| flinch | (noun) a reflex response to sudden pain | Synonyms: wince |
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| (verb) draw back, as with fear or pain | Synonyms: cringe, funk, quail, recoil, shrink, squinch, wince |
| 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 | - |
| (verb) throw with force or recklessness | - |
| (verb) move in an abrupt or headlong manner | - |
| (verb) indulge oneself | Synonyms: splurge |
| (verb) throw or cast away | Synonyms: cast aside, cast away, cast out, chuck out, discard, dispose, put away, throw away, throw out, toss, toss away, toss out |
| flint | (adjective) showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings | Synonyms: flinty, granitic, obdurate, stony |
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| (noun) a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony | - |
| 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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| flinty | (adjective) containing flint | - |
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| (adjective) showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings | Synonyms: flint, granitic, obdurate, stony |