FOSTER
First name FOSTER's origin is English. FOSTER means "keeps the forest forest-ranger surname". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with FOSTER below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of foster.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with FOSTER and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming FOSTER
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES FOSTER AS A WHOLE:
NAMES RHYMING WITH FOSTER (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 5 Letters (oster) - Names That Ends with oster:
Rhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (ster) - Names That Ends with ster:
brewster auster kester easter ester hester alister allister ceaster chester forester forrester lester macalister sylvester webster wireceaster worcester alaster caster dempster leicester silvesterRhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ter) - Names That Ends with ter:
usk-water witter dexter eszter attewater colter coulter dieter fitzwalter fitzwater holter hunter peter sutter thaxter wynter walter porter winter carter baxter atwater cater demeter ritter alter rossiterRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (er) - Names That Ends with er:
clover hesper gauthier iskinder fajer mountakaber nader saber shaker taher abdul-nasser kadeer kyner vortimer yder ager ander iker xabier fleischaker kusner molner bleecker devisser schuyler vanderveer an-her djoser narmer neb-er-tcher acker archer bridger camber denver gardner jasper miller parker taburer tanner tucker turner wheeler symer jesper ogier oliver fearcher kellerNAMES RHYMING WITH FOSTER (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 5 Letters (foste) - Names That Begins with foste:
Rhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (fost) - Names That Begins with fost:
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (fos) - Names That Begins with fos:
Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (fo) - Names That Begins with fo:
fodjour fogartaigh fogarty fogerty fola foley foma fonda fonsie fonso fontaine fontane fontanne fontayne fonteyne fonzell fonzie fonzo forba forbes forbia ford forde forest forrest forsa fortun fortuna fortune fouad foursan fowler fowsiaNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH FOSTER:
First Names which starts with 'fo' and ends with 'er':
First Names which starts with 'f' and ends with 'r':
faber faer fajr fakhir farquhar farr favor fearchar fedor fembar feodor ferar ferchar ferehar filmarr filmer finbar findabair finnbar finnobarr fionnbarr flair fletcher fleur flor fraomar fraser frasier frazer frazier fuller fynbar fyodorEnglish Words Rhyming FOSTER
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES FOSTER AS A WHOLE:
fostering | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Foster |
foster | noun (n.) A forester. |
noun (n.) One who, or that which, fosters. | |
verb (v. t.) To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up. | |
verb (v. t.) To cherish; to promote the growth of; to encourage; to sustain and promote; as, to foster genius. | |
verb (v. i.) To be nourished or trained up together. | |
verb (v. t.) Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; -- applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc., to indicate that the person so called stands in the relation of parent, child, brother, etc., as regards sustenance and nurture, but not by tie of blood. |
fosterage | noun (n.) The care of a foster child; the charge of nursing. |
fosterling | noun (n.) A foster child. |
fosterment | noun (n.) Food; nourishment. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH FOSTER (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (oster) - English Words That Ends with oster:
billposter | noun (n.) Alt. of Billsticker |
booster | noun (n.) An instrument for regulating the electro-motive force in an alternating-current circuit; -- so called because used to "boost", or raise, the pressure in the circuit. |
coniroster | noun (n.) One of the Conirostres. |
coster | noun (n.) One who hawks about fruit, green vegetables, fish, etc. |
dentiroster | noun (n.) A dentirostral bird. |
longiroster | noun (n.) One of the Longirostres. |
