9-letter words containing c, o, t, y
- claytonia — any low-growing North American succulent portulacaceous plant of the genus Claytonia
- climatory — Having to do with climate.
- clonality — The fact or condition of being genetically identical, as to a parent, sibling, or other biological source.
- clonicity — of or relating to clonus.
- clonotype — (taxonomy) A herbarium specimen made from plants vegetatively propagated from (and thus clones of) the same plant from which a type specimen was made.
- clothyard — (historical) An old unit of measure for cloth, 36 or 37 inches.
- clouterly — clumsy
- cnidocyst — a nematocyst.
- coastally — In a coastal manner.
- coenocyte — a mass of protoplasm containing many nuclei and enclosed by a cell wall: occurs in many fungi and some algae
- coevality — The condition of being coeval.
- cognately — In a way that is cognate.
- cold type — typesetting done by a method other than the casting of molten type
- colectomy — surgical removal of part or all of the colon
- collotype — a method of lithographic printing from a flat surface of hardened gelatine: used mainly for fine-detail reproduction in monochrome or colour
- collotypy — the process of collotype
- collutory — mouthwash.
- colocynth — a cucurbitaceous climbing plant, Citrullus colocynthis, of the Mediterranean region and Asia, having bitter-tasting fruit
- colostomy — A colostomy is a surgical operation in which a permanent opening from the colon is made.
- colpotomy — a surgical incision into the wall of the vagina
- coltishly — In a coltish manner.
- commodity — A commodity is something that is sold for money.
- community — The community is all the people who live in a particular area or place.
- compacity — Any of several technical measures of compactness, especially, in a granular medium (e.g. sand), the volume fraction that is filled.
- compactly — joined or packed together; closely and firmly united; dense; solid: compact soil.
- concavity — the state or quality of being concave
- congruity — the condition or fact of being congruous or congruent
- connately — In a connate fashion.
- constancy — Constancy is the quality of staying the same even though other things change.
- contently — satisfied with what one is or has; not wanting more or anything else.
- contranym — A word that has two opposing meanings, such as 'cleave' (“come together” or “split apart”).
- contrasty — (of a photograph or subject) having sharp gradations in tone, esp between light and dark areas
- contronym — A word with two opposite meanings, e.g., sanction (which can mean both ‘a penalty for disobeying a law’ and ‘official permission or approval for an action’).
- contumacy — obstinate and wilful rebelliousness or resistance to authority; insubordination; disobedience
- contumely — scornful or insulting language or behaviour
- convexity — the state or quality of being convex
- copayment — a fee paid by a subscriber to a service for the use of additional services not covered by the subscription
- copy-edit — to prepare (copy) for printing by styling, correcting, etc
- copy-text — a manuscript or earlier published version of a text, used as the basis for an emended, scholarly edition
- copyedits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of copyedit.
- copyfight — the conflict between copyright holders and other individuals over the use, distribution, and replication of copyright materials
- copypasta — (Internet slang) A block of text which has been copied and pasted from somewhere else.
- copyright — If someone has copyright on a piece of writing or music, it is illegal to reproduce or perform it without their permission.
- copytaker — (esp in a newspaper office) a person employed to type reports as journalists dictate them over the telephone
- copywrite — (rare) To write the copy (or text) of an advertisement; to have a job as a copywriter.
- cordately — In a cordate form.
- cordotomy — a sugrical method of pain relief in which nerves in the spinal cord are cut
- core city — central city.
- correctly — to set or make true, accurate, or right; remove the errors or faults from: The native guide corrected our pronunciation. The new glasses corrected his eyesight.
- corruptly — guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge.