English words: cryogeny to cryptanalytic
300 English words, part 182 of 202 of the words starting with C, A to Z. 14 have a page of their own.
English words cryogeny to cryptanalytic
- cryogeny noun: cryogenics
- cryoglobulin noun: A protein that becomes insoluble at low temperatures.
- cryoglobulinaemia noun: Alternative spelling of cryoglobulinemia.
- cryoglobulinaemic adjective: Alternative form of cryoglobulinemic.
- cryoglobulinemia noun: A medical condition in which the blood contains an excess of cryoglobulins.
- cryoglobulinemic adjective: Exhibiting or relating to cryoglobulinemia.
- cryoglove noun: A type of glove that protects the wearer when touching extremely cold materials.
- cryogrind verb: To freeze organic materials to the point of brittleness and then grind them into a fine powder.
- cryogrinder noun: A cryogenic grinder
- cryogrinding noun, verb: The action of freezing organic materials to the point of brittleness and then grinding them into a powder.
- cryogun noun: A cryogenically-cooled electron gun
- cryoholder noun: A holder designed to be used at very low temperatures
- cryohomogenize verb: To homogenize at low temperature
- cryohomogenized adjective, verb: homogenized at low temperature
- cryohydrate noun: Any salt that forms crystals containing water of crystallization only at low temperatures
- cryohydric adjective: Describing the eutectic point of a solution of salt in water.
- cryohydrocytosis noun: A form of hydrocytosis in which cells exhibit increased cation permeability at low temperatures.
- cryohypophysectomy noun: cryogenic destruction of the hypophysis
- cryoimmobilised adjective: Alternative form of cryoimmobilized.
- cryoimmobilization noun: The stabilization of biological material by freezing
- cryoimmobilized adjective: immobilized by freezing
- cryoimmune adjective: Relating to an immune response triggered by low temperature (especially by freezing)
- cryoimmunocytochemistry noun: immunocytochemistry at low temperatures
- cryoimmunolabeling noun: immunolabeling at low temperature
- cryoimmunolabelling noun: Alternative form of cryoimmunolabeling.
- cryoimmunological adjective: Relating to low-temperature immunology
- cryoimmunology noun: low-temperature immunology
- cryoinfarcted adjective: infarcted as a result of low temperature
- cryoinfarction noun: infarction caused by low temperature
- cryoinjured adjective: Exhibiting cryoinjury.
- cryoinjury noun: An injury caused by low temperature
- cryokarst noun: Synonym of glaciokarst.
- cryokarstic adjective: Relating to a cryokarst.
- cryokinesis noun /ˌkɹaɪ.əʊ.kɪˈniː.sɪs/: The psychic ability to control and create ice and cold temperatures.
- cryokinetic adjective, noun: Relating to cryokinetics.
- cryokinetics noun: A form of physiotherapy combining cold therapy and exercise.
- cryolathe noun: A device used for freezing and grinding human corneal tissue into different refractive powers.
- cryolava noun: Ice-volcanic melt which has erupted from a cryovolcano.
- cryolesion noun, verb: A lesion (such as frostbite) caused by low temperature
- cryolesioned adjective, verb: injured by a cryolesion
- cryolife noun: Life in a cryogenic environment.
- cryolipolysis noun: A noninvasive technique for removing fat through subcutaneous application of cold.
- cryolite noun: The mineral sodium hexafluoroaluminate (Na₃AlF₆).
- cryolithionite noun: An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing aluminum, fluorine, lithium, and sodium.
- cryolithozone noun: The rocky part of the cryosphere
- cryolitic adjective: Of or pertaining to cryolite.
- cryoll noun: A kind of mollisol found in cold climates.
- cryologic adjective: Of or relating to cryology.
- cryological adjective: Of or relating to cryology.
- cryologically adverb: By means of, or with reference to cryology.
- cryologist noun: A person who studies cryology.
- cryology noun: The study of snow and ice.
- cryoloop noun: A loop of tubing filled with a circulating body of cryogenic fluid
- cryolophosaur noun: Any theropod of the genus Cryolophosaurus
- cryolysate noun: The material formed by cryolysis
- cryolysis noun: cryogenic destruction
- cryomacerated adjective: Having undergone cryomaceration.
- cryomaceration noun: A winemaking technique in which the crushed grapes are held at sub-zero temperatures in order to weaken the cellular structures in grape skins via ice...
