flerovium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element | Synonyms: Fl |
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flesh | (noun) alternative names for the body of a human being | Synonyms: anatomy, bod, build, chassis, figure, form, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma |
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(noun) the soft tissue of the body of a vertebrate: mainly muscle tissue and fat | - |
(noun) a soft moist part of a fruit | Synonyms: pulp |
fleshiness | (noun) more than average fatness | Synonyms: corpulency, obesity |
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flews | (noun) The fleshy hanging upper lip of a bloodhound or similar dog. | - |
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flex | (noun) the act of flexing | - |
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flexibility | (noun) the quality of being adaptable or variable | Synonyms: flexibleness |
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(noun) the property of being flexible; easily bent or shaped | Synonyms: flexibleness |
(noun) the trait of being easily persuaded | Synonyms: tractability, tractableness |
flexibleness | (noun) the property of being flexible; easily bent or shaped | Synonyms: flexibility |
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(noun) the quality of being adaptable or variable | Synonyms: flexibility |
flexion | (noun) act of bending a joint; especially a joint between the bones of a limb so that the angle between them is decreased | Synonyms: flexure |
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(noun) deviation from a straight or normal course | Synonyms: flection, inflection |
(noun) the state of being flexed (as of a joint) | Synonyms: flection, flexure |
flexitarianism | (noun) The practice of eating mainly vegetarian food, but making occasional exceptions for social, pragmatic, cultural, or nutritional reasons. | Synonyms: semi-vegetarianism |
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flexor | (noun) a skeletal muscle whose contraction bends a joint | Synonyms: flexor muscle |
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flexure | (noun) act of bending a joint; especially a joint between the bones of a limb so that the angle between them is decreased | Synonyms: flexion |
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(noun) an angular or rounded shape made by folding | Synonyms: bend, crease, crimp, fold, plication |
(noun) the state of being flexed (as of a joint) | Synonyms: flection, flexion |
flibbertigibbet | (noun) a female fool | Synonyms: foolish woman |
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flick | (noun) a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement | Synonyms: film, motion-picture show, motion picture, movie, moving-picture show, moving picture, pic, picture, picture show |
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(noun) a short stroke | - |
(noun) a light sharp contact (usually with something flexible) | - |
flicker | (noun) the act of moving back and forth | Synonyms: flutter, waver |
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(noun) North American woodpecker | - |
(noun) a momentary flash of light | Synonyms: glint, spark |
flickertail | (noun) of sagebrush and grassland areas of western United States and Canada | Synonyms: Citellus richardsoni, Richardson ground squirrel |
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flier | (noun) an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution | Synonyms: bill, broadsheet, broadside, circular, flyer, handbill, throwaway |
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(noun) someone who travels by air | Synonyms: flyer |
(noun) someone who operates an aircraft | Synonyms: aeronaut, aviator, flyer |
flies | (noun) (theater) the space over the stage (out of view of the audience) used to store scenery (drop curtains) | - |
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flight | (noun) an instance of traveling by air | Synonyms: flying |
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(noun) the act of escaping physically | Synonyms: escape |
(noun) a scheduled trip by plane between designated airports | - |
(noun) a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next | Synonyms: flight of stairs, flight of steps |
(noun) passing above and beyond ordinary bounds | - |
(noun) an air force unit smaller than a squadron | - |
(noun) a formation of aircraft in flight | - |
(noun) a flock of flying birds | - |
(noun) the path followed by an object moving through space | Synonyms: trajectory |
flightiness | (noun) the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment | Synonyms: arbitrariness, capriciousness, whimsey, whimsicality, whimsy |
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flightlessness | (noun) The condition of being unable to fly, usually used with birds such as the penguin, ostrich, and emu. | - |
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flimflam | (noun) a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property | Synonyms: bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, hustle, sting |
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flimsiness | (noun) the property of weakness by virtue of careless construction | Synonyms: shoddiness |
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flimsy | (noun) a thin strong lightweight translucent paper used especially for making carbon copies | Synonyms: onionskin |
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flinch | (noun) a reflex response to sudden pain | Synonyms: wince |
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flinders | (noun) bits and splinters and fragments | - |
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flindosa | (noun) tall Australian timber tree yielding tough hard wood used for staves etc | Synonyms: Flindersia australis, flindosy, native beech |
