9-letter words containing flo
- flotation — an act or state of floating.
- flotillas — Plural form of flotilla.
- flouncing — a strip of material gathered or pleated and attached at one edge, with the other edge left loose or hanging: used for trimming, as on the edge of a skirt or sleeve or on a curtain, slipcover, etc.
- flounders — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flounder.
- flour bin — a small container for flour
- flourishy — containing flourishes; fancy; like a flourish in nature
- flourless — the finely ground meal of grain, especially the finer meal separated by bolting.
- flowchart — Also called flow sheet. a detailed diagram or chart of the operations and equipment through which material passes, as in a manufacturing process.
- flowerage — the process or state of flowering.
- flowerbed — A part of a garden or park where flowers are grown.
- flowerers — Plural form of flowerer.
- flowerets — Plural form of floweret.
- flowerful — (poetic) flowery, abundant in flowers.
- flowerier — Comparative form of flowery.
- flowerily — In a flowery way.
- flowering — bearing flowers.
- flowerlet — a small flower; floret.
- flowerpot — a container in which to grow and display plants.
- flowingly — moving in or as in a stream: flowing water.
- flowmeter — an instrument for measuring the flow rate of a fluid in a pipe.
- flowstone — a layered deposit of calcium carbonate, CaCO 3 , left by thin sheets of flowing water, as in a cave.
- fuel flow — Fuel flow is the movement of oil or gas through delivery pipes.
- gene flow — the alteration of the frequencies of alleles of particular genes in a population, resulting from interbreeding with organisms from another population having different frequencies.
- gigaflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one billion floating-point operations per second.
- in flower — When a plant is in flower or when it has come into flower, its flowers have appeared and opened.
- inflowing — Flowing inward.
- interflow — to flow into each other; intermingle.
- kerflooey — Informal. to cease functioning, especially suddenly and completely; fall apart; fail: As soon as the storm hit, every light in town went kerflooey.
- kiloflops — (unit) 1000 FLOPS. See prefix.
- lava flow — liquid or solidified lava which has erupted from a volcano onto the Earth's surface
- low floor — A low floor in a hotel is the first floor, or a level that is a short distance from the first floor.
- mayflower — (italics) the ship in which the Pilgrims sailed from Southampton to the New World in 1620.
- megaflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one million floating-point operations per second.
- megaflora — plants large enough to be seen by the naked eye
- mycoflora — the fungi characteristic of a particular environment.
- offloaded — Simple past tense and past participle of offload.
- overflood — to flood excessively
- overflown — to fly over a particular territory, country, etc.: The plane approached the border but never overflew.
- petaflops — (unit) 10^15 flops or 1000 teraflops. As with flops, the term ends in S in both the singular and plural as the S stands for seconds. The first computer to perform one petaflops was recorded in June 2008. By June 2012 there were 20.
- reflowing — an occurrence of flowing again
- rig floor — The rig floor is the working area on a rig.
- safflower — a thistlelike composite plant, Carthamus tinctorius, native to the Old World, having finely toothed leaves and large, orange-red flower heads.
- sea-floor — the solid surface underlying a sea or an ocean.
- slip flow — gas flow occurring at hypersonic speeds in which molecular shearing occurs
- slug flow — A slug flow is a condition of a fluidized bed in which large bubbles of gas form, which makes lumps of particles move.
- soy flour — finely ground soybeans, most commonly used as an additive to other flours, processed meats, cereals, etc.
- sunflower — any of various composite plants of the genus Helianthus, as H. annuus, having showy, yellow-rayed flower heads often 12 inches (30 cm) wide, and edible seeds that yield an oil with a wide variety of uses: the state flower of Kansas.
- teraflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.
- the flood — the flood extending over all the earth from which Noah and his family and livestock were saved in the ark. (Genesis 7–8); the Deluge
- top floor — highest storey of a building