9-letter words containing y, i
- by inches — a unit of length, 1/12 (0.0833) foot, equivalent to 2.54 centimeters.
- by rights — If something is not the case but you think that it should be, you can say that by rights it should be the case.
- by weight — as determined by weighing
- by-bidder — a bidder at an auction who bids up the price of an item for the benefit of a seller
- bypassing — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- bytownite — a rare plagioclase found in alkaline igneous rocks
- byzantine — Byzantine means related to or connected with the Byzantine Empire.
- byzantium — an ancient Greek city on the Bosporus: founded about 660 bc; rebuilt by Constantine I in 330 ad and called Constantinople; present-day Istanbul
- cabin boy — a boy who waits on the officers and passengers of a ship
- cabinetry — cabinets collectively
- cacodylic — of, relating to, or characteristic of the cacodyl group.
- caddisfly — any small mothlike insect of the order Trichoptera, having two pairs of hairy wings and aquatic larvae (caddisworms)
- caddishly — in a caddish manner
- caliology — the study of birds' nests
- callidity — cunning or slyness
- callosity — hardheartedness
- calmingly — in a calming manner
- camstairy — perverse or unruly
- candidacy — Someone's candidacy is their position of being a candidate in an election.
- canopying — The activity of going through the canopy of a forest on a zipline.
- cantingly — In a canting manner; with jargon or religious affectation.
- canyoning — the sport of travelling down a river situated in a canyon by a variety of means including scrambling, floating, swimming, and abseiling
- capillary — Capillaries are tiny blood vessels in your body.
- capitally — in an excellent manner; admirably
- captaincy — The captaincy of a team is the position of being captain.
- captainry — captainship
- captively — In a captive manner.
- captivity — Captivity is the state of being kept imprisoned or enclosed.
- cardialgy — cardialgia
- cariosity — (medicine) caries.
- carnality — pertaining to or characterized by the flesh or the body, its passions and appetites; sensual: carnal pleasures.
- carnivory — the eating of animal flesh
- carnosity — an abnormal fleshy protrusion growing on any part of the body
- carpingly — In a carping manner.
- caryatids — Plural form of caryatid.
- caryopsis — a dry seedlike fruit having the pericarp fused to the seed coat of the single seed: produced by the grasses
- casuistry — Casuistry is the use of clever arguments to persuade or trick people.
- catalysis — Catalysis is the speeding up of a chemical reaction by adding a catalyst to it.
- catalytic — In chemistry, a catalytic substance or a substance with catalytic properties is a substance which increases the speed of a chemical reaction.
- cattishly — In a cattish manner.
- causality — Causality is the relationship of cause and effect.
- cautionry — the position or function of a surety, a person who protects and takes responsibility for another person
- celebrity — A celebrity is someone who is famous, especially in areas of entertainment such as films, music, writing, or sport.
- celiotomy — laparotomy (def 2).
- certainly — You use certainly to emphasize what you are saying when you are making a statement.
- certainty — Certainty is the state of being definite or of having no doubts at all about something.
- ceylonite — a dark blue or black form of spinel
- chairdays — old age, or the point in life when resting in a chair is the most comfortable way of passing time
- chairlady — chairwoman.
- chalybite — siderite (def 1).