10-letter words containing c, r, a, y
- articulary — (anatomy) A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes.
- astrocytes — Plural form of astrocyte.
- astrocytic — relating to astrocytes or star-shaped neuroglial cells
- astromancy — divination by means of the stars.
- asymmetric — Asymmetric means the same as asymmetrical.
- asynchrony — a lack of synchronism or coincidence in time.
- athermancy — an inability to transmit radiant heat or infrared radiation
- atrocity's — the quality or state of being atrocious.
- auctionary — of or relating to auctions or auctioneers
- aureomycin — chlortetracycline
- ayers rock — a conspicuous red monadnock in central Australia, in the SW Northern Territory: tourist attraction. 1143 feet (348 meters) high.
- ayurvedics — a therapeutic system based on the Ayurveda
- back forty — remote, usually uncultivated acreage on a large piece of land, as on a farm or ranch.
- back story — background information provided, often in narrative form, to give help in understanding something, as the behavior of a character in a film
- backronyms — Plural form of backronym.
- backwardly — In a backward direction.
- bankruptcy — Bankruptcy is the state of being bankrupt.
- barleycorn — a grain of barley, or barley itself
- barycenter — (physics) The center of a mass; often specifically, the point at which the gravitational forces exerted by two objects are equal.
- barycentre — a centre of mass, esp of the earth-moon system or the solar system
- battle cry — A battle cry is a phrase that is used to encourage people to support a particular cause or campaign.
- berecyntia — Cybele.
- bioprivacy — the state of freedom from others having unauthorized access to biometric data about oneself
- blackberry — A blackberry is a small, soft black or dark purple fruit.
- body track — the tracks of a railroad yard used for switching or sorting cars.
- brachyaxis — the shorter lateral axis of a monoclinic, orthorhombic, or triclinic crystal
- brachydome — a dome whose face is parallel to the brachydiagonal axis in a crystal
- brachylogy — a concise style in speech or writing
- brachyuran — any decapod crustacean of the group (formerly suborder) Brachyura, which includes the crabs
- bradytelic — of or relating to evolution at a rate slower than the standard for a given group of plants or animals.
- bricklayer — A bricklayer is a person whose job is to build walls using bricks.
- brilliancy — an instance of brilliance: the brilliancies of Congreve's wit.
- cacography — bad handwriting
- cacotrophy — malnutrition
- caerphilly — a market town in SE Wales, in Caerphilly county borough: site of the largest castle in Wales (13th–14th centuries). Pop: 31 060 (2001)
- caligraphy — Alternative form of calligraphy.
- caloricity — Ectothermy.
- calyciform — having the form of a calyx
- camera-shy — Someone who is camera-shy is nervous and uncomfortable about being filmed or about having their photograph taken.
- campimetry — a technique for assessing the central part of the visual field
- canal rays — rays of positive ions passing through openings in the cathode of a vacuum tube
- candy corn — a small candy shaped and colored to look like a kernel of corn.
- caney fork — a river in central Tennessee, flowing NW to the Cumberland River. 144 miles (232 km) long.
- cankeredly — spitefully or crabbedly
- canorously — In a canorous manner.
- canterbury — a late 18th-century low wooden stand with partitions for holding cutlery and plates: often mounted on casters
- capitulary — any of the collections of ordinances promulgated by the Frankish kings (8th–10th centuries ad)
- carbonylic — of, relating to, or characteristic of the carbonyl group.
- carboxylic — containing or pertaining to the carboxyl group or the carboxyl radical
- cardboardy — like cardboard, esp in stiffness, texture, or taste