8-letter words containing y, a, f
- fly trap — any of various plants that entrap insects, especially Venus's-flytrap.
- fly-cast — Angling. to fish by fly casting.
- fly-past — a ceremonial flight of aircraft over a given area
- flyboats — Plural form of flyboat.
- flymaker — a person who makes fishing flies
- flypaper — paper designed to destroy flies by catching them on its sticky surface or poisoning them on contact.
- flyspray — a liquid used to destroy flies and other insects, sprayed from an aerosol
- flytraps — Plural form of flytrap.
- foldaway — designed to be folded out of the way when not in use: a foldaway bed.
- folkways — The traditional behavior or way of life of a particular community or group of people.
- foodways — the customs and traditions relating to food and its preparation
- footways — Plural form of footway.
- foraying — a quick raid, usually for the purpose of taking plunder: Vikings made a foray on the port.
- forelady — a forewoman.
- foreplay — sexual stimulation of one's partner, usually as a prelude to sexual intercourse.
- forestay — a stay leading aft and upward from the stem or knightheads of a vessel to the head of the fore lower mast; the lowermost stay of a foremast.
- foreyard — a yard on the lower mast of a square-rigged foremast of a ship used to support the foresail.
- formably — formally
- formally — in a formal manner: The store was formally opened on Tuesday.
- forweary — to exhaust
- four-way — providing access or passage in four directions: a four-way entrance.
- fourplay — Quad play.
- freeways — Plural form of freeway.
- frugally — economical in use or expenditure; prudently saving or sparing; not wasteful: What your office needs is a frugal manager who can save you money without resorting to painful cutbacks. Synonyms: thrifty, chary, provident, careful, prudent, penny-wise, scrimping; miserly, Scotch, penny-pinching. Antonyms: wasteful, extravagant, spendthrift, prodigal, profligate.
- frybread — a Native American fried bread made with wheat or corn flour, often served on special occasions
- fugacity — fleeting; transitory: a sensational story with but a fugacious claim on the public's attention.
- fujayrah — Al-, one of the United Arab Emirates, on the Gulf of Oman.
- fujiyama — a dormant volcano in central Japan, on Honshu island: highest mountain in Japan. 12,395 feet (3778 meters).
- fukuyama — a city on SW Honshu, in Japan, NE of Hiroshima.
- full pay — the full amount of wages of salary
- fumatory — of or relating to smoke, especially tobacco smoke, or to a place for smoking.
- funerary — of or relating to a funeral or burial: a funerary urn.
- funnyman — a comedian or humorist.
- furacity — (obsolete) Addictedness to theft; thievishness.
- glassify — to become glass or glass-like
- gray fox — a fox, Urocyon cinereoargenteus, ranging from Central America through the southwestern and eastern U.S., having blackish-gray upper parts and rusty-yellowish feet, legs, and ears.
- grayfish — a name used in marketing for any of several American sharks, especially the dogfishes of the genus Squalus.
- half pay — half one's regular pay.
- half-day — the interval of light between two successive nights; the time between sunrise and sunset: Since there was no artificial illumination, all activities had to be carried on during the day.
- hayfever — Alternative spelling of hay fever.
- hayfield — a field where grass, alfalfa, etc., are grown for making into hay.
- hayforks — Plural form of hayfork.
- haylofts — Plural form of hayloft.
- infantly — (obsolete) Like an infant.
- infantry — soldiers or military units that fight on foot, in modern times typically with rifles, machine guns, grenades, mortars, etc., as weapons.
- kaffiyeh — an Arab headdress for men; made from a diagonally folded square of cloth held in place by an agal wound around the head.
- karstify — to become or cause to become karstic
- keyframe — A single frame in an animation sequence drawn by an artist, between which others are tweened.
- ladyfied — Simple past tense and past participle of ladyfy.
- ladyfish — a game fish, Elops saurus, of warm seas, closely related to but smaller than the tarpon.