12-letter words containing y
- country mile — a long way
- country park — an area of countryside, usually not less than 10 hectares, set aside for public recreation: often funded by a Countryside Commission grant
- country risk — the risk associated with an overseas investment due to the conditions prevailing in the country in which it is made
- country road — a road in the country
- country rock — the rock surrounding a mineral vein or igneous intrusion
- country seat — A country seat is a large house with land in the country which is owned by someone who also owns a house in a town.
- country-born — born in the country
- country-bred — brought up in the country
- countrywoman — A countrywoman is a woman who lives in the country rather than in a city or a town.
- countrywomen — Plural form of countrywoman.
- county agent — a government employee who gives advice on agriculture in a rural area
- county board — the governing body of a U.S. county consisting usually of three or more elected members.
- county clerk — a senior local government official
- county court — A county court is a local court which deals with private disputes between people, but does not deal with serious crimes.
- courageously — possessing or characterized by courage; brave: a courageous speech against the dictator.
- courtesy bus — a free bus
- courtesy car — a car that is lent to c customer by a garage or insurance company
- courtly love — a tradition represented in Western European literature between the 12th and the 14th centuries, idealizing love between a knight and a revered (usually married) lady
- cowboy boots — Cowboy boots are high, leather boots, similar to those worn by cowboys.
- coxey's army — Jacob Sechler [sech-ler] /ˈsɛtʃ lər/ (Show IPA), 1854–1951, U.S. political reformer: led a group of unemployed marchers (Coxey's army) in 1894 from Ohio to Washington, D.C., to petition Congress for legislation to create jobs and relieve poverty.
- coyote state — South Dakota (used as a nickname).
- crackerberry — bunchberry.
- craniography — examination of the skull as depicted by craniographs, photographs, and charts.
- cranioplasty — Surgical repair of a defect or deformity in the skull.
- crape myrtle — an oriental lythraceous shrub, Lagerstroemia indica, cultivated in warm climates for its pink, red, or white flowers
- craveability — (especially of a food) having qualities that engender an intense desire for more: All too often, salt, sugar, fat, and “crunch” make a food craveable.
- crazy eights — a card game played by two or more persons with a 52-card deck, the object of which is to be the first to get rid of one's hand by successively playing a card of the same suit or denomination as that played by the preceding player, with an eight counting for any desired suit.
- crazy paving — Crazy paving is pieces of stone of different shapes fitted together to make a path or flat area.
- cream sherry — a full-bodied sweet sherry
- credit entry — an accounting entry showing income or capital assets
- creditworthy — A creditworthy person or organization is one who can safely be lent money or allowed to have goods on credit, for example because in the past they have always paid back what they owe.
- cringeworthy — Causing feelings of embarrassment or awkwardness.
- criptography — (spelling) It's spelled "cryptography".
- crop sprayer — a device for spraying crops
- cross volley — (in tennis) a volley across the court
- crossability — the quality of being crossable
- crossed eyes — strabismus, especially the form in which one or both eyes turn inward.
- crown canopy — canopy (def 4).
- crown colony — a British colony whose administration and legislature is controlled by the Crown
- cruciformity — being in the shape of a cross; cross-shaped.
- cruelty-free — (of a cosmetic or other product) developed without being tested on animals
- crumble away — disintegrate
- crushability — to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms.
- crymotherapy — cryotherapy.
- cryoglobulin — an abnormal immunoglobulin, present in the blood in certain diseases, that precipitates below about 10°C, obstructing small blood vessels in the fingers and toes
- cryoplankton — minute organisms, esp algae, living in ice, snow, or icy water
- cryopreserve — to preserve (living tissue) at a very low temperature
- cryosurgical — of or relating to cryosurgery
- cryptanalyst — the procedures, processes, methods, etc., used to translate or interpret secret writings, as codes and ciphers, for which the key is unknown.
- cryptanalyze — to study (a cryptogram) for the purpose of discovering the clear meaning; break (a code, cipher, etc.).