flightiness
- n the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment
I despair at the flightiness and whimsicality of my memory
flightless bird
- n flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles: ostriches; cassowaries; emus; moas; rheas; kiwis; elephant birds
flimflam
- n a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
flimsiness
- n the property of weakness by virtue of careless construction
flinch
- n a reflex response to sudden pain
- v draw back, as with fear or pain
she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf
flinders
- n British explorer who mapped the Australian coast (1774-1814)
- n bits and splinters and fragments
it would have shattered in flinders long before it did that damage
flindersia australis
- n tall Australian timber tree yielding tough hard wood used for staves etc