9-letter words containing cy
- exercycle — Exercise bicycle.
- exocyclic — (of a cyclic compound) situated outside the ring
- exocytose — (of a cell) to secrete a substance from within
- extispicy — (uncountable) Haruspicy: the study and divination by use of animal entrails, usually the victims of sacrifice.
- exultancy — Exultance, exultation.
- faineancy — Synonym of faineance.
- fancy dan — a flashy, ostentatious person, often one who lacks real skill, etc.
- fancy man — a woman's lover.
- fancywork — ornamental needlework.
- farcy bud — an ulcerated swelling, produced in farcy.
- feculency — an impurity
- fibrocyte — an inactive fibroblast
- flagrancy — shockingly noticeable or evident; obvious; glaring: a flagrant error.
- flippancy — frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness; characterized by levity: The audience was shocked by his flippant remarks about patriotism.
- fragrancy — fragrance (def 1).
- freecycle — to give away (used goods or materials) to people who want them, or to obtain (such items) for free.
- frequency — Also, frequence. the state or fact of being frequent; frequent occurrence: We are alarmed by the frequency of fires in the neighborhood.
- generalcy — the office or tenure of a general.
- gigacycle — one billion cycles. Abbreviation: Gc.
- gynocracy — gynarchy.
- gyromancy — a method of prediction or prophecy in which a person moves round and round in a circle and the place at which they fall to the ground is said to be highly significant
- habitancy — the act or fact of inhabiting; inhabitancy.
- haemocyte — Alternative spelling of hemocyte.
- halcyonic — calm; peaceful; tranquil: halcyon weather.
- halomancy — Divination by use of salt. This is the origin for the superstition of spilled salt.
- haruspicy — divination by a haruspex.
- hemicycle — a semicircle.
- hemocytes — Plural form of hemocyte.
- hercynian — denoting a period of mountain building in Europe in the late Palaeozoic
- hercynite — a black oxide mineral, FeAl 2 O 4 , of the spinel group.
- hesitancy — hesitation; indecision or disinclination.
- homocercy — the condition in fish of having a symmetrical tail
- hypocracy — Misspelling of hypocrisy.
- idiocracy — Government that is based upon abstract theory.
- immanency — remaining within; indwelling; inherent.
- immediacy — the state, condition, or quality of being immediate.
- imminency — Also, imminency. the state or condition of being imminent or impending: the imminence of war.
- impotency — the condition or quality of being impotent; weakness.
- impudency — (now rare) Impudence.
- indecency — the quality or condition of being indecent.
- indigency — Indigence.
- indolency — (obsolete) The lack of pain; absence of pain.
- inerrancy — lack of error; infallibility.
- inherency — inherence.
- innocency — innocence (defs 1–6).
- insolency — Quality of being insolent.
- intestacy — the state or fact of being intestate at death.
- intricacy — intricate character or state.
- iridocyte — a guanine-containing cell in the skin of fish and some cephalopods, giving these animals their iridescence
- irritancy — tending to cause irritation; irritating.