13-letter words containing f, r, y
- fly fisherman — one who fishes by fly-casting
- flying boxcar — a large airplane designed to carry cargo.
- flying 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.
- flying circus — a squadron of airplanes operating together, especially any of several squadrons of famous World War I aviators.
- flying colors — with flying colors, with an overwhelming victory, triumph, or success: He passed the test with flying colors.
- flying doctor — a doctor listed with local authorities as willing to be flown to remote areas to give emergency medical care.
- flying dragon — any of several arboreal lizards of the genus Draco, having an extensible membrane between the limbs along each side by means of which it makes long, gliding leaps.
- flying lizard — flying dragon.
- flying saucer — any of various disk-shaped objects allegedly seen flying at high speeds and altitudes, often with extreme changes in speed and direction, and thought by some to be manned by intelligent beings from outer space.
- food industry — the industry surrounding the production of food
- food security — an economic and social condition of ready access by all members of a household to nutritionally adequate and safe food: a household with high food security.
- foolheartedly — Foolishly. In a foolhardy manner. Without thinking about the consequences.
- forefeelingly — by way of forefeeling
- foresightedly — In a foresighted manner.
- formal system — an uninterpreted symbolic system whose syntax is precisely defined, and on which a relation of deducibility is defined in purely syntactic terms; a logistic system
- formal theory — an uninterpreted symbolic system whose syntax is precisely defined, and on which a relation of deducibility is defined in purely syntactic terms; a logistic system
- formidability — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
- formulaically — made according to a formula; composed of formulas: a formulaic plot.
- fort mcmurray — a town in NE Alberta, in W Canada, on the Athabasca River.
- forty-eightmo — a book size of about 2½ × 4 inches (6 × 10 cm), determined by printing on sheets folded to form 48 leaves or 96 pages. Abbreviation: 48mo, 48°.
- forty-seventh — next after the forty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 47.
- fossil energy — heat energy released by burning fossil fuel
- foundationary — the basis or groundwork of anything: the moral foundation of both society and religion.
- foundry proof — a proof pulled for a final checking before printing plates are made.
- four-way stop — an intersection of two roads with four stop signs, one facing in each direction
- fourpenny one — a blow, esp with the fist
- fragmentarily — consisting of or reduced to fragments; broken; disconnected; incomplete: fragmentary evidence; fragmentary remains.
- free and easy — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
- free delivery — the delivery of mail directly to the recipient's address without charge to the recipient: Before free delivery people had to pick up their mail at the post office or pay a letter carrier to deliver it.
- free enthalpy — a thermodynamic property of a system equal to the difference between its enthalpy and the product of its temperature and its entropy. It is usually measured in joules
- free-and-easy — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
- freeze-drying — a process for drying heat-sensitive substances, as foods, blood plasma, antibiotics, and the like, by freezing the substance and then subliming the ice or other frozen solvent in a high vacuum.
- frelinghuysen — Frederick Theodore, 1817–85, U.S. statesman.
- french pastry — fine, rich, or fancy dessert pastry, especially made from puff paste and filled with cream or fruit preparations.
- french system — a method of spinning in which fibers of extremely short-staple wool are not twisted before being spun.
- friendly fire — Insurance. a fire deliberately set and remaining contained, as in a fireplace or boiler, from which any resulting loss cannot be claimed as an insurance liability (opposed to hostile fire).
- frighten away — cause sb/sth to run away
- frighteningly — to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.
- frobisher bay — an inlet of the Atlantic in NE Canada, in the SE coast of Baffin Island
- frontal gyrus — any of several convolutions on the outer surface of the frontal lobe of the cerebrum.
- fruiting body — an organ that produces spores; fructification.
- frustratingly — to make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify: The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts to help him.
- funambulatory — relating to tightrope-walking
- futurity race — a race for two-year-old horses in which the entries are selected before birth
- ginger family — the plant family Zingiberaceae, characterized by tropical, often aromatic herbaceous plants having rhizomes, long sheathing leaves, and clusters of tubular flowers, and including cardamon, ginger, and turmeric.
- glove factory — a factory where gloves are made
- grandfatherly — of or characteristic of a grandfather.
- gravity fault — a fault along an inclined plane in which the upper side or hanging wall appears to have moved downward with respect to the lower side or footwall (opposed to reverse fault).
- gyrofrequency — the frequency of rotation of an electron or other charged particle in a magnetic field, directly proportional to the charge of the particle and to the field strength and inversely proportional to the mass of the particle.
- halfheartedly — Without enthusiasm nor interest.