12-letter words containing y, r
- far and away — at or to a great distance; a long way off; at or to a remote point: We sailed far ahead of the fleet.
- faraday cage — an enclosure constructed of grounded wire mesh or parallel wires that shields sensitive electrical instruments from electrostatic interference.
- farsightedly — In a farsighted manner.
- fascicularly — in a fascicular manner
- father's day — a day, usually the third Sunday in June, set aside in honor of fathers.
- favorability — The quality or degree of being viewed favorably.
- featurectomy — /fee"ch*r-ek"t*-mee/ The act of removing a feature from a program. Featurectomies come in two flavours, the "righteous" and the "reluctant". Righteous featurectomies are performed because the remover believes the program would be more elegant without the feature, or there is already an equivalent and better way to achieve the same end. (Doing so is not quite the same thing as removing a misfeature.) Reluctant featurectomies are performed to satisfy some external constraint such as code size or execution speed.
- federatively — from a federative point of view
- female rhyme — feminine rhyme.
- fermi energy — the level in the distribution of electron energies in a solid at which a quantum state is equally likely to be occupied or empty
- ferricyanide — a salt of ferricyanic acid, as potassium ferricyanide, K 3 Fe(CN) 6 .
- ferrocyanide — a salt of ferrocyanic acid, as potassium ferrocyanide, K 4 Fe(CN) 6 .
- ferry bridge — transporter bridge.
- fibrinolysin — a proteolytic enzyme, formed in the blood from plasminogen, that causes the breakdown of the fibrin in blood clots.
- fibrinolysis — the disintegration or dissolution of fibrin, especially by enzymatic action.
- fibrinolytic — the disintegration or dissolution of fibrin, especially by enzymatic action.
- fibromyalgia — a syndrome characterized by fatigue and chronic pain in the muscles and in tissues surrounding the joints.
- field theory — a detailed mathematical description of the distribution and movement of matter under the influence of one or more fields.
- fifty-fourth — next after the fifty-third; being the ordinal number for 54.
- figurability — the quality of being figurable
- figuratively — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
- film library — a collection of films, motion pictures, videodiscs, videocassettes, and any other materials stored on film.
- filthy lucre — money: to lose one's health for the sake of filthy lucre.
- filtrability — the quality or extent of being filtrable
- fire company — a company of firefighters.
- fire hydrant — a hydrant for use in extinguishing fires.
- firing party — a military detachment detailed to fire a salute at a funeral
- first family — a family having the highest or one of the highest social ranks in a given place.
- firth of tay — the estuary of the River Tay on the North Sea coast of Scotland. Length: 40 km (25 miles)
- fish factory — a factory where fish is processed
- flagellatory — relating to flagellation
- flaky pastry — variety of puff pastry
- flash drying — Flash drying is a stage in a process to make something bigger, in which a paste-like feed is broken up and dried at the same time.
- flash memory — Computers. a type of reprogrammable memory that retains information even with the power turned off.
- flat battery — power cell that has run down
- flatteringly — In a flattering manner.
- flatterously — in a flatterous manner
- flavorlessly — In a flavorless way.
- fleur-de-lys — fleur-de-lis (defs 1, 2).
- flickeringly — In a flickering manner.
- flightworthy — being in proper physical or mechanical condition for safe flight; airworthy: a flightworthy spacecraft.
- flimflammery — a trick or deception, especially a swindle or confidence game involving skillful persuasion or clever manipulation of the victim.
- floppy drive — disk drive
- florida keys — chain of small islands extending southwest from the S tip of Fla.
- flow country — an area of moorland and peat bogs in northern Scotland known for its wildlife, now partly afforested
- fluorography — photofluorography.
- fly in amber — a strange relic or reminder of the past
- flyfisherman — Flyfisher.
- flyfishermen — Plural form of flyfisherman.
- flying lemur — either of two lemurlike mammals, Cynocephalus variegatus, of southeastern Asia and the East Indies, or C. volans, of the Philippines, having broad folds of skin on both sides of the body to aid in gliding from tree to tree: now rare.