floating (n.)
- aquatics
- backstroke
- bathe
- bathing
- breaststroke
- butterfly
- clear
- colonization
- crawl
- debut
- diving
- drifting
- embarkation
- embarkment
- errant
- fin
- flapper
- flipper
- flotation
- free
- fugitive
- inauguration
- induction
- initiation
- installation
- installment
- introduction
- launching
- natation
- nomad
- opener
- preliminary
- rambling
- ranging
- repeating
- roving
- shifting
- sidestroke
- supernatant
- surfboarding
- surfing
- swim
- swimming
- transient
- unveiling
- vagabond
- vagrant
- vote
- voting
- wading
- wandering
floating (adj.)
- adrift
- afloat
- awash
- buoyant
- clear
- discursive
- drifting
- errant
- fin
- floaty
- footloose
- free
- fugitive
- loose
- meandering
- migrational
- migratory
- nomadic
- preliminary
- rambling
- ranging
- rickety
- roving
- shaky
- shifting
- straggling
- straying
- supernatant
- swimming
- transient
- transitory
- unbound
- undone
- unfastened
- unfixed
- unstuck
- untied
- vagabond
- vagrant
- wandering
The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength,—the floating bulwark of our island.
