13-letter words starting with fl
- 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).
- floral emblem — a flower or plant serving as the emblem of a city, state, nation, etc.
- florianopolis — a state in S Brazil. 36,856 sq. mi. (95,455 sq. km). Capital: Florianópolis.
- floricultural — Of or pertaining to floriculture.
- floristically — In a floristic manner.
- flourishingly — In a flourishing way; tending to succeed and grow.
- floutingstock — a laughing-stock; the object of mockery or flouting
- flow cleavage — cleavage resulting from the parallel alignment of the mineral constituents of a rock when in a plastic condition.
- flow function — The flow function is the relationship between the strength of a compact and the degree of compaction.
- flower beetle — any of numerous, usually brightly colored beetles, as of the families Malachiidae and Dasytidae, that live on flowers and are predaceous on other insects.
- flower garden — plot for flowers
- flower people — (esp during the 1960s) young people whose behaviour, dress, use of drugs, etc implied a rejection of conventional values, and who used flowers to symbolize peace and naturalness
- flower seller — a person who sells flowers for a living, usually from a stall in the street
- flower-pecker — any of numerous small, arboreal, usually brightly colored oscine birds of the family Dicaeidae, of southeastern Asia and Australia.
- flowering ash — a variety of ash tree that produces conspicuous flowers
- fluctuational — Of, pertaining to, or resulting from fluctuation(s).
- flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
- fluid-extract — a liquid preparation, containing alcohol as a solvent or as a preservative, that contains in each cubic centimeter the medicinal activity of one gram of the crude drug in powdered form.
- fluidized bed — a bed of fluidized solids used as a heat exchanger or mass transfer medium
- flunitrazepam — a powerful benzodiazepine sedative, C 16 H 12 FN 3 O 3 , that causes semiconsciousness and memory blackouts: has been implicated in date rapes and is illegal in the U.S.
- fluophosphate — fluorophosphate.
- fluorescently — In a fluorescent manner; using fluorescence.
- fluoroacetate — a toxic chemical compound, C2H2FNaO2, occurring naturally in certain plants, and commonly used as rat poison
- fluorocarbons — Plural form of fluorocarbon.
- fluorochromes — Plural form of fluorochrome.
- fluorographic — of or pertaining to fluorography
- fluorohydride — (inorganic chemistry) An compound formed by the addition of the elements of hydrogen fluoride.
- fluoroplastic — any of the plastics, as Teflon, in which hydrogen atoms of the hydrocarbon chains are replaced by fluorine atoms.
- fluoroscoping — Present participle of fluoroscope.
- fluoroscopist — One who carries out fluoroscopy.
- flutter wheel — a waterwheel at the bottom of a chute, turned by the falling water.
- flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
- fly fisherman — one who fishes by fly-casting
- flying boxcar — a large airplane designed to carry cargo.
- flying 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.
- flying circus — a squadron of airplanes operating together, especially any of several squadrons of famous World War I aviators.
- flying colors — with flying colors, with an overwhelming victory, triumph, or success: He passed the test with flying colors.
- flying column — (formerly) a force of troops equipped and organized to move swiftly and independently of a principal unit to which it is attached.
- flying doctor — a doctor listed with local authorities as willing to be flown to remote areas to give emergency medical care.
- flying dragon — any of several arboreal lizards of the genus Draco, having an extensible membrane between the limbs along each side by means of which it makes long, gliding leaps.
- flying lizard — flying dragon.
- flying picket — (in industrial disputes) a member of a group of pickets organized to be able to move quickly from place to place
- flying saucer — any of various disk-shaped objects allegedly seen flying at high speeds and altitudes, often with extreme changes in speed and direction, and thought by some to be manned by intelligent beings from outer space.
- flying tackle — a tackle made by hurling one's body through the air at the player carrying the ball.