9-letter words containing c, e, t, y
- cetshwayo — ?1826–84, king of the Zulus (1873–79): defeated the British at Isandhlwana (1879) but was overwhelmed by them at Ulundi (1879); captured, he stated his case in London, and was reinstated as ruler of part of Zululand (1883)
- ceylonite — a dark blue or black form of spinel
- chalybite — siderite (def 1).
- champerty — (formerly) an illegal bargain between a party to litigation and an outsider whereby the latter agrees to pay for the action and thereby share in any proceeds recovered
- cheat day — a day in which a person goes off a dietary regimen: Today’s my cheat day, so I’m eating pizza and ice cream.
- chemistry — Chemistry is the scientific study of the structure of substances and of the way that they react with other substances.
- chemitype — an obsolete chemical process by which a relief impression was obtained from an engraving or etching
- chemitypy — the process of chemitype
- cholecyst — the gallbladder
- citizenly — Pertaining to citizens.
- citizenry — The people living in a country, state, or city can be referred to as the citizenry.
- city code — (in Britain) short for City Code on Takeovers and Mergers: a code laid down in 1968 (later modified) to control takeover bids and mergers
- city desk — the department of a newspaper office dealing with financial and commercial news
- city-bred — reared in a city.
- cityscape — an urban landscape; view of a city
- claystone — a compact very fine-grained rock consisting of consolidated clay particles
- clemently — In a clement manner.
- clericity — the condition of being a clergyman
- clonotype — (taxonomy) A herbarium specimen made from plants vegetatively propagated from (and thus clones of) the same plant from which a type specimen was made.
- clouterly — clumsy
- coenocyte — a mass of protoplasm containing many nuclei and enclosed by a cell wall: occurs in many fungi and some algae
- coevality — The condition of being coeval.
- cognately — In a way that is cognate.
- cold type — typesetting done by a method other than the casting of molten type
- colectomy — surgical removal of part or all of the colon
- collotype — a method of lithographic printing from a flat surface of hardened gelatine: used mainly for fine-detail reproduction in monochrome or colour
- connately — In a connate fashion.
- contently — satisfied with what one is or has; not wanting more or anything else.
- contumely — scornful or insulting language or behaviour
- convexity — the state or quality of being convex
- copayment — a fee paid by a subscriber to a service for the use of additional services not covered by the subscription
- copy-edit — to prepare (copy) for printing by styling, correcting, etc
- copy-text — a manuscript or earlier published version of a text, used as the basis for an emended, scholarly edition
- copyedits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of copyedit.
- copytaker — (esp in a newspaper office) a person employed to type reports as journalists dictate them over the telephone
- copywrite — (rare) To write the copy (or text) of an advertisement; to have a job as a copywriter.
- cordately — In a cordate form.
- core city — central city.
- correctly — to set or make true, accurate, or right; remove the errors or faults from: The native guide corrected our pronunciation. The new glasses corrected his eyesight.
- cortelyou — George Bruce, 1862–1940, U.S. cabinet officer and public utility director.
- costively — In a costive manner.
- costumery — multiple costumes considered collectively
- cotyledon — a simple embryonic leaf in seed-bearing plants, which, in some species, forms the first green leaf after germination
- credulity — Credulity is a willingness to believe that something is real or true.
- crematory — A crematory is the same as a crematorium.
- crotchety — A crotchety person is bad-tempered and easily irritated.
- cryolathe — an instrument for reshaping the cornea to correct severe nearsightedness or farsightedness: the cornea is removed from the eye, rapidly frozen, reshaped, and reinserted.
- cryometer — a thermometer for measuring low temperatures
- cryometry — The measurement of very low temperatures.
- cryophyte — an organism, esp an alga or moss, that grows on snow or ice