Index of English words, starting with "fl"

(1) - Flake (v. i.) To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.
(2) - Flake (v. t.) To form into flakes.
(3) - Flake (n.) A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
(4) - Flake (n.) A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash.
(5) - Flake (n.) A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, tallow, or fish.
(6) - Flake (n.) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc.
(7) - Flake (n.) A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
(8) - Flake (n.) A paling; a hurdle.

(1) - Flaky (a.) Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.

(1) - Flam (v. t.) To deceive with a falsehood.
(2) - Flam (n.) A freak or whim; also, a falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext; deception; delusion.

(1) - Flambeau (n.) A flaming torch, esp. one made by combining together a number of thick wicks invested with a quick-burning substance (anciently, perhaps, wax; in modern times, pitch or the like); hence, any torch.

(1) - Flamboyant (a.) Characterized by waving or flamelike curves, as in the tracery of windows, etc.; -- said of the later (15th century) French Gothic style.