cutlassfish frost fish hairtail | long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth, closely related to snake mackerel |
Jack Frost | a personification of frost or winter weather |
Frost Robert Frost Robert Lee Frost | United States poet famous for his lyrical poems on country life in New England (-) |
Kennan George F. Kennan George Frost Kennan | United States diplomat who recommended a policy of containment in dealing with Soviet aggression (-) |
freeze frost | weather cold enough to cause freezing |
frost heave frost heaving | upthrust of ground or pavement caused by the freezing of moist soil |
ice crystal snow mist diamond dust poudrin ice needle frost snow frost mist | small crystals of ice |
Virginia crownbeard frostweed frost-weed Verbesina virginica | tall perennial herb having clusters of white flowers, the eastern United States |
frostweed frost-weed frostwort Helianthemum canadense Crocanthemum canadense | perennial of the eastern United States having early solitary yellow flowers followed by late petalless flowers, soalled because ice crystals form on it during first frosts |
Frost's bolete Boletus frostii | a fungus with a red cap and a red coarsely reticulate stalk |
frost icing | the formation of frost or ice on a surface |
frost hoar hoarfrost rime | ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside) |
frost | damage by frost, The icy precipitation frosted the flowers and they turned brown |
frost | cover with frost, ice crystals frosted the glass |
frost | provide with a rough or speckled surface or appearance, frost the glass, she frosts her hair |
frost ice | decorate with frosting, frost a cake |
ice up frost over ice over | become covered with a layer of ice, of a surface such as a window, When the wings iced up, the pilot was forced to land his plane |
repellent resistant | incapable of absorbing or mixing with, a water-repellent fabric, plastic highly resistant to steam and water |
fire-retardant fire-resistant fire-resisting fire-resistive | difficult to burn |
insubordinate resistant resistive | disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority |
frost-bound | (of the ground) made hard by frost |
water-repellent water-resistant | hindering the penetration of water, a water-repellent coat |
mothproof moth-resistant | resistant to damage by moths |
resistant | impervious to being affected, resistant to the effects of heat, resistant to persuasion |
corrosion-resistant | impervious to corrosion, he was a great believer in the corrosion-resistant qualities of cast iron |
rot-resistant | resistant to rotting |
runproof ladder-proof run-resistant | (of hosiery) resistant to runs or (in Britain) ladders |
rust-resistant | resistant to rust |
immune resistant | relating to or conferring immunity (to disease or infection) |
tolerant resistant | able to tolerate environmental conditions or physiological stress, the plant is tolerant of saltwater, these fish are quite tolerant as long as extremes of pH are avoided, the new hybrid is more resistant to drought |
penicillin-resistant | unaffected by penicillin, penicillin-resistant bacteria |
creaseproof wrinkleproof crease-resistant wrinkle-resistant | of fabric that does not wrinkle easily |