8-letter words containing f, e, r, y
- forestay — a stay leading aft and upward from the stem or knightheads of a vessel to the head of the fore lower mast; the lowermost stay of a foremast.
- forestry — the science of planting and taking care of trees and forests.
- foreyard — a yard on the lower mast of a square-rigged foremast of a ship used to support the foresail.
- formerly — in time past; in an earlier period or age; previously: a custom formerly observed.
- forsythe — A descendent of Algol 60, intended to be as uniform and general as possible, while retaining the basic character of its progenitor. Forsythe features higher-order procedures and intersection types.
- forweary — to exhaust
- foundery — Alternative form of foundry.
- foxberry — the cowberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea.
- freeways — Plural form of freeway.
- frenzily — in a frenzied or frantic manner
- friendly — characteristic of or befitting a friend; showing friendship: a friendly greeting.
- frienemy — Alternative form of frenemy.
- frippery — finery in dress, especially when showy, gaudy, or the like.
- frogeyed — (of a person) having a bulging eye or bulging eyes
- froggery — a collection of frogs
- frothery — an insubstantial thing; a triviality
- frozenly — While, or as if, frozen; in a manner that is cold, unfeeling, unmoving, etc.
- fruitery — a collection or crop of fruit
- frumenty — a dish of hulled wheat boiled in milk and seasoned with sugar, cinnamon, and raisins.
- frybread — a Native American fried bread made with wheat or corn flour, often served on special occasions
- funerary — of or relating to a funeral or burial: a funerary urn.
- furmenty — frumenty
- furriery — the business, trade, or craftsmanship of a furrier.
- generify — (computing) To make generic.
- gentrify — to alter (a deteriorated urban neighborhood) through the buying and renovation of houses and stores by upper- or middle-income families or individuals, raising property values but often displacing low-income families and small businesses.
- geoffrey — a male given name: from Germanic, meaning “divine peace.”.
- greenfly — an aphid, Coloradoa rufomaculata, that is an important pest of chrysanthemums.
- grey fox — a greyish American fox, Urocyon cinereoargenteus, inhabiting arid and woody regions from S North America to N South America
- hayfever — Alternative spelling of hay fever.
- horsefly — any bloodsucking, usually large fly of the family Tabanidae, especially of the genus Tabanus, a serious pest of horses, cattle, etc.
- hoverfly — Any of various flies from the family Syrphidae that hover in the air and feed on the nectar of flowers.
- irefully — In an ireful manner; angrily; wrathfully.
- jeffreys — Francis ("Lord Jeffrey") 1773–1850, Scottish jurist, editor, and critic.
- keyframe — A single frame in an animation sequence drawn by an artist, between which others are tweened.
- meyerhof — Otto [ot-oh;; German awt-oh] /ˈɒt oʊ;; German ˈɔt oʊ/ (Show IPA), 1884–1951, German physiologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1922.
- off year — a year without a major, especially presidential, election.
- off-year — An off-year is a year when no major political elections are held.
- prettify — to make pretty, especially in a small, petty way: to prettify a natural beauty.
- rafferty — confused; disorganized.
- re-edify — to edify again or rebuild
- recodify — to reduce (laws, rules, etc.) to a code.
- refinery — an establishment for refining something, as metal, sugar, or petroleum.
- reflexly — in a reflex manner
- relexify — to replace the vocabulary of (a language, especially a pidgin) with words drawn from another language, without changing the grammatical structure.
- remodify — to change somewhat the form or qualities of; alter partially; amend: to modify a contract.
- renotify — to notify again
- repacify — to pacify again
- repurify — to purify again, make pure again
- resinify — to convert into a resin.
- reverify — to verify again