11-letter words starting with fr
- 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.
- friend-zone — Slang. to put (someone) in the friend zone: He wonders why he's always getting friend-zoned by women he likes.
- friendliest — Superlative form of friendly.
- friendships — Plural form of friendship.
- friendswood — a city in SE Texas.
- frigatebird — Any of five species of bird in the genus Fregata, the only genus in the family Fregatidae.
- frighteners — Plural form of frightener.
- frightening — to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.
- frightfully — such as to cause fright; dreadful, terrible, or alarming: A frightful howl woke us.
- frigid zone — either of two regions, one between the Arctic Circle and the North Pole, or one between the Antarctic Circle and the South Pole.
- frigidarium — (in an ancient Roman bath) a room having a bath of unheated water.
- frigorifico — (in Spanish speaking countries) a meat storage plant attached to a slaughterhouse, esp one where meat is chilled or frozen before being exported
- fringe area — an area just beyond the outer limits of satisfactory reception, characterized by a weak and possibly unstable signal.
- fringe tree — a shrub or small tree, Chionanthus virginicus, of the olive family, native to the southern U.S., bearing open clusters of white flowers with long, narrow petals.
- fringillids — Plural form of fringillid.
- fringilline — Also, fringilline [frin-jil-ahyn, -in] /frɪnˈdʒɪl aɪn, -ɪn/ (Show IPA). belonging or pertaining to the family Fringillidae, comprising the finches and related birds.
- friponnerie — an act of roguery
- 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.
- frivolities — the quality or state of being frivolous: the frivolity of Mardi Gras.
- frivolously — characterized by lack of seriousness or sense: frivolous conduct.
- frog orchid — any of several orchids having greenish flowers thought to resemble small frogs, esp Coeloglossum viride of calcareous turf
- froghoppers — Plural form of froghopper.
- frogmarched — Simple past tense and past participle of frogmarch.
- frogs' legs — (esp in France) the legs of a frog prepared to be eaten, often by frying in butter and garlic
- 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 hunger — a compelling need or desire for food.
- from memory — by heart, without prompts
- from nature — using natural models in drawing, painting, etc
- frondescent — Leafy; becoming leafy; resembling leaves.
- front bench — (used with a singular verb) (in the House of Commons) either of two seats near the Speaker, on which the leaders of the major parties sit.
- front court — the section of the court nearest the front wall in certain games, as squash or handball.
- front crawl — a style of swimming in which the swimmer faces downwards and moves their arms alternately in strokes
- front money — money paid in advance, as for goods or services, to a commission agent or the like.
- 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.
- front vowel — a vowel sound produced with the tongue in a position near the front of the mouth, such as the 'a' in 'at' or the 'e' in bed
- front-drive — (of an automotive vehicle) having front-wheel drive.
- frontcourts — Plural form of frontcourt.
- frontlessly — in a frontless or shameless manner
- frontloaded — Simple past tense and past participle of frontload.
- frontolysis — Meteorology. the dissipation or decrease of a front or frontal zone.
- frontrunner — a person who leads in any competition.
- frost grape — riverbank grape.
- frost heave — an uplift in soil caused by the freezing of internal moisture.
- frost point — the temperature of the air at which hoarfrost begins to form.
- frost smoke — an ice fog caused by extremely cold air flowing over a body of comparatively warm water, especially in polar regions.
- frostbiting — Present participle of frostbite.