8-letter words starting with FO
Embark on a linguistic journey with words that begin with the letter FO. This section showcases how FO at the start shapes the identity and sound of various words. From commonly used terms to rare finds, explore the diverse range of words that start with FO, enriching your vocabulary and appreciation for language.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| football | 13 | any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal | - |
| forehead | 15 | the large cranial bone forming the front part of the cranium: includes the upper part of the orbits | - |
| forgiven | 15 | - | - |
| fourteen | 11 | being one more than thirteen | - |
| fountain | 11 | an artificially produced flow of water | - |
| fortress | 11 | a fortified defensive structure | - |
| forensic | 13 | of, relating to, or used in public debate or argument | - |
| focusing | 14 | the concentration of attention or energy on something | - |
| forecast | 13 | predict in advance | - |
| foremost | 13 | ranking above all others | the foremost figure among marine artists |
| formally | 16 | with official authorization | the club will be formally recognized |
| forwards | 15 | at or to or toward the front | - |
| forsaken | 15 | - | - |
| founding | 13 | the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | - |
| formerly | 16 | at a previous time | - |
| foreplay | 16 | mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse | - |
| follower | 14 | a person who accepts the leadership of another | - |
| fondness | 12 | a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love | - |
| folklore | 15 | the unwritten lore (stories and proverbs and riddles and songs) of a culture | - |
| foretold | 12 | - | - |
| forcibly | 18 | in a forcible manner | keep in mind the dangers of imposing our own values and prejudices too forcibly |
| foreskin | 15 | a fold of skin covering the tip of the penis | - |
| foreseen | 11 | - | - |
| footwork | 18 | skillful maneuvering or dealing | she needs some fancy footwork to cover all those lies |
| forceful | 16 | forceful and definite in expression or action | - |
| footwear | 14 | covering for a person's feet | - |
| fondling | 13 | affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs) | - |
| footpath | 16 | a trodden path | - |
| foretell | 11 | make a prediction about; tell in advance | - |
| forklift | 18 | a small industrial vehicle with a power operated forked platform in front that can be inserted under loads to lift and move them | - |
| foraging | 13 | the act of searching for food and provisions | - |
| foothold | 15 | an area in hostile territory that has been captured and is held awaiting further troops and supplies | the only foothold left for British troops in Europe was Gibraltar |
| foursome | 13 | four people considered as a unit | the foursome teed off before 9 a.m. |
| foggiest | 13 | - | - |
| footnote | 11 | add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments | - |
| forcible | 15 | impelled by physical force especially against resistance | forcible entry |
| footstep | 13 | the sound of a step of someone walking | he heard footsteps on the porch |
| foregone | 12 | well in the past; former | dreams of foregone times |
| forester | 11 | someone trained in forestry | - |
| formalin | 13 | a 10% solution of formaldehyde in water; used as a disinfectant or to preserve biological specimens | - |
| formless | 13 | having no definite form or distinct shape | an aggregate of formless particles |
| forehand | 15 | (of racket strokes) made with palm facing direction of stroke | - |
| forestry | 14 | the science of planting and caring for forests and the management of growing timber | - |
| fortieth | 14 | the ordinal number of forty in counting order | - |
| focussed | 14 | being in focus or brought into focus | - |
| forested | 12 | covered with forest | efforts to protect forested lands of the northwest |
| folktale | 15 | a tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk | - |
| follicle | 13 | any small spherical group of cells containing a cavity | - |
