9-letter words containing m, y, c
- cockamamy — ridiculous, pointless, or nonsensical: full of wild schemes and cockamamie ideas.
- coenzymes — Plural form of coenzyme.
- cohyponym — a word that is one of multiple hyponyms of another word
- colectomy — surgical removal of part or all of the colon
- collyrium — any medicated preparation for the eyes; eyewash
- colostomy — A colostomy is a surgical operation in which a permanent opening from the colon is made.
- colpotomy — a surgical incision into the wall of the vagina
- 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.
- company's — a number of individuals assembled or associated together; group of people.
- complexly — composed of many interconnected parts; compound; composite: a complex highway system.
- complying — Present participle of comply.
- comradely — If you do something in a comradely way, you are being pleasant and friendly to other people.
- comradery — camaraderie or comradeship
- condyloma — a skin tumour near the anus or genital organs, esp as a result of syphilis
- contranym — A word that has two opposing meanings, such as 'cleave' (“come together” or “split apart”).
- contronym — A word with two opposite meanings, e.g., sanction (which can mean both ‘a penalty for disobeying a law’ and ‘official permission or approval for an action’).
- contumacy — obstinate and wilful rebelliousness or resistance to authority; insubordination; disobedience
- contumely — scornful or insulting language or behaviour
- copayment — a fee paid by a subscriber to a service for the use of additional services not covered by the subscription
- copolymer — a chemical compound of high molecular weight formed by uniting the molecules of two or more different compounds (monomers)
- cordotomy — a sugrical method of pain relief in which nerves in the spinal cord are cut
- corymbose — characterized by or growing in corymbs; corymblike.
- cosmogeny — (dated) cosmogony.
- cosmogony — the study of the origin and development of the universe or of a particular system in the universe, such as the solar system
- cosmology — A cosmology is a theory about the origin and nature of the universe.
- costotomy — surgical incision into a rib
- costumery — multiple costumes considered collectively
- coxcombry — conceited arrogance or foppishness
- crematory — A crematory is the same as a crematorium.
- cryometer — a thermometer for measuring low temperatures
- cryometry — The measurement of very low temperatures.
- cryptogam — (in former plant classification schemes) any organism that does not produce seeds, including algae, fungi, mosses, and ferns
- cryptonym — a code name or secret name
- currycomb — a square comb consisting of rows of small teeth, used for grooming horses
- customary — Customary is used to describe things that people usually do in a particular society or in particular circumstances.
- custumary — Obsolete form of customary.
- cyanamide — a white or colourless crystalline soluble weak dibasic acid, which can be hydrolysed to urea. Formula: H2NCN
- cyclamate — a salt or ester of cyclamic acid. Certain of the salts have a very sweet taste and were formerly used as food additives and sugar substitutes
- cyclamens — Plural form of cyclamen.
- cyclicism — the property of being cyclic
- cyclorama — a large picture, such as a battle scene, on the interior wall of a cylindrical room, designed to appear in natural perspective to a spectator in the centre
- cyclotome — a type of scalpel for performing a cyclotomy.