13-letter words containing f, o, l
- 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-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.
- flat-bottomed — (of boats) having a flat bottom.
- flatbed lorry — a lorry 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.
- flesh-colored — Something that is flesh-colored is yellowish pink in color.
- flip-flopping — Informal. a sudden or unexpected reversal, as of direction, belief, attitude, or policy.
- 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.
- flodden field — a hill in Northumberland where invading Scots were defeated by the English in 1513 and James IV of Scotland was killed
- 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
- flood control — the act or technique of controlling river flow with dams, dikes, artificial channels, etc., so as to minimize the occurrence of floods.
- floodlighting — Present participle of floodlight.
- floor cushion — a cushion placed on the floor of a room for people to sit on
- 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
- floor-through — occupying the entire depth of a building: a floor-through apartment.
- floorcovering — A covering for a floor.
- flooring brad — a brad having a very small head, made in lengths from 2 to 4 inches (5 to 10 cm).
- floral emblem — a flower or plant serving as the emblem of a city, state, nation, etc.
- florianopolis — a state in S Brazil. 36,856 sq. mi. (95,455 sq. km). Capital: Florianópolis.
- floricultural — Of or pertaining to floriculture.
- floristically — In a floristic manner.
- flourishingly — In a flourishing way; tending to succeed and grow.
- floutingstock — a laughing-stock; the object of mockery or flouting
- flow cleavage — cleavage resulting from the parallel alignment of the mineral constituents of a rock when in a plastic condition.
- flow function — The flow function is the relationship between the strength of a compact and the degree of compaction.
- flower beetle — any of numerous, usually brightly colored beetles, as of the families Malachiidae and Dasytidae, that live on flowers and are predaceous on other insects.
- flower garden — plot for flowers
- flower people — (esp during the 1960s) young people whose behaviour, dress, use of drugs, etc implied a rejection of conventional values, and who used flowers to symbolize peace and naturalness
- flower seller — a person who sells flowers for a living, usually from a stall in the street
- flower-pecker — any of numerous small, arboreal, usually brightly colored oscine birds of the family Dicaeidae, of southeastern Asia and Australia.
- flowering ash — a variety of ash tree that produces conspicuous flowers
- fluctuational — Of, pertaining to, or resulting from fluctuation(s).
- flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
- fluophosphate — fluorophosphate.
- fluorescently — In a fluorescent manner; using fluorescence.
- fluoroacetate — a toxic chemical compound, C2H2FNaO2, occurring naturally in certain plants, and commonly used as rat poison