10-letter words containing y, e, s
- 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.
- camera-shy — Someone who is camera-shy is nervous and uncomfortable about being filmed or about having their photograph taken.
- carelessly — If someone does something carelessly, they do it without much thought or effort.
- 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
- celioscopy — celoscope.
- cessionary — a person to whom something is transferred; assignee; grantee
- 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)
- 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)
- chessylite — the blue mineral azurite or copper carbonate
- cholecysts — Plural form of cholecyst.
- chrysocale — a copper alloy containing zinc and lead.
- chrysolite — a yellowish-green gem derived chiefly from varieties of olivine
- chrysotile — a green, grey, or white fibrous mineral, a variety of serpentine, that is an important source of commercial asbestos. Formula: Mg3Si2O5(OH)4
- chylaceous — of or resembling chyle.
- city-state — a state consisting of a sovereign city and its dependencies. Among the most famous are the great independent cities of the ancient world, such as Athens, Sparta, Carthage, Thebes, Corinth, and Rome
- cityscapes — Plural form of cityscape.
- clay stone — argillite.
- claystones — argillite.
- clearstory — clerestory
- clepsydras — Plural form of clepsydra.
- clerestory — a row of windows in the upper part of the wall of a church that divides the nave from the aisle, set above the aisle roof
- clonotypes — Plural form of clonotype.
- clydesdale — a heavy powerful breed of carthorse, originally from Scotland
- cockneyism — a characteristic of speech or custom peculiar to cockneys
- cocksurely — In a cocksure manner.
- coenocytes — Plural form of coenocyte.
- cohesively — characterized by or causing cohesion: a cohesive agent.
- collotypes — Plural form of collotype.
- composedly — calm; tranquil; serene: His composed face reassured the nervous passengers.
- condensery — a factory where condensed milk is produced
- confusedly — to perplex or bewilder: The flood of questions confused me.
- consectary — a consequence or conclusion
- consumedly — (intensifier)
- conversely — You say conversely to indicate that the situation you are about to describe is the opposite or reverse of the one you have just described.
- copayments — Plural form of copayment.
- copolymers — Plural form of copolymer.
- copy press — a simple machine for printing many copies of a document
- corkscrewy — Resembling the worm of a corkscrew in shape.
- coryphaeus — (in ancient Greek drama) the leader of the chorus
- cost money — If you say that something costs money, you mean that it has to be paid for, and perhaps cannot be afforded.
- costectomy — excision of part or all of a rib.
- costlessly — in a costless manner