10-letter words containing c, y
- benignancy — kind, especially to inferiors; gracious: a benignant sovereign.
- benin city — a city in S Nigeria, capital of Edo state: former capital of the kingdom of Benin. Pop: 1 022 000 (2005 est)
- berecyntia — Cybele.
- beta decay — the radioactive transformation of an atomic nucleus accompanying the emission of an electron. It involves unit change of atomic number but none in mass number
- betacyanin — any one of a group of red nitrogenous pigments found in certain plants, such as beetroot
- bewitchery — a bewitching power; charm
- biblically — of or in the Bible: a Biblical name.
- bifacially — from a bifacial point of view
- billy club — billy (def 1).
- billy-club — billy (def 1).
- biodynamic — the branch of biology dealing with energy or the activity of living organisms (opposed to biostatics).
- bioecology — the science that deals with the interrelations of communities of animals and plants with their environment
- biomimicry — the mimicking of life using imitation biological systems
- bionically — utilizing electronic devices and mechanical parts to assist humans in performing difficult, dangerous, or intricate tasks, as by supplementing or duplicating parts of the body: The scientist used a bionic arm to examine the radioactive material.
- biophysics — the physics of biological processes and the application of methods used in physics to biology
- bioprivacy — the state of freedom from others having unauthorized access to biometric data about oneself
- biopsychic — of, relating to, or comprising psychological and biological phenomena.
- biotically — from a biotic point of view
- black body — a hypothetical body that would be capable of absorbing all the electromagnetic radiation falling on it
- blackberry — A blackberry is a small, soft black or dark purple fruit.
- blastocyst — the blastula of mammals: a sphere of cells (trophoblast) enclosing an inner mass of cells and a fluid-filled cavity (blastocoel)
- blind copy — a copy of a letter or the like, the original of which bears no evidence that the copy was sent to some other person.
- bobby calf — an unweaned calf culled for slaughter
- bobbysocks — ankle-length socks worn by teenage girls, esp in the US in the 1940s
- body check — the fair block of an opponent who has the puck by bumping with the body, shoulder to hip, from the front or side
- body clock — Your body clock is the internal biological mechanism which causes your body to automatically behave in particular ways at particular times of the day.
- body count — the number of people killed
- body punch — a blow to the body of an opponent
- body scrub — a product designed to exfoliate the skin
- body track — the tracks of a railroad yard used for switching or sorting cars.
- booty call — a meeting arranged for the purpose of having sex
- boss cocky — a boss or person in power
- bouncingly — in a bouncing manner
- box canyon — a canyon with vertical or almost vertical walls
- boy scouts — the worldwide movement founded by Lord Baden-Powell in 1908, now called the Scout Association in the UK and the Boys Scouts of America in the USA, which pursues a programme of activities for boys with the aim of developing character and responsibility
- brachyaxis — the shorter lateral axis of a monoclinic, orthorhombic, or triclinic crystal
- brachydome — a dome whose face is parallel to the brachydiagonal axis in a crystal
- brachylogy — a concise style in speech or writing
- brachyuran — any decapod crustacean of the group (formerly suborder) Brachyura, which includes the crabs
- bradytelic — of or relating to evolution at a rate slower than the standard for a given group of plants or animals.
- bricklayer — A bricklayer is a person whose job is to build walls using bricks.
- brilliancy — an instance of brilliance: the brilliancies of Congreve's wit.
- bucky bits — /buh'kee bits/ 1. Obsolete. The bits produced by the CONTROL and META shift keys on a SAIL keyboard (octal 200 and 400 respectively), resulting in a 9-bit keyboard character set. The MIT AI TV (Knight) keyboards extended this with TOP and separate left and right CONTROL and META keys, resulting in a 12-bit character set; later, LISP Machines added such keys as SUPER, HYPER, and GREEK (see space-cadet keyboard). 2. By extension, bits associated with "extra" shift keys on any keyboard, e.g. the ALT on an IBM PC or command and option keys on a Macintosh. It has long been rumored that "bucky bits" were named after Buckminster Fuller during a period when he was consulting at Stanford. Actually, bucky bits were invented by Niklaus Wirth when *he* was at Stanford in 1964--65; he first suggested the idea of an EDIT key to set the 8th bit of an otherwise 7 bit ASCII character. It seems that, unknown to Wirth, certain Stanford hackers had privately nicknamed him "Bucky" after a prominent portion of his dental anatomy, and this nickname transferred to the bit. Bucky-bit commands were used in a number of editors written at Stanford, including most notably TV-EDIT and NLS. The term spread to MIT and CMU early and is now in general use. Ironically, Wirth himself remained unaware of its derivation for nearly 30 years, until GLS dug up this history in early 1993! See double bucky, quadruple bucky.
- buffy coat — a yellowish-white layer consisting of leukocytes that, upon centrifugation of blood, covers the red blood cells.
- bunchberry — a dwarf variety of dogwood native to North America, Cornus canadensis, having red berries
- bunny chow — a dish consisting of a hollowed-out loaf of bread filled with curry
- by-product — A by-product is something which is produced during the manufacture or processing of another product.
- byssaceous — consisting of fine threads
- cable buoy — a buoy marking or supporting part of a submerged cable.
- cacodylate — a salt of cacodylic acid.