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10-letter words containing c, r, e, s, y

  • decorously — characterized by dignified propriety in conduct, manners, appearance, character, etc.
  • decrassify — to make (something) less crass
  • discreetly — judicious in one's conduct or speech, especially with regard to respecting privacy or maintaining silence about something of a delicate nature; prudent; circumspect.
  • discretely — apart or detached from others; separate; distinct: six discrete parts.
  • disparency — (proscribed) A significant discrepancy.
  • dry fresco — fresco secco.
  • dry socket — a painful inflammatory infection of the bone and tissues at the site of an extracted tooth.
  • dry-fresco — the technique of painting in watercolors on dry plaster. Also called dry fresco, secco. Compare fresco (def 1).
  • dyscrasite — an alloy of antimony and silver
  • dysenteric — Of, relating, or pertaining to dysentery.
  • easy chair — an upholstered armchair for lounging.
  • embryo sac — the structure within a plant ovule that contains the egg cell: develops from the megaspore and contains the embryo plant and endosperm after fertilization
  • encrypters — Plural form of encrypter.
  • escalatory — tending to escalate
  • eurythmics — A rhythmic interpretation of music with graceful, free-style dance movements.
  • excusatory — Serving to make an excuse.
  • flyscreens — Plural form of flyscreen.
  • glycerides — Plural form of glyceride.
  • gray scale — a scale of achromatic colors having several, usually ten, equal gradations ranging from white to black, used in television and photography.
  • gray-scale — (spelling)   US spelling of "grey-scale".
  • grey-scale — (graphics)   (US "gray-scale") 1. Composed of (discrete) shades of grey. If the pixels of a grey-scale image have N bits, they may take values from zero, representing black up to 2^N-1, representing white with intermediate values representing increasingly light shades of grey. If N=1 the image is not called grey-scale but could be called monochrome. 2. A range of acurately known shades of grey printed out for use in calibrating those shades on a display or printer.
  • gynarchies — Plural form of gynarchy.
  • gyroscopes — Plural form of gyroscope.
  • heterocyst — one of the enlarged nitrogen-fixing cells occurring along the filaments in some blue-green algae.
  • hydroceles — Plural form of hydrocele.
  • hydroscope — an optical device for viewing objects below the surface of water.
  • hydrospace — the regions beneath the surface of the oceans and seas.
  • hygroscope — an instrument that indicates the approximate humidity of the air.
  • hyperchaos — (mathematics) A form of chaotic behaviour with at least two positive Lyapunov exponents.
  • hypercubes — Plural form of hypercube.
  • hyperosmic — Of, pertaining to, or affected by hyperosmia.
  • hypersonic — noting or pertaining to speed that is at least five times that of sound in the same medium.
  • hyperspace — a Euclidean space of dimension greater than three.
  • hypersparc — (processor)   The successor to the SuperSPARC processor, based on the SPARC ISA. The HyperSPARC has smaller caches than the SuperSPARC: 8kb on-chip and 256kb off-chip (compared with 36kb and 1Mb). The HyperSPARC's memory management is optimised for more efficient out-of-cache addressing which means quicker access to external (slower, cheaper) memory.
  • hypocrisie — Obsolete form of hypocrisy.
  • hypocrites — Plural form of hypocrite.
  • hysteretic — the lag in response exhibited by a body in reacting to changes in the forces, especially magnetic forces, affecting it. Compare magnetic hysteresis.
  • hysterical — of, relating to, or characterized by hysteria.
  • hystericky — prone to or characterized by hysteria
  • hystricine — Like or pertaining to porcupines.
  • insecurely — subject to fears, doubts, etc.; not self-confident or assured: an insecure person.
  • insecurity — lack of confidence or assurance; self-doubt: He is plagued by insecurity.
  • insurgency — the state or condition of being insurgent.
  • jackassery — The foolish or obnoxious behaviour of a jackass.
  • key escrow — (security)   A controversial arrangement where the keys needed to decrypt encrypted data must be held in escrow by a third party so that government agencies can obtain them to decrypt messages which they suspect to be relevant to national security.
  • lachrymose — suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful.
  • lysimetric — of or relating to the measurement of solubility
  • macrocytes — Plural form of macrocyte.
  • mcreynoldsJames Clark, 1862–1946, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1914–41.
  • mercy seat — Bible: Golden covering on the Arc of Covenant
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