10-letter words containing s, c, r, y
- consistory — the court of a diocese (other than Canterbury) administering ecclesiastical law
- conspiracy — Conspiracy is the secret planning by a group of people to do something illegal.
- consultory — consultative
- conversely — You say conversely to indicate that the situation you are about to describe is the opposite or reverse of the one you have just described.
- copolymers — Plural form of copolymer.
- copy press — a simple machine for printing many copies of a document
- copyrights — Plural form of copyright.
- corkscrewy — Resembling the worm of a corkscrew in shape.
- corn syrup — syrup prepared from maize
- corylopsis — any of various deciduous shrubs of the genus Corylopsis, which are found in eastern Asia and have yellow flowers
- coryphaeus — (in ancient Greek drama) the leader of the chorus
- cosmic ray — a radiation of high penetrating power that originates in outer space and consists partly of high-energy atomic nuclei.
- cosmolatry — the worship of the cosmos
- 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
- counterspy — a spy working against or investigating enemy espionage
- countryish — similar to that which is typical of country music
- courtyards — Plural form of courtyard.
- crab's eye — rosary pea.
- crashingly — extremely; exceedingly
- crescively — in a crescive or increasing manner
- cross-eyed — Someone who is cross-eyed has eyes that seem to look towards each other.
- crushingly — You can use crushingly to emphasize the degree of a negative quality.
- cryogenics — Cryogenics is a branch of physics that studies what happens to things at extremely low temperatures.
- cryogenist — of or relating to the production or use of very low temperatures: cryogenic storage.
- cryometers — Plural form of cryometer.
- cryophorus — a glass tube with a bulb at each end which contains water and water vapour, used in physics to demonstrate freezing by evaporation
- cryoprobes — Plural form of cryoprobe.
- cryoscopes — Plural form of cryoscope.
- cryoscopic — Chemistry. a technique for determining the molecular weight of a substance by dissolving it and measuring the freezing point of the solution.
- cryosphere — All those areas of the Earth where the surface is frozen.
- cryostasis — the deep-freezing of human bodies or other organisms at death; cryonics.
- cryostatic — of or relating to a cryostat
- cryptogams — Plural form of cryptogam.
- crystalise — Alternative spelling of from=non-Oxford British spelling.
- crystalize — (rare) alternative spelling of crystallize.
- crystallo- — crystal
- cumbrously — In a cumbrous manner.
- curiousity — Misspelling of curiosity.
- currycombs — Plural form of currycomb.
- curtseying — Present participle of curtsey.
- cutty sark — a three-masted merchant clipper built in Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869, now kept as a museum ship at Greenwich, London; badly damaged by a fire in 2007; restored then reopened in 2012
- cybercasts — Plural form of cybercast.
- cyberspace — In computer technology, cyberspace refers to data banks and networks, considered as a place.
- cyberstore — (computing) A website that allows users to browse and then order products or services via the Internet.
- cycloramas — Plural form of cyclorama.
- cyclosarin — Cyclohexyl methylphosphonofluoridate, an extremely toxic substance used as a chemical weapon.
- cyclotrons — Plural form of cyclotron.
- cyprinoids — Plural form of cyprinoid.
- cyrtostyle — a convex portico, as at an entrance.
- cysticerci — the larva of certain tapeworms, having the head retracted into a bladderlike structure; a bladder worm.