8-letter words starting with FL
Embark on a linguistic journey with words that begin with the letter FL. This section showcases how FL at the start shapes the identity and sound of various words. From commonly used terms to rare finds, explore the diverse range of words that start with FL, enriching your vocabulary and appreciation for language.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| floating | 12 | the act of someone who floats on the water | - |
| flirting | 12 | playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest | - |
| florence | 13 | a city in central Italy on the Arno; provincial capital of Tuscany; center of the Italian Renaissance from 14th to 16th centuries | - |
| fletcher | 16 | prolific English dramatist who collaborated with Francis Beaumont and many other dramatists (1579-1625) | - |
| flexible | 20 | able to adjust readily to different conditions | a flexible personality |
| flashing | 15 | a short vivid experience | the flashings of pain were a warning |
| flooding | 13 | a technique used in behavior therapy; client is flooded with experiences of a particular kind until becoming either averse to them or numbed to them | - |
| flipping | 16 | - | - |
| flawless | 14 | without a flaw | a flawless gemstone |
| flapping | 16 | the motion made by flapping up and down | - |
| flushing | 15 | - | - |
| fleeting | 12 | lasting for a markedly brief time | a fleeting glance |
| flourish | 14 | (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments | he entered to a flourish of trumpets |
| flattery | 14 | excessive or insincere praise | - |
| flamenco | 15 | a style of dancing characteristic of the Andalusian Gypsies; vigorous and rhythmic with clapping and stamping of feet | - |
| flagpole | 14 | surveying instrument consisting of a straight rod painted in bands of alternate red and white each one foot wide; used for sightings by surveyors | - |
| flamingo | 14 | large pink to scarlet web-footed wading bird with down-bent bill; inhabits brackish lakes | - |
| fluently | 14 | in a fluent manner | she speaks French fluently |
| flogging | 14 | beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment | - |
| flounder | 12 | walk with great difficulty | - |
| flagship | 17 | the chief one of a related group | it is their flagship newspaper |
| flatmate | 13 | an associate who shares an apartment with you | - |
| fluoride | 12 | a salt of hydrofluoric acid | - |
| flatfish | 17 | any of several families of fishes having flattened bodies that swim along the sea floor on one side of the body with both eyes on the upper side | - |
| flagrant | 12 | conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible | flagrant violation of human rights |
| flowered | 15 | resembling or made of or suggestive of flowers | - |
| flagging | 14 | weak from exhaustion | - |
| flopping | 16 | - | - |
| flinging | 13 | - | - |
| flooring | 12 | the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure) | - |
| flatfoot | 14 | a foot afflicted with a fallen arch; abnormally flattened and spread out | - |
| flippant | 15 | showing inappropriate levity | - |
| flywheel | 20 | regulator consisting of a heavy wheel that stores kinetic energy and smooths the operation of a reciprocating engine | - |
| flapjack | 26 | a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle | - |
| flitting | 12 | - | - |
| fleecing | 14 | - | - |
| flotilla | 11 | a fleet of small craft | - |
| flypaper | 18 | paper that is poisoned or coated with a sticky substance to kill flies | - |
