13-letter words containing y, a, f
- ginger family — the plant family Zingiberaceae, characterized by tropical, often aromatic herbaceous plants having rhizomes, long sheathing leaves, and clusters of tubular flowers, and including cardamon, ginger, and turmeric.
- glove factory — a factory where gloves are made
- go fly a kite — to move through the air using wings.
- grandfatherly — of or characteristic of a grandfather.
- gravity fault — a fault along an inclined plane in which the upper side or hanging wall appears to have moved downward with respect to the lower side or footwall (opposed to reverse fault).
- halfheartedly — Without enthusiasm nor interest.
- halfway house — an inn or stopping place situated approximately midway between two places on a road.
- harpers ferry — a town in NE West Virginia at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers: site of John Brown's raid 1859.
- have eyes for — to be interested in
- heavy lifting — hard work: A team of researchers did the heavy lifting for the author.
- honorifically — In a honorific manner.
- hydrofracking — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
- hydrofracture — (geology) Rock fracture caused by the pressure of freezing water.
- hyperinflated — to subject to hyperinflation: hyperinflated prices.
- hypersurfaces — Plural form of hypersurface.
- ichthyofaunal — relating to ichthyofauna
- if you ask me — You can say 'if you ask me' to emphasize that you are stating your personal opinion.
- if you please — expressing mild outrage
- in the pay of — If you say that someone is in the pay of a certain person or group, you disapprove of the fact that they are being paid by and are working for that person or group, often secretly or illegally.
- in the way of — similar to, like
- indefatigably — In an extremely persistent and untiring manner; in an indefatigable manner.
- ineffectually — not effectual; without satisfactory or decisive effect: an ineffectual remedy.
- infallibility — Sometimes, infallibleness. the quality of being infallible, or of being absolutely trustworthy: He believed in the infallibility of his leadership.
- infeasibility — not feasible; impracticable.
- inferentially — of, pertaining to, by, or dependent upon inference.
- inflatability — The quality of being inflatable.
- influentially — having or exerting influence, especially great influence: three influential educators.
- informatively — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
- informatorily — in an informatory fashion
- infuriatingly — causing or tending to cause anger or outrage; maddening: His delay is infuriating.
- interstratify — to lie in interposed or alternate strata.
- jefferson day — April 13, Thomas Jefferson's birthday, a legal holiday in Alabama, sometimes celebrated by the Democratic Party by the holding of fund-raising dinners.
- justificatory — serving to justify; providing justification.
- laurel family — the plant family Lauraceae, characterized by evergreen or deciduous trees having simple, leathery leaves, aromatic bark and foliage, clusters of small green or yellow flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or drupe, and including the avocado, bay, laurels of the genera Laurus and Umbellularia, sassafras, spicebush (Lindera benzoin), and the trees that yield camphor and cinnamon.
- legume family — the large plant family Leguminosae (or Fabaceae), typified by herbaceous plants, shrubs, trees, and vines having usually compound leaves, clusters of irregular, keeled flowers, and fruit in the form of a pod splitting along both sides, and including beans, peas, acacia, alfalfa, clover, indigo, lentil, mesquite, mimosa, and peanut.
- linden family — the plant family Tiliaceae, characterized by deciduous trees or shrubs having simple, usually alternate leaves, fibrous bark, fragrant flowers, and dry, woody fruit, and including the basswood, jute, and linden.
- lingayen gulf — a gulf in the Philippines, on the NW coast of Luzon.
- madder family — the large plant family Rubiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, trees, and shrubs having simple, opposite, or whorled leaves, usually four- or five-lobed flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry, capsule, or nut, and including the gardenia, madder, partridgeberry, and shrubs and trees that are the source of coffee, ipecac, and quinine.
- made of money — very rich
- magnificently — making a splendid appearance or show; of exceptional beauty, size, etc.: a magnificent cathedral; magnificent scenery.
- mallow family — the plant family Malvaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having palmately veined, lobed, or compound leaves, sticky juice, often showy five-petaled flowers with stamens united in a column, and fruit in the form of a capsule with several divisions, and including the cotton plant, hibiscus, hollyhock, mallow, okra, and rose of Sharon.
- matrifocality — The state or condition of being matrifocal; matriarchy.
- methylsulfate — a colorless or yellow, slightly water-soluble, poisonous liquid, (CH 3) 2 SO 2 , used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- miliary fever — an acute infectious fever characterized by profuse sweating and the formation on the skin of minute fluid-filled vesicles
- modifiability — to change somewhat the form or qualities of; alter partially; amend: to modify a contract.
- morgan le fay — the fairy sister of King Arthur.
- myofibroblast — (cytology) A cell that is intermediate between a fibroblast and smooth muscle.
- myrtle family — the plant family Myrtaceae, characterized by mostly tropical trees and shrubs having aromatic, simple, usually opposite leaves, clusters of flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or capsule, and including allspice, clove, eucalyptus, guava, and myrtles of the genus Myrtus.
- mystification — to perplex (a person) by playing upon the person's credulity; bewilder purposely.
- mythification — to create a myth about (a person, place, tradition, etc.); cause to become a myth.