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9-letter words containing y, e, t

  • cheat day — a day in which a person goes off a dietary regimen: Today’s my cheat day, so I’m eating pizza and ice cream.
  • chemistry — Chemistry is the scientific study of the structure of substances and of the way that they react with other substances.
  • chemitype — an obsolete chemical process by which a relief impression was obtained from an engraving or etching
  • chemitypy — the process of chemitype
  • cholecyst — the gallbladder
  • citizenly — Pertaining to citizens.
  • citizenry — The people living in a country, state, or city can be referred to as the citizenry.
  • city code — (in Britain) short for City Code on Takeovers and Mergers: a code laid down in 1968 (later modified) to control takeover bids and mergers
  • city desk — the department of a newspaper office dealing with financial and commercial news
  • city-bred — reared in a city.
  • cityscape — an urban landscape; view of a city
  • claystone — a compact very fine-grained rock consisting of consolidated clay particles
  • clemently — In a clement manner.
  • clericity — the condition of being a clergyman
  • clonotype — (taxonomy) A herbarium specimen made from plants vegetatively propagated from (and thus clones of) the same plant from which a type specimen was made.
  • clouterly — clumsy
  • coenocyte — a mass of protoplasm containing many nuclei and enclosed by a cell wall: occurs in many fungi and some algae
  • coevality — The condition of being coeval.
  • cognately — In a way that is cognate.
  • cold type — typesetting done by a method other than the casting of molten type
  • colectomy — surgical removal of part or all of the colon
  • collotype — a method of lithographic printing from a flat surface of hardened gelatine: used mainly for fine-detail reproduction in monochrome or colour
  • connately — In a connate fashion.
  • contently — satisfied with what one is or has; not wanting more or anything else.
  • contumely — scornful or insulting language or behaviour
  • convexity — the state or quality of being convex
  • copayment — a fee paid by a subscriber to a service for the use of additional services not covered by the subscription
  • copy-edit — to prepare (copy) for printing by styling, correcting, etc
  • copy-text — a manuscript or earlier published version of a text, used as the basis for an emended, scholarly edition
  • copyedits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of copyedit.
  • copytaker — (esp in a newspaper office) a person employed to type reports as journalists dictate them over the telephone
  • copywrite — (rare) To write the copy (or text) of an advertisement; to have a job as a copywriter.
  • cordately — In a cordate form.
  • core city — central city.
  • correctly — to set or make true, accurate, or right; remove the errors or faults from: The native guide corrected our pronunciation. The new glasses corrected his eyesight.
  • cortelyouGeorge Bruce, 1862–1940, U.S. cabinet officer and public utility director.
  • costively — In a costive manner.
  • costumery — multiple costumes considered collectively
  • cotyledon — a simple embryonic leaf in seed-bearing plants, which, in some species, forms the first green leaf after germination
  • credulity — Credulity is a willingness to believe that something is real or true.
  • crematory — A crematory is the same as a crematorium.
  • crotchety — A crotchety person is bad-tempered and easily irritated.
  • cryolathe — an instrument for reshaping the cornea to correct severe nearsightedness or farsightedness: the cornea is removed from the eye, rapidly frozen, reshaped, and reinserted.
  • cryometer — a thermometer for measuring low temperatures
  • cryometry — The measurement of very low temperatures.
  • cryophyte — an organism, esp an alga or moss, that grows on snow or ice
  • currently — at the presenttime; now: She is currently working as a lab technician.
  • curtseyed — Simple past tense and past participle of curtsey.
  • cutcherry — (formerly, in India) government offices and law courts collectively
  • cyanotype — a process of photographic printing, used chiefly in copying architectural and mechanical drawings, that produces a blue line on a white background.
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