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13-letter words containing f, l, a

  • finback whale — rorqual
  • fingal's cave — a cave on the island of Staffa, in the Hebrides, Scotland. 227 feet (69 meters) long; 42 feet (13 meters) wide.
  • finite clause — a clause with a finite verb in its predicate.
  • firewall code — 1. The code you put in a system (say, a telephone switch) to make sure that the users can't do any damage. Since users always want to be able to do everything but never want to suffer for any mistakes, the construction of a firewall is a question not only of defensive coding but also of interface presentation, so that users don't even get curious about those corners of a system where they can burn themselves. 2. Any sanity check inserted to catch a can't happen error. Wise programmers often change code to fix a bug twice: once to fix the bug, and once to insert a firewall which would have arrested the bug before it did quite as much damage.
  • first refusal — If someone has first refusal on something that is being sold or offered, they have the right to decide whether or not to buy it or take it before it is offered to anyone else.
  • fixed capital — capital goods, as machinery and tools, that are relatively durable and can be used repeatedly in the production of goods.
  • flabbergasted — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
  • flabbergaster — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
  • flabergasting — Present participle of flabergast.
  • flag football — a form of touch football in which the ball-carrier's progress is stopped when an opponent pulls a flag from the ball-carrier's pocket or belt.
  • flag of truce — a white flag displayed as an invitation to the enemy to confer, or carried as a sign of peaceful intention by one sent to deal with the enemy.
  • flagellomania — enthusiasm for whipping or being whipped
  • flame cutting — a method of cutting ferrous metals in which the metal is heated by a torch to about 800°C and is oxidized by a stream of oxygen from the torch
  • flame-thrower — an implement that kills weeds by scorching them with a directed flow of flaming gas.
  • flameproofing — Present participle of flameproof.
  • flamethrowers — Plural form of flamethrower.
  • flaming sword — a cultivated bromeliad, Vriesea splendens, native to French Guiana, having long, red bracts and yellow flowers.
  • flaminian way — an ancient Roman road extending N from Rome to what is now Rimini. 215 miles (345 km) long.
  • flannel-mouth — a person whose speech is thick, slow, or halting.
  • flash fiction — very short works of fiction that are typically no longer than a couple of pages and may be as short as one paragraph.
  • flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
  • flash-forward — a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which a future event or scene is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.
  • flashed glass — clear glass flashed with a thin layer of colored glass or a coating of metallic oxide.
  • flat knitting — a knitting process in which the yarn is knitted horizontally on needles set in a straight line.
  • flat-bottomed — (of boats) having a flat bottom.
  • flatbed lorry — a lorry with a flat platform for its body
  • flatbed press — a printing machine on which the type forme is carried on a flat bed under a revolving paper-bearing cylinder
  • flatbed truck — a truck with a flat platform for its body
  • flavoproteins — Plural form of flavoprotein.
  • flavopurpurin — a yellow, crystalline anthraquinone dye, C 14 H 8 O 5 , isomeric with purpurin.
  • fleet admiral — the highest ranking naval officer, ranking next above admiral.
  • fleet air arm — the aviation branch of the Royal Navy
  • fleming valve — (formerly) a diode.
  • flemish giant — one of a breed of large domestic rabbits of Belgian origin, having a solid gray, white, or black coat, and raised for its meat and fur.
  • flight leader — a pilot who commands a flight of military airplanes.
  • flirtatiously — given or inclined to flirtation.
  • float chamber — Automotive. the bowl-shaped section of a carburetor in which a reserve of fuel is maintained, the fuel level being regulated by a float.
  • floatcut file — file with rows of parallel teeth
  • floating debt — short-term government borrowing, esp by the issue of three-month Treasury bills
  • floating dock — a submersible, floating structure used as a dry dock, having a floor that is submerged, slipped under a floating vessel, and then raised so as to raise the vessel entirely out of the water.
  • floating gang — a group of railroad workers who service or repair the track but are not assigned to a particular section.
  • floating rate — fluctuating exchange rate
  • floating ribs — the eleventh and twelfth pairs of ribs, not attached to the breastbone or to other ribs but only to the vertebrae
  • floating roof — A floating roof is an internal roof of a fuel storage tank.
  • floating vote — those voters collectively who are not permanently attached to any political party.
  • floccillation — a delirious picking of the bedclothes by the patient, as in certain fevers.
  • flog to death — to persuade a person so persistently of the value of (an idea or venture) that he or she loses interest in it
  • floor furnace — a small self-contained furnace placed just below the floor of the space to be heated.
  • floor manager — a person assigned to direct the proceedings on the floor of an assembly, as at a political convention.
  • floor trading — trading by personal contact on the floor of a market or exchange
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