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flindosy | (noun) tall Australian timber tree yielding tough hard wood used for staves etc | Synonyms: Flindersia australis, flindosa, native beech |
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fling | (noun) a brief indulgence of your impulses | Synonyms: spree |
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(noun) a usually brief attempt | Synonyms: crack, go, offer, pass, whirl |
(noun) the act of flinging | - |
flint | (noun) a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony | - |
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flinthead | (noun) an American stork that resembles the true ibises in having a downward-curved bill; inhabits wooded swamps of New World tropics | Synonyms: Mycteria americana, wood ibis, wood stork |
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flintlock | (noun) an obsolete gunlock that has flint embedded in the hammer; the flint makes a spark that ignites the charge | - |
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(noun) a muzzle loader that had a flintlock type of gunlock | Synonyms: firelock |
flintstone | (noun) pebbles of flint used in masonry construction | - |
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flip | (noun) (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team | Synonyms: pass, toss |
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(noun) the act of flipping a coin | Synonyms: toss |
(noun) a dive in which the diver somersaults before entering the water | - |
(noun) an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return | Synonyms: somersault, somersaulting, somerset, summersault, summerset |
(noun) a sudden, quick movement | - |
(noun) hot or cold alcoholic mixed drink containing a beaten egg | - |
flipagram | (noun) a sequence of photos composed into a video | - |
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flippancy | (noun) inappropriate levity | Synonyms: light-mindedness |
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flipper | (noun) the flat broad limb of aquatic animals specialized for swimming | - |
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(noun) a shoe for swimming; the paddle-like front is an aid in swimming (especially underwater) | Synonyms: fin |
flirt | (noun) playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest | Synonyms: coquetry, dalliance, flirtation, flirting, toying |
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(noun) a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men | Synonyms: coquette, minx, prickteaser, tease, vamp, vamper |
flirtation | (noun) playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest | Synonyms: coquetry, dalliance, flirt, flirting, toying |
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flirting | (noun) playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest | Synonyms: coquetry, dalliance, flirt, flirtation, toying |
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flit | (noun) a sudden quick movement | Synonyms: dart |
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(noun) a secret move (to avoid paying debts) | - |
flitch | (noun) salted and cured abdominal wall of a side of pork | Synonyms: side of bacon |
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(noun) fish steak usually cut from a halibut | - |
float | (noun) an air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy | Synonyms: air bladder, swim bladder |
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(noun) something that floats on the surface of water | - |
(noun) a hand tool with a flat face used for smoothing and finishing the surface of plaster or cement or stucco | Synonyms: plasterer's float |
(noun) an elaborate display mounted on a platform carried by a truck (or pulled by a truck) in a procession or parade | - |
(noun) a drink with ice cream floating in it | Synonyms: ice-cream float, ice-cream soda |
(noun) the number of shares outstanding and available for trading by the public | - |
(noun) the time interval between the deposit of a check in a bank and its payment | - |
floatation | (noun) financing a commercial enterprise by bond or stock shares | Synonyms: flotation |
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(noun) the phenomenon of floating (remaining on the surface of a liquid without sinking) | Synonyms: flotation |
floater | (noun) an insurance policy covering loss of movable property (e.g. jewelry) regardless of its location | Synonyms: floating policy |
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(noun) an object that floats or is capable of floating | - |
(noun) a swimmer who floats in the water | - |
(noun) a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support | Synonyms: clochard, drifter, vagabond, vagrant |
(noun) a voter who votes illegally at different polling places in the same election | - |
(noun) an employee who is reassigned from job to job as needed | - |
(noun) a debt instrument with a variable interest rate tied to some other interest rate (e.g. the rate paid by T-bills) | - |
(noun) spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens | Synonyms: musca volitans, muscae volitantes, spots |
floating | (noun) the act of someone who floats on the water | Synonyms: natation |
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floatplane | (noun) a seaplane equipped with pontoons for landing or taking off from water | Synonyms: pontoon plane |
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floc | (noun) a small loosely aggregated mass of flocculent material suspended in or precipitated from a liquid | Synonyms: floccule |
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flocculation | (noun) the process of flocculating; forming woolly cloudlike aggregations | - |
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flocculator | (noun) An apparatus used in the process of flocculation. | - |
