5 letter words starting with flo

Looking for a clue for todays Wordle or another Word game? Look no further! We got you covered. We got quite a few plausible five letter words starting with flo.

  • FLOAT
  • FLOBS
  • FLOCK
  • FLOCS
  • FLOES
  • FLOGS
  • FLONG
  • FLOOD
  • FLOOR
  • FLOPS
  • FLORA
  • FLORE
  • FLORS
  • FLORY
  • FLOSH
  • FLOSS
  • FLOTA
  • FLOTE
  • FLOUR
  • FLOUT
  • FLOWN
  • FLOWS
  • FLOWY

Sometimes the solution is an uncommon word, then It’s time to learn something new. Here’s the definition of a few of these words:

Definition of flood

flood (noun)

  1. A (usually disastrous) overflow of water from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.
  2. A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.
  3. The flowing in of the tide, opposed to the ebb.
  4. A floodlight.
  5. Menstrual discharge; menses.
  6. Water as opposed to land.

flood (verb)

  1. To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall.
  2. To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
  3. To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with.
  4. To paste numerous lines of text to (a chat system) in order to disrupt the conversation.
  5. To bleed profusely, as after childbirth.

Definition of floor

floor (noun)

  1. The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
  2. Ground (surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground).
  3. The lower inside surface of a hollow space.
  4. A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
  5. The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
  6. A storey/story of a building.
  7. In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
  8. Hence, the right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.
  9. That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
  10. The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
  11. A horizontal, flat ore body.
  12. The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
  13. An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface.
  14. A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements.
  15. A lower limit on the interest rate payable on an otherwise variable-rate loan, used by lenders to defend against falls in interest rates. Opposite of a cap.
  16. A dance floor.
  17. The area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition

floor (verb)

  1. To cover or furnish with a floor.
  2. To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
  3. (driving) To accelerate rapidly.
  4. To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.
  5. To amaze or greatly surprise.
  6. To finish or make an end of.
  7. To set a lower bound.

Definition of flops

flops (noun)

  1. Any simple operation, such as addition, multiplication or division, performed on floating point numbers using a single operation.

flops (noun)

  1. An incident of a certain type of fall; a plopping down.
  2. A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.
  3. The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.
  4. A ponded package of dung, as in a cow-flop.
  5. A flophouse.

flops (verb)

  1. To fall heavily due to lack of energy.
  2. To cause to drop heavily.
  3. To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.).
  4. To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer)
  5. To strike about with something broad and flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; to flap.
  6. To have (a hand) using the community cards dealt on the flop.
  7. To stay, sleep or live in a place.

flops (noun)

  1. One floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed.

Definition of floss

floss (noun)

  1. A thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth.
  2. Raw silk fibres.
  3. The fibres covering a corncob etc.; the loose downy or silky material inside the husks of certain plants, such as beans.
  4. Any thread-like material having parallel strands that are not spun or wound around each other.
  5. Spun sugar or cotton candy, especially in the phrase "candy floss".
  6. A body feather of an ostrich.
  7. 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.

floss (verb)

  1. To clean the area between the teeth using floss.
  2. To show off, especially by exhibiting one's wealth or talent.
  3. To perform the floss dance move.

floss (noun)

  1. A small stream of water.
  2. Fluid glass floating on iron in the puddling furnace, produced by the vitrification of oxides and earths which are present.

Definition of flows

flows (noun)

  1. A movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts
  2. The movement of a real or figurative fluid.
  3. A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of the real numbers on a set.
  4. The rising movement of the tide.
  5. Smoothness or continuity.
  6. The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.
  7. A flow pipe, carrying liquid away from a boiler or other central plant (compare with return pipe which returns fluid to central plant).
  8. A mental state characterized by concentration, focus and enjoyment of a given task.
  9. The emission of blood during menstruation.
  10. The ability to skilfully rap along to a beat.

flows (verb)

  1. To move as a fluid from one position to another.
  2. To proceed; to issue forth.
  3. To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
  4. To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.
  5. To hang loosely and wave.
  6. To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb.
  7. To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; to reflow.
  8. To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
  9. To cover with varnish.
  10. To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.

flows (noun)

  1. A morass or marsh.