forceps
- n an extractor consisting of a pair of pincers used in medical treatment (especially for the delivery of babies)
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
forbidden city
- n the sacred city of Lamaism; known as the Forbidden City for its former inaccessibility and hostility to strangers
- n a walled section of Beijing that encloses the palace that was formerly the residence of the emperor of China