12-letter words containing i, f, y
- 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 history — the series of living phenomena exhibited by an organism in the course of its development from inception to death.
- 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.
- maple family — the plant family Aceraceae, typified by trees and shrubs having sweet sap, simple opposite leaves usually lobed or toothed, clusters of small flowers, and fruit in the form of a double-winged nutlet, and including maples and the box elder.
- meaningfully — full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink; a meaningful choice.
- mercy flight — an aircraft flight to bring a seriously ill or injured person to hospital from an isolated community
- modificatory — modifying.
- mollifyingly — So as to mollify.
- mortifyingly — In a mortifying manner; so as to cause great embarrassment.
- mosquito fly — dragonfly (def 1).
- multiformity — having many different shapes, forms, or kinds.
- munificently — In a munificent manner.
- myofibrillar — Of or pertaining to myofibrils.
- myofilaments — Plural form of myofilament.
- mystifyingly — to perplex (a person) by playing upon the person's credulity; bewilder purposely.
- 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.
- objectifying — Present participle of objectify.
- of necessity — something necessary or indispensable: food, shelter, and other necessities of life.
- office party — a party or informal social gathering for all the employees in a particular organization or department
- offputtingly — In an offputting manner.
- oil refinery — plant where crude oil is processed
- olive family — the plant family Oleaceae, characterized by trees and shrubs having opposite, simple or pinnately compound leaves, usually small and sometimes showy flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry, capsule, or winged seed, and including the ash, forsythia, lilac, olive, and privet.
- over-qualify — to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent: to qualify oneself for a job.
- overclassify — to classify to excess
- overidentify — to identify with someone else to an excessive degree
- oversimplify — make too simple
- pecksniffery — hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles.
- perfectively — in a perfective manner; thoroughly
- perfectivity — the state or quality of being (a) perfective
- perfidiously — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- personifying — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- phlox family — the plant family Polemoniaceae, characterized by herbaceous or sometimes shrubby plants having simple or compound leaves, flowers with a five-lobed corolla, and capsular fruit, and including gilia, Jacob's-ladder, moss pink, and phlox.
- play it safe — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- poppy family — the plant family Papaveraceae, characterized by chiefly herbaceous plants having white, yellow, or reddish juice, alternate and often lobed or dissected leaves, showy, usually solitary flowers, and capsular fruit, and including bloodroot, creamcups, greater celandine, and poppies of the genera Papaver, Eschscholzia, Argemone, and others.
- pouilly-fume — a dry, white wine from the Loire Valley of France.
- proficiently — well-advanced or competent in any art, science, or subject; skilled: a proficient swimmer.
- profitlessly — in such a way as to not yield profit, as in financial gains or general benefits or advantages
- prolifically — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
- pussyfooting — behaving in an excessively cautious way
- pyritiferous — having or producing pyrites
- pyrosulfuric — of or derived from pyrosulfuric acid; disulfuric.
- quantifiably — to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of.
- reflationary — economy: relating to reflation
- reflectively — that reflects; reflecting.
- reflectivity — that reflects; reflecting.
- refractivity — the power to refract.
- refreshingly — having the power to restore freshness, vitality, energy, etc.: a refreshing nap.
- right of way — a common law or statutory right granted to a vehicle, as an airplane or boat, to proceed ahead of another.