Index of English words, starting with "fl"

(1) - Flashing (n.) A mode of covering transparent white glass with a film of colored glass.
(2) - Flashing (n.) The reheating of an article at the furnace aperture during manufacture to restore its plastic condition; esp., the reheating of a globe of crown glass to allow it to assume a flat shape as it is rotated.
(3) - Flashing (n.) Pieces of metal, built into the joints of a wall, so as to lap over the edge of the gutters or to cover the edge of the roofing; also, similar pieces used to cover the valleys of roofs of slate, shingles, or the like. By extension, the metal covering of ridges and hips of roofs; also, in the United States, the protecting of angles and breaks in walls of frame houses with waterproof material, tarred paper, or the like. Cf. Filleting.
(4) - Flashing (n.) The creation of an artifical flood by the sudden letting in of a body of water; -- called also flushing.
(5) - Flashing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flash

(1) - Flashy (a.) Without taste or spirit.
(2) - Flashy (a.) Showy; gay; gaudy; as, a flashy dress.
(3) - Flashy (a.) Fiery; vehement; impetuous.
(4) - Flashy (a.) Dazzling for a moment; making a momentary show of brilliancy; transitorily bright.

(1) - Flask (n.) The wooden or iron frame which holds the sand, etc., forming the mold used in a foundry; it consists of two or more parts; viz., the cope or top; sometimes, the cheeks, or middle part; and the drag, or bottom part. When there are one or more cheeks, the flask is called a three part flask, four part flask, etc.
(2) - Flask (n.) A bed in a gun carriage.
(3) - Flask (n.) A narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc.
(4) - Flask (n.) A small bottle-shaped vessel for holding fluids; as, a flask of oil or wine.

(1) - Flasket (n.) A vessel in which viands are served.
(2) - Flasket (n.) A small flask.
(3) - Flasket (n.) A long, shallow basket, with two handles.

(1) - Flat (n.) A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
(2) - Flat (superl.) Lying at full length, or spread out, upon the ground; level with the ground or earth; prostrate; as, to lie flat on the ground; hence, fallen; laid low; ruined; destroyed.
(3) - Flat (superl.) Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without points of prominence and striking interest.
(4) - Flat (superl.) Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste.
(5) - Flat (superl.) Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition.
(6) - Flat (superl.) Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as, the market is flat.
(7) - Flat (superl.) Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright.
(8) - Flat (superl.) Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals, minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A flat.
(9) - Flat (superl.) Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound.
(10) - Flat (superl.) Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp) consonant.
(11) - Flat (adv.) In a flat manner; directly; flatly.
(12) - Flat (adv.) Without allowance for accrued interest.
(13) - Flat (n.) A level surface, without elevation, relief, or prominences; an extended plain; specifically, in the United States, a level tract along the along the banks of a river; as, the Mohawk Flats.
(14) - Flat (superl.) Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane.
(15) - Flat (n.) Something broad and flat in form
(16) - Flat (v. i.) To fall form the pitch.
(17) - Flat (n.) A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
(18) - Flat (n.) A car without a roof, the body of which is a platform without sides; a platform car.
(19) - Flat (n.) A platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc., are carried in processions.
(20) - Flat (n.) The flat part, or side, of anything; as, the broad side of a blade, as distinguished from its edge.
(21) - Flat (n.) A floor, loft, or story in a building; especially, a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence in itself.
(22) - Flat (n.) A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
(23) - Flat (n.) A dull fellow; a simpleton; a numskull.
(24) - Flat (n.) A character [/] before a note, indicating a tone which is a half step or semitone lower.
(25) - Flat (n.) A homaloid space or extension.
(26) - Flat (v. t.) To make flat; to flatten; to level.
(27) - Flat (v. t.) To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.
(28) - Flat (v. t.) To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
(29) - Flat (v. i.) To become flat, or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
(30) - Flat (n.) A level tract lying at little depth below the surface of water, or alternately covered and left bare by the tide; a shoal; a shallow; a strand.