| 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 |
| (verb) decorate with or as if with a surrounding fringe | - |
| (verb) adorn with a fringe | - |
| fringed | (adjective) having a decorative edging of hanging cords or strips | - |
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| (adjective) surrounded as with a border or fringe; sometimes used in combination | - |
| (adjective) having edges irregularly and finely slashed | Synonyms: laciniate |
| 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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| fringy | (adjective) at or constituting a border or edge | Synonyms: marginal |
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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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| (verb) search as for concealed weapons by running the hands rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets | - |
| (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, disport, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, skylark, sport |
| friskily | (adverb) in a playfully frisky manner | - |
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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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| frisky | (adjective) playful like a lively kitten | Synonyms: kittenish |
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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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| (verb) spend frivolously and unwisely | Synonyms: dissipate, fool, fool away, fritter away, frivol away, shoot |
| frivol | (verb) act frivolously | Synonyms: trifle |
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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 |
| frivolous | (adjective) not serious in content or attitude or behavior | - |
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| frivolously | (adverb) in a frivolous manner | - |
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| 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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| (verb) curl tightly | Synonyms: crape, crimp, frizzle, kink, kink up |
| frizzle | (verb) fry something until it curls and becomes crisp | - |
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| (verb) curl tightly | Synonyms: crape, crimp, frizz, kink, kink up |
| frizzly | (adjective) (of hair) in small tight curls | Synonyms: crisp, frizzy, kinky, nappy |
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| frizzy | (adjective) (of hair) in small tight curls | Synonyms: crisp, frizzly, kinky, nappy |
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| 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 | - |
| fructification | (noun) organs of fruiting (especially the reproductive parts of ferns and mosses) | - |
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| (noun) the bearing of fruit | - |
| fructify | (verb) produce fruit | Synonyms: set |
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| (verb) become productive or fruitful | - |
| (verb) make productive or fruitful | - |
| fructose | (noun) a simple sugar found in honey and in many ripe fruits | Synonyms: fruit sugar, laevulose, levulose |
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| fructosuria | (noun) the presence of levulose is the urine | - |
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| frugal | (adjective) avoiding waste | Synonyms: economical, scotch, sparing, stinting |
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| frugality | (noun) prudence in avoiding waste | Synonyms: frugalness |
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| frugally | (adverb) in a frugal manner | - |
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| frugalness | (noun) prudence in avoiding waste | Synonyms: frugality |
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| fruit | (noun) an amount of a product | Synonyms: yield |
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| (noun) the consequence of some effort or action | - |
| (noun) the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant | - |
| (verb) bear fruit | - |
| (verb) cause to bear fruit | - |
| fruitage | (noun) the yield of fruit | - |
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| fruitcake | (noun) a rich cake containing dried fruit and nuts and citrus peel and so on | - |
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| (noun) a whimsically eccentric person | Synonyms: crackpot, crank, nut, nut case, screwball |
| fruiterer | (noun) a person who sells fruit | - |
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| fruitful | (adjective) productive or conducive to producing in abundance | - |
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| fruitfully | (adverb) in a productive way | Synonyms: productively, profitably |
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| fruitfulness | (noun) the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth | Synonyms: fecundity |
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| (noun) the intellectual productivity of a creative imagination | Synonyms: fecundity |
| fruiting | (adjective) capable of bearing fruit | - |
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| fruition | (noun) something that is made real or concrete | Synonyms: realisation, realization |
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| (noun) enjoyment derived from use or possession | - |
| (noun) the condition of bearing fruit | - |
| fruitless | (adjective) unproductive of success | Synonyms: bootless, futile, sleeveless, vain |
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| fruitlessly | (adverb) in an unproductive manner | Synonyms: unproductively, unprofitably |
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| fruitlessness | (noun) the quality of yielding nothing of value | Synonyms: aridity, barrenness |
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| (noun) a lack of creative imagination | - |
| fruitlet | (noun) a diminutive fruit, especially one that is part of a multiple fruit | - |
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| fruitwood | (noun) wood of various fruit trees (as apple or cherry or pear) used especially in cabinetwork | - |
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| fruity | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| (adjective) tasting or smelling richly of or as of fruit | - |