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	Flatbread A flatbread is a simple bread made from flattened dough. Many flatbreads are unleavened—made without yeast or sourdough culture. They can range from a less than one millimeter to a few centimeters thick. Flatbread was already known in Ancient Egypt and Sumer.
	Flatcar A flatcar is a piece of railroad Railroad car that consists of an open, flat deck on a pair of trucks or bogies. The deck of the car can be wood or steel, and the sides of the deck can include pockets for stakes or tie-down points to secure loads. Flatcars designed for carrying machinery have sliding chain assemblies recessed in the deck.
	Flatfish The flatfish are an order of ray-finned fish, also called the Heterosomata, sometimes classified as a suborder of Perciformes. The name means "side-swimmers" in Greek language. In many species both eyes lie on one side of the head, one or the other migrating through and around the head during development.
	Flathead catfish The Flathead catfish, also called the yellow cat, opelousas, mud cat and shovelhead cat, are large North American freshwater catfish. Ranging from the lower Great Lakes region to northern Mexico, they have been widely introduced and are an invasive species in some areas.
	Flatirons The Flatirons are rock formations near Boulder, Colorado. There are five large, numbered Flatirons ranging from north to south along Green and Dinosaur mountains, and numerous smaller named Flatirons among the surrounding foothills. They are popular destinations for hikers and rock climbers, with rock grades ranging from easy to world-class.
	Flattop A flattop is a type of very short hairstyle similar to the crew cut, with the exception that the hair on the top of the head is styled to deliberately stand up and is cut to be flat, resulting in a haircut that is square in shape. It is most often worn by men and boys, particularly those in the military and law enforcement in the United States.
	Flatworm The flatworms are a Phylum of relatively simple soft-bodied invertebrate animals. With about 25,000 known species they are the largest phylum of body cavity. Flatworms are found in marine, freshwater, and even damp terrestrial environments. Most are free-living forms, but many are parasitic on other animals.
	Flaunt Flaunt is a monthly United States fashion culture magazine founded by the current editor-in-chief, Luis Barajas, and creative director, Jim Turner, also the founders of Detour magazine. Established in September of 1998 Flaunt has been and still is widely regarded as one of the most innovative and beautifully produced magazines available on the newsstand.
	Flautist A flautist or flutist or flute-player is a musician who plays the flute.
	Flavin Flavin is a Heterocycle based on pteridine whose biochemical source is the vitamin riboflavin. The flavin moiety is often attached with an adenosine diphosphate to form flavin adenine dinucleotide, and in other circumstances, is found as flavin mononucleotide, a phosphorylated form of riboflavin.
	Flaw Flaw was a music group from Louisville, Kentucky. The band was formed by ex-guitarist Jason Daunt in 1995.
	Flawless Flawless is an United States film that stars Robert De Niro and Philip Seymour Hoffman. The 1999 in film film features De Niro as Walter Koontz, a homophobic former New York police officer who suffers a stroke when he tries to assist a fellow tenant who's being assaulted.
	Flax Flax is a member of the genus Linum in the family Linaceae. It is probably native to India, though its precise native range is unknown due to Neolithic founder crops in southwest Asia and southeastern Europe. It is an erect annual plant growing to 120 cm tall, with slender stems.
	Flay Flay is a character in the Gormenghast novels by Mervyn Peake. He is the personal assistant of Lord Sepulchrave, Earl of the castle. His sense of loyalty is huge and he rarely talks. When he does his words come out in broken sentences and very simple language. Near the end of the first book, his banishment is caused by Steerpike, who taunts Flay until the man becomes so angry that he throws one of the Countess' pet cats at him.
	Flea Flea is the common name for any of the small wingless insects of the order Siphonaptera. Fleas are external parasites, living by hematophagy off the blood of mammals and birds, and genetic and morphological evidence indicates that they are descendants of the Scorpionfly family Boreidae, which are also flightless; accordingly it is possible that they will eventually be reclassified as a suborder within the Mecoptera.
	Flea market A flea market, also known as a swap meet, is a place where vendors come to sell or trade their goods. The goods are usually inexpensive and range in quality depending on several factors which might include; urban or rural location of the flea market, part of the country that you are in, or popularity/size of the flea market.
	Flecainide Flecainide acetate is a class Ic antiarrhythmic agent used to prevent and treat cardiac arrhythmias. It is used to treat a variety of cardiac arrhythmias including paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia, and ventricular tachycardia.
	Fleer The Fleer Corporation, founded by Frank H. Fleer in the mid-19th century, was the first company to successfully manufacture bubblegum. Bought out by comic-book empire Marvel Comics in 1992, it is now a part of Upper Deck. Fleer originally developed a bubblegum formulation called Blibber-Blubber in 1906.
