12-letter words containing f, y
- freight yard — a place on a rail network where freight trains are made up or broken up
- french-style — French-cut.
- frenetically — In a frenetic manner.
- fribble away — to use wastefully
- frictionally — In terms of friction.
- frightenedly — thrown into a fright; afraid; scared; terrified: a frightened child cowering in the corner.
- fritter away — to squander or disperse piecemeal; waste little by little (usually followed by away): to fritter away one's money; to fritter away an afternoon.
- frolicsomely — In a frolicsome manner.
- from day one — from the very beginning
- frustratedly — In a frustrated manner.
- frying steak — a steak that is cooked by frying
- fuel poverty — the state of being unable to afford to heat one's home adequately
- fuliginosity — The condition or quality of being fuliginous; sootiness.
- fuliginously — In a fuliginous manner.
- fully booked — having no vacancies or spaces
- function key — a key on a computer keyboard or terminal that, when pressed, alone or in combination with other keys, causes a specific computational or mechanical operation to be carried out.
- functionally — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- fundusectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of the fundus of an organ, such as the uterus or the stomach.
- funeral pyre — bonfire for cremation
- fungicidally — in a fungicidal manner
- funny papers — funny1 (def 7b).
- furry friend — a pet, esp a cat or a dog
- fuzzy subset — In fuzzy logic, a fuzzy subset F of a set S is defined by a "membership function" which gives the degree of membership of each element of S belonging to F.
- fuzzy-headed — not given to clear thinking; foolish.
- galley proof — a proof, originally one set from type in a galley, taken before the material has been made up into pages and usually printed as a single column of type with wide margins for marking corrections.
- gay-friendly — welcoming to gay people
- gillyflowers — Plural form of gillyflower.
- goofy-footer — a surfboard rider or snowboarder who stands with the right foot forward instead of the left foot forward
- gourd family — the plant family Cucurbitaceae, characterized by tendril-bearing vines, either trailing or climbing and having alternate, palmately lobed leaves, often large yellow or greenish flowers, and many-seeded, fleshy fruit with a hard rind, and including the cucumber, gourd, melon, pumpkin, and squash.
- graft hybrid — a hybrid plant that is produced by grafting and that exhibits characters of both the stock and the scion.
- grape family — the plant family Vitaceae, characterized by woody climbing vines with tendrils, having alternate, simple or compound leaves, and bearing clusters of small flowers and berries, and including Boston ivy, grape, grape ivy, and Virginia creeper.
- grass family — the large plant family Gramineae (or Poaceae), characterized by mostly herbaceous but sometimes woody plants with hollow and jointed stems, narrow sheathing leaves, petalless flowers borne in spikelets, and fruit in the form of seedlike grain, and including bamboo, sugar cane, numerous grasses, and cereal grains such as barley, corn, oats, rice, rye, and wheat.
- gratifyingly — In a manner that gratifies.
- gravity feed — the supplying of fuel, materials, etc., by force of gravity.
- half holiday — a holiday limited to half a working day or half an academic day.
- half-century — a period of 100 years.
- half-holiday — a holiday limited to half a working day or half an academic day.
- half-monthly — pertaining to a month, or to each month.
- halfway line — a line across a sports field, such as a football pitch, that divides the playing area into two equal areas and is equidistant between the two goals
- halfwittedly — In a halfwitted manner.
- halls of ivy — an institution of higher learning; university or college; the academic world.
- hangtown fry — a type of omelet to which fried oysters, bacon, and sometimes onions are added.
- heath family — the plant family Ericaceae, characterized by evergreen or deciduous shrubs, trees, and woody plants growing in acid soil and having simple leaves, often showy flowers either solitary or in clusters, and fruit in the form of a berry or capsule, and including the azalea, blueberry, cranberry, heather, madrone, mountain laurel, rhododendron, and trailing arbutus.
- heavy-footed — clumsy or ponderous, as in movement or expressiveness: music that is heavy-footed and uninspired.
- hi-fi system — a complete system of high-quality sound-reproducing equipment
- hobby farmer — a person who runs a farm as a hobby rather than a means of making a living
- honey fungus — an edible basidiomycetous fungus, Armillaria mellea, having a yellow-spotted cap and wrinkled stems, parasitic on the roots of woody plants, which it may kill by root rot. It spreads by thin black underground strands
- horrifically — causing horror.
- horrifyingly — In a horrifying manner.
- hydatidiform — like or resembling a hydatid