9-letter words containing c, y
- choir-boy — a boy who sings in a choir, especially a church choir.
- choirboys — Plural form of choirboy.
- chokingly — in a strangling, suffocating, or choking manner
- cholecyst — the gallbladder
- chomskyan — of or relating to Noam Chomsky or his linguistic theories, especially to transformational-generative grammar.
- chondrify — to become or convert into cartilage
- chop suey — Chop suey is a Chinese-style dish that consists of meat and vegetables that have been stewed together.
- chopsocky — a genre of martial arts film containing superfluous violence
- chorology — the study of the causal relations between geographical phenomena occurring within a particular region
- chromakey — (in colour television) a special effect in which a coloured background can be eliminated and a different background substituted
- chrononym — (semiotics) A term for a specific period of time, such as
- chrysalid — of or relating to a chrysalis
- chrysalis — A chrysalis is a butterfly or moth in the stage between being a larva and an adult.
- chudskoye — Lakelake on the Estonian-Russian border: with its S extension, Lake Pskov, c. 1,400 sq mi (3,626 sq km)
- churchway — a road that leads to a church
- chymistry — chemistry.
- cinnamony — reminiscent of cinnamon
- circuitry — Circuitry is a system of electric circuits.
- circulary — (obsolete) circular; illogical.
- citizenly — Pertaining to citizens.
- citizenry — The people living in a country, state, or city can be referred to as the citizenry.
- city code — (in Britain) short for City Code on Takeovers and Mergers: a code laid down in 1968 (later modified) to control takeover bids and mergers
- city desk — the department of a newspaper office dealing with financial and commercial news
- city hall — The city hall is the building which a city council uses as its main offices.
- city plan — the developmental plan for a city or town arrived at through the process of city planning.
- city room — the room in which local news is handled for a newspaper, a radio or television station, or for another journalistic agency.
- city-born — born in a city.
- city-bred — reared in a city.
- cityscape — an urban landscape; view of a city
- civically — of or relating to a city; municipal: civic problems.
- civil day — day (def 3c).
- clamantly — urgently
- class day — a day during the commencement season on which the members of the graduating class in U.S. colleges and schools celebrate the completion of their course with special ceremonies.
- clay pipe — a pipe whose bowl is made of fired clay
- clay road — an unsealed and unmetalled road in a rural area
- claymores — Plural form of claymore.
- claystone — a compact very fine-grained rock consisting of consolidated clay particles
- claytonia — any low-growing North American succulent portulacaceous plant of the genus Claytonia
- clear-eye — the clary, Salvia sclarea.
- cleareyed — having clear eyes or vision
- clearways — Plural form of clearway.
- clemently — In a clement manner.
- clepsydra — an ancient device for measuring time by the flow of water or mercury through a small aperture
- clergyman — A clergyman is a male member of the clergy.
- clergymen — a member of the clergy.
- clericity — the condition of being a clergyman
- climatory — Having to do with climate.
- clonality — The fact or condition of being genetically identical, as to a parent, sibling, or other biological source.
- clonicity — of or relating to clonus.
- clonotype — (taxonomy) A herbarium specimen made from plants vegetatively propagated from (and thus clones of) the same plant from which a type specimen was made.