- cryomacroscope noun: A macroscope designed to operate at low temperatures
- cryomacroscopic adjective: Relating to cryomacroscopy
- cryomacroscopy noun: macroscopy at low temperatures
- cryomagma noun: Collectively, substances such as water, ammonia or methane that are found within some planets and are expelled by cryovolcanoes.
- cryomagmatic adjective: Of or relating to cryomagma.
- cryomagnetic adjective: Of or pertaining to cryomagnetism or to cryomagnets (that operate at low temperature)
- cryomedicine noun: cryogenic medicine
- cryomedium noun: A medium (typically a liquid) within which samples are frozen, typically for long-term storage
- cryometer noun: A thermometer used at very low temperatures.
- cryometric adjective: Of or relating to cryometry, or measured using a cryometer.
- cryometry noun: The measurement of very low temperatures; the body of science and technology that facilitates it.
- cryomicrobiology noun: The study of microorganisms under low temperatures.
- cryomicrodissection noun: microdissection at low temperatures
- cryomicrograph noun: A micrograph obtained at low temperature
- cryomicroscope noun: A microscope that operates at low temperatures
- cryomicroscopic adjective: Pertaining to cryomicroscopy.
- cryomicroscopy noun: microscopy carried out at low temperatures
- cryomicrotome noun: A cryoscopic microtome
- cryomicrotomy noun: microtomy at low temperatures
- cryomill verb: To mill (grind) at low temperatures
- cryomilled adjective, verb: milled (ground) at low temperatures
- cryomilling noun, verb: milling (grinding) at a low temperature
- cryomodulator noun: A device in a gas chromatograph that isolates each fraction for subsequent analysis
- cryomodule noun: A supercooled section of a linac (linear particle accelerator).
- cryomold noun: A shallow plastic contained used for freezing tissue samples
- cryomould noun: Alternative form of cryomold.
- cryonaut noun: One whose body is preserved by cryonics.
- cryonecrosis noun: Necrosis caused by extreme cold, whether as trauma (in frostbite) or as a method of cryoablation in research or in cryosurgery.
- cryonecrotic adjective: Of or relating to cryonecrosis.
- cryoneedle noun: A needle used in cryosurgery to apply cold to a small part
- cryoneurolysis noun: Pain relief by the temporary freezing of a nerve.
- cryonic adjective /kɹaɪˈɒnɪk/: Of or pertaining to cryonics.
- cryonically adverb: By means of cryonics.
- cryonicist noun /kɹaɪˈɒnɪsɪst/: One who works in the field of cryonics.
- cryonics noun /kɹaɪˈɒnɪks/: The cryopreservation of a person with medical needs that cannot be met by available medicine until resuscitation and healing by future medicine is possible.
- cryonotothenioid noun: Any notothenioid that inhabits very cold water
- cryopathy noun: Any morbid condition caused by coldness
- cryopedogenic adjective: Causing (or caused by?) cryopedoturbation
- cryopedologic adjective: Relating to cryopedology.
- cryopedological adjective: Relating to cryopedology.
- cryopedologist noun: One who studies cryopedology.
- cryopedology noun: The study of frozen ground.
- cryopedoturbation noun: Synonym of cryoturbation.
- cryopeg noun: A layer of unfrozen ground that is perennially cryotic.
- cryopelagic adjective: Of cold, deep oceanic waters.
- cryopexy noun: The use of a freezing probe to correct retinal detachment
- cryophile noun: an organism that thrives at low temperatures
- cryophilia noun: A tendency to thrive at low temperatures.
- cryophilic adjective: growing best at low temperatures, typically below 10 degrees Celsius
- cryophilicity noun: The condition of being cryophilic
- cryophilous adjective: Thriving at a low temperature.
- cryophobe noun: One who fears cold.
- cryophobia noun: Fear of cold.
- cryophorus noun: An instrument used to illustrate the freezing of water by its own evaporation. Typically, it consists of two glass bulbs connected by a tube and containing...
- cryophylactic adjective: resistant to freezing
- cryophysics noun: The physics of phenomena associated with matter at very low temperatures
- cryophysiological adjective: Relating to cryophysiology
- cryophysiology noun: The physiology of cells and tissue at low temperatures
- cryophyte noun: Any plant whose buds overwinter below ground
- cryophytic adjective: Relating to cryophytes
- cryoplanation noun: planation by the action of ice
- cryoplasty noun: dilation (typically of an artery) combined with cryotherapy
- cryoplunger noun: A plunger that operates at very low temperatures
- cryopod noun /ˈkraɪ.oʊˌpɒd/: A sealed pod or chamber used to preserve a living organism, usually a human, in a state of suspended animation or cryosleep at extremely low temperatures.
