| fee splitting | payment (usually by doctors or lawyers) of part of the fee in return for the referral |
cutlassfish
frost fish
hairtail | long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth, closely related to snake mackerel |
| blasting cap | a small tube filled with detonating substances, used to detonate high explosives |
| blasting gelatin | mixture of guncotton with nitroglycerin |
hairsplitting
word-splitting | making too fine distinctions of little importance, they didn't take his hairsplitting seriously |
| 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 |
rending
ripping
splitting | resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree, the tree split with a great ripping sound, heard a rending roar as the crowd surged forward |
blasting
ruinous | causing injury or blight, especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin, the blasting effects of the intense cold on the budding fruit, the blasting force of the wind blowing sharp needles of sleet in our faces, a ruinous war |
| frost-bound | (of the ground) made hard by frost |
blaring
blasting | unpleasantly loud and penetrating, the blaring noise of trumpets, shut our ears against the blasting music from his car radio |