7-letter words containing c, o, y
- clooney — George. born 1961, US film actor; starred in the television series ER (1994–99) and the films The Perfect Storm (2000), Ocean's Eleven (2001), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002, also directed), Syriana (2005, also directed), and The American (2010)
- closeby — nearby; adjacent; neighboring.
- closely — to put (something) in a position to obstruct an entrance, opening, etc.; shut.
- clovery — relating to clover; covered in clover
- cloying — You use cloying to describe something that you find unpleasant because it is much too sweet, or too sentimental.
- coalify — to turn into coal
- cockeye — an eye affected with strabismus or one that squints
- cockily — in a cocky manner
- cockney — A cockney is a person who was born in the East End of London.
- cockshy — a target aimed at in throwing games
- cocoyam — either of two food plants of West Africa, the taro or the yantia, both of which have edible underground stems
- cocytus — the river of wailing, a tributary of the Acheron in Hades
- codasyl — Conference On DAta SYstems Languages
- cogency — the quality or condition of being cogent; power to convince
- colicky — If someone, especially a baby, is colicky, they are suffering from colic.
- coligny — Gaspard de (ɡaspar də), Seigneur de Châtillon. 1519–72, French Huguenot leader
- coloury — possessing colour
- come by — To come by something means to obtain it or find it.
- comfily — (informal) comfortably.
- comfrey — Comfrey is a herb that is used to make drinks and medicines.
- company — A company is a business organization that makes money by selling goods or services.
- compony — made up of alternating metal and colour, colour and fur, or fur and metal
- comsymp — a Communist Party sympathizer
- conakry — the capital of Guinea, a port on the island of Tombo. Pop: 1 465 000 (2005 est)
- condyle — the rounded projection on the articulating end of a bone, such as the ball portion of a ball-and-socket joint
- conjury — magic
- connery — Sir Sean, real name Thomas Connery. born 1929, Scottish film actor, who played James Bond in such films as Goldfinger (1964). His later films include The Name of the Rose (1986), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), and Finding Forrester (2000)
- conveys — to carry, bring, or take from one place to another; transport; bear.
- convoys — to accompany or escort, usually for protection: A destroyer convoyed the merchant ship.
- cookery — Cookery is the activity of preparing and cooking food.
- coopery — the work, shop, or product of a cooper
- coppery — A coppery colour is reddish-brown like copper.
- copy in — If you copy someone in on something, you send them a copy of something you have written to someone else.
- copyboy — a boy employed by a newspaper or broadcast news office to carry copy and run errands
- copycat — A copycat crime is committed by someone who is copying someone else.
- copying — the act of copying
- copyism — the practice of copying slavishly
- copyist — A copyist copies other people's music or paintings or, in the past, made written copies of documents.
- corally — Having the shape or form of coral.
- corcyra — Corfu
- cornfly — a small fly of the genera Oscinis whose larvae cause swollen, gouty stems in cereal crops
- cornify — (of soft tissue) to become converted into horn or hard tissue
- cornily — in a corny manner
- corrody — Old English Law. corody.
- coryate — Thomas, 1577–1617, English traveler and author.
- corydon — (in pastoral literature) a shepherd or rustic
- coryell — John Russell, 1848–1924, U.S. author of detective and adventure stories.
- corylus — any of various shrubs or trees of the genus Corylus of the Betulaceae family (or the Corylaceae family, depending on the botanist), which bear nuts and are found in temperate regions of the northern hemisphere
- corymbs — Plural form of corymb.
- coryzal — relating to coryza