11-letter words containing y, e, s
- expensively — In an expensive manner.
- expiscatory — acting to expiscate; tending to expiscate
- explosively — In an explosive manner.
- expressibly — In an expressible way.
- expressways — Plural form of expressway.
- exquisitely — In an exquisite manner.
- extensively — In an extensive manner, widely.
- extorsively — in an extorsive manner
- eyebrowless — having no eyebrows
- eyelessness — Lack of eyes (organs of seeing).
- facetiously — not meant to be taken seriously or literally: a facetious remark.
- fairy stone — a fossil or other oddly shaped stone or crystal.
- faithlessly — In a faithless manner.
- fancy dress — a costume for a ball, masquerade, etc., chosen to please the fancy, usually a costume characteristic of a particular period or place, class of persons, or historical or fictitious character.
- farawayness — the state of being faraway
- farm system — any small-scale or localized network or industry that provides experience and exposure for beginners, similar to that of a baseball farm.
- faultlessly — In a faultless manner.
- feasibility — capable of being done, effected, or accomplished: a feasible plan.
- feloniously — Law. pertaining to, of the nature of, or involving a felony: felonious homicide; felonious intent.
- ferociously — savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel: a ferocious beating.
- ferroalloys — Plural form of ferroalloy.
- festinately — hurried.
- field study — observation of nature in the wild
- fiery cross — a burning cross, the rallying symbol of ancient Scotland and later of the Highlanders in case of war; later adopted by other organizations, including the Ku Klux Klan.
- fifty-seven — a cardinal number, 50 plus 7.
- file system — (operating system) (FS, or "filesystem") 1. A system for organizing directories and files, generally in terms of how it is implemented in the disk operating system. E.g., "The Macintosh file system is just dandy as long as you don't have to interface it with any other file systems". 2. The collection of files and directories stored on a given drive (floppy drive, hard drive, disk partition, logical drive, RAM drive, etc.). E.g., "mount attaches a named file system to the file system hierarchy at the pathname location directory [...]" -- Unix manual page for "mount(8)". As an extension of this sense, "file system" is sometimes used to refer to the representatation of the file system's organisation (e.g. its file allocation table) as opposed the actual content of the files in the file system.
- fiscal year — any yearly period without regard to the calendar year, at the end of which a firm, government, etc., determines its financial condition.
- flucytosine — a synthetic whitish crystalline powder, C 4 H 4 FN 3 O, with antifungal activity, used in the treatment of systemic and eye fungal infections caused by susceptible strains of Candida or Cryptococcus.
- flusteredly — In a flustered manner.
- fly swatter — a device for killing flies, mosquitoes, and other insects, usually a square sheet of wire mesh attached to a long handle.
- flycatchers — Plural form of flycatcher.
- flyspecking — A technique for painting furniture with flicked drops of paint.
- foreseeably — In a manner that could be foreseen.
- foresignify — to signify in advance
- forty-seven — a cardinal number, 40 plus 7.
- foster city — a city in W California.
- fosteringly — In a way that fosters or encourages.
- frame story — a secondary story or stories embedded in the main story.
- fray bentos — a port in W Uruguay, on the River Uruguay: noted for meat-packing. Pop: 23 122 (2004 est)
- free safety — a member of a secondary, usually the deepest-playing defender, with no specific assignment at the snap of the ball, but often covering the area of the field across from the weak side of the opponent's offensive line against runs and long pass plays.
- freemasonry — secret or tacit brotherhood; fellowship; fundamental bond or rapport: the freemasonry of those who hunger for knowledge.
- freestyling — the practice of improvising scenes when making a film or performing a play
- frontlessly — in a frontless or shameless manner
- fruitlessly — In a fruitless manner.
- fuel system — The fuel system in a vehicle is the combination of parts needed to carry fuel into and out of the engine.
- fussbudgety — in the manner of a fussbudget; fussy
- galley-west — Informal. into a state of unconsciousness, confusion, or disarray (usually used in the phrase to knock galley-west).
- gametocytes — Plural form of gametocyte.
- gastrectomy — partial or total excision of the stomach.
- genesiology — (obsolete) The study of generation (reproduction).