- cryopowder noun: A powder formed by cryogrinding organic material.
- cryoprecipitate noun, verb: A frozen blood product prepared from plasma.
- cryoprecipitation noun: The formation of a cryoprecipitate from solution
- cryopreparation noun: preparation made at low temperatures
- cryopreservability noun: The condition of being cryopreservable
- cryopreservable adjective: preservable by cryopreservation
- cryopreservant noun: A material used in cryopreservation
- cryopreservation noun: the preservation of biological tissue at cryogenic temperatures, typically at -80°C (dry ice temperature) or -196°C (the boiling point of liquid nitrogen).
- cryopreservational adjective: Relating to cryopreservation
- cryopreservative noun: Any substance used for cryopreservation.
- cryopreserve verb: To preserve something (especially biological tissue) by freezing it and holding it a very low temperature
- cryopreserved adjective, verb: preserved by the use of cryopreservation
- cryopreserving noun, verb: cryopreservation
- cryoprison noun: A prison whose inmates are cryogenically frozen for the duration of their sentences.
- cryoprobe noun: An instrument used to apply extreme cold to a tissue as part of cryosurgery.
- cryoprocedure noun: A cryogenic procedure
- cryoprocess noun, verb: Alternative form of cryo-process.
- cryoprocessed adjective, verb: Alternative form of cryo-processed.
- cryoprocessing noun, verb: Alternative form of cryo-processing.
- cryoprostatectomy noun: destruction of the prostate gland by means of a cryoprobe
- cryoprotect verb: To protect biological tissue from the effects of cold by use of a cryoprotectant.
- cryoprotectant noun: Any substance (typically a polyhydric alcohol) that prevents cell damage on freezing
- cryoprotected adjective, verb: protected from cold by the action of a cryoprotectant
- cryoprotection noun: protection of biological tissue from the effects of cold by means of a cryoprotectant
- cryoprotective adjective: That provides cryoprotection
- cryoprotectively adverb: In a cryoprotective manner
- cryoprotector noun: Synonym of cryoprotectant.
- cryoprotein noun: Any protein that is less soluble in a cold solvent
- cryopsamment noun: A kind of psamment found in cold climates.
- cryopulverization noun: pulverization at low temperature
- cryopulverize verb: To pulverize at low temperatures
- cryopulverized adjective, verb: pulverized at low temperature
- cryopump noun, verb: A vacuum pump that traps gases and vapours by condensing them on a cold surface
- cryopuncture verb: To puncture by exposure to low temperature, especially to freezing
- cryopyrin noun: A nucleotide-binding and leucin-rich protein which activates the inflammasome in response to toxins.
- cryopyrinopathy noun: Any of a range of disorders caused by cryopyrin
- cryoquench verb: To cool rapidly with liquid nitrogen or helium.
- cryorecanalization noun: The use of cold temperature to unblock the airways in the lungs.
- cryorecover verb: To recover a material that was previously cryopreserved
- cryorecovered adjective, verb: recovered from a previous cryopreservation
- cryorecovery noun: recovery of a cryopreserved material
- cryoregime noun: A permanently cold environment
- cryorepository noun: A low-temperature repository
- cryoresistance noun: resistance to damage from freezing or from low temperatures
- cryoresistant adjective: resistant to damage from freezing or from low temperatures
- cryoresuscitation noun: resuscitation of cryopreserved material
- cryosampling noun: sampling at low temperatures
- cryosauna noun: A device used in cryotherapy to lower the patient's skin temperature rapidly.
- cryoscience noun: The science of obtaining very low temperatures
- cryoscope noun: A device used to measure the freezing point of a liquid (or the melting point of a solid).
- cryoscopic adjective: of or pertaining to cryoscopy; determined using a cryoscope
- cryoscopically adverb: In a cryoscopic manner.
- cryoscopy noun: The measurement of the freezing point of a liquid using a cryoscope.
- cryosection noun, verb: To section biological tissue using a cryostat.
- cryosectioned adjective, verb: Sectioned using a cryostat.
- cryosectioning noun: The sectioning of a sample at low temperatures; normally following treatment with polyethylene glycol (to remove most water) and freezing
- cryosedation noun: sedation at low temperature, typically by means of an ice bath
- cryoseism noun: A seismic event caused by sudden glacial movements or by a sudden cracking action in frozen soil or rock saturated with water or ice.
