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11-letter words containing fl

  • prayer flag — a flag stamped with printed prayers, used by Himalayan Buddhists, who believe that its fluttering sends out the prayers inscribed on it.
  • prone float — a prone floating position, used especially by beginning swimmers, with face downward, legs extended backward, and arms stretched forward.
  • proud flesh — granulation tissue.
  • racing flag — a distinguishing flag flown by a yacht during the period of its participation in a race.
  • reflectance — the ratio of the intensity of reflected radiation to that of the radiation incident on a surface.
  • reflections — thoughts, esp careful or long-considered ones
  • reflexively — Grammar. (of a verb) taking a subject and object with identical referents, as shave in I shave myself. (of a pronoun) used as an object to refer to the subject of a verb, as myself in I shave myself.
  • reflexivize — to make (a verb or pronoun) reflexive.
  • reflexology — a system of massaging specific areas of the foot or sometimes the hand in order to promote healing, relieve stress, etc., in other parts of the body.
  • reflowering — an occurrence of flowering again
  • reinflation — Economics. a persistent, substantial rise in the general level of prices related to an increase in the volume of money and resulting in the loss of value of currency (opposed to deflation).
  • rifle green — a dark olive green, as in the uniforms of certain rifle regiments
  • rifle range — a firing range for practice with rifles.
  • rifled slug — a shotgun projectile with helical grooves on its sides for imparting a spin to it when it is fired through the smooth bore of the shotgun.
  • rock flower — any shrub of the genus Crossosoma, native to the arid regions of the southwestern U.S., having thick, narrow leaves and solitary flowers.
  • royal flush — the five highest cards of a suit.
  • rum truffle — a sweet resembling an edible fungus, of the European genus Tuber, in shape, flavoured with rum
  • satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • scorpionfly — any of several harmless insects of the order Mecoptera, the male of certain species having a reproductive structure that resembles the sting of a scorpion.
  • scuffle hoe — a hoe with a flat blade, pushed back and forth through the surface soil, as to weed
  • semifluidic — of the nature of a semifluid; partially fluidic
  • send flying — to dismiss or cause to depart hurriedly
  • shellflower — an eastern Asian plant, Alpinia zerumbet, of the ginger family, having pendulous clusters of fragrant white flowers with variegated markings.
  • shoofly pie — an open pie filled with a sweet crumb and molasses mixture and baked.
  • shuffle off — to walk without lifting the feet or with clumsy steps and a shambling gait.
  • shufflingly — in the manner of a shuffle
  • signal flag — a flag used for sending messages to other ships
  • snailflower — a tropical vine, Vigna caracalla, of the legume family, having fragrant, yellowish or purplish flowers, a segment of which is shaped like a snail's shell.
  • solar flare — flare (def 22).
  • soldier fly — any of several flies of the family Stratiomyidae, characterized by brightly colored abdominal stripes.
  • spaceflight — the flying of manned or unmanned spacecraft into or in outer space.
  • spanish fly — Also called cantharides. a preparation of powdered blister beetles, especially the Spanish fly, used medicinally as a counterirritant, diuretic, and aphrodisiac.
  • stagflation — an inflationary period accompanied by rising unemployment and lack of growth in consumer demand and business activity.
  • stick float — a float attached at the top and bottom to the line
  • strawflower — any of several everlasting flowers, especially an Australian composite plant, Helichrysum bracteatum, having heads of chaffy yellow, orange, red, or white flowers.
  • studio flat — a flat with one main room
  • stunt flier — someone who performs stunts in an aeroplane, such as special turns, etc, in the air
  • subaffluent — between poor and affluent
  • subinfluent — an organism that has a lesser effect than an influent on the ecological processes within a community.
  • superfluity — the state of being superfluous.
  • superfluous — being more than is sufficient or required; excessive.
  • syrphid fly — any of numerous beelike or wasplike flies of the family Syrphidae that feed on the nectar and pollen of flowers and have larvae that feed on decaying vegetation or prey on aphids.
  • syrphus fly — any of a family (Syrphidae) of dipterous flies, many of which mimic bees or wasps: the adults feed on nectar and pollen, and the larvae of various species feed on plant lice, plants, etc.
  • tachina fly — any of numerous dipterous insects of the family Tachinidae, the larvae of which are parasitic on caterpillars, beetles, and other insects.
  • take flight — an act or instance of fleeing or running away; hasty departure.
  • test flight — a flight made to observe the performance characteristics of a new aircraft or spacecraft.
  • the flemish — the Flemings collectively
  • third floor — the storey of a building immediately above the second and three floors up from the ground
  • tragic flaw — the character defect that causes the downfall of the protagonist of a tragedy; hamartia.
  • trifle with — treat frivolously
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