6-letter words containing f, y
- flossy — made of or resembling floss; downy.
- floury — of, relating to, or resembling flour.
- fluffy — of, resembling, or covered with fluff.
- flukey — fluky.
- flunky — a male servant in livery.
- flurry — a light, brief shower of snow.
- flushy — ruddy; reddish
- flutey — having the tone and rather high pitch variation of a flute: a person of fastidious manner and fluty voice.
- fly at — If you fly at someone, you attack them, either physically by hitting them, or with words by insulting them.
- fly-in — a convention, entertainment, or other gathering at which participants arrive by air: the annual fly-in of cattle breeders.
- fly-up — a formal ceremony at which a girl leaves her Brownie troop, receives a pair of embroidered wings for her uniform, and becomes a member of an intermediate Girl Scout troop.
- flyboy — Printing. fly1 (def 29b).
- flyers — Plural form of flyer.
- flyest — clever; keen; ingenious.
- flying — making flight or passing through the air; that flies: a flying insect; an unidentified flying object.
- flyman — a stagehand, especially one who operates the apparatus in the flies.
- flymen — Plural form of flyman.
- flyoff — Meteorology. evapotranspiration (def 1).
- flysch — an association of certain types of marine sedimentary rocks characteristic of deposition in a foredeep.
- flyted — to dispute; wrangle; scold; jeer.
- flytes — to dispute; wrangle; scold; jeer.
- flyway — a route between breeding and wintering areas taken by concentrations of migrating birds.
- foisty — Mouldy, musty, fusty.
- folksy — friendly or neighborly; sociable.
- fondly — in a fond manner; lovingly or affectionately: He looked fondly at his child.
- foonly — 1. The PDP-10 successor that was to have been built by the Super Foonly project at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory along with a new operating system. The intention was to leapfrog from the old DEC time-sharing system SAIL was then running to a new generation, bypassing TENEX which at that time was the ARPANET standard. ARPA funding for both the Super Foonly and the new operating system was cut in 1974. Most of the design team went to DEC and contributed greatly to the design of the PDP-10 model KL10. 2. The name of the company formed by Dave Poole, one of the principal Super Foonly designers, and one of hackerdom's more colourful personalities. Many people remember the parrot which sat on Poole's shoulder and was a regular companion. 3. Any of the machines built by Poole's company. The first was the F-1 (a.k.a. Super Foonly), which was the computational engine used to create the graphics in the movie "TRON". The F-1 was the fastest PDP-10 ever built, but only one was ever made. The effort drained Foonly of its financial resources, and the company turned toward building smaller, slower, and much less expensive machines. Unfortunately, these ran not the popular TOPS-20 but a TENEX variant called Foonex; this seriously limited their market. Also, the machines shipped were actually wire-wrapped engineering prototypes requiring individual attention from more than usually competent site personnel, and thus had significant reliability problems. Poole's legendary temper and unwillingness to suffer fools gladly did not help matters. By the time of the Jupiter project cancellation in 1983, Foonly's proposal to build another F-1 was eclipsed by the Mars, and the company never quite recovered. See the Mars entry for the continuation and moral of this story.
- footsy — Sometimes, footsies. the act of flirting or sharing a surreptitious intimacy.
- forays — Plural form of foray.
- formby — George. Real name George Booth. 1904–61, British comedian. He made many musical films in the 1930s, accompanying his songs on the ukulele
- formyl — containing the formyl group.
- forney — a steam locomotive having no front truck, four driving wheels, and a four-wheeled rear truck.
- forray — Obsolete form of foray (predatory excursion).
- forsay — To forbid.
- forthy — Therefore.
- forway — (intransitive) To go out of the way; go astray; err; make a mistake; sin.
- forwhy — why; wherefore.
- fossey — Dian [dahy-an] /daɪˈæn/ (Show IPA), 1932–85, U.S. zoologist: expert on great apes.
- foully — grossly offensive to the senses; disgustingly loathsome; noisome: a foul smell.
- fourty — Misspelling of forty.
- fousty — (Bristol) Fusty.
- foxily — In a foxy manner.
- foyers — Plural form of foyer.
- fraidy — (US, childish) afraid.
- franky — a male given name, form of Frank.
- franzy — irritable; peevish
- fratry — frater2 .
- frayed — a raveled or worn part, as in cloth: frays at the toes of well-worn sneakers.
- freaky — freakish.
- freddy — a male given name, form of Fred.
- freely — in a free manner.