| 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 | - |
| (verb) convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation | - |
| (verb) allow (currencies) to fluctuate | - |
| (verb) make the surface of level or smooth | - |
| (verb) put into the water | - |
| (verb) be in motion due to some air or water current | Synonyms: be adrift, blow, drift |
| (verb) be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom | Synonyms: swim |
| (verb) set afloat | - |
| (verb) move lightly, as if suspended | - |
| (verb) circulate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with | - |
| 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 | (adjective) borne up by or suspended in a liquid | - |
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| (adjective) inclined to move or be moved about | - |
| (adjective) not definitely committed to a party or policy | - |
| (adjective) (of a part of the body) not firmly connected; movable or out of normal position | - |
| (adjective) continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another | Synonyms: aimless, drifting, vagabond, vagrant |
| (noun) the act of someone who floats on the water | Synonyms: natation |
| floatplane | (noun) a seaplane equipped with pontoons for landing or taking off from water | Synonyms: pontoon plane |
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| floaty | (adjective) tending to float on a liquid or rise in air or gas | Synonyms: buoyant |
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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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| floccose | (adjective) (of plants) having tufts of soft woolly hairs | - |
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| flocculate | (verb) form into an aggregated lumpy or fluffy mass | - |
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| (verb) cause to become a fluffy or lumpy aggregate | - |
| 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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| flocculent | (adjective) having a fluffy character or appearance | Synonyms: woolly, wooly |
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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 |
| (verb) come together as in a cluster or flock | Synonyms: clump, cluster, constellate |
| (verb) move as a crowd or in a group | - |
| floe | (noun) a flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea | Synonyms: ice floe |
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| flog | (verb) beat severely with a whip or rod | Synonyms: lash, lather, slash, strap, trounce, welt, whip |
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| (verb) beat with a cane | Synonyms: cane, lambast, lambaste |
| 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 |
| (verb) cover with liquid, usually water | - |
| (verb) become filled to overflowing | - |
| (verb) fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid | Synonyms: deluge, inundate, swamp |
| (verb) supply with an excess of | Synonyms: glut, oversupply |
| flooded | (adjective) covered with water | Synonyms: afloat, awash, inundated, overflowing |
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| 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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| (verb) illuminate with floodlights | - |
| floodlighted | (adjective) illuminated by means of floodlights | Synonyms: floodlit |
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| floodlit | (adjective) illuminated by means of floodlights | Synonyms: floodlighted |
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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 | - |
| (verb) knock down with force | Synonyms: coldcock, deck, dump, knock down |
| (verb) surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off | Synonyms: ball over, blow out of the water, shock, take aback |
| floorboard | (noun) a board in the floor | Synonyms: floor board |
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| (noun) the floor of an automobile | - |
| floored | (adjective) provided with a floor | - |
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| 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 |
| (adverb) with a flopping sound | - |
| (adverb) completely | Synonyms: right |
| (verb) fall suddenly and abruptly | - |
| (verb) fall loosely | - |
| (verb) fail utterly; collapse | Synonyms: fall flat, fall through, founder |
| flophouse | (noun) a cheap lodging house | Synonyms: dosshouse |
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| floppy | (adjective) hanging limply | - |
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| (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 |
| 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 |
| floral | (adjective) of or relating to the plant life in a particular region | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or associated with flowers | - |
| (adjective) resembling or made of or suggestive of flowers | Synonyms: flowered |
| 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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| floricultural | (adjective) of or relating to or involving floriculture | - |
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| floriculture | (noun) the cultivation of flowering plants | Synonyms: flower gardening |
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| florid | (adjective) elaborately or excessively ornamented | Synonyms: aureate, flamboyant |
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| (adjective) inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life | Synonyms: rubicund, ruddy, sanguine |
| floridity | (noun) extravagant elaborateness | Synonyms: flamboyance, floridness, showiness |
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| floridly | (adverb) in a florid manner | - |
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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 |
| (verb) use dental floss to clean | - |
| flossy | (adjective) like down or as soft as down | Synonyms: downlike, downy, fluffy |
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| 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 |
| (verb) walk emphatically | - |
| 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 | - |
| (verb) walk with great difficulty | Synonyms: stagger |
| (verb) behave awkwardly; have difficulties | - |
| flour | (noun) fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain | - |
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| (verb) convert grain into flour | - |
| (verb) cover with flour | - |
| 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 | - |
| (verb) grow vigorously | Synonyms: boom, expand, thrive |
| (verb) move or swing back and forth | Synonyms: brandish, wave |
| (verb) make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance | Synonyms: fly high, prosper, thrive |
| flourishing | (adjective) very lively and profitable | Synonyms: booming, burgeoning, palmy, prospering, prosperous, roaring, thriving |
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| floury | (adjective) resembling flour in fine powdery texture | - |
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| flout | (verb) laugh at with contempt and derision | Synonyms: barrack, gibe, jeer, scoff |
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| (verb) treat with contemptuous disregard | Synonyms: scoff |
| 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 |
| (verb) undergo menstruation | Synonyms: menstruate |
| (verb) cover or swamp with water | - |
| (verb) fall or flow in a certain way | Synonyms: fall, hang |
| (verb) move along, of liquids | Synonyms: course, feed, run |
| (verb) move or progress freely as if in a stream | Synonyms: flux |
| (verb) cause to flow | - |
| (verb) be abundantly present | - |
| 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 |
| (verb) produce or yield flowers | Synonyms: bloom, blossom |
| flowerbed | (noun) a bed in which flowers are growing | Synonyms: bed of flowers, flower bed |
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| flowered | (adjective) resembling or made of or suggestive of flowers | Synonyms: floral |
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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 | (adjective) when a plant is in a state of possessing one or multiple flowers and/or blooms | - |
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| (noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms | Synonyms: anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, inflorescence |
| (noun) a developmental process | Synonyms: unfolding |
| flowerless | (adjective) without flower or bloom and not producing seeds | Synonyms: nonflowering |
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| flowerpot | (noun) a container in which plants are cultivated | Synonyms: pot |
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| flowery | (adjective) of or relating to or suggestive of flowers | - |
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| (adjective) marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details | Synonyms: ornate |
| flowing | (adjective) designed or arranged to offer the least resistance to fluid flow | Synonyms: aerodynamic, sleek, streamlined |
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| (noun) the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases) | Synonyms: flow |
| floxuridine | (noun) antineoplastic drug used to treat some cancers; can cause loss of hair | - |
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