13-letter words containing fl
- flame-thrower — an implement that kills weeds by scorching them with a directed flow of flaming gas.
- flameproofing — Present participle of flameproof.
- flamethrowers — Plural form of flamethrower.
- flaming sword — a cultivated bromeliad, Vriesea splendens, native to French Guiana, having long, red bracts and yellow flowers.
- flaminian way — an ancient Roman road extending N from Rome to what is now Rimini. 215 miles (345 km) long.
- 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 picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
- 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.
- flashed glass — clear glass flashed with a thin layer of colored glass or a coating of metallic oxide.
- flat knitting — a knitting process in which the yarn is knitted horizontally on needles set in a straight line.
- flat-bottomed — (of boats) having a flat bottom.
- flatbed lorry — a lorry with a flat platform for its body
- flatbed press — a printing machine on which the type forme is carried on a flat bed under a revolving paper-bearing cylinder
- flatbed truck — a truck 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.
- fleet admiral — the highest ranking naval officer, ranking next above admiral.
- fleet air arm — the aviation branch of the Royal Navy
- fleming valve — (formerly) a diode.
- flemish giant — one of a breed of large domestic rabbits of Belgian origin, having a solid gray, white, or black coat, and raised for its meat and fur.
- flesh peddler — a prostitute.
- flesh-colored — Something that is flesh-colored is yellowish pink in color.
- flesh-peddler — an employment agent or agency, especially one that recruits executives.
- flexible disk — a flexible removable magnetic disk that stores information and can be used to store data for use in a microprocessor
- flight leader — a pilot who commands a flight of military airplanes.
- flight number — the identifying number of a scheduled flight
- 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).