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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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)

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.

forgo

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

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

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.

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.

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 introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant.

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

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.

found

Noun : Food and lodging; board.

Verb : To start (an institution or organization).

Verb : To begin building.

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 : (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.

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

foamy

Adjective : Full of foam.

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

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.

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 : (obsolete) To kill, destroy.

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

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

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 : 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Adjective : Resembling or characteristic of a fort.

foxed

Adjective : Of paper, having yellowish-brown stains.

fondu

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

Noun : (ballet) 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.]

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 : (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.

fowls

Noun : 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.

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 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.

Noun : A surname.

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

Noun : The digit 4 in the NATO phonetic alphabet.

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.]

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.

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 : 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.]

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

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.

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

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

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

fonts

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

Noun : A receptacle for lamp 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.

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 by walking through it.

fore-

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.

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.

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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