(computing) A special value used on computer tape to separate individual files.
filemarks
filemarks
noun
plural of filemark
filletlike
filletlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a fillet.
filmlike
filmlike
adj
(figuratively, by extension) Unrealistically romantic, exciting, scenic, etc.
(of a digital photograph or video) Having qualities similar to those of images captured on photographic film.
Resembling a film.
filmmake
filmmaker
filmmaker
noun
A producer or director of films/movies.
fingerlike
fingerlike
adj
Resembling a finger, especially in shape
finkel
finkelstein
finlike
finlike
adj
Resembling a fin, especially in shape.
firelike
firelike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of fire; fiery.
firelock
firelock
noun
(by extension, historical) A firearm using such a gunlock.
(historical) A form of gunlock, in which the priming is ignited by a spark.
firelocks
firelocks
noun
plural of firelock
fireworkless
fireworkless
adj
Without fireworks.
fisherfolk
fisherfolk
noun
(anthropology) Members of a culture that is dominated by fishing.
People who fish for a living.
Recreational fishers.
fishlike
fishlike
adj
Having some characteristics of a fish.
fiskdale
fiskeville
fistlike
fistlike
adj
Resembling a fist (clenched hand).
flacked
flacked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of flack
flacker
flacker
verb
(intransitive) To flicker; to quiver.
(intransitive) To flutter like a bird.
flackery
flackery
noun
The aggressive public relations activity associated with press agents
flacket
flacket
noun
A barrel-shaped bottle; a flagon.
flaglike
flaglike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a flag (cloth emblem).
flagmaker
flagmaker
noun
One who manufactures flags.
flaillike
flaillike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a flail.
flakage
flakage
noun
(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
flakiness
flakiness
noun
The characteristic or quality of being flaky.
flakinesses
flakinesses
noun
plural of flakiness
flamelike
flamelike
adj
Resembling a flame or its colour.
flanderkin
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
flankwise
flankwise
adv
In terms of, or by means of, a flank.
flapcake
flapcake
noun
(US) flapjack; pancake
flareback
flareback
noun
A burst of flame emitted from a cannon, furnace, etc. in an abnormal direction.
flashlike
flashlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a flash.
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
flasklet
flasklet
noun
A small flask; a phial.
flatterdock
flaxlike
flaxlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of flax.
fleadock
fleak
fleak
noun
A small, light piece that is only loosely joined to something else, and which has a tendency to detach.
A thin piece that is chipped or peeled off from the surface of something else.
A thin piece that the flesh of some animals (such as fish) tends to break into.
verb
(transitive, intransitive, obsolete) Synonym of fleck
(transitive, obsolete, rare) Synonym of flake (“to remove (something) in fleaks or flakes (small chips or pieces)”)
fleck
fleck
noun
A flake.
A lock, as of wool.
A small spot or streak; a speckle.
verb
(transitive) To mark (something) with small spots.
flecked
flecked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of fleck
flecken
flecker
flecker
verb
(transitive) To fleck; to speckle.
fleckered
fleckered
verb
simple past tense and past participle of flecker
fleckering
fleckering
verb
present participle of flecker
fleckier
fleckiest
fleckiness
fleckiness
noun
The quality of being flecky.
flecking
flecking
noun
A flecked pattern.
verb
present participle of fleck
fleckled
fleckless
fleckless
adj
Without blame; faultless.
Without flecks or spots.
flecklessly
flecklessly
adv
In a fleckless manner.
flecks
flecks
noun
plural of fleck
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fleck
flecky
flecky
adj
Having flecks.
fleecelike
fleecelike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of fleece.
fleshhook
fleshhook
noun
(historical) A hook designed to lift meat out of boiling water.
fleshlike
fleshlike
adj
Resembling flesh
fleshquake
fleshquake
noun
A tremor or quiver of the body.
flicked
flicked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of flick
flicker
flicker
noun
(US) Any of certain small woodpeckers, especially of the genus Colaptes.
(figurative) A short moment.
An unsteady flash of light.
One who flicks.
verb
(intransitive) To burn or shine unsteadily, or with a wavering light.
(intransitive) To keep going on and off; to appear and disappear for short moments; to flutter.
(transitive, intransitive) To flutter or flap.
flickered
flickered
verb
simple past tense and past participle of flicker
flickering
flickering
adj
shining unsteadily or varying rapidly in brightness (referring to a light or a source of light)
noun
A short, uncertain burst.
verb
present participle of flicker
flickeringly
flickeringly
adv
Briefly
In a flickering manner
flickermouse
flickerproof
flickers
flickers
noun
plural of flicker
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flicker
flickertail
flickertail
noun
Nickname for the North American ground squirrel, Citellus richardsoni.
flickery
flickery
adj
Seeming to flicker; unsteady
flicksville
fliegerabwehrkanone
flinkite
flinkite
Noun
A mineral containing arsenic, hydrogen, manganese, and oxygen.
flintlike
flintlike
adj
Resembling flint; stony.
flintworker
flintworker
noun
A person who produces flintwork.
flisked
flisked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of flisk
fliskier
fliskiest
floatmaker
floatmaker
noun
A builder of floats (decorated trailers or vehicles for display in a parade or pageant).
flockbed
flocked
flocked
adj
(of Christmas trees) Covered with artificial snow.
