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13-letter words containing fl

  • reflexiveness — 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.
  • retroflection — a bending backward.
  • return flight — a flight going back
  • rifle grenade — a grenade designed to be fired from a grenade launcher attached to the muzzle of a rifle or carbine.
  • role conflict — emotional conflict arising when competing demands are made on an individual in the fulfillment of his or her multiple social roles.
  • sacrifice fly — a fly ball when there are fewer than two players out that enables a base runner, usually at third base, to score after the ball is caught.
  • safflower oil — an oil expressed or extracted fromsafflower seeds, used in cooking, as a salad oil, and as a vehicle for medicines, paints, varnishes, etc.
  • sales leaflet — a leaflet or brochure used by a company to promote its goods, products, or services to the public
  • sandfly fever — a usually mild viral disease occurring in hot, dry areas, characterized by fever, eye pain, and sometimes a rash, transmitted by sandflies of the genus Phlebotomus.
  • screwworm fly — the adult screwworm.
  • sea butterfly — any member of the gastropod order Pteropoda, shelled marine mollusks so called for their ability to swim using winglike extensions of the foot.
  • self-conflict — to come into collision or disagreement; be contradictory, at variance, or in opposition; clash: The account of one eyewitness conflicted with that of the other. My class conflicts with my going to the concert.
  • self-flattery — praise and exaggeration of one's own achievements coupled with a denial or glossing over of one's faults or failings; self-congratulation.
  • selling floor — floor (def 10).
  • semi-flexible — partially flexible; involving or possessing some flexibility
  • seminal fluid — the fluid component of semen, excluding the sperm.
  • service rifle — a rifle that is issued as standard to soldiers of an army or armed force
  • show the flag — to assert a claim, as to a territory or stretch of water, by military presence
  • slatted floor — a floor made with slats of wood so that water can drain away
  • spadicifloral — having flowers borne on a spadix
  • spider flower — cleome
  • spruce sawfly — any of several sawflies of the family Diprionidae, especially Diprion hercyniae (European spruce sawfly) the larvae of which feed on the foliage of spruce.
  • sulfur-flower — a plant, Eriogonum umbellatum, of the buckwheat family, native to the western coast of the U.S., having leaves with white, woolly hairs on the underside and golden-yellow flowers.
  • sunflower oil — oil obtained from sunflower seeds
  • superfluidity — a fluid that exhibits frictionless flow, very high heat conductivity, and other unusual physical properties, helium below 2.186 K being the only known example.
  • superfluously — being more than is sufficient or required; excessive.
  • swift-flowing — moving rapidly
  • tassel flower — love-lies-bleeding.
  • tetrafluoride — a fluoride containing four fluorine atoms.
  • thalamifloral — relating to the Thalamiflorae
  • the afflicted — afflicted people considered collectively
  • the mayflower — the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth to Massachusetts in 1620
  • tortilla flat — a novel (1935) by John Steinbeck.
  • trading floor — stock exchange: room where trading is done
  • tubuliflorous — having the corolla tubular in all the perfect flowers of a head, as certain composite plants.
  • uncamouflaged — the act, means, or result of obscuring things to deceive an enemy, as by painting or screening objects so that they are lost to view in the background, or by making up objects that from a distance have the appearance of fortifications, guns, roads, etc.: Was camouflage used extensively on fighter aircraft during World War I?
  • unconflicting — being in conflict or disagreement; not compatible: conflicting viewpoints.
  • underinflated — lacking sufficient air pressure
  • unflinchingly — not flinching; unshrinking: unflinching courage.
  • uniflagellate — having only one flagellum.
  • uninflammable — (of materials and substances) not liable to catch fire, not flammable
  • uninfluential — having or exerting influence, especially great influence: three influential educators.
  • unsuperfluous — not superfluous or excessive; moderate
  • venus flytrap — firewall machine
  • wafflestomper — a shoe with a thick sole resembling a waffle
  • waterflooding — (in oil, gas, or petroleum production) the practice of injecting water to maintain pressure in a reservoir and to drive the oil, etc towards the production wells
  • west flanders — a province in W Belgium. 1249 sq. mi. (3235 sq. km). Capital: Bruges.
  • when pigs fly — If you say 'when pigs fly' after someone has said that something might happen, you are emphasizing that you think it is very unlikely.
  • white truffle — an edible fungus, Tuber magnatum pico, occurring in certain parts of northern Italy, and considered a great delicacy.
  • working fluid — a liquid or gaseous working substance.
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