9-letter words containing y, c, a, r, i
- crayonist — (dated) An artist who uses crayons.
- crucially — involving an extremely important decision or result; decisive; critical: a crucial experiment.
- cruiseway — a canal used for recreational purposes
- crybabies — Plural form of crybaby.
- cryptadia — a collection of things to be kept hidden
- cryptical — mysterious in meaning; puzzling; ambiguous: a cryptic message.
- cybrarian — a person responsible for archives and information available on the internet
- cyrenaica — a region and former province (1951–63) of E Libya: largely desert; settled by the Greeks in about 630 bc; ruled successively by the Egyptians, Romans, Arabs, Turks, and Italians. Area: 855 370 sq km (330 258 sq miles)
- dairy cow — a cow which is used to produce milk
- diachrony — a change over time, esp in languages
- dicastery — A term used by the Vatican corresponding to ministry or department as subdivisions of the papal Curia, referring to the administrative departments of the Vatican City State, as well as strictly ecclesiastical departments; more often termed congregation.
- dictatory — dictatorial
- dyscrasia — An abnormal or disordered state of the body or of a bodily part.
- dyscrasic — relating to, resulting from, or suffering from dyscrasia
- dyscratic — having or suffering from dyscrasia
- dyspraxic — Of or pertaining to dyspraxia.
- eucryphia — any tree or shrub of the mostly evergreen genus Eucryphia, native to Australia and S America, having leaves of a dark lustrous green and white flowers: family Eucryphiaceae
- fair copy — a copy of a document made after final correction.
- fiduciary — Law. a person to whom property or power is entrusted for the benefit of another.
- fire clay — a refractory clay used for making crucibles, firebricks, etc.
- formicary — an ant nest.
- franticly — desperate or wild with excitement, passion, fear, pain, etc.; frenzied.
- gracility — The state of being gracefully slender.
- gynarchic — relating to gynarchy or rule by women
- hagiarchy — hagiocracy.
- haruspicy — divination by a haruspex.
- hercynian — denoting a period of mountain building in Europe in the late Palaeozoic
- hierarchy — any system of persons or things ranked one above another.
- hydracids — Plural form of hydracid.
- hydraulic — operated by, moved by, or employing water or other liquids in motion.
- hydrazoic — noting or pertaining to hydrazoic acid; triazoic.
- hyperacid — Highly acidic.
- hypobaric — (of an anesthetic) having a specific gravity lower than that of cerebrospinal fluid. Compare hyperbaric (def 1).
- hyrcanian — an ancient province of the Persian empire, SE of the Caspian Sea.
- idiocracy — Government that is based upon abstract theory.
- idiocrasy — idiosyncrasy.
- imbracery — embracery.
- incurably — not curable; that cannot be cured, remedied, or corrected: an incurable disease.
- inerrancy — lack of error; infallibility.
- insectary — a laboratory for the study of live insects, their life histories, effects on plants, reaction to insecticides, etc.
- intracity — Within a city.
- intricacy — intricate character or state.
- irascibly — easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
- irritancy — tending to cause irritation; irritating.
- judiciary — the judicial branch of government.
- kirkcaldy — a city in SE Fife, in E Scotland, on the Firth of Forth.
- kritarchy — Rule by judges.
- kyriarchy — A system of
- lacrimary — of or relating to tears or the lacrimal glands
- latrociny — banditry