12-letter words containing f, e, r, y, i
- forty-eighth — next after the forty-seventh; being the ordinal number for 48.
- forty-niners — a person, especially a prospector, who went to California in 1849 during the gold rush.
- fotheringhay — a village in NE Northamptonshire, in E England, near Peterborough: Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned here and executed 1587.
- fraternality — Brotherliness.
- freight yard — a place on a rail network where freight trains are made up or broken up
- frenetically — In a frenetic manner.
- fribble away — to use wastefully
- frightenedly — thrown into a fright; afraid; scared; terrified: a frightened child cowering in the corner.
- fritter away — to squander or disperse piecemeal; waste little by little (usually followed by away): to fritter away one's money; to fritter away an afternoon.
- frolicsomely — In a frolicsome manner.
- frying steak — a steak that is cooked by frying
- furry friend — a pet, esp a cat or a dog
- gay-friendly — welcoming to gay people
- gillyflowers — Plural form of gillyflower.
- grape family — the plant family Vitaceae, characterized by woody climbing vines with tendrils, having alternate, simple or compound leaves, and bearing clusters of small flowers and berries, and including Boston ivy, grape, grape ivy, and Virginia creeper.
- gravity feed — the supplying of fuel, materials, etc., by force of gravity.
- hydrosulfide — a compound containing the univalent group –HS.
- hydrosulfite — hyposulfite (def 1).
- hyperfiction — nonlinear fiction created in electronic hypertext form and containing multiple plot developments, endings, etc., that can be evoked interactively.
- hyperflexion — Anatomy. the act of bending a limb. the position that a limb assumes when it is bent.
- hyperinflate — to subject to hyperinflation: hyperinflated prices.
- in memory of — to commemorate
- in your face — involving confrontation; defiant; provocative.
- in-your-face — involving confrontation; defiant; provocative.
- indifferency — indifference.
- infrequently — happening or occurring at long intervals or rarely: infrequent visits.
- insufferably — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
- interfaculty — an ability, natural or acquired, for a particular kind of action: a faculty for making friends easily.
- irreformably — in an irreformable manner
- irrefragably — In an irrefragable state or condition.
- jeffrey pine — a conifer, Pinus jeffreyi, of high mountains in the western U.S., having long needles, large cones, and aromatic bark.
- khyber knife — a long Indian knife having a triangular, single-edged blade with the handle set off center toward the back.
- life history — the series of living phenomena exhibited by an organism in the course of its development from inception to death.
- mercy flight — an aircraft flight to bring a seriously ill or injured person to hospital from an isolated community
- ninety-first — next after the ninetieth; being the ordinal number for 91.
- office party — a party or informal social gathering for all the employees in a particular organization or department
- oil refinery — plant where crude oil is processed
- over-qualify — to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent: to qualify oneself for a job.
- overclassify — to classify to excess
- overidentify — to identify with someone else to an excessive degree
- oversimplify — make too simple
- pecksniffery — hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles.
- perfectively — in a perfective manner; thoroughly
- perfectivity — the state or quality of being (a) perfective
- perfidiously — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- personifying — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- proficiently — well-advanced or competent in any art, science, or subject; skilled: a proficient swimmer.
- profitlessly — in such a way as to not yield profit, as in financial gains or general benefits or advantages
- pyritiferous — having or producing pyrites
- reflationary — economy: relating to reflation