9-letter words containing c, a, r, y
- cosplayer — One who takes part in cosplay.
- courtyard — A courtyard is an open area of ground which is surrounded by buildings or walls.
- cranberry — Cranberries are red berries with a sour taste. They are often used to make a sauce or jelly that you eat with meat.
- crane fly — any dipterous fly of the family Tipulidae, having long legs, slender wings, and a narrow body
- cranially — With regard to the cranium.
- cravingly — With longing or craving.
- crawdaddy — crawdad.
- crayoning — Draw with a crayon or crayons.
- crayonist — (dated) An artist who uses crayons.
- crazy top — a disease of cotton, corn, etc., characterized by abnormal branching and small, misshapen leaves in the upper part of the plant, caused by water shortage, organic deficiencies in the soil, or unknown causes.
- crazyweed — locoweed
- crematory — A crematory is the same as a crematorium.
- crossways — crosswise.
- crucially — involving an extremely important decision or result; decisive; critical: a crucial experiment.
- cruiseway — a canal used for recreational purposes
- cry havoc — to give the signal for pillage and destruction
- crybabies — Plural form of crybaby.
- cryobanks — Plural form of cryobank.
- cryocable — a highly conducting electrical cable cooled with a refrigerant such as liquid nitrogen
- cryolathe — an instrument for reshaping the cornea to correct severe nearsightedness or farsightedness: the cornea is removed from the eye, rapidly frozen, reshaped, and reinserted.
- cryostats — Plural form of cryostat.
- cryptadia — a collection of things to be kept hidden
- cryptical — mysterious in meaning; puzzling; ambiguous: a cryptic message.
- cryptogam — (in former plant classification schemes) any organism that does not produce seeds, including algae, fungi, mosses, and ferns
- crystall- — crystallo-
- culpatory — expressing blame
- cupboardy — (rare) Cupboardlike: for example small, fusty or poorly lit.
- curlyhead — a person whose hair is curly.
- customary — Customary is used to describe things that people usually do in a particular society or in particular circumstances.
- custumary — Obsolete form of customary.
- cyanurate — a salt or ester derived from cyanide
- cybercafe — A cybercafé is a café where people can pay to use the Internet.
- cybercash — Funds used in electronic financial transactions, especially over the Internet.
- cybercast — (Internet) A broadcast of audiovisual material over the Internet.
- cyberchat — Chat that takes place on the Internet, as in a chatroom or via instant messages.
- cyberhack — Computers. hack1 (def 22b).
- cybernate — to control (a manufacturing process) with a servomechanism or (of a process) to be controlled by a servomechanism
- cybernaut — a person who is an expert in or uses the internet a lot
- cyberrhea — (humour, jargon) /si:'ber-eer/ An affliction of some word processor users; excessive frequency and looseness of productivity. Particularly virulent among those who have not discovered the fortifying virtues of revision.
- cyberwand — (hardware, virtual reality) A virtual reality controller. The CyberWand costs $99, or $765 with optional Polhemus sensor. It is basically the handle of a flight control system without the base. The controller's four buttons and 2-D hat sensor track six degrees of movement.
- cybrarian — a person responsible for archives and information available on the internet
- cyclorama — a large picture, such as a battle scene, on the interior wall of a cylindrical room, designed to appear in natural perspective to a spectator in the centre
- cymograph — an instrument for tracing the outline of an architectural moulding
- cyrenaica — a region and former province (1951–63) of E Libya: largely desert; settled by the Greeks in about 630 bc; ruled successively by the Egyptians, Romans, Arabs, Turks, and Italians. Area: 855 370 sq km (330 258 sq miles)
- cystocarp — a reproductive body in red algae, developed after fertilization and consisting of filaments bearing carpospores
- cystogram — A diagnostic image produced by cystography.
- cytherean — of or relating to Cytherea.
- cytosmear — (cytology) A sample of cells, in the form of a smear on a microscope slide, that has been stained ready for diagnostic examination.
- dairy cow — a cow which is used to produce milk
- daycentre — a building used for daycare or other welfare services