9-letter words containing f, l, y
- freecycle — to give away (used goods or materials) to people who want them, or to obtain (such items) for free.
- freestyle — Swimming. competition in which any of the standard strokes may be used, according to the swimmer's choice. the crawl.
- fretfully — In a fretful manner.
- frivolity — the quality or state of being frivolous: the frivolity of Mardi Gras.
- frog lily — a yellow water lily.
- frontally — In a frontal manner.
- frowardly — In a froward manner.
- 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.
- fulgently — In a fulgent manner; so as to dazzle or glitter.
- fulsomely — In a fulsome manner.
- furcately — in a furcate manner
- furiously — full of fury, violent passion, or rage; extremely angry; enraged: He was furious about the accident.
- furtherly — Favorable, advanced.
- furtively — taken, done, used, etc., surreptitiously or by stealth; secret: a furtive glance.
- gainfully — In a gainful manner; profitably.
- gleefully — full of exultant joy; merry; delighted.
- goldfinny — One of two or more species of European labroid fishes, Symphodus melops and Ctenolabrus rupestris.
- gray wolf — a wolf, Canis lupus, having a usually grizzled, blackish, or whitish coat: formerly common in Eurasia and North America, some subspecies are now reduced in numbers or near extinction.
- gyrfalcon — a large falcon, Falco rusticolus, of arctic and subarctic regions, having white, gray, or blackish color phases: now greatly reduced in number.
- half-year — a period of 6 months
- halfpenny — a bronze coin of the United Kingdom, equal to half a penny: use phased out in 1984.
- harmfully — In a harmful manner.
- hatefully — In a hateful manner.
- hayfields — Plural form of hayfield.
- heedfully — In a heedful manner.
- helpfully — giving or rendering aid or assistance; of service: Your comments were very helpful.
- highflyer — Alternative form of highflier.
- hopefully — in a hopeful manner: We worked hopefully and energetically, thinking we might finish first.
- horse fly — any bloodsucking, usually large fly of the family Tabanidae, especially of the genus Tabanus, a serious pest of horses, cattle, etc.
- hurtfully — In a hurtful manner.
- 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.
- kerflooey — Informal. to cease functioning, especially suddenly and completely; fall apart; fail: As soon as the storm hit, every light in town went kerflooey.
- 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".
- lady fern — a fern, Athyrium filix-femina, having delicate, feathery fronds.
- lafayette — Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier [ma-ree zhaw-zef pawl eev rawk zheel-ber dy maw-tyey] /maˈri ʒɔˈzɛf pɔl iv rɔk ʒilˈbɛr dü mɔˈtyeɪ/ (Show IPA), Marquis de. Also, La Fayette. 1757–1834, French soldier, statesman, and liberal leader, who served in the American Revolutionary Army as aide-de-camp to General Washington, and took a leading part in the French revolutions of 1789 and 1830.
- latensify — to increase the developability of (the latent image on a film or plate) after exposure.
- life buoy — any of variously formed buoyant devices for supporting a person fallen into the water.
- lifecycle — Alternative spelling of life cycle.
- lifestyle — the habits, attitudes, tastes, moral standards, economic level, etc., that together constitute the mode of living of an individual or group.
- like fury — violently; furiously
- lustfully — full of or motivated by lust, greed, or the like: He was an emperor lustful of power.
- lynnfield — a town in NE Massachusetts.
- march fly — any of several flies of the family Bibionidae that appear during spring and early summer.
- mayflower — (italics) the ship in which the Pilgrims sailed from Southampton to the New World in 1620.
- mercyfull — Obsolete spelling of merciful.
- mindfully — attentive, aware, or careful (usually followed by of): mindful of one's responsibilities.