alfred | (n) king of Wessex; defeated the Vikings and encouraged writing in English (849-899), Syn. Alfred the Great |
fettuccine alfredo | (n) fettuccine in cream sauce with cheese |
frederick | (n) a town in northern Maryland to the west of Baltimore |
frederick i | (n) son of Frederick William who in 1701 became the first king of Prussia (1657-1713) |
frederick i | (n) Holy Roman Emperor from 1152 to 1190; conceded supremacy to the pope; drowned leading the Third Crusade (1123-1190), Syn. Frederick Barbarossa, Barbarossa |
frederick ii | (n) king of Prussia from 1740 to 1786; brought Prussia military prestige by winning the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War (1712-1786), Syn. Frederick the Great |
frederick ii | (n) the Holy Roman Emperor who led the Sixth Crusade and crowned himself king of Jerusalem (1194-1250), Syn. Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II |
fredericksburg | (n) a town in northeastern Virginia on the Rappahannock River |
fredericksburg | (n) an important battle in the American Civil War (1862); the Union Army under A. E. Burnside was defeated by the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee, Syn. Battle of Fredericksburg |
frederick william | (n) the Elector of Brandenburg who rebuilt his domain after its destruction during the Thirty Years' War (1620-1688), Syn. Great Elector |
frederick william i | (n) son of Frederick I who became king of Prussia in 1713; reformed and strengthened the Prussian army (1688-1740) |
frederick william ii | (n) king of Prussia who became involved in a costly war with France (1744-1797) |
frederick william iii | (n) king of Prussia who became involved in the Napoleonic Wars (1770-1840) |
frederick william iv | (n) king of Prussia who violently suppressed democratic movements (1795-1865) |
fredericton | (n) the provincial capital of New Brunswick |
ashton | (n) British choreographer (1906-1988), Syn. Sir Frederick Ashton |
astaire | (n) United States dancer and cinema actor noted for his original and graceful tap dancing (1899-1987), Syn. Fred Astaire |
banting | (n) Canadian physiologist who discovered insulin with C. H. Best and who used it to treat diabetes(1891-1941), Syn. F. G. Banting, Sir Frederick Grant Banting |
bartholdi | (n) French sculptor best known for creating the Statue of Liberty now in New York harbor, Syn. Frederic Auguste Bartholdi |
binet | (n) French psychologist remembered for his studies of the intellectual development of children (1857-1911), Syn. Alfred Binet |
boniface | (n) (Roman Catholic Church) Anglo-Saxon missionary who was sent to Frisia and Germany to spread the Christian faith; was martyred in Frisia (680-754), Syn. Saint Boniface, Apostle of Germany, Winfred, Wynfrith, St. Boniface |
chopin | (n) French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school (1810-1849), Syn. Frederic Francois Chopin |
cody | (n) United States showman famous for his Wild West Show (1846-1917), Syn. William Frederick Cody, Buffalo Bill, William F. Cody, Buffalo Bill Cody |
cooke | (n) United States journalist (born in England in 1908), Syn. Alfred Alistair Cooke, Alistair Cooke |
cuvier | (n) French naturalist known as the father of comparative anatomy (1769-1832), Syn. Georges Leopold Chretien Frederic Dagobert Cuvier, Georges Cuvier, Baron Georges Cuvier |
delius | (n) English composer of orchestral works (1862-1934), Syn. Frederick Delius |
douglass | (n) United States abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became an influential writer and lecturer in the North (1817-1895), Syn. Frederick Douglass |
dreyfus | (n) French army officer of Jewish descent whose false imprisonment for treason in 1894 raised issues of anti-Semitism that dominated French politics until his release in 1906 (1859-1935), Syn. Alfred Dreyfus |
eigen | (n) German chemist who did research on high-speed chemical reactions (born in 1927), Syn. Manfred Eigen |
eisenstaedt | (n) United States photographer (born in Germany) whose unposed documentary photographs created photojournalism (born in 1898), Syn. Alfred Eisenstaedt |