| foreword | 15 | a short introductory essay preceding the text of a book | - |
| forelock | 17 | a lock of a horse's mane that grows forward between the ears | - |
| forgiver | 15 | a person who pardons or forgives or excuses a fault or offense | - |
| foetuses | 11 | - | - |
| fontanel | 11 | any membranous gap between the bones of the cranium in an infant or fetus | - |
| foothill | 14 | a relatively low hill on the lower slope of a mountain | - |
| forenoon | 11 | the time period between dawn and noon | - |
| foulness | 11 | (of weather) the badness of the weather | they were wearied with the foulness of the weather |
| fogbound | 15 | enveloped in fog | a fogbound fleet |
| foldaway | 18 | capable of being folded up and stored | a foldaway bed |
| footrest | 11 | a low seat or a stool to rest the feet of a seated person | - |
| foredeck | 18 | the deck between the bridge and the forecastle | - |
| forename | 13 | the name that precedes the surname | - |
| foresail | 11 | the lowest sail on the foremast of a square-rigged vessel | - |
| forswear | 14 | formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure | - |
| forsworn | 14 | - | - |
| fourthly | 17 | in the fourth place | fourthly, you must pay the rent on the first of the month |
| foldable | 14 | capable of being folded up and stored | - |
| folderol | 12 | nonsensical talk or writing | - |
| folksong | 16 | a song that is traditionally sung by the common people of a region and forms part of their culture | - |
| forsooth | 14 | - | - |
| foofaraw | 17 | - | - |
| footfall | 14 | the sound of a step of someone walking | - |
| footless | 11 | having no feet or analogous appendages | - |
| footrace | 13 | a race run on foot | - |
| forcedly | 17 | - | - |
| forebear | 13 | a person from whom you are descended | - |
| foremast | 13 | the mast nearest the bow in vessels with two or more masts | - |
| foresaid | 12 | - | - |
| forestal | 11 | - | - |
| forgoing | 13 | the act of renouncing; sacrificing or giving up or surrendering (a possession or right or title or privilege etc.) | - |
| fourfold | 15 | four times as great or many | a fourfold increase in the dosage |
| foalfoot | 14 | - | - |
| foalings | 12 | - | - |
| foamable | 15 | - | - |
| foamiest | 13 | - | - |
| foamings | 14 | - | - |
| foamless | 13 | - | - |
| foamlike | 17 | - | - |
| focaccia | 17 | - | - |
| focalise | 13 | become focussed or come into focus | - |
| focalize | 22 | become focussed or come into focus | - |
| focusers | 13 | - | - |
| focusses | 13 | - | - |
| foddered | 14 | - | - |
| fodderer | 13 | - | - |
| foedarie | 12 | - | - |
| foetider | 12 | - | - |
| foetidly | 15 | - | - |
| fogashes | 15 | - | - |
| fogeydom | 18 | - | - |
| fogeyish | 18 | - | - |
| fogeyism | 17 | - | - |
| fogfruit | 15 | - | - |
| foggages | 14 | - | - |
| foggings | 14 | - | - |
| foghorns | 15 | - | - |
| foglight | 16 | - | - |
| fogydoms | 18 | - | - |
| fogyisms | 17 | - | - |
| foilable | 13 | - | - |
| foilings | 12 | - | - |
| foilists | 11 | - | - |
| foilsman | 13 | - | - |
| foilsmen | 13 | - | - |
| foisters | 11 | - | - |
| foisting | 12 | - | - |
| folacins | 13 | - | - |
| foldback | 20 | - | - |
| foldboat | 14 | - | - |
| foldings | 13 | - | - |
| foldouts | 12 | - | - |
| foliaged | 13 | bearing numerous leaves | - |
| foliages | 12 | - | - |
| foliated | 12 | (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata | - |
| foliates | 11 | - | - |
| folioing | 12 | - | - |
| folioles | 11 | - | - |
| folkiest | 15 | - | - |
| folkland | 16 | - | - |
| folklife | 18 | - | - |
| folklike | 19 | - | - |
| folkmoot | 17 | - | - |
| folkmote | 17 | - | - |
| folkmots | 17 | - | - |
| folksier | 15 | - | - |
| folksily | 18 | - | - |
| folkways | 21 | - | - |
| followed | 15 | - | - |
| followup | 16 | a piece of work that exploits or builds on earlier work | - |
| follying | 15 | - | - |
| fomented | 14 | - | - |
| fomenter | 13 | one who agitates; a political troublemaker | - |
| fondants | 12 | - | - |
| fondlers | 12 | - | - |
| fonduing | 13 | - | - |
| fontange | 12 | - | - |
| fontinas | 11 | - | - |
| fontlets | 11 | - | - |
| foodbank | 18 | - | - |
