10-letter words containing s, y
- covetously — inordinately or wrongly desirous of wealth or possessions; greedy.
- coyishness — the quality of being coyish
- 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
- cubbyholes — Plural form of cubbyhole.
- culdoscopy — Endoscopy of the female pelvic organs by way of the vagina.
- cumbrously — In a cumbrous manner.
- curiousity — Misspelling of curiosity.
- currycombs — Plural form of currycomb.
- curtseying — Present participle of curtsey.
- cutesy pie — darling; sweetheart; sweetie (often used as a term of endearment).
- cutesy-poo — embarrassingly or sickeningly cute.
- 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
- cyanotypes — Plural form of cyanotype.
- 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.
- cyclamates — Plural form of cyclamate.
- cyclolysis — the weakening or extinction of a cyclone.
- cycloramas — Plural form of cyclorama.
- cyclosarin — Cyclohexyl methylphosphonofluoridate, an extremely toxic substance used as a chemical weapon.
- cyclostome — any primitive aquatic jawless vertebrate of the class Cyclostomata, such as the lamprey and hagfish, having a round sucking mouth and pouchlike gills
- cyclostyle — a kind of pen with a small toothed wheel, used for cutting minute holes in a specially prepared stencil. Copies of the design so formed can be printed on a duplicator by forcing ink through the holes
- cyclotrons — Plural form of cyclotron.
- cygnus x-1 — a strong x-ray source in the constellation Cygnus, consisting of a binary system of which one component may be a black hole.
- cynomolgus — a macaque native to SE Asia
- cynopodous — (of some mammals, such as dogs) having claws that do not retract
- cyprinoids — Plural form of cyprinoid.
- cyrtostyle — a convex portico, as at an entrance.
- cysteamine — a drug used to treat cystine excretion or radiation sickness
- cystectomy — surgical removal of the gall bladder or of part of the urinary bladder
- cysticerci — the larva of certain tapeworms, having the head retracted into a bladderlike structure; a bladder worm.
- cystinosis — a disease caused by a build-up of the amino acid cystine in the body