| friability | (noun) excessive breakableness | Synonyms: crumbliness |
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| friar | (noun) a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms | Synonyms: mendicant |
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| friary | (noun) a monastery of friars | - |
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| fricandeau | (noun) larded veal braised and glazed in its own juices | - |
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| fricassee | (noun) pieces of chicken or other meat stewed in gravy with e.g. carrots and onions and served with noodles or dumplings | - |
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| fricative | (noun) a continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract | Synonyms: fricative consonant, spirant |
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| fricativeness | (noun) (phonetics) The quality of being produced by air flowing through a constriction in the oral cavity and typically producing a sibilant, hissing, or buzzing quality, as the English /f/ and /s/. | - |
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| friction | (noun) effort expended in moving one object over another with pressure | Synonyms: detrition, rubbing |
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| (noun) the resistance encountered when one body is moved in contact with another | Synonyms: rubbing |
| (noun) a state of conflict between persons | Synonyms: clash |
| fridge | (noun) a refrigerator in which the coolant is pumped around by an electric motor | Synonyms: electric refrigerator |
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| friedcake | (noun) small cake in the form of a ring or twist or ball or strip fried in deep fat | - |
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| friend | (noun) a person you know well and regard with affection and trust | - |
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| (noun) a person with whom you are acquainted | Synonyms: acquaintance |
| (noun) an associate who provides cooperation or assistance | Synonyms: ally |
| (noun) a person who backs a politician or a team etc. | Synonyms: admirer, booster, champion, protagonist, supporter |
| friendlessness | (noun) being without friends | - |
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| friendliness | (noun) a friendly disposition | - |
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| (noun) a feeling of liking for another person; enjoyment in their company | - |
| friendly | (noun) troops belonging to or allied with your own military forces | - |
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| friendship | (noun) the state of being friends (or friendly) | Synonyms: friendly relationship |
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| frier | (noun) A kitchen appliance for deep frying; its size depends on intended use. | Synonyms: deep fat fryer, deep fryer, fryer, fryolator |
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| (noun) flesh of a medium-sized young chicken suitable for frying | Synonyms: fryer, pullet |
| fries | (noun) strips of potato fried in deep fat | Synonyms: chips, french-fried potatoes, french fries |
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| frieze | (noun) a heavy woolen fabric with a long nap | - |
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| (noun) an architectural ornament consisting of a horizontal sculptured band between the architrave and the cornice | - |
| frigate | (noun) a United States warship larger than a destroyer and smaller than a cruiser | - |
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| (noun) a medium size square-rigged warship of the 18th and 19th centuries | - |
| fright | (noun) an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight) | Synonyms: fear, fearfulness |
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| frightening | (noun) the act of inspiring with fear | Synonyms: terrorisation, terrorization |
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| frightfulness | (noun) the quality of being frightful | - |
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| frigidity | (noun) a lack of affection or enthusiasm | Synonyms: chilliness, coldness, coolness, frigidness, iciness |
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| (noun) sexual unresponsiveness (especially of women) and inability to achieve orgasm during intercourse | Synonyms: frigidness |
| (noun) the absence of heat | Synonyms: cold, coldness, frigidness, low temperature |
| frigidness | (noun) a lack of affection or enthusiasm | Synonyms: chilliness, coldness, coolness, frigidity, iciness |
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| (noun) sexual unresponsiveness (especially of women) and inability to achieve orgasm during intercourse | Synonyms: frigidity |
| (noun) the absence of heat | Synonyms: cold, coldness, frigidity, low temperature |
| frijol | (noun) the common bean plant grown for the beans rather than the pods (especially a variety with large red kidney-shaped beans) | Synonyms: frijole, kidney bean |
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| frijole | (noun) Mexican bean; usually dried | - |
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| (noun) the common bean plant grown for the beans rather than the pods (especially a variety with large red kidney-shaped beans) | Synonyms: frijol, kidney bean |
| frijolillo | (noun) shrub or small tree having pinnate leaves poisonous to livestock and dense racemes of intensely fragrant blue flowers and red beans | Synonyms: coral bean, frijolito, mescal bean, Sophora secundiflora |
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| frijolito | (noun) shrub or small tree having pinnate leaves poisonous to livestock and dense racemes of intensely fragrant blue flowers and red beans | Synonyms: coral bean, frijolillo, mescal bean, Sophora secundiflora |
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| frill | (noun) a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim | Synonyms: flounce, furbelow, ruffle |
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| (noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: falderol, folderal, gimcrack, gimcrackery, nonsense, trumpery |
| (noun) an external body part consisting of feathers or hair about the neck of a bird or other animal | Synonyms: ruff |
| (noun) (paleontology) a bony plate that curves upward behind the skull of many ceratopsian dinosaurs | - |
| fringe | (noun) an ornamental border consisting of short lengths of hanging threads or tassels | - |
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| (noun) a border of hair that is cut short and hangs across the forehead | Synonyms: bang |
| (noun) a social group holding marginal or extreme views | - |
| (noun) a part of the city far removed from the center | Synonyms: outskirt |
| (noun) one of the light or dark bands produced by the interference and diffraction of light | Synonyms: interference fringe |
| (noun) the outside boundary or surface of something | Synonyms: outer boundary, periphery |
| fringepod | (noun) annual herb having pinnatifid basal leaves and slender racemes of small white flowers followed by one-seeded winged silicles | Synonyms: lacepod |
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| frippery | (noun) something of little value or significance | Synonyms: bagatelle, fluff, frivolity |
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| frisk | (noun) the act of searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs | Synonyms: frisking |
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| friskiness | (noun) lively high-spirited playfulness | Synonyms: frolicsomeness, sportiveness |
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| frisking | (noun) the act of searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs | Synonyms: frisk |
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| frisson | (noun) an almost pleasurable sensation of fright | Synonyms: chill, quiver, shiver, shudder, thrill, tingle |
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| fritillary | (noun) butterfly with brownish wings marked with black and silver | - |
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| (noun) any liliaceous plant of the genus Fritillaria having nodding variously colored flowers | Synonyms: checkered lily |
| frittata | (noun) Italian omelet with diced vegetables and meats; cooked until bottom is set then inverted into another pan to cook the top | - |
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| fritter | (noun) small quantity of fried batter containing fruit or meat or vegetables | - |
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| frivolity | (noun) acting like a clown or buffoon | Synonyms: buffoonery, clowning, harlequinade, japery, prank |
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| (noun) something of little value or significance | Synonyms: bagatelle, fluff, frippery |
| (noun) the trait of being frivolous; not serious or sensible | Synonyms: frivolousness |
| frivolousness | (noun) the trait of being frivolous; not serious or sensible | Synonyms: frivolity |
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| frizz | (noun) the condition of being formed into small tight curls | - |
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