Clues for the word "FORCE"
We've had 85 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 147 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Quick crossword on March 18, 2026.
Definition of force
- v. t. - To stuff; to lard; to farce.
- n. - A waterfall; a cascade.
- n. - Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigor; might; often, an unusual degree of strength or energy; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect; especially, power to persuade, or convince, or impose obligation; pertinency; validity; special signification; as, the force of an appeal, an argument, a contract, or a term.
- n. - Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
- n. - Strength or power for war; hence, a body of land or naval combatants, with their appurtenances, ready for action; -- an armament; troops; warlike array; -- often in the plural; hence, a body of men prepared for action in other ways; as, the laboring force of a plantation.
- n. - Strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to law, upon persons or things; violence.
- n. - Validity; efficacy.
- n. - Any action between two bodies which changes, or tends to change, their relative condition as to rest or motion; or, more generally, which changes, or tends to change, any physical relation between them, whether mechanical, thermal, chemical, electrical, magnetic, or of any other kind; as, the force of gravity; cohesive force; centrifugal force.
- n. - To constrain to do or to forbear, by the exertion of a power not resistible; to compel by physical, moral, or intellectual means; to coerce; as, masters force slaves to labor.
- n. - To compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind.
- n. - To do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to one;s will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon.
- n. - To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
- n. - To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence; -- with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, through, out, etc.
- n. - To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.
- n. - To exert to the utmost; to urge; hence, to strain; to urge to excessive, unnatural, or untimely action; to produce by unnatural effort; as, to force a consient or metaphor; to force a laugh; to force fruits.
- n. - To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none.
- n. - To provide with forces; to reenforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.
- n. - To allow the force of; to value; to care for.
- v. i. - To use violence; to make violent effort; to strive; to endeavor.
- v. i. - To make a difficult matter of anything; to labor; to hesitate; hence, to force of, to make much account of; to regard.
- v. i. - To be of force, importance, or weight; to matter.
Referring Clues
- Compel
- More than persuasion
- Use a crowbar on, say
- Might
- The "F" in the equation "F = ma"
- Another one after life
- "May the ___ be with you"
- Jedi Knight's power
- Coerce
- "Star Wars" plot device
- Arm-twisting
- Strong-arm
- Mass times acceleration, in physics
- Jedi's power
- What dynes measure
- Compel through coercion
- Physical strength
- Word with task or air
- Leave no choice
- Jedi Knight's power (with "the")
- Impel
- Intensity
- Push
- Luke Skywalker's power, with "the"
- Pry open
- Mass times acceleration
- Hurricane-___ winds
- Pressurise
- Physical power
- Troop group
- The "F" in USAF
- Pressure
- Magnetism, for instance
- Power
- "Star Wars" power, with "the"
- Put pressure on
- Brute follower
- E.a.r.t.h. ___
- The "F" in F = ma
- Impetus
- In sci-fi, may it be with you
- Part of USAF
- Strength
- Part of 1-down
- Coercion
- Friction, e.g.
- Van Morrison "Full ___ Gale"
- Act of God preventing someone from fulfilling a contract
- Figure to get in front, with power
- In favour of ending peace by violence
- To deal with heartless crime, we have the police
- Strength needed for finishing the race?
- Power of the police?
- Met, maybe, with violence
- Drive forward, with no drawback, at half pace
- Lean on
- Power - compulsion
- Legal exemption from fee juror came to settle
- Compulsion - police
- The power of a waterfall
- See 3
- See 10
- In favour of church's influence
- Word of warning about crime, initially, from the police
- Power for empty crate
- Might use a jemmy?
- The "F" of R.A.F.
- The police break it open
- Drive the enemy out!
- Word after task or brute
- Dint
- Gravity, for example
- Gravity, e.g.
- Mass times acceleration, per Newton's second law
- Strong-arming
- One of the services might
- Strength needed for finishing the race?
- Power of the police?
- Mass x acceleration, in physics
- Friction, to a physicist
- "Use the ___, Luke"
- "F" in "F=m*a"
- Mass x acceleration
- Gravity, e.g., in physics
- Yoda's power, with "the"
Last Seen In
- Daily Quick - March 18, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 12, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 04, 2025
- Daily Quick - October 07, 2025
- Daily Quick - July 27, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - July 01, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - March 05, 2025
- LA Times - February 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 13, 2025
- LA Times - January 04, 2025
- Daily Quick - December 18, 2024
- USA Today - December 12, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - November 04, 2024
- LA Times - October 23, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - October 14, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - August 16, 2024
- LA Times - August 04, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 01, 2024
- USA Today - July 08, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - July 03, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - June 14, 2024
- USA Today - May 15, 2024
- Daily Quick - March 17, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - November 04, 2023
- Daily Quick - October 07, 2023
- New York Times - October 06, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 15, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - August 01, 2023
- Daily Quick - July 27, 2023
- USA Today - July 06, 2023
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