English words: flinty to flog a dead horse

300 English words, part 44 of 85 of the words starting with F, A to Z. 35 have a page of their own.

English words flinty to flog a dead horse

flinty adjective /ˈflɪnti/: Resembling or containing flint; hard like flint.
flinty-eyed adjective: Alternative form of flint-eyed.
flip adjective, interjection, noun, verb /flɪp/: A maneuver which rotates an object end over end.
flip book noun: A booklet containing a sequence of near-identical images so that flipping rapidly through the pages produces an illusion of animation.
flip chart noun: A large pad, usually supported on a stand, used for (typically handwritten) presentations.
flip chip noun: A method for interconnecting semiconductor devices to external circuitry with solder bumps that have been deposited onto the chip pads.
flip clock noun: An electromechanical, digital time keeping device with the time indicated by numbers that are sequentially revealed by a split-flap display.
flip cup noun: A team-based drinking game in which players attempt to flip the cup after drinking so that it lands with its rim downward.
flip-disc display noun: An electromechanical dot matrix display with a grid of small metal discs, coloured on one side, that can be flipped to form text characters or graphics.
flip-disk display noun: Alternative form of flip-disc display.
flip dog noun: A heated iron used to warm flip (the drink).
flip-dot display noun: Synonym of flip-disc display.
flip-flap adverb, noun, verb /flɪp.flæp/: To flop or flap about.
flip flop noun, verb /ˈflɪpˌflɒp/: A sandal consisting of a rubber sole fastened to the foot by a rubber thong fitting between the toes and around the sides of the foot.
flip-flop operator noun: An operator specifying a range of conditions, such that the related code executes only if the first condition is true, and only until the second condition...
flip-floppery noun: The act or tendency of flip-flopping; wafflery.
flip-floppy adjective: Tending to flip-flop, to alternate back and forth between opinions or decisions.
flip-in noun: A poison pill giving current shareholders of the targeted company the right to purchase additional stock at a discount before a potential takeover, so that...
flip of the coin noun: coin toss
flip off verb: To make a rude or obscene gesture at someone.
flip on its head verb: Alternative form of turn on its head.
flip one's lid verb: To become explosively angry, to lose one's temper.
flip one's wig verb: To become very angry.
flip out adjective, noun, verb: To become very angry or upset.
flip over verb: To turn upside down.
flip phone noun: A mobile telephone with a hinged top that is flipped open when the phone is in use.
flip-screen adjective: Not scrolling, but composed of linked screens between which the player can travel.
flip side noun: The reverse, in contrast to the obverse.
flip smartphone noun: A flip phone with more advanced features and greater computing capacity than those of the traditional feature phone variety; a smart flip phone.
flip teaching noun: Synonym of flipped learning.
flip the bird verb: To make a rude or obscene gesture (at somebody); particularly, to extend the middle finger.
flip the kipper noun: A parlour game in which players race paper fish by fanning them with air.
flip the lid verb: Alternative form of flip one's lid.
flip the script verb: To reverse a situation, especially by doing something unexpected.
flip through verb: Synonym of thumb (“to turn the pages of (a book) in order to read it cursorily”).
flip throw noun: An unusual throw-in in which the player, during the run-up, plants the ball on the ground, flips over it, and uses the momentum gained from the flip to...
flip-top adjective: Having a lid or covering that flips open.
flip turn noun: Synonym of tumble turn.
flip-up adjective: Of sunglasses: having lenses that can be pushed upward and out of the frame, so that the glasses need not be removed in darker areas such as indoors.
flip-ups noun: flip-up sunglasses
flip wipe noun: Synonym of flipover.
flipboard noun: A set of cards hinged together on an easel, used in making presentations.
flipbook noun: Alternative spelling of flip book.
flipcard noun: Synonym of flashcard (“card to aid memorization, with a cue on one side and a response on the other”).
flipchart noun: Alternative spelling of flip chart.
flipe noun, verb: Alternative form of flype (“a fold or flap”).
