5 Letter Words That Start With FL

flush

Noun : A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees, etc.

Verb : (transitive) To cause to take flight from concealment.

Verb : (intransitive) To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover.

flora

Noun : Plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.

Noun : A book describing the plants of a country, region, time, etc.

Noun : The microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body.

flare

Noun : A sudden bright light.

Noun : A source of brightly burning light or intense heat.

Noun : A type of pyrotechnic that produces a brilliant light without an explosion, used to attract attention in an emergency, to illuminate an area, or as a decoy.

fling

Noun : A short romantic, oftentimes sexual, relationship.

Noun : An act or period of unrestrained indulgence.

Noun : An act of throwing, often violently.

flout

Verb : (transitive) To express contempt for (laws, rules, etc.) by word or action.

Noun : The act by which something is flouted; violation of a law.

Noun : A mockery or insult.

float

Verb : (intransitive, of an object or substance) To be supported by a fluid of greater density (than the object).

Verb : To be supported by a liquid of greater density, such that part (of the object or substance) remains above the surface.

Verb : (transitive) To cause something to be suspended in a fluid of greater density.

flesh

Noun : The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.

Noun : The skin of a human or animal.

Noun : Animal tissue regarded as food; meat (but sometimes excluding fish).

flirt

Verb : (intransitive) To play at courtship; to talk with teasing affection, to insinuate sexual attraction in a playful (especially conversational) way.

Noun : An act of flirting.

Noun : Someone who flirts a lot or enjoys flirting; a flirtatious person.

fleer

Verb : (archaic) To make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn

Noun : (archaic) Mockery; derision.

Verb : (archaic) To grin with an air of civility; to leer.

flame

Noun : The visible part of fire; a stream of burning vapour or gas, emitting light and heat.

Noun : A romantic partner or lover in a usually short-lived but passionate affair.

Noun : Burning zeal, passion, imagination, excitement, or anger.

flick

Noun : A short, quick movement, especially a brush, sweep, or flip.

Noun : (informal) A motion picture, movie, film; (in plural, usually preceded by "the") movie theater, cinema.

Noun : (fencing) A cut that lands with the point, often involving a whip of the foible of the blade to strike at a concealed target.

flair

Noun : A natural or innate talent or aptitude.

Noun : Distinctive style or elegance.

Verb : (transitive) To add flair.

flash

Verb : (transitive) To cause to shine briefly or intermittently.

Verb : (intransitive) To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.

Verb : (intransitive) To be visible briefly.

flood

Noun : An overflow of a large amount of water (usually disastrous) from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.

Verb : To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall.

Noun : (figuratively) A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.

fluid

Noun : A liquid (as opposed to a solid or gas).

Noun : Any substance which can flow with relative ease, tends to assume the shape of its container, and obeys Bernoulli's principle; a liquid, gas or plasma.

Noun : (specifically, medicine, colloquial, typically in the plural) Intravenous fluids.

flaky

Adjective : (informal, of a person) Unreliable; likely to make plans with others but then abandon those plans.

Adjective : (informal, of a thing) Unreliable; working only on an intermittent basis; likely due to malfunction.

Adjective : Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.

flake

Noun : A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything

Noun : A scale of a fish or similar animal

Verb : To break or chip off in a flake.

fluke

Noun : A lucky or improbable occurrence that could probably never be repeated.

Verb : To obtain a successful outcome by pure chance.

Verb : (snooker) To fortuitously pot a ball in an unintended way.

flock

Noun : A number of birds together in a group, such as those gathered together for the purpose of migration.

Noun : A large number of animals associated together in a group; commonly used of sheep, but (dated) also used for goats, farmed animals, and a wide variety of animals.

Noun : A large number of people.

fleet

Noun : A group of vessels or vehicles.

Noun : Any group of associated items.

Noun : A large, coordinated group of people.

flask

Noun : A container used to discreetly carry a small amount of a hard alcoholic beverage; a pocket flask.

Noun : A narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc.

Noun : (sciences) Laboratory glassware used to hold larger volumes than test tubes, normally having a narrow mouth of a standard size which widens to a flat or spherical base.

fleck

Noun : A small spot or streak; a speckle.

Noun : A flake.

Noun : A small amount.

flung

Noun : A short romantic, oftentimes sexual, relationship.

Noun : An act or period of unrestrained indulgence.

Noun : An act of throwing, often violently.

flump

Verb : (intransitive) To move or fall heavily, or with a dull sound.

Verb : (transitive) To drop something heavily or with a dull sound.

Noun : An instance of the dull sound so produced.

floor

Noun : (countable) The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.

Noun : (geology, biology, chiefly with a modifier) The bottom surface of a natural structure, entity, or space (e.g. cave, forest, ocean, desert, etc.); the ground (surface of the Earth).

Noun : (UK, dialectal, colloquial) The ground.

flank

Noun : The side of something, in general senses.

Verb : (transitive) To place to the side(s) of.

