11-letter words containing a, n, c, y
- continually — very often; at regular or frequent intervals; habitually.
- contraparty — the other person or institution entering into a financial contract or transaction: the default of a counterparty.
- contrariety — opposition between one thing and another; disagreement
- contrary to — If you say that something is true contrary to other people's beliefs or opinions, you are emphasizing that it is true and that they are wrong.
- contrayerva — the root of any of several tropical American moraceous plants of the genus Dorstenia, esp D. contrayerva, used as a stimulant and tonic
- contumacity — the quality of being contumacious
- conversancy — The condition of being conversant.
- conveyanced — Simple past tense and past participle of conveyance.
- conveyancer — a person engaged in conveyancing.
- conveyances — Plural form of conveyance.
- convivially — friendly; agreeable: a convivial atmosphere.
- coparcenary — a form of joint ownership of property, esp joint heirship
- coplanarity — being or operating in the same plane.
- copycatting — a person or thing that copies, imitates, mimics, or follows the lead of another, as a child who says or does exactly the same as another child.
- cordwainery — Shoemaking.
- corybantism — a delirium characterized by vivid frightening hallucinations and causing insomnia
- cosignatory — a person, country, etc, that signs a document jointly with others
- cotton yarn — cotton thread which is woven into fabric
- counterplay — a positive or aggressive action by the defending side, esp in chess
- countrymade — (in India) Describing a weapon manufactured illegally in a cottage industry.
- countryseat — a house or estate in the country
- county fair — a competitive exhibition of farm products, livestock, etc., often held annually in the same place in the county.
- county farm — a farm maintained for the poor by a county.
- county seat — A county seat is the same as a county town.
- cracklingly — With a crackling sound.
- craftsmanly — Befitting a craftsman.
- craniectomy — the surgical removal of a part of the skull to facilitate brain surgery, the bone then being discarded rather than replaced
- craniognomy — the scientific study of the shape and characteristics of the skull
- craniometry — the study and measurement of skulls
- cranioscopy — the study of the features of the human skull
- creationary — Of or relating to creation.
- criminality — the state or quality of being criminal
- criminatory — Relating to, or involving, crimination; accusing.
- crithomancy — a form of divination in which grain or meal used in a sacrifice is analysed
- crown daisy — a garden plant, Chrysanthemum coronarium, of the composite family, native to southern Europe, having numerous yellowish-white flower heads.
- cryptomonad — any of various protozoalike algae of the phylum Cryptophyta usually having two flagella, common in both marine and freshwater environments where they appear along the shore as algal blooms, some also occurring as intestinal parasites.
- crystalline — A crystalline substance is in the form of crystals or contains crystals.
- cut-and-try — marked by a procedure of trial and error; empirical: Many scientific advances are achieved with a cut-and-try approach.
- cutaneously — In a cutaneous way.
- cyanic acid — colourless poisonous volatile liquid acid
- cyanidation — (metallurgy) The extraction of gold or silver from their ores using the cyanide process.
- cyano group — the univalent group CN; cyanogen.
- cyanohydrin — any of a class of organic compounds containing a cyanide group and a hydroxyl group bound to the same carbon atom
- cybernation — the use of computers to control and carry out operations, as in manufacturing
- cyclazocine — an opiate antagonist used to inhibit the effects of morphine or heroin
- cyclization — the process by which the atoms of a compound become a closed ring
- cycloalkane — any saturated hydrocarbon similar to an alkane but having a cyclic molecular structure and the general formula CnH2n
- cycloalkene — (organic chemistry) Any unsaturated alicyclic hydrocarbon.
- cyclobutane — (uncountable, organic compound) A simple alicyclic hydrocarbon, C4H8; a light inflammable gas.
- cyclohexane — a colourless insoluble flammable liquid cycloalkane with a pungent odour, made by hydrogenation of benzene and used as a paint remover and solvent. Formula: C6H12