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10-letter words containing a, c, e, y

  • case study — A case study is a written account that gives detailed information about a person, group, or thing and their development over a period of time.
  • cash money — cash, as distinguished from a check or money order.
  • castellany — the office or position of a castellan
  • catchpenny — designed to have instant appeal, esp in order to sell quickly and easily without regard for quality
  • category 3 — (hardware)   (Cat 3, or "voice grade") An American Standards Institute standard for UTP cables. Used, e.g., for 100BaseVG network cabling.
  • category 5 — The term Category 5 refers to Ethernet cabling that allows data transfers up to 100 Megabits per second.
  • category a — (of a prisoner) regarded as highly dangerous and therefore requiring constant observation and maximum security
  • category d — (of a prisoner) regarded as sufficiently trustworthy to be kept under open prison conditions
  • cavalierly — a horseman, especially a mounted soldier; knight.
  • cavalrymen — a soldier in the cavalry.
  • cedar city — a town in SW Utah.
  • celibately — In a celibate way.
  • centrality — the state or condition of being central
  • cephalalgy — Dated form of cephalalgia.
  • cerebrally — Anatomy, Zoology. of or relating to the cerebrum or the brain.
  • ceroferary — Candleholder (especially for a large, church candle).
  • cerography — the art of engraving on a waxed plate on which a printing surface is created by electrotyping
  • certainity — Misspelling of certainty.
  • certaynely — Archaic spelling of certainly.
  • cessionary — a person to whom something is transferred; assignee; grantee
  • ceylon tea — a tea from Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)
  • chaetotaxy — the arrangement of bristles on the exoskeleton of an insect.
  • chalcedony — a microcrystalline often greyish form of quartz with crystals arranged in parallel fibres: a gemstone. Formula: SiO2
  • chalybeate — containing or impregnated with iron salts
  • chandlerly — like, or pertaining to, a chandler
  • change key — a key opening only one lock.
  • changeably — liable to change or to be changed; variable.
  • charactery — the use of symbols to express thoughts
  • charophyte — any green algae of the class Charophyceae (or group Charophyta), comprising the stoneworts.
  • chase away — If someone or something chases away worries, fears, or other bad feelings, they cause those feelings to change and become happier.
  • cheapishly — in a fairly cheap manner
  • cheboksary — a port in W central Russia on the River Volga: capital of the Chuvash Republic. Pop: 446 000 (2005 est)
  • chemically — a substance produced by or used in a chemical process.
  • chemonasty — the nastic movement of a plant in response to a chemical stimulus
  • chinaberry — a spreading Asian meliaceous tree, Melia azedarach, widely grown in the US for its ornamental white or purple flowers and beadlike yellow fruits
  • chlamydate — (of some molluscs) possessing a mantle
  • chlamydiae — the sexually transmitted diseases that are due to the microorganism Chlamydia trachomatis
  • choanocyte — any of the flagellated cells in sponges that maintain a flow of water through the body. A collar of protoplasm surrounds the base of the flagellum
  • chocolatey — a preparation of the seeds of cacao, roasted, husked, and ground, often sweetened and flavored, as with vanilla.
  • chroma key — an electronic special-effects system for combining a desired background with live foreground action.
  • chromatype — a procedure in photography that uses photographic paper that is made reactive to light by the use of a salt of chromium
  • chrysocale — a copper alloy containing zinc and lead.
  • chylaceous — of or resembling chyle.
  • chyloderma — (medicine) swelling of the scrotum resulting from chronic lymphatic obstruction.
  • city break — a short holiday spent in a city
  • city-state — a state consisting of a sovereign city and its dependencies. Among the most famous are the great independent cities of the ancient world, such as Athens, Sparta, Carthage, Thebes, Corinth, and Rome
  • cityscapes — Plural form of cityscape.
  • civil year — calendar year
  • clapperboy — a boy who operates a clapper
  • clay eater — (in the South Atlantic States) a term used to refer to a poor, uneducated person from a rural area.
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