9-letter words containing y, i
- chantilly — a town in N France, near the Forest of Chantilly formerly famous for lace and porcelain. Pop: 10 902 (1999)
- charybdis — a ship-devouring monster in classical mythology, identified with a whirlpool off the north coast of Sicily, lying opposite Scylla on the Italian coast
- 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
- cherimoya — a deciduous shrub or small tree, native to the Andean highlands, which produces an oval fruit with cream-coloured flesh
- chicanery — Chicanery is using cleverness to cheat people.
- chidingly — In a chiding manner.
- chimneyed — Containing chimneys, or a particular type or number of chimney.
- chipewyan — a member of a North American Indian people of NW Canada
- chippeway — Chippewa.
- chirality — the configuration or handedness (left or right) of an asymmetric, optically active chemical compound
- chirimoya — cherimoya.
- chirology — Palm reading.
- chironomy — the craft or artistry of moving the hands by following a standard or formula in relation to theatrical, oratory, or musical performance
- chiropody — Chiropody is the professional treatment and care of people's feet.
- chishtiya — a Sufi order of the Indian subcontinent.
- chivvying — Present participle of chivvy.
- chiyogami — a type of highly decorated, colourful craft paper used for origami
- chlamydia — Chlamydia is a sexually-transmitted disease.
- choir-boy — a boy who sings in a choir, especially a church choir.
- choirboys — Plural form of choirboy.
- chokingly — in a strangling, suffocating, or choking manner
- chondrify — to become or convert into cartilage
- chrysalid — of or relating to a chrysalis
- chrysalis — A chrysalis is a butterfly or moth in the stage between being a larva and an adult.
- chymistry — chemistry.
- cinnamony — reminiscent of cinnamon
- circuitry — Circuitry is a system of electric circuits.
- circulary — (obsolete) circular; illogical.
- 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 hall — The city hall is the building which a city council uses as its main offices.
- city plan — the developmental plan for a city or town arrived at through the process of city planning.
- city room — the room in which local news is handled for a newspaper, a radio or television station, or for another journalistic agency.
- city-born — born in a city.
- city-bred — reared in a city.
- cityscape — an urban landscape; view of a city
- civically — of or relating to a city; municipal: civic problems.
- civil day — day (def 3c).
- clay pipe — a pipe whose bowl is made of fired clay
- claytonia — any low-growing North American succulent portulacaceous plant of the genus Claytonia
- clericity — the condition of being a clergyman
- climatory — Having to do with climate.
- clonality — The fact or condition of being genetically identical, as to a parent, sibling, or other biological source.
- clonicity — of or relating to clonus.
- cloyingly — In a cloying manner; with distasteful excess.
- cnidocyst — a nematocyst.