| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| flabellation | noun | The act of keeping fractured limbs cool by the use of a fan or some other contrivance. |
| flabelliform | adjective | Having the form of a fan; fan-shaped; flabellate. |
| flagellating | present participle & vb. noun | of Flagellate |
| flagellation | noun | A beating or flogging; a whipping; a scourging. |
| flagelliform | adjective | Shaped like a whiplash; long, slender, round, flexible, and (comming) tapering. |
| flammability | noun | The quality of being flammable; inflammability. |
| flammiferous | adjective | Producing flame. |
| flammivomous | adjective | Vomiting flames, as a volcano. |
| flap-mouthed | adjective | Having broad, hangling lips. |
| flatteringly | adverb | With flattery. |
| fleur-de-lis | noun | The iris. See Flower-de-luce., A conventional flower suggested by the iris, and having a form which fits it for the terminal decoration of a scepter, the ornaments of a crown, etc. It is also a heraldic bearing, and is identified with the royal arms and adornments of France. |
| flexicostate | adjective | Having bent or curved ribs. |
| flickeringly | adverb | In a flickering manner. |
| flickermouse | noun | See Flittermouse. |
| flindermouse | noun | A bat; a flittermouse. |
| flippantness | noun | State or quality of being flippant. |
| flittermouse | noun | A bat; — called also flickermouse, flindermouse, and flintymouse. |
| flocculating | present participle & vb. noun | of Flocculate |
| flocculation | noun | The process by which small particles of fine soils and sediments aggregate into larger lumps. |
| floriculture | noun | The cultivation of flowering plants. |
| florida bean | The large, roundish, flattened seed of Mucuna urens. See under Bean., One of the very large seeds of the Entada scandens. | |
| floscularian | noun | One of a group of stalked rotifers, having ciliated tentacles around the lobed disk. |
| flower-fence | noun | A tropical leguminous bush (Poinciana, / Caesalpinia, pulcherrima) with prickly branches, and showy yellow or red flowers; — so named from its having been sometimes used for hedges in the West Indies. |
| fluctiferous | adjective | Tending to produce waves. |
| fluctisonous | adjective | Sounding like waves. |
| fluoranthene | noun | A white crystalline hydrocarbon C/H/, of a complex structure, found as one ingrdient of the higher boiling portion of coal tar. |
| fluorescence | noun | That property which some transparent bodies have of producing at their surface, or within their substance, light different in color from the mass of the material, as when green crystals of fluor spar afford blue reflections. It is due not to the difference in the color of a distinct surface layer, but to the power which the substance has of modifying the light incident upon it. The light emitted by fluorescent substances is in general of lower refrangibility than the incident light. |
| fluosilicate | noun | A double fluoride of silicon and some other (usually basic) element or radical, regarded as a salt of fluosilicic acid; — called also silicofluoride. |
| flusteration | noun | The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered; fluster. |
| flutteringly | adverb | In a fluttering manner. |
| fly-catching | adjective | Having the habit of catching insects on the wing. |
| floatiersman | noun | A man living on the frontier. |