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14-letter words containing f, l, o

  • floor covering — any material used to cover the floor of a room, such as a carpet or tiles
  • floor exercise — a competition in which each entrant performs a routine of acrobatic tumbling feats and balletic movements without any apparatus on a specifically designated floor space, usually 12 meters (39 feet) square and having a matlike covering.
  • floor planning — a system of financing that permits a dealer to borrow money to buy goods, which become the security for the loan that is repaid when the merchandise is sold.
  • floor polisher — an electrical appliance used for polishing floors
  • floorcoverings — Plural form of floorcovering.
  • florence flask — a round bottle having a flat bottom and long neck, for use in laboratories.
  • floriculturist — the cultivation of flowers or flowering plants, especially for ornamental purposes.
  • florida strait — a strait between Florida, Cuba, and the Bahamas, connecting the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic.
  • florida-strait — a state in the SE United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico. 58,560 sq. mi. (151,670 sq. km). Capital: Tallahassee. Abbreviation: FL (for use with zip code), Fla.
  • florists' foam — a rigid, deformable, spongelike plastic used in floral arrangements to secure the stems of flowers.
  • flotation bags — bags inflated to keep a spacecraft or helicopter afloat and upright when it lands in the sea
  • flotation tank — an enclosed ventilated tank filled with a saline solution at body temperature, in which a person floats in darkness in order to relax or meditate
  • flotsam-jetsam — the part of the wreckage of a ship and its cargo found floating on the water. Compare jetsam, lagan.
  • flower-de-luce — the iris flower or plant.
  • flower-of-jove — a white, woolly plant, Lychnis flos-jovis, of the pink family, having red or purple flowers in dense clusters.
  • flowering crab — any of several species and varieties of crab apple trees with small fruits and abundant spring flowers ranging from white to reddish purple
  • flowering flax — a plant, Linum grandiflorum, of northern Africa, having quickly fading, red or pink flowers.
  • flowering moss — pyxie.
  • flowers of tan — a common slime mold, Fuligo septica, of the central and eastern U.S., having large sporophores and yellowish, foamy plasmodia, that during a wet growing season may spread to cover large areas of lawns, woody debris, and growing plants.
  • fluid coupling — Machinery. an apparatus in which a fluid, usually oil, transmits torque from one shaft to another, producing an equal torque in the other shaft.
  • fluoboric acid — a clear, colorless liquid, HBF 4 , that ionizes abundantly in solution, used chiefly in the synthesis of fluoborates.
  • fluoridization — to treat, impregnate, or affect with a fluoride.
  • fluorochemical — a chemical compound containing fluorine.
  • flying colours — conspicuous success; triumph
  • flying officer — an officer holding commissioned rank senior to a pilot officer but junior to a flight lieutenant in the British and certain other air forces
  • foamed plastic — expanded plastic.
  • focal distance — the distance from a focal point of a lens or mirror to the corresponding principal plane. Symbol: f.
  • focusing cloth — an opaque cloth surrounding the ground glass of a camera so as to shield the eyes of the photographer from light that would otherwise prevent seeing the image in the ground glass.
  • foley catheter — an indwelling catheter used for draining urine from the bladder and having an inflatable part at the bladder end that allows the tube to be kept in place for variable time periods.
  • foliated joint — a joint between the rabbeted and overlapping edges of two boards, forming a continuous surface on each side.
  • folies bergere — a Parisian music hall founded in 1869 and noted for the lavish spectacle and mildly risqué content of its entertainments.
  • folk etymology — a modification of a linguistic form according either to a falsely assumed etymology, as Welsh rarebit from Welsh rabbit, or to a historically irrelevant analogy, as bridegroom from bridegome.
  • follow the sea — to make one's living by serving on oceangoing ships
  • follow through — the act of following.
  • follow-through — the completion of a motion, as in the stroke of a tennis racket.
  • follow-up call — a telephone call made as a follow-up to a letter, fax, meeting, etc
  • follow-up care — care provided for a patient after medical or surgical treatment
  • following wind — a wind that is moving in the same direction as the course of a vessel etc
  • fonthill abbey — a ruined Gothic Revival mansion in Wiltshire: rebuilt (1790–1810) for William Beckford by James Wyatt; the main tower collapsed in 1800 and, after rebuilding, again in 1827
  • food colouring — substances used to impart colour to food
  • food labelling — the practice of providing nutritional information on labels on food packaging
  • fool's-parsley — an Old World fetid, poisonous plant, Aethusa cynapium, resembling parsley.
  • foolscap sheet — a sheet of foolscap paper
  • foot patrolman — a policeman assigned to patrol a particular area on foot
  • football field — ground where soccer is played
  • football match — a match played between two football teams
  • football pitch — ground where soccer is played
  • football pools — If you do the football pools, you take part in a gambling competition in which people try to win money by guessing the results of football matches.
  • footplatewoman — a female footplate worker
  • for all i care — I am completely indifferent
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