13-letter words containing f, a, y, r
- glove factory — a factory where gloves are made
- grandfatherly — of or characteristic of a grandfather.
- gravity fault — a fault along an inclined plane in which the upper side or hanging wall appears to have moved downward with respect to the lower side or footwall (opposed to reverse fault).
- halfheartedly — Without enthusiasm nor interest.
- harpers ferry — a town in NE West Virginia at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers: site of John Brown's raid 1859.
- have eyes for — to be interested in
- honorifically — In a honorific manner.
- hydrofracking — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
- hydrofracture — (geology) Rock fracture caused by the pressure of freezing water.
- hyperinflated — to subject to hyperinflation: hyperinflated prices.
- hypersurfaces — Plural form of hypersurface.
- inferentially — of, pertaining to, by, or dependent upon inference.
- informatively — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
- informatorily — in an informatory fashion
- infuriatingly — causing or tending to cause anger or outrage; maddening: His delay is infuriating.
- interstratify — to lie in interposed or alternate strata.
- jefferson day — April 13, Thomas Jefferson's birthday, a legal holiday in Alabama, sometimes celebrated by the Democratic Party by the holding of fund-raising dinners.
- justificatory — serving to justify; providing justification.
- laurel family — the plant family Lauraceae, characterized by evergreen or deciduous trees having simple, leathery leaves, aromatic bark and foliage, clusters of small green or yellow flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or drupe, and including the avocado, bay, laurels of the genera Laurus and Umbellularia, sassafras, spicebush (Lindera benzoin), and the trees that yield camphor and cinnamon.
- madder family — the large plant family Rubiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, trees, and shrubs having simple, opposite, or whorled leaves, usually four- or five-lobed flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry, capsule, or nut, and including the gardenia, madder, partridgeberry, and shrubs and trees that are the source of coffee, ipecac, and quinine.
- matrifocality — The state or condition of being matrifocal; matriarchy.
- miliary fever — an acute infectious fever characterized by profuse sweating and the formation on the skin of minute fluid-filled vesicles
- morgan le fay — the fairy sister of King Arthur.
- myofibroblast — (cytology) A cell that is intermediate between a fibroblast and smooth muscle.
- myrtle family — the plant family Myrtaceae, characterized by mostly tropical trees and shrubs having aromatic, simple, usually opposite leaves, clusters of flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or capsule, and including allspice, clove, eucalyptus, guava, and myrtles of the genus Myrtus.
- non-fiduciary — Law. a person to whom property or power is entrusted for the benefit of another.
- nondefamatory — Not defamatory.
- of many parts — having many different abilities
- of many words — talkative
- orchid family — the plant family Orchidaceae, characterized by terrestrial or epiphytic herbaceous plants having simple, parallel-veined, usually alternate leaves, complex and often large and showy flowers pollinated primarily by insects, and fruit in the form of a capsule containing numerous minute seeds, and including calypso, fringed orchis, lady's-slipper, pogonia, rattlesnake plantain, vanilla, as well as numerous tropical orchids such as those of the genera Cattleya, Cymbidium, Dendrobium, Phalaenopsis, and Vanda.
- patrifocality — the system or fact of being patrifocal
- pennyfarthing — a high bicycle of an early type, with one large wheel in front and one small wheel behind.
- pepper family — the plant family Piperaceae, characterized by tropical woody vines and herbaceous plants having simple leaves, dense spikes of very small flowers, and fleshy, berrylike fruit, and including peperomia and peppers of the genus Piper.
- play for time — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- preferability — more desirable.
- prefix syntax — prefix notation
- profitability — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
- qualificatory — That serves as qualification.
- referentially — having reference: referential to something.
- reformability — the extent to which something or someone is reformable; the capability or susceptibility to reform
- refractometry — an instrument for determining the refractive index of a substance.
- refundability — to give back or restore (especially money); repay.
- relief agency — an organization that provides aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
- reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
- sacrifice fly — a fly ball when there are fewer than two players out that enables a base runner, usually at third base, to score after the ball is caught.
- sacrificially — pertaining to or concerned with sacrifice.
- safety factor — the ratio of the maximum stress that a structural part or other piece of material can withstand to the maximum stress estimated for it in the use for which it is designed.
- safety margin — something required to ensure safety
- safety screen — a screen covering a work area and protecting people and equipment from fire and other danger
- sandfly fever — a usually mild viral disease occurring in hot, dry areas, characterized by fever, eye pain, and sometimes a rash, transmitted by sandflies of the genus Phlebotomus.