10-letter words containing c, y
- oracularly — In an oracular manner.
- orchectomy — orchiectomy.
- orchiopexy — (surgery) The procedure to move an undescended testicle into the scrotum.
- organicity — noting or pertaining to a class of chemical compounds that formerly comprised only those existing in or derived from plants or animals, but that now includes all other compounds of carbon.
- oryctology — the study of fossils, minerals, and rocks
- oscitantly — in an oscitant manner
- osculatory — to come into close contact or union.
- osteectomy — excision of part or all of a bone.
- osteocytes — Plural form of osteocyte.
- osteomancy — A kind of divination by means of bones.
- otomycosis — (pathology) a fungal ear infection.
- otto cycle — an idealization of the thermodynamic cycle of the internal combustion engine with air as the working substance: intake of air at atmospheric pressure, then adiabatic compression, then ignition with an increase of pressure and temperature at constant volume, then adiabatic expansion and performance of work, then a drop to atmospheric pressure at constant volume and a rejection of heat to the environment, then the exhaust of air at constant pressure.
- overcanopy — to cover like a canopy
- overcostly — Too costly. (from 16th c.).
- overnicely — in an overnice manner
- oxycalcium — pertaining to or produced by oxygen and calcium.
- oxycephaly — a malformation in which the head is somewhat pointed, caused by premature closure of the skull sutures.
- oxymoronic — a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly.”.
- oyster cap — an edible, brownish-gray to white mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus, that grows in clusters on fallen trees and their stumps.
- pachymeter — an instrument for measuring thickness
- paddywhack — Informal. a spanking.
- paracyesis — ectopic pregnancy.
- paralympic — of or relating to the Paralympics
- parastichy — one of a number of seemingly secondary spirals or oblique ranks winding around the stem or axis to the right and left in a spiral arrangement of leaves, scales, etc., where the internodes are short and the members closely crowded, as in the houseleek and the pine cone.
- parchingly — to make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
- parenchyma — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
- paronychia — inflammation of the folds of skin bordering a nail of a finger or toe, usually characterized by infection and pus formation; felon.
- paroxysmic — any sudden, violent outburst; a fit of violent action or emotion: paroxysms of rage.
- parrot cry — a remark, complaint, etc that is repeated or imitated mechanically without understanding
- pastrycook — a person who makes pastry or pastries
- patriarchy — a form of social organization in which the father is the supreme authority in the family, clan, or tribe and descent is reckoned in the male line, with the children belonging to the father's clan or tribe.
- patricliny — patrocliny.
- patrocliny — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the paternal parent (opposed to matrocliny).
- patronymic — (of family names) derived from the name of a father or ancestor, especially by the addition of a suffix or prefix indicating descent.
- patty-cake — pat-a-cake.
- pay a call — visit
- pay cheque — Your pay cheque is a piece of paper that your employer gives you as your wages or salary, and which you can then cash at a bank. You can also use pay cheque as a way of referring to your wages or salary.
- pay packet — Your pay packet is the envelope containing your wages, which your employer gives you at the end of every week.
- pdsa cycle — Plan, Do, See, Approve (from Japan).
- peacefully — characterized by peace; free from war, strife, commotion, violence, or disorder: a peaceful reign; a peaceful demonstration.
- peacockery — proud or ostentatious display
- pearl city — a city on S Oahu, in central Hawaii.
- peculiarly — strange; queer; odd: peculiar happenings.
- pelycosaur — any of a group of large primitive reptiles belonging to the extinct order Pelycosauria, abundant in North America and Europe during the Permian Period, often having a tall spinal sail.
- penetrancy — the quality of being penetrant
- pennycress — any of several plants belonging to herbs of the genus Thlaspi, of the mustard family, especially T. arvense, of Europe, bearing somewhat round, flat pods.
- pentaptych — a work of art consisting of five panels or sections.
- peptolytic — causing the hydrolysis of peptides.
- percursory — passing through rapidly; cursory
- periphytic — the community of tiny organisms, as protozoans, hydras, insect larvae, and snails, that lives on the surfaces of rooted aquatic plants.