	Fleet Street Fleet Street is a famous street of London, England, named after the River Fleet. It was traditionally the home of the List of newspapers in the United Kingdom, up until the 1980s. Even though the last major news office, Reuters, left in 2005, the street name continues to be used as a synonym for the United Kingdom national journalism.
	Fleur-de-lis The fleur-de-lis is a stylised design of an iris flower which is used both decoratively and symbolically. It may be purely ornamental or it may be "at one and the same time political, dynasty, artistic, emblematic and symbolic", especially in heraldry. While it has appeared on countless European coat of arms and flags over the centuries, the fleur-de-lis is particularly associated with the French monarchy.
	Flier The flier is a sunfish native to muddy-bottomed swamps, ponds, weedy lakes, and riverine backwaters across the American South, from southern Illinois east to the Potomac River basin and south to Texas. The flier, which can live up to five years, grows to a maximum recorded length of about 30 Metre#SI multiples.
	Flight Flight is the process by which a heavier-than-air animal or object achieves sustained movement either through the air by aerodynamically generating Lift or Lighter than air using buoyancy, or movement beyond earth's atmosphere, in the case of spacecraft.
	Flight attendant Flight attendants, formerly called sky girls, air hostesses, stewardesses and stewards are airline staff employed as attendants specifically to see to the well-being of the passengers. They are members of the Aircrew member. The role is based on similar positions on passenger ships or passenger trains, but has more direct involvement because of the confined quarters and often shorter travel times on aircraft.
	Flight controls Aircraft flight controls allow a pilot to adjust and control the aircraft's flight attitude. Development of an effective set of flight controls was a critical advance in the development of the aircraft. Early efforts at fixed-wing aircraft design succeeded in generating sufficient lift to get the aircraft off the ground, but once aloft, the aircraft proved uncontrollable, often with disastrous results.
	Flight deck The flight deck of an aircraft carrier is the surface from which its aircraft take off and land, essentially a miniature airfield at sea. In early carriers, the flight deck was a sort of long flat superstructure built above the rest of the ship; this was both a relatively simple addition to make, and offered a little extra room for airplanes strugging to gain altitude after taking off.
	Flight simulator A flight simulator is a system that tries to replicate, or simulation, the experience of flying an aircraft as closely and realistically as possible. The different types of flight simulator range from video games up to full-size Simpit mounted on hydraulic actuators, controlled by state of the art computer technology.
	Flindersia Flindersia is a genus of 14 species of tree in the family Rutaceae. They are native to the Moluccas, New Guinea, Australia and New Caledonia. They are cultivated and planted for both timber and as a street tree. The genus was named after explorer Matthew Flinders.
	Flint Flint is a hard, sedimentary rock cryptocrystalline silicate form of the mineral quartz, categorized as a variety of Chalcedony. Flint is usually dark-grey, blue, black, or deep brown in color, and often has a glassy appearance. It occurs chiefly as Nodule s and masses in sedimentary rocks, such as chalks and limestones.
	Flintlock Flintlock is the general term for any firearm based on the flintlock mechanism. Introduced about 1630, the flintlock rapidly replaced earlier firearm-ignition technologies. It continued to be in common use for over two centuries, replaced by Percussion cap and, later, Cartridge systems in the early-to-mid 19th century.
	Flip-flop In footwear and fashion, flip-flops are a kind of flat, backless sandal that consist of a flat sole held on the foot by a V-shaped strap that passes between the first and second toes and around either side of the foot, attached to the sole at three points, commonly known as the thong strap.
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	Floater Floaters are deposits of various size, shape, consistency, refractive index, and motility within the eye's normally transparent vitreous humour. They may be of embryonic origin or acquired due to degenerative changes of the vitreous humour or retina.scae volitantes, or mouches volantes, are a specific type of floater consisting of small spots whose presence is normal and attributed to minute remnants of embryonic structures in the vitreous humour.
	Flood A flood is an overflow of water, an expanse of water submerging land, a deluge. In the sense of "flowing water", the word is applied to the inflow of the tide, as opposed to the outflow or "ebb". The Flood, the great Universal Deluge of myth and perhaps of history is treated at Deluge .
	Flood plain In geography, a flood plain is a plain formed of sediment, typically dropped by a river. When the slope down which a river runs has become very slight, it is unable to carry the sediment brought from higher regions nearer its source, and consequently the lower portion of the river valley becomes filled with alluvial deposits.
