11-letter words containing l, a, f, y
- half-yearly — Half-yearly means happening in the middle of a calendar year or a financial year.
- hamfistedly — Alternative spelling of ham-fistedly.
- harvest fly — cicada
- healthfully — conducive to health; wholesome or salutary: a healthful diet.
- heartfeltly — In a heartfelt manner.
- hessian fly — a small fly, Phytophaga destructor, the larvae of which feed on the stems of wheat and other grasses.
- holy family — a representation in art of Mary, Joseph, and the infant Jesus.
- holy father — a title of the pope.
- host family — family one lodges with
- impactfully — In an impactful fashion.
- indefinably — not definable; not readily identified, described, analyzed, or determined.
- infantility — characteristic of or befitting an infant; babyish; childish: infantile behavior.
- inflammably — In an inflammable manner.
- inflatingly — in an inflating manner; in a way such as to inflate
- informality — the state of being informal; absence of formality.
- infrangibly — In an infrangible manner.
- infraphylum — (taxonomy) A taxon below subphylum and above superclass.
- inlay graft — a graft in which the scion is matched into a place in the stock from which a piece of corresponding bark has been removed.
- interfamily — a basic social unit consisting of parents and their children, considered as a group, whether dwelling together or not: the traditional family. a social unit consisting of one or more adults together with the children they care for: a single-parent family.
- intrafamily — Occurring within a family.
- iris family — the plant family Iridaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having bulbs, corms, or rhizomes, sword-shaped grasslike leaves, and usually showy flowers, and including the blackberry lily, crocus, freesia, gladiolus, and iris.
- irrefutably — not capable of being refuted or disproved: irrefutable logic.
- justifiably — capable of being justified; that can be shown to be or can be defended as being just, right, or warranted; defensible: justifiable homicide.
- kaffir lily — clivia.
- la fresnaye — Roger de [raw-zhey duh] /rɔˈʒeɪ də/ (Show IPA), 1885–1925, French painter.
- lady friend — female companion
- ladyfingers — Plural form of ladyfinger.
- lantern fly — any of several large tropical insects of the family Fulgoridae, formerly thought to be luminescent.
- lapidifying — Present participle of lapidify.
- law faculty — the department or division of a university concerned with teaching law
- lay hold of — to seize or grasp
- ley farming — the alternation at intervals of several years of crop growing and grassland pasture
- lily family — the large plant family Liliaceae, characterized by chiefly herbaceous plants growing from bulbs, corms, rhizomes, or tubers, having narrow, parallel-veined, usually basal leaves, often showy flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or capsule, and including the aloe, asparagus, aspidistra, hyacinth, numerous species of lily, lily of the valley, trillium, and tulip.
- malefactory — villainous
- malefically — in a malefic manner
- masterfully — dominating; self-willed; imperious.
- mint family — the large plant family Labiatae (or Lamiaceae), characterized by aromatic herbaceous plants having square stems, simple leaves, clusters of two-lipped flowers, and fruit in the form of small nutlets, and including basil, bee balm, catnip, coleus, lavender, marjoram, oregano, peppermint, rosemary, sage, spearmint, and thyme.
- mirifically — in a mirific manner
- misclassify — To classify incorrectly.
- multifamily — designed or suitable for the use of several or many families: multifamily apartment buildings.
- myofilament — a threadlike filament of actin or myosin that is a component of a myofibril.
- myriad-leaf — an aquatic plant, Myriophyllum verticillatum, of the North Temperate Zone, having hairlike, submerged leaves.
- nefariously — extremely wicked or villainous; iniquitous: a nefarious plot.
- nonfatality — An incident that is not a fatality.
- octal forty — (jargon) Jargon for "I'm drawing a blank.", I can't work it out.
- offhandedly — cavalierly, curtly, or brusquely: to reply offhand.
- olfactology — the medical science which studies the sense of smell
- olfactorily — of or relating to the sense of smell: olfactory organs.
- pacifically — peaceably, mildly, calmly, or quietly.
- paddy field — a flooded piece of land used for growing rice