8-letter words containing f, r, y
- frippery — finery in dress, especially when showy, gaudy, or the like.
- friskily — In a frisky manner.
- frit fly — a minute European fly, Oscinella frit, the larvae of which are serious pests of wheat and other cereals.
- frogeyed — (of a person) having a bulging eye or bulging eyes
- froggery — a collection of frogs
- frostily — characterized by or producing frost; freezing; very cold: frosty weather.
- frothery — an insubstantial thing; a triviality
- frothily — In a frothy way.
- frowzily — in a frowzy or unkempt manner
- frozenly — While, or as if, frozen; in a manner that is cold, unfeeling, unmoving, etc.
- fructify — to bear fruit; become fruitful: With careful tending the plant will fructify.
- frugally — economical in use or expenditure; prudently saving or sparing; not wasteful: What your office needs is a frugal manager who can save you money without resorting to painful cutbacks. Synonyms: thrifty, chary, provident, careful, prudent, penny-wise, scrimping; miserly, Scotch, penny-pinching. Antonyms: wasteful, extravagant, spendthrift, prodigal, profligate.
- fruitery — a collection or crop of fruit
- fruitfly — Alternative spelling of fruit fly.
- fruitily — In a fruity way.
- frumenty — a dish of hulled wheat boiled in milk and seasoned with sugar, cinnamon, and raisins.
- frumpily — In a frumpy manner.
- fry cook — a cook who mainly prepares fried foods, as at a lunch counter.
- frybread — a Native American fried bread made with wheat or corn flour, often served on special occasions
- fujayrah — Al-, one of the United Arab Emirates, on the Gulf of Oman.
- fumatory — of or relating to smoke, especially tobacco smoke, or to a place for smoking.
- fumitory — any plant of the genus Fumaria, especially a delicate herb, F. officinalis, having finely dissected, grayish leaves and spikes of purplish flowers.
- funerary — of or relating to a funeral or burial: a funerary urn.
- furacity — (obsolete) Addictedness to theft; thievishness.
- furmenty — frumenty
- furriery — the business, trade, or craftsmanship of a furrier.
- futurity — future time: Such discussion is better left to futurity.
- generify — (computing) To make generic.
- gentrify — to alter (a deteriorated urban neighborhood) through the buying and renovation of houses and stores by upper- or middle-income families or individuals, raising property values but often displacing low-income families and small businesses.
- geoffrey — a male given name: from Germanic, meaning “divine peace.”.
- gray fox — a fox, Urocyon cinereoargenteus, ranging from Central America through the southwestern and eastern U.S., having blackish-gray upper parts and rusty-yellowish feet, legs, and ears.
- grayfish — a name used in marketing for any of several American sharks, especially the dogfishes of the genus Squalus.
- greenfly — an aphid, Coloradoa rufomaculata, that is an important pest of chrysanthemums.
- grey fox — a greyish American fox, Urocyon cinereoargenteus, inhabiting arid and woody regions from S North America to N South America
- gruffily — in a gruffy manner
- hayfever — Alternative spelling of hay fever.
- hayforks — Plural form of hayfork.
- horn fly — a small bloodsucking fly, Haematobia irritans, that is a pest, especially of cattle.
- horsefly — any bloodsucking, usually large fly of the family Tabanidae, especially of the genus Tabanus, a serious pest of horses, cattle, etc.
- hoverfly — Any of various flies from the family Syrphidae that hover in the air and feed on the nectar of flowers.
- impurify — To make impure.
- infantry — soldiers or military units that fight on foot, in modern times typically with rifles, machine guns, grenades, mortars, etc., as weapons.
- infirmly — In an infirm manner; feebly.
- irefully — In an ireful manner; angrily; wrathfully.
- jeffreys — Francis ("Lord Jeffrey") 1773–1850, Scottish jurist, editor, and critic.
- karstify — to become or cause to become karstic
- keyframe — A single frame in an animation sequence drawn by an artist, between which others are tweened.
- lilyturf — liriope.
- lyriform — shaped like a lyre.
- meyerhof — Otto [ot-oh;; German awt-oh] /ˈɒt oʊ;; German ˈɔt oʊ/ (Show IPA), 1884–1951, German physiologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1922.