10-letter words containing c, o, y
- officially — a person appointed or elected to an office or charged with certain duties.
- officialty — the office, jurisdiction, or charge of an official
- old comedy — Greek comedy of the 5th century b.c., which derived from fertility rites in honor of Dionysus and combined robust humor with biting personal and political satire.
- ollycrocks — Plural form of ollycrock.
- only child — sb without siblings
- open-carry — the practice of publicly carrying a gun or other weapon that is fully or partially visible.
- oppugnancy — opposing; antagonistic; contrary.
- oracularly — In an oracular manner.
- orchectomy — orchiectomy.
- orchiopexy — (surgery) The procedure to move an undescended testicle into the scrotum.
- organicity — noting or pertaining to a class of chemical compounds that formerly comprised only those existing in or derived from plants or animals, but that now includes all other compounds of carbon.
- oryctology — the study of fossils, minerals, and rocks
- oscitantly — in an oscitant manner
- osculatory — to come into close contact or union.
- osteectomy — excision of part or all of a bone.
- osteocytes — Plural form of osteocyte.
- osteomancy — A kind of divination by means of bones.
- otomycosis — (pathology) a fungal ear infection.
- otto cycle — an idealization of the thermodynamic cycle of the internal combustion engine with air as the working substance: intake of air at atmospheric pressure, then adiabatic compression, then ignition with an increase of pressure and temperature at constant volume, then adiabatic expansion and performance of work, then a drop to atmospheric pressure at constant volume and a rejection of heat to the environment, then the exhaust of air at constant pressure.
- overcanopy — to cover like a canopy
- overcostly — Too costly. (from 16th c.).
- overnicely — in an overnice manner
- oxycalcium — pertaining to or produced by oxygen and calcium.
- oxycephaly — a malformation in which the head is somewhat pointed, caused by premature closure of the skull sutures.
- oxymoronic — a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly.”.
- oyster cap — an edible, brownish-gray to white mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus, that grows in clusters on fallen trees and their stumps.
- paronychia — inflammation of the folds of skin bordering a nail of a finger or toe, usually characterized by infection and pus formation; felon.
- paroxysmic — any sudden, violent outburst; a fit of violent action or emotion: paroxysms of rage.
- parrot cry — a remark, complaint, etc that is repeated or imitated mechanically without understanding
- pastrycook — a person who makes pastry or pastries
- patrocliny — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the paternal parent (opposed to matrocliny).
- patronymic — (of family names) derived from the name of a father or ancestor, especially by the addition of a suffix or prefix indicating descent.
- peacockery — proud or ostentatious display
- pelycosaur — any of a group of large primitive reptiles belonging to the extinct order Pelycosauria, abundant in North America and Europe during the Permian Period, often having a tall spinal sail.
- peptolytic — causing the hydrolysis of peptides.
- percursory — passing through rapidly; cursory
- peroxyacid — an acid derived from hydrogen peroxide and containing the –O–O– group, as peroxysulfuric acid, H 2 S 2 O 8 .
- phagocytic — any cell, as a macrophage, that ingests and destroys foreign particles, bacteria, and cell debris.
- phenocryst — any of the conspicuous crystals in a porphyritic rock.
- phenotypic — the observable constitution of an organism.
- phonically — of or relating to speech sounds.
- photically — in a photic manner, by way of photic processes
- phycobilin — any of a class of red or blue-green pigments found in the red algae and cyanobacteria
- phycobiont — the algae component of a lichen.
- phylloclad — cladophyll
- phylogenic — the development or evolution of a particular group of organisms.
- physiocrat — one of a school of political economists who followed Quesnay in holding that an inherent natural order properly governed society, regarding land as the basis of wealth and taxation, and advocating a laissez-faire economy.
- phytogenic — of plant origin.
- phytotoxic — of or relating to phytotoxin.
- pinocytose — (of a cell) to take within by means of pinocytosis.