17-letter words containing fr

from head to foot — all over one's body
from pole to pole — throughout the entire world
from side to side — movement: back and forth
from soup to nuts — a liquid food made by boiling or simmering meat, fish, or vegetables with various added ingredients.
from the rooftops — If you shout something from the rooftops, you say it or announce it in a very public way.
from time to time — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
front-end payment — a payment required or incurred in advance of a project in order to get it under way
front-line player — a regular player on a sports team or one who plays in the farthest forward position
front-wheel drive — a drive system in which engine power is transmitted through the front wheels only.
frostbite sailing — the sport of sailing in temperate latitudes during the winter despite cold weather.
gibbs free energy — the thermodynamic function of a system that is equal to its enthalpy minus the product of its absolute temperture and entropy: a decrease in the function is equal to the maximum amount of work available exclusive of that due to pressure times volume change during a reversible, isothermal, isobaric process.
give free rein to — Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
grapefruit league — a series of training games played by major-league teams before the opening of the season (so named because they take place in the citrus-growing South, as in Florida).
grooved fricative — a fricative, as (s), in which air is channeled through a groove along the center of the tongue.
hairline fracture — a very fine crack in a bone
improper fraction — a fraction having the numerator greater than the denominator.
in the front line — Someone who is in the front line has to play a very important part in defending or achieving something.
infralapsarianism — the doctrine, held by Augustinians and by many Calvinists, that God planned the Creation, permitted the Fall, elected a chosen number, planned their redemption, and suffered the remainder to be eternally punished (opposed to supralapsarianism).
isherwood framing — a system for framing steel vessels in which light, closely spaced, longitudinal frames are connected by heavy, widely spaced transverse frames with deep webs.
law of refraction — the principle that for a ray, radar pulse, or the like, that is incident on the interface of two media, the ratio of the sine of the angle of incidence to the sine of the angle of refraction is equal to the ratio of the velocity of the ray in the first medium to the velocity in the second medium and the incident ray, refracted ray, and normal to the surface at the point of incidence all lie in the same plane.
litigation friend — a person acting on behalf of an infant or other person under legal disability
live free or die! — 1. The state motto of New Hampshire, which appears on that state's automobile licence plates. 2. A slogan associated with Unix in the romantic days when Unix aficionados saw themselves as a tiny, beleaguered underground tilting against the windmills of industry. The "free" referred specifically to freedom from the fascist design philosophies and crufty misfeatures common on commercial operating systems. Armando Stettner, one of the early Unix developers, used to give out fake licence plates bearing this motto under a large Unix, all in New Hampshire colours of green and white. These are now valued collector's items.
low-hanging fruit — the fruit that grows low on a tree and is therefore easy to reach
man's best friend — a dog, especially as a pet.
manna from heaven — Bible: food from heaven
minimal free form — the smallest unit of language that can make sense on its own
native frangipani — an Australian evergreen tree, Hymenosporum flavum, with large fragrant yellow flowers: family Pittosporaceae
natural frequency — the frequency at which a system vibrates when set in free vibration
non-confrontation — an act of confronting.
noninertial frame — a frame of reference that moves with the object, so that the moving object appears to violate Newton's laws of motion since it accelerates despite having no horizontal forces on it.
north frigid zone — the part of the earth's surface between the Arctic Circle and the North Pole.
nuclear-free zone — any area in which nuclear weapons, power plants, or materials are not allowed.
nyquist frequency — (DSP) The highest frequency that can be represented in a digital signal of a specified sampling frequency. It is equal to one-half of the sampling rate. See Nyquist Theorem.
old norman french — Norman French (sense 1)
on the front foot — at an advantage, outclassing and outmanoeuvring one's opponents
on the home front — domestically
orange free state — a province in central Republic of South Africa: a Boer republic 1854–1900; a British colony (Orange River Colony, ) 1900–10. 49,647 sq. mi. (128,586 sq. km). Capital: Bloemfontein.
other fish to fry — any of various cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates, having gills, commonly fins, and typically an elongated body covered with scales.
pacific tree frog — a common terrestrial frog, Hyla regilla, of western North America, having a dark stripe along each side of the head.
poison-arrow frog — a small, bright-colored terrestrial frog of the family Dendrobatidae, of Central and South American rain forests, that secretes a virulent poison from its skin, once used on the tips of Indian hunting arrows.
refractory period — a short period after a nerve or muscle cell fires during which the cell cannot respond to additional stimulation.
san francisco bay — a bay in W California: the harbor of San Francisco; connected with the Pacific by the Golden Gate strait. 50 miles (80 km) long; 3–12 miles (5–19 km) wide.
sentence fragment — a phrase or clause written as a sentence but lacking an element, as a subject or verb, that would enable it to function as an independent sentence in normative written English.
south frigid zone — the part of the earth's surface between the Antarctic Circle and the South Pole.
south west africa — a former name of Namibia.
south-west africa — a former name of Namibia.
spatial frequency — the measure of fine detail in an optical image in terms of cycles per millimetre
spiritus frumenti — whiskey.
x-ray diffraction — diffraction of x-rays by the regularly spaced atoms of a crystal, useful for determining the arrangement of the atoms.

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