12-letter words containing y, i, n
- buying order — an order to buy a certain security
- buying power — the amount of services or goods a company, person, group or currency is able to purchase
- buying spree — the hurried acquisition by a company, of goods, assets, or other companies
- buying-power — Also called buying power. the ability to purchase goods and services.
- bye-election — a special election, not held at the time of a general election, to fill a vacancy in Parliament.
- byelorussian — Byelorussian means belonging or relating to Byelorussia or to its people or culture.
- cable-laying — involved in or connected to the activity of laying cables
- cachinnatory — Pertaining to loud or immoderate laughter.
- caliginosity — darkness
- calumniatory — of, involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory.
- calumniously — in a calumnious manner
- calvin cycle — a series of reactions, occurring during photosynthesis, in which glucose is synthesized from carbon dioxide
- candy stripe — a pattern of bright stripes of one color against a plain background, used chiefly in fabrics.
- cantillatory — involving chanting or incantation
- canyoneering — (US) Canyoning, a hybrid outdoor sport involving the traversal of river canyons.
- car industry — the industry concerned with the manufacture and selling of automobiles
- cardigan bay — an inlet of St George's Channel, on the W coast of Wales
- carolina bay — any of the shallow, usually marshy, oval depressions found in the coastal plains of the eastern U.S. that are heavily forested and have rich soil.
- carryings-on — wild, extravagant, or immoral behavior
- cartoonishly — in a cartoonish manner
- cationically — in a cationic manner
- censoriously — In a censorious manner.
- centennially — As part of a centennial.
- central city — the principal municipality of a metropolitan area, surrounded by suburbs and smaller towns; esp., the crowded, industrial, often blighted area
- ceremonially — of, relating to, or characterized by ceremony; formal; ritual: a ceremonial occasion.
- chained lady — the constellation Andromeda.
- chickahominy — a member of a North American Indian tribe of the Powhatan confederacy that inhabited eastern Virginia.
- chimney rock — a column of rock rising above the level of the surrounding area or isolated on the face of a steep slope.
- chimneyboard — a partition or a cover to shut off a fireplace
- chimneypiece — A chimneypiece is the same as a mantlepiece.
- chimneysweep — Alternative form of chimney sweep.
- chinese copy — an exact copy of an original
- chirurgeonly — in the manner of a surgeon
- chlorohydrin — any of a class of organic compounds containing a hydroxyl group and a chlorine atom
- cholinolytic — capable of blocking the action of acetylcholine and related compounds.
- christianity — Christianity is a religion that is based on the teachings of Jesus Christ and the belief that he was the son of God.
- christophany — an appearance or emergence of Christ following his crucifixion
- churchianity — loyalty to the church rather than Christianity
- chylomicrons — Plural form of chylomicron.
- chymotrypsin — a powerful proteolytic enzyme secreted from the pancreas in the form of chymotrypsinogen, being converted to the active form by trypsin
- circumbinary — (astronomy) Of, pertaining to, or having an orbit around a binary star.
- city chicken — pieces of pork or veal that are skewered and breaded, and cooked by braising or baking
- city company — (in Britain) a corporation that represents one of the historic trade guilds of London
- city council — a municipal body having legislative and administrative powers, such as passing ordinances and appropriating funds.
- city edition — an early edition of a daily newspaper on sale locally, usually a later edition than the one sent for out-of-town distribution.
- city manager — (in the US) an administrator hired by a municipal council to manage its affairs
- clairvoyance — the alleged power of perceiving things beyond the natural range of the senses
- clairvoyancy — the faculty of clairvoyance
- clairvoyants — Plural form of clairvoyant.
- clatteringly — With a clattering sound.