| fluorine | 11 | a nonmetallic univalent element belonging to the halogens; usually a yellow irritating toxic flammable gas; a powerful oxidizing agent; recovered from fluorite or cryolite or fluorapatite | - |
| flatness | 11 | inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy | - |
| flautist | 11 | someone who plays the flute | - |
| fluttery | 14 | - | - |
| flinders | 12 | British explorer who mapped the Australian coast (1774-1814) | - |
| flattest | 11 | - | - |
| flatware | 14 | silverware eating utensils | - |
| fluidity | 15 | a changeable quality | a charming Oriental fluidity of manner |
| flatworm | 16 | parasitic or free-living worms having a flattened body | - |
| fledging | 14 | - | - |
| flexibly | 23 | with flexibility | `Come whenever you are free,' he said flexibly |
| flameout | 13 | - | - |
| flathead | 15 | food fish of the Indonesian region of the Pacific; resembles gurnards | - |
| flatting | 12 | - | - |
| floodlit | 12 | illuminated by means of floodlights | the floodlit courtyard |
| fluffier | 17 | - | - |
| flurried | 12 | - | - |
| flabbier | 15 | - | - |
| flabbily | 18 | in a flabby manner | the old man's muscles were sagging flabbily |
| flabella | 13 | - | - |
| flackers | 17 | - | - |
| flackery | 20 | - | - |
| flackets | 17 | - | - |
| flacking | 18 | - | - |
| flaffers | 17 | - | - |
| flaffing | 18 | - | - |
| flagella | 12 | - | - |
| flaggers | 13 | - | - |
| flaggier | 13 | - | - |
| flagless | 12 | - | - |
| flailing | 12 | - | - |
| flakiest | 15 | - | - |
| flambeau | 15 | a flaming torch (such as are used in processions at night) | - |
| flambeed | 16 | - | - |
| flambees | 15 | - | - |
| flamelet | 13 | - | - |
| flamfews | 19 | - | - |
| flamiest | 13 | - | - |
| flamines | 13 | - | - |
| flamming | 16 | - | - |
| flammule | 15 | - | - |
| flancard | 14 | - | - |
| flanched | 17 | - | - |
| flanches | 16 | - | - |
| flanerie | 11 | - | - |
| flaneurs | 11 | - | - |
| flangers | 12 | - | - |
| flanging | 13 | - | - |
| flankens | 15 | - | - |
| flankers | 15 | - | - |
| flanking | 16 | - | - |
| flannels | 11 | - | - |
| flannens | 11 | - | - |
| flannies | 11 | - | - |
| flaperon | 13 | - | - |
| flapless | 13 | - | - |
| flaplike | 17 | - | - |
| flappers | 15 | - | - |
| flappier | 15 | - | - |
| flareups | 13 | - | - |
| flariest | 11 | - | - |
| flashers | 14 | - | - |
| flashest | 14 | - | - |
| flashgun | 15 | a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph | - |
| flashier | 14 | - | - |
| flashily | 17 | in a fancy colorful manner | - |
| flaskets | 15 | - | - |
| flatback | 19 | - | - |
| flatbeds | 14 | - | - |
| flatboat | 13 | a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals) | - |
| flatbrod | 14 | the thin wafer-like bread of Scandinavia | - |
| flatcaps | 15 | - | - |
| flatcars | 13 | - | - |
| flatette | 11 | - | - |
| flatfeet | 14 | - | - |
| flatform | 16 | - | - |
| flatiron | 11 | an iron that was heated by placing it on a stove | - |
| flatland | 12 | - | - |
| flatlets | 11 | - | - |
| flatline | 11 | - | - |
| flatling | 12 | - | - |
| flatlong | 12 | - | - |
| flatpack | 19 | - | - |
| flatpick | 19 | - | - |
| flattens | 11 | - | - |
| flatters | 11 | - | - |
| flatties | 11 | - | - |
| flattish | 14 | - | - |
| flattops | 13 | - | - |
| flatuous | 11 | - | - |
| flatuses | 11 | - | - |
| flatwash | 17 | - | - |
| flatways | 17 | - | - |
| flatwise | 14 | - | - |
