8-letter words containing c, o, y
- fry cook — a cook who mainly prepares fried foods, as at a lunch counter.
- geocarpy — the ripening of fruits below ground, as occurs in the peanut
- geomancy — divination by geographic features or by figures or lines.
- glycerol — a colorless, odorless, syrupy, sweet liquid, C 3 H 8 O 3 , usually obtained by the saponification of natural fats and oils: used for sweetening and preserving food, in the manufacture of cosmetics, perfumes, inks, and certain glues and cements, as a solvent and automobile antifreeze, and in medicine in suppositories and skin emollients.
- glycogen — a white, tasteless polysaccharide, (C 6 H 10 O 5) n , molecularly similar to starch, constituting the principal carbohydrate storage material in animals and occurring chiefly in the liver, in muscle, and in fungi and yeasts.
- glycolic — pertaining to or derived from glycol.
- glyconic — (of a line of verse) consisting of three trochees and one dactyl
- glycosyl — (biochemistry) Any functional group derived from a sugar (especially from a monosaccharide) by removal of the hemiacetal hydroxy group.
- gonocyte — an oocyte or spermatocyte
- gynaeco- — relating to women; female
- gynecoid — of or like a woman.
- gynoecia — Plural form of gynoecium.
- halcyone — a third-magnitude star in the constellation Taurus: brightest star in the Pleiades.
- halcyons — Plural form of halcyon.
- hardcopy — copy, as computer output printed on paper, that can be read without using a special device (opposed to soft copy).
- hassocky — Having or characterised by hassocks, or clumps of vegetation.
- haycocks — Plural form of haycock.
- hectorly — in the manner of a hector
- hemocyte — a blood cell.
- hickorys — a city in W North Carolina.
- hillocky — Resembling a hillock.
- holarchy — a system composed of interacting holons
- holy cow — astonishment
- huancayo — a city in central Peru, on the Mantaro River.
- hummocky — Also, hammock. an elevated tract of land rising above the general level of a marshy region.
- hydronic — of or relating to a heating system for a building in which the medium for carrying heat throughout the structure is circulating water, especially when the circulation is aided by a pump.
- hydropac — an urgent warning of navigational dangers in the Pacific Ocean, issued by the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office.
- hydropic — dropsical.
- hyoscine — scopolamine.
- hypnotic — of or relating to hypnosis or hypnotism.
- hypoacid — relating to a lower than normal level of acidity
- hypocist — a type of juice derived from the fruit of a plant which grows from the Cistus shrub
- hypothec — Roman and Civil Law. a mortgage or security held by a creditor on the property of a debtor without possession of it, created either by agreement or by operation of law.
- hyracoid — of, relating to, or belonging to the mammalian order Hyracoidea, which contains the hyraxes
- hystoric — Nonstandard spelling of historic.
- ichthyo- — indicating or relating to fishes
- icy cold — very cold
- icy pole — an ice cream or water ice on a stick
- impolicy — The state or act of being impolitic.
- incisory — adapted for cutting, as the incisor teeth.
- ionicity — (uncountable) The condition of being ionic.
- isocracy — a government in which all individuals have equal political power.
- isocryme — a line on a map connecting points that have the same temperature during the coldest period of a year
- isocyano — containing an isocyano group.
- isostacy — Geology. the equilibrium of the earth's crust, a condition in which the forces tending to elevate balance those tending to depress.
- isotypic — of or relating to an isotype.
- isozymic — Pertaining to an isozyme.
- jockeyed — Simple past tense and past participle of jockey.
- jocosely — given to or characterized by joking; jesting; humorous; playful: a jocose and amusing manner.
- jocosity — the state or quality of being jocose.