13-letter words containing y, a, f
- fantastically — conceived or appearing as if conceived by an unrestrained imagination; odd and remarkable; bizarre; grotesque: fantastic rock formations; fantastic designs.
- fare-you-well — a state of perfection: The meal was done to a fare-thee-well.
- fascinatingly — of great interest or attraction; enchanting; charming; captivating: a fascinating story; fascinating jewelry.
- fascistically — In a fascistic way.
- fatiguability — Alternative form of fatigability.
- fatigue party — a group of soldiers undertaking fatigues
- fatty alcohol — any of several long-chain alcohols from animals or plants, analogous to the fatty acids, used in pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, detergents, plastics, etc.
- faunistically — in a faunistic manner
- 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.
- featurelessly — In a featureless way; without features.
- 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
- feudal system — the political, military, and social system in the Middle Ages, based on the holding of lands in fief or fee and on the resulting relations between lord and vassal.
- fever therapy — therapy by means of an artificially induced fever.
- field battery — a small unit of usually four field guns
- filterability — The state or condition of being filterable.
- fish hatchery — a facility where fish eggs are hatched and the fry raised, especially to stock lakes, streams, and ponds.
- five-day week — a system in which people work for five days in every seven
- flaminian way — an ancient Roman road extending N from Rome to what is now Rimini. 215 miles (345 km) long.
- flatbed lorry — a lorry with a flat platform for its body
- flirtatiously — given or inclined to flirtation.
- floristically — In a floristic manner.
- fly fisherman — one who fishes by fly-casting
- flying boxcar — a large airplane designed to carry cargo.
- 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.
- flying lizard — flying dragon.
- flying saucer — any of various disk-shaped objects allegedly seen flying at high speeds and altitudes, often with extreme changes in speed and direction, and thought by some to be manned by intelligent beings from outer space.
- flying tackle — a tackle made by hurling one's body through the air at the player carrying the ball.
- foolheartedly — Foolishly. In a foolhardy manner. Without thinking about the consequences.
- 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.
- foundationary — the basis or groundwork of anything: the moral foundation of both society and religion.
- four-way stop — an intersection of two roads with four stop signs, one facing in each direction
- fragmentarily — consisting of or reduced to fragments; broken; disconnected; incomplete: fragmentary evidence; fragmentary remains.
- free and easy — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
- free enthalpy — a thermodynamic property of a system equal to the difference between its enthalpy and the product of its temperature and its entropy. It is usually measured in joules
- free-and-easy — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
- french pastry — fine, rich, or fancy dessert pastry, especially made from puff paste and filled with cream or fruit preparations.
- frighten away — cause sb/sth to run away
- 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.
- frustratingly — to make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify: The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts to help him.
- funambulatory — relating to tightrope-walking
- functionality — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- fundamentally — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
- futurity race — a race for two-year-old horses in which the entries are selected before birth