6-letter words containing f, l, y
- mayfly — Also called shadfly. any insect of the order Ephemeroptera, having delicate, membranous wings with the front pair much larger than the rear and having an aquatic larval stage and a terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days.
- medfly — Mediterranean fruit fly.
- myself — There is no disagreement over the use of myself and other -self forms when they are used intensively (I myself cannot agree) or reflexively (He introduced himself proudly). Questions are raised, however, when the -self forms are used instead of the personal pronouns (I, me, etc.) as subjects, objects, or complements. Myself occurs only rarely as a single subject in place of I: Myself was the one who called. The recorded instances of such use are mainly poetic or literary. It is also uncommon as a simple object in place of me: Since the letter was addressed to myself, I opened it. As part of a compound subject, object, or complement, myself and to a lesser extent the other -self forms are common in informal speech and personal writing, somewhat less common in more formal speech and writing: The manager and myself completed the arrangements. Many came to welcome my husband and myself back to Washington. Myself and other -self forms are also used, alone or with other nouns or pronouns, in constructions after as, than, or but in all varieties of speech and writing: The captain has far more experience than myself in such matters. Orders have arrived for everyone but the orderlies and yourself. There is ample precedent, going as far back as Chaucer and running through the whole range of British and American literature and other serious formal writing, for all these uses. Many usage guides, however, state that to use myself in any construction in which I or me could be used instead (as My daughter and myself play the flute instead of My daughter and I, or a gift for my husband and myself instead of for my husband and me) is characteristic only of informal speech and that such use ought not to occur in writing. See also me.
- naffly — in a naff or inferior manner
- nitfly — botfly.
- offaly — a county in Leinster, in the central Republic of Ireland. 760 sq. mi. (1970 sq. km). County seat: Tullamore.
- orlfly — an alderfly, Sialis lutaria.
- outfly — to surpass in flying, especially in speed or distance: to outfly the speed of sound.
- pluffy — puffy or fluffy
- purfly — stout
- ruffly — to destroy the smoothness or evenness of: The wind ruffled the sand.
- safely — secure from liability to harm, injury, danger, or risk: a safe place.
- salify — to form into a salt, as by chemical combination.
- sawfly — any of numerous hymenopterous insects of the family Tenthredinidae, the female of which has a sawlike ovipositor for inserting the eggs in the tissues of a host plant.
- shelfy — full of sandbanks or reefs hidden beneath the water's surface
- softly — yielding readily to touch or pressure; easily penetrated, divided, or changed in shape; not hard or stiff: a soft pillow.
- uglify — to make ugly.
- vilify — to speak ill of; defame; slander.
- waffly — to speak or write equivocally: to waffle on an important issue.
- wifely — of, like, or befitting a wife.
- yaffle — (UK) the European green woodpecker, Picus viridis.