9-letter words containing t, r, y
- collutory — mouthwash.
- congruity — the condition or fact of being congruous or congruent
- contranym — A word that has two opposing meanings, such as 'cleave' (“come together” or “split apart”).
- contrasty — (of a photograph or subject) having sharp gradations in tone, esp between light and dark areas
- contronym — A word with two opposite meanings, e.g., sanction (which can mean both ‘a penalty for disobeying a law’ and ‘official permission or approval for an action’).
- copyright — If someone has copyright on a piece of writing or music, it is illegal to reproduce or perform it without their permission.
- copytaker — (esp in a newspaper office) a person employed to type reports as journalists dictate them over the telephone
- copywrite — (rare) To write the copy (or text) of an advertisement; to have a job as a copywriter.
- cordately — In a cordate form.
- cordotomy — a sugrical method of pain relief in which nerves in the spinal cord are cut
- core city — central city.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- credulity — Credulity is a willingness to believe that something is real or true.
- crematory — A crematory is the same as a crematorium.
- crinosity — Hairiness.
- crotchety — A crotchety person is bad-tempered and easily irritated.
- cry quits — to give up a task, fight, etc
- 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.
- cryophyte — an organism, esp an alga or moss, that grows on snow or ice
- cryostats — Plural form of cryostat.
- cryptadia — a collection of things to be kept hidden
- cryptical — mysterious in meaning; puzzling; ambiguous: a cryptic message.
- 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
- crystall- — crystallo-
- culpatory — expressing blame
- curiosity — Curiosity is a desire to know about something.
- curly top — a disease of plants, especially beets, characterized by puckered or cupped leaves and stunting or distortion, caused by a virus, Ruga verrucosans.
- currently — at the presenttime; now: She is currently working as a lab technician.
- curtseyed — Simple past tense and past participle of curtsey.
- curtsying — Present participle of curtsey.
- customary — Customary is used to describe things that people usually do in a particular society or in particular circumstances.
- custumary — Obsolete form of customary.
- cutcherry — (formerly, in India) government offices and law courts collectively
- cyanurate — a salt or ester derived from cyanide
- cybercast — (Internet) A broadcast of audiovisual material over the Internet.
- cyberchat — Chat that takes place on the Internet, as in a chatroom or via instant messages.
- cybercity — A city with a strong basis in information technology.
- cybergoth — (uncountable) A subculture combining elements of goth and rave culture, typically involving energetic electronic music and brightly coloured, futuristic clothing.
- cybernate — to control (a manufacturing process) with a servomechanism or (of a process) to be controlled by a servomechanism