9-letter words containing y, n
- fifty-one — a cardinal number, 50 plus 1.
- finickety — fussy or exacting; a cross between finicky and pernickety
- finickity — Fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details; meticulous and particular.
- fittingly — suitable or appropriate; proper or becoming.
- fivepenny — noting a nail 1.75 inches (4.4 cm) long. Symbol: 5d.
- flagrancy — shockingly noticeable or evident; obvious; glaring: a flagrant error.
- flamingly — With, or as if with, fire or flames.
- flangeway — an opening, parallel to a rail, made through platforms, pavements, track structures, etc., to permit passage of wheel flanges.
- flannelly — made of or resembling flannel.
- flaringly — In a flaring manner.
- flippancy — frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness; characterized by levity: The audience was shocked by his flippant remarks about patriotism.
- flowingly — moving in or as in a stream: flowing water.
- flunkyism — The quality or characteristics of a flunky; readiness to cringe to those who are superior in wealth or position; toadyism.
- flurrying — a light, brief shower of snow.
- fly blind — to move through the air using wings.
- fly front — a flap of material down one side of the front opening of a garment to conceal buttons, fasteners, or the like, as on a coat or dress.
- fly-tying — the art or hobby of making artificial lures for fly fishing.
- flyperson — (theatre) Someone who operates a fly system in a theatre.
- flyscreen — A screen attached to the front of a motorcycle, designed to prevent insects from flying into the rider.
- foamingly — in a foaming manner
- foiningly — by means of a thrust or push
- fontology — (XEROX PARC) The body of knowledge dealing with the construction and use of new fonts (e.g. for window systems and typesetting software). It has been said that fontology recapitulates file-ogeny. Unfortunately, this reference to the embryological dictum that "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" is not merely a joke. On the Macintosh, for example, System 7 has to go through contortions to compensate for an earlier design error that created a whole different set of abstractions for fonts parallel to "files" and "folders" - ESR
- forlornly — desolate or dreary; unhappy or miserable, as in feeling, condition, or appearance.
- forty-one — a cardinal number, 40 plus 1.
- 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.
- fragrancy — fragrance (def 1).
- franticly — desperate or wild with excitement, passion, fear, pain, etc.; frenzied.
- 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.
- frontally — In a frontal manner.
- fulgently — In a fulgent manner; so as to dazzle or glitter.
- fungosity — the condition of being fungous.
- funny car — type of drag racing
- gainfully — In a gainful manner; profitably.
- gainsayer — to deny, dispute, or contradict.
- gallantly — brave, spirited, noble-minded, or chivalrous: a gallant knight; a gallant rescue attempt.
- gallantry — dashing courage; heroic bravery; noble-minded behavior.
- gallingly — In a galling manner.
- gameyness — quality of being gamey
- garlandry — a collection of garlands
- garnishry — an adornment or decoration
- garryowen — (rugby union) A high short punt onto or behind the defending team.
- gasifying — Present participle of gasify.
- gaycation — a holiday specifically designed for the gay market
- geminally — in a geminal manner
- genealogy — a record or account of the ancestry and descent of a person, family, group, etc.
- geneology — Misspelling of genealogy.
- generalcy — the office or tenure of a general.