9-letter words containing e, a, r, y
- comradely — If you do something in a comradely way, you are being pleasant and friendly to other people.
- comradery — camaraderie or comradeship
- conybeare — William Daniel. 1787–1857, British geologist. He summarized all that was known about rocks at the time in Outlines of the Geology of England and Wales (1822)
- coparceny — (legal) An equal share of an inheritance.
- copy-read — to work on (copy) as a copyreader.
- copytaker — (esp in a newspaper office) a person employed to type reports as journalists dictate them over the telephone
- cordately — In a cordate form.
- cosplayer — One who takes part in cosplay.
- cranberry — Cranberries are red berries with a sour taste. They are often used to make a sauce or jelly that you eat with meat.
- crane fly — any dipterous fly of the family Tipulidae, having long legs, slender wings, and a narrow body
- crazyweed — locoweed
- crematory — A crematory is the same as a crematorium.
- cruiseway — a canal used for recreational purposes
- crybabies — Plural form of crybaby.
- cryocable — a highly conducting electrical cable cooled with a refrigerant such as liquid nitrogen
- cryolathe — an instrument for reshaping the cornea to correct severe nearsightedness or farsightedness: the cornea is removed from the eye, rapidly frozen, reshaped, and reinserted.
- curlyhead — a person whose hair is curly.
- cyanurate — a salt or ester derived from cyanide
- cybercafe — A cybercafé is a café where people can pay to use the Internet.
- cybercash — Funds used in electronic financial transactions, especially over the Internet.
- cybercast — (Internet) A broadcast of audiovisual material over the Internet.
- cyberchat — Chat that takes place on the Internet, as in a chatroom or via instant messages.
- cyberhack — Computers. hack1 (def 22b).
- cybernate — to control (a manufacturing process) with a servomechanism or (of a process) to be controlled by a servomechanism
- cybernaut — a person who is an expert in or uses the internet a lot
- cyberrhea — (humour, jargon) /si:'ber-eer/ An affliction of some word processor users; excessive frequency and looseness of productivity. Particularly virulent among those who have not discovered the fortifying virtues of revision.
- cyberwand — (hardware, virtual reality) A virtual reality controller. The CyberWand costs $99, or $765 with optional Polhemus sensor. It is basically the handle of a flight control system without the base. The controller's four buttons and 2-D hat sensor track six degrees of movement.
- cyrenaica — a region and former province (1951–63) of E Libya: largely desert; settled by the Greeks in about 630 bc; ruled successively by the Egyptians, Romans, Arabs, Turks, and Italians. Area: 855 370 sq km (330 258 sq miles)
- cytherean — of or relating to Cytherea.
- cytosmear — (cytology) A sample of cells, in the form of a smear on a microscope slide, that has been stained ready for diagnostic examination.
- dalrymple — Sir James, 1st Viscount Stair, 1619–95, Scottish jurist.
- dark-eyed — (of a person) having dark eyes
- dasymeter — a device for measuring the density of gases
- day nurse — a nurse who is on duty during the daytime
- day-liner — a train, boat, etc., having a regularly scheduled route during daylight hours.
- day-trade — to buy and sell a listed security or commodity on the same day, usually on margin, for a quick profit.
- daybreaks — Plural form of daybreak.
- daycentre — a building used for daycare or other welfare services
- daydreams — Plural form of daydream.
- daydreamy — Inclined to daydream; scatterbrained or idealistic.
- dayflower — any of various tropical and subtropical plants of the genus Commelina, having jointed creeping stems, narrow pointed leaves, and blue or purplish flowers which wilt quickly: family Commelinaceae
- daywalker — (fantasy) One who can go out in the sunlight, distinguished from vampires etc. who cannot.
- dayworker — a person who works during the daytime
- deary me! — an exclamation of surprise or dismay
- death ray — an imaginary ray capable of killing
- decennary — decade (sense 2)
- defraying — Present participle of defray.
- dehydrate — When something such as food is dehydrated, all the water is removed from it, often in order to preserve it.
- delta ray — a particle, esp an electron, ejected from matter by ionizing radiation
- democracy — A democracy is a country in which the people choose their government by voting for it.