9-letter words containing f, y, i
- flaccidly — In a flaccid manner.
- flamingly — With, or as if with, fire or flames.
- flaringly — In a flaring manner.
- flax lily — a large New Zealand plant, Phormium tenax, of the agave family, having showy, red-margined, leathery leaves and dull-red flowers, grown as an ornamental and for the fiber-yielding leaves.
- flightily — In a flighty manner.
- flippancy — frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness; characterized by levity: The audience was shocked by his flippant remarks about patriotism.
- floridity — reddish; ruddy; rosy: a florid complexion.
- floristry — The art of creating flower arrangements.
- flourishy — containing flourishes; fancy; like a flourish in nature
- flowerily — In a flowery way.
- flowingly — moving in or as in a stream: flowing water.
- flunkyism — The quality or characteristics of a flunky; readiness to cringe to those who are superior in wealth or position; toadyism.
- flurrying — a light, brief shower of snow.
- fly blind — to move through the air using wings.
- fly river — a river in New Guinea, flowing SE from the central part to the Gulf of Papua, about 800 miles (1290 km) long.
- fly-drive — On a fly-drive holiday, you travel part of the way to your destination by aeroplane, and collect a hired car at the airport so that you can drive the rest of the way.
- fly-tying — the art or hobby of making artificial lures for fly fishing.
- flybridge — flying bridge.
- flyfisher — A person who goes fly fishing.
- flystrike — myiasis.
- flyweight — a boxer or other contestant of the lightest competitive class, especially a professional boxer weighing up to 112 pounds (51 kg).
- flywhisks — Plural form of flywhisk.
- foamingly — in a foaming manner
- fogramity — a fogey or antiquated thing
- foiningly — by means of a thrust or push
- folkishly — In a folkish manner.
- foolishly — In an unwise manner; stupidly.
- foppishly — In a foppish way.
- formality — condition or quality of being formal; accordance with required or traditional rules, procedures, etc.; conventionality.
- formicary — an ant nest.
- forsythia — a shrub belonging to the genus Forsythia, of the olive family, native to China and southeastern Europe, species of which are cultivated for their showy yellow flowers, which blossom on the bare branches in early spring.
- forty-six — a cardinal number, 40 plus 6.
- fossilify — (dated) To fossilize.
- fossilogy — (archaic, 1776-19th century) The science or study of fossils.
- fragilely — In a fragile way or manner.
- fragility — easily broken, shattered, or damaged; delicate; brittle; frail: a fragile ceramic container; a very fragile alliance.
- franticly — desperate or wild with excitement, passion, fear, pain, etc.; frenzied.
- free city — a city having an independent government and forming a sovereign state by itself.
- frenchify — to make (something or someone) resemble the French, as in manners, customs, or dress: to Frenchify the spelling of one's name.
- frenzying — Present participle of frenzy.
- frigidity — the state or condition of being frigid.
- frivolity — the quality or state of being frivolous: the frivolity of Mardi Gras.
- frog lily — a yellow water lily.
- frugality — the quality of being frugal, or prudent in saving; the lack of wastefulness: Many people who have lived through periods of economic deprivation develop lifelong habits of frugality and are almost never tempted by wasteful consumption.
- fruit fly — any of numerous small dipterous insects of the family Tephritidae, the larvae of which feed on the fruit of various plants.
- fungosity — the condition of being fungous.
- furiosity — Lb obsolete furiousness; fury.
- furiously — full of fury, violent passion, or rage; extremely angry; enraged: He was furious about the accident.
- furtively — taken, done, used, etc., surreptitiously or by stealth; secret: a furtive glance.
- gainfully — In a gainful manner; profitably.