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

  • evocatory — evocative
  • excitancy — the ability to excite or stimulate
  • excusably — In an excusable manner or to an excusable degree.
  • execrably — In an execrable way.
  • 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 candy — sb, sth attractive
  • eye chart — a chart used to test vision from a specified distance: it consists typically of rows of letters of decreasing size
  • eye cream — a cream used round the eyes
  • eye patch — covering for one eye
  • faineancy — Synonym of faineance.
  • fire clay — a refractory clay used for making crucibles, firebricks, etc.
  • forecaddy — caddy who goes ahead of the golfer to point out the ball's location
  • furcately — in a furcate manner
  • generalcy — the office or tenure of a general.
  • genically — by a genic process
  • gigacycle — one billion cycles. Abbreviation: Gc.
  • glace bay — a town in E Nova Scotia, in SE Canada, on E Cape Breton Island on the Atlantic Ocean.
  • glycaemia — the presence of glucose in the blood.
  • glycaemic — Alternative spelling of glycemic.
  • glycolate — a salt or ester of glycolic acid.
  • gray code — (hardware)   A binary sequence with the property that only one bit changes between any two consecutive elements (the two codes have a Hamming distance of one). The Gray code originated when digital logic circuits were built from vacuum tubes and electromechanical relays. Counters generated tremendous power demands and noise spikes when many bits changed at once. E.g. when incrementing a register containing 11111111, the back-EMF from the relays' collapsing magnetic fields required copious noise suppression. Using Gray code counters, any increment or decrement changed only one bit, regardless of the size of the number. Gray code can also be used to convert the angular position of a disk to digital form. A radial line of sensors reads the code off the surface of the disk and if the disk is half-way between two positions each sensor might read its bit from both positions at once but since only one bit differs between the two, the value read is guaranteed to be one of the two valid values rather than some third (invalid) combination (a glitch). One possible algorithm for generating a Gray code sequence is to toggle the lowest numbered bit that results in a new code each time. Here is a four bit Gray code sequence generated in this way: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 The codes were patented in 1953 by Frank Gray, a Bell Labs researcher.
  • grayscale — a scale of achromatic colors having several, usually ten, equal gradations ranging from white to black, used in television and photography.
  • graywacke — Geology. a dark-gray coarse-grained wacke.
  • greyscale — Alternative spelling of grayscale.
  • greywacke — Geology. a dark-gray coarse-grained wacke.
  • gynaeceum — (among the ancient Greeks) the part of a dwelling used by women.
  • gynaecoid — Characteristic of a woman.
  • hackberry — any of several trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Celtis, of the elm family, bearing cherrylike fruit.
  • hackneyed — let out, employed, or done for hire.
  • 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.
  • helically — pertaining to or having the form of a helix; spiral.
  • heptarchy — (often initial capital letter) the seven principal concurrent Anglo-Saxon kingdoms supposed to have existed in the 7th and 8th centuries.
  • hercogamy — (of flowers) the prevention of self-fertilization
  • hercynian — denoting a period of mountain building in Europe in the late Palaeozoic
  • 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.
  • hierarchy — any system of persons or things ranked one above another.
  • honeycake — A cake made with honey, especially as a Rosh Hashanah tradition.
  • hyperacid — Highly acidic.
  • hypercard — A software package by Bill Atkinson for storage and retrieval of information on the Macintosh. It can handle images and is designed for browsing. The powerful customisable interactive user interface allows new applications to be easily constructed by manipulating objects on the screen, often without conventional programming, though the language HyperTalk can be used for more complex tasks.
  • 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
  • iechyd da — a drinking toast; good health; cheers
  • imbracery — embracery.
  • immanency — remaining within; indwelling; inherent.
  • immediacy — the state, condition, or quality of being immediate.
  • inerrancy — lack of error; infallibility.
  • inexactly — In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately.
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