12-letter words containing e, y, i
- expressivity — (uncountable) The quality of being expressive.
- extortionary — Of, relating to, or typical of extortion.
- extractively — in an extractive manner
- extrordinary — Misspelling of extraordinary.
- eye ointment — Eye ointment is a semi-solid substance that is applied to the lower eyelid to treat eye disorders.
- eye-catching — Something that is eye-catching is very noticeable.
- eye-watering — painful or extremely unpleasant
- eyewitnesses — Plural form of eyewitness.
- family bible — a large Bible usually having pages at the front for recording the marriages, births, and deaths in a family.
- family hotel — a hotel owned by a family in which family members work
- family leave — a leave of absence from work in order to have or take care of a baby or to care for an ailing family member.
- family style — a way of serving food, as in boardinghouses and some restaurants, in which the people at the table help themselves from large dishes passed around from hand to hand
- farsightedly — In a farsighted manner.
- fascinatedly — In a fascinated manner; with fascination.
- fatigue duty — any of the mainly domestic duties performed by military personnel, esp as a punishment
- fatty tissue — tissue with excessive accumulation of fat
- fayetteville — a city in S North Carolina.
- federatively — from a federative point of view
- felicitously — In a felicitous manner.
- fenian cycle — the cycle of legends describing and glorifying the bravery, battles, and wandering life of the Irish Fenians, especially under the leadership of Finn.
- fermi energy — the level in the distribution of electron energies in a solid at which a quantum state is equally likely to be occupied or empty
- ferricyanide — a salt of ferricyanic acid, as potassium ferricyanide, K 3 Fe(CN) 6 .
- ferrocyanide — a salt of ferrocyanic acid, as potassium ferrocyanide, K 4 Fe(CN) 6 .
- ferry bridge — transporter bridge.
- field hockey — a game played on a rectangular field having a netted goal at each end, in which two teams of 11 players each compete in driving a small leather-covered ball into the other's goal, each player being equipped with a stick having a curved end or blade that is flat on one side and rounded on the other.
- field theory — a detailed mathematical description of the distribution and movement of matter under the influence of one or more fields.
- fifty-eighth — next after the fifty-seventh; being the ordinal number for 58.
- fifty-second — next after the fifty-first; being the ordinal number for 52.
- figuratively — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
- filial piety — (in Confucianism) the important virtue and primary duty of respect, obedience, and care for one's parents and elderly family members.
- filthy lucre — money: to lose one's health for the sake of filthy lucre.
- fippenny bit — the Spanish half real, the value of which was about six cents.
- fire company — a company of firefighters.
- fire hydrant — a hydrant for use in extinguishing fires.
- fisheye lens — a hemispherical plano-convex lens for photographing in a full 180° in all directions in front of the camera, creating a circular image having an increasing amount of distortion from the center to the periphery.
- five by five — short and fat.
- five-by-five — short and fat.
- fixed system — a system of solmization which assigns the names ut (or do), re, mi, fa, sol, la, si (or ti) to the degrees of the major scale of C
- flatteringly — In a flattering manner.
- flickeringly — In a flickering manner.
- flimflammery — a trick or deception, especially a swindle or confidence game involving skillful persuasion or clever manipulation of the victim.
- floppy drive — disk drive
- florida keys — chain of small islands extending southwest from the S tip of Fla.
- flux density — the magnetic, radiant, or electric flux per unit of cross-sectional area.
- fly in amber — a strange relic or reminder of the past
- flyfisherman — Flyfisher.
- flyfishermen — Plural form of flyfisherman.
- flying field — a small landing field with short runways and facilities for servicing airplanes on a lesser scale than an airport.
- flying jenny — Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S. a merry-go-round, especially a relatively small or unadorned one.
- flying lemur — either of two lemurlike mammals, Cynocephalus variegatus, of southeastern Asia and the East Indies, or C. volans, of the Philippines, having broad folds of skin on both sides of the body to aid in gliding from tree to tree: now rare.