fried
- v be excessively hot
If the children stay out on the beach for another hour, they'll be fried - v cook on a hot surface using fat
- v kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair
- s cooked by frying in fat
fricative
- n a continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract
- s of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then')
frictional
- a pertaining to or worked or produced by friction
frictional electricity
frictional heat
frictional gearing
frictionless
- a lacking all friction
a perpetual motion machine would have to be frictionless