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13-letter words containing o, n, f

  • flaming sword — a cultivated bromeliad, Vriesea splendens, native to French Guiana, having long, red bracts and yellow flowers.
  • 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.
  • flavoproteins — Plural form of flavoprotein.
  • flavopurpurin — a yellow, crystalline anthraquinone dye, C 14 H 8 O 5 , isomeric with purpurin.
  • flip-flopping — Informal. a sudden or unexpected reversal, as of direction, belief, attitude, or policy.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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).
  • florianopolis — a state in S Brazil. 36,856 sq. mi. (95,455 sq. km). Capital: Florianópolis.
  • flourishingly — In a flourishing way; tending to succeed and grow.
  • floutingstock — a laughing-stock; the object of mockery or flouting
  • flow function — The flow function is the relationship between the strength of a compact and the degree of compaction.
  • flower garden — plot for flowers
  • 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.
  • fluorescently — In a fluorescent manner; using fluorescence.
  • fluorocarbons — Plural form of fluorocarbon.
  • fluoroscoping — Present participle of fluoroscope.
  • flying boxcar — a large airplane designed to carry cargo.
  • flying colors — with flying colors, with an overwhelming victory, triumph, or success: He passed the test with flying colors.
  • flying column — (formerly) a force of troops equipped and organized to move swiftly and independently of a principal unit to which it is attached.
  • flying doctor — a doctor listed with local authorities as willing to be flown to remote areas to give emergency medical care.
  • flying dragon — any of several arboreal lizards of the genus Draco, having an extensible membrane between the limbs along each side by means of which it makes long, gliding leaps.
  • foerstner bit — a bit for drilling blind holes, guided from the rim rather than from the center to permit it to enter the wood at an oblique angle.
  • fold function — (programming)   In functional programming, fold or "reduce" is a kind of higher-order function that takes as arguments a function, an initial "accumulator" value and a data structure (often a list). In Haskell, the two flavours of fold for lists, called foldl and foldr are defined like this: foldl :: (a -> b -> a) -> a -> [b] -> a foldl f z [] = z foldl f z (x:xs) = foldl f (f z x) xs foldr :: (a -> b -> b) -> b -> [a] -> b foldr f z [] = z foldr f z (x:xs) = f x (foldr f z xs) In both cases, if the input list is empty, the result is the value of the accumulator, z. If not, foldl takes the head of the list, x, and returns the result of recursing on the tail of the list using (f z x) as the new z. foldr returns (f x q) where q is the result of recursing on the tail. The "l" and "r" in the names refer to the associativity of the application of f. Thus if f = (+) (the binary plus operator used as a function of two arguments), we have: foldl (+) 0 [1, 2, 3] = (((0 + 1) + 2) + 3 (applying + left associatively) and foldr (+) 0 [1, 2, 3] = 0 + (1 + (2 + 3)) (applying + right associatively). For +, this makes no difference but for an non-commutative operator it would.
  • folding chair — a chair that can be collapsed flat for easy storage or transport.
  • folding money — paper money.
  • folding press — a fall in wrestling won by folding one's opponent's legs up to his head and pressing his shoulders to the floor
  • foliage plant — any plant grown chiefly for its attractive leaves.
  • folk medicine — health practices arising from superstition, cultural traditions, or empirical use of native remedies, especially food substances.
  • fonctionnaire — a civil servant
  • fondant icing — icing made from fondant
  • fons et origo — the source and origin
  • fontainebleau — a town in N France, SE of Paris: famous palace, long a favorite residence of French kings; extensive forest.
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