8-letter words containing c, e, t, y
- felicity — the state of being happy, especially in a high degree; bliss: marital felicity.
- feracity — (obsolete) The state of being feracious, or fruitful.
- ferocity — a ferocious quality or state; savage fierceness.
- gonocyte — an oocyte or spermatocyte
- hatchery — a place for hatching eggs of hens, fish, etc., especially a large, commercial or government site where the young are hatched, cared for, and sold or distributed.
- hatchety — resembling a hatchet
- hecticly — characterized by intense agitation, excitement, confused and rapid movement, etc.: The week before the trip was hectic and exhausting.
- hectorly — in the manner of a hector
- helicity — Helical character, especially of DNA.
- hemocyte — a blood cell.
- hypothec — Roman and Civil Law. a mortgage or security held by a creditor on the property of a debtor without possession of it, created either by agreement or by operation of law.
- hysteric — Usually, hysterics. a fit of uncontrollable laughter or weeping; hysteria.
- ice tray — container for freezing water into cubes
- kentucky — a state in the E central United States. 40,395 sq. mi. (104,625 sq. km). Capital: Frankfort. Abbreviation: KY (for use with zip code), Ken., Ky.
- latchkey — a key for releasing a latch or springlock, especially on an outer door.
- lecythis — any very tall tree of the genus Lecythis
- lecythus — (in ancient Greece) a vase with a narrow neck
- lipocyte — fat cell.
- literacy — the quality or state of being literate, especially the ability to read and write.
- lychgate — A roofed gateway to a churchyard, formerly used during burials for sheltering a coffin until the clergyman’s arrival.
- mcintyre — James Francis Aloysius, 1886–1979, U.S. Roman Catholic clergyman: cardinal from 1953; archbishop of Los Angeles 1948–70.
- megacity — a city having a population of one million or more.
- meiocyte — a cell that divides by meiosis to produce four haploid spores (meiospores)
- methylic — of, relating to, or characteristic of the methyl group.
- monocyte — a large, circulating white blood cell, formed in bone marrow and in the spleen, that ingests large foreign particles and cell debris.
- mycetism — poisoning due to mushrooms.
- mycetoma — a chronic tumorous infection caused by any of various soil-dwelling fungi, usually affecting the foot.
- myocytes — Plural form of myocyte.
- myxocyte — one of the stellate or polyhedral cells in mucous tissue
- new city — a city in SE New York.
- nocently — in a nocent manner; harmfully
- onychite — a type of marble stone
- oomycete — any of various algaelike fungi constituting the phylum Oomycota of the kingdom Fungi (or the class Oomycetes of the kingdom Plantae), characterized by the formation of oospores.
- patchery — the act of hurriedly patching something together
- petchary — a grey kingbird, Tyrannus dominicensis
- phyletic — of, relating to, or based on the evolutionary history of a group of organisms; phylogenetic.
- racketry — noise and commotion
- recently — of late occurrence, appearance, or origin; lately happening, done, made, etc.: recent events; a recent trip.
- rectally — of, relating to, or for the rectum.
- retiracy — retirement
- rocketry — the science of rocket design, development, and flight.
- scattery — characterized by scattering or dispersion
- scyphate — being in the shape of a cup; cup-shaped.
- secretly — done, made, or conducted without the knowledge of others: secret negotiations.
- security — freedom from danger, risk, etc.; safety.
- stickley — Gustav [guhs-tahv,, goo s-tahf] /ˈgʌs tɑv,, ˈgʊs tɑf/ (Show IPA), 1858–1942, U.S. furniture designer, architect, and leader of the Arts and Craft Movement in America.
- strachey — (Giles) Lytton [jahylz lit-n] /dʒaɪlz ˈlɪt n/ (Show IPA), 1880–1932, English biographer and literary critic.
- stretchy — having a tendency to stretch, especially excessively or unduly.
- symantec — (company) Software manufacturer of utility and development applications for Windows and Macintosh platforms. Products include ACT!, Norton Utilities, Norton AntiVirus, Symantec AntiVirus for Macintosh, Symantec Cafe.
- syndetic — serving to unite or connect; connective; copulative.