10-letter words containing y, a, t
- bytesexual — (jargon) /bi:t" sek"shu-*l/ An adjective used to describe hardware, denotes willingness to compute or pass data in either big-endian or little-endian format (depending, presumably, on a mode bit somewhere). See also NUXI problem.
- cacodylate — a salt of cacodylic acid.
- cacotrophy — malnutrition
- cad system — A CAD system is a computer system for designing parts or products before they are manufactured.
- caecostomy — (surgery) An operation involving bringing the caecum through the abdominal wall, most often by a tube, and opening it for drainage or decompression, usually to treat an obstruction of the colon.
- caloricity — Ectothermy.
- calotypist — a person who produces photographs using the calotype process
- calyculate — having a calycule
- campimetry — a technique for assessing the central part of the visual field
- candy-coat — sugarcoat (def 2).
- candytufts — Plural form of candytuft.
- canon city — a town in central Colorado.
- canonicity — the fact or quality of being canonical
- canterbury — a late 18th-century low wooden stand with partitions for holding cutlery and plates: often mounted on casters
- capability — If you have the capability or the capabilities to do something, you have the ability or the qualities that are necessary to do it.
- capitulary — any of the collections of ordinances promulgated by the Frankish kings (8th–10th centuries ad)
- captiously — In a captious manner.
- cardiotomy — (surgery) The procedure of making an incision in the heart.
- carol city — a town in SE Florida, near Miami.
- carrot fly — a dipterous insect, Psila rosae, that is a serious pest of carrots. The larvae tunnel into the root to feed
- cartomancy — the telling of fortunes with playing cards
- cartophily — the hobby of collecting cigarette cards
- case study — A case study is a written account that gives detailed information about a person, group, or thing and their development over a period of time.
- castellany — the office or position of a castellan
- castratory — of or relating to castration
- cataclysms — Plural form of cataclysm.
- catalysing — Present participle of catalyse.
- catalystic — (nonstandard) Serving as a catalyst; catalytic.
- catalyzing — Present participle of catalyze.
- catchpenny — designed to have instant appeal, esp in order to sell quickly and easily without regard for quality
- category 3 — (hardware) (Cat 3, or "voice grade") An American Standards Institute standard for UTP cables. Used, e.g., for 100BaseVG network cabling.
- category 5 — The term Category 5 refers to Ethernet cabling that allows data transfers up to 100 Megabits per second.
- category a — (of a prisoner) regarded as highly dangerous and therefore requiring constant observation and maximum security
- category d — (of a prisoner) regarded as sufficiently trustworthy to be kept under open prison conditions
- causticity — capable of burning, corroding, or destroying living tissue.
- cautionary — A cautionary story or a cautionary note to a story is one that is intended to give a warning to people.
- cautiously — showing, using, or characterized by caution: a cautious man; To be cautious is often to show wisdom.
- cedar city — a town in SW Utah.
- celibately — In a celibate way.
- centrality — the state or condition of being central
- certainity — Misspelling of certainty.
- certaynely — Archaic spelling of certainly.
- ceylon tea — a tea from Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)
- chaetotaxy — the arrangement of bristles on the exoskeleton of an insect.
- chalybeate — containing or impregnated with iron salts
- charactery — the use of symbols to express thoughts
- charitably — generous in donations or gifts to relieve the needs of indigent, ill, or helpless persons, or of animals: a charitable man giving much money to feed the poor.
- charophyte — any green algae of the class Charophyceae (or group Charophyta), comprising the stoneworts.
- chartulary — cartulary
- chemonasty — the nastic movement of a plant in response to a chemical stimulus