paternoster | noun (n.) The Lord's prayer, so called from the first two words of the Latin version. |
noun (n.) A beadlike ornament in moldings. | |
noun (n.) A line with a row of hooks and bead/shaped sinkers. | |
noun (n.) An elevator of an inclined endless traveling chain or belt bearing buckets or shelves which ascend on one side loaded, and empty themselves at the top. |
pentecoster | noun (n.) An officer in the Spartan army commanding fifty men. |
poster | noun (n.) A large bill or placard intended to be posted in public places. |
noun (n.) One who posts bills; a billposter. | |
noun (n.) One who posts, or travels expeditiously; a courier. | |
noun (n.) A post horse. |
pressiroster | noun (n.) One of a tribe of wading birds (Pressirostres) including those which have a compressed beak, as the plovers. |
recurviroster | noun (n.) A bird whose beak bends upward, as the avocet. |
rooster | noun (n.) The male of the domestic fowl; a cock. |
roster | noun (n.) A register or roll showing the order in which officers, enlisted men, companies, or regiments are called on to serve. |
tenuiroster | noun (n.) One of the Tenuirostres. |
zoster | noun (n.) Shingles. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (ster) - English Words That Ends with ster:
adelaster | noun (n.) A provisional name for a plant which has not had its flowers botanically examined, and therefore has not been referred to its proper genus. |
adjuster | noun (n.) One who, or that which, adjusts. |
administer | noun (n.) Administrator. |
verb (v. t.) To manage or conduct, as public affairs; to direct or superintend the execution, application, or conduct of; as, to administer the government or the state. | |
verb (v. t.) To dispense; to serve out; to supply; execute; as, to administer relief, to administer the sacrament. | |
verb (v. t.) To apply, as medicine or a remedy; to give, as a dose or something beneficial or suitable. Extended to a blow, a reproof, etc. | |
verb (v. t.) To tender, as an oath. | |
verb (v. t.) To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor. | |
verb (v. i.) To contribute; to bring aid or supplies; to conduce; to minister. | |
verb (v. i.) To perform the office of administrator; to act officially; as, A administers upon the estate of B. |
agister | noun (n.) Alt. of Agistor |
alabaster | noun (n.) A compact variety or sulphate of lime, or gypsum, of fine texture, and usually white and translucent, but sometimes yellow, red, or gray. It is carved into vases, mantel ornaments, etc. |
noun (n.) A hard, compact variety of carbonate of lime, somewhat translucent, or of banded shades of color; stalagmite. The name is used in this sense by Pliny. It is sometimes distinguished as oriental alabaster. | |
noun (n.) A box or vessel for holding odoriferous ointments, etc.; -- so called from the stone of which it was originally made. |
aletaster | noun (n.) See Aleconner. |
amphiaster | noun (n.) The achromatic figure, formed in mitotic cell-division, consisting of two asters connected by a spindle-shaped bundle of rodlike fibers diverging from each aster, and called the spindle. |
arbalester | noun (n.) Alt. of Arbalister |
arbalister | noun (n.) A crossbowman. |
arcubalister | noun (n.) A crossbowman; one who used the arcubalist. |
arrester | noun (n.) One who arrests. |
noun (n.) The person at whose suit an arrestment is made. |
assister | noun (n.) An assistant; a helper. |
aster | noun (n.) A genus of herbs with compound white or bluish flowers; starwort; Michaelmas daisy. |
noun (n.) A plant of the genus Callistephus. Many varieties (called China asters, German asters, etc.) are cultivated for their handsome compound flowers. | |
noun (n.) A star-shaped figure of achromatic substance found chiefly in cells dividing by mitosis. |
attester | noun (n.) Alt. of Attestor |
auster | noun (n.) The south wind. |
axminster | noun (n.) An Axminster carpet, an imitation Turkey carpet, noted for its thick and soft pile; -- so called from Axminster, Eng. |
() Alt. of Axminster carpet |
backster | noun (n.) A backer. |
balister | noun (n.) A crossbow. |
ballister | noun (n.) A crossbow. |
baluster | noun (n.) A small column or pilaster, used as a support to the rail of an open parapet, to guard the side of a staircase, or the front of a gallery. See Balustrade. |