| flatwork | 18 | ironing that can be done mechanically | - |
| flaughts | 15 | - | - |
| flaunted | 12 | - | - |
| flaunter | 11 | - | - |
| flavanol | 14 | - | - |
| flavines | 14 | - | - |
| flavones | 14 | - | - |
| flavonol | 14 | - | - |
| flavored | 15 | - | - |
| flavorer | 14 | something added to food primarily for the savor it imparts | - |
| flavours | 14 | - | - |
| flavoury | 17 | - | - |
| flawiest | 14 | - | - |
| flaxiest | 18 | - | - |
| flaxlike | 22 | - | - |
| flaxseed | 19 | the seed of flax used as a source of oil | - |
| flaysome | 16 | - | - |
| fleabags | 14 | - | - |
| fleabane | 13 | hairy perennial Eurasian herb with yellow daisylike flowers reputed to destroy or drive away fleas | - |
| fleabite | 13 | - | - |
| fleapits | 13 | - | - |
| fleasome | 13 | - | - |
| fleawort | 14 | plantain of Mediterranean regions whose seeds swell and become gelatinous when moist and are used as a mild laxative | - |
| fleckers | 17 | - | - |
| fleckier | 17 | - | - |
| flecking | 18 | - | - |
| flection | 13 | the state of being flexed (as of a joint) | - |
| fledgier | 13 | - | - |
| fleecers | 13 | - | - |
| fleeched | 17 | - | - |
| fleeches | 16 | - | - |
| fleecier | 13 | - | - |
| fleecies | 13 | - | - |
| fleecily | 16 | - | - |
| fleerers | 11 | - | - |
| fleering | 12 | - | - |
| fleeters | 11 | - | - |
| fleetest | 11 | - | - |
| flegging | 14 | - | - |
| flehmens | 16 | - | - |
| fleishig | 15 | - | - |
| fleishik | 18 | - | - |
| flenched | 17 | - | - |
| flencher | 16 | - | - |
| flenches | 16 | - | - |
| flensers | 11 | - | - |
| flensing | 12 | - | - |
| fleshers | 14 | - | - |
| fleshier | 14 | - | - |
| fleshily | 17 | - | - |
| fleshing | 15 | - | - |
| fleshpot | 16 | - | - |
| fletched | 17 | - | - |
| fletches | 16 | - | - |
| flettons | 11 | - | - |
| fleurets | 11 | - | - |
| fleurons | 11 | - | - |
| flexagon | 19 | - | - |
| flexions | 18 | - | - |
| flextime | 20 | - | - |
| flexuose | 18 | - | - |
| flexuous | 18 | having turns or windings | the flexuous bed of the stream |
| flexural | 18 | - | - |
| flexures | 18 | - | - |
| flexwing | 22 | - | - |
| flibbert | 15 | - | - |
| flichter | 16 | - | - |
| flickers | 17 | - | - |
| flickery | 20 | - | - |
| flicking | 18 | - | - |
| flighted | 16 | having feathers | arrows flighted argent |
| flimflam | 18 | a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property | - |
| flimping | 16 | - | - |
| flimsier | 13 | - | - |
| flimsies | 13 | - | - |
| flimsily | 16 | in a weak and flimsy manner | this car is so flimsily constructed! |
| flinched | 17 | - | - |
| flincher | 16 | - | - |
| flinches | 16 | - | - |
| flingers | 12 | - | - |
| flinkite | 15 | - | - |
| flintier | 11 | - | - |
| flintify | 17 | - | - |
| flintily | 14 | - | - |
| flinting | 12 | - | - |
| flipbook | 19 | - | - |
| flipflop | 18 | - | - |
| flippers | 15 | - | - |
| flippest | 15 | - | - |
| flippier | 15 | - | - |
| flipside | 14 | - | - |
| flirters | 11 | - | - |
| flirtier | 11 | - | - |
| flirtish | 14 | - | - |
| fliskier | 15 | - | - |
| flisking | 16 | - | - |
| flitched | 17 | - | - |
| flitches | 16 | - | - |
| flittern | 11 | - | - |
| flitters | 11 | - | - |
| flivvers | 17 | - | - |
| flixweed | 22 | - | - |
| floatage | 12 | - | - |
| floatant | 11 | - | - |
| floatcut | 13 | - | - |
| floatels | 11 | - | - |
| floaters | 11 | - | - |
| floatier | 11 | - | - |
| flobbing | 16 | - | - |
| floccing | 16 | - | - |
| floccose | 15 | (of plants) having tufts of soft woolly hairs | - |
