| freely | (adverb) in a free manner | - |
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| freemail | (noun) a service providing free email delivery in exchange for exposure to advertising | - |
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| freeman | (noun) a male person who is not a serf or a slave | - |
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| freemasonry | (noun) a natural or instinctive fellowship between people of similar interests | - |
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| freeperson | (noun) a person who is not a serf or a slave | - |
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| freesia | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Freesia valued for their one-sided clusters of usually fragrant yellow or white or pink tubular flowers | - |
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| freestanding | (adjective) standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything | Synonyms: separate |
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| freestone | (noun) fruit (especially peach) whose flesh does not adhere to the pit | - |
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| freestyle | (noun) a race (as in swimming) in which each contestant has a free choice of the style to use | - |
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| freestyling | (noun) A form of rapping in which the emcee makes up lyrics while rapping. | - |
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| freetail | (noun) small swift insectivorous bat with leathery ears and a long tail; common in warm regions | Synonyms: free-tailed bat, freetailed bat |
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| freethinker | (noun) a person who rejects religion | - |
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| freethinking | (noun) the doctrine that reason is the right basis for regulating conduct | Synonyms: rationalism |
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| freeware | (noun) software that is provided without charge | - |
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| freeway | (noun) a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic | Synonyms: expressway, motorway, pike, state highway, superhighway, throughway, thruway |
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| freewheel | (noun) a clutch (as on the rear wheel of a bicycle) that allows wheels to turn freely (as in coasting) | - |
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| (verb) coast in a vehicle using the freewheel | - |
| (verb) live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely | Synonyms: drift |
| freewheeler | (noun) someone acting freely or even irresponsibly | Synonyms: free agent, free spirit |
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| freewheeling | (adjective) cheerfully irresponsible | Synonyms: carefree, devil-may-care, happy-go-lucky, harum-scarum, slaphappy |
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| (adjective) free of restraints or rules | - |
| freewill | (adjective) done of your own accord | - |
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| freewoman | (noun) a female person who is not a serf or a slave | - |
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| freeze | (noun) an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement | Synonyms: halt |
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| (noun) fixing (of prices or wages etc) at a particular level | - |
| (noun) weather cold enough to cause freezing | Synonyms: frost |
| (noun) the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid | Synonyms: freezing |
| (verb) be cold | - |
| (verb) anesthetize by cold | - |
| (verb) suddenly behave coldly and formally | - |
| (verb) change to ice | - |
| (verb) stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it | Synonyms: suspend |
| (verb) cause to freeze | - |
| (verb) prohibit the conversion or use of (assets) | Synonyms: block, immobilise, immobilize |
| (verb) change from a liquid to a solid when cold | Synonyms: freeze down, freeze out |
| (verb) stop moving or become immobilized | Synonyms: stop dead |
| (verb) be very cold, below the freezing point | - |
| freezer | (noun) electric refrigerator (trade name Deepfreeze) in which food is frozen and stored for long periods of time | Synonyms: deep-freeze, deep freezer, Deepfreeze |
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| freezing | (noun) the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid | Synonyms: freeze |
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| freight | (noun) transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates | Synonyms: freightage |
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| (noun) goods carried by a large vehicle | Synonyms: cargo, consignment, lading, load, loading, payload, shipment |
| (noun) the charge for transporting something by common carrier | Synonyms: freight rate, freightage |
| (verb) load with goods for transportation | - |
| (verb) transport commercially as cargo | - |
| freightage | (noun) transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates | Synonyms: freight |
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| (noun) the charge for transporting something by common carrier | Synonyms: freight, freight rate |
| freighter | (noun) a cargo ship | Synonyms: bottom, merchant ship, merchantman |
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| frenetic | (adjective) excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion | Synonyms: frantic, frenzied, phrenetic |
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| frenetically | (adverb) in a very agitated manner; as if possessed by an evil spirit | Synonyms: demoniacally |
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| frenzied | (adjective) excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion | Synonyms: frantic, frenetic, phrenetic |
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| (adjective) affected with or marked by frenzy or mania uncontrolled by reason | Synonyms: manic |
