12-letter words containing f, l, a, y
- frictionally — In terms of friction.
- frustratedly — In a frustrated manner.
- functionally — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- funeral pyre — bonfire for cremation
- fungicidally — in a fungicidal manner
- galley proof — a proof, originally one set from type in a galley, taken before the material has been made up into pages and usually printed as a single column of type with wide margins for marking corrections.
- gay-friendly — welcoming to gay people
- gourd family — the plant family Cucurbitaceae, characterized by tendril-bearing vines, either trailing or climbing and having alternate, palmately lobed leaves, often large yellow or greenish flowers, and many-seeded, fleshy fruit with a hard rind, and including the cucumber, gourd, melon, pumpkin, and squash.
- 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.
- grass family — the large plant family Gramineae (or Poaceae), characterized by mostly herbaceous but sometimes woody plants with hollow and jointed stems, narrow sheathing leaves, petalless flowers borne in spikelets, and fruit in the form of seedlike grain, and including bamboo, sugar cane, numerous grasses, and cereal grains such as barley, corn, oats, rice, rye, and wheat.
- gratifyingly — In a manner that gratifies.
- half holiday — a holiday limited to half a working day or half an academic day.
- half-century — a period of 100 years.
- half-holiday — a holiday limited to half a working day or half an academic day.
- half-monthly — pertaining to a month, or to each month.
- halfway line — a line across a sports field, such as a football pitch, that divides the playing area into two equal areas and is equidistant between the two goals
- halfwittedly — In a halfwitted manner.
- halls of ivy — an institution of higher learning; university or college; the academic world.
- heath family — the plant family Ericaceae, characterized by evergreen or deciduous shrubs, trees, and woody plants growing in acid soil and having simple leaves, often showy flowers either solitary or in clusters, and fruit in the form of a berry or capsule, and including the azalea, blueberry, cranberry, heather, madrone, mountain laurel, rhododendron, and trailing arbutus.
- horrifically — causing horror.
- hydrosulfate — a salt formed by the direct union of sulfuric acid with an organic base, especially an alkaloid, and usually more soluble than the base.
- hyperinflate — to subject to hyperinflation: hyperinflated prices.
- identifiably — In a manner or state that is capable of being distinguished or named.
- indefeasibly — In an indefeasible manner.
- ineffability — incapable of being expressed or described in words; inexpressible: ineffable joy.
- ineffaceably — not effaceable or eradicable; indelible: an ineffaceable impression.
- inflammatory — tending to arouse anger, hostility, passion, etc.: inflammatory speeches.
- inflationary — of, pertaining to, reflective of, or causing inflation: inflationary prices.
- 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.
- joint family — a type of extended family composed of parents, their children, and the children's spouses and offspring in one household.
- lachrymiform — Shaped like a teardrop.
- larch sawfly — a red and black sawfly, Pristiphora erichsonii, the larvae of which infest and feed on the leaves of larch.
- let fly (at) — to shoot or throw (at)
- life annuity — any annuity that is contingent upon the survival of the annuitant or annuitants, especially an annuity that terminates with the death of a single annuitant.
- life tenancy — holding a tenancy until the holder dies
- maple family — the plant family Aceraceae, typified by trees and shrubs having sweet sap, simple opposite leaves usually lobed or toothed, clusters of small flowers, and fruit in the form of a double-winged nutlet, and including maples and the box elder.
- meaningfully — full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink; a meaningful choice.
- meet halfway — to compromise with
- myofibrillar — Of or pertaining to myofibrils.
- myofilaments — Plural form of myofilament.
- newfangledly — in a newfangled manner
- nonformulary — Not formulary.
- nonolfactory — of or relating to the sense of smell: olfactory organs.
- olfactometry — The study and measurement of smells.
- olive family — the plant family Oleaceae, characterized by trees and shrubs having opposite, simple or pinnately compound leaves, usually small and sometimes showy flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry, capsule, or winged seed, and including the ash, forsythia, lilac, olive, and privet.
- 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