| aflame | (adjective) lighted up by or as by fire or flame | Synonyms: ablaze, afire, aflare, alight, on fire |
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| (adjective) keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement | Synonyms: ablaze, aroused |
| flambe | (verb) pour liquor over and ignite (a dish) | - |
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| flambeau | (noun) a flaming torch (such as are used in processions at night) | - |
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| flamboyance | (noun) extravagant elaborateness | Synonyms: floridity, floridness, showiness |
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| flamboyant | (adjective) elaborately or excessively ornamented | Synonyms: aureate, florid |
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| (adjective) marked by ostentation but often tasteless | Synonyms: showy, splashy |
| (noun) showy tropical tree or shrub native to Madagascar; widely planted in tropical regions for its immense racemes of scarlet and orange flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana | Synonyms: Delonix regia, flame tree, peacock flower, Poinciana regia, royal poinciana |
| flamboyantly | (adverb) in a fancy colorful manner | Synonyms: flashily, showily |
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| flame | (noun) the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke | Synonyms: fire, flaming |
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| (verb) criticize harshly, usually via an electronic medium | - |
| (verb) be in flames or aflame | - |
| (verb) shine with a sudden light | Synonyms: flare |
| flamefish | (noun) a cardinalfish found in tropical Atlantic coastal waters | Synonyms: Apogon maculatus, flame fish |
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| flameflower | (noun) plant with fleshy roots and erect stems with narrow succulent leaves and one reddish-orange flower in each upper leaf axil; southwestern United States; Indians once cooked the fleshy roots | Synonyms: flame-flower, flame flower, Talinum aurantiacum |
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| (noun) a plant of the genus Kniphofia having long grasslike leaves and tall scapes of red or yellow drooping flowers | Synonyms: flame-flower, flame flower, kniphofia, tritoma |
| flamen | (noun) a priest who served a particular deity in ancient Rome | - |
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| flamenco | (noun) a style of dancing characteristic of the Andalusian Gypsies; vigorous and rhythmic with clapping and stamping of feet | Synonyms: gypsy dancing |
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| (noun) guitar music composed for dancing the flamenco | - |
| flameproof | (adjective) resistant to catching fire | Synonyms: flame-retardant |
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| flamethrower | (noun) a weapon that squirts ignited fuel for several yards | - |
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| flaming | (adjective) passionate or quick-tempered | Synonyms: fiery |
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| (adjective) informal intensifiers | Synonyms: bally, blinking, bloody, blooming, crashing, fucking |
| (noun) the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke | Synonyms: fire, flame |
| flamingo | (noun) large pink to scarlet web-footed wading bird with down-bent bill; inhabits brackish lakes | - |
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| flammability | (noun) the quality of being easily ignited and burning rapidly | Synonyms: inflammability |
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| flammable | (adjective) easily ignited | Synonyms: inflammable |
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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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| inflame | (verb) become inflamed; get sore | - |
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| (verb) cause inflammation in | - |
| (verb) arouse or excite feelings and passions | Synonyms: fire up, heat, ignite, stir up, wake |
| (verb) cause to start burning | Synonyms: conflagrate, enkindle, kindle |
| (verb) catch fire | Synonyms: kindle |
| inflamed | (adjective) adorned with tongues of flame | - |
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| (adjective) lighted with red light as if with flames | Synonyms: ablaze, reddened |
| (adjective) resulting from inflammation; hot and swollen and reddened | - |
| inflaming | (noun) arousal to violent emotion | Synonyms: inflammation |
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| inflammability | (noun) the quality of being easily ignited and burning rapidly | Synonyms: flammability |
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| inflammable | (adjective) easily ignited | Synonyms: flammable |
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| inflammation | (noun) arousal to violent emotion | Synonyms: inflaming |
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| (noun) the act of setting something on fire | Synonyms: firing, ignition, kindling, lighting |
| (noun) a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat | Synonyms: redness, rubor |
| (noun) the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up | Synonyms: excitation, excitement, fervor, fervour |
| inflammatory | (adjective) arousing to action or rebellion | Synonyms: incendiary, incitive, instigative, rabble-rousing, seditious |
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| (adjective) characterized or caused by inflammation | - |
| nonflammable | (adjective) impossible to ignite | - |
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| noninflammatory | (adjective) not inflammatory | - |
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| oriflamme | (noun) a red or orange-red flag used as a standard by early French kings | - |
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| (noun) an inspiring symbol or ideal that serves as a rallying point in a struggle | - |
| proinflammatory | (adjective) tending to cause inflammation | Synonyms: pro-inflammatory |
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