9-letter words containing c, r, a, y
- decennary — decade (sense 2)
- democracy — A democracy is a country in which the people choose their government by voting for it.
- democraty — Obsolete form of democracy.
- democrazy — A democratic system or state considered to be inauthentic or inherently flawed; democracy that has descended into corruption, injustice, or absurdity.
- diachrony — a change over time, esp in languages
- dicastery — A term used by the Vatican corresponding to ministry or department as subdivisions of the papal Curia, referring to the administrative departments of the Vatican City State, as well as strictly ecclesiastical departments; more often termed congregation.
- dictatory — dictatorial
- dockyards — Plural form of dockyard.
- dry-clean — to clean (garments, draperies, rugs, etc.) with a liquid other than water, as benzine or gasoline.
- dulocracy — rule by slaves.
- dyscrasia — An abnormal or disordered state of the body or of a bodily part.
- dyscrasic — relating to, resulting from, or suffering from dyscrasia
- dyscratic — having or suffering from dyscrasia
- dyspraxic — Of or pertaining to dyspraxia.
- ear candy — Slang. pleasant, melodic pop music.
- easy-care — requiring little care or maintenance: easy-care fabrics; easy-care furniture.
- echegaray — José [haw-se] /hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), (José Echegaray y Eizaguirre) 1832–1916, Spanish dramatist and statesman: Nobel Prize 1904.
- educatory — educative.
- electuary — A medicinal substance mixed with honey or another sweet substance.
- embracery — the offence of attempting by corrupt means to influence a jury or juror, as by bribery or threats
- eucaryote — Alternative spelling of eukaryote.
- eucryphia — any tree or shrub of the mostly evergreen genus Eucryphia, native to Australia and S America, having leaves of a dark lustrous green and white flowers: family Eucryphiaceae
- evocatory — evocative
- execrably — In an execrable way.
- executary — a person whose job comprises tasks appropriate to a middle-management executive as well as those traditionally carried out by a secretary
- eye chart — a chart used to test vision from a specified distance: it consists typically of rows of letters of decreasing size
- eye cream — a cream used round the eyes
- fair copy — a copy of a document made after final correction.
- fancywork — ornamental needlework.
- farcy bud — an ulcerated swelling, produced in farcy.
- fiduciary — Law. a person to whom property or power is entrusted for the benefit of another.
- fire clay — a refractory clay used for making crucibles, firebricks, etc.
- flagrancy — shockingly noticeable or evident; obvious; glaring: a flagrant error.
- forecaddy — caddy who goes ahead of the golfer to point out the ball's location
- formicary — an ant nest.
- fragrancy — fragrance (def 1).
- franticly — desperate or wild with excitement, passion, fear, pain, etc.; frenzied.
- fructuary — a person who enjoys the fruits or rewards (of something)
- funny car — type of drag racing
- furcately — in a furcate manner
- generalcy — the office or tenure of a general.
- gracility — The state of being gracefully slender.
- gray card — a card of controlled reflectance held near a subject to approximate middle tones and used as a target for an exposure meter.
- gray code — (hardware) A binary sequence with the property that only one bit changes between any two consecutive elements (the two codes have a Hamming distance of one). The Gray code originated when digital logic circuits were built from vacuum tubes and electromechanical relays. Counters generated tremendous power demands and noise spikes when many bits changed at once. E.g. when incrementing a register containing 11111111, the back-EMF from the relays' collapsing magnetic fields required copious noise suppression. Using Gray code counters, any increment or decrement changed only one bit, regardless of the size of the number. Gray code can also be used to convert the angular position of a disk to digital form. A radial line of sensors reads the code off the surface of the disk and if the disk is half-way between two positions each sensor might read its bit from both positions at once but since only one bit differs between the two, the value read is guaranteed to be one of the two valid values rather than some third (invalid) combination (a glitch). One possible algorithm for generating a Gray code sequence is to toggle the lowest numbered bit that results in a new code each time. Here is a four bit Gray code sequence generated in this way: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 The codes were patented in 1953 by Frank Gray, a Bell Labs researcher.
- gray duck — any of several ducks in which certain immature or female plumages are predominantly gray, as the gadwall and the pintail.
- graybacks — Plural form of grayback.
- grayscale — a scale of achromatic colors having several, usually ten, equal gradations ranging from white to black, used in television and photography.
- graywacke — Geology. a dark-gray coarse-grained wacke.
- greyscale — Alternative spelling of grayscale.
- greywacke — Geology. a dark-gray coarse-grained wacke.