9-letter words containing c, r, a, y
- brickclay — any clay suitable for making bricks
- brickyard — a place in which bricks are made, stored, or sold
- c battery — the power source for biasing the control-grid electrodes of electron tubes in battery-operated equipment
- cabinetry — cabinets collectively
- calculary — calculous
- camstairy — perverse or unruly
- canal ray — a stream of positive ions produced in a discharge tube by allowing them to pass through holes in the cathode
- candy bar — A candy bar is a long, thin, sweet food, usually covered in chocolate.
- candygram — a message accompanied by sweets
- canyoneer — a person who explores canyons
- cape york — the northernmost point of the Australian mainland, in N Queensland on the Torres Strait at the tip of Cape York Peninsula (a peninsula between the Coral Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria)
- capillary — Capillaries are tiny blood vessels in your body.
- caprylate — a salt of caprylic acid
- capsulary — Archaic form of capsular.
- captainry — captainship
- capybaras — Plural form of capybara.
- car-ferry — a vessel for transporting vehicles, in addition to passengers, across a body of water, esp as a regular service
- cardialgy — cardialgia
- carefully — cautious in one's actions: Be careful when you cross the street.
- cargo bay — the large central area of the space shuttle orbiter's fuselage in which payloads and their support equipment are carried. Also called payload bay. Compare bay2 (def 2a).
- cariosity — (medicine) caries.
- carnality — pertaining to or characterized by the flesh or the body, its passions and appetites; sensual: carnal pleasures.
- carnivory — the eating of animal flesh
- carnosity — an abnormal fleshy protrusion growing on any part of the body
- carpentry — Carpentry is the activity of making and repairing wooden things.
- carpingly — In a carping manner.
- carpology — the branch of botany concerned with the study of fruits and seeds
- carraways — Plural form of carraway.
- carry off — If you carry something off, you do it successfully.
- carry out — If you carry out a threat, task, or instruction, you do it or act according to it.
- carry-cot — carrier (sense 5)
- carry-out — food: take-away
- carryable — to take or support from one place to another; convey; transport: He carried her for a mile in his arms. This elevator cannot carry more than ten people.
- carryalls — Plural form of carryall.
- carryback — (in U.S. income-tax law) a special provision allowing part of a net loss or of an unused credit in a given year to be apportioned over one or two preceding years, chiefly in order to ease the tax burden. Compare carry·forward (def 2).
- carrycots — Plural form of carrycot.
- carryover — If something is a carryover from an earlier time, it began during an earlier time but still exists or happens now.
- carrytale — a gossipmonger
- cartology — the theory or science of mapmaking
- cartooney — Misspelling of cartoony.
- cartulary — a collection of charters or records, esp relating to the title to an estate or monastery
- caryatids — Plural form of caryatid.
- caryopses — Plural form of caryopsis.
- caryopsis — a dry seedlike fruit having the pericarp fused to the seed coat of the single seed: produced by the grasses
- cassowary — any large flightless bird of the genus Casuarius, inhabiting forests in NE Australia, New Guinea, and adjacent islands, having a horny head crest, black plumage, and brightly coloured neck and wattles: order Casuariiformes
- casuistry — Casuistry is the use of clever arguments to persuade or trick people.
- catalyser — Alternative form of catalyzer.
- catalyzer — That which catalyzes.
- cautionry — the position or function of a surety, a person who protects and takes responsibility for another person
- cd player — A CD player is a machine on which you can play CDs.