(uncountable) A species of Vaccinium (Vaccinium arboreum) native to the southeastern United States, from southern Virginia west to southeastern Missouri, and south to Florida and eastern Texas, and taking the form of a shrub (rarely a small tree) growing to 3-5 m (rarely 9 m) tall.
farmerlike
farmerlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a farmer.
farrierlike
fartlek
fartlek
noun
An athletic training technique, used especially in running, in which periods of intense effort alternate with periods of less strenuous effort in a continuous workout.
fastwalk
fatelike
fatelike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of fate.
fatherlike
fatherlike
adj
having the qualities of a father
fatlike
fatlike
adj
Resembling fat (the chemical substance) or some aspect of it.
(archaeology) The presence of flaking in an artifact.
flake
flake
noun
(Australia) The meat of the gummy shark.
(UK) Dogfish.
(UK, dialect) A paling; a hurdle.
(US, law enforcement, slang) A corrupt arrest, e.g. to extort money for release or merely to fulfil a quota.
(archaeology) A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
(informal) A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living.
(nautical) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.
(nautical) Alternative form of fake (“turn or coil of cable or hawser”)
A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
A flat turn or tier of rope.
A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything
A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
A scale of a fish or similar animal
A wire rack for drying fish.
verb
(Ireland, slang) To hit (another person).
(US, law enforcement, slang) To plant evidence to facilitate a corrupt arrest.
(colloquial) To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
(technical) To store an item such as rope or sail in layers
To break or chip off in a flake.
To lay out on a flake for drying.
flakeboard
flakeboard
noun
A type of board manufactured from wood flakes
flaked
flaked
adj
(of a person) unreliable or impractical
verb
simple past tense and past participle of flake
flakeless
flakeless
adj
Without flakes.
flakelet
flakelet
noun
A small flake.
flaker
flaker
noun
(archaeology, chemistry, kitchen) A tool or appliance used to break flakes off a piece of material or something into it.
(slang) Someone who is untrue to his commitments and shows interest but then chooses to miss.
flakers
flakers
noun
plural of flaker
flakes
flakes
noun
plural of flake
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flake
flakier
flakier
adj
comparative form of flaky: more flaky
flakiest
flakiest
adj
superlative form of flaky: most flaky
flakily
flakily
adv
In a flaky way.
flakiness
flakiness
noun
The characteristic or quality of being flaky.
flakinesses
flakinesses
noun
plural of flakiness
flaking
flaking
adj
Breaking or tending to break into flakes.
noun
A piece of flaked material.
verb
present participle of flake
flaky
flaky
adj
(informal, of a person) Unreliable; likely to make plans with others but then abandon those plans.
(informal, of a thing) Unreliable; working only on an intermittent basis; likely due to malfunction.
Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.
flamelike
flamelike
adj
Resembling a flame or its colour.
flanderkin
flank
flank
adj
(US, nautical, of speed) Maximum. Historically faster than full speed (the most a vessel can sustain without excessive engine wear or risk of damage), now frequently used interchangeably. Typically used in an emergency or during an attack.
noun
(anatomy) The flesh between the last rib and the hip; the side.
(cooking) A cut of meat from the flank of an animal.
(military) The extreme left or right edge of a military formation, army etc.
(military) The sides of a bastion perpendicular to the wall from which the bastion projects.
(soccer) The wing, one side of the pitch.
That part of the acting surface of a gear wheel tooth that lies within the pitch line.
The outermost strip of a road.
The side of something, in general senses.
verb
(intransitive) To be placed to the side(s) of something (usually in terms of two objects, one on each side).
(transitive) To attack the flank(s) of.
(transitive) To defend the flank(s) of.
(transitive) To place to the side(s) of.
flankard
flanked
flanked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of flank
flanken
flanken
noun
A certain cut of beef used in Ashkenazic Jewish cuisine, made by cutting short ribs across the bone
flanker
flanker
noun
(American football) A wide receiver who lines up behind the line of scrimmage.
(military) A fortification or soldier projecting so as to defend another work or to command the flank of an assailing body.
(rugby) A player who plays in the back row of the scrum.
verb
(obsolete) To attack sideways.
(obsolete) To defend by lateral fortifications.
flankers
flankers
noun
plural of flanker
flanking
flanking
verb
present participle of flank
flanks
flanks
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flank
flankwise
flankwise
adv
In terms of, or by means of, a flank.
flanky
flapcake
flapcake
noun
(US) flapjack; pancake
flapdock
flapjack
flapjack
noun
(Britain) A bar made of (though not limited to) rolled oats, butter, golden syrup, and brown sugar, baked in a tray.
(US) A pancake.
flapjacks
flapjacks
noun
plural of flapjack; pancakes.
flareback
flareback
noun
A burst of flame emitted from a cannon, furnace, etc. in an abnormal direction.
flashback
flashback
noun
(authorship) A dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative.
(databases) A query that operates against data from an earlier time, before it was changed.
(psychology) A vivid mental image of a past trauma or other sensation that the trauma is happening in the present, especially one that recurs.
A similar recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug.
The condition of the flame propagating down the hose of an oxy-fuel welding system.
verb
(intransitive) To undergo a flashback; to experience a vivid mental image from the past.
flashbacks
flashbacks
noun
plural of flashback
flashlike
flashlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a flash.
flask
flask
noun
(engineering) A container for holding a casting mold, especially for sand casting molds.
(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.
A bed in a gun carriage.
A container used to discreetly carry a small amount of a hard alcoholic beverage; a pocket flask.
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.
verb
(dentistry) To invest a denture in a flask so as to produce a sectional mold.
flasker
flasker
noun
(historical) A whisky smuggler.
flasket
flasket
noun
(dated) A vessel for serving food.
(dated, UK) A long, shallow basket with two handles.
flaskets
flaskets
noun
plural of flasket
flaskful
flaskful
noun
As much as a flask will hold.
flasklet
flasklet
noun
A small flask; a phial.
flasks
flasks
noun
plural of flask
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flask
flatlick
flatterdock
flatwork
flatwork
noun
(construction) Horizontal construction work using concrete, such as floors.