9-letter words containing r, a, y, c
- gynarchic — relating to gynarchy or rule by women
- gynocracy — gynarchy.
- gyrfalcon — a large falcon, Falco rusticolus, of arctic and subarctic regions, having white, gray, or blackish color phases: now greatly reduced in number.
- gyromancy — a method of prediction or prophecy in which a person moves round and round in a circle and the place at which they fall to the ground is said to be highly significant
- hackberry — any of several trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Celtis, of the elm family, bearing cherrylike fruit.
- hagiarchy — hagiocracy.
- handcarry — to carry or deliver by hand, as for security reasons: The ambassador hand-carried a message from the president.
- hard copy — copy, as computer output printed on paper, that can be read without using a special device (opposed to soft copy).
- haruspicy — divination by a haruspex.
- heptarchy — (often initial capital letter) the seven principal concurrent Anglo-Saxon kingdoms supposed to have existed in the 7th and 8th centuries.
- hercogamy — (of flowers) the prevention of self-fertilization
- hercynian — denoting a period of mountain building in Europe in the late Palaeozoic
- hierarchy — any system of persons or things ranked one above another.
- hydracids — Plural form of hydracid.
- hydraulic — operated by, moved by, or employing water or other liquids in motion.
- hydrazoic — noting or pertaining to hydrazoic acid; triazoic.
- hydrocast — a process in which water is collected at various depths in a device with bottles clamped together, providing data on differing water characteristics.
- hyperacid — Highly acidic.
- hypercard — A software package by Bill Atkinson for storage and retrieval of information on the Macintosh. It can handle images and is designed for browsing. The powerful customisable interactive user interface allows new applications to be easily constructed by manipulating objects on the screen, often without conventional programming, though the language HyperTalk can be used for more complex tasks.
- hypobaric — (of an anesthetic) having a specific gravity lower than that of cerebrospinal fluid. Compare hyperbaric (def 1).
- hypocracy — Misspelling of hypocrisy.
- hyrcanian — an ancient province of the Persian empire, SE of the Caspian Sea.
- idiocracy — Government that is based upon abstract theory.
- idiocrasy — idiosyncrasy.
- imbracery — embracery.
- incurably — not curable; that cannot be cured, remedied, or corrected: an incurable disease.
- inerrancy — lack of error; infallibility.
- insectary — a laboratory for the study of live insects, their life histories, effects on plants, reaction to insecticides, etc.
- intracity — Within a city.
- intricacy — intricate character or state.
- irascibly — easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
- irritancy — tending to cause irritation; irritating.
- jacky tar — jackatar.
- jerry can — Also called blitz can. Military. a narrow, flat-sided, 5-gallon (19-liter) container for fluids, as fuel.
- jocularly — given to, characterized by, intended for, or suited to joking or jesting; waggish; facetious: jocular remarks about opera stars.
- judiciary — the judicial branch of government.
- karyocyte — (cytology) Any cell that has a nucleus.
- key scarf — any of various scarf joints in which the overlapping parts are keyed together.
- kirkcaldy — a city in SE Fife, in E Scotland, on the Firth of Forth.
- kritarchy — Rule by judges.
- kyriarchy — A system of
- lachrymal — of or relating to tears.
- lacrimary — of or relating to tears or the lacrimal glands
- larry car — a car moving on rails and equipped on its underside with a hopper, used to charge coke ovens from above.
- latrociny — banditry
- lay clerk — lay vicar.
- lay vicar — a member of a cathedral choir appointed to sing certain parts of the services
- lyocratic — noting a colloid owing its stability to the affinity of its particles for the liquid in which they are dispersed.
- lyre back — a back of a chair or the like having a pierced splat in the form of a lyre, often with metal rods representing strings.
- lyrically — (of poetry) having the form and musical quality of a song, and especially the character of a songlike outpouring of the poet's own thoughts and feelings, as distinguished from epic and dramatic poetry.