Index of English words, starting with "fl"

(1) - Flamy (a.) Flaming; blazing; flamelike; flame-colored; composed of flame.

(1) - Flange (v. i.) To be bent into a flange.
(2) - Flange (v. t.) To make a flange on; to furnish with a flange.
(3) - Flange (n.) A plate or ring to form a rim at the end of a pipe when fastened to the pipe.
(4) - Flange (n.) An external or internal rib, or rim, for strength, as the flange of an iron beam; or for a guide, as the flange of a car wheel (see Car wheel.); or for attachment to another object, as the flange on the end of a pipe, steam cylinder, etc.

(1) - Flank (v. i.) To be posted on the side.
(2) - Flank (v. i.) To border; to touch.
(3) - Flank (v. t.) To overlook or command the flank of; to secure or guard the flank of; to pass around or turn the flank of; to attack, or threaten to attack; the flank of.
(4) - Flank (v. t.) To stand at the flank or side of; to border upon.
(5) - Flank (n.) That part of the acting surface of a gear wheel tooth that lies within the pitch line.
(6) - Flank (n.) The side of any building.
(7) - Flank (n.) That part of a bastion which reaches from the curtain to the face, and defends the curtain, the flank and face of the opposite bastion; any part of a work defending another by a fire along the outside of its parapet.
(8) - Flank (n.) The side of an army, or of any division of an army, as of a brigade, regiment, or battalion; the extreme right or left; as, to attack an enemy in flank is to attack him on the side.
(9) - Flank (n.) The fleshy or muscular part of the side of an animal, between the ribs and the hip. See Illust. of Beef.

(1) - Flanker (v. t.) To attack sideways.
(2) - Flanker (v. t.) To defend by lateral fortifications.
(3) - Flanker (n.) One who, or that which, flanks, as a skirmisher or a body of troops sent out upon the flanks of an army toguard a line of march, or a fort projecting so as to command the side of an assailing body.