- cryoseismic adjective: Related to, or caused by a cryoseism, also called a frost quake.
- cryoseismics noun: Cryoseismology.
- cryoseismological adjective: Relating to cryoseismology.
- cryoseismologically adverb: in a cryoseismological manner; in terms of cryoseismology.
- cryoseismology noun: The study of seismic events within the cryosphere, such as frost quakes.
- cryosensitive adjective: Sensitive to cold.
- cryosensitivity noun: sensitivity to cold
- cryosequester verb: to reduce or prevent biological or chemical degradation of carbon compounds with low temperature
- cryosequestration noun: Natural sequestration of carbon at low temperature
- cryosere noun: A sere originating when moss colonizes ice.
- cryosession noun: A session of cryotherapy
- cryoshock noun: shock as the result of extreme cold, typically following cryotherapy
- cryosleep noun: A deep sleep during which the body is stored at very cold temperature, to preserve it; cryogenic sleep.
- cryoslice verb: To slice by means of a cryomicrotome
- cryosliced adjective, verb: sliced by means of a cryomicrotome
- cryosol noun: A gelisol.
- cryosolic adjective: Of or relating to cryosols.
- cryosolution noun: A very low-temperature solution (in all senses)
- cryosolvent noun: Any solvent that remains liquid at low temperatures
- cryosonde noun: A cryogenic sonde
- cryospectrophotometric adjective: Relating to spectrophotometry at low temperatures
- cryosphere noun: All those areas of the Earth where the surface is frozen.
- cryospheric adjective: Of or pertaining to the cryosphere.
- cryospray noun: A liquid nitrogen spray used in cryosurgery.
- cryostabilisation noun: stabilisation by means of low temperature
- cryostabilise verb: To stabilise at low temperature
- cryostabilised adjective, verb: stabilised at low temerature
- cryostability noun: The condition of being cryostable
- cryostabilization noun: Alternative spelling of cryostabilisation.
- cryostable adjective: stable (not disrupted) at low temperatures
- cryostage noun: A stage of a microscope that can be cooled for cryomicroscopy
- cryostasis noun: The preservation of living organisms by employing low temperatures.
- cryostat noun: A device used to maintain a constant low temperature.
- cryostatic adjective: of or pertaining to a cryostat or to cryostasis
- cryostatically adverb: In a cryostatic manner
- cryostimulation noun: stimulation by low temperatures
- cryostock noun: A stock of biological material preserved by freezing
- cryostorage noun: storage at very low temperatures using cryopreservation
- cryostore noun, verb: A cryostorage facility
- cryostored adjective, verb: stored at a very low temperature
- cryostratigraphic adjective: Relating to cryostratigraphy
- cryostratigraphy noun: The stratigraphy of ice or of frozen soil
- cryostreamer noun: A device that cools samples by means of a flow of cool cryogenic gas
- cryostress noun: stress caused by low temperatures
- cryosubstituted adjective: That has undergone cryosubstitution
- cryosubstitution noun: The substitution of ice, in frozen tissue, by alcohol, acetone or similar solvent at very low temperature
- cryosupernatant noun: The supernatant of blood plasma remaining after cryoprecipitation, which is to say, plasma with cryoprecipitate removed; it is a blood product used to treat...
- cryosurgeon noun: One who performs cryosurgery.
- cryosurgery noun: The use of a probe containing liquid nitrogen to freeze and thus destroy tissue.
- cryosurgical adjective: Of or pertaining to cryosurgery.
- cryosurgically adverb: In a cryosurgical way.
- cryosurvival noun: Survival in a cryogenic environment
- cryosurvive verb: To survive at very low temperatures.
- cryosuspension noun: suspended animation by means of cryonics
- cryosystem noun: Any system for producing, maintaining or handling low temperatures
- cryotag noun: An adhesive label designed to withstand very low temperatures, used for labeling biological samples and other materials stored in a cryogenic freezer.
- cryotank noun: An insulated tank used for the storage of cryogenic liquids
- cryotechnique noun: Any technique used in cryotechnology
- cryotechnological adjective: Relating to cryotechnology.
- cryotechnology noun: Technology involving very low temperatures, such as cryonics and cryoelectronics.
- cryotemperature noun: A very low temperature, especially one reached using a cryostat
- cryothalamectomy noun: Destruction of (part of) the thalamus by means of extreme cold
- cryotherapeutic adjective: Relating to cryotherapy.
