10-letter words containing y, i
- consignify — to signify (something) when understood or interpreted in combination with something else
- consistory — the court of a diocese (other than Canterbury) administering ecclesiastical law
- conspiracy — Conspiracy is the secret planning by a group of people to do something illegal.
- contiguity — the state of being contiguous; nearness or contact
- continency — self-restraint or abstinence, especially in regard to sexual activity; temperance; moderation.
- continuity — Continuity is the fact that something continues to happen or exist, with no great changes or interruptions.
- contrarily — in a perverse or obstinate manner
- contritely — caused by or showing sincere remorse.
- copyedited — Simple past tense and past participle of copyedit.
- copyeditor — a person who edits a manuscript, text, etc., for publication, especially to find and correct errors in style, punctuation, and grammar.
- copyrights — Plural form of copyright.
- copywriter — A copywriter is a person whose job is to write the words for advertisements.
- cor blimey — an exclamation of surprise or annoyance
- coral lily — a bulbous herb, Lilium pumilum, of eastern Asia, having scarlet flowers with recurved petals.
- cordiality — warmth of feeling
- corporeity — bodily or material nature or substance; physical existence; corporeality
- cortically — Anatomy. of, pertaining to, resembling, or consisting of cortex.
- corybantic — frenzied; agitated; unrestrained.
- corydaline — an alkaloid, C22H27NO4, that is found in the roots of certain plants of the genus Corydalis
- corylopsis — any of various deciduous shrubs of the genus Corylopsis, which are found in eastern Asia and have yellow flowers
- cosmic ray — a radiation of high penetrating power that originates in outer space and consists partly of high-energy atomic nuclei.
- cosmically — of or relating to the cosmos: cosmic laws.
- cotyliform — shaped like a cup
- countryish — similar to that which is typical of country music
- countywide — Occurring or extending throughout a county.
- courtierly — of a courtier
- covetingly — in a covetous manner
- coweringly — in a cowering manner
- coyishness — the quality of being coyish
- craniology — the branch of science concerned with the shape and size of the human skull, esp with reference to variations between different races
- craniotomy — any surgical incision into the skull, esp to expose the brain for neurosurgery
- crashingly — extremely; exceedingly
- creakingly — With a creaking sound.
- creatively — having the quality or power of creating.
- creativity — creative ability; artistic or intellectual inventiveness
- creditably — bringing or deserving credit, honor, reputation, or esteem.
- creepingly — in a creeping manner
- crescively — in a crescive or increasing manner
- criminally — In a criminal manner.
- critically — inclined to find fault or to judge with severity, often too readily.
- cruciality — involving an extremely important decision or result; decisive; critical: a crucial experiment.
- crucifying — Present participle of crucify.
- crushingly — You can use crushingly to emphasize the degree of a negative quality.
- cryoconite — a dark powder found at the bottom of glacier holes, formerly thought to be cosmic in origin but now widely regarded to be terrestrial
- cryogenics — Cryogenics is a branch of physics that studies what happens to things at extremely low temperatures.
- cryogenist — of or relating to the production or use of very low temperatures: cryogenic storage.
- cryometric — of or relating to cryometry
- cryophilic — able to thrive at low temperatures
- cryoscopic — Chemistry. a technique for determining the molecular weight of a substance by dissolving it and measuring the freezing point of the solution.
- cryostasis — the deep-freezing of human bodies or other organisms at death; cryonics.