9-letter words starting with fr
- 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.
- freelance — Also, freelancer. a person who works as a writer, designer, performer, or the like, selling work or services by the hour, day, job, etc., rather than working on a regular salary basis for one employer.
- freeloads — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of freeload.
- freemason — a member of a widely distributed secret order (Free and Accepted Masons) having for its object mutual assistance and the promotion of brotherly love among its members.
- freesheet — paper made entirely from chemical pulp and therefore free of groundwood.
- freestone — a fruit having a stone to which the flesh does not cling, as certain peaches and plums.
- freestyle — Swimming. competition in which any of the standard strokes may be used, according to the swimmer's choice. the crawl.
- freewheel — a device in the transmission of a motor vehicle that automatically disengages the drive shaft whenever it begins to turn more rapidly than the engine.
- freewoman — a woman who is free or at liberty, esp one who is not a slave or serf
- freeworld — the nations of the world that function chiefly under democratic and capitalistic systems rather than under totalitarianism or Communism.
- freewrite — to write (something) freely without stopping or thinking
- freezable — Capable of being frozen; especially capable of use after subsequent thawing.