These are the meanings of the letters FAVOREC when you unscramble them.
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Afore (adv.)
Before.
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Afore (adv.)
In the fore part of a vessel.
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Afore (prep.)
Before (in all its senses).
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Afore (prep.)
Before; in front of; farther forward than; as, afore the windlass.
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Carve (v. t.)
To cut.
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Carve (v. t.)
To cut, as wood, stone, or other material, in an artistic or decorative manner; to sculpture; to engrave.
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Carve (v. t.)
To make or shape by cutting, sculpturing, or engraving; to form; as, to carve a name on a tree.
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Carve (v. t.)
To cut into small pieces or slices, as meat at table; to divide for distribution or apportionment; to apportion.
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Carve (v. t.)
To cut: to hew; to mark as if by cutting.
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Carve (v. t.)
To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
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Carve (v. t.)
To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.
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Carve (v. i.)
To exercise the trade of a sculptor or carver; to engrave or cut figures.
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Carve (v. i.)
To cut up meat; as, to carve for all the guests.
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Carve (n.)
A carucate.
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Cover (v. t.)
To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.
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Cover (v. t.)
To envelop; to clothe, as with a mantle or cloak.
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Cover (v. t.)
To invest (one's self with something); to bring upon (one's self); as, he covered himself with glory.
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Cover (v. t.)
To hide sight; to conceal; to cloak; as, the enemy were covered from our sight by the woods.
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Cover (v. t.)
To brood or sit on; to incubate.
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Cover (v. t.)
To shelter, as from evil or danger; to protect; to defend; as, the cavalry covered the retreat.
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Cover (v. t.)
To remove from remembrance; to put away; to remit.
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Cover (v. t.)
To extend over; to be sufficient for; to comprehend, include, or embrace; to account for or solve; to counterbalance; as, a mortgage which fully covers a sum loaned on it; a law which covers all possible cases of a crime; receipts than do not cover expenses.
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Cover (v. t.)
To put the usual covering or headdress on.
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Cover (v. t.)
To copulate with (a female); to serve; as, a horse covers a mare; -- said of the male.
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Cover (n.)
Anything which is laid, set, or spread, upon, about, or over, another thing; an envelope; a lid; as, the cover of a book.
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Cover (n.)
Anything which veils or conceals; a screen; disguise; a cloak.
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Cover (n.)
Shelter; protection; as, the troops fought under cover of the batteries; the woods afforded a good cover.
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Cover (n.)
The woods, underbrush, etc., which shelter and conceal game; covert; as, to beat a cover; to ride to cover.
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Cover (n.)
The lap of a slide valve.
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Cover (n.)
A tablecloth, and the other table furniture; esp., the table furniture for the use of one person at a meal; as, covers were laid for fifty guests.
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Cover (v. i.)
To spread a table for a meal; to prepare a banquet.
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Crave (v. t.)
To ask with earnestness or importunity; to ask with submission or humility; to beg; to entreat; to beseech; to implore.
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Crave (v. t.)
To call for, as a gratification; to long for; hence, to require or demand; as, the stomach craves food.
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Crave (v. i.)
To desire strongly; to feel an insatiable longing; as, a craving appetite.
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Farce (v. t.)
To stuff with forcemeat; hence, to fill with mingled ingredients; to fill full; to stuff.
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Farce (v. t.)
To render fat.
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Farce (v. t.)
To swell out; to render pompous.
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Farce (v. t.)
Stuffing, or mixture of viands, like that used on dressing a fowl; forcemeat.
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Farce (v. t.)
A low style of comedy; a dramatic composition marked by low humor, generally written with little regard to regularity or method, and abounding with ludicrous incidents and expressions.
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Farce (v. t.)
Ridiculous or empty show; as, a mere farce.
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Favor (n.)
Kind regard; propitious aspect; countenance; friendly disposition; kindness; good will.
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Favor (n.)
The act of countenancing, or the condition of being countenanced, or regarded propitiously; support; promotion; befriending.
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Favor (n.)
A kind act or office; kindness done or granted; benevolence shown by word or deed; an act of grace or good will, as distinct from justice or remuneration.
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Favor (n.)
Mildness or mitigation of punishment; lenity.
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Favor (n.)
The object of regard; person or thing favored.
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Favor (n.)
A gift or represent; something bestowed as an evidence of good will; a token of love; a knot of ribbons; something worn as a token of affection; as, a marriage favor is a bunch or knot of white ribbons or white flowers worn at a wedding.
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Favor (n.)
Appearance; look; countenance; face.
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Favor (n.)
Partiality; bias.
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Favor (n.)
A letter or epistle; -- so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received.
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Favor (n.)
Love locks.
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Favor (n.)
To regard with kindness; to support; to aid, or to have the disposition to aid, or to wish success to; to be propitious to; to countenance; to treat with consideration or tenderness; to show partiality or unfair bias towards.
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Favor (n.)
To afford advantages for success to; to facilitate; as, a weak place favored the entrance of the enemy.
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Favor (n.)
To resemble in features; to have the aspect or looks of; as, the child favors his father.
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Force (v. t.)
To stuff; to lard; to farce.
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Force (n.)
A waterfall; a cascade.
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Force (n.)
Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigor; might; often, an unusual degree of strength or energy; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect; especially, power to persuade, or convince, or impose obligation; pertinency; validity; special signification; as, the force of an appeal, an argument, a contract, or a term.
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Force (n.)
Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
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Force (n.)
Strength or power for war; hence, a body of land or naval combatants, with their appurtenances, ready for action; -- an armament; troops; warlike array; -- often in the plural; hence, a body of men prepared for action in other ways; as, the laboring force of a plantation.
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Force (n.)
Strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to law, upon persons or things; violence.
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Force (n.)
Validity; efficacy.
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Force (n.)
Any action between two bodies which changes, or tends to change, their relative condition as to rest or motion; or, more generally, which changes, or tends to change, any physical relation between them, whether mechanical, thermal, chemical, electrical, magnetic, or of any other kind; as, the force of gravity; cohesive force; centrifugal force.
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Force (n.)
To constrain to do or to forbear, by the exertion of a power not resistible; to compel by physical, moral, or intellectual means; to coerce; as, masters force slaves to labor.
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Force (n.)
To compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind.
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Force (n.)
To do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to one;s will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon.
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Force (n.)
To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
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Force (n.)
To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence; -- with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, through, out, etc.
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Force (n.)
To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.
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Force (n.)
To exert to the utmost; to urge; hence, to strain; to urge to excessive, unnatural, or untimely action; to produce by unnatural effort; as, to force a consient or metaphor; to force a laugh; to force fruits.
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Force (n.)
To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none.
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Force (n.)
To provide with forces; to reenforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.
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Force (n.)
To allow the force of; to value; to care for.
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Force (v. i.)
To use violence; to make violent effort; to strive; to endeavor.
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Force (v. i.)
To make a difficult matter of anything; to labor; to hesitate; hence, to force of, to make much account of; to regard.
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Force (v. i.)
To be of force, importance, or weight; to matter.
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Fovea (n.)
A slight depression or pit; a fossa.
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Ocrea (n.)
See Ochrea.