| affront | (noun) a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect | Synonyms: insult |
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| (verb) treat, mention, or speak to rudely | Synonyms: diss, insult |
| afropavo | (noun) both sexes are brightly colored | Synonyms: Afropavo congensis, Congo peafowl |
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| battlefront | (noun) the line along which opposing armies face each other | Synonyms: front, front line |
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| beachfront | (noun) a strip of land running along a beach | - |
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| bowfront | (adjective) having an outward curving front | - |
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| bullfrog | (noun) largest North American frog; highly aquatic with a deep-pitched voice | Synonyms: Rana catesbeiana |
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| chamfron | (noun) medieval plate armor to protect a horse's head | Synonyms: chanfron, front-stall, frontstall, testiere |
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| chanfron | (noun) medieval plate armor to protect a horse's head | Synonyms: chamfron, front-stall, frontstall, testiere |
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| confront | (verb) deal with (something unpleasant) head on | Synonyms: face, face up |
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| (verb) present somebody with something, usually to accuse or criticize | Synonyms: face, present |
| (verb) oppose, as in hostility or a competition | Synonyms: face |
| (verb) be face to face with | - |
| confrontation | (noun) the act of hostile groups opposing each other | Synonyms: opposition |
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| (noun) a focussed comparison; bringing together for a careful comparison | - |
| (noun) a hostile disagreement face-to-face | Synonyms: encounter, face-off, showdown |
| (noun) a bold challenge | - |
| (noun) discord resulting from a clash of ideas or opinions | - |
| confrontational | (adjective) of or relating to confrontation | - |
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| defrock | (verb) divest of the frock; of church officials | Synonyms: unfrock |
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| defrost | (verb) make or become free of frost or ice | Synonyms: de-ice, deice |
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| defroster | (noun) heater that removes ice or frost (as from a windshield or a refrigerator or the wings of an airplane) | Synonyms: deicer |
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| effrontery | (noun) audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to | Synonyms: assumption, presumption, presumptuousness |
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| forefront | (noun) the position of greatest importance or advancement; the leading position in any movement or field | Synonyms: cutting edge, vanguard |
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| (noun) the part in the front or nearest the viewer | Synonyms: head |
| frock | (noun) a one-piece garment for a woman; has skirt and bodice | Synonyms: dress |
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| (noun) a habit worn by clerics | - |
| (noun) a long, loose outer garment | - |
| (verb) put a frock on | - |
| frog | (noun) any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species | Synonyms: anuran, batrachian, salientian, toad, toad frog |
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| (noun) a decorative loop of braid or cord | - |
| (noun) a person of French descent | Synonyms: Gaul |
| (verb) hunt frogs for food | - |
| frogbit | (noun) European floating plant with roundish heart-shaped leaves and white flowers | Synonyms: frog's-bit, Hydrocharis morsus-ranae |
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| frogfish | (noun) fish having a frog-like mouth with a lure on the snout | - |
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| froghopper | (noun) a variety of spittlebug | - |
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| frogman | (noun) someone who works underwater | Synonyms: diver, underwater diver |
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| frogmarch | (verb) carry someone against his will upside down such that each limb is held by one person | - |
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| (verb) march a person against his will by any method | - |
| frogmouth | (noun) insectivorous bird of Australia and southeastern Asia having a wide frog-like mouth | - |
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| frolic | (noun) gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement | Synonyms: caper, gambol, play, romp |
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| (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, skylark, sport |
| frolicky | (adjective) given to merry frolicking | Synonyms: coltish, frolicsome, rollicking, sportive |
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| frolicsome | (adjective) given to merry frolicking | Synonyms: coltish, frolicky, rollicking, sportive |
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| frolicsomeness | (noun) lively high-spirited playfulness | Synonyms: friskiness, sportiveness |
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| frond | (noun) compound leaf of a fern or palm or cycad | - |
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| front | (adjective) relating to or located in the front | - |
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| (noun) the side that is seen or that goes first | - |
| (noun) the outward appearance of a person | - |
| (noun) a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals | Synonyms: movement, social movement |
| (noun) the side that is forward or prominent | Synonyms: forepart, front end |
| (noun) the line along which opposing armies face each other | Synonyms: battlefront, front line |
| (noun) the part of something that is nearest to the normal viewer | - |