bandmaster | noun (n.) The conductor of a musical band. |
banister | noun (n.) A stringed musical instrument having a head and neck like the guitar, and its body like a tambourine. It has five strings, and is played with the fingers and hands. |
barmaster | noun (n.) Formerly, a local judge among miners; now, an officer of the barmote. |
barrister | noun (n.) Counselor at law; a counsel admitted to plead at the bar, and undertake the public trial of causes, as distinguished from an attorney or solicitor. See Attorney. |
beemaster | noun (n.) One who keeps bees. |
bergmaster | noun (n.) See Barmaster. |
bister | noun (n.) Alt. of Bistre |
blaster | noun (n.) One who, or that which, blasts or destroys. |
blister | noun (n.) A vesicle of the skin, containing watery matter or serum, whether occasioned by a burn or other injury, or by a vesicatory; a collection of serous fluid causing a bladderlike elevation of the cuticle. |
noun (n.) Any elevation made by the separation of the film or skin, as on plants; or by the swelling of the substance at the surface, as on steel. | |
noun (n.) A vesicatory; a plaster of Spanish flies, or other matter, applied to raise a blister. | |
verb (v. i.) To be affected with a blister or blisters; to have a blister form on. | |
verb (v. t.) To raise a blister or blisters upon. | |
verb (v. t.) To give pain to, or to injure, as if by a blister. |
bluster | noun (n.) Fitful noise and violence, as of a storm; violent winds; boisterousness. |
noun (n.) Noisy and violent or threatening talk; noisy and boastful language. | |
verb (v. i.) To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather. | |
verb (v. i.) To talk with noisy violence; to swagger, as a turbulent or boasting person; to act in a noisy, tumultuous way; to play the bully; to storm; to rage. | |
verb (v. t.) To utter, or do, with noisy violence; to force by blustering; to bully. |
boaster | noun (n.) One who boasts; a braggart. |
noun (n.) A stone mason's broad-faced chisel. |
bolster | noun (n.) A long pillow or cushion, used to support the head of a person lying on a bed; -- generally laid under the pillows. |
noun (n.) A pad, quilt, or anything used to hinder pressure, support any part of the body, or make a bandage sit easy upon a wounded part; a compress. | |
noun (n.) Anything arranged to act as a support, as in various forms of mechanism, etc. | |
noun (n.) A cushioned or a piece part of a saddle. | |
noun (n.) A cushioned or a piece of soft wood covered with tarred canvas, placed on the trestletrees and against the mast, for the collars of the shrouds to rest on, to prevent chafing. | |
noun (n.) Anything used to prevent chafing. | |
noun (n.) A plate of iron or a mass of wood under the end of a bridge girder, to keep the girder from resting directly on the abutment. | |
noun (n.) A transverse bar above the axle of a wagon, on which the bed or body rests. | |
noun (n.) The crossbeam forming the bearing piece of the body of a railway car; the central and principal cross beam of a car truck. | |
noun (n.) the perforated plate in a punching machine on which anything rests when being punched. | |
noun (n.) That part of a knife blade which abuts upon the end of the handle. | |
noun (n.) The metallic end of a pocketknife handle. | |
noun (n.) The rolls forming the ends or sides of the Ionic capital. | |
noun (n.) A block of wood on the carriage of a siege gun, upon which the breech of the gun rests when arranged for transportation. | |
verb (v. t.) To support with a bolster or pillow. | |
verb (v. t.) To support, hold up, or maintain with difficulty or unusual effort; -- often with up. |
boroughmaster | noun (n.) The mayor, governor, or bailiff of a borough. |
burghermaster | noun (n.) See Burgomaster. |
burghmaster | noun (n.) A burgomaster. |
noun (n.) An officer who directs and lays out the meres or boundaries for the workmen; -- called also bailiff, and barmaster. |
burgomaster | noun (n.) A chief magistrate of a municipal town in Holland, Flanders, and Germany, corresponding to mayor in England and the United States; a burghmaster. |
noun (n.) An aquatic bird, the glaucous gull (Larus glaucus), common in arctic regions. |
