12-letter words containing f, l, y
- foxtail lily — eremurus
- fractionally — pertaining to fractions; comprising a part or the parts of a unit; constituting a fraction: fractional numbers.
- fragmentally — fragmentary.
- frangibility — The state or quality of being frangible.
- fraternality — Brotherliness.
- fraudulently — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
- french-style — French-cut.
- frenetically — In a frenetic manner.
- fribble away — to use wastefully
- frictionally — In terms of friction.
- frightenedly — thrown into a fright; afraid; scared; terrified: a frightened child cowering in the corner.
- frolicsomely — In a frolicsome manner.
- frustratedly — In a frustrated manner.
- fuel poverty — the state of being unable to afford to heat one's home adequately
- fuliginosity — The condition or quality of being fuliginous; sootiness.
- fuliginously — In a fuliginous manner.
- fully booked — having no vacancies or spaces
- 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
- gillyflowers — Plural form of gillyflower.
- 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.
- horrifyingly — In a horrifying manner.
- hydrofluoric — of or derived from hydrofluoric acid.
- 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.
- hydrosulfide — a compound containing the univalent group –HS.
- hydrosulfite — hyposulfite (def 1).
- 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.
- identifiably — In a manner or state that is capable of being distinguished or named.
- indefeasibly — In an indefeasible manner.
- indefectibly — In an indefectible manner.
- indefensibly — In an indefensible manner.
- indefinitely — not definite; without fixed or specified limit; unlimited: an indefinite number.
- ineffability — incapable of being expressed or described in words; inexpressible: ineffable joy.
- ineffaceably — not effaceable or eradicable; indelible: an ineffaceable impression.