| foodisms | 14 | - | - |
| foodland | 13 | - | - |
| foodless | 12 | being without food | - |
| foodoirs | 12 | - | - |
| foodshed | 16 | - | - |
| foodways | 18 | - | - |
| foolfish | 17 | - | - |
| foolings | 12 | - | - |
| foolscap | 15 | a size of paper used especially in Britain | - |
| foosball | 13 | - | - |
| footages | 12 | - | - |
| footbags | 14 | - | - |
| footbars | 13 | - | - |
| footbath | 16 | a small bathtub for warming or washing or disinfecting the feet | - |
| footbeds | 14 | - | - |
| footboys | 16 | - | - |
| footered | 12 | - | - |
| footgear | 12 | covering for a person's feet | - |
| footiest | 11 | - | - |
| footings | 12 | - | - |
| footlers | 11 | - | - |
| footlike | 15 | - | - |
| footling | 12 | (informal) small and of little importance | a footling gesture |
| footlong | 12 | - | - |
| footmark | 17 | a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface | - |
| footmuff | 19 | - | - |
| footpace | 15 | - | - |
| footpads | 14 | - | - |
| footpage | 14 | - | - |
| footpost | 13 | - | - |
| footpump | 17 | - | - |
| footrope | 13 | - | - |
| footrots | 11 | - | - |
| footrule | 11 | - | - |
| footsals | 11 | - | - |
| footsies | 11 | - | - |
| footslog | 12 | walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud | - |
| footsore | 11 | having sore or tired feet | - |
| footwall | 14 | the lower wall of an inclined fault | - |
| footways | 17 | - | - |
| footwell | 14 | - | - |
| footworn | 14 | - | - |
| foozlers | 20 | - | - |
| foozling | 21 | - | - |
| foplings | 14 | - | - |
| foragers | 12 | - | - |
| foramens | 13 | - | - |
| foramina | 13 | - | - |
| forayers | 14 | - | - |
| foraying | 15 | - | - |
| forbears | 13 | - | - |
| forbidal | 14 | - | - |
| forboded | 15 | - | - |
| forbodes | 14 | - | - |
| forborne | 13 | - | - |
| forceout | 13 | - | - |
| forcipes | 15 | - | - |
| fordable | 14 | shallow enough to be crossed by walking or riding on an animal or in a vehicle | the stream was fordable |
| fordless | 12 | - | - |
| fordoing | 13 | - | - |
| fordonne | 12 | - | - |
| forearms | 13 | - | - |
| forebays | 16 | - | - |
| forebitt | 13 | - | - |
| forebode | 14 | make a prediction about; tell in advance | - |
| forebody | 17 | - | - |
| foreboom | 15 | - | - |
| forecars | 13 | - | - |
| foredate | 12 | establish something as being earlier relative to something else | - |
| foredoes | 12 | - | - |
| foredone | 12 | - | - |
| foredoom | 14 | doom beforehand | - |
| foreface | 16 | - | - |
| forefeel | 14 | - | - |
| forefeet | 14 | - | - |
| forefelt | 14 | - | - |
| forefend | 15 | prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening | - |
| forefoot | 14 | a front foot of a quadruped | - |
| foregoer | 12 | - | - |
| foregoes | 12 | - | - |
| foreguts | 12 | - | - |
| forehent | 14 | - | - |
| forehock | 20 | - | - |
| forehoof | 17 | - | - |
| foreking | 16 | - | - |
| foreknew | 18 | - | - |
| foreknow | 18 | realize beforehand | - |
| forelady | 15 | a woman who is foreperson of a jury | - |
| forelaid | 12 | - | - |
| forelain | 11 | - | - |
| foreland | 12 | a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea) | - |
| forelays | 14 | - | - |
| forelegs | 12 | - | - |
| forelend | 12 | - | - |
| forelent | 11 | - | - |
| forelies | 11 | - | - |
| forelift | 14 | - | - |
| forelimb | 15 | the front limb (or the homologous structure in other animals, such as a flipper or wing) | - |
| forelled | 12 | - | - |
| foremean | 13 | - | - |
| foremilk | 17 | milky fluid secreted for the first day or two after parturition | - |
| forepart | 13 | the side that is forward or prominent | - |
| forepast | 13 | - | - |
| forepaws | 16 | - | - |
| forepeak | 17 | - | - |
| foreplan | 13 | - | - |
| forerank | 15 | - | - |
| foreread | 12 | - | - |
| foreruns | 11 | - | - |
| foresays | 14 | - | - |
| foreseer | 11 | - | - |
| foresees | 11 | - | - |
| foreshew | 17 | - | - |
| foreship | 16 | - | - |
| foreshow | 17 | foretell by divine inspiration | - |
| foreside | 12 | - | - |
| foreslow | 14 | - | - |
| forestay | 14 | an adjustable stay from the foremast to the deck or bowsprit; controls the bending of the mast | - |
