5 Letter Words That Start With FO

force

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

Noun : (physics) A physical quantity that denotes ability to push, pull, twist or accelerate a body and which has a direction and is measured in a unit dimensioned in mass × distance/time² (ML/T²): SI: newton (N); CGS: dyne (dyn).

Noun : (uncountable) The generalized abstraction of this concept.

focus

Noun : (uncountable) Concentration of attention.

Noun : (countable) Something to which activity, attention or interest is primarily directed.

Verb : (transitive) To direct attention, effort, or energy to a particular audience or task.

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.

forte

Noun : A strength or talent; a strong point.

Verb : (music) Loudly, as a dynamic in a piece of music.

Adjective : (music) Loud.

foyer

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

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

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

forum

Noun : (Internet) An Internet message board where users can post messages regarding one or more topics of discussion.

Noun : A place for discussion.

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

folio

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

Noun : A leaf of a book or manuscript.

Noun : (by extension, printing) A page number. The even folios are on the left-hand pages and the odd folios on the right-hand pages.

foray

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

Verb : To participate in a foray.

Verb : To do or attempt something outside one's typical area of expertise.

forgo

Verb : To do without (something enjoyable); to relinquish.

Verb : (literary) To refrain from, to abstain from.

forge

Verb : To form or create with concerted effort.

Verb : To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully.

Verb : To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate.

fossa

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.

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.

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”)

foist

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

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

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

focal

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

Noun : The central or most important element of something; a focal element.

Adjective : (medicine) Limited to a small area.

found

Verb : To start (an institution or organization).

Verb : To begin building.

Verb : To use as a foundation; to base.

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.

fount

Noun : (figurative) That from which something proceeds; an origin, a source.

Noun : (chiefly poetic, dated or archaic) Synonym of fountain (“a natural source of water”); a spring.

Noun : (by extension, agriculture, archaic) A device from which poultry may drink; a waterer.

forby

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

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

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

foamy

Adjective : Full of foam.

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

folks

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

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

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

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.

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.

fordo

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

Verb : (obsolete) To kill, destroy.

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

fouth

Noun : (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Abundance; plenty.

Adjective : (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Abundant; copious; plenteous.

Adjective : (archaic) Alternative spelling of fourth. [The ordinal form of the number four.]

focas

foine

Adjective : Pronunciation spelling of fine. [Senses referring to subjective quality.]

forth

Verb : (formal, archaic) Out into view; from a particular place or position.

Verb : (formal, archaic) Forward in time, place or degree.

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

fovea

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

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

fomes

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

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

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

fogle

Noun : (obsolete) A pocket handkerchief.

Noun : A surname.

foxly

Adjective : (archaic) Sly like a fox; foxlike.

fossé

Noun : (obsolete, chiefly Scotland) A fosse or ditch.

fogey

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

fosse

Noun : A ditch or moat.

Noun : A surname.

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

forex

Noun : Syllabic abbreviation of foreign exchange.

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.

foods

Noun : a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering various aspects of food science.

fouty

Adjective : (obsolete, derogatory) used as an intensifier despicable

Noun : A surname.

folwe

fonio

Noun : Digitaria exilis, a cereal cultivated in western Africa; white fonio

Noun : Digitaria iburua, a cereal cultivated in western Africa, black fonio

foind

Verb : (obsolete, UK) Pronunciation spelling of find. [To locate]

foire

forty

Adjective : Resembling or characteristic of a fort.

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

foxed

Adjective : Of paper, having yellowish-brown stains.

fondu

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

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

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.]

footy

Noun : (uncountable, UK, Ireland) 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.

fonda

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

Noun : A surname.

Noun : A city in Iowa.

fools

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

Noun : Someone who has been made a fool of or tricked; dupe.

Verb : (transitive) To trick; to deceive.

fowls

Noun : A bird hunted or kept for food, grouped into landfowl (order Galliformes), also called gamefowl, and waterfowl (order Anseriformes: ducks, geese, swans, etc.), which together form the clade Galloanserae.

