9-letter words containing c, o, t, y
- heroicity — suitable to the character of a hero in size or concept; daring; noble: a heroic ambition.
- hircosity — the quality of being like a goat
- holotypic — Relating to a holotype.
- holy city — a city regarded as particularly sacred by the adherents of a religious faith, as Jerusalem by Jews and Christians, Mecca and Medina by Muslims, and Varanasi by Hindus.
- homolytic — Of, pertaining to, or produced by homolysis.
- homotypic — of or relating to a homotype.
- hydrocast — a process in which water is collected at various depths in a device with bottles clamped together, providing data on differing water characteristics.
- hydroptic — (formerly) edema.
- hypnotics — Plural form of hypnotic.
- hypocaust — a hollow space or system of channels in the floor or walls of some ancient Roman buildings that provided a central heating system by receiving and distributing the heat from a furnace.
- hypocotyl — the part of a plant embryo directly below the cotyledons, forming a connection with the radicle.
- hypocrite — a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, especially one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie his or her public statements.
- hypotheca — (microbiology, planktology) The lower or posterior half of the theca of a thecate protist such as a diatom or dinoflagellate.
- hypotonic — Physiology. (of tissue) having less than the normal tone.
- hypotrich — any ciliate of the suborder Hypotricha, having cilia chiefly on the ventral surface.
- ichthyoid — Also, ichthyoidal. fishlike.
- iconicity — of, relating to, or characteristic of an icon.
- idiotypic — the molecular arrangement of amino acids unique to the antigen-binding site of a particular antibody.
- impotency — the condition or quality of being impotent; weakness.
- innocuity — not harmful or injurious; harmless: an innocuous home remedy.
- iowa city — a city in SE Iowa.
- iridocyte — a guanine-containing cell in the skin of fish and some cephalopods, giving these animals their iridescence
- jocundity — the state or an instance of being jocund; gaiety.
- joy-stick — Informal. the control stick of an airplane, tank, or other vehicle.
- joysticks — Plural form of joystick.
- karyocyte — (cytology) Any cell that has a nucleus.
- ketolytic — the breaking down of ketones.
- latrociny — banditry
- lectotype — a specimen designated as the type of a species or subspecies when no holotype was designated by the original author of the name.
- leucocyte — leukocyte.
- leucotomy — prefrontal lobotomy.
- leukocyte — white blood cell.
- lipectomy — the surgical removal of fatty tissue.
- lipolytic — Of or pertaining to lipolysis.
- lithocyst — a sac, containing otoliths, found in many invertebrates, supposedly connected to hearing and orientation
- lobectomy — excision of a lobe of an organ or gland.
- loquacity — the state of being loquacious; talkativeness; garrulity.
- lyocratic — noting a colloid owing its stability to the affinity of its particles for the liquid in which they are dispersed.
- lyotropic — noting any series of ions, salts, or radicals arranged in descending order relative to the magnitude of their effect on a given solvent.
- macrocyst — a large cyst or spore case, especially the encysted, resting plasmodium of a slime mold.
- macrocyte — an abnormally large red blood cell.
- mastocyte — Mast cell.
- metonymic — Of, or relating to, a word or phrase that names an object from a single characteristic of it or of a closely related object.
- microcity — An unusually small city or citylike environment.
- microcyte — Pathology. an abnormally small red blood cell.
- microtomy — the cutting of very thin sections with the microtome.
- mitomycin — any of the antibiotics that come from Streptomyces caespitosus
- monocytes — (immunology) Plural form of monocyte.
- monocytic — Of or pertaining to monocytes.
- monotypic — having only one type.