8-letter words containing a, n, c, y
- centiday — One one-hundredth (1/100) of one day; that is, 14 minutes and 24 seconds.
- chancery — In Britain, the Chancery or Chancery Division is the Lord Chancellor's court, which is a division of the High Court of Justice.
- chancily — In a chancy manner.
- channery — an accumulation of thin, flat, coarse fragments of sandstone, limestone, or schist with diameters up to 6 inches (15 cm): used in Scotland and Ireland for gravel.
- chanteys — Plural form of chantey.
- charlyne — a female given name, form of Caroline.
- charnley — Sir John. 1911–82, British surgeon noted for his invention of an artificial hip joint and his development of hip-replacement surgery
- chauncey — a masculine name
- chechnya — ethnic region in the N Caucasus, Russia: since 1991 its status as a political subdivision of the Russian Federation has been disputed by the Chechens
- chronaxy — Alternative form of chronaxie.
- cinerary — holding or intended for ashes, especially the ashes of cremated bodies: a cinerary urn.
- cinnamyl — a univalent radical of cinnamic compounds
- clamancy — urgency
- claybank — a dull brownish-orange colour
- clayborn — a male given name.
- claypans — Plural form of claypan.
- clinally — Biology. the gradual change in certain characteristics exhibited by members of a series of adjacent populations of organisms of the same species.
- clonally — (chiefly, botany) By means of asexual reproduction. (from 20th c.).
- coagency — a joint agency
- cockayne — a fabled land of luxury and idleness.
- colonsay — an island in W Scotland, in the Inner Hebrides. Area: about 41 sq km (16 sq miles)
- condylar — Anatomy. the smooth surface area at the end of a bone, forming part of a joint.
- congiary — (in ancient Rome) a gift from the emperor to the people or soldiers
- contrary — Ideas, attitudes, or reactions that are contrary to each other are completely different from each other.
- conveyal — the act or means of conveying
- coronary — Coronary means belonging or relating to the heart.
- corybant — a wild attendant of the goddess Cybele
- cranefly — A cranefly is a harmless flying insect with long legs.
- crankily — In a cranky manner.
- cravenly — In a craven manner.
- crayoned — Simple past tense and past participle of crayon.
- cryobank — a facility for storing living tissue, such as sperm, embryos, cells, etc, at a low temperature
- cryonaut — a person whose dead body has been preserved by the technique of cryonics.
- cryptand — (chemistry) any of a class of polycyclic compounds related to the crown ethers, having three chains attached at two nitrogen atoms.
- culinary — Culinary means concerned with cooking.
- curranty — full of currants
- cyanates — Plural form of cyanate.
- cyaneous — deep blue; cerulean.
- cyanides — Plural form of cyanide.
- cyanidin — (organic compound) A anthocyanidin pigment, 2-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl) chromenylium-3,5,7-triol, found in many red berries.
- cyanines — Plural form of cyanine.
- cyanogen — an extremely poisonous colourless flammable gas with an almond-like odour: has been used in chemical warfare. Formula: (CN)2
- cyanosed — (pathology) Afflicted with cyanosis.
- cyanosis — a bluish-purple discoloration of skin and mucous membranes usually resulting from a deficiency of oxygen in the blood
- cyanotic — blueness or lividness of the skin, as from imperfectly oxygenated blood.
- cyanuret — cyanide
- cyanuric — of or derived from cyanuric acid.
- cyclamen — A cyclamen is a plant with white, pink, or red flowers.
- cyclonal — of or like a cyclone.
- cygnus a — a strong radio source in the constellation Cygnus associated with a distant peculiar galaxy.