8-letter words containing y, f
- identify — to recognize or establish as being a particular person or thing; verify the identity of: to identify handwriting; to identify the bearer of a check.
- impurify — To make impure.
- infantly — (obsolete) Like an infant.
- infantry — soldiers or military units that fight on foot, in modern times typically with rifles, machine guns, grenades, mortars, etc., as weapons.
- infinity — the quality or state of being infinite.
- infirmly — In an infirm manner; feebly.
- insonify — (transitive) To flood an area or an an object with carefully-controlled sound waves, typically as a part of sonar or ultrasound imaging.
- irefully — In an ireful manner; angrily; wrathfully.
- jeffreys — Francis ("Lord Jeffrey") 1773–1850, Scottish jurist, editor, and critic.
- joyfully — full of joy, as a person or one's heart; glad; delighted.
- kaffiyeh — an Arab headdress for men; made from a diagonally folded square of cloth held in place by an agal wound around the head.
- karstify — to become or cause to become karstic
- keffiyeh — an Arab headdress for men; made from a diagonally folded square of cloth held in place by an agal wound around the head.
- keyframe — A single frame in an animation sequence drawn by an artist, between which others are tweened.
- ladyfied — Simple past tense and past participle of ladyfy.
- ladyfish — a game fish, Elops saurus, of warm seas, closely related to but smaller than the tarpon.
- lapidify — To become stone or stony.
- lawfully — allowed or permitted by law; not contrary to law: a lawful enterprise.
- layshaft — an auxiliary shaft in a gearbox, running parallel to the main shaft, to and from which drive is transferred to enable varying ratios to be obtained
- lifebuoy — A life preserver, especially one in the shape of a ring.
- lilyturf — liriope.
- lylafklc — (chat) Love you like a fat kid loves cake.
- lyriform — shaped like a lyre.
- manfully — having or showing boldness, courage, or strength; resolute.
- manyfold — by many times; by multiples: The state's highway expenses have increased manyfold in the past decade.
- mayfield — a city in SW Kentucky.
- mayflies — Plural form of mayfly.
- mcguffey — William Holmes, 1800–73, U.S. educator: editor of the Eclectic Readers, a series of school readers.
- meyerhof — Otto [ot-oh;; German awt-oh] /ˈɒt oʊ;; German ˈɔt oʊ/ (Show IPA), 1884–1951, German physiologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1922.
- moistify — to cause to become wet or moist
- my foot! — an expression of disbelief, often of the speaker's own preceding statement
- nonfatty — not fatty, not characterized by or composed of fat
- nonleafy — not leafy, having no leaves
- nyet.gif — (security) A file that crackers from Russia tied to upload to many web sites in 2014 to test whether the victim's web server software was configured to accepted HTTP PUT requests.
- oafishly — In an oafish manner.
- of yours — belonging to or associated with you
- off duty — not engaged in the performance of one's usual work: an off-duty police officer.
- off year — a year without a major, especially presidential, election.
- off-duty — not engaged in the performance of one's usual work: an off-duty police officer.
- off-year — An off-year is a year when no major political elections are held.
- old fogy — a person who is excessively old-fashioned in attitude, ideas, manners, etc.
- opsonify — to facilitate phagocytosis of (a microorganism, as a bacterium) by treatment with opsonin.
- panofsky — Erwin, 1892–1968, U.S. art historian, born in Germany.
- pennyfee — a small payment, whether literally of the value of a penny or not
- pinguefy — to make or become greasy or fat
- play for — sport: represent, be on the side of
- play off — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- play-off — (in competitive sports) the playing of an extra game, rounds, innings, etc., in order to settle a tie.
- polyfoam — a rigid, semirigid, or rubbery foam composed of minute bubbles of air or carbon dioxide embedded in a polymer matrix, often polyurethane: used in mattresses, padding, insulation, etc.
- prettify — to make pretty, especially in a small, petty way: to prettify a natural beauty.