flipflash noun: A kind of flash unit for a camera, providing a certain number of flashes before needing to be flipped over and reinserted to use the remainder.
flipflop noun, verb: Alternative form of flip-flop.
flipism noun: A pseudophilosophy under which all decisions are made at random, as if by flipping a coin.
flipless adjective: Without a flip.
fliply adverb: In a flip manner.
flipness noun: The quality of being flip.
flipnote noun, verb: A low-resolution, originally duotone, flipbook-style animation created in the Nintendo application Flipnote Studio.
flipon noun: An altered conformation of a nucleic acid chain
flipout adjective, noun: An instance of a person becoming very angry or upset.
flipover noun: A screen wipe effect resembling the turning of the page of a book.
flippable adjective: Able to be flipped.
flippance noun: Alternative form of flippancy.
flippancy noun /ˈflɪ.pən.si/: A disrespectful levity or pertness especially in respect to grave or sacred matters.
flippant adjective /ˈflɪp.ənt/: Showing disrespect through a casual attitude, levity, and a lack of due seriousness; pert.
flippantly adverb /ˈflɪp.ənt.li/: In a flippant manner.
flippantness noun: The quality of being flippant.
flippase noun: Any enzyme located in the membrane responsible for aiding the movement of phospholipid molecules between the two leaflets that compose a cell's membrane...
flipped classroom noun: A classroom that uses the flipped learning system of education.
flipped learning noun: A system of education in which students learn new material by watching video lectures outside the classroom, and what used to be homework (assigned...
flipped mastery noun: The combination of flipped learning and mastery learning.
Flippen proper noun: A surname.
flippening noun: The event of a cryptocurrency becoming dominant over another cryptocurrency or traditional currency.
flipper noun, verb /ˈflɪpə/: In marine mammals such as whales (or other secondarily aquatic animals such as sea turtles), a wide, flat limb adapted for swimming.
flipperdinger noun: A toy consisting of a reed tube with a hole of a certain shape coming out one side. When the user blows into it, the air exiting the hole serves to levitate...
flippered adjective, verb: Having flippers.
flipperless adjective: Without flippers.
flipperlike adjective: Resembling a flipper (appendage in marine mammals).
flipperling noun /ˈflɪpəlɪŋ/: A young seal.
flipperty-flopperty adjective: Moving loosely back and forth; floppy.
flippery adjective: Resembling or characteristic of flippers.
flippety-floppety adjective: Alternative form of flipperty-flopperty.
flipphone noun: Alternative form of flip phone.
-flippin'- infix, verb: Pronunciation spelling of flipping.
flipping adjective, adverb, infix, noun, verb /ˈflɪpɪŋ/: A mild intensifier; a minced oath of "fucking".
flipping Nora interjection: Synonym of bloody Nora (slightly milder than it).
flippity-flop adjective: Alternative form of flipperty-flopperty.
flippity-floppity adjective: Alternative form of flipperty-flopperty.
flipple verb: To flip, flop, or fumble (through) repeatedly
Flippo proper noun: A surname.
flippy adjective, noun /ˈflɪpi/: Having a tendency to flip.
flippy disc noun: Alternative spelling of flippy disk.
flippy disk noun: An 8-inch or 5.25-inch floppy diskette that has been modified to be double-sided, allowing data storage on both sides of the disk.
flippy diskette noun: A flippy disk.
flippy-flop noun: A flip-flop.
flippy-floppy adjective, noun: Floppy.
flippy skirt noun: A skirt with a hem that turns upward slightly.
flipside noun /ˈflɪpˌsaɪd/: The reverse, in contrast to the obverse.
fliptastic adjective: Amazing, spectacular.
fliptop adjective: Alternative form of flip-top.
