9-letter words containing y, e, t
- eye patch — covering for one eye
- eyebright — any scrophulariaceous annual plant of the genus Euphrasia, esp E. nemorosa, having small white-and-purple two-lipped flowers: formerly used in the treatment of eye disorders
- eyeleteer — a small bodkin or other pointed tool for making eyelet holes
- eyes left — a command to troops to look left, esp as a salute when marching
- eyesocket — Alternative spelling of eye socket.
- eyestalks — Plural form of eyestalk.
- eyestrain — Tiredness or pain in the eyes, sometimes accompanied by headache, caused by excessive or improper use of the eyes, or by uncorrected defects of vision.
- fairytale — a story, usually for children, about elves, hobgoblins, dragons, fairies, or other magical creatures.
- fatefully — having momentous significance or consequences; decisively important; portentous: a fateful meeting between the leaders of the two countries.
- feast day — a day, especially a church holiday, for feasting and rejoicing.
- featherly — (obsolete) Like feathers.
- featurely — having strongly defined features or characteristics, handsome
- febricity — the state of being feverish.
- febrility — pertaining to or marked by fever; feverish.
- fecundity — the quality of being fecund; capacity, especially in female animals, of producing young in great numbers.
- feed type — The feed type is the type of hydrocarbon which a refinery uses for a particular product.
- femineity — feminine nature; womanliness.
- ferrotype — to put a glossy surface on (a print) by pressing, while wet, on a metal sheet (ferrotype tin)
- ferryboat — a boat used to transport passengers, vehicles, etc., across a river or the like.
- fertilely — In a fertile manner.
- fertility — the state or quality of being fertile.
- fervently — having or showing great warmth or intensity of spirit, feeling, enthusiasm, etc.; ardent: a fervent admirer; a fervent plea.
- fervidity — heated or vehement in spirit, enthusiasm, etc.: a fervid orator.
- festilogy — a treatise on the subject of church festivals
- festively — pertaining to or suitable for a feast or festival: festive decorations; a festive meal.
- festivity — a festive celebration or occasion.
- fetoscopy — examination by means of a fetoscope.
- feudality — the state or quality of being feudal.
- feudatory — a person who holds lands by feudal tenure; a feudal vassal.
- fibrocyte — an inactive fibroblast
- fictively — In a fictive manner.
- fifty-one — a cardinal number, 50 plus 1.
- file type — (file format) The kind of data stored in a file. Most modern operating systems use the filename extension to determine the file type though others store this information elsewhere in the file system. The file type is used to choose an appropriate icon to represent the file in a GUI and the correct application with which to view, edit, run, or print the file. Different operating systems support different sets of file types though most agree on a large common set and allow arbitrary new types to be defined. See also MIME.
- filtabyte — (networking, hardware) An Ethernet controller card made by LRT based on the LANCE and SIA. It uses DMA. Its Ethernet address can be changed by software.
- finickety — fussy or exacting; a cross between finicky and pernickety
- fly sheet — a sheet on which instructions or information are printed; handbill.
- flyposter — a poster, esp unauthorized, put up to publicize something
- flysheets — Plural form of flysheet.
- flystrike — myiasis.
- flyweight — a boxer or other contestant of the lightest competitive class, especially a professional boxer weighing up to 112 pounds (51 kg).
- foetology — fetology.
- forestays — Plural form of forestay.
- formylate — to introduce the formyl group into (an organic compound).
- fort myer — a military reservation in N Virginia, N of Alexandria.
- forty-one — a cardinal number, 40 plus 1.
- free city — a city having an independent government and forming a sovereign state by itself.
- freebooty — plunder; loot; spoils.
- freestyle — Swimming. competition in which any of the standard strokes may be used, according to the swimmer's choice. the crawl.
- frenotomy — The surgical cutting of the frenum.
- fretfully — In a fretful manner.