9-letter words containing y, a, f
- five-year — happening over a period of five years
- flaccidly — In a flaccid manner.
- flagrancy — shockingly noticeable or evident; obvious; glaring: a flagrant error.
- flamingly — With, or as if with, fire or flames.
- flangeway — an opening, parallel to a rail, made through platforms, pavements, track structures, etc., to permit passage of wheel flanges.
- flannelly — made of or resembling flannel.
- flaringly — In a flaring manner.
- flash-fry — to fry something very quickly by placing it in a pan on a very high heat
- flax lily — a large New Zealand plant, Phormium tenax, of the agave family, having showy, red-margined, leathery leaves and dull-red flowers, grown as an ornamental and for the fiber-yielding leaves.
- flippancy — frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness; characterized by levity: The audience was shocked by his flippant remarks about patriotism.
- flyleaves — Plural form of flyleaf.
- flypapers — Plural form of flypaper.
- foamingly — in a foaming manner
- fogramity — a fogey or antiquated thing
- fool away — a silly or stupid person; a person who lacks judgment or sense.
- foolhardy — recklessly or thoughtlessly bold; foolishly rash or venturesome.
- for years — for several or many years
- forecaddy — caddy who goes ahead of the golfer to point out the ball's location
- forestays — Plural form of forestay.
- formality — condition or quality of being formal; accordance with required or traditional rules, procedures, etc.; conventionality.
- formicary — an ant nest.
- formulary — a collection or system of formulas.
- formylate — to introduce the formyl group into (an organic compound).
- forsythia — a shrub belonging to the genus Forsythia, of the olive family, native to China and southeastern Europe, species of which are cultivated for their showy yellow flowers, which blossom on the bare branches in early spring.
- fort lamy — former name of N'Djamena.
- fort-lamy — former name of N'Djamena.
- forwardly — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
- fosse way — a Roman road in Britain between Lincoln and Exeter, with a fosse on each side
- foul play — any treacherous or unfair dealing, especially involving murder: We feared that he had met with foul play.
- fragilely — In a fragile way or manner.
- fragility — easily broken, shattered, or damaged; delicate; brittle; frail: a fragile ceramic container; a very fragile alliance.
- fragrancy — fragrance (def 1).
- franticly — desperate or wild with excitement, passion, fear, pain, etc.; frenzied.
- from away — from a part of Canada other than Newfoundland
- frontally — In a frontal manner.
- frowardly — In a froward manner.
- fructuary — a person who enjoys the fruits or rewards (of something)
- frugality — the quality of being frugal, or prudent in saving; the lack of wastefulness: Many people who have lived through periods of economic deprivation develop lifelong habits of frugality and are almost never tempted by wasteful consumption.
- fry bread — a flat wheat bread made by North American Indians of the SW U.S., that is cooked by frying in deep fat until light brown and puffed on both sides
- funny car — type of drag racing
- furcately — in a furcate manner
- gainfully — In a gainful manner; profitably.
- gasifying — Present participle of gasify.
- gray wolf — a wolf, Canis lupus, having a usually grizzled, blackish, or whitish coat: formerly common in Eurasia and North America, some subspecies are now reduced in numbers or near extinction.
- gyrfalcon — a large falcon, Falco rusticolus, of arctic and subarctic regions, having white, gray, or blackish color phases: now greatly reduced in number.
- half-year — a period of 6 months
- halfpenny — a bronze coin of the United Kingdom, equal to half a penny: use phased out in 1984.
- hanefiyeh — (in the courtyard of a mosque) a fountain for ritual washing.
- harmfully — In a harmful manner.
- hatefully — In a hateful manner.