10-letter words containing c, o, t, y
- captiously — In a captious manner.
- cardiotomy — (surgery) The procedure of making an incision in the heart.
- carol city — a town in SE Florida, near Miami.
- carrot fly — a dipterous insect, Psila rosae, that is a serious pest of carrots. The larvae tunnel into the root to feed
- cartomancy — the telling of fortunes with playing cards
- cartophily — the hobby of collecting cigarette cards
- castratory — of or relating to castration
- category 3 — (hardware) (Cat 3, or "voice grade") An American Standards Institute standard for UTP cables. Used, e.g., for 100BaseVG network cabling.
- category 5 — The term Category 5 refers to Ethernet cabling that allows data transfers up to 100 Megabits per second.
- category a — (of a prisoner) regarded as highly dangerous and therefore requiring constant observation and maximum security
- category d — (of a prisoner) regarded as sufficiently trustworthy to be kept under open prison conditions
- cautionary — A cautionary story or a cautionary note to a story is one that is intended to give a warning to people.
- cautiously — showing, using, or characterized by caution: a cautious man; To be cautious is often to show wisdom.
- ceylon tea — a tea from Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)
- chaetotaxy — the arrangement of bristles on the exoskeleton of an insect.
- charophyte — any green algae of the class Charophyceae (or group Charophyta), comprising the stoneworts.
- chemonasty — the nastic movement of a plant in response to a chemical stimulus
- chernovtsy — a city in Ukraine on the Prut River: formerly under Polish, Austro-Hungarian, and Romanian rule; part of the Soviet Union (1947–91). Pop: 237 000 (2005 est)
- chimneypot — a short pipe on the top of a chimney, which increases the draught and directs the smoke upwards
- chlorinity — the amount of chlorine present in water, esp sea-water
- choanocyte — any of the flagellated cells in sponges that maintain a flow of water through the body. A collar of protoplasm surrounds the base of the flagellum
- chocolatey — a preparation of the seeds of cacao, roasted, husked, and ground, often sweetened and flavored, as with vanilla.
- cholecysts — Plural form of cholecyst.
- chomophyte — any plant that grows on rocky ledges or in fissures and crevices
- chordotomy — an operation to paralyse nerve tracts in the spinal chord in order to relieve pain associated with certain conditions
- chromatype — a procedure in photography that uses photographic paper that is made reactive to light by the use of a salt of chromium
- chronicity — constant; habitual; inveterate: a chronic liar.
- chrysolite — a yellowish-green gem derived chiefly from varieties of olivine
- chrysostom — Saint John. ?345–407 ad, Greek patriarch; archbishop of Constantinople (398–404). Feast day: Sept 13 or Nov 13
- chrysotile — a green, grey, or white fibrous mineral, a variety of serpentine, that is an important source of commercial asbestos. Formula: Mg3Si2O5(OH)4
- clay court — a tennis court with a playing surface topped by a layer of crushed shale, brick, or stone
- clay stone — argillite.
- claymation — the techniques of animation applied to clay models
- claystones — argillite.
- clearstory — clerestory
- clerestory — a row of windows in the upper part of the wall of a church that divides the nave from the aisle, set above the aisle roof
- clonotypes — Plural form of clonotype.
- cloth yard — a medieval unit of measure for cloth, fixed at 37 inches by Edward VI of England: also used as a length for longbow arrows
- cnidocysts — a nematocyst.
- co-payment — payment required of an insured person for that portion of medical expenses not paid by the insurance company; specif., a fixed fee required for each prescription, visit to a doctor, etc.
- coactivity — acting together.
- cocatalyst — a substance that acts in tandem with another as a catalyst
- coeliotomy — (surgery) A surgical procedure for making an incision in the abdominal wall to gain access into the abdominal cavity. Performed either as exploratory surgery, or as the first step in an abdominal operation.
- coenocytes — Plural form of coenocyte.
- coenocytic — an organism made up of a multinucleate, continuous mass of protoplasm enclosed by one cell wall, as in some algae and fungi.
- coequality — The condition of being coequal.
- coercivity — the magnetic-field strength necessary to demagnetize a ferromagnetic material that is magnetized to saturation. It is measured in amperes per metre
- coeternity — existence for, from, or in eternity with another being
- coherently — logically connected; consistent: a coherent argument.
- collotypes — Plural form of collotype.