9-Letter Words That Start With: FRAN

• a German city; an industrial and commercial and financial center

• the capital of Kentucky; located in northern Kentucky

• a German city; an industrial and commercial and financial center

• an authorization to sell a company's goods or services in a particular place

• a business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area

• a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote)

• grant a franchise to

• the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech

• the trait of being blunt and outspoken

• a radioactive element of the alkali-metal group discovered as a disintegration product of actinium

• a landowner (14th and 15th centuries) who was free but not of noble birth

• United States historian noted for studies of Black American history (born in 1915)

• printer whose success as an author led him to take up politics; he helped draw up the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution; he played a major role in the American Revolution and negotiated French support for the colonists; as a scientist he is remembered particularly for his research in electricity (1706-1790)