11-letter words containing f, a, r
- free recall — the recollection of the members of a list of items without regard to their serial order
- free safety — a member of a secondary, usually the deepest-playing defender, with no specific assignment at the snap of the ball, but often covering the area of the field across from the weak side of the opponent's offensive line against runs and long pass plays.
- free sample — taster of sth offered at no charge
- free skater — a person who takes part in a figure-skating competition
- free stater — a native or inhabitant of a Free State.
- free trader — a person who advocates free trade.
- free-handed — generous; liberal.
- free-to-air — Free-to-air television programmes and channels do not require a subscription or payment.
- free-trader — a person who advocates free trade.
- freefalling — Present participle of freefall.
- freehearted — Liberal; unrestrained.
- freelancers — Plural form of freelancer.
- freelancing — Present participle of freelance.
- freeloaders — Plural form of freeloader.
- freeloading — to take advantage of others for free food, entertainment, etc.
- freemartins — Plural form of freemartin.
- freemasonry — secret or tacit brotherhood; fellowship; fundamental bond or rapport: the freemasonry of those who hunger for knowledge.
- freezer bag — a plastic bag used to hold food that is to be frozen
- freight car — any car for carrying freight.
- french arch — an arch similar to a flat arch, but having voussoirs inclined to the same angle on each side of the center.
- french bean — British. the pod of a green bean or wax bean, eaten as a vegetable.
- french fact — (in Canada) the presence of French Canada as a distinct cultural force within the Confederation
- french flat — a flat that can be raised to or hung from the flies, and that contains practicable doors, windows, etc.
- french harp — harmonica (def 1).
- french loaf — baguette, long stick of bread
- french navy — a dark dull navy blue
- french seam — a seam in which the raw edges of the cloth are completely covered by sewing them together, first on the right side, then on the wrong.
- frenchwoman — a woman who is a native or inhabitant of the French nation.
- frescobaldi — Girolamo [jee-raw-lah-maw] /dʒiˈrɔ lɑ mɔ/ (Show IPA), 1583–1643, Italian organist and composer.
- fresh water — water that is not salty
- fresh-faced — having a healthy or ruddy appearance
- freudianism — of or relating to Sigmund Freud or his doctrines, especially with respect to the causes and treatment of neurotic and psychopathic states, the interpretation of dreams, etc.
- friableness — The state or quality of being friable; friability.
- friar minor — a friar belonging to the branch of the Franciscan order that observes the strict rule of St. Francis. Compare capuchin (def 4), Friar Minor Conventual.
- frigatebird — Any of five species of bird in the genus Fregata, the only genus in the family Fregatidae.
- frigidarium — (in an ancient Roman bath) a room having a bath of unheated water.
- fringe area — an area just beyond the outer limits of satisfactory reception, characterized by a weak and possibly unstable signal.
- fritillaria — any liliaceous plant of the genus Fritillaria, comprising bulbous herbs having drooping, bell-shaped flowers.
- fritterware — An excess of capability that serves no productive end. The canonical example is font-diddling software on the Mac (see macdink); the term describes anything that eats huge amounts of time for quite marginal gains in function but seduces people into using it anyway. See also window shopping.
- frogmarched — Simple past tense and past participle of frogmarch.
- from a to b — People talk about getting from A to B when they are referring generally to journeys they need to make, without saying where the journeys will take them.
- from a to z — covering a whole topic
- from abroad — from a foreign land or lands
- from nature — using natural models in drawing, painting, etc
- front crawl — a style of swimming in which the swimmer faces downwards and moves their arms alternately in strokes
- front range — a mountain range extending from central Colorado to S Wyoming: part of the Rocky Mountains. Highest peak, Grays Peak, 14,274 feet (4350 meters).
- front royal — a town in N Virginia.
- frontloaded — Simple past tense and past participle of frontload.
- frost grape — riverbank grape.
- frost heave — an uplift in soil caused by the freezing of internal moisture.