federal home loan mortgage corporation | (n) a corporation authorized by Congress to provide a secondary market for residential mortgages, Syn. FHLMC, Freddie Mac |
furnivall | (n) English philologist who first proposed the Oxford English Dictionary (1825-1910), Syn. Frederick James Furnivall |
garcia lorca | (n) Spanish poet and dramatist who was shot dead by Franco's soldiers soon after the start of the Spanish Civil War (1898-1936), Syn. Frederico Garcia Lorca, Lorca |
goncourt | (n) French writer who collaborated with his brother Edmond de Goncourt on many books (1830-1870), Syn. Jules de Goncourt, Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt |
goudy | (n) United States printer noted for designing typefaces (1865-1947), Syn. Frederic William Goudy, Frederic Goudy |
handel | (n) a prolific British baroque composer (born in Germany) remembered best for his oratorio Messiah (1685-1759), Syn. Georg Friedrich Handel, George Frideric Handel, George Frederick Handel |
harmsworth | (n) British newspaper publisher (1865-1922), Syn. Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, Viscount Northcliffe |
hassam | (n) United States painter noted for brilliant colors and bold brushwork (1859-1935), Syn. Childe Hassam, Frederick Childe Hassam |
herschel | (n) English astronomer (son of William Herschel) who extended the catalogue of stars to the southern hemisphere and did pioneering work in photography (1792-1871), Syn. John Herschel, Sir John Herschel, Sir John Frederick William Herschel |
herschel | (n) English astronomer (born in Germany) who discovered infrared light and who catalogued the stars and discovered the planet Uranus (1738-1822), Syn. William Herschel, Sir William Herschel, Sir Frederick William Herschel |
hill | (n) risque English comedian (1925-1992), Syn. Alfred Hawthorne, Benny Hill |
hitchcock | (n) English film director noted for his skill in creating suspense (1899-1980), Syn. Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, Sir Alfred Hitchcock, Alfred Hitchcock |
hopkins | (n) English biochemist who did pioneering work that led to the discovery of vitamins (1861-1947), Syn. Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins |
housman | (n) English poet (1859-1936), Syn. A. E. Housman, Alfred Edward Housman |
hoyle | (n) an English astrophysicist and advocate of the steady state theory of cosmology; described processes of nucleosynthesis inside stars (1915-2001), Syn. Fred Hoyle, Sir Fred Hoyle |
joliot | (n) French nuclear physicist who was Marie Curie's assistant and who worked with Marie Curie's daughter who he married (taking the name Joliot-Curie); he and his wife discovered how to synthesize new radioactive elements (1900-1958), Syn. Jean-Frederic Joliot, Jean-Frederic Joliot-Curie, Joliot-Curie |
kastler | (n) French physicist (1902-1984), Syn. Alfred Kastler |
kinsey | (n) United States zoologist best known for his interview studies of sexual behavior (1894-1956), Syn. Alfred Charles Kinsey |
kissinger | (n) United States diplomat who served under President Nixon and President Ford (born in 1923), Syn. Henry Kissinger, Henry Alfred Kissinger |
korzybski | (n) United States semanticist (born in Poland) (1879-1950), Syn. Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski, Alfred Korzybski |
萧邦 | [Xiāo bāng, ㄒㄧㄠ ㄅㄤ, 萧 邦 / 蕭 邦] Frédéric Chopin (Composer) #83,955 [Add to Longdo] |
弗雷德里克 | [Fú léi dé lǐ kè, ㄈㄨˊ ㄌㄟˊ ㄉㄜˊ ㄌㄧˇ ㄎㄜˋ, 弗 雷 德 里 克 / 弗 雷 德 裡 克] Frederick #123,453 [Add to Longdo] |
魏格纳 | [Wèi gé nà, ㄨㄟˋ ㄍㄜˊ ㄋㄚˋ, 魏 格 纳 / 魏 格 納] Alfred Wegener (1880-1930), German meteorologist and geophysicist, the originator of continental drift #158,682 [Add to Longdo] |
韦格纳 | [Wéi gé nà, ㄨㄟˊ ㄍㄜˊ ㄋㄚˋ, 韦 格 纳 / 韋 格 納] Alfred Wegener (1880-1930), German meteorologist and geophysicist, the originator of continental drift; also written 魏格納|魏格纳 #243,464 [Add to Longdo] |
亚弗烈 | [Yà fú liè, ㄧㄚˋ ㄈㄨˊ ㄌㄧㄝˋ, 亚 弗 烈 / 亞 弗 烈] Alfred (name) [Add to Longdo] |
弗雷德里克顿 | [Fú léi dé lǐ kè dùn, ㄈㄨˊ ㄌㄟˊ ㄉㄜˊ ㄌㄧˇ ㄎㄜˋ ㄉㄨㄣˋ, 弗 雷 德 里 克 顿 / 弗 雷 德 裡 克 頓] Fredericton, capital of New Brunswick, Canada [Add to Longdo] |
腓特烈斯塔 | [Féi tè liè sī tǎ, ㄈㄟˊ ㄊㄜˋ ㄌㄧㄝˋ ㄙ ㄊㄚˇ, 腓 特 烈 斯 塔] Fredrikstad (city in Østfold, Norway) [Add to Longdo] |