9-letter words containing r, y, o
- corollary — A corollary of something is an idea, argument, or fact that results directly from it.
- coronally — in a coronal manner
- corporify — to embody
- correctly — to set or make true, accurate, or right; remove the errors or faults from: The native guide corrected our pronunciation. The new glasses corrected his eyesight.
- corruptly — guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge.
- cortelyou — George Bruce, 1862–1940, U.S. cabinet officer and public utility director.
- corydalis — any erect or climbing plant of the N temperate genus Corydalis, having finely-lobed leaves and spurred yellow or pinkish flowers: family Fumariaceae
- corymbose — characterized by or growing in corymbs; corymblike.
- coryphene — either of two large marine percoid fishes, Coryphaena hippurus or C. equisetis, that resemble the cetacean dolphins and have an iridescent coloration
- cosplayer — One who takes part in cosplay.
- costumery — multiple costumes considered collectively
- countrify — to make countrified.
- countryfy — Alternative spelling of countrify.
- courtyard — A courtyard is an open area of ground which is surrounded by buildings or walls.
- cover boy — an attractive young man whose picture is featured on a magazine cover.
- coxcombry — conceited arrogance or foppishness
- crayoning — Draw with a crayon or crayons.
- crayonist — (dated) An artist who uses crayons.
- crazy top — a disease of cotton, corn, etc., characterized by abnormal branching and small, misshapen leaves in the upper part of the plant, caused by water shortage, organic deficiencies in the soil, or unknown causes.
- crematory — A crematory is the same as a crematorium.
- crinosity — Hairiness.
- crookedly — not straight; bending; curved: a crooked path.
- cross-eye — a turning inwards towards the nose of one or both eyes, caused by abnormal alignment
- cross-ply — (of a motor tyre) having the fabric cords in the outer casing running diagonally to stiffen the sidewalls
- crossways — crosswise.
- crotchety — A crotchety person is bad-tempered and easily irritated.
- crowberry — a low-growing N temperate evergreen shrub, Empetrum nigrum, with small purplish flowers and black berry-like fruit: family Empetraceae
- crowdedly — In a crowded manner.
- cry havoc — to give the signal for pillage and destruction
- cryobanks — Plural form of cryobank.
- cryocable — a highly conducting electrical cable cooled with a refrigerant such as liquid nitrogen
- cryogenic — of or relating to the production or use of very low temperatures: cryogenic storage.
- cryolathe — an instrument for reshaping the cornea to correct severe nearsightedness or farsightedness: the cornea is removed from the eye, rapidly frozen, reshaped, and reinserted.
- cryometer — a thermometer for measuring low temperatures
- cryometry — The measurement of very low temperatures.
- cryophile — (biology) An organism that thrives at low temperatures.
- cryophyte — an organism, esp an alga or moss, that grows on snow or ice
- cryoprobe — a surgical instrument with an extremely cold tip, used in cryosurgery to destroy tissue
- cryoscope — any instrument used to determine the freezing point of a substance
- cryoscopy — the determination of freezing points, esp for the determination of molecular weights by measuring the lowering of the freezing point of a solvent when a known quantity of solute is added
- cryosleep — (science fiction) A deep sleep during which the body is stored at very cold temperature, to preserve it; cryogenic sleep.
- cryostats — Plural form of cryostat.
- 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
- cuckoldry — the act of making someone's husband a cuckold.
- culpatory — expressing blame
- cupboardy — (rare) Cupboardlike: for example small, fusty or poorly lit.
- curiosity — Curiosity is a desire to know about something.
- curiously — eager to learn or know; inquisitive.
- curly top — a disease of plants, especially beets, characterized by puckered or cupped leaves and stunting or distortion, caused by a virus, Ruga verrucosans.