6-letter words containing a, f, y
- flyman — a stagehand, especially one who operates the apparatus in the flies.
- flyway — a route between breeding and wintering areas taken by concentrations of migrating birds.
- forays — Plural form of foray.
- forray — Obsolete form of foray (predatory excursion).
- forsay — To forbid.
- forway — (intransitive) To go out of the way; go astray; err; make a mistake; sin.
- fraidy — (US, childish) afraid.
- franky — a male given name, form of Frank.
- franzy — irritable; peevish
- fratry — frater2 .
- frayed — a raveled or worn part, as in cloth: frays at the toes of well-worn sneakers.
- freaky — freakish.
- friary — a monastery of friars, especially those of a mendicant order.
- friday — the sixth day of the week, following Thursday.
- frypan — (US, Australia, New Zealand) A frying pan.
- fugazy — Misspelling of fugazi.
- gadfly — any of various flies, as a stable fly or warble fly, that bite or annoy domestic animals.
- gamify — to turn (an activity or task) into a game or something resembling a game: Many exercise programs have been gamified, with badges and scores. The company develops gamified apps.
- gasify — Convert (a solid or liquid, especially coal) into gas.
- infamy — extremely bad reputation, public reproach, or strong condemnation as the result of a shameful, criminal, or outrageous act: a time that will live in infamy.
- ladyfy — To bestow the title of Lady on a woman.
- layoff — the act of dismissing employees, especially temporarily.
- madefy — (rare) To make wet or moist.
- mayfly — Also called shadfly. any insect of the order Ephemeroptera, having delicate, membranous wings with the front pair much larger than the rear and having an aquatic larval stage and a terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days.
- naffly — in a naff or inferior manner
- nazify — to place under Nazi control or influence.
- offaly — a county in Leinster, in the central Republic of Ireland. 760 sq. mi. (1970 sq. km). County seat: Tullamore.
- orfray — an ornamental band or border, especially on an ecclesiastical vestment.
- pacify — to bring or restore to a state of peace or tranquillity; quiet; calm: to pacify an angry man.
- payoff — the payment of a salary, debt, wager, etc.
- perfay — truly, by my faith!
- ramify — have complex branches
- rarefy — to make rare or rarer; make less dense: to rarefy a gas.
- rarify — rarefy
- ratify — to confirm by expressing consent, approval, or formal sanction: to ratify a constitutional amendment.
- safely — secure from liability to harm, injury, danger, or risk: a safe place.
- safety — the state of being safe; freedom from the occurrence or risk of injury, danger, or loss.
- salify — to form into a salt, as by chemical combination.
- sanify — to make or become healthy
- sawfly — any of numerous hymenopterous insects of the family Tenthredinidae, the female of which has a sawlike ovipositor for inserting the eggs in the tissues of a host plant.
- scaffy — a street sweeper or refuse collector
- sheafy — composed of, related to, or resembling a sheaf
- tabefy — to emaciate or become emaciated
- waffly — to speak or write equivocally: to waffle on an important issue.
- yaffle — (UK) the European green woodpecker, Picus viridis.