12-letter words containing y
- filthy lucre — money: to lose one's health for the sake of filthy lucre.
- filtrability — the quality or extent of being filtrable
- fippenny bit — the Spanish half real, the value of which was about six cents.
- 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
- fisheye lens — a hemispherical plano-convex lens for photographing in a full 180° in all directions in front of the camera, creating a circular image having an increasing amount of distortion from the center to the periphery.
- five by five — short and fat.
- five-by-five — short and fat.
- fixed system — a system of solmization which assigns the names ut (or do), re, mi, fa, sol, la, si (or ti) to the degrees of the major scale of C
- flagellatory — relating to flagellation
- flagitiously — In a flagitious manner.
- flaky pastry — variety of puff pastry
- flamboyantly — In a flamboyant manner.
- flammability — easily set on fire; combustible; inflammable.
- 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.
- floatability — capable of floating; that can be floated.
- 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.
- flux density — the magnetic, radiant, or electric flux per unit of cross-sectional area.
- fly in amber — a strange relic or reminder of the past
- fly the coop — an enclosure, cage, or pen, usually with bars or wires, in which fowls or other small animals are confined for fattening, transportation, etc.
- fly the flag — to represent or show support for one's country, an organization, etc
- fly the nest — When children fly the nest, they leave their parents' home to live on their own.
- fly-by-light — aircraft control through systems operated by optical fibres rather than mechanical rods
- fly-by-night — not reliable or responsible, especially in business; untrustworthy: a fly-by-night operation.
- flyfisherman — Flyfisher.
- flyfishermen — Plural form of flyfisherman.
- flying field — a small landing field with short runways and facilities for servicing airplanes on a lesser scale than an airport.
- flying jenny — Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S. a merry-go-round, especially a relatively small or unadorned one.
- 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.
- flying mouse — pygmy glider.
- flying shear — (in a continuous rolling mill) a shear that moves with the piece being cut.
- flying squad — a trained, mobile group of police officers, business executives, labor officials, or the like, capable of performing specialized tasks whenever or wherever sent, often for use in emergencies.
- flying start — a start, as in sailboat racing, in which the entrants begin moving before reaching the starting line.
- flying visit — A flying visit is a visit that only lasts a very short time.