7-letter words containing c, y
- carolyn — a feminine name
- carroty — of a reddish or yellowish-orange colour
- carryed — Simple past tense and past participle of carry; archaic spelling of carried.
- carryon — Alternative spelling of carry-on.
- cartway — a cart track
- carvery — an eating establishment at which customers pay a set price and may then have unrestricted helpings of food from a variety of meats, salads, and other vegetables
- castory — the dye derived from beaver pelts
- catesby — Robert. 1573–1605, English conspirator, leader of the Gunpowder Plot (1605): killed while resisting arrest
- catseye — a glass reflector set into a small fixture, placed at intervals along roads to indicate traffic lanes at night
- cattery — A cattery is a place where you can leave your cat to be looked after when you go on holiday.
- cattily — In a catty manner.
- cautery — the coagulation of blood or destruction of body tissue by cauterizing
- cauvery — a river in S India, rising in the Western Ghats and flowing southeast to the Bay of Bengal. Length: 765 km (475 miles)
- cavally — Caranx hippos, a carangoid fish of the Atlantic coast.
- cavalry — The cavalry is the part of an army that uses armoured vehicles for fighting.
- cawdrey — Robert. 16th–17th-century English schoolmaster and lexicographer: compiled the first English dictionary (A Table Alphabeticall) in 1604
- cayenne — the capital of French Guiana, on an island at the mouth of the Cayenne River: French penal settlement from 1854 to 1938. Pop: 57 229 (2011)
- caymans — Plural form of cayman.
- cayuses — Plural form of cayuse.
- cecally — through the caecum, the large bowel
- cellary — Characteristic of a cellar; musty, gloomy, etc.
- century — A century is a period of a hundred years that is used when stating a date. For example, the 19th century was the period from 1801 to 1900.
- certify — If someone in an official position certifies something, they officially state that it is true.
- chaitya — a Buddhist shrine in India; stupa.
- chambly — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- chanoyu — a Japanese ceremony at which tea is prepared, served, and taken with an ancient and involved ritual.
- chantey — a song formerly sung by sailors in rhythm with their motions while working, as while turning a capstan
- chantry — an endowment for the singing of Masses for the soul of the founder or others designated by him or her
- charily — cautiously; carefully
- charity — A charity is an organization which raises money in order to help people who are sick, very poor, or who have a disability.
- charley — Victor Charlie.
- charpoy — a bedstead of woven webbing or hemp stretched on a wooden frame on four legs, common in India
- chayote — a tropical American cucurbitaceous climbing plant, Sechium edule, that has edible pear-shaped fruit enclosing a single enormous seed
- cheaply — costing very little; relatively low in price; inexpensive: a cheap dress.
- cheerly — cheerful or cheerfully
- cheesey — Misspelling of cheesy.
- cheskey — a contemptuous term used to refer to a person of Czech extraction, usually an immigrant.
- chicory — Chicory is a plant with crunchy bitter-tasting leaves. It is eaten in salads, and its roots are sometimes used instead of coffee.
- chiefly — You use chiefly to indicate that a particular reason, emotion, method, or feature is the main or most important one.
- chifley — Joseph Benedict. 1885–1951, Australian statesman; prime minister of Australia (1945–49)
- childly — childlike; childish
- chimley — Alternative form of chimbley.
- chimney — A chimney is a pipe through which smoke goes up into the air, usually through the roof of a building.
- chinchy — miserly
- chintzy — Something that is chintzy is decorated or covered with chintz.
- chlamys — a short woollen cloak, secured on the right shoulder, worn by ancient Greek men and soldiers
- chogyal — the title of the ruler of Sikkim
- choltry — a place where travellers can rest
- chomsky — (Avram) Noam (ˈnəʊəm). born 1928, US linguist and political critic. His theory of language structure, transformational generative grammar, superseded the behaviourist view of Leonard Bloomfield
- choosey — Alternative spelling of choosy.