9-letter words containing y, c, a, r, i
- lay vicar — a member of a cathedral choir appointed to sing certain parts of the services
- lyocratic — noting a colloid owing its stability to the affinity of its particles for the liquid in which they are dispersed.
- lyrically — (of poetry) having the form and musical quality of a song, and especially the character of a songlike outpouring of the poet's own thoughts and feelings, as distinguished from epic and dramatic poetry.
- macbinary — (file format) An eight-bit wide representation of the data and resource forks of an Macintosh file and of relevant Finder information. MacBinary files are recognised as "special" by several MacIntosh terminal emulators. These emulators, using Kermit or XMODEM or any other file transfer protocol, can separate the incoming file into forks and appropriately modify the Desktop to display icons, types, creation dates, and the like.
- machinery — an assemblage of machines or mechanical apparatuses: the machinery of a factory.
- miryachit — A disorder found in Siberia, characterized by a jumping motion.
- mordacity — biting or given to biting.
- mydriatic — pertaining to or producing mydriasis.
- myocardia — the muscular substance of the heart.
- myristica — (botany) Any member of the genus Myristica of nutmegs.
- officiary — pertaining to or derived from an office, as a title.
- oligarchy — a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few.
- panegyric — a lofty oration or writing in praise of a person or thing; eulogy.
- paralytic — a person affected with paralysis.
- pecuniary — of or relating to money: pecuniary difficulties.
- piscatory — of or relating to fishermen or fishing: a piscatory treaty.
- placitory — of or relating to pleas made to support a claim or a defence
- preachify — to preach in an obtrusive or tedious way.
- preachily — in a preachy fashion
- predacity — predatory; rapacious.
- procacity — insolence
- pyritical — relating to pyrites
- rackingly — in a racking manner
- radically — with regard to origin or root.
- rancidity — having a rank, unpleasant, stale smell or taste, as through decomposition, especially of fats or oils: rancid butter.
- rascality — rascally or knavish character or conduct.
- rifamycin — an antibiotic which can be synthesized artificially or naturally and is used in the treatment of infections such as tuberculosis and leprosy
- sacrality — sacredness
- satyrical — Classical Mythology. one of a class of woodland deities, attendant on Bacchus, represented as part human, part horse, and sometimes part goat and noted for riotousness and lasciviousness.
- satyricon — a satirical novel, interspersed with verse, written in the 1st century a.d. by Petronius, extant in fragments.
- scaringly — to fill, especially suddenly, with fear or terror; frighten; alarm.
- scraggily — lean or thin; scrawny.
- strychnia — Pharmacology. a colorless, crystalline poison, C 2 1 H 2 2 N 2 O 2 , obtained chiefly by extraction from the seeds of nux vomica, formerly used as a central nervous system stimulant.
- sybaritic — (usually lowercase) pertaining to or characteristic of a sybarite; characterized by or loving luxury or sensuous pleasure: to wallow in sybaritic splendor.
- sympatric — originating in or occupying the same geographical area.
- timocracy — a form of government in which love of honor is the dominant motive of the rulers.
- trachytic — a fine-grained volcanic rock consisting essentially of alkali feldspar and one or more subordinate minerals, as hornblende or mica: the extrusive equivalent of syenite.
- trafficky — (of a street, area, town, etc) busy with motor vehicles
- tridactyl — having three fingers or toes, as certain reptiles.
- uncharity — lack of charity; uncharitable thought or behaviour; unkindness
- unclarity — clearness or lucidity as to perception or understanding; freedom from indistinctness or ambiguity.
- unlyrical — not lyrical
- xerically — of, relating to, or adapted to a dry environment.
- yardstick — a stick a yard long, commonly marked with subdivisions, used for measuring.
- zircalloy — an alloy of zirconium containing small amounts of tin, chromium, and nickel. It is used in pressurized-water reactors