Floss is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FLOSS in dictionary:

VERB:
• to clean between the teeth with strong thread
• behave in a flamboyant manner; show off.
• use dental floss to clean
• clean (between the teeth) with dental floss
• clean between (one's teeth) with dental floss.
NOUN:
• untwisted silk fibres used in embroidery.
• the silky down in maize and other plants
• fine silky fibres
• The slender styles of the pistillate flowers of maize; also called silk.
• Untwisted filaments of silk, used in embroidering.
• A small stream of water.
• Fluid glass floating on iron in the puddling furnace, produced by the vitrification of oxides and earths which are present.
• a soft loosely twisted thread used in embroidery
• a soft thread for cleaning the spaces between the teeth
• the rough silk enveloping a silkworm's cocoon.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to clean between the teeth with a thread

Words related to FLOSS

flossed11 flosser10 flossers11 flosses10 flossing12 flossings13

Words that contain FLOSS

flossy12 flossed11 flosser10 flosses10 flossie10 flossers11 flossier11 flossies11 flossily14 flossing12 flossiest12 flossings13 candyfloss19 fairyfloss19 candyflosses21 fairyflosses21

How to use FLOSS in a sentence

• My undertaking was not so large or elaborate as hers, and when I finished, she still had quite a piece to do, and was out of floss.
• Unable to get the floss for the blossoms, she had bought narrow pink silk braid and outlined each rose and bud, then embroidered the foliage in green.
• Fine as floss, bright in color, waving and crisp, it fell around the white face.
• Soon after this, to their great joy, in bounded Briton himself, and close behind him waddled Floss.
• The outside of the nest looked as if it were made of silvery-gray linen floss.
• Beads for eyes, and floss and bristles for whiskers, are also furnished.
• Rose always had a rather special breakfast for Floss.
• Rose had been pretty then in much the same delicate way that Floss was pretty now.
• But Floss came in late, breathless, and radiant, a large and significant paper bag in her hand.
• She was now engaged in carrying the threads of fine silk floss, which were to form the strings of this simple wind-harp, from one piece of wood to the other.
• Above this was raised a military standard, a hawk upon a cross-bar, from which hung party-colored tassels of linen floss.
• The vessel contained sandy dregs of oil and a dirty floss of cotton.
• Instead of first softening the gum of the cocoons and then attacking the floss with the points of a brush, Mr.
• In the brushing machinery the floss is loosened and partially detached from the cocoon.
• To this end the cocoons are floated under a plate, and the floss passed up through a slot in the latter.
• He furnished the little dog with hair of real floss silk, and called his ribbon a silver chain.
• For removing accumulated food substances from between the teeth silk or linen floss can be recommended.
• If you have no regular dental floss, use any white silk thread for the purpose.
• The use of dental floss is fully as important as the use of a tooth brush.
• A rubber stem may be bought to slip over the wire on which the rose is sewed, or the wire may be wound with green floss, baby ribbon, green tissue paper, or gum tissue.
• The stem of wire is tacked to the buckram on the back and may be wound with green floss.
• They all had very pretty hair, and I used to wash it and comb it out until it looked as fine and bright as floss silk.
• My own father identified the corpse, and Floss and Marion, at their boarding-school, were put into mourning.
• I think he loved my sister Floss and me most because we were the lawless ones of the family! It was not in his temperament to give wise advice and counsel.
• Floss in the same situation came running in and went straight to her father, quite sure of his love if not of his forgiveness.
• Floss and Elinor made merry over some verses Margaret had handed up with a blush.
• It moved me deeply, and The Mill on the Floss is another agony.
• We color the tiniest blades of grass and beds of strawberry leaves until the moss upon which they rest look like velvet with floss needlework.
• Floss was a person whose thoughts did not dwell upon the highest development of the spiritual life.
• The road to this led naturally through the elocution classes, and Floss accepted Miss Lucinda as the only means toward the desired end.
• The arrangements, so glibly planned by Floss, had not been adhered to in any particular.
• Its head, which was the size of an apple, was covered with silky floss.
• It has a baldy head, about the size of an apple, with threads of gold spread over it like floss.

Similar words containing FLOS without suffix s

flosh11 flossy12 floshes13 flossed11 flosser10 flosses10 flossie10 floscule13 flossers11 flossier11 flossies11 flossily14 flossing12 floscular14 floscules14 flossiest12 flossings13 candyfloss19 fairyfloss19 flosculous15 candyflosses21 fairyflosses21

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