10-letter words containing y, f
- familymoon — A honeymoon in which the newlywed couple bring along their children.
- fancifully — characterized by or showing fancy; capricious or whimsical in appearance: a fanciful design of butterflies and flowers.
- fancy dive — any of the series of specified dives executed in fancy diving, as the jackknife or gainer.
- fancy fern — a common fern, Dryopteris austriaca spinulosa, having delicate, lacy leaves and used extensively in floral arrangements.
- fancy-free — free from any emotional tie or influence, especially that of love.
- fanny pack — a small zippered pouch suspended from a belt around the waist.
- farcically — In a farcical manner.
- fasciotomy — (surgery) The cutting of the fascia to relieve tension or pressure (and treat the resulting loss of circulation to an area of tissue or muscle).
- fat binary — (operating system) An executable file containing code for more than one CPU. The correct code is selected automatically at run time. This is convenient for distributing software and sharing it between multiple platforms.
- fatty acid — any of a class of aliphatic acids, especially palmitic, stearic, or oleic acid, consisting of a long hydrocarbon chain ending in a carboxyl group that bonds to glycerol to form a fat.
- favourably — (British, Canada) In a favourable manner.
- fearlessly — without fear; bold or brave; intrepid.
- fearsomely — In a fearsome manner, or to a fearsome extent.
- feateously — in a featous manner
- fecklessly — In a feckless manner.
- fee-paying — charging for service
- feminality — The quality of being feminal; femininity.
- feminility — feminine nature, qualities or characteristics
- femininely — In a feminine manner.
- femininity — the quality of being feminine; womanliness.
- ferroalloy — an alloy of iron with some element other than carbon, used to introduce the element in the manufacture of steel.
- ferrotypes — Plural form of ferrotype.
- ferry port — a town or place alongside navigable water with facilities for the loading and unloading of ferries
- ferryboats — Plural form of ferryboat.
- festoonery — a decoration of festoons.
- fetchingly — charming; captivating.
- feverishly — having fever.
- feverously — feverish.
- fiat money — paper currency made legal tender by a fiat of the government, but not based on or convertible into coin.
- fibrillary — Of or pertaining to fibrils, or nanoscale fibers.
- fiducially — accepted as a fixed basis of reference or comparison: a fiducial point; a fiducial temperature.
- field army — army (def 2).
- fiendishly — In a fiendish manner.
- fifty-five — a cardinal number, 50 plus 5.
- fifty-four — a cardinal number, 50 plus 4.
- fifty-nine — a cardinal number, 50 plus 9.
- fiftypenny — noting a nail 5½ inches (14 cm) long. Abbreviation: 50d.
- filchingly — in a filching manner
- filmically — (nonstandard) in a filmic manner.
- filmy fern — any fern of the family Hymenophyllaceae, growing in humid regions and having thin translucent leaves
- finger-dry — to dry hair by lifting it and running it between the fingers from roots to ends
- first lady — (often initial capital letters) the wife of the U.S. president or a current governor or mayor.
- first year — the first year when someone is at university or college
- fish story — an exaggerated or incredible story: It was just another one of his fish stories.
- five-a-day — the five portions of fruit and vegetables that people are recommended to eat every day as part of a healthy diet
- fixability — to repair; mend.
- flaccidity — soft and limp; not firm; flabby: flaccid biceps.
- flaggingly — So as to flag or slow down; wearyingly.
- flagrantly — shockingly noticeable or evident; obvious; glaring: a flagrant error.
- flamboyant — strikingly bold or brilliant; showy: flamboyant colors.