forceps
- n an extractor consisting of a pair of pincers used in medical treatment (especially for the delivery of babies)
foray
- n a sudden short attack
- n an initial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of competence)
scientists' forays into politics - v steal goods; take as spoils
- v briefly enter enemy territory
forbear
- n a person from whom you are descended
- v refrain from doing
- v resist doing something
she could not forbear weeping
forbearance
- n good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
- n a delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges; refraining from acting
his forbearance to reply was alarming