(of bristles) Having split, bushy ends.
(of swabs) Having dense fibers with a desirable nap to optimize collection and elution of specimens.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of flock
flocker
flocker
noun
One who or that which flocks; a bird species that forms flocks.
flockier
flockier
adj
comparative form of flocky: more flocky
flockiest
flockiest
adj
superlative form of flocky: most flocky
flockless
flockless
adj
Without a flock.
flocklike
flocklike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of flocks.
flockmaster
flockmaster
noun
A head shepherd.
flockowner
flockowner
noun
Someone who owns a flock of animals.
flockwise
flockwise
adv
In or as a flock.
floerkea
flokite
floodlike
floodlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a flood.
floorwalker
floorwalker
noun
Alternative form of floor-walker
floorwalkers
floorwalkers
noun
plural of floorwalker
floriken
floriken
Noun
An Indian bustard (Otis aurita).
flourlike
flourlike
Adjective
Resembling flour.
flowerlike
flowerlike
adj
Resembling a flower, especially in shape
flowerpecker
flowerpecker
noun
Any member of the family Dicaeidae of passerine birds, many of which feed on nectar.
flowerwork
fluework
fluework
noun
A system of organ stops in which the sound is caused by wind passing through a flue or fissure and striking an edge above; distinguished from reedwork.
fluke
fluke
noun
(nautical) Any of the triangular blades at the end of an anchor, designed to catch the ground.
A flounder.
A lucky or improbable occurrence, with the implication that the occurrence could not be repeated.
A metal hook on the head of certain staff weapons (such as a bill), made in various forms depending on function, whether used for grappling or to penetrate armour when swung at an opponent.
A trematode; a parasitic flatworm of the Trematoda class, related to the tapeworm.
Either of the two lobes of a whale's or similar creature's tail.
In general, a winglike formation on a central piece.
Waste cotton.
verb
(snooker) To fortuitously pot a ball in an unintended way.
To obtain a successful outcome by pure chance.
fluked
fluked
adj
Having flukes.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of fluke
flukeless
flukeless
adj
Without a fluke.
fluker
flukes
flukes
noun
plural of fluke
flukeworm
flukeworm
noun
Any usually parasitic worm in the class Trematoda.
flukewort
flukey
flukey
adj
lucky
unstable, prone to rapid and unpredictable changes
flukier
flukier
adj
comparative form of fluky: more fluky
flukiest
flukiest
adj
superlative form of fluky: most fluky
flukiness
flukiness
noun
The property of being fluky.
flukinesses
flunked
flunked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of flunk
flunker
flunker
noun
(slang, Canada, US) Someone who has flunked: failed in an examination, been kept back to repeat a grade, or flunked out of school.
flunkers
flunkers
noun
plural of flunker
flunkey
flunkey
noun
(US, finance, slang) One easily deceived in buying stocks; an inexperienced and unwary jobber.
(derogatory) An underling; a liveried servant or a footman; servant, retainer – a person working in the service of another (especially in the household).
One who is obsequious or cringing; a snob.
flunkeydom
flunkeydom
noun
The state of a being a flunkey
flunkeyhood
flunkeyhood
noun
The role or status of a flunkey.
flunkeyish
flunkeyish
adj
Alternative form of flunkyish
flunkeyism
flunkeyism
noun
Alternative form of flunkyism
flunkeyistic
flunkeyistic
adj
Alternative form of flunkyistic
flunkeyite
flunkeyize
flunkeys
flunkeys
noun
plural of flunkey (alternative spelling of flunkies).
flunkies
flunkies
noun
plural of flunkey
plural of flunky
flunkyite
flunkyize
flusker
flutelike
flutelike
adj
Resembling a flute or the sound of flute music
flutework
flutework
noun
(architecture) Fluted ornamentation; groovework.
flyspeck
flyspeck
noun
(by extension) Anything tiny or insignificant.
Housefly excrement, visible as a minuscule black dot.
verb
To bespeckle with tiny spatters of color.
To inspect in minute detail to ensure that something contains no flaws; nitpick.
flyspecked
flyspecked
adj
Covered with flyspecks.
flyspecking
flyspecking
noun
A technique for painting furniture with flicked drops of paint.
verb
present participle of flyspeck
flyspecks
flyspecks
noun
plural of flyspeck
foamlike
foamlike
adj
Resembling foam; foamy.
fockle
foehnlike
foehnlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a foehn (type of wind).
foelike
foelike
adj
Of, like, or characteristic of a foe or enemy; adversarial.