10-letter words containing n, t, y
- consultory — consultative
- 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.
- contiguity — the state of being contiguous; nearness or contact
- continency — self-restraint or abstinence, especially in regard to sexual activity; temperance; moderation.
- continuity — Continuity is the fact that something continues to happen or exist, with no great changes or interruptions.
- contrarily — in a perverse or obstinate manner
- contritely — caused by or showing sincere remorse.
- copartnery — copartnership
- copayments — Plural form of copayment.
- corybantic — frenzied; agitated; unrestrained.
- cost money — If you say that something costs money, you mean that it has to be paid for, and perhaps cannot be afforded.
- cotyledons — Plural form of cotyledon.
- countercry — a cry responding to another cry
- counterspy — a spy working against or investigating enemy espionage
- countryish — similar to that which is typical of country music
- countryman — Your countrymen are people from your own country.
- countrymen — a native or inhabitant of one's own country.
- countywide — Occurring or extending throughout a county.
- courantyne — a river in N South America, rising in S Guyana and flowing north to the Atlantic, forming the boundary between Guyana and Surinam. Length: 765 km (475 miles)
- covalently — the number of electron pairs that an atom can share with other atoms.
- covetingly — in a covetous manner
- craniotomy — any surgical incision into the skull, esp to expose the brain for neurosurgery
- cryoconite — a dark powder found at the bottom of glacier holes, formerly thought to be cosmic in origin but now widely regarded to be terrestrial
- cryogenist — of or relating to the production or use of very low temperatures: cryogenic storage.
- cryptopine — a poisonous alkaloid, C21H23NO5, found in opium
- cryptozoon — an extinct genus of algae from Precambrian and Cambrian times, forming irregularly hemispherical fossil colonies composed of layers of limy precipitate.
- cunctatory — prone to delaying
- curtseying — Present participle of curtsey.
- cyanometer — an instrument used for measuring the blueness of the sky
- cyanopathy — (medicine) A disease in which the surface of the body turns blue, usually arising from a malformation of the heart, which causes an imperfect arterialization of the blood.
- cyanophyta — a phylum, or subkingdom, in the kingdom Monera, comprising the blue-green algae.
- cyanophyte — a former name for a cyanobacterium
- cyanotypes — Plural form of cyanotype.
- cybernetic — the study of human control functions and of mechanical and electronic systems designed to replace them, involving the application of statistical mechanics to communication engineering.
- cyclotrons — Plural form of cyclotron.
- cylindrite — a mineral made up of cylindrical crystals containing tin, iron, lead, and antimony
- cysteamine — a drug used to treat cystine excretion or radiation sickness
- cystinosis — a disease caused by a build-up of the amino acid cystine in the body
- cystinuria — a condition in which excessive levels of cystine are present in the urine
- cytarabine — a toxic synthetic nucleoside, C 9 H 13 N 3 O 5 , used as an immunosuppressive and cytotoxic agent in the treatment of certain leukemias.
- cytoglobin — (protein) A globin that is produced by all types of human and other mammalian cells.
- cytokinins — Plural form of cytokinin.
- cytotoxins — Plural form of cytotoxin.
- data entry — Data entry is the activity of putting data into a computer, for example, by using a keyboard.
- dauntingly — In a daunting manner.
- day return — A day return is a train or bus ticket which allows you to go somewhere and come back on the same day for a lower price than an ordinary return ticket.
- debatingly — in an argumentative manner
- decadently — In a decadent manner.
- decrypting — Present participle of decrypt.
- decryption — to decode or decipher.