10-letter words containing f, a, y, i
- familiarly — commonly or generally known or seen: a familiar sight.
- family car — a car suitable for a family
- family man — a man who has a spouse and one or more children.
- family way — family (def 18).
- familyless — Without a family.
- familylike — Resembling a family.
- familymoon — A honeymoon in which the newlywed couple bring along their children.
- fancifully — characterized by or showing fancy; capricious or whimsical in appearance: a fanciful design of butterflies and flowers.
- fancy dive — any of the series of specified dives executed in fancy diving, as the jackknife or gainer.
- farcically — In a farcical manner.
- fasciotomy — (surgery) The cutting of the fascia to relieve tension or pressure (and treat the resulting loss of circulation to an area of tissue or muscle).
- fat binary — (operating system) An executable file containing code for more than one CPU. The correct code is selected automatically at run time. This is convenient for distributing software and sharing it between multiple platforms.
- fatty acid — any of a class of aliphatic acids, especially palmitic, stearic, or oleic acid, consisting of a long hydrocarbon chain ending in a carboxyl group that bonds to glycerol to form a fat.
- fee-paying — charging for service
- feminality — The quality of being feminal; femininity.
- fiat money — paper currency made legal tender by a fiat of the government, but not based on or convertible into coin.
- fibrillary — Of or pertaining to fibrils, or nanoscale fibers.
- fiducially — accepted as a fixed basis of reference or comparison: a fiducial point; a fiducial temperature.
- field army — army (def 2).
- filmically — (nonstandard) in a filmic manner.
- first lady — (often initial capital letters) the wife of the U.S. president or a current governor or mayor.
- first year — the first year when someone is at university or college
- five-a-day — the five portions of fruit and vegetables that people are recommended to eat every day as part of a healthy diet
- fixability — to repair; mend.
- flaccidity — soft and limp; not firm; flabby: flaccid biceps.
- flaggingly — So as to flag or slow down; wearyingly.
- flight pay — a pay supplement allowed by the U.S. Air Force to certain crew members who attain a minimum flight time per month.
- flippantly — frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness; characterized by levity: The audience was shocked by his flippant remarks about patriotism.
- floatingly — In a floating manner.
- fly a kite — If you say that someone is flying a kite, you are critical of them for putting forward new ideas just to see how people react, rather than with the intention of putting those ideas into practice.
- fly agaric — a very poisonous common woodland mushroom, Amanita muscaria, having a glossy red or orange cap with white spots, formerly a fly poison.
- follically — Alternative spelling of follicly.
- forgivably — In a forgivable way.
- formidably — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
- forsythias — Plural form of forsythia.
- fractality — the quality of being fractal or subdivided
- fraidy-cat — a timid, easily frightened person: often used by children.
- frantickly — Obsolete form of franticly.
- fraternity — a local or national organization of male students, primarily for social purposes, usually with secret initiation and rites and a name composed of two or three Greek letters.
- freakishly — queer; odd; unusual; grotesque: a freakish appearance.
- friability — easily crumbled or reduced to powder; crumbly: friable rock.
- fritillary — any of several orange-brown nymphalid butterflies, usually marked with black lines and dots and with silvery spots on the undersides of the wings.
- frontality — the representation of the front view of figures or objects in a work of art.
- frying pan — A frying pan is a flat metal pan with a long handle, in which you fry food.
- frying-pan — a shallow, long-handled pan in which food is fried.
- fumigatory — having the ability to fumigate; relating to fumigation
- gal friday — Older Use: Sometimes Offensive. a woman who acts as a general assistant in a business office or to an executive and has a wide variety of especially secretarial and clerical duties.
- gratifying — tending to gratify; giving or causing satisfaction; pleasing.
- gray friar — a Franciscan friar: so called from the traditional color of the habit worn by the order.
- grey friar — a Franciscan friar