foul shot
free throw
penalty free throw
charity toss
charity throw
charity shot | an unhindered basketball shot from the foul line, given to penalize the other team for committing a foul |
| free kick | (soccer) a place kick that is allowed for a foul or infringement by the other team |
somatic cell nuclear transplantation
somatic cell nuclear transfer
SCNT
nuclear transplantation | moving a cell nucleus and its genetic material from one cell to another |
| nuclear terrorism | the use of a nuclear device by a terrorist organization to cause massive devastation or the use (or threat of use) of fissionable radioactive materials, assaults on nuclear power plants is one form of nuclear terrorism |
extramarital sex
free love | sexual intercourse between individuals who are not married to one another |
free time
spare time | time that is free from duties or responsibilities |
| nuclear deterrence | the military doctrine that an enemy will be deterred from using nuclear weapons as long as he can be destroyed as a consequence, when two nations both resort to nuclear deterrence the consequence could be mutual destruction |
| free trade | international trade free of government interference |
North American Free Trade Agreement
NAFTA | an agreement for free trade between the United States and Canada and Mexico, became effective in for ten years |
brawl
free-for-all | a noisy fight in a crowd |
amnesty
pardon free pardon | the formal act of liberating someone |
freetail
free-tailed bat
freetailed bat | small swift insectivorous bat with leathery ears and a long tail, common in warm regions |
atomic warhead
nuclear warhead
thermonuclear warhead
nuke | the warhead of a missile designed to deliver an atom bomb |
| free house | a public house that is not controlled by a brewery and so is free to sell different brands of beer and ale |
| free throw lane | a lane on a basketball court extending from the end line to feet in front of the backboard, players may not enter this lane during a free throw |
nautilus
nuclear submarine
nuclear-powered submarine | a submarine that is propelled by nuclear power |
| nuclear-powered ship | ship whose motive power comes from the energy of a nuclear reactor |
nuclear reactor
reactor | (physics) any of several kinds of apparatus that maintain and control a nuclear reaction for the production of energy or artificial elements |
| nuclear rocket | a rocket engine in which a nuclear reactor is used to heat a propellant |
nuclear weapon
atomic weapon | a weapon of mass destruction whose explosive power derives from a nuclear reaction |
weight free weight
exercising weight | sports equipment used in calisthenic exercises and weightlifting, it is not attached to anything and is raised and lowered by use of the hands and arms |
grace grace of God
free grace | (Christian theology) the free and unmerited favor or beneficence of God, God's grace is manifested in the salvation of sinners, there but for the grace of God go I |
| free living | a lifestyle given to easy indulgence of the appetites |
drop
dip
fall
free fall | a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity, a drop of points on the Dow Jones index, there was a drop in pressure in the pulmonary artery, a dip in prices, when that became known the price of their stock went into free fall |
free will
discretion | the power of making free choices unconstrained by external agencies |
| free phagocyte | a phagocyte that circulates in the blood |
| free nerve ending | microscopic sensory nerve endings in the skin that are not connected to any specific sensory receptor |
| free association | a thought process in which ideas (words or images) suggest other ideas in a sequence |
nonparametric statistic
distribution free statistic | a statistic computed without knowledge of the form or the parameters of the distribution from which observations are drawn |
| nuclear medicine | the branch of medicine that uses radioactive materials either to image a patient's body or to destroy diseased cells |
radiochemistry
nuclear chemistry | the chemistry of radioactive substances |
nuclear physics
atomic physics
nucleonics | the branch of physics that studies the internal structure of atomic nuclei |
| nuclear engineering | the branch of engineering concerned with the design and construction and operation of nuclear reactors |
deism
free thought | the form of theological rationalism that believes in God on the basis of reason without reference to revelation |
| free press | a press not restricted or controlled by government censorship regarding politics or ideology |
rural free delivery
RFD | free government delivery of mail in outlying country areas |
free morpheme
free form | a morpheme that can occur alone |
free verse
vers libre | unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern |
| free list | a list of commodities that are not subject to tariffs |
| parenthesis-free notation | a notation for forming mathematical expressions that does not use parentheses to delimit components |
| free fall | the ideal falling motion of something subject only to a gravitational field |
nuclear explosion
atomic explosion | the explosion of an atomic bomb |
| gluten-free diet | diet prescribed to treat celiac disease, eliminates such foods as wheat and rye and oats and beans and cabbage and turnips and cucumbers that are rich in gluten |
low-sodium diet
low-salt diet
salt-free diet | a diet that limits the intake of salt (sodium chloride), often used in treating hypertension or edema or certain other disorders |
free
free people | people who are free, the home of the free and the brave |
| nuclear club | the nations possessing nuclear weapons |
nuclear family
conjugal family | a family consisting of parents and their children and grandparents of a marital partner |
Free French
Fighting French | a French movement during World War II that was organized in London by Charles de Gaulle to fight for the liberation of France from German control and for the restoration of the republic |
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NRC | an independent federal agency created in to license and regulate nuclear power plants |
| Free World | antiommunist countries collectively |