9-letter words containing f, l, y, i
- fittingly — suitable or appropriate; proper or becoming.
- flaccidly — In a flaccid manner.
- flamingly — With, or as if with, fire or flames.
- flaringly — In a flaring manner.
- flax lily — a large New Zealand plant, Phormium tenax, of the agave family, having showy, red-margined, leathery leaves and dull-red flowers, grown as an ornamental and for the fiber-yielding leaves.
- flightily — In a flighty manner.
- flippancy — frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness; characterized by levity: The audience was shocked by his flippant remarks about patriotism.
- floridity — reddish; ruddy; rosy: a florid complexion.
- floristry — The art of creating flower arrangements.
- flourishy — containing flourishes; fancy; like a flourish in nature
- flowerily — In a flowery way.
- flowingly — moving in or as in a stream: flowing water.
- flunkyism — The quality or characteristics of a flunky; readiness to cringe to those who are superior in wealth or position; toadyism.
- flurrying — a light, brief shower of snow.
- fly blind — to move through the air using wings.
- fly river — a river in New Guinea, flowing SE from the central part to the Gulf of Papua, about 800 miles (1290 km) long.
- fly-drive — On a fly-drive holiday, you travel part of the way to your destination by aeroplane, and collect a hired car at the airport so that you can drive the rest of the way.
- fly-tying — the art or hobby of making artificial lures for fly fishing.
- flybridge — flying bridge.
- flyfisher — A person who goes fly fishing.
- flystrike — myiasis.
- flyweight — a boxer or other contestant of the lightest competitive class, especially a professional boxer weighing up to 112 pounds (51 kg).
- flywhisks — Plural form of flywhisk.
- foamingly — in a foaming manner
- foiningly — by means of a thrust or push
- folkishly — In a folkish manner.
- foolishly — In an unwise manner; stupidly.
- foppishly — In a foppish way.
- formality — condition or quality of being formal; accordance with required or traditional rules, procedures, etc.; conventionality.
- fossilify — (dated) To fossilize.
- fossilogy — (archaic, 1776-19th century) The science or study of fossils.
- fragilely — In a fragile way or manner.
- fragility — easily broken, shattered, or damaged; delicate; brittle; frail: a fragile ceramic container; a very fragile alliance.
- franticly — desperate or wild with excitement, passion, fear, pain, etc.; frenzied.
- frivolity — the quality or state of being frivolous: the frivolity of Mardi Gras.
- frog lily — a yellow water lily.
- frugality — the quality of being frugal, or prudent in saving; the lack of wastefulness: Many people who have lived through periods of economic deprivation develop lifelong habits of frugality and are almost never tempted by wasteful consumption.
- fruit fly — any of numerous small dipterous insects of the family Tephritidae, the larvae of which feed on the fruit of various plants.
- furiously — full of fury, violent passion, or rage; extremely angry; enraged: He was furious about the accident.
- furtively — taken, done, used, etc., surreptitiously or by stealth; secret: a furtive glance.
- gainfully — In a gainful manner; profitably.
- goldfinny — One of two or more species of European labroid fishes, Symphodus melops and Ctenolabrus rupestris.
- hayfields — Plural form of hayfield.
- highflyer — Alternative form of highflier.
- hydrofoil — Naval Architecture. a surface form creating a thrust against water in a direction perpendicular to the plane approximated by the surface.
- ineffably — incapable of being expressed or described in words; inexpressible: ineffable joy.
- inferably — to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence: They inferred his displeasure from his cool tone of voice.
- jellyfish — any of various marine coelenterates of a soft, gelatinous structure, especially one with an umbrellalike body and long, trailing tentacles; medusa.
- key field — (database) A field of a database (typically a relational database) table which together form a unique identifier for a record (a table entry). The aggregate of these fields is usually referred to simply as "the key".
- latensify — to increase the developability of (the latent image on a film or plate) after exposure.