| (noun) the immediate proximity of someone or something | Synonyms: presence |
| (noun) a person used as a cover for some questionable activity | Synonyms: figurehead, front man, nominal head, straw man, strawman |
| (noun) (meteorology) the atmospheric phenomenon created at the boundary between two different air masses | - |
| (noun) a sphere of activity involving effort | - |
| (verb) confront bodily | Synonyms: breast |
| (verb) be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to | Synonyms: face, look |
| frontage | (noun) the face or front of a building | Synonyms: facade, frontal |
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| (noun) the extent of land abutting on a street or water | - |
| (noun) the direction in which something (such as a building) faces | - |
| frontal | (adjective) of or relating to the front of an advancing mass of air | - |
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| (adjective) meeting front to front | Synonyms: head-on |
| (adjective) belonging to the front part | - |
| (adjective) of or adjacent to the forehead or frontal bone | - |
| (noun) an adornment worn on the forehead | Synonyms: frontlet |
| (noun) a drapery that covers the front of an altar | - |
| (noun) the face or front of a building | Synonyms: facade, frontage |
| frontally | (adverb) in, at, or toward the front | - |
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| frontbencher | (noun) a member of the House of Commons who is a minister in the government or who holds an official position in an opposition party | - |
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| frontier | (noun) an undeveloped field of study; a topic inviting research and development | - |
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| (noun) a wilderness at the edge of a settled area of a country | - |
| (noun) an international boundary or the area (often fortified) immediately inside the boundary | - |
| frontiersman | (noun) a man who lives on the frontier | Synonyms: backwoodsman, mountain man |
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| frontierswoman | (noun) a woman who lives on the frontier | - |
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| frontispiece | (noun) front illustration facing the title page of a book | - |
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| (noun) an ornamental facade | - |
| frontlet | (noun) an adornment worn on the forehead | Synonyms: frontal |
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| frontmost | (adjective) preceding all others in spatial position | Synonyms: foremost |
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| frontstall | (noun) medieval plate armor to protect a horse's head | Synonyms: chamfron, chanfron, front-stall, testiere |
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| frontward | (adverb) at or to or toward the front; forward | Synonyms: forrad, forrard, forward, forwards, frontwards |
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| frontwards | (adverb) at or to or toward the front; forward | Synonyms: forrad, forrard, forward, forwards, frontward |
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| frore | (adjective) very cold | - |
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| frost | (noun) weather cold enough to cause freezing | Synonyms: freeze |
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| (noun) the formation of frost or ice on a surface | Synonyms: icing |
| (noun) ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside) | Synonyms: hoar, hoarfrost, rime |
| (verb) damage by frost | - |
| (verb) decorate with frosting | Synonyms: ice |
| (verb) provide with a rough or speckled surface or appearance | - |
| (verb) cover with frost | - |
| frostbite | (noun) destruction of tissue by freezing and characterized by tingling, blistering and possibly gangrene | Synonyms: cryopathy |
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| frostbitten | (adjective) injured by freezing or partial freezing | - |
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| frosted | (adjective) (of glass) having a roughened coating resembling frost | - |
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| frostily | (adverb) without warmth or enthusiasm | Synonyms: frigidly |
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| frostiness | (noun) coldness as evidenced by frost | - |
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| (noun) a silvery-white color | Synonyms: hoariness |
| frosting | (noun) a flavored sugar topping used to coat and decorate cakes | Synonyms: ice, icing |
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| frostweed | (noun) perennial of the eastern United States having early solitary yellow flowers followed by late petalless flowers; so-called because ice crystals form on it during first frosts | Synonyms: Crocanthemum canadense, frost-weed, frostwort, Helianthemum canadense |
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| (noun) tall perennial herb having clusters of white flowers; the eastern United States | Synonyms: frost-weed, Verbesina virginica, Virginia crownbeard |
| frostwort | (noun) perennial of the eastern United States having early solitary yellow flowers followed by late petalless flowers; so-called because ice crystals form on it during first frosts | Synonyms: Crocanthemum canadense, frost-weed, frostweed, Helianthemum canadense |
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| frosty | (adjective) devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain | Synonyms: frigid, frozen, glacial, icy, wintry |
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| (adjective) pleasantly cold and invigorating | Synonyms: crisp, nipping, nippy, snappy |
| (adjective) covered with frost | Synonyms: rimed, rimy |
| froth | (noun) a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid | Synonyms: foam |
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| (verb) exude or expel foam | - |
| (verb) become bubbly or frothy or foaming | Synonyms: effervesce, fizz, foam, form bubbles, sparkle |
