9-letter words containing c, o, y
- cecostomy — Alternative spelling of caecostomy.
- celiotomy — laparotomy (def 2).
- cell body — the compact area of a nerve cell that constitutes the nucleus and surrounding cytoplasm, excluding the axons and dendrites.
- ceromancy — divination by interpreting the significance of shapes formed when melted wax is dropped into water
- cetshwayo — ?1826–84, king of the Zulus (1873–79): defeated the British at Isandhlwana (1879) but was overwhelmed by them at Ulundi (1879); captured, he stated his case in London, and was reinstated as ruler of part of Zululand (1883)
- ceylonese — of or relating to Ceylon or its inhabitants
- ceylonite — a dark blue or black form of spinel
- charcoaly — resembling charcoal
- chatoyant — having changeable lustre; twinkling
- cherimoya — a deciduous shrub or small tree, native to the Andean highlands, which produces an oval fruit with cream-coloured flesh
- chernobyl — a town in N Ukraine; site of a nuclear power station accident in 1986
- chirimoya — cherimoya.
- chirology — Palm reading.
- chironomy — the craft or artistry of moving the hands by following a standard or formula in relation to theatrical, oratory, or musical performance
- chiropody — Chiropody is the professional treatment and care of people's feet.
- chiyogami — a type of highly decorated, colourful craft paper used for origami
- chocolaty — a preparation of the seeds of cacao, roasted, husked, and ground, often sweetened and flavored, as with vanilla.
- choir-boy — a boy who sings in a choir, especially a church choir.
- choirboys — Plural form of choirboy.
- chokingly — in a strangling, suffocating, or choking manner
- cholecyst — the gallbladder
- chomskyan — of or relating to Noam Chomsky or his linguistic theories, especially to transformational-generative grammar.
- chondrify — to become or convert into cartilage
- chop suey — Chop suey is a Chinese-style dish that consists of meat and vegetables that have been stewed together.
- chopsocky — a genre of martial arts film containing superfluous violence
- chorology — the study of the causal relations between geographical phenomena occurring within a particular region
- chromakey — (in colour television) a special effect in which a coloured background can be eliminated and a different background substituted
- chrononym — (semiotics) A term for a specific period of time, such as
- chudskoye — Lakelake on the Estonian-Russian border: with its S extension, Lake Pskov, c. 1,400 sq mi (3,626 sq km)
- cinnamony — reminiscent of cinnamon
- city code — (in Britain) short for City Code on Takeovers and Mergers: a code laid down in 1968 (later modified) to control takeover bids and mergers
- city room — the room in which local news is handled for a newspaper, a radio or television station, or for another journalistic agency.
- city-born — born in a city.
- clay road — an unsealed and unmetalled road in a rural area
- claymores — Plural form of claymore.
- claystone — a compact very fine-grained rock consisting of consolidated clay particles
- claytonia — any low-growing North American succulent portulacaceous plant of the genus Claytonia
- climatory — Having to do with climate.
- clonality — The fact or condition of being genetically identical, as to a parent, sibling, or other biological source.
- clonicity — of or relating to clonus.
- clonotype — (taxonomy) A herbarium specimen made from plants vegetatively propagated from (and thus clones of) the same plant from which a type specimen was made.
- clothyard — (historical) An old unit of measure for cloth, 36 or 37 inches.
- clouterly — clumsy
- cloyingly — In a cloying manner; with distasteful excess.
- cnidocyst — a nematocyst.
- coastally — In a coastal manner.
- coaxially — in a coaxial manner
- coaxingly — to attempt to influence by gentle persuasion, flattery, etc.; cajole: He coaxed her to sing, but she refused.
- cob money — crude silver coins issued in the Spanish colonies of the New World from about 1600 until 1820
- coccygeal — a small triangular bone forming the lower extremity of the spinal column in humans, consisting of four ankylosed rudimentary vertebrae.