10-letter words containing y, e, t
- 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
- cecutiency — the state of or tendency to full or partial blindness
- cedar city — a town in SW Utah.
- celibately — In a celibate way.
- 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.
- ceylon tea — a tea from Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)
- chaetotaxy — the arrangement of bristles on the exoskeleton of an insect.
- chalybeate — containing or impregnated with iron salts
- charactery — the use of symbols to express thoughts
- charophyte — any green algae of the class Charophyceae (or group Charophyta), comprising the stoneworts.
- 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
- chimneypot — a short pipe on the top of a chimney, which increases the draught and directs the smoke upwards
- chlamydate — (of some molluscs) possessing a mantle
- 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
- chocolatey — a preparation of the seeds of cacao, roasted, husked, and ground, often sweetened and flavored, as with vanilla.
- cholecysts — Plural form of cholecyst.
- chomophyte — any plant that grows on rocky ledges or in fissures and crevices
- chromatype — a procedure in photography that uses photographic paper that is made reactive to light by the use of a salt of chromium
- 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
- city break — a short holiday spent in a city
- city clerk — a city official who maintains public records and vital statistics, issues licenses, etc.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- coeliotomy — (surgery) A surgical procedure for making an incision in the abdominal wall to gain access into the abdominal cavity. Performed either as exploratory surgery, or as the first step in an abdominal operation.
- 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.
- coequality — The condition of being coequal.
- coercivity — the magnetic-field strength necessary to demagnetize a ferromagnetic material that is magnetized to saturation. It is measured in amperes per metre
- coeternity — existence for, from, or in eternity with another being
- coherently — logically connected; consistent: a coherent argument.
- collotypes — Plural form of collotype.
- cometology — the study of comets