11-letter words containing c, r, y, s
- cytotropism — cytotropic tendency or behavior.
- daisycutter — Alternative form of daisy cutter.
- day cruiser — a motorboat too small to have any accommodations for sleeping.
- decursively — in a decursive manner
- discernably — capable of being discerned; distinguishable.
- discernibly — capable of being discerned; distinguishable.
- discography — a selective or complete list of phonograph recordings, typically of one composer, performer, or conductor.
- discordancy — discordance (defs 1–3).
- discourtesy — lack or breach of courtesy; incivility; rudeness.
- discrepancy — the state or quality of being discrepant or in disagreement, as by displaying an unexpected or unacceptable difference; inconsistency: The discrepancy between the evidence and his account of what happened led to his arrest.
- drastically — acting with force or violence; violent.
- dry compass — a compass having a compass card mounted on pivots.
- dry-cleanse — to dry-clean.
- dysharmonic — relating to abnormal bone development
- dysrhythmic — Having an unpleasing, irregular beat.
- dyssynergic — relating to or affected by dyssynergia
- early music — music of the medieval, Renaissance, and early Baroque periods, especially revived and played on period instruments; European music after ancient music and before the classical music era, from the beginning of the Middle Ages to about 1750.
- electrolyse — Alternative spelling of electrolyze.
- enterocytes — Plural form of enterocyte.
- eristically — In an eristic manner.
- erythristic — Exhibiting erythrism.
- escharotomy — A surgical procedure in which an incision is made through eschar to expose the fatty tissue below.
- escort duty — a military duty in which one or more servicemen accompany a person, group of people, or vehicle, for protection, guidance, restraint, or as a mark of honour
- eurhythmics — Alternative spelling of eurythmics.
- euryoecious — (of an organism) able to live under variable conditions
- excrescency — the state or condition of being excrescent
- excursively — In an excursive manner.
- expiscatory — acting to expiscate; tending to expiscate
- fancy dress — a costume for a ball, masquerade, etc., chosen to please the fancy, usually a costume characteristic of a particular period or place, class of persons, or historical or fictitious character.
- ferociously — savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel: a ferocious beating.
- fibrocystic — showing or having the increased fibrosis associated with dilated glandular structure, as in the breast nodules of fibrocystic disease.
- fiery cross — a burning cross, the rallying symbol of ancient Scotland and later of the Highlanders in case of war; later adopted by other organizations, including the Ku Klux Klan.
- fiscal year — any yearly period without regard to the calendar year, at the end of which a firm, government, etc., determines its financial condition.
- fluoroscopy — the use of or examination by means of a fluoroscope.
- flycatchers — Plural form of flycatcher.
- foster city — a city in W California.
- fractiously — In a fractious manner.
- gastrectomy — partial or total excision of the stomach.
- gastromancy — a form of divination by interpreting words and sounds seeming to come from the stomach
- gastroscopy — the examination with a gastroscope to detect disease.
- gracelessly — In a graceless manner.
- gymnasiarch — (in ancient Greece) a magistrate who superintended the gymnasia and public games in certain cities.
- gyrocompass — a navigational compass containing a gyroscope rotor, that, when adjusted for the latitude and speed of the vessel or aircraft, indicates the direction of true north along the surface of the earth or communicates this information to one or more gyro repeaters.
- gyrostatics — the science that deals with the laws of rotating bodies.
- helichrysum — any of the numerous composite plants of the genus Helichrysum, having alternate leaves and solitary or clustered flower heads, including the strawflower.
- hicky-horse — a seesaw.
- historicity — historical authenticity.
- hoary cress — a perennial Mediterranean plant, Cardaria (or Lepidium) draba, with small white flowers: a widespread troublesome weed: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- honeysucker — a bird that feeds on the nectar of flowers.
- hydrocorals — any colonial marine animal of the hydrozoan order Stylasterina having a calcareous skeleton resembling that of the true corals.