10-letter words containing l, y
- fleetingly — passing swiftly; vanishing quickly; transient; transitory: fleeting beauty; a fleeting glance.
- flexuosity — the quality or condition of being flexuous.
- flexuously — In a flexuous way.
- flight pay — a pay supplement allowed by the U.S. Air Force to certain crew members who attain a minimum flight time per month.
- flippantly — frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness; characterized by levity: The audience was shocked by his flippant remarks about patriotism.
- flirtingly — In a flirting manner.
- floatingly — In a floating manner.
- flower fly — syrphid fly.
- flower key — feature key
- fluffy toy — a child's toy made of soft materials
- flunkeydom — The state of a being a flunkey.
- flunkeyish — resembling a flunkey
- flunkeyism — Alt form flunkyism.
- fluohydric — (chemistry) hydrofluoric.
- fluorotype — an early form of photograph produced on paper treated with sodium fluoride
- flurriedly — a light, brief shower of snow.
- fly a kite — If you say that someone is flying a kite, you are critical of them for putting forward new ideas just to see how people react, rather than with the intention of putting those ideas into practice.
- fly agaric — a very poisonous common woodland mushroom, Amanita muscaria, having a glossy red or orange cap with white spots, formerly a fly poison.
- fly button — a button on the fly of a pair of trousers
- fly killer — a device or chemical substance used to kill flying insects
- fly orchid — a European orchid, Ophrys insectifera, whose flowers resemble and attract certain wasps: found in wood margins and scrub on lime-rich soils
- fly-bridge — Also called flybridge, fly bridge, monkey bridge. Nautical. a small, often open deck or platform above the pilothouse or main cabin, having duplicate controls and navigational equipment.
- fly-strike — myiasis.
- fly-tipper — a person who deliberately dumps rubbish in an unauthorized place
- flycatcher — any of numerous Old World birds of the family Muscicapidae, that feed on insects captured in the air.
- flying fox — any large fruit bat of the genus Pteropus, of Old World tropical regions, having a foxlike head.
- flying jib — the outer or outermost of two or more jibs, set well above the jib boom.
- flyingfish — any of a family (Exocoetidae, order Atheriniformes) of chiefly warm-water, marine bony fishes with winglike pectoral fins that enable them to glide through the air
- flypitcher — a person who has a flypitch
- flyposting — the posting of advertising or political bills, posters, etc in unauthorized places
- flyscreens — Plural form of flyscreen.
- flyspeck 3 — (humour) A standard name for any font that is so tiny as to be unreadable, by analogy with names like "Helvetica 10" for 10-point Helvetica. Legal boilerplate is usually printed in Flyspeck 3.
- flyspecked — Covered with flyspecks.
- flyswatter — A hand-held device for swatting flies or other insects, to kill or shoo them.
- flytipping — Alternative form of fly-tipping.
- flyweights — Plural form of flyweight.
- folksonomy — a classification system derived from user-generated electronic tags or keywords that annotate and describe online content: Imprecise folksonomies can hinder information retrieval.
- follically — Alternative spelling of follicly.
- fondlingly — In a fondling manner.
- food cycle — food web
- footlessly — in a footless manner; ineptly
- force play — a situation in which a base runner is forced to advance to a base or to home plate as a result of the batter becoming a base runner or to make room for another base runner.
- forcefully — full of force; powerful; vigorous; effective: a forceful plea for peace.
- foremostly — In the foremost place or order; among the foremost.
- forgivably — In a forgivable way.
- formidably — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
- formlessly — In a formless manner.
- fort riley — a military reservation in NE Kansas, NE of Junction City.
- four-cycle — noting or pertaining to an internal-combustion engine in which a complete cycle in each cylinder requires four strokes, one to draw in air or an air-fuel mixture, one to compress it, one to ignite it and do work, and one to scavenge the cylinder.
- frabjously — In a frabjous manner; wonderfully, fabulously.