9-letter words containing t, h, y
- chalybite — siderite (def 1).
- champerty — (formerly) an illegal bargain between a party to litigation and an outsider whereby the latter agrees to pay for the action and thereby share in any proceeds recovered
- chantilly — a town in N France, near the Forest of Chantilly formerly famous for lace and porcelain. Pop: 10 902 (1999)
- chatoyant — having changeable lustre; twinkling
- cheat day — a day in which a person goes off a dietary regimen: Today’s my cheat day, so I’m eating pizza and ice cream.
- chemistry — Chemistry is the scientific study of the structure of substances and of the way that they react with other substances.
- chemitype — an obsolete chemical process by which a relief impression was obtained from an engraving or etching
- chemitypy — the process of chemitype
- chirality — the configuration or handedness (left or right) of an asymmetric, optically active chemical compound
- chishtiya — a Sufi order of the Indian subcontinent.
- chocolaty — a preparation of the seeds of cacao, roasted, husked, and ground, often sweetened and flavored, as with vanilla.
- cholecyst — the gallbladder
- chymistry — chemistry.
- city hall — The city hall is the building which a city council uses as its main offices.
- clothyard — (historical) An old unit of measure for cloth, 36 or 37 inches.
- colocynth — a cucurbitaceous climbing plant, Citrullus colocynthis, of the Mediterranean region and Asia, having bitter-tasting fruit
- coltishly — In a coltish manner.
- copyfight — the conflict between copyright holders and other individuals over the use, distribution, and replication of copyright materials
- copyright — If someone has copyright on a piece of writing or music, it is illegal to reproduce or perform it without their permission.
- crotchety — A crotchety person is bad-tempered and easily irritated.
- cryolathe — an instrument for reshaping the cornea to correct severe nearsightedness or farsightedness: the cornea is removed from the eye, rapidly frozen, reshaped, and reinserted.
- cryophyte — an organism, esp an alga or moss, that grows on snow or ice
- cultishly — In a cultish manner.
- cutcherry — (formerly, in India) government offices and law courts collectively
- cuttyhunk — a twisted, linen fishline, especially one laid by hand.
- cyberchat — Chat that takes place on the Internet, as in a chatroom or via instant messages.
- cybergoth — (uncountable) A subculture combining elements of goth and rave culture, typically involving energetic electronic music and brightly coloured, futuristic clothing.
- cyclepath — a special path for the exclusive use of cyclists
- cyclolith — a stone circle
- cystolith — a knoblike deposit of calcium carbonate in the epidermal cells of such plants as the stinging nettle
- cytherean — of or relating to Cytherea.
- cytopathy — a disease or disorder of a cell
- cytophagy — the ingestion of cells by other cells.
- day shift — a group of workers who work a shift during the daytime in an industry or occupation where a night shift or a back shift is also worked
- daylights — consciousness or wits (esp in the phrases scare, knock, or beat the (living) daylights out of someone)
- death ray — an imaginary ray capable of killing
- dehydrate — When something such as food is dehydrated, all the water is removed from it, often in order to preserve it.
- demythify — to remove the mythical characteristics from (a person)
- dhrystone — (benchmark) A short synthetic benchmark program by Reinhold Weicker <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, intended to be representative of system (integer) programming. It is available in ADA, Pascal and C. The current version is Dhrystone 2.1. The author says, "Relying on MIPS V1.1 (the result of V1.1) numbers can be hazardous to your professional health." Due to its small size, the memory system outside the cache is not tested. Compilers can too easily optimise for Dhrystone. String operations are somewhat over-represented.
- diathermy — local heating of the body tissues with an electric current for medical or surgical purposes
- dichotomy — If there is a dichotomy between two things, there is a very great difference or opposition between them.
- dihydrate — a hydrate that contains two molecules of water, as potassium sulfite, K 2 SO 3 ⋅2H 2 O.
- diphysite — a person who believes that in Christ two distinct natures, the human and the divine, existed together
- dithyramb — a Greek choral song or chant of vehement or wild character and of usually irregular form, originally in honor of Dionysus or Bacchus.
- doltishly — In a doltish manner.
- doughtily — In a doughty manner.
- dysthesia — an unusual or disagreeable feeling in or on the body compared to crawling or burning
- dysthetic — relating to dysthesia
- dysthymia — depression; despondency or a tendency to be despondent.
- dysthymic — A person diagnosed with dysthymia, or dysthymic depression.