11-letter words containing r, y, a, n
- combed yarn — cotton or worsted yarn of fibers laid parallel, superior in smoothness to carded yarn.
- combinatory — combinative
- comminatory — Threatening, punitive, or vengeful.
- common year — an ordinary year of 365 days; a year having no intercalary period.
- company car — A company car is a car which an employer gives to an employee to use as their own, usually as a benefit of having a particular job, or because their job involves a lot of travelling.
- concernancy — concernment
- concubinary — of, relating to, or living in concubinage.
- condolatory — to express sympathy with a person who is suffering sorrow, misfortune, or grief (usually followed by with): to condole with a friend whose father has died.
- confederacy — A confederacy is a union of states or people who are trying to achieve the same thing.
- conformably — With or in conformity; suitably; agreeably.
- conformally — In a conformal manner.
- conrotatory — (organic chemistry) Describing an electrocyclic reaction in which the substituents at the interacting termini of the conjugated system both rotate in the same sense.
- conservancy — Conservancy is used in the names of organizations that work to preserve and protect the environment.
- consolatory — consoling or tending to console; comforting
- conspirancy — Misspelling of conspiracy.
- contraparty — the other person or institution entering into a financial contract or transaction: the default of a counterparty.
- contrariety — opposition between one thing and another; disagreement
- contrary to — If you say that something is true contrary to other people's beliefs or opinions, you are emphasizing that it is true and that they are wrong.
- contrayerva — the root of any of several tropical American moraceous plants of the genus Dorstenia, esp D. contrayerva, used as a stimulant and tonic
- conversancy — The condition of being conversant.
- conveyancer — a person engaged in conveyancing.
- coparcenary — a form of joint ownership of property, esp joint heirship
- coplanarity — being or operating in the same plane.
- cordwainery — Shoemaking.
- corybantism — a delirium characterized by vivid frightening hallucinations and causing insomnia
- cosignatory — a person, country, etc, that signs a document jointly with others
- cotton yarn — cotton thread which is woven into fabric
- counterplay — a positive or aggressive action by the defending side, esp in chess
- countrymade — (in India) Describing a weapon manufactured illegally in a cottage industry.
- countryseat — a house or estate in the country
- county fair — a competitive exhibition of farm products, livestock, etc., often held annually in the same place in the county.
- county farm — a farm maintained for the poor by a county.
- cracklingly — With a crackling sound.
- craftsmanly — Befitting a craftsman.
- craniectomy — the surgical removal of a part of the skull to facilitate brain surgery, the bone then being discarded rather than replaced
- craniognomy — the scientific study of the shape and characteristics of the skull
- craniometry — the study and measurement of skulls
- cranioscopy — the study of the features of the human skull
- creationary — Of or relating to creation.
- criminality — the state or quality of being criminal
- criminatory — Relating to, or involving, crimination; accusing.
- crithomancy — a form of divination in which grain or meal used in a sacrifice is analysed
- crown daisy — a garden plant, Chrysanthemum coronarium, of the composite family, native to southern Europe, having numerous yellowish-white flower heads.
- cryptomonad — any of various protozoalike algae of the phylum Cryptophyta usually having two flagella, common in both marine and freshwater environments where they appear along the shore as algal blooms, some also occurring as intestinal parasites.
- crystalline — A crystalline substance is in the form of crystals or contains crystals.
- cut-and-try — marked by a procedure of trial and error; empirical: Many scientific advances are achieved with a cut-and-try approach.
- cyano group — the univalent group CN; cyanogen.
- cyanohydrin — any of a class of organic compounds containing a cyanide group and a hydroxyl group bound to the same carbon atom
- cybernation — the use of computers to control and carry out operations, as in manufacturing
- cylindrical — Something that is cylindrical is in the shape of a cylinder.