9-letter words containing f, r, y
- gyrfalcon — a large falcon, Falco rusticolus, of arctic and subarctic regions, having white, gray, or blackish color phases: now greatly reduced in number.
- half-year — a period of 6 months
- harmfully — In a harmful manner.
- hay fever — a type of allergic rhinitis affecting the mucous membranes of the eyes and respiratory tract, affecting susceptible persons usually during the summer, caused by pollen of ragweed and certain other plants.
- highflyer — Alternative form of highflier.
- historify — to make something part of history or to tell the history of something
- horse fly — any bloodsucking, usually large fly of the family Tabanidae, especially of the genus Tabanus, a serious pest of horses, cattle, etc.
- hurtfully — In a hurtful manner.
- hydrofoil — Naval Architecture. a surface form creating a thrust against water in a direction perpendicular to the plane approximated by the surface.
- hyperfine — Extremely fine, especially of the hyperfine structure in the spectra of atoms and molecules.
- hyperform — a pronunciation or grammatical form or usage produced by hypercorrection.
- in a fury — very angry
- inferably — to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence: They inferred his displeasure from his cool tone of voice.
- infirmary — a place for the care of the infirm, sick, or injured; hospital or facility serving as a hospital: a school infirmary.
- infirmity — a physical weakness or ailment: the infirmities of age.
- kerflooey — Informal. to cease functioning, especially suddenly and completely; fall apart; fail: As soon as the storm hit, every light in town went kerflooey.
- key frame — (graphics) A frame in an animated sequence of frames which was drawn or otherwise constructed directly by the user rather than generated automatically, e.g. by tweening.
- key fruit — a samara.
- key scarf — any of various scarf joints in which the overlapping parts are keyed together.
- keyframes — Plural form of keyframe.
- lady fern — a fern, Athyrium filix-femina, having delicate, feathery fronds.
- like fury — violently; furiously
- march fly — any of several flies of the family Bibionidae that appear during spring and early summer.
- marry off — to take in marriage: After dating for five years, I finally asked her to marry me.
- mayflower — (italics) the ship in which the Pilgrims sailed from Southampton to the New World in 1620.
- mercurify — to mix with mercury; amalgamate.
- mercyfull — Obsolete spelling of merciful.
- midwifery — the technique or practice of a midwife.
- mycoflora — the fungi characteristic of a particular environment.
- myofibril — a contractile fibril of skeletal muscle, composed mainly of actin and myosin.
- mystifier — to perplex (a person) by playing upon the person's credulity; bewilder purposely.
- off-rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
- offertory — (sometimes initial capital letter) the offering of the unconsecrated elements that is made to God by the celebrant in a Eucharistic service.
- officiary — pertaining to or derived from an office, as a title.
- olfactory — of or relating to the sense of smell: olfactory organs.
- outcrafty — to be craftier than
- overfussy — too fussy
- paraffiny — of, relating to, or characteristic of paraffin; covered with or smelling of paraffin
- pay offer — an offer of a certain amount of wages or salary
- perfectly — in a perfect manner or to a perfect degree: to sing an aria perfectly.
- perfumery — perfumes collectively.
- personify — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- pig's fry — the heart, liver, lights, and sweetbreads of a pig cooked, esp fried, together
- play fair — games: be sporting
- prayerful — given to, characterized by, or expressive of prayer; devout.
- preachify — to preach in an obtrusive or tedious way.
- prefatory — of, relating to, or of the nature of a preface: prefatory explanations.
- premodify — to change somewhat the form or qualities of; alter partially; amend: to modify a contract.
- prenotify — to notify in advance
- pretypify — to foreshadow or prefigure the type of: The father's personality pretypified his son's.