10-letter words containing y, e, t, a
- chocolatey — a preparation of the seeds of cacao, roasted, husked, and ground, often sweetened and flavored, as with vanilla.
- chromatype — a procedure in photography that uses photographic paper that is made reactive to light by the use of a salt of chromium
- city break — a short holiday spent in a city
- 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 eater — (in the South Atlantic States) a term used to refer to a poor, uneducated person from a rural area.
- clay stone — argillite.
- claystones — argillite.
- clearstory — clerestory
- 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.
- coequality — The condition of being coequal.
- commentary — A commentary is a description of an event that is broadcast on radio or television while the event is taking place.
- consectary — a consequence or conclusion
- copartnery — copartnership
- copayments — Plural form of copayment.
- copycatted — Simple past tense and past participle of copycat.
- courantyne — a river in N South America, rising in S Guyana and flowing north to the Atlantic, forming the boundary between Guyana and Surinam. Length: 765 km (475 miles)
- covalently — the number of electron pairs that an atom can share with other atoms.
- creatively — having the quality or power of creating.
- creativity — creative ability; artistic or intellectual inventiveness
- creaturely — creatural.
- creditably — bringing or deserving credit, honor, reputation, or esteem.
- crystalise — Alternative spelling of from=non-Oxford British spelling.
- crystalize — (rare) alternative spelling of crystallize.
- cyanometer — an instrument used for measuring the blueness of the sky
- cyanophyte — a former name for a cyanobacterium
- cyanotypes — Plural form of cyanotype.
- cybercasts — Plural form of cybercast.
- cyclamates — Plural form of cyclamate.
- cycle path — A cycle path is a special path on which people can travel by bicycle separately from motor vehicles.
- cyma recta — a cyma whose concave part projects beyond the convex part.
- cysteamine — a drug used to treat cystine excretion or radiation sickness
- cytarabine — a toxic synthetic nucleoside, C 9 H 13 N 3 O 5 , used as an immunosuppressive and cytotoxic agent in the treatment of certain leukemias.
- cytherea's — Aphrodite: so called because of her birth in the sea near Cythera.
- data entry — Data entry is the activity of putting data into a computer, for example, by using a keyboard.
- daughterly — of, like, or proper to a daughter
- day letter — a telegram sent during the day at a slightly cheaper rate
- day return — A day return is a train or bus ticket which allows you to go somewhere and come back on the same day for a lower price than an ordinary return ticket.
- day ticket — a ticket that is valid for one day
- day trader — On the stock market, day traders are traders who buy and sell particular securities on the same day.
- death duty — a tax on property inheritances: in Britain, replaced in 1975 by capital transfer tax and since 1986 by inheritance tax
- debatingly — in an argumentative manner
- decadently — In a decadent manner.
- decastyles — Plural form of decastyle.
- decastylos — a decastyle building, as a classical temple.
- decay time — the time required for a collection of atoms of a particular radionuclide to decay to a fraction of the initial number equal to 1/e, where e = 2.7182818 …, used as the base of natural logarithms.
- decay-rate — the reciprocal of the decay time.
- dedicatory — of or as a dedication
- defamatory — Speech or writing that is defamatory is likely to damage someone's good reputation by saying something bad and untrue about them.
- defeatedly — With an appearance or attitude of defeat.