Noun : (anatomy) The lateral flesh between the last rib and the hip.

flail

Verb : (transitive) To wave or swing vigorously

Verb : (transitive) To beat using a flail or similar implement.

Verb : (intransitive) To move like a flail.

fluff

Noun : Anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers.

Noun : Anything inconsequential or superficial.

Noun : (informal) A lapse or mistake, especially a mistake in an actor's lines.

fluty

Adjective : Resembling the sound of a flute.

Noun : A surname.

flowe

Noun : A surname.

Verb : Obsolete form of flow. [(intransitive) To move as a fluid from one position to another.]

flyer

Noun : That which flies, as a bird or insect.

Noun : A machine that flies.

Noun : (dated) An airplane pilot.

fleam

Noun : A sharp instrument used to open a vein, to lance gums, or the like.

Noun : (UK, dialectal, Northern England) The watercourse or runoff from a mill; millstream

Noun : (UK, dialectal, Northern England) A large trench or gully cut into a meadow in order to drain it

flute

Noun : (music) A woodwind instrument consisting of a tube with a row of holes that produce sound through vibrations caused by air blown across the edge of the holes, often tuned by plugging one or more holes with a finger; the Western concert flute, a transverse side-blown flute of European origin.

Noun : A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne.

Noun : (colloquial) A recorder, also a woodwind instrument.

floss

Noun : A thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth.

Verb : (slang, African-American Vernacular) To show off, especially by exhibiting one's wealth or talent.

Noun : A dance move in which the dancer repeatedly swings their arms, with clenched fists, from the back of their body to the front, on each side.

flume

Noun : An open channel or trough used to direct or divert liquids, especially to carry materials (logs, mined material, etc) or people (as a water slide), especially (but not always) one where the walls are raised above the surrounding terrain rather than recessed like a ditch.

Verb : (transitive) To transport (logs of wood) by floating them along a water-filled channel or trough.

Noun : A ravine or gorge, usually one with water running through.

flack

Noun : (Canada, US) A publicist, a publicity agent.

Verb : (Canada, US) To publicise, to promote.

Verb : (intransitive, UK dialectal) To hang loosely; flag.

flamy

Adjective : Flaming, blazing.

Adjective : Flamelike, flame-colored.

Adjective : Composed of flame.

flury

Noun : A surname.

flint

Noun : A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck against a material such as steel, because tiny chips of the steel are heated to incandescence and burn in air.

Noun : A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker.

Noun : A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc.

flies

Noun : The open area above a stage where scenery and equipment may be hung.

flunk

Verb : (ambitransitive) Of a student, to fail a class; to not pass.

Verb : (transitive) Of a teacher, to deny a student a passing grade.

Verb : (by extension) To fail any challenge

flurt

Noun : Archaic form of flirt. [A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion]

Verb : Archaic form of flirt. [(transitive) To throw (something) with a jerk or sudden movement; to fling.]

floud

Noun : Obsolete spelling of flood. [An overflow of a large amount of water (usually disastrous) from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.]

flowy

Adjective : Flowing; able to flow.

flory

Adjective : (heraldry, of a bordure, etc) Decorated with fleurs-de-lis projecting from it.

Adjective : (heraldry, of a cross) Having the ends of the arms turn into fleurs-de-lis, rather than having fleurs-de-lis attached to the ends as in a cross floretty.

Noun : A surname.

flawy

Adjective : Full of flaws or cracks; broken; defective.

Adjective : Subject to sudden flaws or gusts of wind.

flues

Noun : (obsolete) Bits of down.

fleak

Noun : A small, light piece that is only loosely joined to something else, and which has a tendency to detach.

Noun : A thin piece that is chipped or peeled off from the surface of something else.

Noun : A thin piece that the flesh of some animals (such as fish) tends to break into.

flyte

Noun : Alternative spelling of flite. [(dialectal) a quarrel, dispute, wrangling.]

Verb : Alternative spelling of flite. [(dialectal) to dispute, quarrel, wrangle, brawl.]

flurr

Verb : (intransitive) To fly up.

Verb : (transitive) To scatter.

fluor

Noun : (dated) The mineral fluorite.

Noun : (obsolete) A flow or flux.

Noun : (obsolete, in the plural) Menstrual periods.

flops

Noun : (computing) One flop per second.

Noun : flop per second; floating-point operation per second

flats

Noun : footwear (shoes or slippers) with no heel (or a flat heel

fluky

Adjective : Alternative spelling of flukey. [Lucky.]

flite

Noun : (dialectal) a quarrel, dispute, wrangling.

Noun : (dialectal) a scolding.

Verb : (dialectal) to dispute, quarrel, wrangle, brawl.

flook

Noun : A surname.

Noun : Obsolete form of fluke (“blade at the end of an anchor”). [A lucky or improbable occurrence that could probably never be repeated.]

flees

Noun : a 1996 American buddy action comedy film directed by Kevin Hooks.

Noun : the original soundtrack album to Kevin Hooks's 1996 buddy action comedy film Fled.

flosh

Noun : A flush or flash (marsh or pool of water).

