13-letter words containing y, i
- cherry picker — a hydraulic crane, esp one mounted on a lorry, that has an elbow joint or telescopic arm supporting a basket-like platform enabling a person to service high power lines or to carry out similar operations above the ground
- cherry-picker — a moveable boom, having a bucketlike attachment at its top that is large enough to carry a worker: used for repairing telephone lines, pruning trees, etc.
- chiaochou bay — an inlet of the Yellow Sea, in E China, in Shandong province. 20 miles (32 km) long; 15 miles (24 km) wide.
- chicago style — a style of jazz flourishing in Chicago especially in the early 1920s, constituting a direct offshoot of New Orleans style, and differing from its predecessor chiefly in the diminished influence of native folk sources, the greater tension of its group improvisation, the increased emphasis on solos, and the regular use of the tenor saxophone as part of the ensemble.
- child cruelty — cruelty directed against children
- child custody — custody (def 4).
- child prodigy — A child prodigy is a child with a very great talent.
- child-custody — custody (def 4).
- chimney piece — mantelpiece
- chimney place — an open hearth.
- chimney stack — A chimney stack is the brick or stone part of a chimney that is above the roof of a building.
- chimney sweep — A chimney sweep is a person whose job is to clean the soot out of chimneys.
- chimney swift — a North American swift, Chaetura pelagica, that nests in chimneys and similar hollows
- chimney wheel — smokejack.
- chimneybreast — the wall or walls that surround the base of a chimney or fireplace
- chimneypieces — Plural form of chimneypiece.
- chinese money — funny money (def 3).
- chlorargyrite — a mineral, the naturally occurring form of silver chloride, formed in the oxidation process of silver
- chloromycetin — chloramphenicol
- cholecystitis — inflammation of the gall bladder, due to bacterial infection or the presence of gallstones
- christmas day — Christmas Day is the 25th of December, when Christmas is celebrated.
- chromatically — In a chromatic manner.
- chromatolysis — the dissolution of stained material, such as chromatin in injured cells
- chromatolytic — relating to chromatolysis
- chronobiology — the branch of biology concerned with the periodicity occurring in living organisms
- chrysophenine — a bright yellow dye derived from stilbene, used chiefly for dyeing leather and textiles.
- chrysophilite — a person who loves gold
- chylification — the process of turning into chyle
- chymification — the process of turning into chyme
- cinco de mayo — May 5, anniversary of the victory of Mexico over French forces at Puebla in 1862: observed by Mexicans and Mexican-Americans
- cinematically — Chiefly British. motion picture.
- circumductory — relating to circumduction
- circumjacency — the state of being circumjacent
- circumspectly — watchful and discreet; cautious; prudent: circumspect behavior.
- city chambers — (in Scotland) the municipal building of a city; town hall
- city dionysia — (in ancient Athens) the chief festival in honor of Dionysus, celebrated in early spring and notable for the performance of dithyrambs, tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays.
- city of david — Jerusalem. II Sam. 5:6–7.
- city of light — Paris2
- city planning — City planning is the planning and design of all the new buildings, roads, and parks in a place in order to make them attractive and convenient for the people who live there.
- civic society — an organization founded to promote the interests of a local community
- civil liberty — the right of an individual to certain freedoms of speech and action
- civil society — the elements such as freedom of speech, an independent judiciary, etc, that make up a democratic society
- cladistically — from a cladistic point of view
- clairvoyantly — In a clairvoyant way; by means of clairvoyance.
- clandestinely — characterized by, done in, or executed with secrecy or concealment, especially for purposes of subversion or deception; private or surreptitious: Their clandestine meetings went undiscovered for two years.
- clandestinity — secrecy; the quality of being clandestine
- clarificatory — Of or pertaining to clarification.
- class library — (programming) A library of reusable classes for use with an object-oriented programming system.
- class society — a society in which class distinctions are influential
- claymore mine — an antipersonnel mine designed to produce a direction-guided, fan-shaped pattern of fragments.