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13-letter words containing y, f

  • free enthalpy — a thermodynamic property of a system equal to the difference between its enthalpy and the product of its temperature and its entropy. It is usually measured in joules
  • free-and-easy — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
  • freeze-drying — a process for drying heat-sensitive substances, as foods, blood plasma, antibiotics, and the like, by freezing the substance and then subliming the ice or other frozen solvent in a high vacuum.
  • frelinghuysen — Frederick Theodore, 1817–85, U.S. statesman.
  • french pastry — fine, rich, or fancy dessert pastry, especially made from puff paste and filled with cream or fruit preparations.
  • french system — a method of spinning in which fibers of extremely short-staple wool are not twisted before being spun.
  • friendly fire — Insurance. a fire deliberately set and remaining contained, as in a fireplace or boiler, from which any resulting loss cannot be claimed as an insurance liability (opposed to hostile fire).
  • frighten away — cause sb/sth to run away
  • frighteningly — to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.
  • frobisher bay — an inlet of the Atlantic in NE Canada, in the SE coast of Baffin Island
  • frontal gyrus — any of several convolutions on the outer surface of the frontal lobe of the cerebrum.
  • fruiting body — an organ that produces spores; fructification.
  • frustratingly — to make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify: The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts to help him.
  • fully fledged — Fully fledged means complete or fully developed.
  • funambulatory — relating to tightrope-walking
  • functionality — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • fundamentally — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
  • funemployment — the condition of a person who enjoys being out of work
  • futurity race — a race for two-year-old horses in which the entries are selected before birth
  • ginger family — the plant family Zingiberaceae, characterized by tropical, often aromatic herbaceous plants having rhizomes, long sheathing leaves, and clusters of tubular flowers, and including cardamon, ginger, and turmeric.
  • glove factory — a factory where gloves are made
  • go fly a kite — to move through the air using wings.
  • grandfatherly — of or characteristic of a grandfather.
  • gravity fault — a fault along an inclined plane in which the upper side or hanging wall appears to have moved downward with respect to the lower side or footwall (opposed to reverse fault).
  • gyrofrequency — the frequency of rotation of an electron or other charged particle in a magnetic field, directly proportional to the charge of the particle and to the field strength and inversely proportional to the mass of the particle.
  • halfheartedly — Without enthusiasm nor interest.
  • halfway house — an inn or stopping place situated approximately midway between two places on a road.
  • harpers ferry — a town in NE West Virginia at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers: site of John Brown's raid 1859.
  • have eyes for — to be interested in
  • heavy lifting — hard work: A team of researchers did the heavy lifting for the author.
  • helen of troy — Also called Helen of Troy. Classical Mythology. the beautiful daughter of Zeus and Leda and wife of Menelaus whose abduction by Paris was the cause of the Trojan War.
  • high fidelity — sound reproduction over the full range of audible frequencies with very little distortion of the original signal.
  • honorifically — In a honorific manner.
  • house of keys — the lower house of the legislature of the Isle of Man.
  • hydrofracking — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
  • hydrofracture — (geology) Rock fracture caused by the pressure of freezing water.
  • hydrosulfides — Plural form of hydrosulfide.
  • hydrosulfuric — (chemistry) Derived from hydrogen sulfide considered as hydrosulfuric acid.
  • hyperflexible — capable of being bent, usually without breaking; easily bent: a flexible ruler.
  • hyperfunction — abnormally increased function, especially of glands or other organs.
  • hyperinflated — to subject to hyperinflation: hyperinflated prices.
  • hypersurfaces — Plural form of hypersurface.
  • hypoperfusion — (medicine) Decreased perfusion of blood through an organ.
  • hyposulfurous — of or derived from hyposulfurous acid.
  • ichneumon fly — any of numerous wasplike insects of the family Ichneumonidae, the larvae of which are parasitic on caterpillars and immature stages of other insects.
  • ichthyofaunal — relating to ichthyofauna
  • if i were you — You say 'if I were you' to someone when you are giving them advice.
  • if you ask me — You can say 'if you ask me' to emphasize that you are stating your personal opinion.
  • if you please — expressing mild outrage
  • in difficulty — If you are in difficulty or in difficulties, you are having a lot of problems.
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