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Word entry · 4 letters

foam

Best crossword clue

"Bubbles on a latte"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /foʊm/Part of speech verb, nounSorted afmoStarts with FEnds with M9 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. become bubbly or frothy or foaming

Word origin

From Middle English fom, foom, from Old English fām, from Proto-West Germanic *faim, from Proto-Germanic *faimaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)poHy-m-os, from *(s)poH(y)- (“foam”). Cognate with German Feim (“foam”), Latin spūma (“foam”), Latin pūmex (“pumice”), Sanskrit फेन (phéna, “foam”), possibly Northern Kurdish fê (“epilepsy”).

Used in a sentence

  • Similarly, the biotech giant Cargill has begun manufacturing a polymer from vegetable oils that is used in polyurethane foams, which is found in beddings, furniture and car-seat headrests.
  • Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.
  • ’Tis thou that rigg’st the bark and plough’st the foam,

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Used as a crossword answer9 curated clues

01Bubbles on a latte4 letters
02Bubbly froth4 letters
03Bubbly layer on coffee4 letters
04Bubbly layer on waves4 letters
05Froth on a cappuccino4 letters
06Froth on a latte4 letters
07Soap bubbles4 letters
08Sudsy bubbles4 letters

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