12-letter words containing y, a, f
- freezer tray — a shallow container used to hold food that is to be frozen
- freight yard — a place on a rail network where freight trains are made up or broken up
- frenetically — In a frenetic manner.
- fribble away — to use wastefully
- frictionally — In terms of friction.
- fritter away — to squander or disperse piecemeal; waste little by little (usually followed by away): to fritter away one's money; to fritter away an afternoon.
- from day one — from the very beginning
- frustratedly — In a frustrated manner.
- frying steak — a steak that is cooked by frying
- functionally — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- funeral pyre — bonfire for cremation
- fungicidally — in a fungicidal manner
- funny papers — funny1 (def 7b).
- fuzzy-headed — not given to clear thinking; foolish.
- galley proof — a proof, originally one set from type in a galley, taken before the material has been made up into pages and usually printed as a single column of type with wide margins for marking corrections.
- gay-friendly — welcoming to gay people
- gourd family — the plant family Cucurbitaceae, characterized by tendril-bearing vines, either trailing or climbing and having alternate, palmately lobed leaves, often large yellow or greenish flowers, and many-seeded, fleshy fruit with a hard rind, and including the cucumber, gourd, melon, pumpkin, and squash.
- graft hybrid — a hybrid plant that is produced by grafting and that exhibits characters of both the stock and the scion.
- grape family — the plant family Vitaceae, characterized by woody climbing vines with tendrils, having alternate, simple or compound leaves, and bearing clusters of small flowers and berries, and including Boston ivy, grape, grape ivy, and Virginia creeper.
- grass family — the large plant family Gramineae (or Poaceae), characterized by mostly herbaceous but sometimes woody plants with hollow and jointed stems, narrow sheathing leaves, petalless flowers borne in spikelets, and fruit in the form of seedlike grain, and including bamboo, sugar cane, numerous grasses, and cereal grains such as barley, corn, oats, rice, rye, and wheat.
- gratifyingly — In a manner that gratifies.
- gravity feed — the supplying of fuel, materials, etc., by force of gravity.
- half holiday — a holiday limited to half a working day or half an academic day.
- half-century — a period of 100 years.
- half-holiday — a holiday limited to half a working day or half an academic day.
- half-monthly — pertaining to a month, or to each month.
- halfway line — a line across a sports field, such as a football pitch, that divides the playing area into two equal areas and is equidistant between the two goals
- halfwittedly — In a halfwitted manner.
- halls of ivy — an institution of higher learning; university or college; the academic world.
- hangtown fry — a type of omelet to which fried oysters, bacon, and sometimes onions are added.
- heath family — the plant family Ericaceae, characterized by evergreen or deciduous shrubs, trees, and woody plants growing in acid soil and having simple leaves, often showy flowers either solitary or in clusters, and fruit in the form of a berry or capsule, and including the azalea, blueberry, cranberry, heather, madrone, mountain laurel, rhododendron, and trailing arbutus.
- heavy-footed — clumsy or ponderous, as in movement or expressiveness: music that is heavy-footed and uninspired.
- hobby farmer — a person who runs a farm as a hobby rather than a means of making a living
- horrifically — causing horror.
- hydatidiform — like or resembling a hydatid
- hydrosulfate — a salt formed by the direct union of sulfuric acid with an organic base, especially an alkaloid, and usually more soluble than the base.
- hyperinflate — to subject to hyperinflation: hyperinflated prices.
- hypersurface — a mathematical object that generalizes the concept of surface from three-dimensional Euclidean space to hyperspace.
- ichthyofauna — the indigenous fish of a region.
- identifiably — In a manner or state that is capable of being distinguished or named.
- in your face — involving confrontation; defiant; provocative.
- in-your-face — involving confrontation; defiant; provocative.
- indefeasibly — In an indefeasible manner.
- ineffability — incapable of being expressed or described in words; inexpressible: ineffable joy.
- ineffaceably — not effaceable or eradicable; indelible: an ineffaceable impression.
- infix syntax — infix notation
- inflammatory — tending to arouse anger, hostility, passion, etc.: inflammatory speeches.
- inflationary — of, pertaining to, reflective of, or causing inflation: inflationary prices.
- inframammary — (anatomy) Below the breast.
- insufferably — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.