8-letter words containing f, r, y
- filatory — a machine for spinning thread
- finsbury — former metropolitan borough of EC London, now part of Islington
- fireclay — Clay capable of withstanding high temperatures, chiefly used for making firebricks.
- fish fry — a picnic or other gathering at which fish are fried and eaten.
- flackery — publicity and promotion; press-agentry.
- flaherty — Robert Joseph, 1884–1951, U.S. pioneer in the production of documentary motion pictures.
- flannery — Tim, full name Timothy Fridtjof Flannery. born 1956, Australian zoologist, palaeontologist and environmentalist. His books include The Weather Makers (2006)
- flattery — the act of flattering.
- flavoury — Possessing flavour.
- flickery — Seeming to flicker; unsteady.
- flirtily — In a flirty manner.
- florally — In a floral way; with flowers or something that suggests them.
- floridly — reddish; ruddy; rosy: a florid complexion.
- flummery — oatmeal or flour boiled with water until thick.
- flustery — flustered or inclined to become flustered
- fluttery — fluttering; apt to flutter.
- fly rail — Furniture. a horizontally swinging bracket for supporting a drop leaf.
- fly trap — any of various plants that entrap insects, especially Venus's-flytrap.
- fly-over — overpass across a motorway
- flymaker — a person who makes fishing flies
- flyovers — Plural form of flyover.
- flypaper — paper designed to destroy flies by catching them on its sticky surface or poisoning them on contact.
- flyspray — a liquid used to destroy flies and other insects, sprayed from an aerosol
- flytraps — Plural form of flytrap.
- foraying — a quick raid, usually for the purpose of taking plunder: Vikings made a foray on the port.
- forcedly — enforced or compulsory: forced labor.
- forcibly — done or effected by force: forcible entry into a house.
- forebody — the part of a ship's hull forward of the middle body.
- forelady — a forewoman.
- foreplay — sexual stimulation of one's partner, usually as a prelude to sexual intercourse.
- forestay — a stay leading aft and upward from the stem or knightheads of a vessel to the head of the fore lower mast; the lowermost stay of a foremast.
- forestry — the science of planting and taking care of trees and forests.
- foreyard — a yard on the lower mast of a square-rigged foremast of a ship used to support the foresail.
- formably — formally
- formally — in a formal manner: The store was formally opened on Tuesday.
- formerly — in time past; in an earlier period or age; previously: a custom formerly observed.
- forsythe — A descendent of Algol 60, intended to be as uniform and general as possible, while retaining the basic character of its progenitor. Forsythe features higher-order procedures and intersection types.
- fortuity — the state or quality of being fortuitous; fortuitous character.
- fortyish — approaching or around the age of 40 years.
- forweary — to exhaust
- foundery — Alternative form of foundry.
- four-way — providing access or passage in four directions: a four-way entrance.
- fourplay — Quad play.
- fourthly — in the fourth place; fourth.
- foxberry — the cowberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea.
- freeways — Plural form of freeway.
- frenzily — in a frenzied or frantic manner
- friendly — characteristic of or befitting a friend; showing friendship: a friendly greeting.
- frienemy — Alternative form of frenemy.
- frigidly — In a frigid manner; coldly.