12-letter words containing l, a, n, y
- fenian cycle — the cycle of legends describing and glorifying the bravery, battles, and wandering life of the Irish Fenians, especially under the leadership of Finn.
- fictionality — State or quality of being fictional.
- film company — a company dedicated to the making of motion pictures
- flamboyantly — In a flamboyant manner.
- flash drying — Flash drying is a stage in a process to make something bigger, in which a paste-like feed is broken up and dried at the same time.
- flatteringly — In a flattering manner.
- fly in amber — a strange relic or reminder of the past
- flyfisherman — Flyfisher.
- flying shear — (in a continuous rolling mill) a shear that moves with the piece being cut.
- flying squad — a trained, mobile group of police officers, business executives, labor officials, or the like, capable of performing specialized tasks whenever or wherever sent, often for use in emergencies.
- flying start — a start, as in sailboat racing, in which the entrants begin moving before reaching the starting line.
- forbearingly — In a forbearing manner.
- forehandedly — Prudently, with thrift and foresight.
- forensically — pertaining to, connected with, or used in courts of law or public discussion and debate.
- fractionally — pertaining to fractions; comprising a part or the parts of a unit; constituting a fraction: fractional numbers.
- fragmentally — fragmentary.
- frangibility — The state or quality of being frangible.
- fraternality — Brotherliness.
- fraudulently — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
- frenetically — In a frenetic manner.
- frictionally — In terms of friction.
- functionally — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- funeral pyre — bonfire for cremation
- fungicidally — in a fungicidal manner
- galanty show — pantomime shadow play
- gallygaskins — galligaskins.
- galvanically — pertaining to or produced by galvanism; producing or caused by an electric current.
- galvanometry — the method or process of determining the strength of electric currents.
- gangliectomy — (medicine) Excision of a ganglion; surgical removal of a mass of tissue.
- gargantuanly — In an gargantuan manner.
- gas cylinder — container for storing gas
- gay-friendly — welcoming to gay people
- geelvink bay — former (Dutch) name of Sarera Bay.
- gene library — a collection of gene clones that represents the genetic material of an organism: used in genetic engineering
- generability — capable of being generated or produced.
- generatively — capable of producing or creating.
- geosynclinal — Geology. pertaining to a synclinal fold that involves a relatively large part of the earth's surface.
- get anyplace — to have any success
- gigantically — In a gigantic manner.
- glossy snake — a nocturnal burrowing snake, Arizona elegans, of the western U.S. and northern Mexico, having smooth, glistening scales of tan with brown blotches.
- glycerinated — to impregnate with glycerin.
- golden years — the years that follow retirement from work
- granulocytes — Plural form of granulocyte.
- granulocytic — Of, or pertaining to, granulocytes.
- gratifyingly — In a manner that gratifies.
- graybar land — (jargon) The place you go while you're staring at a computer that's processing something very slowly (while you watch the grey bar creep across the screen). "I was in graybar land for hours, waiting for that CAD rendering".
- grindability — to wear, smooth, or sharpen by abrasion or friction; whet: to grind a lens.
- haematoxylin — Alternative spelling of hematoxylin.
- haematoxylon — any thorny leguminous tree of the genus Haematoxylon, esp the logwood, of tropical America and SW Africa. The heartwood yields the dye haematoxylin
- halcyon days — period regarded with nostalgia