10-letter words containing c, e, t, y
- cutesy pie — darling; sweetheart; sweetie (often used as a term of endearment).
- cutesy-poo — embarrassingly or sickeningly cute.
- cyanometer — an instrument used for measuring the blueness of the sky
- cyanophyte — a former name for a cyanobacterium
- cyanotypes — Plural form of cyanotype.
- cybercasts — Plural form of cybercast.
- cybernetic — the study of human control functions and of mechanical and electronic systems designed to replace them, involving the application of statistical mechanics to communication engineering.
- cyberstore — (computing) A website that allows users to browse and then order products or services via the Internet.
- cyclamates — Plural form of cyclamate.
- cycle path — A cycle path is a special path on which people can travel by bicycle separately from motor vehicles.
- cyclometer — a device that records the number of revolutions made by a wheel and hence the distance travelled
- cyclostome — any primitive aquatic jawless vertebrate of the class Cyclostomata, such as the lamprey and hagfish, having a round sucking mouth and pouchlike gills
- cyclostyle — a kind of pen with a small toothed wheel, used for cutting minute holes in a specially prepared stencil. Copies of the design so formed can be printed on a duplicator by forcing ink through the holes
- cyclothyme — a person suffering from cyclothymia
- cylindrite — a mineral made up of cylindrical crystals containing tin, iron, lead, and antimony
- cyma recta — a cyma whose concave part projects beyond the convex part.
- cyphertext — (language) An interactive language for text formatting and typesetting.
- cyrtostyle — a convex portico, as at an entrance.
- cysteamine — a drug used to treat cystine excretion or radiation sickness
- cystectomy — surgical removal of the gall bladder or of part of the urinary bladder
- cysticerci — the larva of certain tapeworms, having the head retracted into a bladderlike structure; a bladder worm.
- cystoceles — Plural form of cystocele.
- cystometer — a device for determining the reaction of the urinary bladder to increased internal pressure.
- cystoscope — a slender tubular medical instrument for examining the interior of the urethra and urinary bladder
- cytarabine — a toxic synthetic nucleoside, C 9 H 13 N 3 O 5 , used as an immunosuppressive and cytotoxic agent in the treatment of certain leukemias.
- cytherea's — Aphrodite: so called because of her birth in the sea near Cythera.
- cytochrome — any of a group of naturally occurring compounds, consisting of iron, a protein, and a porphyrin, that are important in cell oxidation-reduction reactions
- cytologies — the study of the microscopic appearance of cells, especially for the diagnosis of abnormalities and malignancies.
- cytometric — of or relating to cytometry
- day ticket — a ticket that is valid for one day
- decadently — In a decadent manner.
- decastyles — Plural form of decastyle.
- decastylos — a decastyle building, as a classical temple.
- decay time — the time required for a collection of atoms of a particular radionuclide to decay to a fraction of the initial number equal to 1/e, where e = 2.7182818 …, used as the base of natural logarithms.
- decay-rate — the reciprocal of the decay time.
- decrepitly — In a decrepit way.
- decrypting — Present participle of decrypt.
- decryption — to decode or decipher.
- dedicatory — of or as a dedication
- dejectedly — depressed in spirits; disheartened; low-spirited: The dejected expression on the face of the loser spoiled my victory.
- delectably — delightful; highly pleasing; enjoyable: a delectable witticism.
- delicately — fine in texture, quality, construction, etc.: a delicate lace collar.
- detachably — in a detachable fashion
- detachedly — in a detached fashion
- detectably — In a way that can be detected.
- detergency — cleansing power
- detractory — (now rare) That detracts from something; disparaging, depreciatory.
- dictyosome — a Golgi body, esp in a plant cell
- diphyletic — of or relating to a taxonomic group of organisms derived from two separate ancestral lines.
- direct dye — any of a number of dyes that can be applied without the use of a mordant. They are usually azo dyes applied to cotton or rayon from a liquid bath containing an electrolyte such as sodium sulphate