6-letter words that end in ly
- firmly — not soft or yielding when pressed; comparatively solid, hard, stiff, or rigid: firm ground; firm texture.
- flatly — absolutely and without qualification: Our offer was flatly rejected.
- fondly — in a fond manner; lovingly or affectionately: He looked fondly at his child.
- foonly — 1. The PDP-10 successor that was to have been built by the Super Foonly project at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory along with a new operating system. The intention was to leapfrog from the old DEC time-sharing system SAIL was then running to a new generation, bypassing TENEX which at that time was the ARPANET standard. ARPA funding for both the Super Foonly and the new operating system was cut in 1974. Most of the design team went to DEC and contributed greatly to the design of the PDP-10 model KL10. 2. The name of the company formed by Dave Poole, one of the principal Super Foonly designers, and one of hackerdom's more colourful personalities. Many people remember the parrot which sat on Poole's shoulder and was a regular companion. 3. Any of the machines built by Poole's company. The first was the F-1 (a.k.a. Super Foonly), which was the computational engine used to create the graphics in the movie "TRON". The F-1 was the fastest PDP-10 ever built, but only one was ever made. The effort drained Foonly of its financial resources, and the company turned toward building smaller, slower, and much less expensive machines. Unfortunately, these ran not the popular TOPS-20 but a TENEX variant called Foonex; this seriously limited their market. Also, the machines shipped were actually wire-wrapped engineering prototypes requiring individual attention from more than usually competent site personnel, and thus had significant reliability problems. Poole's legendary temper and unwillingness to suffer fools gladly did not help matters. By the time of the Jupiter project cancellation in 1983, Foonly's proposal to build another F-1 was eclipsed by the Mars, and the company never quite recovered. See the Mars entry for the continuation and moral of this story.
- foully — grossly offensive to the senses; disgustingly loathsome; noisome: a foul smell.
- foxily — In a foxy manner.
- freely — in a free manner.
- frilly — covered with or marked by frills: Some of the more elaborate dress shirts have frilly fronts.
- gadfly — any of various flies, as a stable fly or warble fly, that bite or annoy domestic animals.
- gainly — graceful; comely; handsome.
- gamely — in a game or plucky manner: They struggled gamely.
- gamily — having the tangy flavor or odor of game: I like the gamy taste of venison.
- gangly — gangling.
- garply — /gar'plee/ A metasyntactic variable like foo, once popular among SAIL hackers.
- gashly — hideous; ghastly
- geekly — (rare) Concerning or typical of geeks.
- gently — kindly; amiable: a gentle manner.
- giggly — to laugh in a silly, often high-pitched way, especially with short, repeated gasps and titters, as from juvenile or ill-concealed amusement or nervous embarrassment.
- gladly — feeling joy or pleasure; delighted; pleased: glad about the good news; glad that you are here.
- glegly — quickly; cleverly
- glibly — readily fluent, often thoughtlessly, superficially, or insincerely so: a glib talker; glib answers.
- gluily — In a gluey way.
- glumly — sullenly or silently gloomy; dejected.
- gnarly — gnarled.
- goatly — (slang) Having the characteristics of goat.
- goggly — Resembling goggles, used mostly in relation to eyes.
- goodly — of good or substantial size, amount, etc.: a goodly sum.
- googly — a bowled ball that swerves in one direction and breaks in the other.
- gorily — In a gory manner.
- grayly — In a gray way.
- greely — Adolphus Washington, 1844–1935, U.S. general and arctic explorer.
- grimly — stern and admitting of no appeasement or compromise: grim determination; grim necessity.
- grisly — gristly.
- grooly — gruesome
- growly — resembling a growl in pitch and harshness: This cold has made my voice growly.
- grumly — in a grum manner
- hackly — rough or jagged, as if hacked: Some minerals break with a hackly fracture.
- handly — Of or pertaining to the hand; manual.
- hardly — only just; almost not; barely: We had hardly reached the lake when it started raining. hardly any; hardly ever.
- hazily — characterized by the presence of haze; misty: hazy weather.
- headly — (archaic) Chief; principal; capital; (of sins) deadly.
- helply — (UK dialectal) Aiding; assisting; ready to help; helpful.
- highly — in or to a high degree; extremely: highly amusing; highly seasoned food.
- hokily — In a hokey way.
- holily — in a pious, devout, or sacred manner.
- homely — lacking in physical attractiveness; not beautiful; unattractive: a homely child.
- homily — a sermon, usually on a Biblical topic and usually of a nondoctrinal nature.
- hostly — of or proper to a host: the hostly qualities of consideration and generosity.
- hourly — of, pertaining to, occurring, or done each successive hour: hourly news reports.
- hubbly — of uneven surface; rough: hubbly ice; a hubbly road.