Noun : (obsolete) A hopper-shaped box in which ore is placed to be stamped.

Noun : Alternative form of floss (“fibres of corncob, bean plants, etc.”). [A thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth.]

fluey

Adjective : As if suffering from influenza.

Adjective : (obsolete) Downy; fluffy.

flinn

Noun : A surname.

Noun : An unincorporated community in Monroe County, Mississippi, United States.

Noun : An unincorporated community in Wood County, West Virginia, United States.

flink

Noun : A surname.

flett

Noun : A surname.

flohr

Noun : A surname.

floot

flocc

Noun : Alternative spelling of floc. [A floccule; a soft or fluffy particle suspended in a liquid, or the fluffy mass of suspended particles so formed.]

floof

Noun : (Internet slang, countable, endearing) A long-haired dog, cat, or similar furry pet animal.

Noun : (Internet slang, uncountable, endearing) The fur of such an animal.

Noun : (Internet slang, uncountable, endearing) Hair that looks fluffy, like fur from such an animal.

floom

Noun : (US, archaic) A flume, as in a mill flume.

flott

flour

Noun : Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.

Noun : (US standards of identity) The food made by grinding and bolting cleaned wheat (not durum or red durum) until it meets specified levels of fineness, dryness, and freedom from bran and germ, also containing any of certain enzymes, ascorbic acid, and certain bleaching agents.

Verb : (transitive) To apply flour to something; to cover with flour.

flier

Noun : Alternative form of flyer (more common in US, except in the sense of "leaflet") [That which flies, as a bird or insect.]

Verb : Alternative form of flyer. [(intransitive) To distribute flyers (leaflets).]

flaps

Noun : (farriery, archaic) A disease in the mouths of horses involving inflammation in the cheeks or lips.

flags

Noun : (military, slang) Nickname for a flag lieutenant.

fleas

Noun : "Fleas" is the sixteenth episode of the first season of the American legal drama television series The Good Wife.

flyby

Noun : A flight past a celestial object in order to make observations.

Noun : (US) A low-level ceremonial flight, typically in connection with an airshow or a military parade.

Noun : (figurative) A brief visit.

fleur

Noun : fleur-de-lis

Noun : A female given name from French in quiet use since the 1920s.

flong

Noun : (printing) A mould, especially one made from papier-mâché, used to create a stereotype.

flied

Noun : (chiefly plural) The thick, dangling upper lip of certain breeds of dog, or the canine equivalent of the upper lip.

Adjective : (UK, dialect) shallow; flat

flits

Verb : To move about rapidly and nimbly.

Verb : To move quickly from one location to another.

Noun : A fluttering or darting movement.

flang

Noun : A miner's double-edged pick.

flaws

Noun : A defect, fault, or imperfection, especially one that is hidden.

Noun : A crack or breach, a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion.

Verb : (transitive) To add a flaw to, to make imperfect or defective.

flisk

Verb : (Scotland, Northern England) To frisk; to skip; to caper; to move quickly or restlessly.

Verb : (Scotland, Northern England) To flick or sprinkle (with or as if with water).

Noun : A comb with large teeth.

flote

Verb : To fleet; to skim.

Noun : (obsolete) A wave.

floyd

Noun : A surname from Welsh, variant of Lloyd

Noun : A male given name transferred from the surname, variant of Lloyd, today particularly common among African Americans.

Noun : A number of places in the United States:

flogs

Verb : (transitive) To whip or scourge as punishment.

Verb : (transitive) To use something to extreme; to abuse.

Verb : (transitive, UK, slang) To sell.

flubs

Noun : (informal) An error; a mistake in the performance of an action.

Verb : (informal, transitive) To goof, fumble, or err in the performance of an action.

Noun : (US, Australia, slang) A fold of fat.

flays

Verb : To strip the skin off; to skin.

Verb : To lash or whip.

Verb : (transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To cause to fly; put to flight; drive off (by frightening).

flowk

Noun : Archaic form of fluke (type of worm). [A lucky or improbable occurrence that could probably never be repeated.]

fleen

fludd

Noun : A surname.

flore

Noun : A village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire, England, formerly in Daventry district.

flexo

Noun : flexography.

flarf

Noun : An avant-garde poetry movement of the early 21st century, rejecting conventional standards of quality and exploring atypical subject matter and tone.

flabs

Noun : (informal) Soft, loose flesh on a person's body; fat.

flama

floch

Noun : A surname.

flark

Noun : (countable) A depression or hollow within a bog.

flens

flerd

Noun : A mixed group of ruminants, such as sheep and cattle.

flexy

Adjective : Implying or indicating an ability, capacity, or tendency to flex; flexible; bendy.

flobs

Noun : (UK, slang) Spittle or phlegm, especially a piece of spittle or phlegm that has been spat out.

Verb : (UK, slang) To spit or to gob.

Verb : To flop; to move or behave in a loose or uncoordinated way.

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