	Flood Tide Flood Tide is an Action-Adventure novel by Clive Cussler. This is the 14th book featuring the authors primary protagonist, Dirk Pitt. He must rescue illegal immigrants from a Chinese warlord and locate the bones of the Peking Man, a mythical being.
	Floodgate (Floodgate is also the name of a Christian rock band.) Floodgates are adjustable gates to control water flow in lake, stream or levee systems. They may be designed to set spillway crest heights in dams, to adjust flow rates in sluices and canals, or they may be designed to stop water flow entirely as part of a levee or storm surge system.
	Floodplain A floodplain is any normally dry land area that is susceptible to being inundated by water from any natural source. This area is usually low land adjacent to a river, creek, or lake. The extent of floodplain inundation depends part on the flood magnitude, defined by the return period. Because they border waterbody, floodplains have been popular sites to establish settlements, which has led to an increase in flood-related disasters.
	Floor In architecture, a floor is generally the lower horizontal surface of a room. The various levels of rooms in a building are also called floors or stories: "ground floor", "first story", "Mezzanine", etc. A confusion arises between the two forms of floor numbering in use worldwide.
	Floor plan A floor plan in architecture and building engineering is a scale diagram of the arrangements of rooms in one story of a building. It is essentially a diagram as if seen from the above. You may also think of it as a "top view" or "bird's eye" view of one floor in a building. Technically, the floor plan shows the walls and fixtures in a building at the height of one meter "above the finished floor".
	Floored Floored is Sugar Ray's second album, released on June 24, 1997. It includes the major hit "Fly".
	Floppy disk A floppy disk is a data storage device that is composed of a disk of thin, flexible magnetic storage medium encased in a square or rectangle plastic shell. Floppy disks are read and written by a floppy disk drive or FDD, the latter initialism not to be confused with "fixed disk drive", which is an old IBM term for a hard disk.
	Flora In botany, flora has two meanings. The first meaning, or flora of an area or time period, refers to all plant life occurring in an area or time period, especially the naturally occurring or indigenous plant life. The second meaning refers to a book or other work which describes the plant species occurring in an area or time period, with the aim of allowing identification.
	Floréal For the ship class, see Flor?al class frigate Flor?al was the eighth month in the French Republican Calendar. The month was named after the Latin word flos, which means flowering. Flor?al was the second month of the spring quarter (mois de printemps). It started April 20 or April 21.
	Florence Florence is the capital city of the region of Tuscany, Italy. From 1865 to 1870 the city was also the capital of the Italy. Florence lies on the Arno River and has a population of around 400,000 people, plus a suburban population in excess of 200,000 persons.
	Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale, Order of Merit, who came to be known as The Lady with the Lamp, was a pioneer of modern nurse. She was also a noted statistician.
	Florenz Ziegfeld Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. was an United States Broadway theatre impresario. He is best known for his series of theatrical revues, the Ziegfeld Follies, based on the Folies Bergres of Paris. His first foray into the world of entertainment was at the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition, where he managed the famous strongman, Eugen Sandow.
	Florida Florida is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States United States. It was named by Juan Ponce de Len, who landed on the coast on April 2, 1513, during Pascua Florida .
	Florida Keys The Florida Keys is an archipelago, a string of about 1700 islands in the southeast United States. They begin at the southeastern tip of the Florida peninsula, about 15 miles south of Miami, Florida, and extend in a gentle arc south-southwest and then westward to Key West, the westernmost of the inhabited islands, and on to the uninhabited Dry Tortugas.
	Flounder Flounders are flatfish that live in ocean waters in Northern European waters and along the east coast of the United States and Canada, as well as the western Pacific. The name "flounder" refers to several geographically and taxonomically distinct species. In Europe, the name flounder refers to Platichthys flesus, in the Western Atlantic there are summer flounder Paralichthys dentatus, southern flounder Paralichthys lethostigma, winter flounder Pseudopleuronectes americanus among other s
	Flour An ingredient used in many foods, flour is a fine powder made from cereals or other starchy food sources. It is most commonly made from wheat, but also maize , rye, barley, and rice, amongst many other Poaceaees and non-grain plants . Flour is the key ingredient of bread, which is the staple food in many countries, and therefore the availability of adequate supplies of flour has often been a major economic and political issue.
	FlOw flOw is a Adobe Flash game created by Jenova Chen. The game involves the player guiding a tiny, worm-like microorganism through various depths of the ocean to eat other organisms. It is currently available both playable online and as a stand-alone download free of charge on Jenova Chen's website.
	Flowchart A flowchart is a schematic representation of a Process. They are commonly used in business/economic presentations to help the audience visualize the content better, or to find flaws in the process. The flowchart is one of the seven basic tools of quality control, which include the histogram, Pareto chart, check sheet, control chart, Ishikawa diagram, flowchart, and scatter diagram.
