10-letter words containing k, l
- file clerk — an office employee whose principal work is to file and retrieve papers, records, etc.
- film-maker — Also called moviemaker. a producer or director of motion pictures, especially one working in all phases of production: the leading young filmmakers of France.
- filmmakers — Plural form of filmmaker.
- filmmaking — Also called moviemaker. a producer or director of motion pictures, especially one working in all phases of production: the leading young filmmakers of France.
- fingerlike — Resembling a finger, especially in shape.
- fish flake — a platform for drying fish.
- fisherfolk — People who catch fish for a living.
- fixed link — a permanent transport link, esp a bridge, between two geographical areas separated by water
- flagsticks — Plural form of flagstick.
- flake tool — a Paleolithic or later stone tool made from a flake struck from a larger core.
- flakeboard — a form of particle board.
- flankering — Present participle of flanker.
- flare-back — a blast of flame that sometimes issues from the breech of a large gun or cannon when it is opened after firing.
- flarebacks — Plural form of flareback.
- flash back — If your mind flashes back to something in the past, you remember it or think of it briefly or suddenly.
- flash-lock — stanch1 (def 5).
- flashbacks — Plural form of flashback.
- flat broke — having no money
- flat thunk — (programming) A software mechanism that allows a Win32 application to load and call a 16-bit DLL, or a 16-bit application to load and call a Win32 DLL. See also generic thunk, universal thunk.
- flick-pass — a movement in which the ball is passed quickly to another player by flicking it out of the hand; often performed with only one hand
- flickering — to burn unsteadily; shine with a wavering light: The candle flickered in the wind and went out.
- flintlocks — Plural form of flintlock.
- floodmarks — Plural form of floodmark.
- floor-work — a sequence of exercises done at the beginning of a class or before a performance in sitting and supine positions on the floor in order to stretch and warm up the body.
- flower key — feature key
- flowerlike — resembling or in the shape of a flower; delicate; graceful.
- flunkeydom — The state of a being a flunkey.
- flunkeyish — resembling a flunkey
- flunkeyism — Alt form flunkyism.
- fly a kite — If you say that someone is flying a kite, you are critical of them for putting forward new ideas just to see how people react, rather than with the intention of putting those ideas into practice.
- fly killer — a device or chemical substance used to kill flying insects
- fly-strike — myiasis.
- flyspeck 3 — (humour) A standard name for any font that is so tiny as to be unreadable, by analogy with names like "Helvetica 10" for 10-point Helvetica. Legal boilerplate is usually printed in Flyspeck 3.
- flyspecked — Covered with flyspecks.
- folk dance — a dance that originated among, and has been transmitted through, the common people. Compare court dance.
- folk magic — any attempt to practice charms, spells, etc., to control events or people.
- folk music — music, usually of simple character and anonymous authorship, handed down among the common people by oral tradition.
- folk weave — a type of fabric with a loose weave
- folkestone — a seaport in E Kent, in SE England, on the Strait of Dover.
- folklorico — Mexican folk dancing, especially a program or repertoire of such dances.
- folklorish — (colloquial) Typical or similar to folklore.
- folklorist — the traditional beliefs, legends, customs, etc., of a people; lore of a people.
- folksiness — friendly or neighborly; sociable.
- folksinger — A person who sings folk songs.
- folksonomy — a classification system derived from user-generated electronic tags or keywords that annotate and describe online content: Imprecise folksonomies can hinder information retrieval.
- footlicker — A sycophant; a fawner; a toady.
- footlocker — A small trunk or storage chest, originally stored at the foot of a bed.
- forestlike — Like a forest.
- forklifted — Simple past tense and past participle of forklift.
- franklinia — a shrub or small tree, Franklinia alatamaha, of the tea family, originally native to the SE U.S. and now found only in cultivation, having glossy leaves and large, solitary white flowers.