(organic chemistry) Any of class of organic radicals, RCO-, formed by the removal of a hydroxyl group from a carboxylic acid.
agcy
bkcy
cady
cady
noun
Alternative spelling of kady
cagy
cagy
adj
Alternative form of cagey
caky
caky
adj
Resembling cake in texture.
cany
cany
adj
Abounding with canes.
Of or relating to cane (the plant) or canes.
cary
caty
caty
Proper noun
A less common spelling of Katie, diminutive of the female given name Catherine and related names.
cavy
cavy
noun
Any rodent in the Caviidae.
Synonym of guinea pig (“rodent”)
caye
cays
cays
noun
plural of cay
ccny
cery
ceyx
chay
chay
noun
(archaic, colloquial) A chaise (horse-drawn carriage).
The letter ⟨/⟩, which stands for the ch sound /tʃ/, in Pitman shorthand.
choy
chry
city
city
noun
(Australia) The central business district; downtown.
(UK) A settlement granted special status by royal charter or letters patent; traditionally, a settlement with a cathedral regardless of size.
(slang) A large amount of something (used after the noun).
A large settlement, bigger than a town; sometimes with a specific legal definition, depending on the place.
civy
civy
noun
Alternative form of civey
clay
clay
noun
(biblical) The material of the human body.
(firearms, informal) A clay pigeon.
(geology) A particle less than 3.9 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
(informal) Land or territory of a country or other political region, especially when subject to territorial claims
(tennis) A tennis court surface made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate.
A clay pipe for smoking tobacco.
A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.
An earth material with ductile qualities.
verb
(transitive) To add clay to, to spread clay onto.
(transitive, of sugar) To purify using clay.
cloy
cloy
verb
(transitive) To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate.
(transitive) To fill to loathing; to surfeit.
(transitive) To fill up or choke up; to stop up.
clyo
cmyk
cody
cody
Proper noun
name transferred from the surname.
A ghost town in British Columbia
An unincorporated community in Florida
A village in Nebraska
A city in Wyoming
coky
coky
adj
Resembling or containing coke (coal residue).
coly
coly
noun
Any bird of either of the genera Colius or Urocolius, endemic to sub-Saharan Africa.
cony
cony
noun
(UK, dialect) Rabbit fur.
(UK, dialect) The burbot.
(obsolete) A simpleton; one who may be taken in by a cony-catcher.
(obsolete) A woman; a sweetheart.
A rabbit, especially the European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus (formerly known as Lepus cuniculus).
An edible West Indian fish, a grouper given in different sources as: Epinephelus apua, the hind of Bermuda; nigger-fish, Epinephelus punctatus; Cephalopholis fulva.
Locally for other rabbit-like or hyrax-like animals, such as the Cape hyrax (das, dassie) or the pika (Ochotona princeps, formerly Lagomys princeps).
Several species of tropical west Atlantic groupers of family Epinephelidae, such as the mutton hamlet, graysby, Cuban coney, and rooster hind.
Used in the Old Testament as a translation of Hebrew שָׁפָן (shafán), thought to be the rock hyrax (Procavia capensis, syn. Hyrax syriacus).
copy
copy
noun
(genetics) The result of gene or chromosomal duplication.
(journalism) A gender-neutral abbreviation for copy boy.
(journalism) The text that is to be typeset.
(marketing, advertising) The output of copywriters, who are employed to write material which encourages consumers to buy goods or services.
(obsolete) An abundance or plenty of anything.
(obsolete) That which is to be imitated, transcribed, or reproduced; a pattern, model, or example.
(obsolete) copyhold; tenure; lease
(uncountable) The text of newspaper articles.
A printed edition of a book or magazine.
A school work pad.
An imitation, sometimes of inferior quality.
The result of copying; an identical duplicate of an original.
Writing paper of a particular size, called also bastard.
verb
(radio) To receive a transmission successfully.
(transitive) To give or transmit a copy to (a person).
(transitive) To imitate.
(transitive) To produce an object identical to a given object.
(transitive, computing) To place a copy of an object in memory for later use.
cory
cory
noun
Any fish belonging to the genus Corydoras, a group of South American freshwater catfish.
cosy
cosy
adj
Affording comfort and warmth; snug; social
Warm and comfortable.
noun
A padded or knit covering for any item (often an electronic device such as a laptop computer).
A padded or knit covering put on an item to keep it warm, especially a teapot or egg.
A work of crime fiction in which sex and violence are downplayed or treated humorously, and the crime and detection take place in a small, socially intimate community.
verb
To become friendly with.
To become snug and comfortable.
coty
cowy
cowy
adj
Resembling a cow, cowlike
coxy
coxy
adj
(obsolete) Cocky.
noun
(veterinary medicine, informal) Coccidiosis.
coyn
coyo
coys
coys
noun
plural of coy
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of coy
cozy
cozy
adj
US standard spelling of cosy.
cray
cray
noun
A crayfish or lobster.
crcy
croy
croy
noun
(Scottish) a natural or man-made protrusion or jetty projecting on a river and used to manage river fisheries, providing an obstacle to slow down current, a shelter for fish, a funnel to net them, and a platform to cast from.
cuny
cuny
noun
(nautical) An ordinary seaman.
cury
cuvy
cuya
cuyp
cyan
cyan
adj
Of the colour cyan.
noun
A vibrant pale greenish-blue colour between blue and green in the visible spectrum; the complementary colour of red; the colour obtained by subtracting red from white light.
cycl
cyke
cyma
cyma
noun
(architecture) A moulding of the cornice, wavelike in form, whose outline consists of a concave and a convex line; an ogee.
(botany) A cyme.
cyme
cyme
noun
(architecture) = cyma
(botany) A flattish or convex flower cluster, of the centrifugal or determinate type, on which each axis terminates with a flower which blooms before the flowers below it. Contrast raceme.
(obsolete, rare) A “head” (of unexpanded leaves, etc.); an opening bud.
Misspelling of senna.
cyna
cyra
cyst
cyst
noun
(medicine) Of or pertaining to the urinary bladder or gall bladder (in compounds).
A pouch or sac without opening, usually membranous and containing morbid matter, which develops in one of the natural cavities or in the substance of an organ.