10-letter words containing m, y, c, e
- completory — serving the purpose of completing
- complexify — to make or become complex
- complexity — Complexity is the state of having many different parts connected or related to each other in a complicated way.
- componency — the quality of being in components
- composedly — calm; tranquil; serene: His composed face reassured the nervous passengers.
- consumedly — (intensifier)
- contextomy — the practice of misquoting someone by shortening the quotation or by leaving out surrounding words or sentences that would place the quotation in context.
- copayments — Plural form of copayment.
- copolymers — Plural form of copolymer.
- cor blimey — an exclamation of surprise or annoyance
- cordectomy — the removal of a cord, esp a vocal cord
- cormophyte — any of the Cormophyta, a major division (now obsolete) of plants having a stem, root, and leaves: includes the mosses, ferns, and seed plants
- coryneform — resembling a corynebacterium
- cost money — If you say that something costs money, you mean that it has to be paid for, and perhaps cannot be afforded.
- costectomy — excision of part or all of a rib.
- coulometry — a method used in quantitative analysis, whereby the amount of a substance set free or deposited during electrolysis is determined by measuring the number of coulombs that passed through the electrolyte.
- countrymen — a native or inhabitant of one's own country.
- cryometers — Plural form of cryometer.
- cryometric — of or relating to cryometry
- cyanometer — an instrument used for measuring the blueness of the sky
- cybercrime — the illegal use of computers and the internet
- cyclamates — Plural form of cyclamate.
- cycle pump — a hand pump for pumping air into the tyres of a bicycle
- cyclometer — a device that records the number of revolutions made by a wheel and hence the distance travelled
- cyclostome — any primitive aquatic jawless vertebrate of the class Cyclostomata, such as the lamprey and hagfish, having a round sucking mouth and pouchlike gills
- cyclothyme — a person suffering from cyclothymia
- cyma recta — a cyma whose concave part projects beyond the convex part.
- cymophenol — (organic compound) synonym of carvacrol.
- cysteamine — a drug used to treat cystine excretion or radiation sickness
- cystectomy — surgical removal of the gall bladder or of part of the urinary bladder
- cystometer — a device for determining the reaction of the urinary bladder to increased internal pressure.
- cytochrome — any of a group of naturally occurring compounds, consisting of iron, a protein, and a porphyrin, that are important in cell oxidation-reduction reactions
- cytometric — of or relating to cytometry
- decay time — the time required for a collection of atoms of a particular radionuclide to decay to a fraction of the initial number equal to 1/e, where e = 2.7182818 …, used as the base of natural logarithms.
- decumbency — Decumbence.
- dictyosome — a Golgi body, esp in a plant cell
- discectomy — Surgical removal of the whole or a part of an intervertebral disc.
- diseconomy — a lack of economy.
- ecchymoses — a discoloration due to extravasation of blood, as in a bruise.
- ecchymosis — a discoloration due to extravasation of blood, as in a bruise.
- ecchymotic — a discoloration due to extravasation of blood, as in a bruise.
- econometry — Econometrics.
- economicly — (nonstandard) alternative spelling of economically.
- ecosystems — a system, or a group of interconnected elements, formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their environment.
- ectoenzyme — exoenzyme.
- ectomorphy — having a thin body build, roughly characterized by the relative prominence of structures developed from the embryonic ectoderm (contrasted with endomorphic, mesomorphic).
- ectothermy — (biology) The condition of being ectothermic or warm-blooded; the ability to maintain the body's temperature.
- effeminacy — the state or quality of being effeminate.
- embryo sac — the structure within a plant ovule that contains the egg cell: develops from the megaspore and contains the embryo plant and endosperm after fertilization
- embryulcia — the act of forcibly removing a fetus