9-letter words starting with cy
- cyan blue — a moderate greenish-blue to bluish-green color.
- cyanamide — a white or colourless crystalline soluble weak dibasic acid, which can be hydrolysed to urea. Formula: H2NCN
- cyanotype — a process of photographic printing, used chiefly in copying architectural and mechanical drawings, that produces a blue line on a white background.
- cyanurate — a salt or ester derived from cyanide
- cyberbook — (science fiction) A digital or electronic equivalent of a book.
- cybercafe — A cybercafé is a café where people can pay to use the Internet.
- cybercash — Funds used in electronic financial transactions, especially over the Internet.
- cybercast — (Internet) A broadcast of audiovisual material over the Internet.
- cyberchat — Chat that takes place on the Internet, as in a chatroom or via instant messages.
- cybercity — A city with a strong basis in information technology.
- cybercrud — (jargon) /si:'ber-kruhd/ 1. (Coined by Ted Nelson) Obfuscatory tech-talk. Verbiage with a high MEGO factor. The computer equivalent of bureaucratese. 2. Incomprehensible stuff embedded in e-mail. First there were the "Received" headers that show how mail flows through systems, then MIME (Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions) headers and part boundaries, and now huge blocks of hex for PEM (Privacy Enhanced Mail) or PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) digital signatures and certificates of authenticity. This stuff all has a purpose and good user interfaces should hide it, but all too often users are forced to wade through it.
- cybergoth — (uncountable) A subculture combining elements of goth and rave culture, typically involving energetic electronic music and brightly coloured, futuristic clothing.
- cyberhack — Computers. hack1 (def 22b).
- cybernate — to control (a manufacturing process) with a servomechanism or (of a process) to be controlled by a servomechanism
- cybernaut — a person who is an expert in or uses the internet a lot
- cyberporn — any pornography accessible online or on the internet
- cyberpunk — Cyberpunk is a type of science fiction.
- cyberrhea — (humour, jargon) /si:'ber-eer/ An affliction of some word processor users; excessive frequency and looseness of productivity. Particularly virulent among those who have not discovered the fortifying virtues of revision.
- cyberself — An alternate self on the Internet or in cyberspace; an online alter-ego.
- cybershop — Purchase or shop for goods and services on a website.
- cybersoul — The supposed equivalent of a soul in cyberspace.
- cyberwand — (hardware, virtual reality) A virtual reality controller. The CyberWand costs $99, or $765 with optional Polhemus sensor. It is basically the handle of a flight control system without the base. The controller's four buttons and 2-D hat sensor track six degrees of movement.
- cyberzine — (computing) A magazine published on the Internet.
- cybrarian — a person responsible for archives and information available on the internet
- cycadeoid — a member of an order of plants with woody stems and tough leaves that became extinct during the Cretaceous period
- cyclamate — a salt or ester of cyclamic acid. Certain of the salts have a very sweet taste and were formerly used as food additives and sugar substitutes
- cyclamens — Plural form of cyclamen.
- cyclepath — a special path for the exclusive use of cyclists
- cyclicals — Stocks in cyclical companies (those whose success varies with the seasonal or economic cycle).
- cyclicism — the property of being cyclic
- cyclicity — the quality or nature of being cyclic
- cyclizine — an antihistamine drug used to relieve the symptoms of motion sickness and vertigo
- cyclogiro — an aircraft lifted and propelled by pivoted blades rotating parallel to roughly horizontal transverse axes
- cycloidal — Pertaining to or resembling a cycloid; or a circle.
- cyclolith — a stone circle
- cyclonite — a white crystalline insoluble explosive prepared by the action of nitric acid on hexamethylenetetramine; cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine: used in bombs and shells. Formula: C3H6N6O6
- cyclopean — of, relating to, or resembling the Cyclops
- cyclopian — having only one eye
- cyclorama — a large picture, such as a battle scene, on the interior wall of a cylindrical room, designed to appear in natural perspective to a spectator in the centre
- cyclotome — a type of scalpel for performing a cyclotomy.
- cyclotomy — Surgery. incision of the ciliary muscle.
- cyclotron — a type of particle accelerator in which the particles spiral inside two D-shaped hollow metal electrodes placed facing each other under the effect of a strong vertical magnetic field, gaining energy by a high-frequency voltage applied between these electrodes
- cylinders — Plural form of cylinder.
- cylindric — Of or relating to cylinders; shaped like a cylinder.
- cyllenian — of or relating to Mount Cyllene in Arcadia, Greece, or to the god Hermes, reputed to have been born there.
- cymbalist — A musician who plays the cymbals.
- cymbeline — a romantic drama (1610?) by Shakespeare.
- cymbidium — a genus, Cymbidium, of subtropical and tropical orchids native to Australia and Asia, having boat-shaped showy flowers
- cymbiform — having the shape of a boat
- cymograph — an instrument for tracing the outline of an architectural moulding
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