FLIR noun: Acronym of forward-looking infrared, a thermal imaging technology.
flirt adjective, noun, verb /flɜːt/: A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion
flirt-gill noun: A flirtatious, promiscuous, or loose woman.
flirtable adjective: Suitable for flirting with.
flirtaholic noun: Someone who is addicted to flirting.
flirtation noun /fləˈteɪʃn̩/: Playing at courtship; coquetry.
flirtational adjective: Of or relating to flirtation.
flirtationless adjective: Without flirtation.
flirtationship noun: Flirtation.
flirtatious adjective /flɚˈteɪʃəs/: Of or pertaining to flirtation.
flirtatiously adverb: In a flirtatious manner.
flirtatiousness noun: The quality of being flirtatious
flirtee noun: Someone who is flirted with; the target of flirtation.
flirter noun: One who flirts.
flirtery noun: flirtation
flirtigig noun: A flirtatious or cheeky girl.
flirtily adverb: In a flirty manner.
flirtiness noun: The quality of being flirty.
flirting noun, verb: A flirtation.
flirtingly adverb: In a flirting manner.
flirtini noun: A cocktail of vodka, champagne and pineapple juice.
flirtish adjective: of the nature of, or characterizing a flirt
flirtishly adverb: in a flirty manner
flirtishness noun: The quality of being flirtish.
flirtship noun: A friendship which involves flirting but that has not yet progressed into a serious relationship.
flirtsome adjective: Marked by flirting; flirtatious
flirty adjective /ˈflɜːti/: Flirting, or seeming to flirt.
flisk noun, verb /flɪsk/: A caper; a spring; a whim.
flisky adjective: Frisky; inclined to flisk (frisk) or caper.
Fliss proper noun: A diminutive of the female given name Felicity.
flist noun: Abbreviation of friends list.
flit adjective, noun, verb /flɪt/: A fluttering or darting movement.
flitch noun, verb /flɪtʃ/: The flank or side of an animal, now almost exclusively a pig when cured and salted; a side of bacon.
flite noun, verb: a quarrel, dispute, wrangling.
fliting noun, verb: Alternative form of flyting.
flitsome adjective: Characterised or marked by flitting
flitter noun, verb /ˈflɪtɚ/: To scatter in pieces.
flitter-mouse noun: Alternative form of flittermouse.
flitterbat noun: A bat (flying mammal).
flittering noun, verb: The motion of something that flitters.
flitterjigs noun: An item of clothing that is in tatters or ribbons.
flittermouse noun: A bat (a flying mammal).
flittern noun: The bark obtained from young oak trees.
flittery adjective: flitty
flittiness noun: The quality of being flitty; unsteadiness.
flitting adjective, noun, verb /ˈflɪtɪŋ/: gerund of flit: the motion of something that flits.
flittingly adverb: With a flitting motion.
Flitton proper noun: A village in Flitton and Greenfield parish, Central Bedfordshire borough, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL0535).
flitty adjective /ˈflɪti/: unstable, fluttering.
Flitwick proper noun /ˈflɪtɪk/: A town and civil parish in Central Bedfordshire district, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL0334).
flitwite noun: In Saxon and old English law, a fine imposed for fighting or quarrelling.
fliver noun /ˈflɪvɚ/: Alternative spelling of flivver.
flivver noun /ˈflɪv.ɚ/: An automobile or cart, particularly one which is old and inexpensive.
flix noun /flɪks/: The soft fur of some animals, especially the beaver.
flixel noun: An image, that combines a photo, and a video element that is looped to give the illusion of movement.
Flixton proper noun: A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SJ7494).
flixweed noun: A tall, herbaceous flowering plant, Descurainia sophia, related to mustard
flizz adjective, noun, verb /flɪz/: Baloney, empty words.
FLK noun: Initialism of funny-looking kid (“a child with possible abnormal morphology”).
FLN proper noun: The National Liberation Front political party (of various countries, but chiefly associated with Algeria).
FLO noun: Pronunciation spelling of floor, representing African-American Vernacular English.
