9-letter words containing c, y
- cargo bay — the large central area of the space shuttle orbiter's fuselage in which payloads and their support equipment are carried. Also called payload bay. Compare bay2 (def 2a).
- cariosity — (medicine) caries.
- carnality — pertaining to or characterized by the flesh or the body, its passions and appetites; sensual: carnal pleasures.
- carnivory — the eating of animal flesh
- carnosity — an abnormal fleshy protrusion growing on any part of the body
- carpentry — Carpentry is the activity of making and repairing wooden things.
- carpingly — In a carping manner.
- carpology — the branch of botany concerned with the study of fruits and seeds
- carraways — Plural form of carraway.
- carry off — If you carry something off, you do it successfully.
- carry out — If you carry out a threat, task, or instruction, you do it or act according to it.
- carry-cot — carrier (sense 5)
- carry-out — food: take-away
- carryable — to take or support from one place to another; convey; transport: He carried her for a mile in his arms. This elevator cannot carry more than ten people.
- carryalls — Plural form of carryall.
- carryback — (in U.S. income-tax law) a special provision allowing part of a net loss or of an unused credit in a given year to be apportioned over one or two preceding years, chiefly in order to ease the tax burden. Compare carry·forward (def 2).
- carrycots — Plural form of carrycot.
- carryover — If something is a carryover from an earlier time, it began during an earlier time but still exists or happens now.
- carrytale — a gossipmonger
- cartology — the theory or science of mapmaking
- cartooney — Misspelling of cartoony.
- cartulary — a collection of charters or records, esp relating to the title to an estate or monastery
- caryatids — Plural form of caryatid.
- caryopses — Plural form of caryopsis.
- caryopsis — a dry seedlike fruit having the pericarp fused to the seed coat of the single seed: produced by the grasses
- casco bay — bay on the SW coast of Maine, on which Portland is located
- cassowary — any large flightless bird of the genus Casuarius, inhabiting forests in NE Australia, New Guinea, and adjacent islands, having a horny head crest, black plumage, and brightly coloured neck and wattles: order Casuariiformes
- cast away — to throw or hurl; fling: The gambler cast the dice.
- castaways — Plural form of castaway.
- casuistry — Casuistry is the use of clever arguments to persuade or trick people.
- cat's-eye — any of a group of gemstones, esp a greenish-yellow variety of chrysoberyl, that reflect a streak of light when cut in a rounded unfaceted shape
- cataclysm — A cataclysm is an event that causes great change or harm.
- catalepsy — a state of prolonged rigid posture, occurring for example in schizophrenia or in hypnotic trances
- catalysed — to act upon by catalysis.
- catalyser — Alternative form of catalyzer.
- catalyses — Chemistry. the causing or accelerating of a chemical change by the addition of a catalyst.
- catalysis — Catalysis is the speeding up of a chemical reaction by adding a catalyst to it.
- catalysts — Plural form of catalyst.
- catalytic — In chemistry, a catalytic substance or a substance with catalytic properties is a substance which increases the speed of a chemical reaction.
- catalyzed — to act upon by catalysis.
- catalyzer — That which catalyzes.
- catalyzes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of catalyze.
- cataphyll — a simplified form of plant leaf, such as a scale leaf or cotyledon
- cataplexy — sudden temporary paralysis, brought on by severe shock
- cattishly — In a cattish manner.
- cattleyas — Plural form of cattleya.
- causality — Causality is the relationship of cause and effect.
- causeways — Plural form of causeway.
- cautionry — the position or function of a surety, a person who protects and takes responsibility for another person
- cd player — A CD player is a machine on which you can play CDs.