5-letter words containing f
- flipe — (Scotland, dated, transitive) To turn inside out, or with the leg part back over the foot, as when putting on or taking off a stocking.
- flips — Plural form of flip.
- flipt — (obsolete) Simple past tense and past participle of flip.
- flirt — to court triflingly or act amorously without serious intentions; play at love; coquet.
- flisk — a whim; a fancy
- flite — to dispute; wrangle; scold; jeer.
- flits — Plural form of flit.
- float — to rest or remain on the surface of a liquid; be buoyant: The hollow ball floated.
- flock — a lock or tuft of wool, hair, cotton, etc.
- floes — Also called ice floe. a sheet of floating ice, chiefly on the surface of the sea, smaller than an ice field.
- flogs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flog.
- flong — the material of which a stereotype mold is made.
- flood — a great flowing or overflowing of water, especially over land not usually submerged.
- flook — A fluke of an anchor.
- floom — (US, archaic) A flume, as in a mill flume.
- floor — that part of a room, hallway, or the like, that forms its lower enclosing surface and upon which one walks.
- flops — an act of flopping.
- flor. — floruit
- flora — the plants of a particular region or period, listed by species and considered as a whole.
- flory — fleury.
- flosh — a hopper-shaped (funnel-shaped) box into which ore is placed so that it may be stamped (crushed) as part of its processing
- floss — the cottony fiber yielded by the silk-cotton tree.
- flota — A fleet, especially a fleet of Spanish ships which formerly sailed every year from Cadiz to Vera Cruz, in Mexico, to transport to Spain the production of Spanish America.
- flote — a flotilla; a fleet
- floud — Obsolete spelling of flood.
- flour — the finely ground meal of grain, especially the finer meal separated by bolting.
- flout — to treat with disdain, scorn, or contempt; scoff at; mock: to flout the rules of propriety.
- flown — a past participle of fly1 .
- flows — Plural form of flow.
- flowy — (especially of hair or clothing) hanging loosely or freely at full length; flowing: soft flowy hair; flowy silk dresses.
- floyd — Carlisle (Sessions, Jr.) born 1926, U.S. composer, especially of operas.
- flubs — a blunder.
- flued — Having a flue or flues (of a specified kind).
- flues — Plural form of flue.
- fluey — involved in, caused by, or like influenza
- fluff — light, downy particles, as of cotton.
- fluid — a substance, as a liquid or gas, that is capable of flowing and that changes its shape at a steady rate when acted upon by a force tending to change its shape.
- fluke — Unlikely chance occurrence, especially a surprising piece of luck.
- fluky — obtained by chance rather than skill.
- flume — a deep narrow defile containing a mountain stream or torrent.
- flump — the act or sound of flumping.
- flung — simple past tense and past participle of fling.
- flunk — to fail in a course or examination.
- fluo- — fluoro-
- fluor — fluorite.
- flurr — a whir; a fluttering; a flurry
- flurt — Alternative spelling of flirt.
- flush — a hand or set of cards all of one suit. Compare royal flush, straight flush.
- flute — a musical wind instrument consisting of a tube with a series of fingerholes or keys, in which the wind is directed against a sharp edge, either directly, as in the modern transverse flute, or through a flue, as in the recorder.
- fluty — having the tone and rather high pitch variation of a flute: a person of fastidious manner and fluty voice.