8-letter words containing y, f
- fedayeen — a member of an Arab commando group operating especially against Israel.
- federacy — a confederacy.
- feedyard — an area where cattle are kept and fed when being fattened for market
- feistily — full of animation, energy, or courage; spirited; spunky; plucky: The champion is faced with a feisty challenger.
- felicity — the state of being happy, especially in a high degree; bliss: marital felicity.
- felinely — In a feline manner; .
- felinity — belonging or pertaining to the cat family, Felidae.
- fellowly — sociable or friendly.
- femality — Femaleness.
- feminacy — feminine nature.
- feminity — the quality of being feminine; womanliness.
- fentanyl — a synthetic, short-acting narcotic analgesic and sedative, C 22 H 28 N 2 O, used pharmacologically in anesthesia and neuroleptanalgesia, and also as an illicit drug: Medics quickly administered fentanyl to the injured soldiers. Drug dealers are lacing heroin with fentanyl.
- feracity — (obsolete) The state of being feracious, or fruitful.
- feretory — a container for the relics of a saint; reliquary.
- fernally — a seedless plant that is not a true fern
- ferocity — a ferocious quality or state; savage fierceness.
- ferrying — Present participle of ferry.
- ferryman — a person who owns or operates a ferry.
- ferrymen — Plural form of ferryman.
- fervency — warmth or intensity of feeling; ardor; zeal; fervor.
- fervidly — heated or vehement in spirit, enthusiasm, etc.: a fervid orator.
- festally — In a festal/festive manner.
- fete day — a festival day.
- fetidity — the state or quality of being fetid
- fetology — a field of medicine involving the study, diagnosis, and treatment of the fetus.
- feu duty — a fixed annual payment granting the right to the use of land
- feudally — In a feudal manner.
- fidayeen — Plural form of fidayee.
- fidelity — strict observance of promises, duties, etc.: a servant's fidelity.
- fiercely — menacingly wild, savage, or hostile: fierce animals; a fierce look.
- fiftyish — Approximately fifty.
- filatory — a machine for spinning thread
- filially — In a filial manner.
- filthily — In a filthy manner.
- finality — the state, quality, or fact of being final; conclusiveness or decisiveness.
- finchley — a residential district of N London, part of the Greater London borough of Barnet from 1965
- finitely — having bounds or limits; not infinite; measurable.
- finnicky — excessively particular or fastidious; difficult to please; fussy.
- finsbury — former metropolitan borough of EC London, now part of Islington
- fireclay — Clay capable of withstanding high temperatures, chiefly used for making firebricks.
- fiscally — of or relating to the public treasury or revenues: fiscal policies.
- fish fry — a picnic or other gathering at which fish are fried and eaten.
- fish-eye — a very small lens in a door that enables a person inside to see a visitor
- fishways — Plural form of fishway.
- fitfully — coming, appearing, acting, etc., in fits or by spells; recurring irregularly.
- flabbily — In a flabby manner.
- flackery — publicity and promotion; press-agentry.
- flag day — June 14, the anniversary of the day (June 14, 1777) when Congress adopted the Stars and Stripes as the national flag of the United States.
- flaherty — Robert Joseph, 1884–1951, U.S. pioneer in the production of documentary motion pictures.
- flannery — Tim, full name Timothy Fridtjof Flannery. born 1956, Australian zoologist, palaeontologist and environmentalist. His books include The Weather Makers (2006)