13-letter words containing flo
- inflorescence — a flowering or blossoming.
- microfloppies — 3.5-inch floppies, as opposed to 5.25-inch vanilla or mini-floppies and the now-obsolete 8-inch variety. This term may be headed for obsolescence as 5.25-inchers pass out of use, only to be revived if anybody floats a sub-3-inch floppy standard. See stiffy, minifloppies.
- monkey flower — any of various plants belonging to the genus Mimulus, of the figwort family, as M. cardinalis (scarlet monkey flower) having spotted flowers that resemble a face.
- overflow flag — overflow bit
- overflow pipe — a pipe which discharges excess or leaking water safely
- overflowingly — to an excessive degree
- parquet floor — flooring made of inlaid wood
- passionflower — any chiefly American climbing vine or shrub of the genus Passiflora, having showy flowers and a pulpy berry or fruit that in some species is edible.
- safflower oil — an oil expressed or extracted fromsafflower seeds, used in cooking, as a salad oil, and as a vehicle for medicines, paints, varnishes, etc.
- selling floor — floor (def 10).
- slatted floor — a floor made with slats of wood so that water can drain away
- spadicifloral — having flowers borne on a spadix
- spider flower — cleome
- sulfur-flower — a plant, Eriogonum umbellatum, of the buckwheat family, native to the western coast of the U.S., having leaves with white, woolly hairs on the underside and golden-yellow flowers.
- sunflower oil — oil obtained from sunflower seeds
- swift-flowing — moving rapidly
- tassel flower — love-lies-bleeding.
- thalamifloral — relating to the Thalamiflorae
- the mayflower — the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth to Massachusetts in 1620
- trading floor — stock exchange: room where trading is done
- tubuliflorous — having the corolla tubular in all the perfect flowers of a head, as certain composite plants.
- waterflooding — (in oil, gas, or petroleum production) the practice of injecting water to maintain pressure in a reservoir and to drive the oil, etc towards the production wells