Words That Start With FLU

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.

flutter

Verb : (intransitive) To flap or wave quickly but irregularly.

Verb : (intransitive) Of a winged animal: to flap the wings without flying; to fly with a light flapping of the wings.

Verb : (intransitive, aerodynamics) To undergo divergent oscillations (potentially to the point of causing structural failure) due to a positive feedback loop between elastic deformation and aerodynamic forces.

flustered

Adjective : Confused, befuddled, in a state of panic by having become overwrought with confusion.

fluorescent

Adjective : Of or relating to fluorescence.

Adjective : Exhibiting or produced by fluorescence.

Adjective : Emitting visible light as a result of the excitation of phosphors by ultraviolet photons produced by the passage of an electrical current through an inert gas infused with mercury.

flurry

Noun : A light, brief snowfall.

Noun : A sudden and brief blast or gust; a light, temporary breeze.

Noun : A shower of dust, leaves etc. brought on by a sudden gust of wind.

flux

Noun : The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream.

Noun : A state of ongoing change.

Noun : A chemical agent for cleaning metal prior to soldering or welding.

flummoxed

Adjective : Confused, perplexed or flustered.

fluent

Adjective : That flows; flowing, liquid.

Adjective : Able to use a language accurately, rapidly, and confidently.

Adjective : (programming) Being or relating to a fluent interface.

fluctuating

Adjective : Subject to irregular changes in quantity or quality.

Noun : A fluctuation.

fluence

Noun : (obsolete) Fluency

Noun : (physics) A measure of particle flux (or that of a pulse of electromagnetic radiation)

Noun : A magical or mysterious force; hypnotic power; energy.

fluid

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

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

fluttering

Noun : Rapid back-and-forth waving or oscillation.

flustrated

Adjective : Frustrated to the point of being flustered, or vice versa.

flue

Noun : A pipe or duct that carries gaseous combustion products away from the point of combustion (such as a furnace).

Noun : An enclosed passageway in which to direct a current of air or other gases along.

Noun : (obsolete, countable and uncountable) A woolly or downy substance; down, nap; a piece of this.

fluellen

Noun : Any plant of the genus Kickxia, having purple and yellow flowers.

Noun : A surname.

Noun : A character in Shakespeare's Henry V.

fluke

Noun : A lucky or improbable occurrence, with the implication that the occurrence could not be repeated.

Verb : To obtain a successful outcome by pure chance.

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

fluctuate

Verb : (intransitive) To vary irregularly; to swing.

Verb : (intransitive) To undulate.

Verb : (intransitive) To be irresolute; to waver.

fluency

Noun : The quality of smoothness of flow.

Noun : (linguistics) The quality of being fluent in a language; A person's command of a particular language.

Noun : The quality of consistently applying skill correctly in the manner of one well-practiced at it, requiring little deliberate thought to perform without mistakes

flung

Noun : An act of throwing, often violently.

Noun : An act of moving the limbs or body with violent movements, especially in a dance.

Noun : An act or period of unrestrained indulgence.

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 : The dull sound so produced.

fluctuant

Adjective : That fluctuates or causes fluctuation.

Adjective : (medicine) Used to describe a fluid-filled structure, such as an abscess, that produces a wave-like motion when palpated.

flurried

Adjective : Agitated, confused.

flummoxing

Adjective : Confusing, flustering, flabbergasting.

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.

flummox

Verb : (transitive) To confuse; to fluster; to flabbergast.

Verb : (intransitive, uncommon) To give in, to give up, to collapse.

flushed

Adjective : Red in the face because of embarrassment, exertion, etc.

fluty

Adjective : Resembling the sound of a flute.

Noun : A surname.

fluctuation

Noun : A motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that direction; an irregular rising and falling.

Noun : A wavering; unsteadiness.

Noun : In medicine, a wave-like motion or undulation of a fluid in a natural or abnormal cavity (e.g. pus in an abscess), which is felt during palpation or percussion.

fluvial

Adjective : Of, pertaining to, inhabiting, or produced by the action of a river or stream.

fluster

Verb : (transitive)

Verb : To throw (someone) into a state of confusion or panic; to befuddle, to confuse.

