14-letter words containing a, i, y
- family romance — a type of fantasy in which a person maintains that he or she is not the child of his or her real parents but of parents of a higher social class
- family support — a means-tested allowance for families in need
- family therapy — the psychotherapeutic treatment of more than one member of a family simultaneously at the same session, based on the assumption that problems can best be understood and corrected by observing the interaction of family members and identifying methods for improving their interrelationships.
- family viewing — television programmes that are suitable for both adults and children
- fancy geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium domesticum, of southern Africa, having roundish clusters of large white, pink, or red flowers.
- fantasticality — The quality of being fantastical.
- faraday shield — an enclosure constructed of grounded wire mesh or parallel wires that shields sensitive electrical instruments from electrostatic interference.
- fashionability — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
- fatalistically — the acceptance of all things and events as inevitable; submission to fate: Her fatalism helped her to face death with stoic calm.
- feng yu-hsiang — ("Christian General") 1880–1948, Chinese general.
- ferry terminal — docking area for passenger boats
- fiduciary bond — a bond filed by a fiduciary administering an estate as surety.
- fifth monarchy — the fifth and final monarchy following the Assyrian, Persian, Greek (under Alexander the Great), and Roman monarchies, supposed to have been prophesied in Dan. 2.
- figwort family — the plant family Scrophulariaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants and shrubs having alternate or opposite leaves, often showy two-lipped or irregular flowers, fruit in the form of a capsule or berry, and including the figwort, foxglove, Indian paintbrush, mullein, speedwell, and snapdragon.
- financial year — law: annual accounting period
- find one's way — If you find your way somewhere, you successfully get there by choosing the right way to go.
- fissionability — capable of or possessing a nucleus or nuclei capable of undergoing fission: a fissionable nucleus; fissionable material.
- five-year plan — any plan for national economic or industrial development specifying goals to be reached within a period of five years, especially as undertaken by the Soviet Union and China.
- fluid dynamics — the branch of fluid mechanics dealing with the properties of fluids in motion.
- flying gangway — monkey bridge (def 2).
- flying gurnard — any marine fish of the family Dactylopteridae, especially Dactylopterus volitans, having greatly enlarged, colorful pectoral fins that enable it to glide short distances through the air.
- flying machine — a vehicle that sustains itself in and propels itself through the air; an airplane, helicopter, glider, or the like.
- flying trapeze — a trapeze used in performing gymnastic displays high above the ground
- fonthill abbey — a ruined Gothic Revival mansion in Wiltshire: rebuilt (1790–1810) for William Beckford by James Wyatt; the main tower collapsed in 1800 and, after rebuilding, again in 1827
- foreseeability — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
- formally valid — (of an inference or argument) when the inference is justified by the form of the premises and conclusion alone. Thus Tom is a bachelor; therefore Tom is unmarried is valid but not formally so, while today is hot and dry; therefore today is hot is formally valid
- forward buying — the purchase of merchandise in quantities exceeding demand
- foundation day — former name of Australia Day.
- foundationally — the basis or groundwork of anything: the moral foundation of both society and religion.
- fowl paralysis — Marek's disease.
- fraternity pin — a pin worn on clothing that indicates membership in a fraternity
- friction layer — the atmospheric layer extending up to about 600 m, in which the aerodynamic effects of surface friction are appreciable
- friday prayers — the congregational prayers observed by Muslims every Friday
- friendiversary — the yearly recurrence of the date that two or more people first became friends: Next Thursday is our third friendiversary!
- friendly match — a match played for its own sake, and not as part of a competition, etc
- fundamentality — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
- futuristically — of or relating to the future: a futuristic view of the world.
- galley kitchen — a household kitchen designed with kitchen units on both sides and no kitchen table
- ganglionectomy — the excision of a ganglion.
- garbologically — From the perspective of garbology.
- garden variety — common, usual, or ordinary; unexceptional.
- garden-variety — common, usual, or ordinary; unexceptional.
- gascoyne-cecil — Robert Arthur Talbot [tawl-buh t] /ˈtɔl bət/ (Show IPA), 3rd Marquis of Salisbury, Salisbury (def 1).
- gastric bypass — a surgical procedure by which all or part of the stomach is circumvented by anastomosis to the small intestine, performed to overcome obstruction or in the treatment of morbid obesity.
- gay liberation — a political and social movement to combat legal and social discrimination against homosexuals.
- genealogically — Using genealogical methods.
- generationally — the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time: the postwar generation.
- genethliacally — from a genethliac point of view
- gentian family — the plant family Gentianaceae, typified by herbaceous plants having simple opposite leaves, usually blue flowers with five united petals, and fruit in the form of a capsule, and including the closed gentian, fringed gentian, centaury, exacum, and marsh pink.
- geocentrically — In a geocentric manner.