12-letter words containing f, y, n
- inefficiency — the quality or condition of being inefficient; lack of efficiency.
- infectiously — communicable by infection, as from one person to another or from one part of the body to another: infectious diseases.
- infinitively — a verb form found in many languages that functions as a noun or is used with auxiliary verbs, and that names the action or state without specifying the subject, as French venir “to come,” Latin esse “to be,” fuisse “to have been.”.
- infix syntax — infix notation
- inflammatory — tending to arouse anger, hostility, passion, etc.: inflammatory speeches.
- inflationary — of, pertaining to, reflective of, or causing inflation: inflationary prices.
- inframammary — (anatomy) Below the breast.
- infrequently — happening or occurring at long intervals or rarely: infrequent visits.
- infusibility — Incapability or difficulty of being fused, melted, or dissolved.
- insightfully — characterized by or displaying insight; perceptive.
- insufferably — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
- intensifying — Present participle of intensify.
- interfaculty — an ability, natural or acquired, for a particular kind of action: a faculty for making friends easily.
- iron foundry — ironworks, forgery
- jeffrey pine — a conifer, Pinus jeffreyi, of high mountains in the western U.S., having long needles, large cones, and aromatic bark.
- jelly fungus — any of various fungi of the order Tremellales, distinguished by gelatinous basidiocarp.
- joint family — a type of extended family composed of parents, their children, and the children's spouses and offspring in one household.
- jury foreman — a member of a jury in a court of law who is chosen by the other members to act as spokesperson for the jury
- justifyingly — to show (an act, claim, statement, etc.) to be just or right: The end does not always justify the means.
- khyber knife — a long Indian knife having a triangular, single-edged blade with the handle set off center toward the back.
- life annuity — any annuity that is contingent upon the survival of the annuitant or annuitants, especially an annuity that terminates with the death of a single annuitant.
- life tenancy — holding a tenancy until the holder dies
- lifting body — an aircraft or spacecraft configuration in which there are no wings, and lift is obtained by aerodynamic forces on its body.
- meaningfully — full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink; a meaningful choice.
- mollifyingly — So as to mollify.
- monkey flush — three cards of the same suit, usually not in sequence.
- mortifyingly — In a mortifying manner; so as to cause great embarrassment.
- munificently — In a munificent manner.
- myofilaments — Plural form of myofilament.
- mystifyingly — to perplex (a person) by playing upon the person's credulity; bewilder purposely.
- neglectfully — In a neglectful manner.
- newfangledly — in a newfangled manner
- ninety-fifth — next after the ninety-fourth; being the ordinal number for 95.
- ninety-first — next after the ninetieth; being the ordinal number for 91.
- nonformulary — Not formulary.
- nonolfactory — of or relating to the sense of smell: olfactory organs.
- objectifying — Present participle of objectify.
- of necessity — something necessary or indispensable: food, shelter, and other necessities of life.
- offputtingly — In an offputting manner.
- oil refinery — plant where crude oil is processed
- on your feet — position: standing
- overidentify — to identify with someone else to an excessive degree
- parsley fern — a small bright green tufted European fern, Cryptogramma crispa, that grows on acid scree and rock in uplands
- pecksniffery — hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles.
- penny loafer — a loafer with a slot on the vamp that can hold a coin, usually a penny.
- personifying — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- proficiently — well-advanced or competent in any art, science, or subject; skilled: a proficient swimmer.
- pussyfooting — behaving in an excessively cautious way
- quantifiably — to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of.
- reflationary — economy: relating to reflation