9-letter words containing r, f, e
- francesca — Piero della [pee-air-oh del-uh;; Italian pye-raw del-lah] /piˈɛər oʊ ˈdɛl ə;; Italian ˈpyɛ rɔ ˈdɛl lɑ/ (Show IPA), (Piero dei Franceschi) c1420–92, Italian painter.
- franchise — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- francises — a male given name: from an Old French word meaning “Frenchman.”.
- frangible — easily broken; breakable: Most frangible toys are not suitable for young children.
- frankable — (AU,finance) Eligible for franking, a system of tax credit.
- frankness — plainness of speech; candor; openness.
- franseria — any of several herbs or shrubs of the genus Franseria, native to western North America.
- fraternal — of or befitting a brother or brothers; brotherly.
- fraudster — A person who practices fraud; a swindler.
- fraughted — Simple past tense and past participle of fraught.
- freak out — any abnormal phenomenon or product or unusual object; anomaly; aberration.
- freak-out — an act or instance of freaking out.
- freakiest — Superlative form of freaky.
- freakshow — Alternative spelling of freak show.
- frechette — Louis Honoré [French lwee aw-naw-rey] /French lwi ɔ nɔˈreɪ/ (Show IPA), 1839–1908, Canadian poet and journalist.
- freckling — Present participle of freckle.
- frederica — a female given name: derived from Frederick.
- frederick — (Frederick Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg) 1899–1972, king of Denmark 1947–72.
- frederika — a female given name.
- free city — a city having an independent government and forming a sovereign state by itself.
- free fall — fall: subject to gravity
- free form — improvised style
- free from — not containing
- free gift — sth offered free with a purchase
- free gold — treasury gold, including the legal reserve, not restricted to the redemption of gold certificates or other specific uses.
- free hand — unrestricted freedom or authority: They gave the decorator a free hand.
- free jazz — spontaneously experimental, free-form jazz, popularized as an avant-garde phenomenon in the 1960s by various soloists and characterized by random expression and disregard for traditional structures, tonalities, and rhythms.
- free kick — an unhindered kick of a stationary ball, usually awarded to a player as the result of a foul committed by a player from the opposing team.
- free kirk — free church (def 3).
- free list — a list or register of articles that may be brought into a country duty-free.
- free love — the doctrine or practice of having sexual relations or living together without legal marriage or continuing obligation.
- free pass — access to sth at no cost
- free port — a port or special section of a port where goods may be unloaded, stored, and shipped without payment of customs duties.
- free rein — unhampered freedom of movement, choice, or action: Students have free rein to choose their own class schedules.
- free ride — Informal. something obtained without effort or cost: The fact that you're the general's sondoesn't mean you'll get a free ride in the army.
- free soil — territory in which there is no slavery; esp., any territory in the U.S. where slavery was prohibited before the Civil War
- free vote — law: not based on political party
- free will — free and independent choice; voluntary decision: You took on the responsibility of your own free will.
- free zone — a free-port area.
- free-born — born free, rather than in slavery, bondage, or vassalage.
- free-fall — (of parachutists) to descend initially, as for a designated interval, in a free fall: The jumpers were required to free-fall for eight seconds.
- free-form — characterized by free form: free-form sculpture.
- free-hand — unrestricted freedom or authority: They gave the decorator a free hand.
- free-soil — pertaining to or opposing the extension of slavery in the Territories.
- freebased — Simple past tense and past participle of freebase.
- freebaser — One who freebases.
- freeboard — Nautical. the distance between the level of the water and the upper surface of the freeboard deck amidships at the side of a hull: regulated by the agencies of various countries according to the construction of the hull, the type of cargo carried, the area of the world in which it sails, the type of water, and the season of the year. Compare load line. (on a cargo vessel) the distance between the uppermost deck considered fully watertight and the official load line. the portion of the side of a hull that is above the water.
- freebooty — plunder; loot; spoils.
- freecycle — to give away (used goods or materials) to people who want them, or to obtain (such items) for free.
- freeholds — Plural form of freehold.