11-letter words containing a, c, y
- caddy spoon — a small spoon used in taking tea from a storage caddy.
- caecotrophy — (biology) In certain mammals, especially rabbits and other lagomorphs, the consumption of food pellets which are naturally produced by means of digestion, retention in the caecum, and expulsion through the anus.
- cafe royale — black coffee, to which cognac, lemon peel, sugar, and sometimes cinnamon have been added.
- calcinatory — A vessel used in calcination.
- calculatory — the act or process of calculating; computation.
- calefactory — giving warmth
- call-in pay — payment made to employees who report for work and find there is no work for them to do.
- calligraphy — Calligraphy is the art of producing beautiful handwriting using a brush or a special pen.
- callipygian — having beautifully shaped buttocks
- callipygous — having well-shaped buttocks.
- calorically — in a caloric manner
- calorimetry — measurement of the quantity of heat
- calycanthus — any of several shrubs of the genus Calycanthus, found in North America
- calypsonian — a performer or writer of calypsos
- calyptrogen — a layer of rapidly dividing cells at the tip of a plant root, from which the root cap is formed. It occurs in grasses and many other plants
- campanology — the art or skill of ringing bells musically
- canada lily — a lily, Lilium canadense, of NE North America, with small orange funnel-shaped nodding flowers
- canada lynx — a North American lynx (Lynx lynx canadensis) with tufted ears and a stubby tail
- canary seed — birdseed.
- cancelbunny — Cancelpoodle
- cancerously — In a cancerous manner; like a cancer; malignant; spreading.
- candleberry — bayberry (sense 1)
- candy apple — A candy apple is an apple coated with hard, red sugar syrup and fixed on a stick.
- candy floss — cotton candy.
- candy store — a shop solely or largely selling confectionery
- candy-assed — timid or cowardly; sissified.
- canonically — pertaining to, established by, or conforming to a canon or canons.
- canyon wind — a nocturnal, down-canyon flow of air caused by the cooling of the canyon walls. Compare valley wind.
- capaciously — In a capacious manner.
- cape colony — the name from 1652 until 1910 of the former Cape Province of South Africa
- capillarity — a phenomenon caused by surface tension and resulting in the distortion, elevation, or depression of the surface of a liquid in contact with a solid
- capsulotomy — (surgery) incision into a capsule, especially into the lens of the eye when removing cataracts.
- car journey — a trip or voyage made by automobile
- caravansary — in the Near and Middle East, a kind of inn with a large central court, where caravans stop for the night
- carbocyclic — (of a chemical compound) containing a closed ring of carbon atoms
- carbon copy — If you say that one person or thing is a carbon copy of another, you mean that they look or behave exactly like them.
- carbon-copy — a duplicate of anything written or typed, made by using a photocopier or, formerly, by using carbon paper. Abbreviation: cc. a copy of an email or other electronic document that is sent to one or more people in addition to the primary addressee. Abbreviation: cc.
- carbonylate — to introduce the carbonyl group into (a compound) through chemical reaction
- carboxylase — any enzyme that catalyses the release of carbon dioxide from certain acids
- carboxylate — any salt or ester of a carboxylic acid having a formula of the type M(RCOO)x, where M is a metal and R an organic group, or R1COOR2, where R1 and R2 are organic groups
- carbylamine — any of a group of organic cyanides containing the radical NC
- carcinology — the study of crustaceans
- cardiectomy — excision of the heart.
- cardinality — the property of possessing a cardinal number
- cardiodynia — pain in the heart region.
- cardiopathy — a heart disease or disorder
- caressingly — In a caressing manner; soothingly.
- caressively — caressingly
- carousingly — in a carousing manner
- carriageway — A carriageway is one side of a road on which traffic travelling in opposite directions is separated by a barrier.