9-letter words containing c, e, t, y
- hercynite — a black oxide mineral, FeAl 2 O 4 , of the spinel group.
- heroicity — suitable to the character of a hero in size or concept; daring; noble: a heroic ambition.
- hesitancy — hesitation; indecision or disinclination.
- hesychast — one of a sect of mystics that originated in the 14th century among the monks on Mt. Athos, Greece.
- huckstery — the business of a huckster
- hypocrite — a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, especially one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie his or her public statements.
- hypotheca — (microbiology, planktology) The lower or posterior half of the theca of a thecate protist such as a diatom or dinoflagellate.
- hysterics — Usually, hysterics. a fit of uncontrollable laughter or weeping; hysteria.
- ice yacht — a sailing craft having a cross-shaped frame with a cockpit and runners for travelling over ice
- impotency — the condition or quality of being impotent; weakness.
- inexactly — In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately.
- insectary — a laboratory for the study of live insects, their life histories, effects on plants, reaction to insecticides, etc.
- intercity — a large or important town.
- intestacy — the state or fact of being intestate at death.
- iridocyte — a guanine-containing cell in the skin of fish and some cephalopods, giving these animals their iridescence
- karyocyte — (cytology) Any cell that has a nucleus.
- ketolytic — the breaking down of ketones.
- lace stay — that part of an Oxford shoe into which eyelets and laces are inserted.
- lactylate — (organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of a lactylic acid.
- latchkeys — Plural form of latchkey.
- lectotype — a specimen designated as the type of a species or subspecies when no holotype was designated by the original author of the name.
- leucocyte — leukocyte.
- leucotomy — prefrontal lobotomy.
- leukocyte — white blood cell.
- lipectomy — the surgical removal of fatty tissue.
- lobectomy — excision of a lobe of an organ or gland.
- lych gate — a roofed gate to a churchyard, formerly used during funerals as a temporary shelter for the bier
- macrocyte — an abnormally large red blood cell.
- mastocyte — Mast cell.
- mccartney — (Sir) (James) Paul, born 1942, English singer, songwriter, and bass guitarist for the Beatles.
- mendacity — the quality of being mendacious; untruthfulness; tendency to lie.
- mendicity — mendicancy.
- metacryst — a crystal formed by recrystallization of minerals in a metamorphic rock.
- methystic — intoxicating
- metonymic — Of, or relating to, a word or phrase that names an object from a single characteristic of it or of a closely related object.
- microcyte — Pathology. an abnormally small red blood cell.
- monocytes — (immunology) Plural form of monocyte.
- myelocyte — a cell of the bone marrow, especially one developing into a granulocyte.
- myenteric — Relating to or denoting a plexus of nerves of the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems situated between and supplying the two layers of muscle in the small intestine.
- myricetin — (organic compound) A particular flavonol, found in many vegetables etc., that has antioxidant and other therapeutic properties.
- mysticete — any whale of the suborder Mysticeti, as finback and humpback whales, characterized by a symmetrical skull, paired blowholes, and rows of baleen plates for feeding on plankton.
- mysticize — to make mystical; give mystical meaning to: to mysticize natural phenomena.
- mythicise — Alt form mythicize.
- mythicize — to turn into, treat, or explain as a myth.
- necessity — something necessary or indispensable: food, shelter, and other necessities of life.
- necrotomy — Surgery. the excision of necrosed bone.
- neophytic — a beginner or novice: He's a neophyte at chess.
- nictheroy — Niterói.
- normocyte — an erythrocyte of normal size.
- nyctalope — a person or animal affected by nyctalopia