10-letter words starting with fl
- flood lamp — a floodlight.
- flood tide — the inflow of the tide; rising tide.
- flood wall — Civil Engineering. a wall built along a shore or bank to prevent floods by giving a raised, uniform freeboard and by allowing unimpeded flow to water in a channel.
- floodgates — Plural form of floodgate.
- floodlamps — Plural form of floodlamp.
- floodlight — an artificial light so directed or diffused as to give a comparatively uniform illumination over a rather large given area.
- floodmarks — Plural form of floodmark.
- floodplain — a nearly flat plain along the course of a stream or river that is naturally subject to flooding.
- floodwalls — Plural form of floodwall.
- floodwater — the water that overflows as the result of a flood.
- floor area — an area of floor or its dimensions
- floor lamp — a tall lamp designed to stand on the floor.
- floor loom — a loom in which the harnesses are moved by treadles, leaving the weaver's hands free to operate the shuttle.
- floor plan — a diagram of one room, apartment, or entire floor of a building, usually drawn to scale.
- floor show — a nightclub entertainment typically consisting of a series of singing, dancing, and often comedy acts.
- floor-work — a sequence of exercises done at the beginning of a class or before a performance in sitting and supine positions on the floor in order to stretch and warm up the body.
- floorboard — any of the boards composing a floor.
- floorcloth — a cloth for washing or wiping floors.
- floorcover — material, especially a nonfabric material, as linoleum, vinyl tile, or ceramic tile, used to cover a floor.
- floordrobe — a pile of clothes left on the floor of a room
- floorshift — a gearshift set into the floor of an automotive vehicle.
- floorshows — Plural form of floorshow.
- flop sweat — a sudden heavy perspiration caused by embarrassment
- flop-eared — having long, drooping ears, as a hound.
- flophouses — Plural form of flophouse.
- floppiness — tending to flop.
- florentine — of or relating to Florence, Italy: the Florentine poets of the 14th century.
- flores sea — a sea between Sulawesi and the Lesser Sunda Islands in Indonesia. About 180 miles (290 km) wide.
- florescent — the act, state, or period of flowering; bloom.
- floriation — Ornamentation by means of flower forms, either realistic or stylized.
- floribunda — any of a class of roses characterized by a long blooming period and the production of large flowers often in thick clusters.
- florideous — belonging to the Florideae family of algae, or having the characteristics thereof
- floridness — The quality of being florid.
- florigenic — of or relating to the plant hormone florigen
- florilegia — Plural form of florilegium.
- florissant — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- floristics — the study of the distribution, number, types, and relationships of plant species in an area or areas.
- flos ferri — a variety of aragonite that is deposited from hot springs in the form of a white branching mass
- flosculous — (botany) Consisting of many gamopetalous florets.
- floss hole — a hole in a puddling furnace for the removal of ash or slag.
- flotations — Plural form of flotation.
- floundered — to struggle with stumbling or plunging movements (usually followed by about, along, on, through, etc.): He saw the child floundering about in the water.
- flounderer — One who flounders, who behaves clumsily without direction.
- flour mill — a mill for grinding grain into flour.
- flour mite — any of several mites that infest flour and other stored organic materials and may be a serious pest; some may cause itching in persons handling infected material
- flour moth — larva of butterfly that feeds on grain
- flourished — to be in a vigorous state; thrive: a period in which art flourished.
- flourisher — One who flourishes.
- flourishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flourish.
- flow chart — Also called flow sheet. a detailed diagram or chart of the operations and equipment through which material passes, as in a manufacturing process.