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13-letter words containing y, f

  • superfluidity — a fluid that exhibits frictionless flow, very high heat conductivity, and other unusual physical properties, helium below 2.186 K being the only known example.
  • superfluously — being more than is sufficient or required; excessive.
  • surface yeast — yeast that rises to the surface as froth during fermentation.
  • surface-layer — the thin layer of air adjacent to the earth's surface, usually considered to be less than 300 feet (91 meters) high.
  • suspensefully — in a suspenseful manner
  • takeaway food — food which is ordered and made in a restaurant and is then taken away to be eaten at home or elsewhere
  • teasel family — the plant family Dipsacaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having opposite or whorled leaves, dense flower heads surrounded by an involucre, and small, dry fruit, and including the scabious and teasel.
  • testificatory — related to a person who witnesses or an object used as evidence
  • the mayflower — the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth to Massachusetts in 1620
  • thirty-fourth — next after the thirty-third; being the ordinal number for 34.
  • tiffany glass — Favrile Glass.
  • transfusively — in a transfusive manner
  • twenty-fourmo — a book size of about 3 5/8 × 5 1/8 inches (9 × 13 cm), determined by printing on sheets folded to form 24 leaves or 48 pages.
  • twenty-fourth — next after the twenty-third; being the ordinal number for 24.
  • typhoid fever — Also called typhoid fever. an infectious, often fatal, febrile disease, usually of the summer months, characterized by intestinal inflammation and ulceration, caused by the typhoid bacillus, which is usually introduced with food or drink.
  • unbeautifully — in a unbeautiful or unattractive manner
  • uncomfortably — causing discomfort or distress; painful; irritating.
  • unconformably — not conformable; not conforming.
  • unfalteringly — to hesitate or waver in action, purpose, intent, etc.; give way: Her courage did not falter at the prospect of hardship.
  • unfamiliarity — not familiar; not acquainted with or conversant about: to be unfamiliar with a subject.
  • unfashionably — in an unfashionable manner
  • unflinchingly — not flinching; unshrinking: unflinching courage.
  • unforeseeably — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
  • unforgettably — impossible to forget; indelibly impressed on the memory: scenes of unforgettable beauty.
  • unfortunately — suffering from bad luck: an unfortunate person.
  • unjustifiably — capable of being justified; that can be shown to be or can be defended as being just, right, or warranted; defensible: justifiable homicide.
  • unofficiously — objectionably aggressive in offering one's unrequested and unwanted services, help, or advice; meddlesome: an officious person.
  • unqualifiedly — not qualified; not fit; lacking requisite qualifications: unqualified for the job.
  • unsteadfastly — in an unsteadfast manner
  • unthriftyhead — thriftlessness
  • user-friendly — easy to use, operate, understand, etc.: the most user-friendly personal computer now on the market.
  • venus flytrap — firewall machine
  • verifiability — to prove the truth of, as by evidence or testimony; confirm; substantiate: Events verified his prediction.
  • vicar of bray — a vicar (Simon Aleyn) appointed to the parish of Bray in Berkshire during Henry VIII's reign who changed his faith to Catholic when Mary I was on the throne and back to Protestant when Elizabeth I succeeded and so retained his living
  • violet family — the plant family Violaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants and some tropical shrubs and trees having alternate, usually simple leaves, solitary flowers with five usually irregular petals, the lower petal often spurred, and a berry or many-seeded capsule, and including the Johnny-jump-up, pansy, and numerous species of violet.
  • walnut family — the plant family Juglandaceae, characterized by deciduous trees having alternate, pinnately compound leaves, male flowers in tassellike catkins and female flowers in clusters, and edible nuts enclosed in a thick-walled or leathery husk, and including the butternut, hickory, pecan, and walnut.
  • when pigs fly — If you say 'when pigs fly' after someone has said that something might happen, you are emphasizing that you think it is very unlikely.
  • whitefish bay — a city in SE Wisconsin, N of Milwaukee.
  • wife's equity — a wife's right to have provision made for her and her children out of her estate, without the aid of a court of equity, if her husband cannot obtain the funds
  • willow family — the plant family Salicaceae, characterized by deciduous trees and shrubs having simple, alternate leaves, hairy catkins of male and female flowers on separate plants, and capsular fruit, and including the aspen, cottonwood, poplar, and willow.
  • wolffian body — the mesonephros.
  • year of grace — a specified year of the Christian era: this year of grace; the year of grace 1982.
  • yeoman farmer — a man who farmed his own land
  • yorkshire fog — a common tufted grass, Holcus lanatus, having downy leaves and flower heads that are white or pink and branched, with spikelets carrying the flowers
  • yuppification — The act or process of yuppifying.
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