8-letter words containing y, e, r
- fireclay — Clay capable of withstanding high temperatures, chiefly used for making firebricks.
- flackery — publicity and promotion; press-agentry.
- flaherty — Robert Joseph, 1884–1951, U.S. pioneer in the production of documentary motion pictures.
- flannery — Tim, full name Timothy Fridtjof Flannery. born 1956, Australian zoologist, palaeontologist and environmentalist. His books include The Weather Makers (2006)
- flattery — the act of flattering.
- flickery — Seeming to flicker; unsteady.
- flummery — oatmeal or flour boiled with water until thick.
- flustery — flustered or inclined to become flustered
- fluttery — fluttering; apt to flutter.
- fly-over — overpass across a motorway
- flymaker — a person who makes fishing flies
- flyovers — Plural form of flyover.
- flypaper — paper designed to destroy flies by catching them on its sticky surface or poisoning them on contact.
- forcedly — enforced or compulsory: forced labor.
- forebody — the part of a ship's hull forward of the middle body.
- 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.
- forestry — the science of planting and taking care of trees and forests.
- foreyard — a yard on the lower mast of a square-rigged foremast of a ship used to support the foresail.
- formerly — in time past; in an earlier period or age; previously: a custom formerly observed.
- forsythe — A descendent of Algol 60, intended to be as uniform and general as possible, while retaining the basic character of its progenitor. Forsythe features higher-order procedures and intersection types.
- forweary — to exhaust
- foundery — Alternative form of foundry.
- foxberry — the cowberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea.
- freeways — Plural form of freeway.
- frenzily — in a frenzied or frantic manner
- friendly — characteristic of or befitting a friend; showing friendship: a friendly greeting.
- frienemy — Alternative form of frenemy.
- frippery — finery in dress, especially when showy, gaudy, or the like.
- frogeyed — (of a person) having a bulging eye or bulging eyes
- froggery — a collection of frogs
- frothery — an insubstantial thing; a triviality
- frozenly — While, or as if, frozen; in a manner that is cold, unfeeling, unmoving, etc.
- fruitery — a collection or crop of fruit
- frumenty — a dish of hulled wheat boiled in milk and seasoned with sugar, cinnamon, and raisins.
- frybread — a Native American fried bread made with wheat or corn flour, often served on special occasions
- funerary — of or relating to a funeral or burial: a funerary urn.
- furmenty — frumenty
- furriery — the business, trade, or craftsmanship of a furrier.
- gadgetry — mechanical or electronic contrivances; gadgets: the gadgetry of the well-equipped modern kitchen.
- gannetry — a gannet breeding-ground
- gap year — a period of time, usually an academic or calendar year, in which a student takes a break from school to travel, work, or volunteer, typically after ending high school and before starting college.
- garbagey — Like garbage; trashy, worthless.
- garganey — a small Old World duck, Anas querquedula.
- gargoyle — a grotesquely carved figure of a human or animal.
- geezerly — Geezery.
- generify — (computing) To make generic.
- gentrify — to alter (a deteriorated urban neighborhood) through the buying and renovation of houses and stores by upper- or middle-income families or individuals, raising property values but often displacing low-income families and small businesses.
- geocarpy — the ripening of fruits below ground, as occurs in the peanut