FLO/FLO noun: Abbreviation of float-on float-off.
float noun, verb /fləʊt/: To be supported by a fluid of greater density (than the object).
float around verb: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see float, around.
float at verb: To present or make available (something) to (someone); offer, especially prospectively.
float board noun: One of the boards fixed radially to the rim of an undershot water wheel or a steamer's paddle wheel; a vane.
float glass noun: Glass in the form of flat sheets, made by floating molten glass on the surface of molten metal; currently the main method of producing window glass.
float like a butterfly verb: To move effortlessly and in an agile fashion.
float on air verb: Synonym of walk on air (“to be ecstatic”).
float-on float-off noun: A form of marine vessel which allows large floating objects (such as other ships, or oil platforms, etc) to be floated atop and floated off the ship's...
float someone's boat verb: To interest or appeal to someone; to make someone happy.
float switch noun: A sensor that detects the level of liquid in a tank and can react to changes in the measurement.
float tank noun: An isolation tank.
float tube noun: A small, lightweight inflatable fishing craft.
float with the stream verb: Synonym of go with the flow.
float-zone silicon noun: a very pure form of crystalline silicon, made by vertical zone melting
floatability noun: The condition of being floatable
floatable adjective, noun: That may be floated.
floatage noun: Alternative form of flotage.
floatant adjective, noun: Alternative form of flotant.
floatbase noun: An airport for floatplanes.
floatboard noun: A board on the rim of an undershot water wheel on which the water acts and moves the wheel.
floatel noun: Alternative form of flotel.
floater noun /ˈfləʊtə/: A person who physically floats in a gas or liquid.
floatie noun: Alternative spelling of floaty (“object that floats on water and can be lain or sat on; one of a pair of inflatable plastic bands to help the wearer float...
floatily adverb: In a floaty manner.
floatin' verb: Pronunciation spelling of floating.
floatiness noun: The quality of being floaty.
floating adjective, noun, verb /ˈfloʊtɪŋ/: That floats or float.
floating academy noun: Those ships on which criminals were subjected to transportation or (later) to hard labor.
floating beacon noun: A lightship.
floating bog noun: A mat of bog vegetation which floats on the surface of water; a quaking bog.
floating bridge noun: A bridge of rafts or beams of timber lying on the surface of the water.
floating bus stop noun: A bus stop separated from the sidewalk by a cycle lane.
floating car data noun: A method to determine the traffic speed on a road network by monitoring the geolocations of drivers' mobile phones.
floating cellular data noun: Synonym of floating car data.
floating collar noun: Synonym of flotation collar (“any piece of equipment designed to help a person stay afloat in water and reduce the risk of drowning”)
floating dock noun: a dry dock which can float, and is submersible when a ship is entering or leaving it.
floating feeling noun: A combined feeling of light-headedness and dizziness, as if floating.
floating garden noun: Synonym of chinampa.
floating gold noun: ambergris
floating ground noun: A reference point for electric potential in a circuit which is not connected to the actual earth ground.
Floating-Harbor syndrome noun: A rare disease characterized by the triad of proportionate short stature with delayed bone age, characteristic facial appearance, and delayed speech...
floating heart noun: An aquatic flowering plant of the genus Nymphoides, having heart-shaped leaves that float on the water.
floating island noun: An aggregation of driftwood and roots, or vegetation, capable of bearing soil, which floats on the surface of (bog or lake) water or is floated out from a...
floating kidney noun: nephroptosis
floating light noun: A ship, bearing a light, moored on sunken rocks to warn sailors of danger.
floating market noun: A market where goods are sold from boats, chiefly found in Southeast and South Asia.
floating panel noun: A construction technique where the panel is set into grooves in the frame, not glued or nailed solid, allowing it to expand and contract with humidity changes.
floating point adjective: Of a number, written in two parts as a mantissa (also called significand, the value of the significant digits) and characteristic (order of magnitude / the...
floating-point number noun: A number written in the form a × bᶜ, e.g. 3.75 × 10³ (a being the mantissa, b, the base and c, the exponent).
floating point operation noun: Any simple operation, such as addition, multiplication or division, performed on floating point numbers using a single operation.
floating point processor noun: Synonym of floating-point unit.
