11-letter words containing y, a, f
- front royal — a town in N Virginia.
- ftp by mail — A service offered by DEC to allow people without Internet access to get copies of files which are available by anonymous FTP. Send a message with just the word "help" in the body to <[email protected]>.
- fulminatory — Thundering; striking terror.
- functionary — a person who functions in a specified capacity, especially in government service; an official: civil servants, bureaucrats, and other functionaries.
- funny paper — funny1 (def 7b).
- furaldehyde — either of two aldehydes derived from furan, esp 2-furaldehyde
- gallimaufry — a hodgepodge; jumble; confused medley.
- gay-feather — any of several composite plants of the genus Liatris, especially L. spicata or L. scariosa, having hairy leaves and long clusters of purplish flowers.
- girl friday — gal Friday.
- good friday — the Friday before Easter, a holy day of the Christian church, observed as the anniversary of the Crucifixion of Jesus.
- granny farm — a home where old people are cared for
- granny flat — a self-contained living area within a single-family home, as for an aging parent.
- grapefruity — Resembling or characteristic of grapefruit.
- gravity-fed — the supplying of fuel, materials, etc., by force of gravity.
- hairy-faced — having a face covered with hair.
- half an eye — a modicum of perceptiveness
- half volley — tennis: returning ball after it bounces
- half-volley — (in tennis, racquets, etc.) a stroke in which the ball is hit the moment it bounces from the ground.
- half-yearly — Half-yearly means happening in the middle of a calendar year or a financial year.
- hamfistedly — Alternative spelling of ham-fistedly.
- harvest fly — cicada
- healthfully — conducive to health; wholesome or salutary: a healthful diet.
- heartfeltly — In a heartfelt manner.
- henry fonda — Henry, 1905–82, U.S. actor.
- hessian fly — a small fly, Phytophaga destructor, the larvae of which feed on the stems of wheat and other grasses.
- holy family — a representation in art of Mary, Joseph, and the infant Jesus.
- holy father — a title of the pope.
- host family — family one lodges with
- if anything — on the contrary
- if you want — as you please
- impactfully — In an impactful fashion.
- in fat city — very rich
- indefinably — not definable; not readily identified, described, analyzed, or determined.
- infantility — characteristic of or befitting an infant; babyish; childish: infantile behavior.
- infantryman — a soldier of the infantry.
- infantrymen — Plural form of infantryman.
- inflammably — In an inflammable manner.
- inflatingly — in an inflating manner; in a way such as to inflate
- infomediary — An Internet company that gathers and links information on particular subjects on behalf of commercial organizations and their potential customers.
- informality — the state of being informal; absence of formality.
- informatory — Providing or communicating information.
- infrangibly — In an infrangible manner.
- infraphylum — (taxonomy) A taxon below subphylum and above superclass.
- inlay graft — a graft in which the scion is matched into a place in the stock from which a piece of corresponding bark has been removed.
- interfamily — a basic social unit consisting of parents and their children, considered as a group, whether dwelling together or not: the traditional family. a social unit consisting of one or more adults together with the children they care for: a single-parent family.
- intrafamily — Occurring within a family.
- iris family — the plant family Iridaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having bulbs, corms, or rhizomes, sword-shaped grasslike leaves, and usually showy flowers, and including the blackberry lily, crocus, freesia, gladiolus, and iris.
- irrefutably — not capable of being refuted or disproved: irrefutable logic.
- justifiably — capable of being justified; that can be shown to be or can be defended as being just, right, or warranted; defensible: justifiable homicide.
- kaffir lily — clivia.