9-letter words containing l, a, f, y
- filtabyte — (networking, hardware) An Ethernet controller card made by LRT based on the LANCE and SIA. It uses DMA. Its Ethernet address can be changed by software.
- fire clay — a refractory clay used for making crucibles, firebricks, etc.
- fiscality — Fiscal policy or considerations.
- flaccidly — In a flaccid manner.
- flagrancy — shockingly noticeable or evident; obvious; glaring: a flagrant error.
- flamingly — With, or as if with, fire or flames.
- flangeway — an opening, parallel to a rail, made through platforms, pavements, track structures, etc., to permit passage of wheel flanges.
- flannelly — made of or resembling flannel.
- flaringly — In a flaring manner.
- flash-fry — to fry something very quickly by placing it in a pan on a very high heat
- flax lily — a large New Zealand plant, Phormium tenax, of the agave family, having showy, red-margined, leathery leaves and dull-red flowers, grown as an ornamental and for the fiber-yielding leaves.
- flippancy — frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness; characterized by levity: The audience was shocked by his flippant remarks about patriotism.
- flyleaves — Plural form of flyleaf.
- flypapers — Plural form of flypaper.
- foamingly — in a foaming manner
- fool away — a silly or stupid person; a person who lacks judgment or sense.
- foolhardy — recklessly or thoughtlessly bold; foolishly rash or venturesome.
- formality — condition or quality of being formal; accordance with required or traditional rules, procedures, etc.; conventionality.
- formulary — a collection or system of formulas.
- formylate — to introduce the formyl group into (an organic compound).
- fort lamy — former name of N'Djamena.
- fort-lamy — former name of N'Djamena.
- forwardly — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
- foul play — any treacherous or unfair dealing, especially involving murder: We feared that he had met with foul play.
- fragilely — In a fragile way or manner.
- fragility — easily broken, shattered, or damaged; delicate; brittle; frail: a fragile ceramic container; a very fragile alliance.
- franticly — desperate or wild with excitement, passion, fear, pain, etc.; frenzied.
- frontally — In a frontal manner.
- frowardly — In a froward manner.
- frugality — the quality of being frugal, or prudent in saving; the lack of wastefulness: Many people who have lived through periods of economic deprivation develop lifelong habits of frugality and are almost never tempted by wasteful consumption.
- furcately — in a furcate manner
- gainfully — In a gainful manner; profitably.
- gray wolf — a wolf, Canis lupus, having a usually grizzled, blackish, or whitish coat: formerly common in Eurasia and North America, some subspecies are now reduced in numbers or near extinction.
- gyrfalcon — a large falcon, Falco rusticolus, of arctic and subarctic regions, having white, gray, or blackish color phases: now greatly reduced in number.
- half-year — a period of 6 months
- halfpenny — a bronze coin of the United Kingdom, equal to half a penny: use phased out in 1984.
- harmfully — In a harmful manner.
- hatefully — In a hateful manner.
- hayfields — Plural form of hayfield.
- ineffably — incapable of being expressed or described in words; inexpressible: ineffable joy.
- inferably — to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence: They inferred his displeasure from his cool tone of voice.
- lady fern — a fern, Athyrium filix-femina, having delicate, feathery fronds.
- lafayette — Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier [ma-ree zhaw-zef pawl eev rawk zheel-ber dy maw-tyey] /maˈri ʒɔˈzɛf pɔl iv rɔk ʒilˈbɛr dü mɔˈtyeɪ/ (Show IPA), Marquis de. Also, La Fayette. 1757–1834, French soldier, statesman, and liberal leader, who served in the American Revolutionary Army as aide-de-camp to General Washington, and took a leading part in the French revolutions of 1789 and 1830.
- latensify — to increase the developability of (the latent image on a film or plate) after exposure.
- march fly — any of several flies of the family Bibionidae that appear during spring and early summer.
- mayflower — (italics) the ship in which the Pilgrims sailed from Southampton to the New World in 1620.
- moanfully — in a moaning and mournful manner
- mycoflora — the fungi characteristic of a particular environment.
- nonfamily — Not a member of the family.
- olfactory — of or relating to the sense of smell: olfactory organs.