9-letter words containing c, r, a, n, y
- crayonist — (dated) An artist who uses crayons.
- cryobanks — Plural form of cryobank.
- cyanurate — a salt or ester derived from cyanide
- cybernate — to control (a manufacturing process) with a servomechanism or (of a process) to be controlled by a servomechanism
- cybernaut — a person who is an expert in or uses the internet a lot
- cyberwand — (hardware, virtual reality) A virtual reality controller. The CyberWand costs $99, or $765 with optional Polhemus sensor. It is basically the handle of a flight control system without the base. The controller's four buttons and 2-D hat sensor track six degrees of movement.
- cybrarian — a person responsible for archives and information available on the internet
- cyrenaica — a region and former province (1951–63) of E Libya: largely desert; settled by the Greeks in about 630 bc; ruled successively by the Egyptians, Romans, Arabs, Turks, and Italians. Area: 855 370 sq km (330 258 sq miles)
- cytherean — of or relating to Cytherea.
- daycentre — a building used for daycare or other welfare services
- decennary — decade (sense 2)
- diachrony — a change over time, esp in languages
- dry-clean — to clean (garments, draperies, rugs, etc.) with a liquid other than water, as benzine or gasoline.
- ear candy — Slang. pleasant, melodic pop music.
- fancywork — ornamental needlework.
- flagrancy — shockingly noticeable or evident; obvious; glaring: a flagrant error.
- fragrancy — fragrance (def 1).
- franticly — desperate or wild with excitement, passion, fear, pain, etc.; frenzied.
- funny car — type of drag racing
- generalcy — the office or tenure of a general.
- gynarchic — relating to gynarchy or rule by women
- gynocracy — gynarchy.
- gyrfalcon — a large falcon, Falco rusticolus, of arctic and subarctic regions, having white, gray, or blackish color phases: now greatly reduced in number.
- gyromancy — a method of prediction or prophecy in which a person moves round and round in a circle and the place at which they fall to the ground is said to be highly significant
- handcarry — to carry or deliver by hand, as for security reasons: The ambassador hand-carried a message from the president.
- hercynian — denoting a period of mountain building in Europe in the late Palaeozoic
- hyrcanian — an ancient province of the Persian empire, SE of the Caspian Sea.
- incurably — not curable; that cannot be cured, remedied, or corrected: an incurable disease.
- inerrancy — lack of error; infallibility.
- insectary — a laboratory for the study of live insects, their life histories, effects on plants, reaction to insecticides, etc.
- intracity — Within a city.
- intricacy — intricate character or state.
- irritancy — tending to cause irritation; irritating.
- jerry can — Also called blitz can. Military. a narrow, flat-sided, 5-gallon (19-liter) container for fluids, as fuel.
- latrociny — banditry
- macbinary — (file format) An eight-bit wide representation of the data and resource forks of an Macintosh file and of relevant Finder information. MacBinary files are recognised as "special" by several MacIntosh terminal emulators. These emulators, using Kermit or XMODEM or any other file transfer protocol, can separate the incoming file into forks and appropriately modify the Desktop to display icons, types, creation dates, and the like.
- machinery — an assemblage of machines or mechanical apparatuses: the machinery of a factory.
- mccartney — (Sir) (James) Paul, born 1942, English singer, songwriter, and bass guitarist for the Beatles.
- mercenary — working or acting merely for money or other reward; venal.
- mesocrany — the state of having a medium breadth of skull
- monocracy — government by only one person; autocracy.
- narcology — The study of drug abuse.
- necessary — being essential, indispensable, or requisite: a necessary part of the motor.
- nomocracy — (politics) A political system under the sovereignty of rational laws and civic rights.
- panegyric — a lofty oration or writing in praise of a person or thing; eulogy.
- parcenary — joint heirship or coheirship; the undivided holding of land by two or more coheirs.
- pecuniary — of or relating to money: pecuniary difficulties.
- pentarchy — a government by five persons.
- pregnancy — the state, condition, or quality of being pregnant.
- pyracanth — a thorny evergreen shrub of the genus Pyracantha, related to the hawthorn