12-letter words containing a, n, c, y
- collinearity — lying in the same straight line.
- commandingly — being in command: a commanding officer.
- commendatory — serving to commend; expressing praise or approval
- commensality — eating together at the same table.
- communicably — capable of being easily communicated or transmitted: communicable information; a communicable disease.
- companionway — A companionway is a staircase or ladder that leads from one deck to another on a ship.
- company time — the regular hours during which employees are expected to work
- company town — a town built by a company for its employees
- compaternity — the relationship between the godparents of a child or between the godparents and the child's parents.
- compensatory — Compensatory payments involve money paid as compensation.
- complacently — pleased, especially with oneself or one's merits, advantages, situation, etc., often without awareness of some potential danger or defect; self-satisfied: The voters are too complacent to change the government.
- concealingly — in a concealing manner
- conceptually — pertaining to concepts or to the forming of concepts.
- conchoidally — In a conchoidal manner.
- conciliatory — When you are conciliatory in your actions or behaviour, you show that you are willing to end a disagreement with someone.
- concomitancy — concomitance.
- concordantly — agreeing; harmonious.
- concubitancy — a custom requiring marriage between two people, esp a custom requiring a woman to marry her husband's brother on her husband's death
- condemnatory — Condemnatory means expressing strong disapproval.
- coney island — an island off the S shore of Long Island, New York: site of a large amusement park
- confirmatory — confirming or tending to confirm
- confiscatory — involving confiscation
- conformality — (mathematics) The condition (of a map) of being conformal.
- congeniality — agreeable, suitable, or pleasing in nature or character: congenial surroundings.
- congenitally — of or relating to a condition present at birth, whether inherited or caused by the environment, especially the uterine environment.
- connaturally — In a connatural manner.
- connubiality — of marriage or wedlock; matrimonial; conjugal: connubial love.
- conscionably — being in conformity with one's conscience; just.
- consecratory — That consecrates.
- consensually — formed or existing merely by consent: a consensual transaction.
- conservatory — A conservatory is a room with glass walls and a glass roof, which is attached to a house. People often grow plants in a conservatory.
- considerably — to a noteworthy or marked extent; much; noticeably; substantially; amply.
- consignatory — a cosignatory
- conspiratory — the act of conspiring.
- constabulary — In Britain and some other countries, a constabulary is the police force of a particular area.
- consultatory — Formed by, or resulting from, consultation; advisory.
- consummately — to bring to a state of perfection; fulfill.
- consummatory — to bring to a state of perfection; fulfill.
- contagiously — capable of being transmitted by bodily contact with an infected person or object: contagious diseases.
- contemporary — Contemporary things are modern and relate to the present time.
- contextually — of, relating to, or depending on the context.
- continuality — of regular or frequent recurrence; often repeated; very frequent: continual bus departures.
- contractedly — in a shortened manner
- contributary — contributory
- controllably — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
- conveyancing — Conveyancing is the process of transferring the legal ownership of property.
- conviviality — friendly; agreeable: a convivial atmosphere.
- conway's law — (project, humour) The rule (presumably formulated by Melvin Conway) that the organisation of software and the organisation of the software team will be congruent; originally stated as "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler".
- coordinately — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
- copy machine — A copy machine is the same as a copier.