10-letter words containing c, a, r, y
- churchyard — A churchyard is an area of land around a church where dead people are buried.
- chyloderma — (medicine) swelling of the scrotum resulting from chronic lymphatic obstruction.
- circularly — In a circular way.
- city break — a short holiday spent in a city
- civil year — calendar year
- clapperboy — a boy who operates a clapper
- clarifying — to make (an idea, statement, etc.) clear or intelligible; to free from ambiguity.
- clay court — a tennis court with a playing surface topped by a layer of crushed shale, brick, or stone
- clay eater — (in the South Atlantic States) a term used to refer to a poor, uneducated person from a rural area.
- clay flour — dried and pulverized clay.
- clear away — When you clear things away or clear away, you put away the things that you have been using, especially for eating or cooking.
- clear-eyed — discerning; perceptive
- clearstory — clerestory
- clepsydras — Plural form of clepsydra.
- clerically — In a clerical manner; as a cleric.
- cleromancy — a divination involving dice-throwing or lot-casting
- cloth yard — a medieval unit of measure for cloth, fixed at 37 inches by Edward VI of England: also used as a length for longbow arrows
- commandery — a manor under the charge of a commander of a religious military order of knights
- commentary — A commentary is a description of an event that is broadcast on radio or television while the event is taking place.
- commissary — A commissary is a shop that provides food and equipment in a place such as a military camp or a prison.
- commorancy — a dwelling in a place; usual or temporary residence in a place.
- comparably — capable of being compared; having features in common with something else to permit or suggest comparison: He considered the Roman and British empires to be comparable.
- conciliary — conciliar
- condylarth — any of the primitive ungulate mammals of the extinct order Condylarthra, from the Paleocene and Eocene epochs, having a slender body, low-crowned teeth, and five-toed feet, each toe ending in a small hoof.
- consectary — a consequence or conclusion
- conspiracy — Conspiracy is the secret planning by a group of people to do something illegal.
- contrarily — in a perverse or obstinate manner
- copartnery — copartnership
- coprophagy — feeding on dung, as certain beetles.
- copulatory — to engage in sexual intercourse.
- copy paper — paper specially prepared for the writing of advertising copy, newspaper copy, etc., usually having guidelines to indicate margins and the number of spaces per line.
- copyreader — a person who edits and prepares newspaper copy for publication; subeditor
- coral lily — a bulbous herb, Lilium pumilum, of eastern Asia, having scarlet flowers with recurved petals.
- coralberry — a small shrub, Symphoricarpos orbiculatus, that is native to North America and is cultivated for its berries
- cordiality — warmth of feeling
- cornbrandy — any of various alcoholic spirits made from grain, esp whisky
- corpocracy — a corporate bureaucracy.
- corporally — of the human body; bodily; physical: corporal suffering.
- cortically — Anatomy. of, pertaining to, resembling, or consisting of cortex.
- corybantic — frenzied; agitated; unrestrained.
- corydaline — an alkaloid, C22H27NO4, that is found in the roots of certain plants of the genus Corydalis
- coryphaeus — (in ancient Greek drama) the leader of the chorus
- cosmic ray — a radiation of high penetrating power that originates in outer space and consists partly of high-energy atomic nuclei.
- cosmolatry — the worship of the cosmos
- cotylosaur — any of various members of the extinct order of primitive and massive reptiles known as Cotylosauria, which lived between the Carboniferous and Triassic ages
- countryman — Your countrymen are people from your own country.
- courantyne — a river in N South America, rising in S Guyana and flowing north to the Atlantic, forming the boundary between Guyana and Surinam. Length: 765 km (475 miles)
- courtyards — Plural form of courtyard.
- crab's eye — rosary pea.
- crack baby — an infant, typically born prematurely, with a condition caused by the excessive consumption of crack cocaine by the mother during pregnancy and characterized by malformations and learning disabilities