Foils is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FOILS in dictionary:

VERB:
• FOIL, to defeat or baffle
• prevent (something considered wrong or undesirable) from succeeding
• frustrate the efforts or plans of
• (of a hunted animal) run over or cross (ground or a scent or track) in such a way as to confuse the hounds.
NOUN:
• the track or scent of a hunted animal.
• a setback in an enterprise; a defeat.
• metal hammered or rolled into a thin flexible sheet, used chiefly for covering or wrapping food
• a person or thing that contrasts with and so emphasizes and enhances the qualities of another
• a thin leaf of metal placed under a precious stone to increase its brilliance.
• a leaf-shaped curve formed by the cusping of an arch or circle.
• a light, blunt-edged fencing sword with a button on its point.
• each of the structures fitted to a hydrofoil's hull to lift it clear of the water at speed.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to prevent the success of

Words related to FOILS

foil7 foiled10 foiling11

Words that contain FOILS

airfoils11 foilsman13 foilsmen13 jetfoils18 milfoils13 sexfoils18 tinfoils11 trefoils11 aerofoils12 hexafoils22 parafoils14 caprifoils17 eightfoils17 foilswoman18 foilswomen18 hydrofoils20 multifoils15 cinquefoils25 quatrefoils23 counterfoils17

How to use FOILS in a sentence

• The earliest lesson I had learned at the foils was that victory comes only to the man who keeps his coolness.
• I took my lesson with the foils morning and evening, and soon began to make some progress in the art.
• I flushed crimson with chagrin, for that he guessed the reason of my diligence with the foils, I could not doubt.
• Barely crossing foils, Taquisara executed the feint in question at once, and lunged his fullest length.
• He had brought a set of boxing gloves, foils, and a number of sporting pictures.
• The hours of practice with the foils are so long there that they look more like days and nights, and the weapons are dangerous sometimes, as they are not blunted.
• Reserve bill foes left stranded as Bryan foils them.
• Claudius induced Laertes to challenge Hamlet to play with foils, but persuaded him to poison his weapon.
• In the combat the foils got changed, and Hamlet wounded Laertes with the poisoned weapon.
• The captain and I chanced to be in the thick of an encounter with the foils, and neither of us heard the rap on the door which announced the visitors.
• Entire self-possession may make a battle very little more dangerous to life than a match at foils or at football.
• All arms, down to fencing foils, had been handed over to the town administration and deposited by the said authorities in the Church of St.
• That these motives are not there is, I think, not only that Lady Gregory, self-effacingly, put into her plays what was wanted to make them foils to the plays of Mr.
• This was no play duel or mock fencing match with buttoned foils.
• All arms down to fencing foils had been handed over to the town administration and deposited by the said authorities in the Church of St.
• He had a special place adapted for his pistols, others for his foils, and again another for his whips.
• There were guns and rifles in plenty in a rack by the chimney-piece, a row of bookcases along the north wall, golf clubs, cricket bats, and foils everywhere.
• But he had not the faintest idea how to use a stick, whereas my practice with the foils at the gymnasium had made me quite skilful.
• They will do very well as foils to myself, so I have invited them to accompany me to London where I hope to be in the course of a fortnight.
• When you present the Foils, give the Choice without pressing.
• A pair of foils and masks, neatly arranged over each corner of the mantelpiece, completed the decorations of the room.
• We will, however, hope, that the very wicked and cowardly, among seamen, exist only as foils to render the qualities of the very bold and manly more conspicuous.
• Upon the chimney-piece were displayed a pair of foils, a lute, a skull, an antique German drinking-mug, and several very modern empty bottles.
• Now the thunder and the pestilence which were once its essence come to be regarded as its disguises and its foils.
• As foils to these larger characters stand out the mean, vengeful Einar, the brutal Alf, the insolent but brave Thorolf.
• One fine morning in the Spring of 1773, Philip and I were breaking the Sabbath by practising with the foils in our back garden.
• Long time ago the gentlemen of the family had worn lace ruffles and carried tinless foils and owned plantations and had slaves to burn.

Similar words containing FOIL without suffix s

foil7 foiled10 airfoil10 foiling11 foilist10 jetfoil17 milfoil12 sexfoil17 tinfoil10 trefoil10 aerofoil11 airfoils11 foilable13 foilings12 foilists11 foilsman13 foilsmen13 hexafoil21 jetfoils18 milfoils13 parafoil13 sexfoils18 tinfoils11 trefoils11 unfoiled12 aerofoils12 caprifoil16 eightfoil16 foilborne14 hexafoils22 hydrofoil19 multifoil14 parafoils14 trefoiled13 caprifoils17 cinquefoil24 eightfoils17 foilswoman18 foilswomen18 hydrofoils20 multifoils15 quatrefoil22 cinquefoils25 counterfoil16 quatrefoils23 counterfoils17

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