13-letter words containing r, y, o
- factory floor — The factory floor refers to the workers in a factory, as opposed to the managers. It can also refer to the area where they work.
- factory price — the price quoted for manufactured goods for pickup at the gate of a factory, before certain handling, shipping, and similar costs.
- factory-fresh — coming directly from the factory; brand new
- faculty board — the governing body of a faculty
- fairy swallow — a variety of domestic fancy pigeon having blue-and-white plumage and heavily muffed feet
- family doctor — a general practitioner.
- fare-you-well — a state of perfection: The meal was done to a fare-thee-well.
- feature story — a newspaper or magazine article or report of a person, event, an aspect of a major event, or the like, often having a personal slant and written in an individual style. Compare follow-up (def 3b), hard news, news story.
- felony murder — a killing treated as a murder because, though unintended, it occurred during the commission or attempted commission of a felony, as robbery.
- ferricyanogen — (chemistry) A hexavalent radical, Fe2(CN)12, a compound of cyanogen and iron in the ferric state.
- ferrocyanogen — a ferrocyanide radical
- ferry company — a company that operates a ferry or ferries
- flatbed lorry — a lorry with a flat platform for its body
- flirtatiously — given or inclined to flirtation.
- floristically — In a floristic manner.
- flourishingly — In a flourishing way; tending to succeed and grow.
- fluorescently — In a fluorescent manner; using fluorescence.
- fluorohydride — (inorganic chemistry) An compound formed by the addition of the elements of hydrogen fluoride.
- flying boxcar — a large airplane designed to carry cargo.
- flying colors — with flying colors, with an overwhelming victory, triumph, or success: He passed the test with flying colors.
- flying doctor — a doctor listed with local authorities as willing to be flown to remote areas to give emergency medical care.
- flying dragon — any of several arboreal lizards of the genus Draco, having an extensible membrane between the limbs along each side by means of which it makes long, gliding leaps.
- food industry — the industry surrounding the production of food
- food security — an economic and social condition of ready access by all members of a household to nutritionally adequate and safe food: a household with high food security.
- foolheartedly — Foolishly. In a foolhardy manner. Without thinking about the consequences.
- forefeelingly — by way of forefeeling
- foresightedly — In a foresighted manner.
- formal system — an uninterpreted symbolic system whose syntax is precisely defined, and on which a relation of deducibility is defined in purely syntactic terms; a logistic system
- formal theory — an uninterpreted symbolic system whose syntax is precisely defined, and on which a relation of deducibility is defined in purely syntactic terms; a logistic system
- formidability — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
- formulaically — made according to a formula; composed of formulas: a formulaic plot.
- fort mcmurray — a town in NE Alberta, in W Canada, on the Athabasca River.
- forty-eightmo — a book size of about 2½ × 4 inches (6 × 10 cm), determined by printing on sheets folded to form 48 leaves or 96 pages. Abbreviation: 48mo, 48°.
- forty-seventh — next after the forty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 47.
- fossil energy — heat energy released by burning fossil fuel
- foundationary — the basis or groundwork of anything: the moral foundation of both society and religion.
- foundry proof — a proof pulled for a final checking before printing plates are made.
- four-way stop — an intersection of two roads with four stop signs, one facing in each direction
- fourpenny one — a blow, esp with the fist
- frobisher bay — an inlet of the Atlantic in NE Canada, in the SE coast of Baffin Island
- frontal gyrus — any of several convolutions on the outer surface of the frontal lobe of the cerebrum.
- fruiting body — an organ that produces spores; fructification.
- funambulatory — relating to tightrope-walking
- gallop rhythm — an abnormal heart rhythm characterized by three clear sounds in each beat, resembling the sound of a horse's gallop.
- galois theory — the branch of mathematics that deals with the application of the theory of finite groups to the solution of algebraic equations.
- gastrorrhaphy — The suture of a perforation of the stomach.
- general synod — the governing body, under Parliament, of the Church of England, made up of the bishops and elected clerical and lay representatives
- genitourinary — of or relating to the genital and urinary organs; urogenital.
- geochronology — the chronology of the earth, as based on both absolute and relative methods of age determination.
- geohydrologic — relating to geohydrology