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floccule | (noun) a small loosely aggregated mass of flocculent material suspended in or precipitated from a liquid | Synonyms: floc |
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flock | (noun) a group of birds | - |
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(noun) a group of sheep or goats | Synonyms: fold |
(noun) a church congregation guided by a pastor | - |
(noun) an orderly crowd | Synonyms: troop |
(noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
floe | (noun) a flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea | Synonyms: ice floe |
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flogger | (noun) a torturer who flogs or scourges (especially an official whose duty is to whip offenders) | Synonyms: scourger |
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flogging | (noun) beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment | Synonyms: flagellation, lashing, tanning, whipping |
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flood | (noun) the act of flooding; filling to overflowing | Synonyms: flowage |
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(noun) a large flow | Synonyms: outpouring, overflow |
(noun) light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography | Synonyms: flood lamp, floodlight, photoflood |
(noun) the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide) | Synonyms: flood tide, rising tide |
(noun) the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land | Synonyms: alluvion, deluge, inundation |
(noun) an overwhelming number or amount | Synonyms: deluge, inundation, torrent |
floodgate | (noun) regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice | Synonyms: head gate, penstock, sluice valve, sluicegate, water gate |
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(noun) something that restrains a flood or outpouring | - |
floodhead | (noun) a wall of water rushing ahead of the flood | - |
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flooding | (noun) a technique used in behavior therapy; client is flooded with experiences of a particular kind until becoming either averse to them or numbed to them | Synonyms: implosion therapy |
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floodlight | (noun) light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography | Synonyms: flood, flood lamp, photoflood |
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floodplain | (noun) a low plain adjacent to a river that is formed chiefly of river sediment and is subject to flooding | Synonyms: flood plain |
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floor | (noun) the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure) | Synonyms: flooring |
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(noun) a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale | Synonyms: level, storey, story |
(noun) a large room in a exchange where the trading is done | Synonyms: trading floor |
(noun) the legislative hall where members debate and vote and conduct other business | - |
(noun) the parliamentary right to address an assembly | - |
(noun) a lower limit | Synonyms: base |
(noun) the occupants of a floor | - |
(noun) the bottom surface of any lake or other body of water | - |
(noun) the ground on which people and animals move about | - |
(noun) the lower inside surface of any hollow structure | - |
floorboard | (noun) a board in the floor | Synonyms: floor board |
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(noun) the floor of an automobile | - |
flooring | (noun) the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure) | Synonyms: floor |
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(noun) building material used in laying floors | - |
floorshow | (noun) a series of acts at a night club | Synonyms: cabaret, floor show |
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floorwalker | (noun) an employee of a retail store who supervises sales personnel and helps with customer problems | Synonyms: shopwalker |
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floozie | (noun) a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets | Synonyms: floozy, hooker, hustler, slattern, street girl, streetwalker |
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floozy | (noun) a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets | Synonyms: floozie, hooker, hustler, slattern, street girl, streetwalker |
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flop | (noun) the act of throwing yourself down; collapse; sink | Synonyms: collapse |
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(noun) a complete failure | Synonyms: bust, fizzle |
(noun) someone who is unsuccessful | Synonyms: dud, washout |
(noun) an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers | Synonyms: floating-point operation |
flophouse | (noun) a cheap lodging house | Synonyms: dosshouse |
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floppy | (noun) a small plastic magnetic disk enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit; used to store data or programs for a microcomputer | Synonyms: diskette, floppy disk |
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flora | (noun) (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion | Synonyms: plant, plant life |
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(noun) all the plant life in a particular region or period | Synonyms: botany, vegetation |
florescence | (noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms | Synonyms: anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, flowering, inflorescence |
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floret | (noun) a diminutive flower (especially one that is part of a composite flower) | Synonyms: floweret |
