12-letter words containing c, i, t, y
- bootylicious — sexually attractive, esp with curvaceous buttocks
- bossier city — city in NW La., on the Red River opposite Shreveport: pop. 56,000
- bradykinetic — slowness of movement, as found, for example, in Parkinson's disease.
- brigham city — a city in N Utah.
- butyric acid — type of acid
- by my certie — assuredly
- bye-election — a special election, not held at the time of a general election, to fill a vacancy in Parliament.
- cachinnatory — Pertaining to loud or immoderate laughter.
- cafe society — people, esp intellectuals and artists who meet in cafés
- calamitously — In a calamitous manner.
- caliginosity — darkness
- calumet city — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- calumniatory — of, involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory.
- candy stripe — a pattern of bright stripes of one color against a plain background, used chiefly in fabrics.
- cantillatory — involving chanting or incantation
- capacitively — (physics, electronics) In relation to or in terms of capacitance.
- capital city — the seat of government of a country or other political unit
- capital levy — a tax on capital or property as contrasted with a tax on income
- capitulatory — the act of capitulating.
- car industry — the industry concerned with the manufacture and selling of automobiles
- carotid body — a small mass of cells and nerve endings adjacent to the carotid sinus that, in response to chemical changes in the blood, adjusts the respiratory rate.
- carry permit — a license to carry a handgun on one's person.
- carry weight — to be important, influential, etc.
- cartoonishly — in a cartoonish manner
- case history — A person's case history is the record of past events or problems that have affected them, especially their medical history.
- cataphysical — perverse; contrary to nature
- categorially — in a manner relating to or involving categories
- categoricity — The quality of being categorical.
- cathodically — in a cathodic manner, by using a cathode
- cationically — in a cationic manner
- cavity block — a precast concrete block that contains a cavity or cavities
- celebreality — a television genre that is unscripted and involves either the day-to-day documentation of a celebrity’s life or competitive challenges that a celebrity or celebrities must perform
- cellulolytic — relating to or causing the hydrolysis of the complex carbohydrate cellulose
- centennially — As part of a centennial.
- central city — the principal municipality of a metropolitan area, surrounded by suburbs and smaller towns; esp., the crowded, industrial, often blighted area
- cervicectomy — (medicine) Surgical removal of the cervix.
- cetylic acid — palmitic acid.
- chalcopyrite — a widely distributed yellow mineral consisting of a sulphide of copper and iron in tetragonal crystalline form: the principal ore of copper. Formula: CuFeS2
- charity sale — a sale in aid of charity
- charity shop — A charity shop is a shop that sells used goods cheaply and gives its profits to a charity.
- charity toss — a free shot given as a penalty for a foul
- charity work — unpaid work, usually fundraising, done in aid of a charity
- cheiloplasty — plastic surgery of the lip.
- chip away at — If you chip away at something such as an idea, a feeling, or a system, you gradually make it weaker or less likely to succeed by repeated efforts.
- cholinolytic — capable of blocking the action of acetylcholine and related compounds.
- christianity — Christianity is a religion that is based on the teachings of Jesus Christ and the belief that he was the son of God.
- christophany — an appearance or emergence of Christ following his crucifixion
- chromaticity — the quality of a colour or light with reference to its purity and its dominant wavelength
- churchianity — loyalty to the church rather than Christianity
- chymotrypsin — a powerful proteolytic enzyme secreted from the pancreas in the form of chymotrypsinogen, being converted to the active form by trypsin