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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
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