11-letter words containing c, u, y
- capsulotomy — (surgery) incision into a capsule, especially into the lens of the eye when removing cataracts.
- car journey — a trip or voyage made by automobile
- carousingly — in a carousing manner
- cattywampus — catawampus
- causability — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- causatively — acting as a cause; producing (often followed by of): a causative agency; an event causative of war.
- causelessly — in a manner without cause or reason
- caustically — capable of burning, corroding, or destroying living tissue.
- cavernously — In a cavernous manner; like a cavern.
- cayuga lake — lake in WC N.Y., one of the Finger Lakes: 38 mi (61 km) long
- cellularity — pertaining to or characterized by cellules or cells, especially minute compartments or cavities.
- chaleur bay — an inlet of the Gulf of St. Lawrence between NE New Brunswick and SE Quebec, in SE Canada: rich fishing ground. About 85 miles (135 km) long; 15–25 miles (24–40 km) wide.
- changefully — In a changeful manner.
- chateauguay — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, on the St. Lawrence.
- cherry plum — a small widely planted Asian rosaceous tree, Prunus cerasifera, with white flowers and red or yellow cherry-like fruit
- chikungunya — A viral disease resembling dengue, transmitted by mosquitoes and endemic in East Africa and parts of Asia.
- chlamydeous — (of plants) relating to or possessing sepals and petals
- chou pastry — cream puff paste.
- chuck-berry — Charles Edward Anderson ("Chuck") born 1926, U.S. rock-'n'-roll singer, musician, and composer.
- chucklingly — In a chuckling manner.
- church army — a voluntary Anglican organization founded in 1882 to assist the parish clergy
- churchyards — Plural form of churchyard.
- chyliferous — containing chyle
- chymiferous — containing chyme
- circularity — having the form of a circle; round: a circular tower.
- circulatory — Circulatory means relating to the circulation of blood in the body.
- clamorously — full of, marked by, or of the nature of clamor.
- cloud layer — a continuous or fragmented distribution of clouds all sharing the same cloud base.
- cloudlessly — Without clouds.
- cluster fly — a dipterous fly, Pollenia rudis, that tends to gather in large numbers in attics in the autumn: family Calliphoridae. The larvae are parasitic in earthworms
- coadjuvancy — (rare) cooperation, mutual effort, joint-help.
- coconut shy — a fairground stall in which balls are thrown to knock coconuts off stands
- cold turkey — Cold turkey is the unpleasant physical reaction that people experience when they suddenly stop taking a drug that they have become addicted to.
- cold-turkey — to withdraw from (an addictive substance or a habit) abruptly and completely.
- collocutory — of or relating to dialogue
- colluctancy — (obsolete, rare) A struggle to resist; a striving against; resistance; opposition of nature.
- collusively — in a collusive manner
- colourfully — Alternative spelling of colorfully.
- columnarity — the fact or quality of being columnar
- combat duty — active service
- combustibly — In a combustible manner.
- comedy club — a club where stand-up comedians perform
- communality — the state or condition of being communal.
- conchylious — Archaic form of conchylaceous.
- concubinary — of, relating to, or living in concubinage.
- concurrency — multitasking
- cone pulley — (on a lathe) a pulley consisting of a conelike arrangement of graduated, concentric pulleys for driving the headstock at different speeds.
- confluently — in a confluent manner
- confusingly — causing or tending to cause confusion: a confusing attempt at explanation.
- congruently — agreeing; accordant; congruous.