14-letter words containing y, f
- definitionally — the act of defining, or of making something definite, distinct, or clear: We need a better definition of her responsibilities.
- deflagrability — the state or quality of being deflagrable
- deputy sheriff — a person that is authorized to act as sheriff in certain circumstances
- differentially — of or relating to difference or diversity.
- diffractometry — The elucidation of the structures of crystalline materials by the use of X-ray diffraction.
- discomfitingly — In a manner that discomfits.
- disidentifying — Present participle of disidentify.
- disneyfication — to create or alter in a simplified, sentimentalized, or contrived form or manner: museums that have become Disneyfied to attract more visitors.
- disregardfully — In a disregardful manner; negligently; heedlessly.
- do-it-yourself — of or designed for construction or use by amateurs without special training: a do-it-yourself kit for building a radio.
- dogbane family — the plant family Apocynaceae, characterized by shrubs, trees, and herbaceous plants having milky and often poisonous juice, simple opposite leaves, often showy flowers, and fruit usually in dry pods, and including the dogbane, oleander, periwinkle, and plumeria.
- dogwood family — the plant family Cornaceae, characterized by trees and shrubs having simple opposite leaves, small flowers often surrounded by showy, petallike bracts, and berrylike fruit, including the bunchberry, cornelian cherry, and dogwood.
- drag your feet — dawdle
- dry rot fungus — a fungus, Merulius lacrymans, that causes a common type of dry rot.
- dumbfoundingly — In a dumbfounding manner.
- duty-free shop — airport: untaxed goods store
- earl of surrey — Earl of (Henry Howard) 1517?–47, English poet.
- effervescently — effervescing; bubbling.
- eigenfrequency — One of the natural resonant frequencies of a system.
- electrifyingly — In an electrifying manner.
- emergency fund — a sum of money set aside by a country, group, or organization for use in an emergency
- enforceability — The quality of being enforceable.
- every so often — now and again
- fabian society — a socialist organization founded in England in 1884, favoring the gradual spread of socialism by peaceful means.
- factory outlet — a store that sells factory-made goods directly to consumers for less than current retail prices.
- factory worker — manufacturing labourer
- faculty lounge — a staffroom
- fair territory — the area beginning with and including home plate and extending between and including foul lines into which a batter must bat the ball as a prerequisite for a safe hit.
- fairy bluebird — any fruit-eating passerine bird of the genus Irena, of the East Indies, the males of the several species being characteristically black below and purple-blue above.
- fairy primrose — a tender primrose, Primula malacoides, of China, having hairy leaves and small, pink or lilac-colored flowers.
- fall army worm — the caterpillar of a widely distributed noctuid moth, Spodoptera frugiperda, which travels in vast hordes and is a serious pest of cereal crops in tropical regions of the western hemisphere
- falseheartedly — In a falsehearted manner.
- falsifiability — to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
- family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
- family compact — any influential clique
- family romance — a type of fantasy in which a person maintains that he or she is not the child of his or her real parents but of parents of a higher social class
- family support — a means-tested allowance for families in need
- family therapy — the psychotherapeutic treatment of more than one member of a family simultaneously at the same session, based on the assumption that problems can best be understood and corrected by observing the interaction of family members and identifying methods for improving their interrelationships.
- family viewing — television programmes that are suitable for both adults and children
- fancy geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium domesticum, of southern Africa, having roundish clusters of large white, pink, or red flowers.
- fantasticality — The quality of being fantastical.
- faraday effect — the rotation of the plane of polarization of plane-polarized light as the light passes through certain isotropic media in the direction of a strong magnetic field in which the medium is placed.
- faraday shield — an enclosure constructed of grounded wire mesh or parallel wires that shields sensitive electrical instruments from electrostatic interference.
- farey sequence — the increasing sequence of fractions in which numerator and denominator have no common divisor other than one and in which the denominator is less than or equal to a given positive integer p. For p = 4, the Farey sequence of order 4 is 0/1, 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, 2/3, 3/4, 1/1.
- fashionability — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
- fatalistically — the acceptance of all things and events as inevitable; submission to fate: Her fatalism helped her to face death with stoic calm.
- feeblemindedly — Alt form feeble-mindedly.
- feeding frenzy — Slang. a ruthless attack on or exploitation of someone especially by the media.
- feel one's way — to move or advance cautiously, by or as if by groping
- feminine rhyme — a rhyme either of two syllables of which the second is unstressed (double rhyme) as in motion, notion, or of three syllables of which the second and third are unstressed (triple rhyme) as in fortunate, importunate.