10-letter words containing y, o
- copayments — Plural form of copayment.
- copolymers — Plural form of copolymer.
- coprophagy — feeding on dung, as certain beetles.
- copulatory — to engage in sexual intercourse.
- copy paper — paper specially prepared for the writing of advertising copy, newspaper copy, etc., usually having guidelines to indicate margins and the number of spaces per line.
- copy press — a simple machine for printing many copies of a document
- copycatted — Simple past tense and past participle of copycat.
- copycutter — an employee of a newspaper who separates copy into takes to facilitate printing.
- copyedited — Simple past tense and past participle of copyedit.
- copyeditor — a person who edits a manuscript, text, etc., for publication, especially to find and correct errors in style, punctuation, and grammar.
- copyholder — one who reads aloud from the copy as the proof corrector follows the reading in the proof
- copyreader — a person who edits and prepares newspaper copy for publication; subeditor
- copyrights — Plural form of copyright.
- copywriter — A copywriter is a person whose job is to write the words for advertisements.
- cor blimey — an exclamation of surprise or annoyance
- coral lily — a bulbous herb, Lilium pumilum, of eastern Asia, having scarlet flowers with recurved petals.
- coralberry — a small shrub, Symphoricarpos orbiculatus, that is native to North America and is cultivated for its berries
- cordectomy — the removal of a cord, esp a vocal cord
- cordiality — warmth of feeling
- corkscrewy — Resembling the worm of a corkscrew in shape.
- cormophyte — any of the Cormophyta, a major division (now obsolete) of plants having a stem, root, and leaves: includes the mosses, ferns, and seed plants
- corn dolly — a decorative figure made by plaiting straw
- corn poppy — a poppy, Papaver rhoeas, that has bright red flowers and grows in cornfields. Since World War I it has been the symbol of fallen soldiers
- corn syrup — syrup prepared from maize
- cornbrandy — any of various alcoholic spirits made from grain, esp whisky
- corpocracy — a corporate bureaucracy.
- corporally — of the human body; bodily; physical: corporal suffering.
- corporeity — bodily or material nature or substance; physical existence; corporeality
- corpulency — Alternative form of corpulence.
- correctory — corrective
- cortically — Anatomy. of, pertaining to, resembling, or consisting of cortex.
- corybantic — frenzied; agitated; unrestrained.
- corydaline — an alkaloid, C22H27NO4, that is found in the roots of certain plants of the genus Corydalis
- corylopsis — any of various deciduous shrubs of the genus Corylopsis, which are found in eastern Asia and have yellow flowers
- coryneform — resembling a corynebacterium
- coryphaeus — (in ancient Greek drama) the leader of the chorus
- coryphodon — a primitive hoofed mammal of the extinct genus Coryphodon, of the early Eocene Epoch, having a long, thickset body, short legs, and five-toed feet, each toe ending in a small hoof.
- cosmic ray — a radiation of high penetrating power that originates in outer space and consists partly of high-energy atomic nuclei.
- cosmically — of or relating to the cosmos: cosmic laws.
- cosmolatry — the worship of the cosmos
- cost money — If you say that something costs money, you mean that it has to be paid for, and perhaps cannot be afforded.
- costectomy — excision of part or all of a rib.
- costlessly — in a costless manner
- cosy along — to reassure (someone), esp with false assurances
- cotyledons — Plural form of cotyledon.
- cotyliform — shaped like a cup
- cotylosaur — any of various members of the extinct order of primitive and massive reptiles known as Cotylosauria, which lived between the Carboniferous and Triassic ages
- coulometry — a method used in quantitative analysis, whereby the amount of a substance set free or deposited during electrolysis is determined by measuring the number of coulombs that passed through the electrolyte.
- countercry — a cry responding to another cry
- counterspy — a spy working against or investigating enemy espionage