10-letter words containing c, e, t, y
- hypocenter — focus (def 5).
- hypocentre — (geology) The focus of an earthquake, directly under the epicentre.
- hypocretin — Either of the peptide hormones orexin.
- hypocrites — Plural form of hypocrite.
- hypometric — Smaller than normally measured.
- hypothecal — (microbiology, planktology) Of or pertaining to the hypotheca, the lower half of the shell of certain types of plankton.
- hypothetic — assumed by hypothesis; supposed: a hypothetical case.
- hysteretic — the lag in response exhibited by a body in reacting to changes in the forces, especially magnetic forces, affecting it. Compare magnetic hysteresis.
- hysterical — of, relating to, or characterized by hysteria.
- hystericky — prone to or characterized by hysteria
- hystricine — Like or pertaining to porcupines.
- iconometry — measurement by an iconometer
- illiteracy — a lack of ability to read and write.
- imbecility — an instance or point of weakness; feebleness; incapability.
- inactively — In an inactive manner.
- inchoately — not yet completed or fully developed; rudimentary.
- incidently — (obsolete) Alternative spelling of incidentally.
- indecently — offending against generally accepted standards of propriety or good taste; improper; vulgar: indecent jokes; indecent language; indecent behavior.
- indirectly — not in a direct course or path; deviating from a straight line; roundabout: an indirect course in sailing.
- infelicity — the quality or state of being unhappy; unhappiness.
- inner city — an older part of a city, densely populated and usually deteriorating, inhabited mainly by poor, often minority, groups.
- innocently — free from moral wrong; without sin; pure: innocent children.
- insecurity — lack of confidence or assurance; self-doubt: He is plagued by insecurity.
- insistency — insistence.
- intendancy — the office or function of an intendant.
- intendency — intendancy (def 3).
- intercycle — Between cycles.
- inveracity — untruthfulness; mendacity.
- inveteracy — the quality or state of being inveterate or deeply ingrained: the inveteracy of people's prejudices.
- iridectomy — excision of part of the iris.
- isocyanate — a salt or ester of isocyanic acid.
- itchy feet — If you have itchy feet, you have a strong desire to leave a place and to travel.
- itinerancy — the act of traveling from place to place.
- jelly coat — an ovum-produced glycoprotein that causes adhesion of sperm to the ovum; fertilizin.
- keltically — Celt.
- kelyphitic — as in kelyphitic rim, a mineral shell enclosing another mineral in an igneous rock
- kerygmatic — the preaching of the gospel of Christ, especially in the manner of the early church.
- lectionary — a book or a list of lections for reading in a divine service.
- legitimacy — the state or quality of being legitimate.
- leiotrichy — the condition of having straight hair
- leucocytes — Plural form of leucocyte.
- leucopathy — (dated) albinism.
- leukocytes — white blood cell.
- leukocytic — Of or pertaining to leukocytes.
- lexicality — of or relating to the words or vocabulary of a language, especially as distinguished from its grammatical and syntactical aspects.
- lienectomy — splenectomy.
- lumpectomy — the surgical removal of a breast cyst or tumor.
- lymphocyte — a type of white blood cell having a large, spherical nucleus surrounded by a thin layer of nongranular cytoplasm.
- lysimetric — of or relating to the measurement of solubility
- macrocytes — Plural form of macrocyte.