burster | noun (n.) One that bursts. |
buster | noun (n.) Something huge; a roistering blade; also, a spree. |
cadaster | noun (n.) An official statement of the quantity and value of real estate for the purpose of apportioning the taxes payable on such property. |
canaster | noun (n.) A kind of tobacco for smoking, made of the dried leaves, coarsely broken; -- so called from the rush baskets in which it is packed in South America. |
candlewaster | noun (n.) One who consumes candles by being up late for study or dissipation. |
canister | noun (n.) A small basket of rushes, reeds, or willow twigs, etc. |
noun (n.) A small box or case for holding tea, coffee, etc. | |
noun (n.) A kind of case shot for cannon, in which a number of lead or iron balls in layers are inclosed in a case fitting the gun; -- called also canister shot. |
capellmeister | noun (n.) The musical director in royal or ducal chapel; a choir-master. |
caster | noun (n.) One who casts; as, caster of stones, etc. ; a caster of cannon; a caster of accounts. |
noun (n.) A vial, cruet, or other small vessel, used to contain condiments at the table; as, a set of casters. | |
noun (n.) A stand to hold a set of cruets. | |
noun (n.) A small wheel on a swivel, on which furniture is supported and moved. |
chepster | noun (n.) The European starling. |
chidester | noun (n.) A female scold. |
chorister | noun (n.) One of a choir; a singer in a chorus. |
noun (n.) One who leads a choir in church music. |
cluster | noun (n.) A number of things of the same kind growing together; a bunch. |
noun (n.) A number of similar things collected together or lying contiguous; a group; as, a cluster of islands. | |
noun (n.) A number of individuals grouped together or collected in one place; a crowd; a mob. | |
verb (v. i.) To grow in clusters or assemble in groups; to gather or unite in a cluster or clusters. | |
verb (v. t.) To collect into a cluster or clusters; to gather into a bunch or close body. |
clyster | noun (n.) A liquid injected into the lower intestines by means of a syringe; an injection; an enema. |
coaster | noun (n.) A vessel employed in sailing along a coast, or engaged in the coasting trade. |
noun (n.) One who sails near the shore. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ter) - English Words That Ends with ter:
abater | noun (n.) One who, or that which, abates. |
abetter | noun (n.) Alt. of Abettor |
absenter | noun (n.) One who absents one's self. |
abstracter | noun (n.) One who abstracts, or makes an abstract. |
abutter | noun (n.) One who, or that which, abuts. Specifically, the owner of a contiguous estate; as, the abutters on a street or a river. |
acater | noun (n.) See Caterer. |
accelerometer | noun (n.) An apparatus for measuring the velocity imparted by gunpowder. |
accepter | noun (n.) A person who accepts; a taker. |
noun (n.) A respecter; a viewer with partiality. | |
noun (n.) An acceptor. |
accipiter | noun (n.) A genus of rapacious birds; one of the Accipitres or Raptores. |
noun (n.) A bandage applied over the nose, resembling the claw of a hawk. |
acetimeter | noun (n.) An instrument for estimating the amount of acetic acid in vinegar or in any liquid containing acetic acid. |
acetometer | noun (n.) Same as Acetimeter. |
acidimeter | noun (n.) An instrument for ascertaining the strength of acids. |
acoumeter | noun (n.) An instrument for measuring the acuteness of the sense of hearing. |
acquitter | noun (n.) One who acquits or releases. |
acroter | noun (n.) Same as Acroterium. |
actinometer | noun (n.) An instrument for measuring the direct heating power of the sun's rays. |
noun (n.) An instrument for measuring the actinic effect of rays of light. |
adapter | noun (n.) One who adapts. |
noun (n.) A connecting tube; an adopter. |
admitter | noun (n.) One who admits. |
adopter | noun (n.) One who adopts. |
noun (n.) A receiver, with two necks, opposite to each other, one of which admits the neck of a retort, and the other is joined to another receiver. It is used in distillations, to give more space to elastic vapors, to increase the length of the neck of a retort, or to unite two vessels whose openings have different diameters. |
aerometer | noun (n.) An instrument for ascertaining the weight or density of air and gases. |
