9-letter words containing a, c, e, y
- bit decay — bit rot
- bivalency — Chemistry. having a valence of two. having two valences, as aluminum with valences of two and three.
- black eye — If someone has a black eye, they have a dark-coloured bruise around their eye.
- bleachery — a place where bleaching is carried out
- boy racer — British journalists sometimes refer to young men who drive very fast, especially in expensive and powerful cars, as boy racers.
- branchery — a group or system of branches
- by chance — Something that happens by chance was not planned by anyone.
- c battery — the power source for biasing the control-grid electrodes of electron tubes in battery-operated equipment
- cabinetry — cabinets collectively
- cableways — Plural form of cableway.
- cageyness — the quality of being cagey
- calcedony — Alt form chalcedony.
- calotypes — Plural form of calotype.
- canyoneer — a person who explores canyons
- cape york — the northernmost point of the Australian mainland, in N Queensland on the Torres Strait at the tip of Cape York Peninsula (a peninsula between the Coral Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria)
- caprylate — a salt of caprylic acid
- captively — In a captive manner.
- car-ferry — a vessel for transporting vehicles, in addition to passengers, across a body of water, esp as a regular service
- carefully — cautious in one's actions: Be careful when you cross the street.
- carpentry — Carpentry is the activity of making and repairing wooden things.
- carryable — to take or support from one place to another; convey; transport: He carried her for a mile in his arms. This elevator cannot carry more than ten people.
- carryover — If something is a carryover from an earlier time, it began during an earlier time but still exists or happens now.
- carrytale — a gossipmonger
- cartooney — Misspelling of cartoony.
- caryopses — Plural form of caryopsis.
- cat's-eye — any of a group of gemstones, esp a greenish-yellow variety of chrysoberyl, that reflect a streak of light when cut in a rounded unfaceted shape
- catalepsy — a state of prolonged rigid posture, occurring for example in schizophrenia or in hypnotic trances
- catalysed — to act upon by catalysis.
- catalyser — Alternative form of catalyzer.
- catalyses — Chemistry. the causing or accelerating of a chemical change by the addition of a catalyst.
- catalyzed — to act upon by catalysis.
- catalyzer — That which catalyzes.
- catalyzes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of catalyze.
- cataplexy — sudden temporary paralysis, brought on by severe shock
- cattleyas — Plural form of cattleya.
- causeways — Plural form of causeway.
- cd player — A CD player is a machine on which you can play CDs.
- cellarway — the entrance leading into a cellar
- centenary — The centenary of an event such as someone's birth is the 100th anniversary of that event.
- centrally — of or forming the center: the central hut in the village.
- ceromancy — divination by interpreting the significance of shapes formed when melted wax is dropped into water
- certainly — You use certainly to emphasize what you are saying when you are making a statement.
- certainty — Certainty is the state of being definite or of having no doubts at all about something.
- cetshwayo — ?1826–84, king of the Zulus (1873–79): defeated the British at Isandhlwana (1879) but was overwhelmed by them at Ulundi (1879); captured, he stated his case in London, and was reinstated as ruler of part of Zululand (1883)
- chalybean — of or relating to the Chalybes, an ancient tribe of central Asia noted for their skill with iron and steel
- chalybite — siderite (def 1).
- chamberys — a city in and the capital of Savoie, in SE France.
- champerty — (formerly) an illegal bargain between a party to litigation and an outsider whereby the latter agrees to pay for the action and thereby share in any proceeds recovered
- chandlery — the business, warehouse, or merchandise of a chandler
- chayefsky — Paddy [pad-ee] /ˈpæd i/ (Show IPA), 1923–1981, U.S. playwright and director.