10-letter words containing y, n
- countercry — a cry responding to another cry
- counterspy — a spy working against or investigating enemy espionage
- countryish — similar to that which is typical of country music
- countryman — Your countrymen are people from your own country.
- countrymen — a native or inhabitant of one's own country.
- countywide — Occurring or extending throughout a county.
- courantyne — a river in N South America, rising in S Guyana and flowing north to the Atlantic, forming the boundary between Guyana and Surinam. Length: 765 km (475 miles)
- covalently — the number of electron pairs that an atom can share with other atoms.
- 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
- crazy bone — funny bone
- creakingly — With a creaking sound.
- creepingly — in a creeping manner
- criminally — In a criminal manner.
- 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.
- cryptopine — a poisonous alkaloid, C21H23NO5, found in opium
- cryptozoon — an extinct genus of algae from Precambrian and Cambrian times, forming irregularly hemispherical fossil colonies composed of layers of limy precipitate.
- culinarily — of, relating to, or used in cooking or the kitchen.
- cunctatory — prone to delaying
- curtseying — Present participle of curtsey.
- cyanogenic — having the capability to generate or produce cyanide
- cyanometer — an instrument used for measuring the blueness of the sky
- cyanopathy — (medicine) A disease in which the surface of the body turns blue, usually arising from a malformation of the heart, which causes an imperfect arterialization of the blood.
- cyanophyta — a phylum, or subkingdom, in the kingdom Monera, comprising the blue-green algae.
- cyanophyte — a former name for a cyanobacterium
- cyanotypes — Plural form of cyanotype.
- cyberbunny — (abuse) Someone who knows absolutely nothing about computers and advises people who know absolutely nothing about computers. The term is used mostly on AOL, Prodigy, Compuserve, etc.
- cyberknife — a laser surgery technique which uses a mobile robotic arm to target tumours, etc, more effectively than conventional radiotherapy
- cybernetic — the study of human control functions and of mechanical and electronic systems designed to replace them, involving the application of statistical mechanics to communication engineering.
- cycle lane — a specially designated and indicated section of the roadway for use by cyclists
- cyclodiene — a group of organic insecticides, many of which are banned in the US and Europe
- cycloidian — of or pertaining to a cycloid
- cyclosarin — Cyclohexyl methylphosphonofluoridate, an extremely toxic substance used as a chemical weapon.
- cyclotrons — Plural form of cyclotron.
- cygnus x-1 — a strong x-ray source in the constellation Cygnus, consisting of a binary system of which one component may be a black hole.
- cylindered — Having a specified kind or number of cylinders.
- cylindrite — a mineral made up of cylindrical crystals containing tin, iron, lead, and antimony
- cylindroid — a cylinder with an elliptical cross section
- cymophenol — (organic compound) synonym of carvacrol.
- cynghanedd — a complex system of rhyme and alliteration used in Welsh verse
- cynomolgus — a macaque native to SE Asia
- cynophilia — a love of dogs