Phrase Hound found 154 phrases and 69 compound words that contain force. The most common are listed below. Open force in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 154
- air forceA branch of the military mainly devoted to air warfare, as opposed to (land) army and (sea) navy.
- task-forceAlternative form of task force.
- driving forceImpetus; a person or thing that causes, stimulates, or motivates something to happen.
- police forceAny police organization; a constabulary.
- labour forceThe collective group of people who are available for employment, whether currently employed or unemployed (though sometimes only those unemployed people who are seeking work are included).
- force of natureA mighty natural force which is beyond human control, notably if potentially catastrophic, such as the elements (e.g. storms and extreme temperatures) or geological (e.g. seismic and volcanic) activity.
- come into forceTo become valid or active, to inure.
- moment of forceThe turning effect of a force applied to a rotational system at a distance from the axis of rotation. The moment is equal to the magnitude of the force multiplied by the perpendicular distance between its line of action and the axis of …
- brute forceA method of accomplishing something primarily by means of strength, without the use of great skill, mechanical aids or thought.
- force majeureAn overwhelming force.
- work forceAlternative form of workforce: All the workers employed by a specific organization or state, or on a specific project.
- show of forceAn open demonstration of power by display of a great number of people or resources.
- labor forceAlternative spelling of labour force: The collective group of people who are available for employment, whether currently employed or unemployed (though sometimes only those unemployed people who are seeking work are included).
- force fieldA region of space (a vector field) in which a force operates; contains lines of force; a field of force.
- life-forceAlternative spelling of life force.
- line of forceAn imaginary line in a field of force, whose tangent at any point gives the direction of the field at that point and whose number through unit area perpendicular to the field represents its intensity.
- reduction in forceA layoff.
- sales forceA team of salespersons.
- coming into forcepresent participle and gerund of come into force
- came into forcesimple past of come into force
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- force-feedTo force a person or animal to ingest food, for example by stuffing food down the throat, or using a tube passed into the stomach.
- force outTo cause something to be ejected
- g-forceThe acceleration of a body relative to the freefall acceleration due to any local gravitational field, expressed in multiples of g0 (the mean acceleration due to gravity at the Earth's surface).
- comes into forcethird-person singular simple present indicative of come into force: To become valid or active, to inure.
Compound words 69
- forcibleDone by force, forced.
- forcefulCapable of either physical or coercive force; powerful.
- triforceA shape composed of three equilateral triangles arranged in such a manner that a fourth triangle of identical size, but pointing the opposite direction, could fit between them.
- salesforceA team of salespeople.
- downforceAny force (produced by aerodynamics or gravity etc) that acts downwards
- forcemeatAn emulsion of fat and comminuted meat (which has been subject to puréeing, grinding, sieving, chopping finely) optionally mixed with other flavour carriers and either served up alone or used as a stuffing.
- strikeforceA group in an organization such as the police or the army that has been trained especially for dealing with serious and urgent threats.
- spaceforceA military unit involved with outer space and spaceflight.
- megaforceA great or united force.
- overforceExcessive force; violence.