10-letter words containing c, l, a, y, s
- cosy along — to reassure (someone), esp with false assurances
- cotylosaur — any of various members of the extinct order of primitive and massive reptiles known as Cotylosauria, which lived between the Carboniferous and Triassic ages
- crashingly — extremely; exceedingly
- crystalise — Alternative spelling of from=non-Oxford British spelling.
- crystalize — (rare) alternative spelling of crystallize.
- crystallo- — crystal
- cyclamates — Plural form of cyclamate.
- cycloramas — Plural form of cyclorama.
- cyclosarin — Cyclohexyl methylphosphonofluoridate, an extremely toxic substance used as a chemical weapon.
- cytoclasis — destruction of cells.
- cytoplasms — Plural form of cytoplasm.
- cytoplasts — Plural form of cytoplast.
- day school — A day school is a school where the students go home every evening and do not live at the school. Compare boarding school.
- decastyles — Plural form of decastyle.
- decastylos — a decastyle building, as a classical temple.
- declassify — If secret documents or records are declassified, it is officially stated that they are no longer secret.
- despicably — deserving to be despised, or regarded with distaste, disgust, or disdain; contemptible: He was a mean, despicable man, who treated his wife and children badly.
- disyllabic — consisting of or pertaining to two syllables.
- dysplastic — Exhibiting dysplasia.
- elasticity — The ability of an object or material to resume its normal shape after being stretched or compressed; stretchiness.
- epicalyces — Plural form of epicalyx.
- epicalyxes — Plural form of epicalyx.
- escalatory — tending to escalate
- escapology — The study or art of escaping from a constriction, e.g. rope, handcuffs, etc.
- escatology — Alternative spelling of eschatology.
- especially — Used to single out one person, thing, or situation over all others.
- eucalyptus — A fast-growing evergreen Australasian tree that has been widely introduced elsewhere . It is valued for its timber, oil, gum, and resin, and as an ornamental tree.
- facelessly — Without a face or identity.
- facility's — Often, facilities. something designed, built, installed, etc., to serve a specific function affording a convenience or service: transportation facilities; educational facilities; a new research facility. something that permits the easier performance of an action, course of conduct, etc.: to provide someone with every facility for accomplishing a task; to lack facilities for handling bulk mail.
- factiously — given to faction; dissentious: A factious group was trying to undermine the government.
- galactosyl — the glycosyl radical of galactose
- gay-lussac — Joseph Louis [joh-zuh f loo-ee,, -suh f;; French zhaw-zef lwee] /ˈdʒoʊ zəf ˈlu i,, -səf;; French ʒɔˈzɛf lwi/ (Show IPA), 1778–1850, French chemist and physicist.
- glycosuria — excretion of glucose in the urine, as in diabetes.
- graciously — pleasantly kind, benevolent, and courteous.
- gray scale — a scale of achromatic colors having several, usually ten, equal gradations ranging from white to black, used in television and photography.
- gray-scale — (spelling) US spelling of "grey-scale".
- grey-scale — (graphics) (US "gray-scale") 1. Composed of (discrete) shades of grey. If the pixels of a grey-scale image have N bits, they may take values from zero, representing black up to 2^N-1, representing white with intermediate values representing increasingly light shades of grey. If N=1 the image is not called grey-scale but could be called monochrome. 2. A range of acurately known shades of grey printed out for use in calibrating those shades on a display or printer.
- gyrfalcons — Plural form of gyrfalcon.
- hydraulics — the science that deals with the laws governing water or other liquids in motion and their applications in engineering; practical or applied hydrodynamics.
- hysterical — of, relating to, or characterized by hysteria.
- hystorical — Nonstandard spelling of historical.
- insociably — in an insociable manner
- isocephaly — (of a composition) having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
- isopycnals — Plural form of isopycnal.
- lachrymals — Plural form of lachrymal.
- lachrymose — suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful.
- lackadaisy — alas
- lazy sml2c — A lazy version sml2c. Portable, written in SML. Language extensions include first-class continuations, asynchronous signal handling. E-mail: <[email protected]>. ftp://dravido.soar.cs.cmu.edu/usr/nemo/sml2c.
- lymphatics — Plural form of lymphatic.
- lysimachus — 361?–281 b.c, Macedonian general: king of Thrace 306–281.