| floccule | 15 | a small loosely aggregated mass of flocculent material suspended in or precipitated from a liquid | - |
| flocculi | 15 | - | - |
| flockier | 17 | - | - |
| flocking | 18 | - | - |
| floggers | 13 | - | - |
| flokatis | 15 | - | - |
| flooders | 12 | - | - |
| floodway | 18 | - | - |
| floorage | 12 | - | - |
| floorers | 11 | - | - |
| floorpan | 13 | - | - |
| floosies | 11 | - | - |
| floozies | 20 | - | - |
| flopover | 16 | - | - |
| floppers | 15 | - | - |
| floppier | 15 | - | - |
| floppies | 15 | - | - |
| floppily | 18 | - | - |
| florally | 14 | - | - |
| floreant | 11 | - | - |
| floreats | 11 | - | - |
| florider | 12 | - | - |
| floridly | 15 | in a florid manner | floridly figurative prose |
| floriest | 11 | - | - |
| florigen | 12 | - | - |
| florists | 11 | - | - |
| floruits | 11 | - | - |
| florulae | 11 | - | - |
| florules | 11 | - | - |
| floscule | 13 | - | - |
| flossers | 11 | - | - |
| flossier | 11 | - | - |
| flossies | 11 | - | - |
| flossily | 14 | - | - |
| flossing | 12 | - | - |
| flotages | 12 | - | - |
| flotsams | 13 | - | - |
| flounced | 14 | - | - |
| flounces | 13 | - | - |
| flourier | 11 | - | - |
| flouring | 12 | - | - |
| floushed | 15 | - | - |
| floushes | 14 | - | - |
| flousing | 12 | - | - |
| flouters | 11 | - | - |
| flouting | 12 | - | - |
| flowable | 16 | - | - |
| flowages | 15 | - | - |
| flowerer | 14 | - | - |
| floweret | 14 | a diminutive flower (especially one that is part of a composite flower) | - |
| flubbers | 15 | - | - |
| flubbing | 16 | - | - |
| flubdubs | 16 | - | - |
| fluellen | 11 | - | - |
| fluellin | 11 | - | - |
| fluences | 13 | - | - |
| fluerics | 13 | - | - |
| fluework | 18 | - | - |
| fluffers | 17 | - | - |
| fluffily | 20 | - | - |
| fluffing | 18 | - | - |
| fluidics | 14 | - | - |
| fluidify | 18 | - | - |
| fluidise | 12 | - | - |
| fluidize | 21 | - | - |
| fluidram | 14 | a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 60 minims or 3.5516 cubic centimeters | - |
| flukiest | 15 | - | - |
| flummery | 18 | meaningless ceremonies and flattery | - |
| flumping | 16 | - | - |
| flunkers | 15 | - | - |
| flunkeys | 18 | - | - |
| flunkies | 15 | - | - |
| flunking | 16 | - | - |
| fluorene | 11 | - | - |
| fluorids | 12 | - | - |
| fluorins | 11 | - | - |
| fluorite | 11 | a soft mineral (calcium fluoride) that is fluorescent in ultraviolet light; chief source of fluorine | - |
| flurries | 11 | - | - |
| flurring | 12 | - | - |
| flushers | 14 | - | - |
| flushest | 14 | - | - |
| flushier | 14 | - | - |
| flusters | 11 | - | - |
| flustery | 14 | - | - |
| fluteyer | 14 | - | - |
| flutiest | 11 | - | - |
| flutinas | 11 | - | - |
| flutings | 12 | - | - |
| flutists | 11 | - | - |
| flutters | 11 | - | - |
| fluxgate | 19 | - | - |
| fluxions | 18 | - | - |
| flyaways | 20 | - | - |
| flybacks | 22 | - | - |
| flybanes | 16 | - | - |
| flybelts | 16 | - | - |
| flyblown | 19 | spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies | flyblown meat |
| flyblows | 19 | - | - |
| flyboats | 16 | - | - |
| flybooks | 20 | - | - |
| flyhands | 18 | - | - |
| flylines | 14 | - | - |
| flymaker | 20 | - | - |
| flyovers | 17 | - | - |
| flypasts | 16 | - | - |
| flypitch | 21 | - | - |
| flysches | 19 | - | - |
| flysheet | 17 | - | - |
| flyspeck | 22 | very small | the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy |
| flyspray | 19 | - | - |
| flytiers | 14 | - | - |
| flytings | 15 | - | - |
| flytraps | 16 | - | - |