Verb : (dated) To make (someone) feel flushed and hot through drinking alcoholic beverages; also, to make (someone) slightly drunk or tipsy.

fluctuous

Adjective : (archaic) fluctuating

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

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

flume

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

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.

flunky

Noun : (slang, derogatory) A person who always agrees with their superior or employer.

Noun : One performing menial or miscellaneous duties.

Noun : Alternative form of flunkey [(derogatory) An underling; a liveried servant or a footman; servant, retainer – a person working in the service of another (especially in the household).]

fluxion

Noun : (obsolete, mathematics) The derivative of a function.

Noun : (rare or archaic) The action of flowing.

Noun : (rare or archaic) A difference or variation.

fluttered

Adjective : Confused, befuddled, flustered.

flushing

Noun : The act by which something is flushed.

Noun : Rushing of blood to the skin's surface, especially on the face, as happens under various physiological circumstances (e.g., in embarrassment or stress or during menopause).

Noun : (UK) A heavy, coarse cloth manufactured from shoddy.

fluffy

Adjective : Covered with fluff.

Adjective : Light; soft; airy.

Adjective : (colloquial) Warm and comforting.

fluidity

Noun : (uncountable) The state of being fluid rather than viscous

Noun : (countable) A measure of the extent to which something is fluid. The reciprocal of its viscosity.

Noun : The quality of being fluid or free-flowing

fluctuations

Noun : A motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that direction; an irregular rising and falling.

Noun : A wavering; unsteadiness.

Noun : In medicine, a wave-like motion or undulation of a fluid in a natural or abnormal cavity (e.g. pus in an abscess), which is felt during palpation or percussion.

fluidic

Adjective : Of or pertaining to a fluid.

Adjective : Of or pertaining to fluidics.

fluxive

Adjective : (archaic) flowing; lacking solidity

flury

Noun : A surname.

fluminal

Adjective : Relating to a stream; fluvial.

flunk

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

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

Verb : (US, dated, informal) To shirk (a task or duty).

flub

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

Noun : (slang) A fold of fat.

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

fluted

Adjective : Having flutes or grooves, either for decoration or to trim weight.

Adjective : (Ireland, slang) Drunk; intoxicated.

fluoresce

Verb : (intransitive, physics) To emit electromagnetic radiation, especially visible light, when absorbing radiation of some other wavelength.

Verb : (transitive, physics) To cause to fluoresce; to make fluorescent.

Verb : (intransitive) Of colours, to be very bright; to be so bright as to appear to radiate as a light source.

flunkey

Noun : (derogatory) An underling; a liveried servant or a footman; servant, retainer – a person working in the service of another (especially in the household).

Noun : An unpleasant, snobby or cringeworthy person.

flustering

Adjective : Agitated, confusing.

Adjective : (obsolete) Boasting or bragging noisily; blustering, swaggering.

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.]

fluxibility

Noun : The quality of being fluxible.

fluxure

Noun : (obsolete) The quality of being fluid; fluidity.

Noun : (obsolete) Fluid matter.

flurriedly

Verb : In a flurry.

flunkeydom

Noun : The state of a being a flunkey

flues

Noun : (obsolete) Bits of down.

fluff up

Verb : (transitive) To plump up.

Verb : (slang) To make a gaffe or blunder; to fuck up.

flustration

Noun : (archaic, colloquial) The act of flustrating; confusion; flurry or flustering.

fluxible

Adjective : (obsolete) Capable of being melted or fused.

Adjective : (obsolete) fluid; flowing

Adjective : (obsolete) fluctuating; changeable

flusteration

Noun : (colloquial, dated) The state of being flustered; agitation.

fluitt

Noun : A surname.

flurr

Verb : (transitive) To scatter.

Verb : (intransitive) To fly up.

flusteredly

Verb : In a flustered manner.

fluoride

Noun : (chemistry) Any salt of hydrofluoric acid; for example, potassium fluoride.

Noun : (chemistry) A binary compound of fluorine and another element or radical.

fluorine

Noun : (uncountable) The chemical element (symbol F) with an atomic number of 9. It is the lightest of the halogens, a pale yellow-green, highly reactive gas that attacks all metals.