| frenziedly | (adverb) in a frenzied manner | Synonyms: hectically |
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| frenzy | (noun) state of violent mental agitation | Synonyms: craze, delirium, fury, hysteria |
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| frequence | (noun) the number of occurrences within a given time period | Synonyms: frequency, oftenness |
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| frequency | (noun) the number of observations in a given statistical category | Synonyms: absolute frequency |
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| (noun) the ratio of the number of observations in a statistical category to the total number of observations | Synonyms: relative frequency |
| (noun) the number of occurrences within a given time period | Synonyms: frequence, oftenness |
| frequent | (adjective) coming at short intervals or habitually | - |
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| (adjective) frequently encountered | - |
| (verb) be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place | Synonyms: haunt |
| (verb) do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of | Synonyms: buy at, patronise, patronize, shop, shop at, sponsor |
| frequentative | (noun) a verb form that serves to express frequent repetition of an action | - |
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| frequenter | (noun) a regular customer | Synonyms: patron |
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| frequently | (adverb) many times at short intervals | Synonyms: oft, often, oftentimes, ofttimes |
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| fresco | (noun) a durable method of painting on a wall by using watercolors on wet plaster | - |
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| (noun) a mural done with watercolors on wet plaster | - |
| (verb) paint onto wet plaster on a wall | - |
| fresh | (adjective) recently made, produced, or harvested | - |
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| (adjective) not canned or otherwise preserved | - |
| (adjective) not containing or composed of salt water | Synonyms: sweet |
| (adjective) not yet used or soiled | Synonyms: unused |
| (adjective) improperly forward or bold | Synonyms: impertinent, impudent, overbold, sassy, saucy, smart, wise |
| (adjective) imparting vitality and energy | Synonyms: bracing, brisk, refreshful, refreshing, tonic |
| (adjective) (of a cycle) beginning or occurring again | - |
| (adjective) original and of a kind not seen before | Synonyms: new, novel |
| (adjective) free from impurities | Synonyms: clean |
| (adjective) with restored energy | Synonyms: invigorated, refreshed, reinvigorated |
| (adjective) not soured or preserved | Synonyms: sweet, unfermented |
| (adjective) having recently calved and therefore able to give milk | - |
| (adverb) very recently | Synonyms: freshly, new, newly |
| freshen | (verb) make fresh again | Synonyms: refresh, refreshen |
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| (verb) become or make oneself fresh again | Synonyms: freshen up, refresh, refreshen |
| (verb) make (to feel) fresh | Synonyms: refresh |
| freshener | (noun) anything that freshens | - |
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| fresher | (noun) a first-year undergraduate | Synonyms: freshman |
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| freshet | (noun) the occurrence of a water flow resulting from sudden rain or melting snow | Synonyms: spate |
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| freshly | (adverb) very recently | Synonyms: fresh, new, newly |
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| (adverb) in an impudent or impertinent manner | Synonyms: impertinently, impudently, pertly, saucily |
| freshman | (adjective) used of a person in the first year of an experience (especially in United States high school or college) | Synonyms: first-year |
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| (noun) a first-year undergraduate | Synonyms: fresher |
| (noun) any new participant in some activity | Synonyms: entrant, fledgeling, fledgling, neophyte, newbie, newcomer, starter |
| freshness | (noun) originality by virtue of being refreshingly novel | Synonyms: novelty |
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| (noun) the property of being pure and fresh (as if newly made); not stale or deteriorated | - |
| (noun) the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties | Synonyms: cheekiness, crust, gall, impertinence, impudence, insolence |
| (noun) originality by virtue of being new and surprising | Synonyms: novelty |
| (noun) an alert and refreshed state | Synonyms: glow |
| freshwater | (noun) water that is not salty | Synonyms: fresh water |
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| fress | (verb) eat a lot and without restraint | Synonyms: gluttonise, gluttonize |
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| fret | (noun) a small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch | - |
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| (noun) an ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief) | Synonyms: Greek fret, Greek key, key pattern |
| (noun) a spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion | Synonyms: worn spot |
| (noun) agitation resulting from active worry | Synonyms: lather, stew, sweat, swither |
| (verb) wear away or erode | Synonyms: eat away |
| (verb) remove soil or rock | Synonyms: eat away, erode |
| (verb) cause friction | Synonyms: chafe, fray, rub, scratch |
| (verb) be too tight; rub or press | Synonyms: choke, gag |
| (verb) decorate with an interlaced design | - |
| (verb) carve a pattern into | - |
| (verb) be agitated or irritated | - |
| (verb) cause annoyance in | - |
| (verb) gnaw into; make resentful or angry | Synonyms: eat into, grate, rankle |
| (verb) worry unnecessarily or excessively | Synonyms: fuss, niggle |