aesthesiometer | noun (n.) Alt. of Esthesiometer |
affecter | noun (n.) One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after. |
afflicter | noun (n.) One who afflicts. |
affreighter | noun (n.) One who hires or charters a ship to convey goods. |
affrighter | noun (n.) One who frightens. |
affronter | noun (n.) One who affronts, or insults to the face. |
after | adjective (a.) Next; later in time; subsequent; succeeding; as, an after period of life. |
adjective (a.) Hinder; nearer the rear. | |
adjective (a.) To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. | |
adverb (adv.) Subsequently in time or place; behind; afterward; as, he follows after. | |
prep (prep.) Behind in place; as, men in line one after another. | |
prep (prep.) Below in rank; next to in order. | |
prep (prep.) Later in time; subsequent; as, after supper, after three days. It often precedes a clause. Formerly that was interposed between it and the clause. | |
prep (prep.) Subsequent to and in consequence of; as, after what you have said, I shall be careful. | |
prep (prep.) Subsequent to and notwithstanding; as, after all our advice, you took that course. | |
prep (prep.) Moving toward from behind; following, in search of; in pursuit of. | |
prep (prep.) Denoting the aim or object; concerning; in relation to; as, to look after workmen; to inquire after a friend; to thirst after righteousness. | |
prep (prep.) In imitation of; in conformity with; after the manner of; as, to make a thing after a model; a picture after Rubens; the boy takes after his father. | |
prep (prep.) According to; in accordance with; in conformity with the nature of; as, he acted after his kind. | |
prep (prep.) According to the direction and influence of; in proportion to; befitting. |
airometer | noun (n.) A hollow cylinder to contain air. It is closed above and open below, and has its open end plunged into water. |
albuminimeter | noun (n.) An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of albumen in a liquid. |
alcalimeter | noun (n.) See Alkalimeter. |
alcoholometer | noun (n.) Alt. of Alcoholmeter |
alcoholmeter | noun (n.) An instrument for determining the strength of spirits, with a scale graduated so as to indicate the percentage of pure alcohol, either by weight or volume. It is usually a form of hydrometer with a special scale. |
alcohometer | adjective (a.) Alt. of Alcohometric |
aleurometer | noun (n.) An instrument for determining the expansive properties, or quality, of gluten in flour. |
alkalimeter | noun (n.) An instrument to ascertain the strength of alkalies, or the quantity of alkali in a mixture. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH FOSTER (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (foste) - Words That Begins with foste:
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (fost) - Words That Begins with fost:
fostress | noun (n.) A woman who feeds and cherishes; a nurse. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (fos) - Words That Begins with fos:
fossa | noun (n.) A pit, groove, cavity, or depression, of greater or less depth; as, the temporal fossa on the side of the skull; the nasal fossae containing the nostrils in most birds. |
fossane | noun (n.) A species of civet (Viverra fossa) resembling the genet. |
fosse | noun (n.) A ditch or moat. |
noun (n.) See Fossa. |
fosset | noun (n.) A faucet. |
fossette | noun (n.) A little hollow; hence, a dimple. |
noun (n.) A small, deep-centered ulcer of the transparent cornea. |
fosseway | noun (n.) One of the great military roads constructed by the Romans in England and other parts of Europe; -- so called from the fosse or ditch on each side for keeping it dry. |
fossil | noun (n.) A substance dug from the earth. |
noun (n.) The remains of an animal or plant found in stratified rocks. Most fossils belong to extinct species, but many of the later ones belong to species still living. | |
noun (n.) A person whose views and opinions are extremely antiquated; one whose sympathies are with a former time rather than with the present. | |
adjective (a.) Dug out of the earth; as, fossil coal; fossil salt. | |
adjective (a.) Like or pertaining to fossils; contained in rocks, whether petrified or not; as, fossil plants, shells. |
