10-letter words containing f, y, i
- femininely — In a feminine manner.
- femininity — the quality of being feminine; womanliness.
- fetchingly — charming; captivating.
- feverishly — having fever.
- fiat money — paper currency made legal tender by a fiat of the government, but not based on or convertible into coin.
- fibrillary — Of or pertaining to fibrils, or nanoscale fibers.
- fiducially — accepted as a fixed basis of reference or comparison: a fiducial point; a fiducial temperature.
- field army — army (def 2).
- fiendishly — In a fiendish manner.
- fifty-five — a cardinal number, 50 plus 5.
- fifty-four — a cardinal number, 50 plus 4.
- fifty-nine — a cardinal number, 50 plus 9.
- fiftypenny — noting a nail 5½ inches (14 cm) long. Abbreviation: 50d.
- filchingly — in a filching manner
- filmically — (nonstandard) in a filmic manner.
- filmy fern — any fern of the family Hymenophyllaceae, growing in humid regions and having thin translucent leaves
- finger-dry — to dry hair by lifting it and running it between the fingers from roots to ends
- first lady — (often initial capital letters) the wife of the U.S. president or a current governor or mayor.
- first year — the first year when someone is at university or college
- fish story — an exaggerated or incredible story: It was just another one of his fish stories.
- five-a-day — the five portions of fruit and vegetables that people are recommended to eat every day as part of a healthy diet
- fixability — to repair; mend.
- flaccidity — soft and limp; not firm; flabby: flaccid biceps.
- flaggingly — So as to flag or slow down; wearyingly.
- fleeringly — In a fleering manner; scornfully; with derision.
- fleetingly — passing swiftly; vanishing quickly; transient; transitory: fleeting beauty; a fleeting glance.
- flexuosity — the quality or condition of being flexuous.
- flight pay — a pay supplement allowed by the U.S. Air Force to certain crew members who attain a minimum flight time per month.
- flippantly — frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness; characterized by levity: The audience was shocked by his flippant remarks about patriotism.
- flirtingly — In a flirting manner.
- floatingly — In a floating manner.
- flunkeyish — resembling a flunkey
- flunkeyism — Alt form flunkyism.
- fluohydric — (chemistry) hydrofluoric.
- flurriedly — a light, brief shower of snow.
- fly a kite — If you say that someone is flying a kite, you are critical of them for putting forward new ideas just to see how people react, rather than with the intention of putting those ideas into practice.
- fly agaric — a very poisonous common woodland mushroom, Amanita muscaria, having a glossy red or orange cap with white spots, formerly a fly poison.
- fly killer — a device or chemical substance used to kill flying insects
- fly orchid — a European orchid, Ophrys insectifera, whose flowers resemble and attract certain wasps: found in wood margins and scrub on lime-rich soils
- fly-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.
- fly-strike — myiasis.
- fly-tipper — a person who deliberately dumps rubbish in an unauthorized place
- flying fox — any large fruit bat of the genus Pteropus, of Old World tropical regions, having a foxlike head.
- flying jib — the outer or outermost of two or more jibs, set well above the jib boom.
- flyingfish — any of a family (Exocoetidae, order Atheriniformes) of chiefly warm-water, marine bony fishes with winglike pectoral fins that enable them to glide through the air
- flypitcher — a person who has a flypitch
- flyposting — the posting of advertising or political bills, posters, etc in unauthorized places
- flytipping — Alternative form of fly-tipping.
- flyweights — Plural form of flyweight.
- follically — Alternative spelling of follicly.