10-letter words containing c, o, y
- scatophagy — the act of eating dung or excrement
- scatoscopy — examination of the feces for diagnostic purposes.
- schizogamy — reproduction characterized by division of the organism into sexual and asexual parts, as in certain polychaetes.
- schizogony — (in the asexual reproduction of certain sporozoans) the multiple fission of a trophozoite or schizont into merozoites.
- school day — any day on which school is conducted.
- schooldays — school-age period
- schoolyard — a playground or sports field near a school.
- sclerotomy — incision into the sclera, as to extract foreign bodies.
- scoffingly — to speak derisively; mock; jeer (often followed by at): If you can't do any better, don't scoff. Their efforts toward a peaceful settlement are not to be scoffed at.
- scooby doo — a clue
- scornfully — full of scorn; derisive; contemptuous: He smiled in a scornful way.
- scowlingly — in a scowling manner
- scyphiform — shaped like a cup or goblet.
- scyphozoan — any coelenterate of the class Scyphozoa, comprising the true marine jellyfishes.
- semicolony — a country which is partly colonial or which is officially independent but which in fact depends on or is dominated by another country
- septectomy — excision of part or all of a septum, especially the nasal septum.
- shellycoat — a mythical creature dressed in shells who haunts rivers and streams
- shockingly — causing intense surprise, disgust, horror, etc.
- shylockian — a relentless and revengeful moneylender in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
- shylocking — a relentless and revengeful moneylender in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
- siderocyte — an erythrocyte that contains iron in forms other than hematin.
- sioux city — a port in W Iowa, on the Missouri River.
- slavocracy — the rule or domination of slaveholders: the slavocracy of the old plantations.
- snobocracy — a social class of snobs
- societally — noting or pertaining to large social groups, or to their activities, customs, etc.
- sociocracy — a theoretical system of government in which the interests of all members of society are served equally.
- sociometry — the measurement of attitudes of social acceptance or rejection through expressed preferences among members of a social grouping.
- sociopathy — a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
- solenocyte — a type of long, narrow, flagellated cell that functions in excretion of nitrogenous wastes and occurs in a variety of organisms, including certain annelids and mollusks.
- solvolytic — relating to solvolysis
- song cycle — a group of art songs that are usually all by the same poet and composer and have a unifying subject or idea.
- speciosity — the quality or state of being specious.
- speciously — apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible: specious arguments.
- spherocyte — an abnormal blood cell
- spodomancy — divination by studying ashes
- sporocytes — a diploid cell in certain spore-bearing plants, as liverworts, that produces four haploid spores through meiosis; a spore mother cell.
- staycation — a vacation spent at home or near home, doing enjoyable activities or visiting local attractions.
- stercorary — a weatherproof place where dung is stored
- stichology — metrical theory or the science of poetic metres
- subcompany — subsidiary company.
- subeconomy — an economy within another economy
- subpotency — a condition of reduced potency, as of a medication.
- subsociety — a subdivision of a society
- subvocally — in a subvocal manner, with subvocalization
- sycophancy — self-seeking or servile flattery.
- symbolical — serving as a symbol of something (often followed by of).
- syncarpous — of the nature of or pertaining to a syncarp.
- synchronal — synchronous.
- synchronic — having reference to the facts of a linguistic system as it exists at one point in time without reference to its history: synchronic analysis; synchronic dialectology.
- syncopated — marked by syncopation: syncopated rhythm.