Index of English words, starting with "fl"

(1) - Flourishingly (adv.) In a flourishing manner; ostentatiously.

(1) - Floury (a.) Of or resembling flour; mealy; covered with flour.

(1) - Flout (n.) A mock; an insult.
(2) - Flout (v. i.) To practice mocking; to behave with contempt; to sneer; to fleer; -- often with at.
(3) - Flout (v. t.) To mock or insult; to treat with contempt.

(1) - Flouter (n.) One who flouts; a mocker.

(1) - Flow (v. i.) To discharge blood in excess from the uterus.
(2) - Flow (v. i.) To move with a continual change of place among the particles or parts, as a fluid; to change place or circulate, as a liquid; as, rivers flow from springs and lakes; tears flow from the eyes.
(3) - Flow (v. i.) To become liquid; to melt.
(4) - Flow (v. i.) To proceed; to issue forth; as, wealth flows from industry and economy.
(5) - Flow (v. i.) To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperties; as, a flowing period; flowing numbers; to sound smoothly to the ear; to be uttered easily.
(6) - Flow (v. i.) To have or be in abundance; to abound; to full, so as to run or flow over; to be copious.
(7) - Flow () imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.
(8) - Flow (v. i.) To rise, as the tide; -- opposed to ebb; as, the tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.
(9) - Flow (n.) A low-lying piece of watery land; -- called also flow moss and flow bog.
(10) - Flow (v. t.) To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
(11) - Flow (v. t.) To cover with varnish.
(12) - Flow (n.) A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of water; a flow of blood.
(13) - Flow (n.) A continuous movement of something abundant; as, a flow of words.
(14) - Flow (n.) Any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought, diction, music, or the like, resembling the quiet, steady movement of a river; a stream.
(15) - Flow (n.) The tidal setting in of the water from the ocean to the shore. See Ebb and flow, under Ebb.
(16) - Flow (v. i.) To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing locks.