10-letter words containing c, y, p
- copy paper — paper specially prepared for the writing of advertising copy, newspaper copy, etc., usually having guidelines to indicate margins and the number of spaces per line.
- copy press — a simple machine for printing many copies of a document
- copycatted — Simple past tense and past participle of copycat.
- copycutter — an employee of a newspaper who separates copy into takes to facilitate printing.
- copyedited — Simple past tense and past participle of copyedit.
- copyeditor — a person who edits a manuscript, text, etc., for publication, especially to find and correct errors in style, punctuation, and grammar.
- copyholder — one who reads aloud from the copy as the proof corrector follows the reading in the proof
- copyreader — a person who edits and prepares newspaper copy for publication; subeditor
- copyrights — Plural form of copyright.
- copywriter — A copywriter is a person whose job is to write the words for advertisements.
- cormophyte — any of the Cormophyta, a major division (now obsolete) of plants having a stem, root, and leaves: includes the mosses, ferns, and seed plants
- corn poppy — a poppy, Papaver rhoeas, that has bright red flowers and grows in cornfields. Since World War I it has been the symbol of fallen soldiers
- corn syrup — syrup prepared from maize
- corpocracy — a corporate bureaucracy.
- corporally — of the human body; bodily; physical: corporal suffering.
- corporeity — bodily or material nature or substance; physical existence; corporeality
- corpulency — Alternative form of corpulence.
- corylopsis — any of various deciduous shrubs of the genus Corylopsis, which are found in eastern Asia and have yellow flowers
- coryphaeus — (in ancient Greek drama) the leader of the chorus
- coryphodon — a primitive hoofed mammal of the extinct genus Coryphodon, of the early Eocene Epoch, having a long, thickset body, short legs, and five-toed feet, each toe ending in a small hoof.
- counterspy — a spy working against or investigating enemy espionage
- cozy up to — to try to ingratiate oneself, or make friends, with
- creepingly — in a creeping manner
- cryophilic — able to thrive at low temperatures
- cryophorus — a glass tube with a bulb at each end which contains water and water vapour, used in physics to demonstrate freezing by evaporation
- cryoprobes — Plural form of cryoprobe.
- cryoscopes — Plural form of cryoscope.
- cryoscopic — Chemistry. a technique for determining the molecular weight of a substance by dissolving it and measuring the freezing point of the solution.
- cryosphere — All those areas of the Earth where the surface is frozen.
- crypto-jew — a member of a Jewish community who secretly practices Judaism while officially converting, under duress, to either Christianity or Islam.
- cryptogams — Plural form of cryptogam.
- cryptogamy — the state of being a cryptogam
- cryptogram — a secret symbol
- cryptology — the study of secret codes or ciphers and the devices used to create and decipher them
- cryptopine — a poisonous alkaloid, C21H23NO5, found in opium
- cryptozoic — of or relating to that part of geological time represented by rocks in which the evidence of life is slight and the life forms are primitive; pre-Phanerozoic
- cryptozoon — an extinct genus of algae from Precambrian and Cambrian times, forming irregularly hemispherical fossil colonies composed of layers of limy precipitate.
- culdoscopy — Endoscopy of the female pelvic organs by way of the vagina.
- curly palm — a feather palm, Howea belmoreana, of Lord Howe Island, having plumy leaves about 7 feet (2.1 meter) long.
- curry puff — (in eastern cookery) a type of pie or pasty consisting of a pastry case containing curried meat and vegetables
- cutesy pie — darling; sweetheart; sweetie (often used as a term of endearment).
- cutesy-poo — embarrassingly or sickeningly cute.
- cyanopathy — (medicine) A disease in which the surface of the body turns blue, usually arising from a malformation of the heart, which causes an imperfect arterialization of the blood.
- cyanophyta — a phylum, or subkingdom, in the kingdom Monera, comprising the blue-green algae.
- cyanophyte — a former name for a cyanobacterium
- cyanotypes — Plural form of cyanotype.
- cybergroup — A group based in cyberspace or on the Internet.
- cyberspace — In computer technology, cyberspace refers to data banks and networks, considered as a place.
- cycle clip — a ring of taut metal that fits on a person's ankles to hold trouser bottoms tight and prevent them getting caught in the chain of a bicycle
- cycle path — A cycle path is a special path on which people can travel by bicycle separately from motor vehicles.