10-letter words containing c, y
- carrot fly — a dipterous insect, Psila rosae, that is a serious pest of carrots. The larvae tunnel into the root to feed
- carry away — to remove forcefully
- carry back — to apply (a legally permitted credit, esp an operating loss) to the taxable income of previous years in order to ease the overall tax burden
- carry over — If something carries over or is carried over from one situation to another, it continues to exist or apply in the new situation.
- carry-over — that which is carried over, postponed, or extended to a later time, account, etc.
- carryovers — Plural form of carryover.
- cartomancy — the telling of fortunes with playing cards
- cartophily — the hobby of collecting cigarette cards
- case study — A case study is a written account that gives detailed information about a person, group, or thing and their development over a period of time.
- cash money — cash, as distinguished from a check or money order.
- castellany — the office or position of a castellan
- castratory — of or relating to castration
- cataclysms — Plural form of cataclysm.
- catalysing — Present participle of catalyse.
- catalystic — (nonstandard) Serving as a catalyst; catalytic.
- catalyzing — Present participle of catalyze.
- catchpenny — designed to have instant appeal, esp in order to sell quickly and easily without regard for quality
- category 3 — (hardware) (Cat 3, or "voice grade") An American Standards Institute standard for UTP cables. Used, e.g., for 100BaseVG network cabling.
- category 5 — The term Category 5 refers to Ethernet cabling that allows data transfers up to 100 Megabits per second.
- category a — (of a prisoner) regarded as highly dangerous and therefore requiring constant observation and maximum security
- category d — (of a prisoner) regarded as sufficiently trustworthy to be kept under open prison conditions
- cauliflory — the production of flowers on the trunk, branches, etc, of a woody plant, as opposed to the ends of the twigs
- causticity — capable of burning, corroding, or destroying living tissue.
- cautionary — A cautionary story or a cautionary note to a story is one that is intended to give a warning to people.
- cautiously — showing, using, or characterized by caution: a cautious man; To be cautious is often to show wisdom.
- cavalierly — a horseman, especially a mounted soldier; knight.
- cavalryman — A cavalryman is a soldier who is in the cavalry, especially one who rides a horse.
- cavalrymen — a soldier in the cavalry.
- cecutiency — the state of or tendency to full or partial blindness
- cedar city — a town in SW Utah.
- celibately — In a celibate way.
- celioscopy — celoscope.
- cell cycle — the growth cycle of eukaryotic cells. It is divided into five stages, known as G0, in which the cell is quiescent, G1 and G2, in which it increases in size, S, in which it duplicates its DNA, and M, in which it undergoes mitosis and divides
- centrality — the state or condition of being central
- centricity — pertaining to or situated at the center; central.
- cephalalgy — Dated form of cephalalgia.
- cerebrally — Anatomy, Zoology. of or relating to the cerebrum or the brain.
- ceroferary — Candleholder (especially for a large, church candle).
- cerography — the art of engraving on a waxed plate on which a printing surface is created by electrotyping
- certainity — Misspelling of certainty.
- certaynely — Archaic spelling of certainly.
- certifying — Present participle of certify.
- cessionary — a person to whom something is transferred; assignee; grantee
- ceylon tea — a tea from Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)
- chaetotaxy — the arrangement of bristles on the exoskeleton of an insect.
- chaffingly — in a rallying yet light-hearted manner
- chalcedony — a microcrystalline often greyish form of quartz with crystals arranged in parallel fibres: a gemstone. Formula: SiO2
- chalcidfly — any of numerous small flies of the family Chalcididae, often having bright metallic coloration, the larvae of which are chiefly parasitic on various stages of other insects.
- chalybeate — containing or impregnated with iron salts
- chandlerly — like, or pertaining to, a chandler