Skip to content A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z fountainwise In the manner of a fountain. fountful Full of fountains or springs. fountlet A small fountain. Fouquereuil A village in Pas-de-Calais department, Hauts-de-France, France. fouquieriaceous Of or relating to the plant family Fouquieriaceae. four A numerical value equal to 4; the number following three and preceding five. Fouracre A surname. fourball A match between two teams of two golfers, each playing his or her own ball throughout the round rather than alternating shots, and each hole won by the team whose individual golfer has the lowest score. fourbery deceit, an unprincipled action. fourble A set of oil drilling pipes having four joints. fourche Having the ends forked or branched, and the ends of the branches terminating abruptly as if cut off; said of an ordinary, especially of a cross. fourchette A fork-shaped structure, specifically the fold of skin where the labia minora meet above the perineum (the frenulum labiorum pudendi). fourdrinier A machine for making continuous rolls of paper. fourfold Four times as great; quadruple. fourfoldness The property of being fourfold. fourgie An act of group sex between four people; a foursome. fourgon A French baggage wagon. fourgram An n-gram consisting of four items from a sequence. fourhanded Having four hands; quadrumanous. fourhandedly With four hands; in a fourhanded manner. fourhandedness The state or quality of being fourhanded; having or using four hands. fourice Four times. Fourier A surname from French. Fourierian Of or relating to the French mathematician and physicist Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier. Fourierism The cooperative socialistic system of Charles Fourier, a Frenchman, who recommended the reorganization of society into small communities, living in common. Fourierist A supporter of Fourierism. Fourieristic Of or relating to Fourierism. Fourierite Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or associated with Charles Fourier or his socialist and philosophic theories. fourish Any time close to four o'clock. fourling One of four children born at the same birth; a quadruplet. Fourman A surname. fourmarierite An orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing hydrogen, lead, oxygen, and uranium. fourneau The chamber of a mine in which the powder is placed. fourness The property or state of being four in number. Fournier A surname from French. fourpartite quadripartite fourpeat To win something four times consecutively. fourpence A monetary amount of four pence. fourpenny Costing fourpence. fourpennyworth A portion worth fourpence. fourpiece A group (of musicians and/or singers) comprising four people; a quartet. fourplay Synonym of quad play. fourplex A quadplex. fourquel The chronologically fourth part of any series of works, especially a series of films. Fourrage A surname. fourrier A harbinger (someone who provides lodgings). fours A pair of fours. fourscore Eighty. fourses A light meal taken out to agricultural labourers in the afternoon. foursies A call in any children's game, such as jacks, where four actions must be performed. foursome A group of four, a quartet or a game (such as golf) played by four players, especially by two teams of two. fourspine Having four spines; used in the names of species. fourspot The fourspot flounder foursquare Having four equal sides; square. foursquarely In a foursquare manner. foursquareness The state of being foursquare. Fourstones A village in Warden parish, Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NY8867). fourteen The cardinal number occurring after thirteen and before fifteen. fourteener A mountain rising to more than 14,000 feet above mean sea level. fourteenfold By a factor of fourteen. fourteenish Of about fourteen years of age. fourteenness The property of being fourteen in age or number. fourteenpence The monetary amount of fourteen pence. fourteenpenny Having a value or cost of fourteenpence. fourteenth The ordinal form of the number fourteen. fourteenthly In the fourteenth place; fourteenth in a row. fourth The ordinal form of the number four. fourthhand Having been relayed by three intermediate sources. fourthie A fourth grade student. fourthly In the fourth place; fourth in a row. fourthness The quality of being or coming fourth. fourtino Any astronomical object, on the edge of the Kuiper Belt, whose orbit has a 1:4 resonance with the planet Neptune. fourwheeled having four wheels. fouse To tumble, disarrange, rumple. Foushee A surname. Foust A surname. fousty Fusty. fouta A piece of thin patterned cotton or linen fabric used like a bathrobe in Mediterranean countries, originally Tunisia. Foutch A surname. fouter A despicable fellow. fouth Abundance; plenty. fouthy Ample; plentiful; free in giving; generous; hospitable. foutra A trifle, an insignificant amount. fouty used as an intensifier despicable Foutz A surname. Fouzia A female given name from Arabic, variant of Fawzia fovea A slight depression or pit in a bone or organ. foveal Of or pertaining to the fovea. fovealization migration towards the fovea fovealize To migrate towards the fovea foveally Towards the fovea foveate Having slight depressions or pits. foveation The act of foveating (angling the eyes to focus on an object). foveavirus Any virus of the genus Foveavirus foveiform Resembling a fovea. foveocanaliculate Having prolatocanaliculate-type pores, with larger openings. foveola The center of the fovea in the macula of the eye, approximately 0.35 mm in diameter, containing only cone cells. foveolar Relating to the foveola. foveolate Having small pits or depressions, like the receptacle in some composite flowers. foveolately In a foveolate manner. foveole A small fovea or depression. foveomacular Relating to the fovea and the macula foveoschisis separation of the fovea from the retina fovilla One of the fine granules in the protoplasm of a pollen grain. fow To clean, cleanse (out), as in cooking utensils or house maintenance. fower One who cleans (fows), as in cooking utensils or house maintenance. fowers A surname from Old French. Fowey A small town, port, and civil parish with a town council on the south coast of Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX1251). Fowke A surname. Fowkes A surname. fowl Any bird. fowle A surname. fowler A hunter of wildfowl. fowleri Naegleria fowleri Fowlerian Of or relating to Henry Watson Fowler (1858–1933), English lexicographer and commentator on usage of the language. fowlerite A variety of rhodonite that contains zinc. fowlery A place where fowl are raised. fowlhouse A building for keeping fowls; a henhouse. fowlicidin A cathelicidin antimicrobial peptide associated with chickens fowling A session of hunting fowl. fowlish Like, characteristic of, or resembling a fowl; fowllike. fowlkind All fowl, considered as a group. fowllike Like, resembling, or similar to a fowl or fowls. fowlpox A disease of poultry caused by viruses of the family Poxviridae and the genus Avipoxvirus. fowlpoxvirus The avipoxvirus responsible for fowlpox fowlyard An enclosure for keeping domesticated fowl. Fownes A surname from Old French. Fownhope A village and civil parish in south-east Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO5834). Fowski A surname. fox Any member of the genus Vulpes; a true fox. foxaline Imitation fox fur. foxbane A species of wolfsbane with yellow flowers, Aconitum vulparia. Foxbat NATO code name for the Soviet MiG-25 aircraft. foxbench A hard, crumbly or sandy, irony, undesirable variety of soil found in some places in the UK. foxberry The plant cowberry or lingonberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea. Foxboro A community in southern Ontario, Canada. Foxborough A town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. foxboy A boy or man who wears a fox costume and plays the role of a fox. foxcore Music by female-fronted bands of the 1990s. Foxcote A hamlet in Withington parish, Cotswold district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SP0118). Foxcroft A surname. Foxdale A village south of St. John's, Isle of Man (OS grid ref SC2778). foxe A surname. Foxean Of or relating to John Foxe (1517–1587), martyrologist. foxed Of paper, having yellowish-brown stains (foxing). foxeh A fox. Foxell A surname. foxen Of or pertaining to foxes. foxer An acoustic decoy used to confuse acoustic homing torpedoes by mechanically generating a loud noise while being towed some distance behind a ship. foxery cunning behavior; trickery; deceit