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 |
artillery
heavy weapon
gun ordnance | large but transportable armament |
atomic warhead
nuclear warhead
thermonuclear warhead
nuke | the warhead of a missile designed to deliver an atom bomb |
automatic firearm
automatic gun
automatic weapon | a firearm that reloads itself and keeps firing until the trigger is released |
bioweapon
biological weapon
bioarm | any weapon usable in biological warfare, they feared use of the smallpox virus as a bioweapon |
| chemical weapon | chemical substances that can be delivered using munitions and dispersal devices to cause death or severe harm to people and animals and plants |
| 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 |
weapon
arm weapon system | any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting, he was licensed to carry a weapon |
weapon of mass destruction
WMD
W.M.D. | a weapon that kills or injures civilian as well as military personnel (nuclear and chemical and biological weapons) |
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 |
weapon
artillery | a means of persuading or arguing, he used all his conversational weapons |
| 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 |