| 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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| 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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