9-letter words starting with fla
- flannelet — a warm, soft cotton fabric, plain or printed, napped on one side.
- flannelly — made of or resembling flannel.
- flap door — Also called falling door. a door hinged at the bottom so as to fall downward and outward.
- flapjacks — Plural form of flapjack; pancakes.
- flappable — easily upset or confused, especially under stress.
- flaptrack — (in an aircraft wing) a track along which the wing flap runs when it is being deployed
- flareback — a blast of flame that sometimes issues from the breech of a large gun or cannon when it is opened after firing.
- flaringly — In a flaring manner.
- flash gun — a device that simultaneously discharges a flashbulb and operates a camera shutter.
- flash mob — a group of people mobilized by social media to meet in a public place for the purpose of doing an unusual or entertaining activity of short duration: The flash mob brought wide smiles to the faces of commuters waiting for their train.
- flash rom — Flash Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
- flash set — undesirably rapid setting of cement in concrete
- flash-fry — to fry something very quickly by placing it in a pan on a very high heat
- flashback — a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which an event or scene taking place before the present time in the narrative is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.
- flashbang — Alternative form of flash-bang.
- flashbulb — a glass bulb, filled with oxygen and aluminum or zirconium wire or foil, which, when ignited electrically, burns with a brilliant flash to provide momentary illumination of a subject.
- flashcard — a card having words, numerals, or pictures on it, designed for gaining a rapid response from pupils when held up briefly by a teacher, used especially in reading, arithmetic, or vocabulary drills.
- flashcube — a cube, for attaching to a camera, that contains a flashbulb in each vertical side and rotates automatically for taking four flash pictures in succession.
- flashguns — Plural form of flashgun.
- flashiest — Superlative form of flash.
- flashlamp — an electric lamp, usually containing xenon or another noble gas, used to produce a brief flash or pulsed flashes of intense light, such as that used in a camera flash
- flashness — Quality of being flash.
- flashover — Electricity. a disruptive discharge around or over the surface of a solid or liquid insulator.
- flashtube — electronic flash.
- flat arch — an arch having a more or less flat intrados and extrados with voussoirs radiating from a center below the arch.
- flat back — a book spine presenting a completely flat surface.
- flat bond — a bond that is traded without accrued interest as part of the price.
- flat feet — feet affected by a condition in which the entire sole of the foot is able to touch the ground because of flattening of the instep arch
- flat file — (operating system, storage) A single file containing flat ASCII representing or encoding some structure, e.g. a database, tree or network. Flat files can be processed with general purpose tools such as Perl and text editors but are less efficient than binary files if they must be parsed repeatedly by a program. Flat files are more portable between different operating systems and application programs than binary files, and are more easily transmitted in electronic mail. See also flatten, sharchive.
- flat foot — flat footed person
- flat head — a flat screw head.
- flat knot — reef knot.
- flat pack — Flat pack furniture is furniture such as shelves and cupboards which you buy as a number of separate pieces and assemble yourself.
- flat race — a race run on a level track having no hurdles, water jumps, hedges, or the like to hinder the speed of the entrants.
- flat rate — single, fixed fee
- flat sour — fermentation occurring in canned foods after sealing.
- flat spin — an aircraft spin in which the longitudinal axis is more nearly horizontal than vertical
- flat spot — a region of poor acceleration over a narrow range of throttle openings, caused by a weak mixture in the carburettor
- flat tire — a pneumatic tire that has lost all or most of its air through leakage, puncture, or the like.
- flat-file — noting or pertaining to a database system in which each database consists of a single file not linked to any other file.
- flat-knit — (of a fabric) made by flat knitting.
- flat-pick — to play (an instrument) by plucking its strings with a flat pick.
- flatboats — Plural form of flatboat.
- flatbread — Also, flatbrod [flat-brohd] /ˈflæt broʊd/ (Show IPA). a thin, waferlike bread, usually rye, baked especially in Scandinavian countries.
- flatfoots — Plural form of flatfoot.
- flatheads — Plural form of flathead.
- flatirons — Plural form of flatiron.
- flatlands — A terrain that varies little in elevation.
- flatlined — Simple past tense and past participle of flatline.
- flatliner — (rare) A patient with no heartbeat.