9-letter words containing c, e, t, y
- nymphetic — relating to a nymphet
- objectify — to present as an object, especially of sight, touch, or other physical sense; make objective; externalize.
- objectory — (programming) An object-oriented methodology mostly created by Ivar Jacobson.
- obscenity — the character or quality of being obscene; indecency; lewdness.
- octastyle — having eight columns in the front, as a temple or portico.
- oomycetes — Plural form of oomycete.
- open city — a city that, during a war, is officially declared demilitarized and open to occupation, and that will consequently not be defended, in order to spare it, under international law, from bombardment or other military attack.
- ostectomy — excision of part or all of a bone.
- osteocyte — a cell of osseous tissue within the bone matrix; a bone cell.
- outjockey — to outmaneuver: We outjockeyed the competition and got our bid in first.
- pachytene — the third stage of prophase in meiosis, during which each chromosome pair separates into sister chromatids with some breakage and crossing over of genes.
- penitency — the state of being penitent
- pentarchy — a government by five persons.
- pepticity — good digestion
- perfectly — in a perfect manner or to a perfect degree: to sing an aria perfectly.
- phagocyte — any cell, as a macrophage, that ingests and destroys foreign particles, bacteria, and cell debris.
- phlyctena — a small vesicle, blister, or pustule.
- phyletics — phylogenetic classification.
- phytocide — a substance or preparation for killing plants.
- pothecary — apothecary.
- precatory — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or expressing entreaty or supplication: precatory overtures.
- precocity — the state of being or tendency to be precocious.
- predacity — predatory; rapacious.
- presbytic — affected by presbyopia
- procerity — tallness
- radectomy — excision of part or all of the root of a tooth.
- ready-cut — (of wood, tiles, glass, etc) cut to size before being sold
- recertify — to attest as certain; give reliable information of; confirm: He certified the truth of his claim.
- recyclate — material that is recyclable
- recyclist — a person who recycles
- refectory — a dining hall in a religious house, a college, or other institution.
- reticency — the state of being reticent, or reserved, especially with regard to speaking freely; restraint: His natural reticence seemed to disappear under the influence of alcohol.
- ricketily — in a rickety or shaky manner
- sciophyte — any plant that grows best in the shade
- scouthery — scorching
- secretary — a person, usually an official, who is in charge of the records, correspondence, minutes of meetings, and related affairs of an organization, company, association, etc.: the secretary of the Linguistic Society of America.
- secretory — pertaining to secretion.
- sentiency — sentient condition or character; capacity for sensation or feeling.
- septicity — pertaining to or of the nature of sepsis; infected.
- sequacity — following with smooth or logical regularity.
- serictery — a silk gland.
- serotypic — of or relating to a serotype
- sincerity — freedom from deceit, hypocrisy, or duplicity; probity in intention or in communicating; earnestness.
- skyrocket — a rocket firework that ascends into the air and explodes at a height, usually in a brilliant array of sparks of one or more colors.
- specialty — a special or distinctive quality, mark, state, or condition.
- sporocyte — a diploid cell in certain spore-bearing plants, as liverworts, that produces four haploid spores through meiosis; a spore mother cell.
- stitchery — needlework.
- stridency — making or having a harsh sound; grating; creaking: strident insects; strident hinges.
- supercity — a large, heavily populated urban area that includes several cities; megalopolis.
- sylleptic — the use of a word or expression to perform two syntactic functions, especially to modify two or more words of which at least one does not agree in number, case, or gender, as the use of are in Neither he nor we are willing.