10-letter words starting with fl
- flustering — Agitated, confusing.
- flustrated — flustered; agitated.
- flutemouth — any of several fish with a tubular snout
- fluttering — Rapid back-and-forth waving or oscillation.
- fluvialist — a person who explains geological or geographical phenomena by the action of streams
- fluviatile — pertaining or peculiar to rivers; found in or near rivers.
- fluxionist — a person who uses mathematical fluxions
- fluxuating — Misspelling of fluctuating.
- fly a kite — If you say that someone is flying a kite, you are critical of them for putting forward new ideas just to see how people react, rather than with the intention of putting those ideas into practice.
- fly agaric — a very poisonous common woodland mushroom, Amanita muscaria, having a glossy red or orange cap with white spots, formerly a fly poison.
- fly button — a button on the fly of a pair of trousers
- fly killer — a device or chemical substance used to kill flying insects
- fly orchid — a European orchid, Ophrys insectifera, whose flowers resemble and attract certain wasps: found in wood margins and scrub on lime-rich soils
- fly-bridge — Also called flybridge, fly bridge, monkey bridge. Nautical. a small, often open deck or platform above the pilothouse or main cabin, having duplicate controls and navigational equipment.
- fly-strike — myiasis.
- fly-tipper — a person who deliberately dumps rubbish in an unauthorized place
- flycatcher — any of numerous Old World birds of the family Muscicapidae, that feed on insects captured in the air.
- flying fox — any large fruit bat of the genus Pteropus, of Old World tropical regions, having a foxlike head.
- flying jib — the outer or outermost of two or more jibs, set well above the jib boom.
- flyingfish — any of a family (Exocoetidae, order Atheriniformes) of chiefly warm-water, marine bony fishes with winglike pectoral fins that enable them to glide through the air
- flypitcher — a person who has a flypitch
- flyposting — the posting of advertising or political bills, posters, etc in unauthorized places
- flyscreens — Plural form of flyscreen.
- flyspeck 3 — (humour) A standard name for any font that is so tiny as to be unreadable, by analogy with names like "Helvetica 10" for 10-point Helvetica. Legal boilerplate is usually printed in Flyspeck 3.
- flyspecked — Covered with flyspecks.
- flyswatter — A hand-held device for swatting flies or other insects, to kill or shoo them.
- flytipping — Alternative form of fly-tipping.
- flyweights — Plural form of flyweight.