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13-letter words starting with fr

  • freeze-drying — a process for drying heat-sensitive substances, as foods, blood plasma, antibiotics, and the like, by freezing the substance and then subliming the ice or other frozen solvent in a high vacuum.
  • freezing rain — rain that falls as a liquid but freezes into glaze upon contact with the ground.
  • freight agent — a representative of a common carrier who manages the freight business in a local district.
  • freight depot — (on a rail network) a place where freight is stored while awaiting onward transport
  • freight house — a depot or storage place for freight.
  • freight plane — an aeroplane used to transport goods
  • freight train — a train of freight cars.
  • frelinghuysen — Frederick Theodore, 1817–85, U.S. statesman.
  • french canada — the areas of Canada, esp in the province of Quebec, where French Canadians predominate
  • french endive — endive (def 2).
  • french guiana — an overseas department of France, on the NE coast of South America: formerly a French colony. 35,135 sq. mi. (91,000 sq. km). Capital: Cayenne.
  • french guinea — former name of Guinea.
  • french letter — a condom.
  • french pastry — fine, rich, or fancy dessert pastry, especially made from puff paste and filled with cream or fruit preparations.
  • french polish — French polish is a type of varnish which is painted onto wood so that the wood has a hard shiny surface.
  • french system — a method of spinning in which fibers of extremely short-staple wool are not twisted before being spun.
  • french window — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
  • french-polish — to finish or treat (a piece of furniture) with French polish.
  • frequentation — the practice of frequenting; habit of visiting often.
  • frequentative — noting or pertaining to a verb aspect expressing repetition of an action.
  • freshman week — a week at the beginning of the school year with a program planned to orient entering students, especially at a college.
  • freudian slip — (in Freudian psychology) an inadvertent mistake in speech or writing that is thought to reveal a person's unconscious motives, wishes, or attitudes.
  • friar's chair — frailero.
  • friction feed — (printer)   A method some printers and plotters use to move paper by rotating one or both of a pair of spring-loaded rubber-coated rollers with the paper sandwiched between them. Friction feed printers are notorious for slipping when the rollers wear out, but can take standard typing paper. For printers with a sheet feeder, friction feed is more appropriate than sprocket feed which requires the holes in the paper to engage with the sprockets of the feed mechanism.
  • friction head — (in a hydraulic system) the part of a head of water or of another liquid that represents the energy that the system dissipates through friction with the sides of conduits or channels and through heating from turbulent flow.
  • friction pile — a pile depending on the friction of surrounding earth for support.
  • friction tape — a cloth or plastic adhesive tape, containing a moisture-resistant substance, used especially to insulate and protect electrical wires and conductors.
  • fridge magnet — a small flat decorative object with a magnet on its back which is used to attach it to the front door of a fridge or other domestic appliance
  • friendly fire — Insurance. a fire deliberately set and remaining contained, as in a fireplace or boiler, from which any resulting loss cannot be claimed as an insurance liability (opposed to hostile fire).
  • friendsgiving — a gathering of friends to celebrate Thanksgiving with a feast, falling near or on Thanksgiving Day, in contrast to the traditional celebrations that typically involve family.
  • friese-greene — William. 1855–1921, British photographer. He invented (with Mortimer Evans) the first practicable motion-picture camera
  • frighten away — cause sb/sth to run away
  • frighten into — If you frighten someone into doing something they would not normally do, you make them do it by making them afraid not to do it.
  • frighteningly — to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.
  • frightfulness — The quality of being frightful.
  • fringilliform — resembling a finch
  • fringing reef — a coral reef close to and along the land.
  • frisches haff — a lagoon in N Poland. 52 miles (84 km) long; 4–12 miles (6–19 km) wide.
  • frise aileron — an aircraft wing control surface designed with its leading edge extending forward of its axis of rotation so that when the aileron's trailing edge is raised the leading edge extends below the bottom surface of the wing.
  • frivolousness — characterized by lack of seriousness or sense: frivolous conduct.
  • frobisher bay — an inlet of the Atlantic in NE Canada, in the SE coast of Baffin Island
  • from the wood — (of a beverage) from a wooden container rather than a metal or glass one
  • fromage frais — Fromage frais is a thick, creamy dessert that is made from milk and often flavoured with fruit. A fromage frais is a small pot of fromage frais.
  • front-loading — Also, front-loaded. front-loading (def 1).
  • frontage road — a local road that runs parallel to an expressway, providing access to roadside stores and businesses; a service road.
  • frontal gyrus — any of several convolutions on the outer surface of the frontal lobe of the cerebrum.
  • frontier post — an official point where people or vehicles cross over a border between countries
  • frontispieces — Plural form of frontispiece.
  • frontogenesis — the formation or increase of a front or frontal zone.
  • frontopalatal — articulated with the portion of the tongue that is just behind the tip touching or near the alveolar ridge and hard palate, as ( (ʃ) ; sh) ) and (; ʒ) ; zh) )
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