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10-letter words containing f, l, y

  • hackle fly — an artificial fly made with hackles, usually without wings.
  • half rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
  • half story — a usable living space within a sloping roof, usually having dormer windows for lighting.
  • half-crazy — somewhat crazy or insane
  • half-empty — (of a vessel, place, etc) holding or containing half its capacity
  • half-hardy — having moderate resistance to cold temperatures.
  • half-rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
  • halfhourly — half-hour (def 3).
  • hangingfly — a small, long-legged scorpionfly of the family Bittacidae, resembling the crane fly but having four wings rather than two and hanging from leaves or twigs by the front or middle legs while using the hind legs to seize prey, mostly small flies.
  • hastefully — swiftness of motion; speed; celerity: He performed his task with great haste. They felt the need for haste.
  • heartfully — In a heartful manner.
  • high flyer — a person who is extravagant or goes to extremes in aims, pretensions, opinions, etc.
  • high-flyer — a person who is extravagant or goes to extremes in aims, pretensions, opinions, etc.
  • highflying — moving upward to or along at a considerable height: highflying planes.
  • hydrofoils — Plural form of hydrofoil.
  • hyperfocal — relating to the distance beyond which a lens can be focused to produce satisfactory image quality
  • infallibly — absolutely trustworthy or sure: an infallible rule.
  • infamously — having an extremely bad reputation: an infamous city.
  • infeasibly — In a manner that\u2019s not feasible.
  • infelicity — the quality or state of being unhappy; unhappiness.
  • inferiorly — lower in station, rank, degree, or grade (often followed by to): a rank inferior to colonel.
  • infernally — hellish; fiendish; diabolical: an infernal plot.
  • infidelity — marital disloyalty; adultery.
  • infinitely — immeasurably great: an infinite capacity for forgiveness.
  • inflexibly — not flexible; incapable of or resistant to being bent; rigid: an inflexible steel rod.
  • informally — without formality or ceremony; casual: an informal visit.
  • jellifying — Present participle of jellify.
  • jollifying — Present participle of jollify.
  • joyfulness — full of joy, as a person or one's heart; glad; delighted.
  • kefalotyri — A Greek cheese similar to parmesan.
  • kiteflying — an act or instance of flying a kite.
  • la fayette — Marie Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne [ma-ree maduh-len pyawsh duh la ver-nyuh] /maˈri madəˈlɛn pyɔʃ də la ˈvɛr nyə/ (Show IPA), Comtesse de, 1634–93, French novelist.
  • ladyfinger — a small, finger-shaped sponge cake.
  • lamb's fry — lamb's offal, esp lamb's testicles, as food
  • lanternfly — any of several large tropical insects of the family Fulgoridae, formerly thought to be luminescent.
  • lay before — If you lay an idea or piece of information before someone, you present it to them in detail, usually in order to obtain their approval or advice.
  • lay figure — a jointed model of the human body, usually of wood, from which artists work in the absence of a living model.
  • leftwardly — leftwards
  • leyte gulf — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, in the SE Philippines, between Samar and Leyte islands: U.S.-Japanese naval battle 1944.
  • life cycle — development process: sth living
  • life story — an account of all the events that happened to someone during their life
  • life-cycle — software life-cycle
  • lifelessly — not endowed with life; having no life; inanimate: lifeless matter.
  • lifestyler — One who lives an alternative lifestyle all the time, not just occasionally.
  • lifestyles — Plural form of lifestyle.
  • liquefying — Present participle of liquefy; Alternative spelling of liquifying.
  • liquifying — Present participle of liquify.
  • lmgtfy.com — (humour, web)   A somewhat sarcastic web service that animates the action of searching on Google. Instead of displaying the search results, the site creates a self-referential URL like that takes you to a page showing an animation of the actions of clicking in the Google search box, entering some text and clicking the submit button. It then takes you to the results on Google. The link is intended be sent to in answer to a question that could easily have been answered by Google. It is a more polite, if long-winded, way of saying JFGI or STFW. In the belief that it is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish, the service helps the recipient to help himself while succinctly conveying the message that he is too stupid to use Google.
  • low-flying — Low-flying aircraft or birds are flying very close to the ground, or lower than normal.
  • manifestly — readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error.
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