11-letter words containing fl
- fly gallery — a narrow platform at the side of a stage from which ropes are manipulated to raise or lower scenery, battens, etc.
- fly swatter — a device for killing flies, mosquitoes, and other insects, usually a square sheet of wire mesh attached to a long handle.
- fly-by-wire — (of aircraft or spacecraft) activated entirely by electronic controls.
- fly-fishing — Angling. a method of fishing in which fly casting is used.
- fly-tipping — the deliberate dumping of rubbish in an unauthorized place
- flycatchers — Plural form of flycatcher.
- flying boat — a seaplane whose main body is a hull adapted for floating.
- flying bomb — robot bomb.
- flying bond — a brickwork bond having random, widely spaced headers.
- flying fish — any fish of the family Exocoetidae, having stiff and greatly enlarged pectoral fins enabling it to glide considerable distances through the air after leaping from the water.
- flying frog — either of two East Indian frogs, Rhacophorus nigrapalmatus and R. pardalis, having broadly webbed feet permitting long, gliding leaps.
- flying head — a read/write head supported on a thin cushion of air over a rotating magnetic disk.
- flying kite — any of various sails set above the royals or skysails in light weather; jolly jumper.
- flying mare — Wrestling. a method of attack in which a wrestler grasps the wrist of the opponent, turns in the opposite direction, and throws the opponent over the shoulder and down.
- flying moor — the act of mooring a vessel between two anchors, the first dropped while the vessel is under way.
- flying suit — a one-piece garment covering the whole body, worn by aircraft pilots and other crew members
- flying time — the amount of time taken in flying in an aircraft from one place to another
- flying wing — an airplane whose wings form almost all the airframe, with the fuselage almost or entirely within the wing structure.
- flying-spot — denoting an electronic system in which a rapidly moving spot of light is used to encode or decode data, for example to obtain a television signal by scanning a photographic film or slide
- flyspecking — A technique for painting furniture with flicked drops of paint.
- foamflowers — Plural form of foamflower.
- fourflusher — a person who makes false or pretentious claims; bluffer.
- fowler flap — a flap normally forming a part of the trailing edge of an airplane wing, capable of being moved backward and rotated downward in order to increase lift through increased camber and wing area.
- free flight — unassisted or unconstrained flight, as the flight of a rocket or missile without guidance or after fuel exhaustion or motor cutoff.
- french flat — a flat that can be raised to or hung from the flies, and that contains practicable doors, windows, etc.
- frostflower — a plant, Milla biflora, of the amaryllis family, native to the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- fullfledged — Alternative spelling of full-fledged.
- garden flat — a flat with direct access to a garden: typically, a garden flat consists of basement accommodation in prewar property, but some are in purpose-built blocks in urban areas
- genderfluid — Not conforming to fixed gender roles.
- genuflected — Simple past tense and past participle of genuflect.
- genuflexion — Alternative spelling of genuflection.
- gilliflower — any of several plants of various families with clove-scented flowers, as the carnation
- gillyflower — Archaic. any of several fragrant flowers of the genus Dianthus, as the carnation or clove pink.
- globeflower — any of several plants belonging to the genus Trollius, of the buttercup family, as T. laxus, of North America, having rounded, yellowish flowers.
- go flatline — [Cyberpunk SF, refers to flattening of EEG traces upon brain-death] also "flatlined". 1. To die, terminate, or fail, especially irreversibly. In hacker parlance, this is used of machines only, human death being considered somewhat too serious a matter to employ jargon-jokes about. 2. To go completely quiescent; said of machines undergoing controlled shutdown. "You can suffer file damage if you shut down Unix but power off before the system has gone flatline." 3. Of a video tube, to fail by losing vertical scan, so all one sees is a bright horizontal line bisecting the screen.
- goose flesh — goose bumps.
- grandiflora — any of several plant varieties or hybrids characterized by large showy flowers, as certain kinds of petunias, baby's breath, or roses.
- granny flat — a self-contained living area within a single-family home, as for an aging parent.
- green flash — a green coloration of the upper portion of the sun, caused by atmospheric refraction and occasionally seen as the sun rises above or sinks below the horizon.
- halleflinta — a type of rock, volcanic or metamorphic in origin, that has a fine grain
- harvest fly — cicada
- hessian fly — a small fly, Phytophaga destructor, the larvae of which feed on the stems of wheat and other grasses.
- hidden flag — (scientific computation) An extra option added to a routine without changing the calling sequence. For example, instead of adding an explicit input variable to instruct a routine to give extra diagnostic output, the programmer might just add a test for some otherwise meaningless feature of the existing inputs, such as a negative mass. The use of hidden flags can make a program very hard to debug and understand, but is all too common wherever programs are hacked in a hurry.
- high-flying — moving upward to or along at a considerable height: highflying planes.
- hot flushes — a sudden unpleasant hot feeling in the skin, caused by endocrine imbalance, esp experienced by women at menopause
- ice flowers — formations of ice crystals on the surface of a still, slowly freezing body of water.
- inflammable — capable of being set on fire; combustible; flammable.
- inflammably — In an inflammable manner.
- inflammated — (nonstandard) Inflamed.
- inflatables — Plural form of inflatable.