10-letter words containing o, c, y, t
- cotyliform — shaped like a cup
- cotylosaur — any of various members of the extinct order of primitive and massive reptiles known as Cotylosauria, which lived between the Carboniferous and Triassic ages
- 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.
- 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)
- courtierly — of a courtier
- courtyards — Plural form of courtyard.
- covalently — the number of electron pairs that an atom can share with other atoms.
- covetingly — in a covetous manner
- covetously — inordinately or wrongly desirous of wealth or possessions; greedy.
- cowboy hat — a wide-brimmed hat as worn by cowboys
- cozy up to — to try to ingratiate oneself, or make friends, with
- 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.
- cryometers — Plural form of cryometer.
- cryometric — of or relating to cryometry
- cryostasis — the deep-freezing of human bodies or other organisms at death; cryonics.
- cryostatic — of or relating to a cryostat
- crypto-jew — a member of a Jewish community who secretly practices Judaism while officially converting, under duress, to either Christianity or Islam.
- cryptogams — Plural form of cryptogam.
- cryptogamy — the state of being a cryptogam
- cryptogram — a secret symbol
- cryptology — the study of secret codes or ciphers and the devices used to create and decipher them
- cryptopine — a poisonous alkaloid, C21H23NO5, found in opium
- cryptozoic — of or relating to that part of geological time represented by rocks in which the evidence of life is slight and the life forms are primitive; pre-Phanerozoic
- cryptozoon — an extinct genus of algae from Precambrian and Cambrian times, forming irregularly hemispherical fossil colonies composed of layers of limy precipitate.
- crystallo- — crystal
- cuddly toy — a soft toy, such as a teddy bear
- cunctatory — prone to delaying
- curiousity — Misspelling of curiosity.
- cutesy-poo — embarrassingly or sickeningly cute.
- 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.
- cyathiform — shaped like a drinking glass or cup, with a wider upper section
- cyberstore — (computing) A website that allows users to browse and then order products or services via the Internet.
- cyclobutyl — (organic chemistry) The univalent radical derived from cyclobutane by the formal removal of a hydrogen atom.
- cyclomatic — (mathematics) Used to describe the number of edges that must be removed from a graph to ensure that no graph cycle remains; equal to the number of edges, minus the number of nodes plus one.
- 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
- cyclostyle — a kind of pen with a small toothed wheel, used for cutting minute holes in a specially prepared stencil. Copies of the design so formed can be printed on a duplicator by forcing ink through the holes
- cyclothyme — a person suffering from cyclothymia