12-letter words containing f, r, y
- fractography — the study of fractures or cracks in a material, esp metal, in order to predict or identify the cause of a failure in a structure
- fragmentally — fragmentary.
- frangibility — The state or quality of being frangible.
- frank murphy — Frank, 1890–1949, U.S. statesman and jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1940–49.
- fraternality — Brotherliness.
- fraudulently — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
- free company — a band of free companions.
- freezer tray — a shallow container used to hold food that is to be frozen
- freight yard — a place on a rail network where freight trains are made up or broken up
- 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.
- fritter away — to squander or disperse piecemeal; waste little by little (usually followed by away): to fritter away one's money; to fritter away an afternoon.
- frolicsomely — In a frolicsome manner.
- from day one — from the very beginning
- frustratedly — In a frustrated manner.
- frying steak — a steak that is cooked by frying
- fuel poverty — the state of being unable to afford to heat one's home adequately
- funeral pyre — bonfire for cremation
- funny papers — funny1 (def 7b).
- furry friend — a pet, esp a cat or a dog
- 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.
- goofy-footer — a surfboard rider or snowboarder who stands with the right foot forward instead of the left foot forward
- 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.
- graft hybrid — a hybrid plant that is produced by grafting and that exhibits characters of both the stock and the scion.
- 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.
- gravity feed — the supplying of fuel, materials, etc., by force of gravity.
- half-century — a period of 100 years.
- hangtown fry — a type of omelet to which fried oysters, bacon, and sometimes onions are added.
- hobby farmer — a person who runs a farm as a hobby rather than a means of making a living
- horrifically — causing horror.
- horrifyingly — In a horrifying manner.
- hydatidiform — like or resembling a hydatid
- hydrofluoric — of or derived from hydrofluoric acid.
- hydroforming — the production of high-octane aromatic compounds for motor fuels by catalytic reforming of naphthas in the presence of hydrogen.
- 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).
- hyperfiction — nonlinear fiction created in electronic hypertext form and containing multiple plot developments, endings, etc., that can be evoked interactively.
- 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.
- hypersurface — a mathematical object that generalizes the concept of surface from three-dimensional Euclidean space to hyperspace.
- in memory of — to commemorate
- in your face — involving confrontation; defiant; provocative.