9-letter words containing c, y
- clothyard — (historical) An old unit of measure for cloth, 36 or 37 inches.
- clouterly — clumsy
- cloyingly — In a cloying manner; with distasteful excess.
- clydebank — a town in W Scotland, in West Dunbartonshire on the north bank of the River Clyde. Pop: 29 858 (2001)
- cnidocyst — a nematocyst.
- coastally — In a coastal manner.
- coaxially — in a coaxial manner
- coaxingly — to attempt to influence by gentle persuasion, flattery, etc.; cajole: He coaxed her to sing, but she refused.
- cob money — crude silver coins issued in the Spanish colonies of the New World from about 1600 until 1820
- coccygeal — a small triangular bone forming the lower extremity of the spinal column in humans, consisting of four ankylosed rudimentary vertebrae.
- coccygeus — (anatomy) A muscle of the pelvic wall, that in combination with the levator ani forms the pelvic diaphragm.
- coccygian — of or relating to the coccyx
- cockamamy — ridiculous, pointless, or nonsensical: full of wild schemes and cockamamie ideas.
- cockneyfy — to cause (one's speech, manners, etc) to fit the stereotyped idea of a cockney
- cocoonery — a place where silkworms feed and make cocoons
- codifying — Present participle of codify.
- coenocyte — a mass of protoplasm containing many nuclei and enclosed by a cell wall: occurs in many fungi and some algae
- coenzymes — Plural form of coenzyme.
- coequally — In a coequal manner.
- coercibly — in a coercible way
- coevality — The condition of being coeval.
- cognately — In a way that is cognate.
- coherency — the act or state of cohering; cohesion.
- cohyponym — a word that is one of multiple hyponyms of another word
- cold type — typesetting done by a method other than the casting of molten type
- colectomy — surgical removal of part or all of the colon
- collotype — a method of lithographic printing from a flat surface of hardened gelatine: used mainly for fine-detail reproduction in monochrome or colour
- collotypy — the process of collotype
- collutory — mouthwash.
- collyrium — any medicated preparation for the eyes; eyewash
- colocynth — a cucurbitaceous climbing plant, Citrullus colocynthis, of the Mediterranean region and Asia, having bitter-tasting fruit
- colonelcy — the rank, position, or status of a colonel.
- colophony — rosin
- color-key — color-code.
- colorably — in a colourable manner
- colorways — Plural form of colorway.
- coloscopy — colonoscopy.
- colostomy — A colostomy is a surgical operation in which a permanent opening from the colon is made.
- colourway — one of several different combinations of colours in which a given pattern is printed on fabrics, wallpapers, etc
- colpotomy — a surgical incision into the wall of the vagina
- coltishly — In a coltish manner.
- columbary — a dovecote
- comayagua — a city in W central Honduras.
- come away — to become detached
- comically — producing laughter; amusing; funny: a comical fellow.
- commodify — to treat (something) inappropriately as if it can be acquired or marketed like other commodities
- commodity — A commodity is something that is sold for money.
- community — The community is all the people who live in a particular area or place.
- compacity — Any of several technical measures of compactness, especially, in a granular medium (e.g. sand), the volume fraction that is filled.
- compactly — joined or packed together; closely and firmly united; dense; solid: compact soil.