| (verb) make froth or foam and become bubbly | Synonyms: spume, suds |
| frothily | (adverb) in a frothy manner | - |
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| frothiness | (noun) the property of giving off bubbles | Synonyms: bubbliness, effervescence |
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| frothing | (adjective) producing or covered with lathery sweat or saliva from exhaustion or disease | Synonyms: foaming, foamy |
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| frothy | (adjective) emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation | Synonyms: bubbling, bubbly, effervescing, foaming, foamy, spumy |
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| (adjective) marked by high spirits or excitement | Synonyms: bubbling, effervescent, scintillating, sparkly |
| frottage | (noun) masturbation by rubbing against another person (as in a crowd) | - |
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| frotteur | (noun) someone who masturbates by rubbing against another person (as in a crowd) | - |
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| froward | (adjective) habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition | Synonyms: headstrong, self-willed, wilful, willful |
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| frown | (noun) a facial expression of dislike or displeasure | Synonyms: scowl |
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| (verb) look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval | Synonyms: glower, lour, lower |
| frowning | (adjective) showing displeasure or anger | - |
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| frowningly | (adverb) with a frown; while frowning | - |
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| frowsty | (adjective) stale and unclean smelling | Synonyms: fusty, musty |
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| frowsy | (adjective) negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt | Synonyms: frowzy, slovenly |
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| frowzled | (adjective) in disarray; extremely disorderly | Synonyms: disheveled, dishevelled, rumpled, tousled |
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| frowzy | (adjective) negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt | Synonyms: frowsy, slovenly |
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| frozen | (adjective) turned into ice; affected by freezing or by long and severe cold | - |
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| (adjective) devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain | Synonyms: frigid, frosty, glacial, icy, wintry |
| (adjective) not convertible to cash | - |
| (adjective) absolutely still | Synonyms: rooted, stock-still |
| (adjective) (used of foods) preserved by freezing sufficiently rapidly to retain flavor and nutritional value | Synonyms: flash-frozen, quick-frozen |
| (adjective) incapable of being changed or moved or undone; e.g. "frozen prices" | Synonyms: fixed |
| (adjective) not thawed | - |
| hoarfrost | (noun) ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside) | Synonyms: frost, hoar, rime |
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| lakefront | (noun) land bordering a lake | - |
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| leapfrog | (noun) a game in which one child bends down and another leaps over | - |
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| (noun) advancing as if in the child's game, by leaping over obstacles or competitors | - |
| (verb) progress by large jumps instead of small increments | - |
| (verb) to vault | - |
| oceanfront | (noun) land bordering an ocean | - |
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| permafrost | (noun) ground that is permanently frozen | - |
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| prefrontal | (adjective) anterior to a frontal structure | - |
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| saffron | (noun) a shade of yellow tinged with orange | Synonyms: orange yellow |
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| (noun) dried pungent stigmas of the Old World saffron crocus | - |
| (noun) Old World crocus having purple or white flowers with aromatic pungent orange stigmas used in flavoring food | Synonyms: Crocus sativus, saffron crocus |
| seafront | (noun) the waterfront of a seaside town | - |
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| shirtfront | (noun) a man's detachable insert (usually starched) to simulate the front of a shirt | Synonyms: dickey, dickie, dicky |
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| (noun) the front of a shirt (usually the part not covered by a jacket) | - |
| shopfront | (noun) the front side of a store facing the street; usually contains display windows | Synonyms: storefront |
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| storefront | (noun) the front side of a store facing the street; usually contains display windows | Synonyms: shopfront |
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| therefrom | (adverb) from that place or from there | Synonyms: thence |
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| (adverb) from that circumstance or source | Synonyms: thence, thereof |
| unfrock | (verb) divest of the frock; of church officials | Synonyms: defrock |
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| unfrosted | (adjective) (of glass) lacking a frosted coating | - |
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| unfrozen | (adjective) not frozen | - |
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| upfront | (adjective) frank and honest | - |
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| waterfront | (noun) the area of a city (such as a harbor or dockyard) alongside a body of water | - |
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| wavefront | (noun) (physics) an imaginary surface joining all points in space that are reached at the same instant by a wave propagating through a medium | Synonyms: wave front |
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