ambergris

An electrical conductor that should be connected to the ground but lacks that connection.

A strip of plastering laid on first, to serve as a guide for the thickness of the coat.

An aquatic flowering plant of the genus Nymphoides, having heart-shaped leaves that float on the water.

plural of floating tone

(phonology) A morpheme or element of a morpheme that contains no consonants or vowels, but only tone. It cannot be pronounced by itself, but affects the tones of neighbouring morphemes.

plural of floating screed

plural of floating feeling

(transport, nautical) A form of marine vessel which allows large floating objects (such as other ships, or oil platforms, etc) to be floated atop and floated off the ship's transport decktop.

(computer hardware) A microprocessor that performs floating-point arithmetic. In older models of computer the FPU was not integrated into the central processing unit, but rather as a coprocessor if included at all.