12-letter words containing f, r, y
- flash memory — Computers. a type of reprogrammable memory that retains information even with the power turned off.
- flat battery — power cell that has run down
- flatteringly — In a flattering manner.
- flatterously — in a flatterous manner
- flavorlessly — In a flavorless way.
- fleur-de-lys — fleur-de-lis (defs 1, 2).
- flickeringly — In a flickering manner.
- flightworthy — being in proper physical or mechanical condition for safe flight; airworthy: a flightworthy spacecraft.
- flimflammery — a trick or deception, especially a swindle or confidence game involving skillful persuasion or clever manipulation of the victim.
- floppy drive — disk drive
- florida keys — chain of small islands extending southwest from the S tip of Fla.
- flow country — an area of moorland and peat bogs in northern Scotland known for its wildlife, now partly afforested
- fluorography — photofluorography.
- fly in amber — a strange relic or reminder of the past
- flyfisherman — Flyfisher.
- flyfishermen — Plural form of flyfisherman.
- flying lemur — either of two lemurlike mammals, Cynocephalus variegatus, of southeastern Asia and the East Indies, or C. volans, of the Philippines, having broad folds of skin on both sides of the body to aid in gliding from tree to tree: now rare.
- flying shear — (in a continuous rolling mill) a shear that moves with the piece being cut.
- flying start — a start, as in sailboat racing, in which the entrants begin moving before reaching the starting line.
- fm cyclotron — a type of cyclotron that synchronizes its accelerating voltage with particle velocity in order to compensate for the relativistic mass increase of the particle as it approaches the speed of light.
- food allergy — an allergy to a specific type of food
- food pyramid — successive levels of predation in a food chain represented schematically as a pyramid because upper levels normally consist of decreasing numbers of larger predators.
- forbearingly — In a forbearing manner.
- forbiddingly — In a forbidding manner.
- forced entry — entry into a building by force, eg by forcing a lock
- forebodingly — a prediction; portent.
- forehandedly — Prudently, with thrift and foresight.
- foreign body — object lodged where it does not belong
- forensically — pertaining to, connected with, or used in courts of law or public discussion and debate.
- foreseeingly — by way of foreseeing
- forestaysail — a triangular sail set on a forestay; the innermost headsail of a vessel.
- forgeability — (metallurgy) The quality or degree of being forgeable.
- formaldehyde — a colorless, toxic, potentially carcinogenic, water-soluble gas, CH 2 O, having a suffocating odor, usually derived from methyl alcohol by oxidation: used chiefly in aqueous solution, as a disinfectant and preservative, and in the manufacture of various resins and plastics.
- formyl group — the univalent group HCO–, derived from formic acid.
- forrest city — a city in E Arkansas.
- fort kearney — a former fort in S Nebraska, near Kearney: an important post on the Oregon Trail.
- fort mchenry — a town in NE Illinois.
- forthrightly — In a forthright manner.
- fortuitously — In a fortuitous manner.
- forty-eighth — next after the forty-seventh; being the ordinal number for 48.
- forty-fourth — next after the forty-third; being the ordinal number for 44.
- forty-niners — a person, especially a prospector, who went to California in 1849 during the gold rush.
- forty-second — next after the forty-first; being the ordinal number for 42.
- fosbury flop — a modern high-jumping technique whereby the jumper clears the bar headfirst and backwards
- fotheringhay — a village in NE Northamptonshire, in E England, near Peterborough: Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned here and executed 1587.
- foundry sand — silica-based sand mixed with clay, oil, etc, to improve its cohesive strength, used in moulding
- foundry type — type cast in individual characters for setting by hand.
- four-by-four — a four-wheeled automotive vehicle having four-wheel drive.
- fourteenthly — in (the) fourteenth place
- fractionally — pertaining to fractions; comprising a part or the parts of a unit; constituting a fraction: fractional numbers.