9-letter words containing y, f
- fourpenny — Carpentry. noting a nail 1.5 inches (3.8 cm) long. noting certain fine nails 1.375 inches (3.5 cm) long. Symbol: 4d.
- fragilely — In a fragile way or manner.
- fragility — easily broken, shattered, or damaged; delicate; brittle; frail: a fragile ceramic container; a very fragile alliance.
- fragrancy — fragrance (def 1).
- franticly — desperate or wild with excitement, passion, fear, pain, etc.; frenzied.
- free city — a city having an independent government and forming a sovereign state by itself.
- freebooty — plunder; loot; spoils.
- freecycle — to give away (used goods or materials) to people who want them, or to obtain (such items) for free.
- freestyle — Swimming. competition in which any of the standard strokes may be used, according to the swimmer's choice. the crawl.
- frenchify — to make (something or someone) resemble the French, as in manners, customs, or dress: to Frenchify the spelling of one's name.
- frenotomy — The surgical cutting of the frenum.
- frenzying — Present participle of frenzy.
- frequency — Also, frequence. the state or fact of being frequent; frequent occurrence: We are alarmed by the frequency of fires in the neighborhood.
- fretfully — In a fretful manner.
- frigidity — the state or condition of being frigid.
- frivolity — the quality or state of being frivolous: the frivolity of Mardi Gras.
- frog lily — a yellow water lily.
- from away — from a part of Canada other than Newfoundland
- frontally — In a frontal manner.
- frowardly — In a froward manner.
- fructuary — a person who enjoys the fruits or rewards (of something)
- frugality — the quality of being frugal, or prudent in saving; the lack of wastefulness: Many people who have lived through periods of economic deprivation develop lifelong habits of frugality and are almost never tempted by wasteful consumption.
- fruit fly — any of numerous small dipterous insects of the family Tephritidae, the larvae of which feed on the fruit of various plants.
- fry bread — a flat wheat bread made by North American Indians of the SW U.S., that is cooked by frying in deep fat until light brown and puffed on both sides
- fulgently — In a fulgent manner; so as to dazzle or glitter.
- fulsomely — In a fulsome manner.
- fungosity — the condition of being fungous.
- funny car — type of drag racing
- furcately — in a furcate manner
- furiosity — Lb obsolete furiousness; fury.
- furiously — full of fury, violent passion, or rage; extremely angry; enraged: He was furious about the accident.
- furtherly — Favorable, advanced.
- furtively — taken, done, used, etc., surreptitiously or by stealth; secret: a furtive glance.
- fuzzy set — a generalization of a classical set with the property that each member of a population of objects has associated with it a number, usually from 0 to 1, that indicates the degree to which the object belongs to the set.
- gainfully — In a gainful manner; profitably.
- gasifying — Present participle of gasify.
- gleefully — full of exultant joy; merry; delighted.
- goldfinny — One of two or more species of European labroid fishes, Symphodus melops and Ctenolabrus rupestris.
- gray wolf — a wolf, Canis lupus, having a usually grizzled, blackish, or whitish coat: formerly common in Eurasia and North America, some subspecies are now reduced in numbers or near extinction.
- gyrfalcon — a large falcon, Falco rusticolus, of arctic and subarctic regions, having white, gray, or blackish color phases: now greatly reduced in number.
- half-year — a period of 6 months
- halfpenny — a bronze coin of the United Kingdom, equal to half a penny: use phased out in 1984.
- hanefiyeh — (in the courtyard of a mosque) a fountain for ritual washing.
- harmfully — In a harmful manner.
- hatefully — In a hateful manner.
- hay fever — a type of allergic rhinitis affecting the mucous membranes of the eyes and respiratory tract, affecting susceptible persons usually during the summer, caused by pollen of ragweed and certain other plants.
- hayfields — Plural form of hayfield.
- heedfully — In a heedful manner.
- helpfully — giving or rendering aid or assistance; of service: Your comments were very helpful.
- highflyer — Alternative form of highflier.