Noun : (chemistry, countable) A single atom of this element.

fluting

Adjective : Making a sound like a flute.

Noun : (architecture, sculpture) A decoration consisting of parallel, normally vertical, flutes (grooves) incised into the surface.

Noun : The act of making such grooves.

fluor

Noun : (dated) The mineral fluorite.

Noun : (obsolete) A flow or flux.

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

flummery

Noun : A custard; any of several bland, gelatinous foodstuffs, usually made from stewed fruit and thickened with oatmeal, cornstarch or flour.

Noun : (historical, specifically) A slightly tart, jelly-like food of Welsh origin, made from extensively boiling oats, then boiling down the liquid extracted from it.

Noun : Empty or meaningless talk, especially when used to flatter.

fluky

Adjective : Alternative spelling of flukey [Lucky.]

fluoro

Noun : (Australia, colloquial) A fluorescent light.

Adjective : (chiefly Australia) Fluorescent.

fluffing

Noun : The act by which something is fluffed.

flutteringly

Verb : In a fluttering manner.

flutters

Verb : (intransitive) To flap or wave quickly but irregularly.

Verb : (intransitive) Of a winged animal: to flap the wings without flying; to fly with a light flapping of the wings.

Verb : (intransitive, aerodynamics) To undergo divergent oscillations (potentially to the point of causing structural failure) due to a positive feedback loop between elastic deformation and aerodynamic forces.

fluidly

Verb : In a fluid manner; smoothly.

fluviatic

Adjective : Belonging to rivers or streams; fluviatile.

fluked

Adjective : Having flukes.

fluey

Adjective : (obsolete) downy; fluffy

Adjective : As if suffering from influenza.

flubber

Noun : A rubbery polymer formed by cross-linking of polyvinyl alcohol with a boron compound, used as a plaything or to demonstrate physical properties.

Noun : One who flubs; a goof, a person who makes errors while speaking.

fluffer

Noun : Someone or something that fluffs (in various senses).

Noun : (pornography) One who arouses male pornographic actors before filming.

Noun : (UK) One who is employed to clean the tracks in the tunnels of the London Underground.

fluxile

Adjective : fluxible

flud

Noun : A surname.

fluviology

Noun : The study of rivers.

fluker

Noun : A surname.

Noun : An unincorporated community in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, United States.

flukily

Verb : In a fluky way; with unexpected luck.

fluidism

Noun : (medicine, obsolete) The doctrine that the fluids of the body are the source of its vital properties and are susceptible to disease.

fluvioterrestrial

Adjective : Relating to land and fresh water, but not the seas.

fluxgate

Noun : (physics) Any of several devices that use soft iron cores surrounded by coils of wire that generate a pattern of induced currents when it moves relative to an external magnetic field.

fluctus

Noun : (astronomy, geology) An area covered by outflow from a volcano.

fluidiform

Adjective : Having the form of a fluid.

fluxon

Noun : (physics) The quasiparticle of electric or magnetic flux

fluffery

Noun : Anything lightweight and overly ornamental or superfluous; fluff; froth.

fluorescence

Noun : (physics) The emission of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) by a material when stimulated by the absorption of radiation or of a subatomic particle.

Noun : The light so emitted.

fluoridation

Noun : (chemistry) The act or process of adding fluoride to something, especially water.

fluently

Verb : In a fluent manner, as expressing oneself easily, especially in a foreign language.

Verb : In a fluent manner, as having graceful movements.

Verb : In a fluent manner, as literally flowing.

fluorescent lamp

Noun : A gas-discharge lamp that uses fluorescence to produce visible light.

fluviatile

Adjective : Of, pertaining to, or produced by rivers; fluvial.

flurries

Adjective : Agitated, confused.

flutter kick

Noun : (swimming) A kick technique in which the swimmer kicks the legs alternately up and down for propulsion.

fluorometer

Noun : An instrument used to detect and measure fluorescence.

flukey

Adjective : Lucky.

Adjective : Unstable, prone to rapid and unpredictable changes.

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