9-letter words containing a, c, e, t, y
- connately — In a connate fashion.
- copayment — a fee paid by a subscriber to a service for the use of additional services not covered by the subscription
- copytaker — (esp in a newspaper office) a person employed to type reports as journalists dictate them over the telephone
- cordately — In a cordate form.
- crematory — A crematory is the same as a crematorium.
- cryolathe — an instrument for reshaping the cornea to correct severe nearsightedness or farsightedness: the cornea is removed from the eye, rapidly frozen, reshaped, and reinserted.
- cyanotype — a process of photographic printing, used chiefly in copying architectural and mechanical drawings, that produces a blue line on a white background.
- cyanurate — a salt or ester derived from cyanide
- cybercast — (Internet) A broadcast of audiovisual material over the Internet.
- cyberchat — Chat that takes place on the Internet, as in a chatroom or via instant messages.
- cybernate — to control (a manufacturing process) with a servomechanism or (of a process) to be controlled by a servomechanism
- cybernaut — a person who is an expert in or uses the internet a lot
- cyclamate — a salt or ester of cyclamic acid. Certain of the salts have a very sweet taste and were formerly used as food additives and sugar substitutes
- cyclepath — a special path for the exclusive use of cyclists
- cystidean — any one of the order of fossil echinoderms Cystidea
- cytherean — of or relating to Cytherea.
- cytopenia — a condition characterized by a deficiency of a type of blood cells
- cytosmear — (cytology) A sample of cells, in the form of a smear on a microscope slide, that has been stained ready for diagnostic examination.
- daycentre — a building used for daycare or other welfare services
- decastyle — a portico consisting of ten columns
- democraty — Obsolete form of democracy.
- diapyetic — of or pertaining to diapyesis
- dicastery — A term used by the Vatican corresponding to ministry or department as subdivisions of the papal Curia, referring to the administrative departments of the Vatican City State, as well as strictly ecclesiastical departments; more often termed congregation.
- ecdysiast — stripper (def 3).
- educatory — educative.
- electuary — A medicinal substance mixed with honey or another sweet substance.
- enzymatic — Of, relating to, or caused by enzymes.
- ethically — In an ethical manner.
- eucalypti — Plural form of eucalyptus.
- eucalypts — Plural form of eucalypt.
- eucaryote — Alternative spelling of eukaryote.
- evocatory — evocative
- excitancy — the ability to excite or stimulate
- executary — a person whose job comprises tasks appropriate to a middle-management executive as well as those traditionally carried out by a secretary
- exultancy — Exultance, exultation.
- eye chart — a chart used to test vision from a specified distance: it consists typically of rows of letters of decreasing size
- eye patch — covering for one eye
- furcately — in a furcate manner
- glycolate — a salt or ester of glycolic acid.
- haecceity — That property or quality of a thing by virtue of which it is unique or describable as “ this (one). ”.
- haemocyte — Alternative spelling of hemocyte.
- heptarchy — (often initial capital letter) the seven principal concurrent Anglo-Saxon kingdoms supposed to have existed in the 7th and 8th centuries.
- hesitancy — hesitation; indecision or disinclination.
- hesychast — one of a sect of mystics that originated in the 14th century among the monks on Mt. Athos, Greece.
- hypotheca — (microbiology, planktology) The lower or posterior half of the theca of a thecate protist such as a diatom or dinoflagellate.
- ice yacht — a sailing craft having a cross-shaped frame with a cockpit and runners for travelling over ice
- inexactly — In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately.
- insectary — a laboratory for the study of live insects, their life histories, effects on plants, reaction to insecticides, etc.
- intestacy — the state or fact of being intestate at death.
- karyocyte — (cytology) Any cell that has a nucleus.