12-letter words containing l, y
- factitiously — In a factitious manner.
- fairy lights — Fairy lights are small, coloured electric lights that are hung up as decorations, for example on a Christmas tree.
- fallaciously — In a fallacious manner, erroneously, illogically.
- family album — photos of a family
- family bible — a large Bible usually having pages at the front for recording the marriages, births, and deaths in a family.
- family court — court of domestic relations.
- family hotel — a hotel owned by a family in which family members work
- family leave — a leave of absence from work in order to have or take care of a baby or to care for an ailing family member.
- family style — a way of serving food, as in boardinghouses and some restaurants, in which the people at the table help themselves from large dishes passed around from hand to hand
- farsightedly — In a farsighted manner.
- fascicularly — in a fascicular manner
- fascinatedly — In a fascinated manner; with fascination.
- fastidiously — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- fathomlessly — In a fathomless manner.
- fatigability — susceptible to fatigue.
- favorability — The quality or degree of being viewed favorably.
- fayetteville — a city in S North Carolina.
- federatively — from a federative point of view
- feet of clay — a weakness or hidden flaw in the character of a greatly admired or respected person: He was disillusioned to find that even Lincoln had feet of clay.
- felicitously — In a felicitous manner.
- female rhyme — feminine rhyme.
- 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.
- fibrinolysin — a proteolytic enzyme, formed in the blood from plasminogen, that causes the breakdown of the fibrin in blood clots.
- fibrinolysis — the disintegration or dissolution of fibrin, especially by enzymatic action.
- fibrinolytic — the disintegration or dissolution of fibrin, especially by enzymatic action.
- fibromyalgia — a syndrome characterized by fatigue and chronic pain in the muscles and in tissues surrounding the joints.
- fictionality — State or quality of being fictional.
- fictitiously — created, taken, or assumed for the sake of concealment; not genuine; false: fictitious names.
- field hockey — a game played on a rectangular field having a netted goal at each end, in which two teams of 11 players each compete in driving a small leather-covered ball into the other's goal, each player being equipped with a stick having a curved end or blade that is flat on one side and rounded on the other.
- field theory — a detailed mathematical description of the distribution and movement of matter under the influence of one or more fields.
- figurability — the quality of being figurable
- figuratively — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
- filial piety — (in Confucianism) the important virtue and primary duty of respect, obedience, and care for one's parents and elderly family members.
- film company — a company dedicated to the making of motion pictures
- film library — a collection of films, motion pictures, videodiscs, videocassettes, and any other materials stored on film.
- filthy lucre — money: to lose one's health for the sake of filthy lucre.
- filtrability — the quality or extent of being filtrable
- first family — a family having the highest or one of the highest social ranks in a given place.
- fisheye lens — a hemispherical plano-convex lens for photographing in a full 180° in all directions in front of the camera, creating a circular image having an increasing amount of distortion from the center to the periphery.
- flagellatory — relating to flagellation
- flagitiously — In a flagitious manner.
- flaky pastry — variety of puff pastry
- flamboyantly — In a flamboyant manner.
- flammability — easily set on fire; combustible; inflammable.
- 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.
- flash memory — Computers. a type of reprogrammable memory that retains information even with the power turned off.
- flat battery — power cell that has run down
- flatteringly — In a flattering manner.
- flatterously — in a flatterous manner
- flavorlessly — In a flavorless way.