Index of English words, starting with "fl"

(1) - Flong () imp. & p. p. of Fling.

(1) - Flood (v. t.) To cause or permit to be inundated; to fill or cover with water or other fluid; as, to flood arable land for irrigation; to fill to excess or to its full capacity; as, to flood a country with a depreciated currency.
(2) - Flood (v. t.) To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley.
(3) - Flood (v. i.) Menstrual disharge; menses.
(4) - Flood (v. i.) A great flow or stream of any fluid substance; as, a flood of light; a flood of lava; hence, a great quantity widely diffused; an overflowing; a superabundance; as, a flood of bank notes; a flood of paper currency.
(5) - Flood (v. i.) The flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; -- opposed to ebb; as, young flood; high flood.
(6) - Flood (v. i.) A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation.

(1) - Flooding (n.) An abnormal or excessive discharge of blood from the uterus.
(2) - Flooding (n.) The filling or covering with water or other fluid; overflow; inundation; the filling anything to excess.
(3) - Flooding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flood