9-letter words containing a, c, y
- chipewyan — a member of a North American Indian people of NW Canada
- chippeway — Chippewa.
- chirality — the configuration or handedness (left or right) of an asymmetric, optically active chemical compound
- chirimoya — cherimoya.
- chishtiya — a Sufi order of the Indian subcontinent.
- chiyogami — a type of highly decorated, colourful craft paper used for origami
- chlamydes — Plural form of chlamys.
- chlamydia — Chlamydia is a sexually-transmitted disease.
- chocolaty — a preparation of the seeds of cacao, roasted, husked, and ground, often sweetened and flavored, as with vanilla.
- chomskyan — of or relating to Noam Chomsky or his linguistic theories, especially to transformational-generative grammar.
- chromakey — (in colour television) a special effect in which a coloured background can be eliminated and a different background substituted
- chrysalid — of or relating to a chrysalis
- chrysalis — A chrysalis is a butterfly or moth in the stage between being a larva and an adult.
- churchway — a road that leads to a church
- cinnamony — reminiscent of cinnamon
- circulary — (obsolete) circular; illogical.
- city hall — The city hall is the building which a city council uses as its main offices.
- city plan — the developmental plan for a city or town arrived at through the process of city planning.
- cityscape — an urban landscape; view of a city
- civically — of or relating to a city; municipal: civic problems.
- civil day — day (def 3c).
- clamantly — urgently
- class day — a day during the commencement season on which the members of the graduating class in U.S. colleges and schools celebrate the completion of their course with special ceremonies.
- clay pipe — a pipe whose bowl is made of fired clay
- clay road — an unsealed and unmetalled road in a rural area
- claymores — Plural form of claymore.
- claystone — a compact very fine-grained rock consisting of consolidated clay particles
- claytonia — any low-growing North American succulent portulacaceous plant of the genus Claytonia
- clear-eye — the clary, Salvia sclarea.
- cleareyed — having clear eyes or vision
- clearways — Plural form of clearway.
- clepsydra — an ancient device for measuring time by the flow of water or mercury through a small aperture
- clergyman — A clergyman is a male member of the clergy.
- climatory — Having to do with climate.
- clonality — The fact or condition of being genetically identical, as to a parent, sibling, or other biological source.
- clothyard — (historical) An old unit of measure for cloth, 36 or 37 inches.
- clydebank — a town in W Scotland, in West Dunbartonshire on the north bank of the River Clyde. Pop: 29 858 (2001)
- coastally — In a coastal manner.
- coaxially — in a coaxial manner
- coaxingly — to attempt to influence by gentle persuasion, flattery, etc.; cajole: He coaxed her to sing, but she refused.
- coccygeal — a small triangular bone forming the lower extremity of the spinal column in humans, consisting of four ankylosed rudimentary vertebrae.
- coccygian — of or relating to the coccyx
- cockamamy — ridiculous, pointless, or nonsensical: full of wild schemes and cockamamie ideas.
- coequally — In a coequal manner.
- coevality — The condition of being coeval.
- cognately — In a way that is cognate.
- colorably — in a colourable manner
- colorways — Plural form of colorway.
- colourway — one of several different combinations of colours in which a given pattern is printed on fabrics, wallpapers, etc
- columbary — a dovecote