10-letter words containing ly
- family man — a man who has a spouse and one or more children.
- family way — family (def 18).
- familyless — Without a family.
- familylike — Resembling a family.
- familymoon — A honeymoon in which the newlywed couple bring along their children.
- fancifully — characterized by or showing fancy; capricious or whimsical in appearance: a fanciful design of butterflies and flowers.
- farcically — In a farcical manner.
- favourably — (British, Canada) In a favourable manner.
- fearlessly — without fear; bold or brave; intrepid.
- fearsomely — In a fearsome manner, or to a fearsome extent.
- feateously — in a featous manner
- fecklessly — In a feckless manner.
- femininely — In a feminine manner.
- fetchingly — charming; captivating.
- feverishly — having fever.
- feverously — feverish.
- fiducially — accepted as a fixed basis of reference or comparison: a fiducial point; a fiducial temperature.
- fiendishly — In a fiendish manner.
- filchingly — in a filching manner
- filmically — (nonstandard) in a filmic manner.
- flaggingly — So as to flag or slow down; wearyingly.
- flagrantly — shockingly noticeable or evident; obvious; glaring: a flagrant error.
- flawlessly — having no defects or faults, especially none that diminish the value of something: a flawless Ming Dynasty vase.
- fleeringly — In a fleering manner; scornfully; with derision.
- fleetingly — passing swiftly; vanishing quickly; transient; transitory: fleeting beauty; a fleeting glance.
- flexuously — In a flexuous way.
- flippantly — frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness; characterized by levity: The audience was shocked by his flippant remarks about patriotism.
- flirtingly — In a flirting manner.
- floatingly — In a floating manner.
- flower fly — syrphid fly.
- flurriedly — a light, brief shower of snow.
- fly a kite — If you say that someone is flying a kite, you are critical of them for putting forward new ideas just to see how people react, rather than with the intention of putting those ideas into practice.
- fly agaric — a very poisonous common woodland mushroom, Amanita muscaria, having a glossy red or orange cap with white spots, formerly a fly poison.
- fly button — a button on the fly of a pair of trousers
- fly killer — a device or chemical substance used to kill flying insects
- fly orchid — a European orchid, Ophrys insectifera, whose flowers resemble and attract certain wasps: found in wood margins and scrub on lime-rich soils
- fly-bridge — Also called flybridge, fly bridge, monkey bridge. Nautical. a small, often open deck or platform above the pilothouse or main cabin, having duplicate controls and navigational equipment.
- fly-strike — myiasis.
- fly-tipper — a person who deliberately dumps rubbish in an unauthorized place
- flycatcher — any of numerous Old World birds of the family Muscicapidae, that feed on insects captured in the air.
- flying fox — any large fruit bat of the genus Pteropus, of Old World tropical regions, having a foxlike head.
- flying jib — the outer or outermost of two or more jibs, set well above the jib boom.
- flyingfish — any of a family (Exocoetidae, order Atheriniformes) of chiefly warm-water, marine bony fishes with winglike pectoral fins that enable them to glide through the air
- flypitcher — a person who has a flypitch
- flyposting — the posting of advertising or political bills, posters, etc in unauthorized places
- flyscreens — Plural form of flyscreen.
- flyspeck 3 — (humour) A standard name for any font that is so tiny as to be unreadable, by analogy with names like "Helvetica 10" for 10-point Helvetica. Legal boilerplate is usually printed in Flyspeck 3.
- flyspecked — Covered with flyspecks.
- flyswatter — A hand-held device for swatting flies or other insects, to kill or shoo them.
- flytipping — Alternative form of fly-tipping.