7-letter words containing y, f
- pay off — to settle (a debt, obligation, etc.), as by transferring money or goods, or by doing something: Please pay your bill.
- perfidy — deliberate breach of faith or trust; faithlessness; treachery: perfidy that goes unpunished.
- perfumy — perfumed; scented; fragrant
- petrify — to convert into stone or a stony substance.
- pilfery — theft
- playful — full of play or fun; sportive; frolicsome.
- playoff — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- plebify — to make popular or vulgar
- pop fly — a high fly ball hit to the infield or immediately beyond it that can easily be caught before reaching the ground.
- preyful — predatory
- prosify — to write or make into prose (esp of a dull nature)
- puffery — undue or exaggerated praise.
- pulpify — to reduce to pulp
- putrefy — to render putrid; cause to rot or decay with an offensive odor.
- qualify — to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent: to qualify oneself for a job.
- rectify — to make, put, or set right; remedy; correct: He sent them a check to rectify his account.
- reunify — bring together again
- rifaiya — a band of dervishes who achieved ecstasy during prayer by violent body movements and self-inflicted pain: formed in the 12th century; outlawed in 1925.
- riflery — the art, practice, or sport of shooting at targets with rifles.
- rufiyaa — rupee (def 3).
- russify — Russianize (defs 1, 2).
- sacrify — to offer a sacrifice or offer (something) as a sacrifice
- salsify — a purple-flowered, composite plant, Tragopogon porrifolius, whose root has an oyster-like flavor and is used as a culinary vegetable.
- sandfly — any of several small, bloodsucking, dipterous insects of the family Psychodidae that are vectors of several diseases of humans.
- satisfy — to fulfill the desires, expectations, needs, or demands of (a person, the mind, etc.); give full contentment to: The hearty meal satisfied him.
- scarify — to make scratches or superficial incisions in (the skin, a wound, etc.), as in vaccination.
- scorify — to subject to scorification.
- scruffy — untidy; shabby.
- shadfly — mayfly (def 1).
- shoofly — a child's rocker having a seat supported between two boards cut and painted to resemble animals.
- signify — to make known by signs, speech, or action.
- skysurf — to engage in skysurfing or hang gliding.
- softkey — any key on a keyboard, as a function key, that can be programmed.
- specify — to mention or name specifically or definitely; state in detail: He did not specify the amount needed.
- squiffy — slightly drunk
- stiffly — rigid or firm; difficult or impossible to bend or flex: a stiff collar.
- stupefy — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
- sulfury — of or like sulfur
- swiftly — moving or capable of moving with great speed or velocity; fleet; rapid: a swift ship.
- synfuel — synthetic fuel.
- tackify — to make (tyres, rubber balls, etc) tacky
- tenafly — a borough in NE New Jersey.
- terrify — to fill with terror or alarm; make greatly afraid.
- testify — to bear witness; give or afford evidence.
- thrifty — practicing thrift or economical management; frugal: a thrifty shopper.
- thurify — to burn incense near or before an altar or shrine
- thyself — yourself
- tiffany — a sheer, mesh fabric constructed in plain weave, originally made of silk but now often made of cotton or synthetic fibers.
- tipsify — to make tipsy
- torpefy — to make torpid