	Flower A flower,rflorem<flos), also known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants. The flower structure contains the plant's organs, and its function is to produce seeds through reproduction. For the higher plants, seeds are the next generation, and serve as the primary means by which individuals of a species are dispersed across the landscape.
	Flower child Flower child or Flower Children originated as a synonym for hippie, especially those who gathered in San Francisco and environs during the summer of 1967, which was called the Summer of Love. It was the custom of "Flower Children" to wear flowers to symbolize peace and love.
	Flower girl A flower girl is a participant in a wedding procession. Her responsibility is to walk in front of the bride, either to: * Spread flower petals on the floor before the bride * Carry a bouquet of flowers * Carry a bouquet of flowers or bunch of thornless roses, which they pass out to the guests as they go
	Flower power Flower power was a slogan used by hippies in the late 1960s and early 1970s as a symbol of the non-violence ideology. It is rooted in opposition to the Vietnam War. They burned their draft cards and created a hippy culture. They dressed in flowery clothing and wore flowers in their hair.
	Flower-of-an-Hour Flower-of-an-Hour is an annual plant that originally grew to the east of the Mediterranean, but it spread throughout southern Europe both as a weed and cultivated as a garden plant. The plant grows to a height of 20-50 cm, sometimes as much as 80 cm and has white or yellow flowers with a purple centre.
	Flowering plant The flowering plants are a major group of land plants. They comprise one of the two groups in the Spermatophyte, distinct in covering their seeds by enclosing them in a true fruit. They bear the reproductive organ in a structure called a flower; the ovule is enclosed within a carpel, which will lead to a fruit.
	Flowerpot Flowerpot is any container where plants are cultivated. Terra cotta is often used to make these. It can also be made from plastic, wood or stone. Sometimes on the buttom is hole which takes away a water to small backplate under flowerpot. After than the plant can use this water by roots system and use it if it needs.
	Floxuridine Floxuridine is an oncology drug that belongs to the class known as antimetabolites. The drug is most often used in the treatment of colectoral cancer.
	Flugelhorn The flugelhorn is a brass instrument resembling a trumpet but with a wider, conical Bore . It is thought by some to be a member of the saxhorn family developed by Adolphe Sax ; however, other historians assert that it has been derived from the keyed bugle by Michael Saurle , Munich 1832 , thus predating Adolphe Sax's innovative work .
	FLUID FLUID is a graphical editor that is used to produce FLTK source code. FLUID edits and saves its state in text .fl files, which can be edited in a text editor for finer control over display and behavior. After designing the application, FLUID compiles the .fl file into a .cxx file, which defines all the objects from the .fl file, and an header file, which declares all the global ones.
	Flume A flume is a waterwork with open water table, that leads water from a diversion dam or weir completely aside a natural flow, often an elevated box structure that follows the natural contours of the land. These have been extensively used in hydraulic mining, for the transportation of logs in the logging industry, electric power generation and to power various mill operations by the use of a waterwheel.
	Flunk Flunk is a Norway electronic music band consisting of members producer Ulf Nygaard, guitarist Jo Bakke, drummer Erik Ruud, and vocalist Anja Oyen Vister.
	Fluor Fluor Corporation , is an international construction and maintenance contractor for petrochemical, infrastructure, and environmental projects. The company employs more than 30,000 people internationally, and has offices in more than 25 countries. Fluor was previously headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California, California in the United States; however, in March 2006 it relocated to the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex suburb of Irving, Texas.
	Fluorescein Fluorescein is a fluorophore commonly used in microscopy, in a type of dye laser as the gain medium, and in forensics and serology to detect latent blood stains. Fluorescein has an Absorption maximum at 490 nm and Fluorescence maximum of 514 nm.
	Fluorescence Fluorescence is a luminescence that is mostly found as an optical phenomenon in cold bodies, in which the molecular absorption of a photon triggers the emission of another photon with a longer wavelength. The energy difference between the absorbed and emitted photons ends up as molecular kinetic energy or heat.
	Fluorescent lamp A fluorescent lamp is a gas-discharge lamp that uses electricity to excite mercury vapor in argon or neon gas, resulting in a Plasma that produces short-wave ultraviolet light. This light then causes a phosphor to fluorescence, producing Light.
	Fluorine Fluorine , is the chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol F and atomic number 9. Atomic fluorine is univalent and is the most chemically reactive and electronegative of all the elements. In its pure form, it is a poisonous, pale, yellow-green gas, with chemical formula F2.