10-letter words containing y, e, a
- camera-shy — Someone who is camera-shy is nervous and uncomfortable about being filmed or about having their photograph taken.
- campimetry — a technique for assessing the central part of the visual field
- candy cane — A candy cane is a stick of red and white candy with a curve at one end.
- caney fork — a river in central Tennessee, flowing NW to the Cumberland River. 144 miles (232 km) long.
- cankeredly — spitefully or crabbedly
- canterbury — a late 18th-century low wooden stand with partitions for holding cutlery and plates: often mounted on casters
- cardplayer — a person who plays cards
- carelessly — If someone does something carelessly, they do it without much thought or effort.
- carpellary — (botany) Of or pertaining to carpels.
- carry over — If something carries over or is carried over from one situation to another, it continues to exist or apply in the new situation.
- carry-over — that which is carried over, postponed, or extended to a later time, account, etc.
- carryovers — Plural form of carryover.
- 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.
- cash money — cash, as distinguished from a check or money order.
- castellany — the office or position of a castellan
- 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
- cavalierly — a horseman, especially a mounted soldier; knight.
- cavalrymen — a soldier in the cavalry.
- cedar city — a town in SW Utah.
- celibately — In a celibate way.
- centrality — the state or condition of being central
- cephalalgy — Dated form of cephalalgia.
- cerebrally — Anatomy, Zoology. of or relating to the cerebrum or the brain.
- ceroferary — Candleholder (especially for a large, church candle).
- cerography — the art of engraving on a waxed plate on which a printing surface is created by electrotyping
- certainity — Misspelling of certainty.
- certaynely — Archaic spelling of certainly.
- cessionary — a person to whom something is transferred; assignee; grantee
- ceylon tea — a tea from Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)
- chaetotaxy — the arrangement of bristles on the exoskeleton of an insect.
- chalcedony — a microcrystalline often greyish form of quartz with crystals arranged in parallel fibres: a gemstone. Formula: SiO2
- chalybeate — containing or impregnated with iron salts
- chandlerly — like, or pertaining to, a chandler
- change key — a key opening only one lock.
- changeably — liable to change or to be changed; variable.
- charactery — the use of symbols to express thoughts
- charophyte — any green algae of the class Charophyceae (or group Charophyta), comprising the stoneworts.
- chase away — If someone or something chases away worries, fears, or other bad feelings, they cause those feelings to change and become happier.
- cheapishly — in a fairly cheap manner
- cheboksary — a port in W central Russia on the River Volga: capital of the Chuvash Republic. Pop: 446 000 (2005 est)
- chemically — a substance produced by or used in a chemical process.
- chemonasty — the nastic movement of a plant in response to a chemical stimulus
- chinaberry — a spreading Asian meliaceous tree, Melia azedarach, widely grown in the US for its ornamental white or purple flowers and beadlike yellow fruits
- chlamydate — (of some molluscs) possessing a mantle
- chlamydiae — the sexually transmitted diseases that are due to the microorganism Chlamydia trachomatis
- choanocyte — any of the flagellated cells in sponges that maintain a flow of water through the body. A collar of protoplasm surrounds the base of the flagellum