fossiliferous | adjective (a.) Containing or composed of fossils. |
fossilification | noun (n.) The process of becoming fossil. |
fossilism | noun (n.) The science or state of fossils. |
noun (n.) The state of being extremely antiquated in views and opinions. |
fossilist | noun (n.) One who is versed in the science of fossils; a paleontologist. |
fossilization | noun (n.) The process of converting, or of being converted, into a fossil. |
fossilizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fossilize |
fossilized | adjective (a.) Converted into a fossil; antiquated; firmly fixed in views or opinions. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Fossilize |
fossores | noun (n. pl.) A group of hymenopterous insects including the sand wasps. They excavate cells in earth, where they deposit their eggs, with the bodies of other insects for the food of the young when hatched. |
fossoria | noun (n. pl.) See Fossores. |
fossorial | adjective (a.) Fitted for digging, adapted for burrowing or digging; as, a fossorial foot; a fossorial animal. |
fossorious | adjective (a.) Adapted for digging; -- said of the legs of certain insects. |
fossulate | adjective (a.) Having, or surrounded by, long, narrow depressions or furrows. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH FOSTER:
English Words which starts with 'fo' and ends with 'er':
focimeter | noun (n.) An assisting instrument for focusing an object in or before a camera. |
fodder | noun (n.) A weight by which lead and some other metals were formerly sold, in England, varying from 19/ to 24 cwt.; a fother. |
noun (n.) That which is fed out to cattle horses, and sheep, as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc. | |
verb (v.t.) To feed, as cattle, with dry food or cut grass, etc.;to furnish with hay, straw, oats, etc. |
fodderer | noun (n.) One who fodders cattle. |
fog'ger | noun (n.) One who fogs; a pettifogger. |
foiler | noun (n.) One who foils or frustrates. |
foister | noun (n.) One who foists something surreptitiously; a falsifier. |
folder | noun (n.) One who, or that which, folds; esp., a flat, knifelike instrument used for folding paper. |
folier | noun (n.) Goldsmith's foil. |
folkmoter | noun (n.) One who takes part in a folkmote, or local court. |
follower | noun (n.) One who follows; a pursuer; an attendant; a disciple; a dependent associate; a retainer. |
noun (n.) A sweetheart; a beau. | |
noun (n.) The removable flange, or cover, of a piston. See Illust. of Piston. | |
noun (n.) A gland. See Illust. of Stuffing box. | |
noun (n.) The part of a machine that receives motion from another part. See Driver. | |
noun (n.) Among law stationers, a sheet of parchment or paper which is added to the first sheet of an indenture or other deed. |
fomenter | noun (n.) One who foments; one who encourages or instigates; as, a fomenter of sedition. |
fondler | noun (n.) One who fondles. |
footlicker | noun (n.) A sycophant; a fawner; a toady. Cf. Bootlick. |
forager | noun (n.) One who forages. |
foraminifer | noun (n.) One of the foraminifera. |
forayer | noun (n.) One who makes or joins in a foray. |
forbearer | noun (n.) One who forbears. |
forbidder | noun (n.) One who forbids. |
forcer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, forces or drives. |
noun (n.) The solid piston of a force pump; the instrument by which water is forced in a pump. | |
noun (n.) A small hand pump for sinking pits, draining cellars, etc. |
foreboder | noun (n.) One who forebodes. |
forecaster | noun (n.) One who forecast. |
forefather | noun (n.) One who precedes another in the line of genealogy in any degree, but usually in a remote degree; an ancestor. |
forefinger | noun (n.) The finger next to the thumb; the index. |
foreganger | noun (n.) A short rope grafted on a harpoon, to which a longer lin/ may be attached. |
foregoer | noun (n.) One who goes before another; a predecessor; hence, an ancestor' a progenitor. |
noun (n.) A purveyor of the king; -- so called, formerly, from going before to provide for his household. | |
noun (n.) One who forbears to enjoy. |
foreigner | noun (n.) A person belonging to or owning allegiance to a foreign country; one not native in the country or jurisdiction under consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger. |
