forceps
- n an extractor consisting of a pair of pincers used in medical treatment (especially for the delivery of babies)
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
forbiddance
- n an official prohibition or edict against something
- n the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)
he ignored his parents' forbiddance