9-letter words containing a, c, r, o, y
- acarology — the study of mites and ticks
- accessory — Accessories are items of equipment that are not usually essential, but which can be used with or added to something else in order to make it more efficient, useful, or decorative.
- acrodynia — (pathology) An epidemic disease of the skin characterized by increased sensibility of the soles and palms, with pricking sensations in them and rheumatoid pains in the hands and feet.
- acronymed — a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words and pronounced as a separate word, as Wac from Women's Army Corps, OPEC from Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or loran from long-range navigation.
- acronymic — a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words and pronounced as a separate word, as Wac from Women's Army Corps, OPEC from Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or loran from long-range navigation.
- acropathy — any disease of the extremities.
- acrophony — the use of symbols to represent sounds
- actionary — (business, obsolete) A shareholder in a joint-stock company.
- acyclovir — an antiviral drug used to treat herpes. Formula: C8H11N5O3
- adhocracy — management that responds to urgent problems rather than planning to avoid them
- aeromancy — the interpretation of the weather and atmospheric conditions to foretell the future
- alectryon — any sapindaceous tree of the genus Alectryon of Australasia, Southeast Asia, and Micronesia
- allocarpy — the production of fruit through cross-fertilization
- anachrony — a discrepancy between the order of events in a story and the order in which they are presented in the plot: Anachronies are either flashbacks or flashforwards.
- anacronym — An acronym the original meaning of which is not known to most speakers.
- apocrypha — the 14 books included as an appendix to the Old Testament in the Septuagint and the Vulgate but not included in the Hebrew canon. They are not printed in Protestant versions of the Bible
- archology — the study of the origins of things
- arrogancy — offensive display of superiority or self-importance; overbearing pride.
- astrocyte — any of the star-shaped cells in the tissue supporting the brain and spinal cord (neuroglia)
- athrocyte — a cell that is able to receive and store matter
- auriscopy — (medicine) Examination of the ear using an auriscope.
- autocracy — Autocracy is government or control by one person who has complete power.
- ayckbourn — Sir Alan. born 1939, English dramatist. His plays include Absurd Person Singular (1973), the trilogy The Norman Conquests (1974), A Chorus of Disapproval (1985), House and Garden (2000), and Private Fears in Public Places (2004)
- backronym — an existing word turned into an acronym by creating an apt phrase whose initial letters match the word, as to help remember it or offer a theory of its origin. For example, rap has been said to be a backronym of “rhythm and poetry.”.
- backstory — the events which take place before, and which help to bring about, the events portrayed in a film
- baronetcy — the rank, position, or patent of a baronet
- biopiracy — the use of wild plants by international companies to develop medicines, without recompensing the countries from which they are taken
- boy racer — British journalists sometimes refer to young men who drive very fast, especially in expensive and powerful cars, as boy racers.
- 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)
- cargo bay — the large central area of the space shuttle orbiter's fuselage in which payloads and their support equipment are carried. Also called payload bay. Compare bay2 (def 2a).
- cariosity — (medicine) caries.
- carnivory — the eating of animal flesh
- carnosity — an abnormal fleshy protrusion growing on any part of the body
- carpology — the branch of botany concerned with the study of fruits and seeds
- carry off — If you carry something off, you do it successfully.
- carry out — If you carry out a threat, task, or instruction, you do it or act according to it.
- carry-cot — carrier (sense 5)
- carry-out — food: take-away
- carrycots — Plural form of carrycot.
- carryover — If something is a carryover from an earlier time, it began during an earlier time but still exists or happens now.
- cartology — the theory or science of mapmaking
- cartooney — Misspelling of cartoony.
- caryopses — Plural form of caryopsis.
- caryopsis — a dry seedlike fruit having the pericarp fused to the seed coat of the single seed: produced by the grasses
- cassowary — any large flightless bird of the genus Casuarius, inhabiting forests in NE Australia, New Guinea, and adjacent islands, having a horny head crest, black plumage, and brightly coloured neck and wattles: order Casuariiformes
- cautionry — the position or function of a surety, a person who protects and takes responsibility for another person
- ceromancy — divination by interpreting the significance of shapes formed when melted wax is dropped into water
- charcoaly — resembling charcoal
- cherimoya — a deciduous shrub or small tree, native to the Andean highlands, which produces an oval fruit with cream-coloured flesh
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