floating-point unit noun: A microprocessor that performs floating-point arithmetic. In older models of computer the FPU was not integrated into the central processing unit, but...
floating rate noun: A rate, usually interest or exchange values, that moves up and down with the rest of the market or along with an index.
floating rib noun: Either of the two lowermost (the eleventh and twelfth) pairs of ribs, which are attached only to the vertebrae and not to the sternum or its cartilage.
floating screed noun: A strip of plastering laid on first, to serve as a guide for the thickness of the coat.
floating signifier noun: A signifier–that is, a linguistic sign, a label or slogan–with a vague and variable meaning.
floating tone noun: A morpheme or element of a morpheme that contains no consonants or vowels, but only tone. It cannot be pronounced by itself, but affects the tones of...
floating vote noun: A vote held by a floating voter, and therefore unpredictable.
floating voter noun: a person who does not always vote for the same political party, but usually decides on the basis of policies.
floating wind turbine noun: An offshore wind turbine mounted on a floating structure that allows the turbine to generate electricity in water depths where fixed-foundation turbines are...
floating wood tile noun: Multi-layer synthetic flooring product fused together with a lamination process and simulating wood.
floatingheart noun: Alternative form of floating heart (“aquatic flowering plant”) (Nymphoides spp.)
floatingly adverb: In a floating manner; so as to float or to appear to float.
floatless adjective: Without a float.
floatline noun: Synonym of corkline.
floatmaker noun: A builder of floats (decorated trailers or vehicles for display in a parade or pageant).
floatover noun: A marine construction in which an upper structure is prebuilt and then floated into position over a lower part, often used for offshore oil rigs.
floatovoltaic adjective: Of or referring to a photovoltaic cell designed to float in a water environment.
floatovoltaics noun: The technology of photovoltaic cells that float in a water environment.
floatplane noun: A seaplane that has floats for landing or taking off from the water.
floatsam noun: Alternative form of flotsam.
floatsome adjective, noun: Alternative form of flotsam.
floatstick noun: A device used to measure the fuel level on modern aircraft.
floatstone noun: A kind of calcareous rock, more than 10% of which is made up of grains larger than two millimetres, and which is matrix-supported.
floaty adjective, noun /ˈfləʊti/: Tending to float on a liquid or to rise in air or a gas; buoyant.
flob noun, verb /flɒb/: Spittle or phlegm, especially a piece of spittle or phlegm that has been spat out.
flobber noun, verb: To sag and wobble.
flobbering noun, verb: The action of the verb flobber.
flobby adjective: full of saliva
Flobert noun: A small rimfire cartridge designed for target shooting.
floc noun, verb /flɒk/: A floccule; a soft or fluffy particle suspended in a liquid, or the fluffy mass of suspended particles so formed.
flocc noun: Alternative spelling of floc.
floccillation noun: Picking at the bedclothes, usually seen in delirious, feverish or dying people.
floccinaucinihilipilificate verb /ˌflɒk.sɪˌnɒs.ɪˌnɪ.hɪl.ɪˈpɪl.ɪ.fɪ.keɪt/: To describe, estimate or regard something as worthless.
floccinaucinihilipilification noun /ˌflɒksɪˌnɔːsɪˌnɪhɪlɪˌpɪlɪfɪˈkeɪʃn/: The act or habit of describing or regarding something as unimportant, of having no value or being worthless.
floccinaucinihilipilificatious adjective /ˌflɒksɪˌnɔːsɪˌnaɪhɪlɪˌpɪlɪfɪˈkeɪʃəs/: unimportant, worthless
floccipend verb: To regard or consider as worthless.
floccose adjective: Covered or growing in wooly tufts
floccosely adverb: In a floccose manner.
floccosity noun: The quality of being floccose.
flocculable adjective: Capable of flocculation.
flocculant adjective, noun: A flocculating agent
floccular adjective: Of or pertaining to the flocculus.