| (verb) become or make sore by or as if by rubbing | Synonyms: chafe, gall |
| (verb) provide (a musical instrument) with frets | - |
| fretful | (adjective) habitually complaining | Synonyms: querulous, whiney, whiny |
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| (adjective) nervous and unable to relax | Synonyms: antsy, fidgety, itchy, restless |
| fretfully | (adverb) in a fretful manner | - |
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| fretfulness | (noun) an irritable petulant feeling | Synonyms: choler, crossness, fussiness, irritability, peevishness, petulance |
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| fretsaw | (noun) fine-toothed power saw with a narrow blade; used to cut curved outlines | Synonyms: jigsaw, scroll saw |
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| fretted | (adjective) having frets | - |
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| (adjective) having a pattern of fretwork or latticework | Synonyms: interlaced, latticed, latticelike |
| fretwork | (noun) framework consisting of an ornamental design made of strips of wood or metal | Synonyms: lattice, latticework |
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| friability | (noun) excessive breakableness | Synonyms: crumbliness |
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| friable | (adjective) easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder | Synonyms: crumbly |
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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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| (verb) make a fricassee of by cooking | - |
| fricative | (adjective) of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then') | Synonyms: continuant, sibilant, spirant, strident |
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| (noun) a continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract | Synonyms: fricative consonant, spirant |
| 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 |
| frictional | (adjective) pertaining to or worked or produced by friction | - |
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| frictionless | (adjective) lacking all friction | - |
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| fridge | (noun) a refrigerator in which the coolant is pumped around by an electric motor | Synonyms: electric refrigerator |
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| fried | (adjective) cooked by frying in fat | Synonyms: deep-fried |
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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 |
| friendless | (adjective) excluded from a society | Synonyms: outcast |
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| 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 | (adjective) characteristic of or befitting a friend | - |
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| (adjective) of or belonging to your own country's forces or those of an ally | - |
| (adjective) easy to understand or use | - |
| (adjective) inclined to help or support; not antagonistic or hostile | Synonyms: well-disposed, well disposed |
| (noun) troops belonging to or allied with your own military forces | - |
| friendship | (noun) the state of being friends (or friendly) | Synonyms: friendly relationship |
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| friendzone | (verb) To treat as a friend although the other party has romantic feelings | - |
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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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| (verb) cause fear in | Synonyms: affright, frighten, scare |
| frighten | (verb) cause fear in | Synonyms: affright, fright, scare |
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| frightened | (adjective) made afraid | Synonyms: scared |
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| (adjective) thrown into a state of intense fear or desperation | Synonyms: panic-stricken, panic-struck, panicked, panicky, terrified |
| frightening | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
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| (noun) the act of inspiring with fear | Synonyms: terrorisation, terrorization |
| frighteningly | (adverb) in a terrifying manner | Synonyms: scarily |
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| frightful | (adjective) provoking horror | Synonyms: atrocious, horrible, horrifying, ugly |
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| (adjective) extremely distressing | Synonyms: fearful |
| (adjective) extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact | Synonyms: awful, terrible, tremendous |
| frightfully | (adverb) used as intensifiers | Synonyms: awful, awfully, terribly |
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| frightfulness | (noun) the quality of being frightful | - |
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| frigid | (adjective) extremely cold | Synonyms: arctic, gelid, glacial, icy, polar |
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| (adjective) devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain | Synonyms: frosty, frozen, glacial, icy, wintry |
| (adjective) sexually unresponsive | Synonyms: cold |
| 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 |
| frigidly | (adverb) without warmth or enthusiasm | Synonyms: frostily |
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| 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 |
| frigorific | (adjective) causing cold; cooling or chilling | - |
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| 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 | - |
| frilled | (adjective) having decorative ruffles or frills | Synonyms: frilly, ruffled |
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| frilly | (adjective) having decorative ruffles or frills | Synonyms: frilled, ruffled |
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