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floriculture | (noun) the cultivation of flowering plants | Synonyms: flower gardening |
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floridity | (noun) extravagant elaborateness | Synonyms: flamboyance, floridness, showiness |
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floridness | (noun) extravagant elaborateness | Synonyms: flamboyance, floridity, showiness |
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florilegium | (noun) an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc. | Synonyms: garland, miscellany |
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florin | (noun) formerly the basic unit of money in the Netherlands; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: Dutch florin, guilder, gulden |
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(noun) the basic unit of money in Suriname; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: guilder, gulden |
florist | (noun) a shop where flowers and ornamental plants are sold | Synonyms: florist shop, flower store |
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(noun) someone who grows and deals in flowers | - |
floss | (noun) a soft loosely twisted thread used in embroidery | - |
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(noun) a soft thread for cleaning the spaces between the teeth | Synonyms: dental floss |
flotation | (noun) financing a commercial enterprise by bond or stock shares | Synonyms: floatation |
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(noun) the phenomenon of floating (remaining on the surface of a liquid without sinking) | Synonyms: floatation |
flotilla | (noun) a fleet of small craft | - |
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(noun) a United States Navy fleet consisting of two or more squadrons of small warships | - |
flotsam | (noun) the floating wreckage of a ship | Synonyms: jetsam |
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flounce | (noun) the act of walking with exaggerated jerky motions | - |
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(noun) a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim | Synonyms: frill, furbelow, ruffle |
flounder | (noun) any of various European and non-European marine flatfish | - |
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(noun) flesh of any of various American and European flatfish | - |
flour | (noun) fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain | - |
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flouriness | (noun) The state or condition of resembling flour, of being a fine soft powder. | - |
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flourish | (noun) the act of waving | Synonyms: brandish |
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(noun) a display of ornamental speech or language | - |
(noun) a showy gesture | - |
(noun) (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments | Synonyms: fanfare, tucket |
(noun) an ornamental embellishment in writing | - |
flouter | (noun) someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision | Synonyms: jeerer, mocker, scoffer |
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flow | (noun) the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression | Synonyms: stream |
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(noun) the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases) | Synonyms: flowing |
(noun) dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas | Synonyms: current, stream |
(noun) any uninterrupted stream or discharge | - |
(noun) the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause | Synonyms: catamenia, menses, menstruation, menstruum, period |
(noun) something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously | Synonyms: stream |
(noun) the amount of fluid that flows in a given time | Synonyms: flow rate, rate of flow |
flowage | (noun) the act of flooding; filling to overflowing | Synonyms: flood |
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(noun) a body of water that has been created by deliberately flooding an area | - |
(noun) gradual internal motion or deformation of a solid body (as by heat) | - |
flowchart | (noun) a diagram of the sequence of operations in a computer program or an accounting system | Synonyms: flow chart, flow diagram, flow sheet |
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flower | (noun) a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms | - |
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(noun) reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts | Synonyms: bloom, blossom |
(noun) the period of greatest prosperity or productivity | Synonyms: bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flush, heyday, peak, prime |
flowerbed | (noun) a bed in which flowers are growing | Synonyms: bed of flowers, flower bed |
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floweret | (noun) a diminutive flower (especially one that is part of a composite flower) | Synonyms: floret |
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flowering | (noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms | Synonyms: anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, inflorescence |
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(noun) a developmental process | Synonyms: unfolding |
flowerpot | (noun) a container in which plants are cultivated | Synonyms: pot |
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flowing | (noun) the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases) | Synonyms: flow |
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floxuridine | (noun) antineoplastic drug used to treat some cancers; can cause loss of hair | - |
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flu | (noun) an acute febrile highly contagious viral disease | Synonyms: grippe, influenza |
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