flocculate adjective, noun, verb: To collect (suspended particles, sediment, etc.) into loose, fluffy aggregations resembling tufts of wool.
flocculated adjective: Collected together in a loose aggregation like flocks (tufts) of wool, or coagulated in this way.
flocculation noun /ˌflɒkjʊˈlɛɪ̯ʃən/: A condition in which clays, polymers or other small charged particles become attached and form a fragile structure, a floc.
flocculator noun: A machine that induces flocculation.
floccule noun: A small, loosely aggregated mass of material suspended in, or precipitated from a solution; a floc.
flocculectomy noun: excision of a floccule of the brain
flocculence noun: The condition of being flocculent; wooliness, flakiness.
flocculency noun: The quality of being flocculent.
flocculent adjective, noun /ˈflɒk.jə.lənt/: Flocculated, resembling bits of wool; woolly.
flocculent spiral galaxy noun: a spiral galaxy with discontinuous spiral arms
flocculently adverb: In a flocculent manner.
flocculin noun: Any of a family of cell surface adhesins
flocculonodular adjective / flɒkjʊ.l.ənɒˈd.jʊlə/: Pertaining to the nodule and flocculus of the cerebellum.
flocculonodular lobe noun: A lobe of the cerebellum consisting of the nodule and the flocculus.
flocculose adjective: Having very small wooly tufts
flocculus noun: A small fluffy tuft.
floccus noun: A cloud species which consists of rounded tufts of cloud, often formed by dissipation from larger cloud species. Associated with cirrus, cirrocumulus,...
Floch proper noun: A surname.
flochetage noun: An artistic technique in which, instead of using areas of pure and clearly-separated colors, an artist interlaces, overlaps and blends large flakes or loose...
flock noun, verb /flɒk/: A large number of animals associated together in a group; commonly used of sheep, but (dated) also used for goats or other livestock animals, or sometimes...
flock paper noun: Wallpaper coated with flock, fixed with glue or size.
flock together verb: To come together in large numbers, like a flock; to join with others who are similar to oneself.
flock worker's lung noun: An occupational lung disease caused by exposure to flock, small fibers that are glued to a backing in order to create a texture.
flocked adjective, verb: Of a bristle, having split, bushy ends.
flocker noun: One who or that which flocks; a bird species that forms flocks.
flockful noun: The amount that constitutes a flock (of birds, people etc.).
flocking noun, verb: The process of adding small particles to a surface for the sake of texture.
flockless adjective: Without a flock.
flocklike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of flocks.
flockling noun: A lamb.
flockmaster noun: A head shepherd.
flockmate noun: A member of the same flock.
flockmeal adverb: In a flock; in flocks; in a herd.
flockowner noun: Someone who owns a flock of animals.
Flockton proper noun: A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE2415).
flockwise adverb: In or as a flock.
flocky adjective /ˈflɒki/: Abounding with flocks (tufts); floccose.
flocoon noun: The filamentous, waxy white covering of certain aphids, especially of the subfamilies Chermesidae and Pemphiginae.
flocoumafen noun: A particular anticoagulant.
floctafenine noun: A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug.
FLOD adverb: Initialism of facing line of dance.
Flodden proper noun: A hill in Northumberland, near the border between England and Scotland, where a battle was fought between the two countries in 9 September 1513.
floddie noun: A kind of potato cake made from grated potato, sometimes with bacon added.
flodge verb /flɑd͡ʒ/: To hide or misrepresent the truth; to lie.
floe noun /fləʊ/: A low, flat mass of floating ice.
floe rat noun: The ringed seal (animal).
floeberg noun: An accumulation of ice floes resembling an iceberg.
Floer homology noun: A tool for studying symplectic geometry and low-dimensional topology. It is a novel invariant that arises as an infinite-dimensional analog of...
flog noun, verb /flɒɡ/: To whip or scourge as punishment.
flog a dead horse verb: To attempt to get more out of something that cannot give more; to attempt to arouse fresh interest in something that is either hopeless or already settled.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under F: 25,498 words, in 85 parts.