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13-letter words containing f, r, y

  • cyberfeminism — A community, philosophy and set of practices concerned with feminist acts in cyberspace.
  • cycloparaffin — any of a series of saturated alicyclic hydrocarbons of the general formula CnH2n, having a closed chain of three or more carbon atoms, as cyclohexane
  • dairy factory — a factory making butter, cheese, lactose, etc from milk collected from surrounding farming areas
  • dairy farming — the business of farming to produce milk and milk products
  • day after day — If something happens day after day, it happens every day without stopping.
  • days of grace — days permitted by custom for payment of a promissory note, bill of exchange, etc, after it falls due
  • deferentially — showing deference; deferent; respectful.
  • defervescency — Alternative form of defervescence.
  • deformability — Deformability is the degree to which applying a force can make a particle or solid change shape.
  • dehydrofreeze — to subject (food) to partial dehydration and quick-freezing.
  • dietary fiber — fiber (def 9).
  • dietary fibre — fibrous substances in fruits and vegetables, such as the structural polymers of cell walls, consumption of which aids digestion and is believed to help prevent certain diseases
  • disconformity — Geology. the surface of a division between parallel rock strata, indicating interruption of sedimentation: a type of unconformity.
  • disgracefully — In a disgraceful manner.
  • distressfully — In a distressful way; showing distress.
  • distrustfully — In a distrustful manner.
  • drafting yard — a yard fenced into compartments for the holding and sorting of livestock.
  • effervescency — (archaic) effervescence.
  • fabricability — able to be formed or shaped; capable of being constructed or manufactured.
  • factory floor — The factory floor refers to the workers in a factory, as opposed to the managers. It can also refer to the area where they work.
  • factory price — the price quoted for manufactured goods for pickup at the gate of a factory, before certain handling, shipping, and similar costs.
  • factory-fresh — coming directly from the factory; brand new
  • faculty board — the governing body of a faculty
  • fairly-traded — bought from the producer at a guaranteed price
  • fairy penguin — a small penguin, Eudyptula minor, with a bluish head and back, found on the Australian coast
  • fairy swallow — a variety of domestic fancy pigeon having blue-and-white plumage and heavily muffed feet
  • fairy-slipper — Calypso (def 2).
  • family circle — the closely related members of a family as a group.
  • family credit — (formerly, in Britain) a means-tested allowance paid to low-earning families with one or more dependent children and one or both parents in work: replaced by Working Families' Tax Credit in 1999
  • family doctor — a general practitioner.
  • family friend — intimate acquaintance of one's family
  • fare-you-well — a state of perfection: The meal was done to a fare-thee-well.
  • fatigue party — a group of soldiers undertaking fatigues
  • feature story — a newspaper or magazine article or report of a person, event, an aspect of a major event, or the like, often having a personal slant and written in an individual style. Compare follow-up (def 3b), hard news, news story.
  • featurelessly — In a featureless way; without features.
  • felony murder — a killing treated as a murder because, though unintended, it occurred during the commission or attempted commission of a felony, as robbery.
  • ferricyanogen — (chemistry) A hexavalent radical, Fe2(CN)12, a compound of cyanogen and iron in the ferric state.
  • ferrocyanogen — a ferrocyanide radical
  • ferry company — a company that operates a ferry or ferries
  • fever therapy — therapy by means of an artificially induced fever.
  • field battery — a small unit of usually four field guns
  • film industry — all the companies, studios, people etc involved in making commercial films collectively
  • filterability — The state or condition of being filterable.
  • fish hatchery — a facility where fish eggs are hatched and the fry raised, especially to stock lakes, streams, and ponds.
  • flatbed lorry — a lorry with a flat platform for its body
  • flirtatiously — given or inclined to flirtation.
  • floristically — In a floristic manner.
  • flourishingly — In a flourishing way; tending to succeed and grow.
  • fluorescently — In a fluorescent manner; using fluorescence.
  • fluorohydride — (inorganic chemistry) An compound formed by the addition of the elements of hydrogen fluoride.
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