11-letter words containing c, e, t, y
- bellicosity — inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious.
- benactyzine — a crystalline drug, C20H25NO3, used to make tranquilizers
- benedictory — of, giving, or expressing benediction.
- benefactory — relating to a benefactor; beneficial
- bicentenary — A bicentenary is a year in which you celebrate something important that happened exactly two hundred years earlier.
- biconvexity — the characteristic of having two convex surfaces
- big society — the devolution of political power and social responsibility to local communities as opposed to centralized political power and state control
- bisymmetric — showing symmetry in two planes at right angles to each other
- blastochyle — the fluid in a blastocoel
- bradypeptic — a person with slow digestion
- butyraceous — of, containing, or resembling butter
- by my certy — assuredly
- by the neck — (of a bottle of beer) served unpoured
- by-election — A by-election is an election that is held to choose a new member of parliament when a member has resigned or died.
- c1 security — Orange Book
- c2 security — Orange Book
- caecotrophy — (biology) In certain mammals, especially rabbits and other lagomorphs, the consumption of food pellets which are naturally produced by means of digestion, retention in the caecum, and expulsion through the anus.
- calefactory — giving warmth
- calorimetry — measurement of the quantity of heat
- calyptrogen — a layer of rapidly dividing cells at the tip of a plant root, from which the root cap is formed. It occurs in grasses and many other plants
- candy store — a shop solely or largely selling confectionery
- carbonylate — to introduce the carbonyl group into (a compound) through chemical reaction
- carboxylate — any salt or ester of a carboxylic acid having a formula of the type M(RCOO)x, where M is a metal and R an organic group, or R1COOR2, where R1 and R2 are organic groups
- cardiectomy — excision of the heart.
- carry trade — a speculative transaction in which a trader buys the currency of a country with a high rate of interest and sells the currency of a country with a low rate of interest
- caryopteris — any of various shrubs with small blue or white flowers of the genus Caryopteris, all found in S and E Asia
- case system — a system followed by some languages, in which a set of grammatical categories, sometimes marked by inflection, indicates the relation of the noun, adjective, or pronoun to other words in the sentence
- cathode ray — a flow of electrons emanating from a cathode in a vacuum tube and focused into a narrow beam.
- causatively — acting as a cause; producing (often followed by of): a causative agency; an event causative of war.
- celebratory — A celebratory meal, drink, or other activity takes place to celebrate something such as a birthday, anniversary, or victory.
- celery salt — a seasoning made of salt and ground celery seed
- celestially — pertaining to the sky or visible heaven, or to the universe beyond the earth’s atmosphere, as in celestial body.
- cell theory — a basic tenet of modern biology, first stated by Matthias Schleiden and Theodor Schwann in 1838–39, that cells are the basic units of structure and function in living organisms.
- cellularity — pertaining to or characterized by cellules or cells, especially minute compartments or cavities.
- cementatory — possessing the quality to firmly unite or cement
- cephalotomy — the dissection of the head
- cerargyrite — a soft mineral, AgCl, that is an ore of silver; silver chloride
- certifiably — capable of being certified.
- chamaephyte — a plant whose buds are close to the ground
- charityware — careware
- chateauguay — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, on the St. Lawrence.
- cherrystone — a small or not fully-grown edible clam of the genus Mercenaria, found in the waters off the Atlantic coast of North America
- chieftaincy — the chief of a clan or a tribe.
- chieftainry — the area governed by a chieftain
- chimney pot — A chimney pot is a short pipe which is fixed on top of a chimney.
- chlorimetry — the methods and procedures used to determine the amount of chlorine present in a preparation
- chlorophyte — A lower plant of the division Chlorophyta, which comprises the green algae.
- choanocytes — Plural form of choanocyte.
- cholecystic — gallbladder.
- chondrocyte — A cell that makes up the tissue of cartilage.