9-letter words containing c, y, r, i
- hybristic — hubris.
- hydracids — Plural form of hydracid.
- hydraulic — operated by, moved by, or employing water or other liquids in motion.
- hydrazoic — noting or pertaining to hydrazoic acid; triazoic.
- hydriodic — of or derived from hydriodic acid.
- hydroptic — (formerly) edema.
- hyperacid — Highly acidic.
- hyperemic — an abnormally large amount of blood in any part of the body.
- hypericin — an antidepressant and antiviral compound derived from Saint John's wort
- hypericum — A yellow-flowered plant of a genus that includes the St. John’s worts and rose of Sharon.
- hyperopic — Farsighted; of, having, or pertaining to hyperopia.
- hyperoxic — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting hyperoxia.
- hypobaric — (of an anesthetic) having a specific gravity lower than that of cerebrospinal fluid. Compare hyperbaric (def 1).
- hypocrism — (obsolete) hypocrisy.
- hypocrisy — a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess.
- hypocrite — a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, especially one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie his or her public statements.
- hyporheic — Denoting an area or ecosystem beneath the bed of a river or stream that is saturated with water and that supports invertebrate fauna which play a role in the larger ecosystem.
- hypotrich — any ciliate of the suborder Hypotricha, having cilia chiefly on the ventral surface.
- hyrcanian — an ancient province of the Persian empire, SE of the Caspian Sea.
- hysterics — Usually, hysterics. a fit of uncontrollable laughter or weeping; hysteria.
- idiocracy — Government that is based upon abstract theory.
- idiocrasy — idiosyncrasy.
- illyricum — a Roman province in ancient Illyria.
- imbracery — embracery.
- incensory — Thurible, censer.
- incurably — not curable; that cannot be cured, remedied, or corrected: an incurable disease.
- incurvity — the quality of having inward curvature
- inerrancy — lack of error; infallibility.
- inherency — inherence.
- insectary — a laboratory for the study of live insects, their life histories, effects on plants, reaction to insecticides, etc.
- intercity — a large or important town.
- intracity — Within a city.
- intricacy — intricate character or state.
- irascibly — easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
- iridocyte — a guanine-containing cell in the skin of fish and some cephalopods, giving these animals their iridescence
- irritancy — tending to cause irritation; irritating.
- isochrony — the fact or state of occurrence at the same time; contemporaneity.
- isohydric — having the same acidity or hydrogen-ion concentration
- judiciary — the judicial branch of government.
- kirkcaldy — a city in SE Fife, in E Scotland, on the Firth of Forth.
- kritarchy — Rule by judges.
- kyriarchy — A system of
- lacrimary — of or relating to tears or the lacrimal glands
- latrociny — banditry
- lay vicar — a member of a cathedral choir appointed to sing certain parts of the services
- lubricity — oily smoothness, as of a surface; slipperiness.
- lyocratic — noting a colloid owing its stability to the affinity of its particles for the liquid in which they are dispersed.
- lyotropic — noting any series of ions, salts, or radicals arranged in descending order relative to the magnitude of their effect on a given solvent.
- lyrically — (of poetry) having the form and musical quality of a song, and especially the character of a songlike outpouring of the poet's own thoughts and feelings, as distinguished from epic and dramatic poetry.
- lyricised — to write lyrics.