Verb : To hunt fowl.

Noun : (archaic) Any bird.

forel

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

Verb : To bind with a forel.

fogie

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

foule

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

fonly

Verb : (obsolete) foolishly

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.

fogou

Noun : (archaeology) A Cornish souterrain, an underground, dry-stone-walled chamber open on two ends.

foyle

Noun : A surname.

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.]

folar

Noun : A traditional Portuguese bread served at Passover and Easter.

Noun : Initialism of Friends of the Los Angeles River.

forro

Noun : A creole language spoken in São Tomé and Príncipe.

folic

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

fower

Noun : The digit 4 in the NATO phonetic alphabet.

Noun : (Early Modern, obsolete) One who cleans (fows), as in cooking utensils or house maintenance.

foism

Noun : Chinese Buddhism.

fosco

fogus

Noun : (UK, slang, archaic) Tobacco.

foosa

Noun : Misspelling of fossa (carnivorous mammal). [(anatomy) A pit, groove, cavity, or depression.]

formy

Adjective : Alternative form of formée. [(heraldry) Synonym of patté.]

fowle

Noun : A surname.

Noun : Obsolete spelling of fowl. [A bird hunted or kept for food, grouped into landfowl (order Galliformes), also called gamefowl, and waterfowl (order Anseriformes: ducks, geese, swans, etc.), which together form the clade Galloanserae.]

fomin

Noun : Fomin , or Fomina (feminine; Фомина), is a common Russian surname that is derived from the male given name Foma and literally means Foma's.

foale

Noun : Obsolete form of foal. [A young horse or other equine, especially just after birth or less than a year old.]

fogas

Noun : A Hungarian food fish, similar to pike or zander.

foggs

Noun : The act of blurring or making foggy.

Noun : The dispersal of insecticide into a forest canopy so as to collect organisms.

follo

fooks

Adjective : (vulgar, Northern England) fucking; a strong intensifier.

forne

Adjective : (obsolete) Former.

fossy

Adjective : Alternative spelling of phossy. [Affected or caused by the presence of phosphorus.]

foyst

Noun : (obsolete) Alternative spelling of foist in the meaning of ship

fogon

foots

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

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.

folia

Noun : La Folía (Spanish), or Follies (English), also known as 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 in the family Oikopleuridae.

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, or for serving food.

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.

foram

Noun : A foraminifer.

folie

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

forme

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

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

forts

Noun : a 2D real-time strategy video game developed and published by Australian studio EarthWork Games.

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.

forky

Adjective : Synonym of forked.

foals

Noun : (stylised in all caps) a British rock band formed in Oxford in 2005.

foils

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

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

Noun : A very thin sheet of metal or plastic.

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 on the surface of a liquid that is heated, fermented or carbonated.

Noun : A collection of small bubbles created by mixing soap with water.

fog up

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

Verb : (slang, transitive) To confuse (somebody).

Verb : (slang, transitive) To get (someone) drunk.

fonts

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.

Noun : In digital typesetting, a set of glyphs in a single style, representing one or more alphabets or writing systems, or the computer code representing it.

Noun : (originally computing, typography, informal) A typeface.

foody

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

Adjective : Eatable; fit for food or consumption.

Adjective : Food-bearing; fertile; fruitful.

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.

Verb : To cross a stream by walking through it.

Noun : A stream; a current.

fore-

fouls

Noun : (sports) A breach of the rules of a game, especially one involving inappropriate contact with an opposing player in order to gain an advantage; for example, tripping someone up in soccer, or contact of any kind in basketball.

Verb : (transitive, basketball, soccer) To make contact with an opposing player in order to gain advantage.

Verb : (intransitive, basketball, soccer) To commit a foul.

fores

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

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

Verb : In the part that precedes or goes first; opposed to aft, after, back, behind, etc.

forbs

folky

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

forma

Noun : a Latin and Italian word meaning "form, shape, appearance".

Noun : an American electronic band from Brooklyn.

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