| foretime | 13 | - | - |
| foretops | 13 | - | - |
| forevers | 14 | - | - |
| foreward | 15 | - | - |
| forewarn | 14 | warn in advance or beforehand; give an early warning | I forewarned him of the trouble that would arise if he showed up at his ex-wife's house |
| forewent | 14 | - | - |
| forewind | 15 | - | - |
| forewing | 15 | either of the anterior pair of wings on an insect that has four wings | - |
| foreworn | 14 | - | - |
| foreyard | 15 | - | - |
| forfairn | 14 | - | - |
| forfairs | 14 | - | - |
| forfault | 14 | - | - |
| forfeits | 14 | - | - |
| forfends | 15 | - | - |
| forfexes | 21 | - | - |
| forgeman | 14 | - | - |
| forgemen | 14 | - | - |
| forgings | 13 | - | - |
| forgives | 15 | - | - |
| forgoers | 12 | - | - |
| forhaile | 14 | - | - |
| forhents | 14 | - | - |
| forhooed | 15 | - | - |
| forhooie | 14 | - | - |
| forhowed | 18 | - | - |
| forinsec | 13 | - | - |
| forjudge | 20 | - | - |
| forkball | 17 | - | - |
| forkedly | 19 | - | - |
| forkfuls | 18 | - | - |
| forkhead | 19 | - | - |
| forkiest | 15 | - | - |
| forkless | 15 | - | - |
| forklike | 19 | - | - |
| forksful | 18 | - | - |
| forktail | 15 | - | - |
| forlanas | 11 | - | - |
| forlends | 12 | - | - |
| forleses | 11 | - | - |
| forlorns | 11 | - | - |
| formable | 15 | - | - |
| formably | 18 | - | - |
| formants | 13 | - | - |
| formated | 14 | - | - |
| formates | 13 | - | - |
| formiate | 13 | - | - |
| formicas | 15 | - | - |
| formings | 14 | - | - |
| formulae | 13 | - | - |
| formular | 13 | - | - |
| formulas | 13 | - | - |
| formwork | 20 | - | - |
| fornenst | 11 | - | - |
| fornical | 13 | - | - |
| fornices | 13 | - | - |
| forpined | 14 | - | - |
| forpines | 13 | - | - |
| forrader | 12 | in a forward direction | - |
| forrayed | 15 | - | - |
| forsaker | 15 | - | - |
| forsakes | 15 | - | - |
| forslack | 17 | - | - |
| forsloed | 12 | - | - |
| forsloes | 11 | - | - |
| forslows | 14 | - | - |
| forspeak | 17 | - | - |
| forspend | 14 | - | - |
| forspent | 13 | - | - |
| forspoke | 17 | - | - |
| forswatt | 14 | - | - |
| forswink | 18 | - | - |
| forswore | 14 | - | - |
| forswunk | 18 | - | - |
| forthink | 18 | - | - |
| fortlets | 11 | - | - |
| fortuity | 14 | anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause | it was due to an accident or fortuity |
| fortuned | 12 | - | - |
| fortunes | 11 | - | - |
| fortyish | 17 | - | - |
| forwarns | 14 | - | - |
| forwaste | 14 | - | - |
| forweary | 17 | - | - |
| forzandi | 21 | - | - |
| forzando | 21 | - | - |
| forzatos | 20 | - | - |
| fossette | 11 | - | - |
| fossicks | 17 | - | - |
| fossulae | 11 | - | - |
| fostered | 12 | - | - |
| fosterer | 11 | - | - |
| fostress | 11 | - | - |
| fothered | 15 | - | - |
| foudries | 12 | - | - |
| fouettes | 11 | - | - |
| fougades | 13 | - | - |
| fougasse | 12 | - | - |
| foughten | 15 | - | - |
| foulards | 12 | - | - |
| foulders | 12 | - | - |
| foulings | 12 | - | - |
| foulmart | 13 | dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened | - |
| foumarts | 13 | - | - |
| founders | 12 | - | - |
| fountful | 14 | - | - |
| fourball | 13 | - | - |
| fourchee | 16 | - | - |
| foureyed | 15 | - | - |
| fourgons | 12 | - | - |
| fourplay | 16 | - | - |
| fourplex | 20 | - | - |
| foustier | 11 | - | - |
| foutered | 12 | - | - |
| foutring | 12 | - | - |
| foveated | 15 | - | - |
| foveolae | 14 | - | - |
| foveolar | 14 | - | - |
| foveolas | 14 | - | - |
| foveoles | 14 | - | - |
| foveolet | 14 | - | - |
| fowlings | 15 | - | - |
| foxberry | 23 | low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries | - |
| foxfires | 21 | - | - |
| foxglove | 22 | any of several plants of the genus Digitalis | - |
| foxholes | 21 | - | - |
| foxhound | 22 | medium-sized glossy-coated hounds developed for hunting foxes | - |
| foxhunts | 21 | - | - |
| foxiness | 18 | shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception | - |
| foxshark | 25 | - | - |
| foxships | 23 | - | - |
| foxskins | 22 | - | - |
| foxtails | 18 | - | - |
| foxtrots | 18 | - | - |
| foyboats | 16 | - | - |
| foziness | 20 | - | - |