forejudger | noun (n.) A judgment by which one is deprived or put of a right or thing in question. |
foreknower | noun (n.) One who foreknows. |
foreleader | noun (n.) One who leads others by his example; aguide. |
foremother | noun (n.) A female ancestor. |
forerunner | noun (n.) A messenger sent before to give notice of the approach of others; a harbinger; a sign foreshowing something; a prognostic; as, the forerunner of a fever. |
noun (n.) A predecessor; an ancestor. | |
noun (n.) A piece of rag terminating the log line. |
foreseer | noun (n.) One who foresees or foreknows. |
foreshower | noun (n.) One who predicts. |
forespurrer | noun (n.) One who rides before; a harbinger. |
forestaller | noun (n.) One who forestalls; esp., one who forestalls the market. |
forester | noun (n.) One who has charge of the growing timber on an estate; an officer appointed to watch a forest and preserve the game. |
noun (n.) An inhabitant of a forest. | |
noun (n.) A forest tree. | |
noun (n.) A lepidopterous insect belonging to Alypia and allied genera; as, the eight-spotted forester (A. octomaculata), which in the larval state is injurious to the grapevine. |
foretaster | noun (n.) One who tastes beforehand, or before another. |
foreteller | noun (n.) One who predicts. |
forfeiter | noun (n.) One who incurs a penalty of forfeiture. |
forger | noun (n. & v. t.) One who forges, makes, of forms; a fabricator; a falsifier. |
noun (n. & v. t.) Especially: One guilty of forgery; one who makes or issues a counterfeit document. |
forgetter | noun (n.) One who forgets; a heedless person. |
forgiver | noun (n.) One who forgives. |
former | noun (n.) One who forms; a maker; a creator. |
noun (n.) A shape around which an article is to be shaped, molded, woven wrapped, pasted, or otherwise constructed. | |
noun (n.) A templet, pattern, or gauge by which an article is shaped. | |
noun (n.) A cutting die. | |
adjective (a.) Preceding in order of time; antecedent; previous; prior; earlier; hence, ancient; long past. | |
adjective (a.) Near the beginning; preceeding; as, the former part of a discourse or argument. | |
adjective (a.) Earlier, as between two things mentioned together; first mentioned. |
forsaker | noun (n.) One who forsakes or deserts. |
forster | noun (n.) A forester. |
forswearer | noun (n.) One who rejects of renounces upon oath; one who swears a false oath. |
fortifier | noun (n.) One who, or that which, fortifies, strengthens, supports, or upholds. |
forwarder | noun (n.) One who forwards or promotes; a promoter. |
noun (n.) One who sends forward anything; (Com.) one who transmits goods; a forwarding merchant. | |
noun (n.) One employed in forwarding. |
fother | noun (n.) A wagonload; a load of any sort. |
noun (n.) See Fodder, a unit of weight. | |
verb (v. t.) To stop (a leak in a ship at sea) by drawing under its bottom a thrummed sail, so that the pressure of the water may force it into the crack. |
foundationer | noun (n.) One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school. |
founder | noun (n.) One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows. |
noun (n.) One who founds; one who casts metals in various forms; a caster; as, a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or types. | |
noun (n.) A lameness in the foot of a horse, occasioned by inflammation; closh. | |
noun (n.) An inflammatory fever of the body, or acute rheumatism; as, chest founder. See Chest ffounder. | |
verb (v. i.) To become filled with water, and sink, as a ship. | |
verb (v. i.) To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse. | |
verb (v. i.) To fail; to miscarry. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs of (a horse), so as to disable or lame him. |
fourdrinier | noun (n.) A machine used in making paper; -- so named from an early inventor of improvements in this class of machinery. |
fourrier | noun (n.) A harbinger. |
fouter | noun (n.) A despicable fellow. |
fowler | noun (n.) A sportsman who pursues wild fowl, or takes or kills for food. |
foyer | noun (n.) A lobby in a theater; a greenroom. |
noun (n.) The crucible or basin in a furnace which receives the molten metal. |