10-letter words containing f, r, y
- fly orchid — a European orchid, Ophrys insectifera, whose flowers resemble and attract certain wasps: found in wood margins and scrub on lime-rich soils
- fly-bridge — Also called flybridge, fly bridge, monkey bridge. Nautical. a small, often open deck or platform above the pilothouse or main cabin, having duplicate controls and navigational equipment.
- fly-strike — myiasis.
- fly-tipper — a person who deliberately dumps rubbish in an unauthorized place
- flycatcher — any of numerous Old World birds of the family Muscicapidae, that feed on insects captured in the air.
- flypitcher — a person who has a flypitch
- flyscreens — Plural form of flyscreen.
- flyswatter — A hand-held device for swatting flies or other insects, to kill or shoo them.
- force play — a situation in which a base runner is forced to advance to a base or to home plate as a result of the batter becoming a base runner or to make room for another base runner.
- forcefully — full of force; powerful; vigorous; effective: a forceful plea for peace.
- foremostly — In the foremost place or order; among the foremost.
- forgettery — a faculty or facility for forgetting; faulty memory: a witness with a very convenient forgettery.
- forgivably — In a forgivable way.
- formidably — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
- formlessly — In a formless manner.
- forsythias — Plural form of forsythia.
- fort henry — Joseph, 1797–1878, U.S. physicist.
- fort payne — a town in NE Alabama.
- fort riley — a military reservation in NE Kansas, NE of Junction City.
- fort wayne — a city in NE Indiana.
- fortifying — Present participle of fortify.
- forty-five — a cardinal number, 40 plus 5.
- forty-four — a cardinal number, 40 plus 4.
- forty-nine — a cardinal number, 40 plus 9.
- fortypenny — being 5 inches (13 cm) long: a fortypenny nail. Symbol: 40d.
- foudroyant — striking as with lightning; sudden and overwhelming in effect; stunning; dazzling.
- four-cycle — noting or pertaining to an internal-combustion engine in which a complete cycle in each cylinder requires four strokes, one to draw in air or an air-fuel mixture, one to compress it, one to ignite it and do work, and one to scavenge the cylinder.
- frabjously — In a frabjous manner; wonderfully, fabulously.
- fractality — the quality of being fractal or subdivided
- fragrantly — having a pleasant scent or aroma; sweet-smelling; sweet-scented: a fragrant rose.
- fraidy-cat — a timid, easily frightened person: often used by children.
- frantickly — Obsolete form of franticly.
- fraternity — a local or national organization of male students, primarily for social purposes, usually with secret initiation and rites and a name composed of two or three Greek letters.
- fraudfully — in a fraudful manner
- freakishly — queer; odd; unusual; grotesque: a freakish appearance.
- freddy mac — (in the US) an informal name for the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, a private company that buys and sells mortgage debt
- freestyler — Someone who competes in a freestyle sport such as freestyle skating or freestyle swimming.
- freestyles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of freestyle.
- freeze-dry — to subject to freeze-drying.
- freezingly — (of temperatures) approaching, at, or below the freezing point.
- french way — cunnilingus or fellatio.
- french-fry — to fry in deep fat: to French-fry onion rings.
- frenziedly — In a frenzied manner.
- frequently — often; many times; at short intervals.
- friability — easily crumbled or reduced to powder; crumbly: friable rock.
- friendlily — characteristic of or befitting a friend; showing friendship: a friendly greeting.
- fritillary — any of several orange-brown nymphalid butterflies, usually marked with black lines and dots and with silvery spots on the undersides of the wings.
- from day 1 — from the very beginning
- frontality — the representation of the front view of figures or objects in a work of art.
- frowningly — While or as if frowning.