10-letter words containing flo
- flowerless — having or producing no flowers.
- flowerlike — resembling or in the shape of a flower; delicate; graceful.
- flowerpots — Plural form of flowerpot.
- flowmeters — Plural form of flowmeter.
- foamflower — a North American plant, Tiarella cordifolia, having a cluster of small, usually white flowers.
- gram flour — flour prepared from the gram seeds
- high-flown — extravagant in aims, pretensions, etc.
- life float — a ring-shaped float of balsa wood or metal tubing, having a grating or network at the center, for rescuing a number of survivors from a foundered vessel.
- machoflops — /mach'oh-flops/ A pun on "megaflops" referring to the inflated performance figures often quoted by computer manufacturers. Real application programs are lucky to get half the quoted speed. See Your mileage may vary, benchmark.
- macroflora — Plants that can be seen with the naked eye.
- mefloquine — An antimalarial drug consisting of a fluorinated derivative of quinoline.
- microflora — Biology. microscopic plants.
- milk float — a motor vehicle, usually battery powered, in which bottles or cartons of milk and other dairy products are delivered to homes by a daily or regular route.
- minifloppy — Alternative spelling of mini-floppy.
- mistflower — a North American composite plant, Eupatorium coelestinum, having heads of blue flowers.
- moonflower — a plant, Ipomoea alba, of the morning glory family, having fragrant white flowers that bloom at night.
- multiflora — any of several plant varieties or hybrids characterized by many single, relatively small flowers, as certain kinds of petunias or roses.
- offloading — Present participle of offload.
- outflowing — Flowing out.
- over-flood — a great flowing or overflowing of water, especially over land not usually submerged.
- passiflora — a plant of the genus Passiflora
- paul flory — Paul John, 1910–85, U.S. chemist: pioneer in research on polymers; Nobel Prize 1974.
- photoflood — an incandescent tungsten lamp in which high intensity is obtained by overloading voltage: used in photography, television, etc.
- ping-flood — (networking) To flood another user with ping requests.
- pink floyd — British rock group, formed in 1966: originally comprised Syd Barrett (1946–2006), Roger Waters (born 1944), Rick Wright (1945–2008), and Nick Mason (born 1945); Barrett was replaced by Dave Gilmour (born 1944) in 1968 and Waters left in 1986. Recordings include The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967), Dark Side of the Moon (1973), Wish You Were Here (1975), and The Wall (1979)
- ray floret — one of the marginal florets surrounding the disk of tubular florets in the flower heads of certain composite plants, as the daisy.
- ray flower — one of the marginal florets surrounding the disk of tubular florets in the flower heads of certain composite plants, as the daisy.
- rice flour — flour made of finely-ground rice
- rock flour — glacial meal.
- scapa flow — an area of water off the N coast of Scotland, in the Orkney Islands: British naval base; German warships scuttled 1919.
- shop floor — The shop floor is used to refer to all the ordinary workers in a factory or the area where they work, especially in contrast to the people who are in charge.
- soya flour — flour made from soya beans
- starflower — any of several plants having starlike flowers, as the star-of-Bethlehem or a plant belonging to the genus Trientalis of the primrose family.
- streamflow — the water that flows in a specific stream site, especially its volume and rate of flow.
- twinflower — either of two slender, creeping, evergreen, caprifoliaceous plants, Linnaea borealis, of Europe, or L. americana, of North America, having pink or purplish nodding flowers borne in pairs on threadlike stalks.
- underfloor — that part of a room, hallway, or the like, that forms its lower enclosing surface and upon which one walks.
- uniflorous — having only one flower.
- wallflower — a person who, because of shyness, unpopularity, or lack of a partner, remains at the side at a party or dance.
- waterflood — (in the petroleum industry) a method of secondary recovery whereby water is pumped into reservoir rock to force out oil that has ceased to flow under its own pressure.
- wax flower — Madagascar jasmine.
- wildflower — the flower of a plant that normally grows in fields, forests, etc., without deliberate cultivation.
- windflower — any plant belonging to the genus Anemone, of the buttercup family, having divided leaves and showy, solitary flowers.