11-letter words containing y, n
- chylomicron — a minute droplet of fat, found in blood and chyle, that is the form in which dietary fat is carried in these fluids
- chymopapain — papain, esp. when injected into a slipped disk to dissolve pain-causing soft cartilage
- circinately — In a circinate fashion.
- city center — The city center is the busiest part of a city, where most of the shops and businesses are.
- city centre — The city centre is the busiest part of a city, where most of the shops and businesses are.
- clairvoyant — Someone who is believed to be clairvoyant is believed to know about future events or to be able to communicate with dead people.
- classifying — Denoting an adjective that describes the class that a head noun belongs to and characterized by not having a comparative or superlative (for example American, mortal ).
- clay pigeon — Clay pigeons are discs of baked clay which are thrown into the air by a machine as targets for gun shooting practice.
- clergywoman — a female member of the clergy
- clergywomen — Plural form of clergywoman.
- clinchingly — in a clinching manner
- clindamycin — an antibiotic used to treat bacterial infections
- coadjacency — the state of two or more things being adjacent in experience or thought
- coadjuvancy — (rare) cooperation, mutual effort, joint-help.
- coconut shy — a fairground stall in which balls are thrown to knock coconuts off stands
- code monkey — a computer programmer who is able to perform only routine tasks
- coenenchyma — gelatinous material uniting the polyps of an anthozoan colony
- coenenchyme — the gelatinous framework between polyps of an anthozoan colony
- coenzymatic — of or relating to coenzymes
- cognitively — in a cognitive manner
- cognitivity — the state of being cognitive
- cognizantly — In a cognizant manner.
- coincidency — a coincident state
- colinearity — the state of being arranged in the same linear sequence
- collenchyma — a strengthening and supporting tissue in plants, consisting of elongated living cells whose walls are thickened with cellulose and pectins
- collenchyme — Botany. a gelatinous, thickened, and usually elongated cell that is part of a layer of modified tissue in some plants.
- collinearly — lying in the same straight line.
- colluctancy — (obsolete, rare) A struggle to resist; a striving against; resistance; opposition of nature.
- colocynthis — Obsolete form of colocynth.
- coloniality — the state or condition of associating in colonies.
- colonoscopy — visual inspection of the interior of the colon with a flexible, lighted tube inserted through the rectum.
- columnarity — the fact or quality of being columnar
- combed yarn — cotton or worsted yarn of fibers laid parallel, superior in smoothness to carded yarn.
- combinatory — combinative
- command key — (on a computer keyboard) a key used when executing commands
- commendably — worthy of praise: She did a commendable job of informing all the interested parties.
- commensally — In a commensal manner.
- comminatory — Threatening, punitive, or vengeful.
- common year — an ordinary year of 365 days; a year having no intercalary period.
- commonality — Commonality is used to refer to a feature or purpose that is shared by two or more people or things.
- communality — the state or condition of being communal.
- company car — A company car is a car which an employer gives to an employee to use as their own, usually as a benefit of having a particular job, or because their job involves a lot of travelling.
- company law — the area of law that deals with business enterprises
- company man — an employee who puts allegiance to the company for which he works above personal opinion or friendship
- companywide — Extending throughout a company.
- competently — having suitable or sufficient skill, knowledge, experience, etc., for some purpose; properly qualified: He is perfectly competent to manage the bank branch.
- complacency — Complacency is being complacent about a situation.
- compliantly — complying; obeying, obliging, or yielding, especially in a submissive way: a man with a compliant nature.
- componentry — the components of a machine, vehicle, stereo system, etc.
- conan doyle — Sir Arthur. 1859–1930, British author of detective stories and historical romances and the creator of Sherlock Holmes