7-letter words containing ly
- dowdily — In a dowdy manner.
- dreadly — dreadful
- dribbly — Prone to dribbling.
- drizzly — to rain gently and steadily in fine drops; sprinkle: It drizzled throughout the night.
- dropfly — (in angling) an artificial fly usually used as an extra fly
- dry fly — an artificial fly designed for use on the surface of the water.
- ducally — in the manner of or pertaining to a duke.
- dun fly — a dun-colored artificial fly that resembles the larval stage of certain real flies.
- duopoly — the market condition that exists when there are only two sellers. Compare monopoly (def 1), oligopoly.
- durably — In a durable manner.
- duskily — In a dusky manner.
- dustily — In a dusty way.
- dyingly — in a dying manner
- eagerly — keen or ardent in desire or feeling; impatiently longing: I am eager for news about them. He is eager to sing.
- earthly — of or relating to the earth, especially as opposed to heaven; worldly.
- elderly — (of a person) old or aging.
- elysian — of or relating to Elysium
- elysium — Greek mythology; also Elysian Fields
- elytral — relating to a beetle's elytra
- elytron — Each of the two wing cases of a beetle.
- elytrum — Alt form elytron.
- emptily — In an empty manner.
- epiboly — a process that occurs during gastrulation in vertebrates, in which cells on one side of the blastula grow over and surround the remaining cells and yolk and eventually form the ectoderm
- equably — In an equable manner.
- equally — In the same manner.
- erectly — In an erect manner.
- exactly — Without discrepancy (used to emphasize the accuracy of a figure or description).
- facedly — (in combination) With a particular kind of face.
- faddily — In a faddy manner.
- fadedly — In a faded manner.
- faintly — lacking brightness, vividness, clearness, loudness, strength, etc.: a faint light; a faint color; a faint sound.
- fairily — in a manner suggestive of fairies; delicately.
- falsely — not true or correct; erroneous: a false statement.
- fancily — In a fancy manner.
- fatally — in a manner leading to death or disaster: He was injured fatally in the accident.
- ferally — Wildly; in the manner of an undomesticated animal.
- fetidly — In a fetid manner.
- fiendly — (obsolete) Hostile.
- fierily — In a fiery manner.
- fifthly — in the fifth place; fifth.
- filmily — In a filmy manner.
- finally — at the final point or moment; in the end.
- firefly — any nocturnal beetle of the family Lampyridae, characterized by a soft body with a light-producing organ at the rear of the abdomen.
- firstly — in the first place; first.
- fishfly — a neuropterous insect of the family Corydalidae that is similar to but smaller than a dobsonfly.
- fishily — In a fishy manner.
- fixedly — fastened, attached, or placed so as to be firm and not readily movable; firmly implanted; stationary; rigid.
- flakily — In a flaky way.
- fleetly — swift; rapid: to be fleet of foot; a fleet horse.
- fleshly — of or relating to the flesh or body; bodily, corporeal, or physical.