9-letter words containing r, y
- brythonic — the S group of Celtic languages, consisting of Welsh, Cornish, and Breton
- budgetary — A budgetary matter or policy is concerned with the amount of money that is available to a country or organization, and how it is to be spent.
- buoy rope — a rope attaching a buoy to its anchor
- burleycue — burlesque (def 3).
- busy work — work assigned for the sake of looking or keeping busy.
- busy-work — work assigned for the sake of looking or keeping busy.
- butcherly — of or resembling a butcher
- butterfly — A butterfly is an insect with large colourful wings and a thin body.
- by a hair — by a very slight margin, only just
- by george — a figure of St. George killing the dragon, especially one forming part of the insignia of the Order of the Garter.
- by nature — essentially or innately
- by repute — If you know someone by repute, you have never met them but you have heard or read about them.
- by return — by the next post back to the sender
- by rights — If something is not the case but you think that it should be, you can say that by rights it should be the case.
- by-bidder — a bidder at an auction who bids up the price of an item for the benefit of a seller
- by-street — a side street or a private or obscure street; byway.
- bypassers — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- byproduct — A byproduct is something that is produced during the manufacture or processing of another product.
- byrd land — a part of Antarctica, east of the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea: claimed for the US by Admiral Richard E. Byrd in 1929, though all claims are suspended under the Antarctic Treaty of 1959
- byrewoman — a woman who works in a byre
- bystander — A bystander is a person who is present when something happens and who sees it but does not take part in it.
- c battery — the power source for biasing the control-grid electrodes of electron tubes in battery-operated equipment
- cabinetry — cabinets collectively
- calculary — calculous
- camstairy — perverse or unruly
- canal ray — a stream of positive ions produced in a discharge tube by allowing them to pass through holes in the cathode
- candy bar — A candy bar is a long, thin, sweet food, usually covered in chocolate.
- candygram — a message accompanied by sweets
- canyoneer — a person who explores canyons
- cape york — the northernmost point of the Australian mainland, in N Queensland on the Torres Strait at the tip of Cape York Peninsula (a peninsula between the Coral Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria)
- capillary — Capillaries are tiny blood vessels in your body.
- caprylate — a salt of caprylic acid
- capsulary — Archaic form of capsular.
- captainry — captainship
- capybaras — Plural form of capybara.
- car-ferry — a vessel for transporting vehicles, in addition to passengers, across a body of water, esp as a regular service
- cardialgy — cardialgia
- carefully — cautious in one's actions: Be careful when you cross the street.
- cargo bay — the large central area of the space shuttle orbiter's fuselage in which payloads and their support equipment are carried. Also called payload bay. Compare bay2 (def 2a).
- cariosity — (medicine) caries.
- carnality — pertaining to or characterized by the flesh or the body, its passions and appetites; sensual: carnal pleasures.
- carnivory — the eating of animal flesh
- carnosity — an abnormal fleshy protrusion growing on any part of the body
- carpentry — Carpentry is the activity of making and repairing wooden things.
- carpingly — In a carping manner.
- carpology — the branch of botany concerned with the study of fruits and seeds
- carraways — Plural form of carraway.
- carry off — If you carry something off, you do it successfully.
- carry out — If you carry out a threat, task, or instruction, you do it or act according to it.
- carry-cot — carrier (sense 5)