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9-letter words containing c, y, b

  • coxcombry — conceited arrogance or foppishness
  • cranberry — Cranberries are red berries with a sour taste. They are often used to make a sauce or jelly that you eat with meat.
  • credibley — Misspelling of credibly.
  • crowberry — a low-growing N temperate evergreen shrub, Empetrum nigrum, with small purplish flowers and black berry-like fruit: family Empetraceae
  • crybabies — Plural form of crybaby.
  • cryobanks — Plural form of cryobank.
  • cryocable — a highly conducting electrical cable cooled with a refrigerant such as liquid nitrogen
  • cryoprobe — a surgical instrument with an extremely cold tip, used in cryosurgery to destroy tissue
  • cubbyhole — A cubbyhole is a very small room or space for storing things.
  • cubically — In a cubic manner.
  • cupboardy — (rare) Cupboardlike: for example small, fusty or poorly lit.
  • currycomb — a square comb consisting of rows of small teeth, used for grooming horses
  • cyan blue — a moderate greenish-blue to bluish-green color.
  • cyberbook — (science fiction) A digital or electronic equivalent of a book.
  • cybercafe — A cybercafé is a café where people can pay to use the Internet.
  • cybercash — Funds used in electronic financial transactions, especially over the Internet.
  • cybercast — (Internet) A broadcast of audiovisual material over the Internet.
  • cyberchat — Chat that takes place on the Internet, as in a chatroom or via instant messages.
  • cybercity — A city with a strong basis in information technology.
  • cybercrud — (jargon)   /si:'ber-kruhd/ 1. (Coined by Ted Nelson) Obfuscatory tech-talk. Verbiage with a high MEGO factor. The computer equivalent of bureaucratese. 2. Incomprehensible stuff embedded in e-mail. First there were the "Received" headers that show how mail flows through systems, then MIME (Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions) headers and part boundaries, and now huge blocks of hex for PEM (Privacy Enhanced Mail) or PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) digital signatures and certificates of authenticity. This stuff all has a purpose and good user interfaces should hide it, but all too often users are forced to wade through it.
  • cybergoth — (uncountable) A subculture combining elements of goth and rave culture, typically involving energetic electronic music and brightly coloured, futuristic clothing.
  • cyberhack — Computers. hack1 (def 22b).
  • cybernate — to control (a manufacturing process) with a servomechanism or (of a process) to be controlled by a servomechanism
  • cybernaut — a person who is an expert in or uses the internet a lot
  • cyberporn — any pornography accessible online or on the internet
  • cyberpunk — Cyberpunk is a type of science fiction.
  • cyberrhea — (humour, jargon)   /si:'ber-eer/ An affliction of some word processor users; excessive frequency and looseness of productivity. Particularly virulent among those who have not discovered the fortifying virtues of revision.
  • cyberself — An alternate self on the Internet or in cyberspace; an online alter-ego.
  • cybershop — Purchase or shop for goods and services on a website.
  • cybersoul — The supposed equivalent of a soul in cyberspace.
  • cyberwand — (hardware, virtual reality)   A virtual reality controller. The CyberWand costs $99, or $765 with optional Polhemus sensor. It is basically the handle of a flight control system without the base. The controller's four buttons and 2-D hat sensor track six degrees of movement.
  • cyberzine — (computing) A magazine published on the Internet.
  • cybrarian — a person responsible for archives and information available on the internet
  • cymbalist — A musician who plays the cymbals.
  • cymbeline — a romantic drama (1610?) by Shakespeare.
  • cymbidium — a genus, Cymbidium, of subtropical and tropical orchids native to Australia and Asia, having boat-shaped showy flowers
  • cymbiform — having the shape of a boat
  • cynophobe — A person with cynophobia.
  • daybeacon — an unlighted navigational beacon used as a daymark.
  • deducibly — in a deducible or conjecturable manner
  • dicky bow — a bow tie
  • dubitancy — doubt; uncertainty
  • embracery — the offence of attempting by corrupt means to influence a jury or juror, as by bribery or threats
  • embryonic — Of or relating to an embryo.
  • embryotic — Embryonic.
  • evincibly — in an evincible manner
  • excusably — In an excusable manner or to an excusable degree.
  • execrably — In an execrable way.
  • farcy bud — an ulcerated swelling, produced in farcy.
  • febricity — the state of being feverish.
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