters of an alphabet and its supplementary characters.

foody

Adjective : Eatable; fit for food or consumption.

Adjective : Food-bearing; fertile; fruitful.

Adjective : Of, relating to, composed of, or supplying food.

fonde

foils

Noun : (mnemonic) An acronym for the algorithm for multiplying two binomials.

Verb : (transitive) To apply the FOIL algorithm to.

Noun : A very thin sheet of metal.

fomes

Noun : (obsolete, medicine) The morbid matter created by a disease.

Noun : (archaic, medicine) Synonym of fomite: a substance able to communicate infection between people.

Noun : (archaic, figurative) Anything which similarly facilitates the spread of something similarly deleterious.

foram

Noun : A foraminifer.

fore-

forel

Noun : A kind of parchment for book covers; a forrill.

Verb : To bind with a forel.

fonds

Noun : The entire collection of the records originating from the same creator; an archive term used to describe a collection of papers that originate from the same source.

forby

Adjective : (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) Uncommon; out of the ordinary; extraordinary; superior.

Verb : (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) Past; by; beyond.

Verb : (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) Uncommonly; exceptionally.

forky

Adjective : Synonym of forked

foals

Noun : A young horse or other equine, especially just after birth or less than a year old.

Noun : (mining, historical) A young boy who assisted the headsman by pushing or pulling the tub.

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To give birth to (a foal); to bear offspring.

fonly

Verb : (obsolete) foolishly

fonte

Noun : A surname

foosh

fords

Noun : A location where a stream is shallow and the bottom has good footing, making it possible to cross from one side to the other with no bridge, by walking, riding, or driving through the water; a crossing.

Noun : A stream; a current.

Verb : To cross a stream using a ford.

fowey

Noun : A small town and port on the south coast of Cornwall, England.

Noun : A river in Cornwall which flows from Bodmin Moor to the English Channel at the town of Fowey.

folwe

foule

Adjective : Obsolete form of foul. [Covered with, or containing unclean matter; dirty.]

forbs

Noun : (chiefly ecology) Any non-woody flowering plant that is not a graminoid (a grass, sedge, or rush).

Noun : Initialism of freedom of religion or belief.

Noun : Alternative letter-case form of FORB

folky

Adjective : (music, informal) Having the character of folk music

forst

Noun : A surname from German.

forde

Noun : A surname.

Noun : A placename

Noun : A lake in Nunavut, Canada

fogel

Noun : A surname.

fonge

foeti

foote

Noun : A surname.

Noun : Obsolete spelling of foot [A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg.]

fodor

forno

fobia

Noun : a Mexican rock en español band from Mexico City.

Noun : an album released by Mexican Pop rock band Fobia.

forry

Noun : A surname.

forts

Noun : A fortified defensive structure stationed with troops.

Noun : Any permanent army post.

Noun : (historical) An outlying trading-station, as in British North America.

fores

Adjective : (obsolete) Former; occurring earlier (in some order); previous.

Adjective : Forward; situated towards the front (of something).

Noun : The front; the forward part of something; the foreground.

fondo

foust

Noun : A surname.

foyot

fouet

Noun : (Scotland) Alternative form of fouat (“houseleek”) [(Scotland) houseleek]

foran

Noun : A surname from Irish.

foots

Noun : The settlings of oil, molasses, etc., at the bottom of a barrel or hogshead.

fomor

Noun : (Irish mythology) Synonym of Fomorian

foams

Noun : A substance composed of a large collection of bubbles or their solidified remains, especially:

Noun : A collection of small bubbles created when the surface of a body of water is moved by tides, wind, etc.

Noun : A collection of small bubbles formed from bodily fluids such as saliva or sweat.

fog up

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To coat, or become coated, with condensation. To steam up.

foret

Noun : A surname.

fosil

fouls

Adjective : Covered with, or containing unclean matter; dirty.

Adjective : (of words or a way of speaking) Obscene, vulgar or abusive.

Adjective : Detestable, unpleasant, loathsome.

forti

Noun : A surname.

foxie

Noun : (Australia, New Zealand) A fox terrier.

fonzy

Noun : a 2013 French comedy film about a fish deliveryman in Paris becomes involved in a legal battle with his sperm donation children.

forml

Noun : (computing) Acronym of formal object role modeling language.

fouts

Noun : (web development) Initialism of flash of unstyled text: a brief glimpse of text in the default font before the correct font has loaded.

fobio

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