7-letter words containing y, f
- dry fly — an artificial fly designed for use on the surface of the water.
- dry fog — a fog that does not moisten exposed surfaces.
- dry off — become dry
- dulcify — to make more agreeable; mollify; appease.
- dun fly — a dun-colored artificial fly that resembles the larval stage of certain real flies.
- enfancy — Obsolete form of infancy.
- eyefold — the epicanthus
- eyelift — A blepharoplasty performed for cosmetic reasons.
- f layer — the highest of the radio-reflective ionospheric layers, beginning at an altitude of about 80 miles (130 km) and consisting of two parts, the lower part (F layer) being detectable in the daytime only, the higher (F layer or Appleton layer) being constant and constituting the ionospheric layer most favorable for long-range radio communication.
- facedly — (in combination) With a particular kind of face.
- factory — a building or group of buildings with facilities for the manufacture of goods.
- faculty — an ability, natural or acquired, for a particular kind of action: a faculty for making friends easily.
- faddily — In a faddy manner.
- fadedly — In a faded manner.
- fadeyev — Aleksandr Aleksandrovich [al-ig-zan-der al-ig-zan-druh-vich,, -zahn-;; Russian uh-lyi-ksahndr uh-lyi-ksahn-druh-vyich] /ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər ˌæl ɪgˈzæn drə vɪtʃ,, -ˈzɑn-;; Russian ʌ lyɪˈksɑndr ʌ lyɪˈksɑn drə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1901–56, Russian novelist.
- faggery — a slang term for homosexuality
- faggoty — Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a male homosexual.
- faintly — lacking brightness, vividness, clearness, loudness, strength, etc.: a faint light; a faint color; a faint sound.
- fairily — in a manner suggestive of fairies; delicately.
- fairway — an unobstructed passage, way, or area.
- fallacy — a deceptive, misleading, or false notion, belief, etc.: That the world is flat was at one time a popular fallacy.
- fallway — (US) A well or opening, through the successive floors of a warehouse or factory or the decks of a ship, providing access for material, goods or people.
- falsely — not true or correct; erroneous: a false statement.
- falsify — to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
- falsity — the quality or condition of being false; incorrectness; untruthfulness; treachery.
- fanboys — Plural form of fanboy.
- fancify — to make fancy or fanciful; dress up; embellish.
- fancily — In a fancy manner.
- fantasy — imagination, especially when extravagant and unrestrained.
- faraday — Michael, 1791–1867, English physicist and chemist: discoverer of electromagnetic induction.
- faraway — distant; remote: faraway lands.
- farcify — (transitive) To make farcical; to turn into farce.
- farmboy — A boy or young man who works on a farm.
- farmery — the buildings, yards, etc., of a farm.
- fashery — a trouble or difficulty; a thing which causes worry
- fast by — close or hard by; very near
- fatally — in a manner leading to death or disaster: He was injured fatally in the accident.
- fatbody — a diffuse tissue of insects, having numerous functions including food storage, metabolism, and storage of wastes and in some insects modified as a light-producing organ.
- fatuity — complacent stupidity; foolishness.
- fedayee — a member of an Arab commando group operating especially against Israel.
- felonry — the whole body or class of felons.
- feodary — a feudal vassal.
- ferally — Wildly; in the manner of an undomesticated animal.
- fernery — a collection of ferns in a garden or a potted display.
- ferrety — a domesticated, usually red-eyed, and albinic variety of the polecat, used in Europe for driving rabbits and rats from their burrows.
- fetidly — In a fetid manner.
- feudary — a feudal tenant, one who holds the lands of an overlord on condition of fealty
- feydeau — Georges (ʒɔrʒ). 1862–1921, French dramatist, noted for his farces, esp La Dame de chez Maxim (1899) and Occupe-toi d'Amélie (1908)
- feyness — The state of being fey.
- feynman — Richard Phillips, 1918–1988, U.S. physicist: Nobel Prize 1965.