10-letter words containing y, e, n
- boy wonder — a young man who is extremely good at a particular activity or who has a particular talent or skill
- brandywine — creek in SE Pa. & N Del.: site of a battle (1777) of the Revolutionary War, in which Washington's army failed to check the British advance on Philadelphia
- brontobyte — 1027 or 290 bytes
- brown eyes — eyes with brown irises
- buffoonery — Buffoonery is foolish behaviour that makes you laugh.
- bunchberry — a dwarf variety of dogwood native to North America, Cornus canadensis, having red berries
- by oneself — be oneself, to be in one's normal state of mind or physical condition. to be unaffected and sincere: One makes more friends by being oneself than by putting on airs.
- by-numbers — done in an uninspired, simplistic, or formulaic way
- call money — money loaned by banks and recallable on demand
- 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
- 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
- cavalrymen — a soldier in the cavalry.
- cecutiency — the state of or tendency to full or partial blindness
- centrality — the state or condition of being central
- centricity — pertaining to or situated at the center; central.
- certainity — Misspelling of certainty.
- certaynely — Archaic spelling of certainly.
- certifying — Present participle of certify.
- cessionary — a person to whom something is transferred; assignee; grantee
- ceylon tea — a tea from Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)
- chalcedony — a microcrystalline often greyish form of quartz with crystals arranged in parallel fibres: a gemstone. Formula: SiO2
- chandlerly — like, or pertaining to, a chandler
- change key — a key opening only one lock.
- changeably — liable to change or to be changed; variable.
- cheeringly — In a way that cheers; hearteningly, encouragingly.
- chelyuskin — Capenorthernmost point of Asia, on the Taimyr Peninsula, Siberia
- chemonasty — the nastic movement of a plant in response to a chemical stimulus
- chernovtsy — a city in Ukraine on the Prut River: formerly under Polish, Austro-Hungarian, and Romanian rule; part of the Soviet Union (1947–91). Pop: 237 000 (2005 est)
- chimneypot — a short pipe on the top of a chimney, which increases the draught and directs the smoke upwards
- chinaberry — a spreading Asian meliaceous tree, Melia azedarach, widely grown in the US for its ornamental white or purple flowers and beadlike yellow fruits
- chlorodyne — a drug, containing chloroform among other ingredients, with sedative, narcotic and pain-relieving properties
- 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
- clay stone — argillite.
- claystones — argillite.
- cleromancy — a divination involving dice-throwing or lot-casting
- clonotypes — Plural form of clonotype.
- cluny lace — a strong heavy silk and cotton bobbin lace made at Cluny or elsewhere
- co-payment — payment required of an insured person for that portion of medical expenses not paid by the insurance company; specif., a fixed fee required for each prescription, visit to a doctor, etc.
- cockernony — a woman's hairstyle in which the hair is gathered up in a band
- cockneydom — cockneys considered together as a group
- cockneyism — a characteristic of speech or custom peculiar to cockneys
- coenocytes — Plural form of coenocyte.
- coenocytic — an organism made up of a multinucleate, continuous mass of protoplasm enclosed by one cell wall, as in some algae and fungi.
- coenzyme a — a constituent of biological cells that functions as the agent of acylation in metabolic reactions
- coenzyme q — a quinone derivative, present in biological cells, that functions as an electron carrier in the electron transport chain