12-letter words containing r, a, y
- evolutionary — Of or relating to evolution.
- exaggeratory — Exaggerative.
- exclusionary — restrictive or elitist
- exorbitantly — In an exorbitant manner, excessively.
- expansionary — (of a policy or action) intended to result in economic or political expansion.
- exprobratory — acting as a reproach
- extemporally — In an extemporal manner.
- extortionary — Of, relating to, or typical of extortion.
- extractively — in an extractive manner
- extralegally — In an extralegal manner; outside the law.
- extramurally — In an extramural manner.
- extraneously — In an extraneous manner.
- extrasensory — Of or relating to extrasensory perception.
- extrasystole — A heartbeat outside the normal rhythm, as often occurs in normal individuals.
- extravagancy — (archaic, 17-19th centuries) The characteristic of being extravagant.
- extrordinary — Misspelling of extraordinary.
- eye-watering — painful or extremely unpleasant
- facilitatory — That serves to facilitate.
- factory acts — laws relating to factories
- factory farm — a farm in which animals are bred and fattened using modern industrial methods
- factory ship — a whaling ship equipped to process killed whales and to transport the oil and by-products.
- factory work — work in a factory
- fairy lights — Fairy lights are small, coloured electric lights that are hung up as decorations, for example on a Christmas tree.
- fairy shrimp — any member of the crustacean order Anostraca, characterized by an elongate trunk with more than 20 segments and the absence of a carapace, typically found swimming ventral side up in fresh water.
- family court — court of domestic relations.
- far and away — at or to a great distance; a long way off; at or to a remote point: We sailed far ahead of the fleet.
- faraday cage — an enclosure constructed of grounded wire mesh or parallel wires that shields sensitive electrical instruments from electrostatic interference.
- farsightedly — In a farsighted manner.
- fascicularly — in a fascicular manner
- father's day — a day, usually the third Sunday in June, set aside in honor of fathers.
- favorability — The quality or degree of being viewed favorably.
- featurectomy — /fee"ch*r-ek"t*-mee/ The act of removing a feature from a program. Featurectomies come in two flavours, the "righteous" and the "reluctant". Righteous featurectomies are performed because the remover believes the program would be more elegant without the feature, or there is already an equivalent and better way to achieve the same end. (Doing so is not quite the same thing as removing a misfeature.) Reluctant featurectomies are performed to satisfy some external constraint such as code size or execution speed.
- federatively — from a federative point of view
- female rhyme — feminine rhyme.
- ferricyanide — a salt of ferricyanic acid, as potassium ferricyanide, K 3 Fe(CN) 6 .
- ferrocyanide — a salt of ferrocyanic acid, as potassium ferrocyanide, K 4 Fe(CN) 6 .
- fibromyalgia — a syndrome characterized by fatigue and chronic pain in the muscles and in tissues surrounding the joints.
- 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.
- film library — a collection of films, motion pictures, videodiscs, videocassettes, and any other materials stored on film.
- filtrability — the quality or extent of being filtrable
- fire company — a company of firefighters.
- fire hydrant — a hydrant for use in extinguishing fires.
- firing party — a military detachment detailed to fire a salute at a funeral
- first family — a family having the highest or one of the highest social ranks in a given place.
- firth of tay — the estuary of the River Tay on the North Sea coast of Scotland. Length: 40 km (25 miles)
- fish factory — a factory where fish is processed
- flagellatory — relating to flagellation
- flaky pastry — variety of puff pastry
- 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.