10-letter words containing g, i, f, y
- fumigatory — having the ability to fumigate; relating to fumigation
- funny girl — a woman who is funny or who is a comedienne
- gal friday — Older Use: Sometimes Offensive. a woman who acts as a general assistant in a business office or to an executive and has a wide variety of especially secretarial and clerical duties.
- ginglyform — (anatomy, rare) ginglymoid.
- glorifying — Present participle of glorify.
- gratifying — tending to gratify; giving or causing satisfaction; pleasing.
- gray friar — a Franciscan friar: so called from the traditional color of the habit worn by the order.
- grey friar — a Franciscan friar
- guilefully — In a guileful manner.
- guy friday — a man who acts as a general assistant in a business office or to an executive and has a wide variety of especially secretarial and clerical duties.
- hairy frog — a W African frog, Astylosternus robustus, the males of which have glandular hairlike processes on the flanks
- hangingfly — a small, long-legged scorpionfly of the family Bittacidae, resembling the crane fly but having four wings rather than two and hanging from leaves or twigs by the front or middle legs while using the hind legs to seize prey, mostly small flies.
- high flyer — a person who is extravagant or goes to extremes in aims, pretensions, opinions, etc.
- high-flyer — a person who is extravagant or goes to extremes in aims, pretensions, opinions, etc.
- highflying — moving upward to or along at a considerable height: highflying planes.
- horrifying — to cause to feel horror; strike with horror: The accident horrified us all.
- jellifying — Present participle of jellify.
- jollifying — Present participle of jollify.
- justifying — Present participle of justify.
- kiteflying — an act or instance of flying a kite.
- ladyfinger — a small, finger-shaped sponge cake.
- lay figure — a jointed model of the human body, usually of wood, from which artists work in the absence of a living model.
- liquefying — Present participle of liquefy; Alternative spelling of liquifying.
- liquifying — Present participle of liquify.
- low-flying — Low-flying aircraft or birds are flying very close to the ground, or lower than normal.
- magnifying — Present participle of magnify.
- metrifying — Present participle of metrify.
- mollifying — Present participle of mollify.
- mortifying — to humiliate or shame, as by injury to one's pride or self-respect.
- mouldy fig — a rigid adherent to older jazz forms
- mummifying — Present participle of mummify.
- mystifying — to perplex (a person) by playing upon the person's credulity; bewilder purposely.
- nitrifying — Describing certain bacteria that oxidize ammonia to nitrite and nitrate in the soil.
- nullifying — Present participle of nullify.
- petrifying — stunning or dazing with horror, fear, etc
- presignify — to signify or indicate beforehand; foretell.
- profligacy — shameless dissoluteness.
- qualifying — Present participle of qualify.
- rightfully — having a valid or just claim, as to some property or position; legitimate: the rightful owner of the farm.
- satisfying — to fulfill the desires, expectations, needs, or demands of (a person, the mind, etc.); give full contentment to: The hearty meal satisfied him.
- scarifying — critical
- scoffingly — to speak derisively; mock; jeer (often followed by at): If you can't do any better, don't scoff. Their efforts toward a peaceful settlement are not to be scoffed at.
- signifying — sounding1 (def 4)
- skysurfing — a sport that is similar to skydiving but uses a special lightweight board (skyboard) attached to the feet and usually equipped with a parachute.
- smyrna fig — a variety of the common fig, Ficus carica, that requires caprification in order to produce fruit.
- sniffingly — with a sniff
- stiflingly — suffocating; oppressively close: the stifling atmosphere of the cavern.
- stupefying — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
- terrifying — to fill with terror or alarm; make greatly afraid.
- unedifying — to instruct or benefit, especially morally or spiritually; uplift: religious paintings that edify the viewer.