10-letter words containing c, e, t, y
- dirty rice — a Cajun dish of rice cooked with herbs and often chicken livers.
- discectomy — Surgical removal of the whole or a part of an intervertebral disc.
- discreetly — judicious in one's conduct or speech, especially with regard to respecting privacy or maintaining silence about something of a delicate nature; prudent; circumspect.
- discretely — apart or detached from others; separate; distinct: six discrete parts.
- dodge city — a city in SW Kansas, on the Arkansas River: important frontier town and railhead on the old Santa Fe route.
- dry socket — a painful inflammatory infection of the bone and tissues at the site of an extracted tooth.
- dusty deck — Old software (especially applications) which one is obliged to remain compatible with, or to maintain. DP types call this "legacy code", a term hackers consider smarmy and excessively reverent. The term implies that the software in question is a holdover from card-punch days. Used especially when referring to old scientific and number crunching software, much of which was written in Fortran and very poorly documented but is believed to be too expensive to replace. See fossil; compare crawling horror.
- dyscrasite — an alloy of antimony and silver
- dysenteric — Of, relating, or pertaining to dysentery.
- dysgenetic — (genetics) Of, pertaining to, or causing dysgenesis.
- dyskinetic — difficulty or abnormality in performing voluntary muscular movements.
- ecchymotic — a discoloration due to extravasation of blood, as in a bruise.
- ecdysiasts — Plural form of ecdysiast.
- econometry — Econometrics.
- ecosystems — a system, or a group of interconnected elements, formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their environment.
- ectoenzyme — exoenzyme.
- ectomorphy — having a thin body build, roughly characterized by the relative prominence of structures developed from the embryonic ectoderm (contrasted with endomorphic, mesomorphic).
- ectophytes — Plural form of ectophyte.
- ectothermy — (biology) The condition of being ectothermic or warm-blooded; the ability to maintain the body's temperature.
- efficacity — efficacy.
- elasticity — The ability of an object or material to resume its normal shape after being stretched or compressed; stretchiness.
- electively — In an elective manner; by choice.
- emetically — As an emetic; so as to induce vomiting.
- encrypters — Plural form of encrypter.
- encrypting — Present participle of encrypt.
- encryption — (cryptography) The process of obscuring information to make it unreadable without special knowledge, key files, and/or passwords. May also apply to electronic signal, hard drive, message, document...
- encystment — The formation of a cyst.
- endemicity — The quality of being endemic.
- endocytose — (cytology) Of a cell, to ingest material by folding the plasma membrane inwards around it.
- endophytic — Of or relating to an endophyte.
- enhydritic — pertaining to enhydrite
- enphytotic — (of plant diseases) causing a constant amount of damage each year
- enterocyte — A cell of the intestinal lining.
- enthymemic — Of or pertaining to enthymeme.
- enticingly — In an enticing manner.
- entophytic — relating to an entophyte
- erectility — The quality or state of being erectile.
- ergodicity — (uncountable) The condition of being ergodic.
- erotically — In an erotic manner.
- erythraric — Tartaric.
- erythritic — relating to erythrite
- erythrocin — (medicine) synonym of erythromycin.
- escalatory — tending to escalate
- escatology — Alternative spelling of eschatology.
- essayistic — resembling or relating to an essay
- ethicality — The state, quality, or manner of being ethical.
- ethnically — Of, pertaining to ethnicity or ethnics.
- eucalyptol — a colourless oily liquid with a camphor-like odour and a spicy taste; it is obtained from eucalyptus oil and used in perfumery and as a flavouring. Formula: C10H18O
- eucalyptus — A fast-growing evergreen Australasian tree that has been widely introduced elsewhere . It is valued for its timber, oil, gum, and resin, and as an ornamental tree.
- eucaryotic — Alternative spelling of eukaryotic.