- cryotherapeutically adverb: By means of, or in terms of, cryotherapy.
- cryotherapist noun: A person who administers cryotherapy.
- cryotherapy noun: The use of low temperatures in medical therapy or the removal of heat from a body part, aiming to decrease cellular metabolism and inflammation and to...
- cryothermal adjective: Relating to cryothermy
- cryothermostat noun: A thermostat that operates at low temperature
- cryothermy noun: A low temperature
- cryotic adjective: Of a temperature, that is subzero.
- cryotip noun: A tip made of heat-conducting metal, used to freeze tissue in cryotherapy.
- cryotolerance noun: tolerance of cold temperatures
- cryotolerant adjective: tolerant to cold
- cryotome noun: A form of microtome that operates on frozen tissues
- cryotomist noun: A histologist who uses a cryotome.
- cryotomogram noun: A tomogram produced by cryotomography
- cryotomographic adjective: Of or pertaining to cryotomography
- cryotomography noun: tomography at very low temperatures
- cryotomy noun: The use of a cryotome in the preparation of thin, frozen samples of biological tissue.
- cryotorium noun: A cryogenic warehouse for storing seeds or other living things in suspended animation.
- cryotoxic adjective: Relating to cryotoxicity
- cryotoxicity noun: toxicity when subjected to a freeze / thaw cycle (typically due to protein damage)
- cryotransfer noun: An IVF technique in which one or more frozen embryos are transferred to a mother's uterus
- cryotransformation noun: low-temperature transformation
- cryotransmission noun: Alternative spelling of cryo-transmission.
- cryotrap noun: A device used to remove certain materials from a vacuum system by condensation on a cold surface.
- cryotrapping noun: The trapping of materials by use of a cryotrap
- cryotron noun /ˈkɹaɪ.ə(ʊ)ˌtɹɒn/: A switch that employs superconductivity
- cryotronic adjective: Relating to cryotronics.
- cryotronics noun: electronics making use of superconductivity
- cryotube noun: A plastic sample-tube that is able to stand very low temperatures
- cryoturbated adjective: Disturbed by cryoturbation.
- cryoturbation noun: Any of several forms of disturbances within soils and subsoils as a result of freeze–thaw processes in periglacial conditions.
- cryoturbational adjective: Relating to cryoturbation.
- cryoultramicrotome noun: An ultramicrotome used in cryoultramicrotomy
- cryoultramicrotomy noun: ultramicrotomy of frozen samples
- CryoVas noun: Cryoglobulinaemic vasculitis.
- cryovault noun: A chamber for cryogenic storage.
- cryovial noun: Any vial designed to store materials at very low temperatures
- cryovolcanic adjective /ˈkɹʌɪəʊvɒlˈkanɪk/: of or pertaining to a cryovolcano
- cryovolcanically adverb: By means of a cryovolcano or by means of cryovolcanism
- cryovolcanism noun: The activity, and associated phenomena, of a cryovolcano – a volcano that ejects volatile materials rather than magma.
- cryovolcano noun /ˌkɹaɪ.əʊ.vɒlˈkeɪ.nəʊ/: A volcano on an icy moon that ejects volatile materials rather than magma.
- cryphonectriaceous adjective: Of or relating to the Cryphonectriaceae.
- cryppie noun: A cryptographer.
- crypsis noun /ˈkɹɪpsɪs/: The ability of an organism to avoid observation.
- crypt noun, prefix, suffix /kɹɪpt/: A cave or cavern.
- crypt of Lieberkühn noun: An intestinal gland.
- cryptacanthodid noun: Any fish in the family Cryptacanthodidae.
- cryptadia noun: Things to be kept secret.
- cryptaesthesia noun /ˈkɹɪpt.əsˌθiːz.i.ə/: Extrasensory perception.
- cryptaesthetic adjective: Of or relating to cryptaesthesia.
- cryptal adjective: Of or pertaining to crypts (small pits or cavities in the body).
- cryptalgal adjective: formed through the activities of nonskeletal algae.
- cryptamnesia noun /ˌkɹɪp.təmˈniː.zi.ə/: Alternative form of cryptomnesia.
- cryptamnesic adjective: Alternative form of cryptomnesic.
- cryptanalyse verb: Alternative form of cryptanalyze.
- cryptanalysis noun: The science of analyzing and breaking of codes and ciphers.
- cryptanalyst noun /kɹɪptˈænəlɪst/: An expert in analyzing and breaking codes and ciphers.
- cryptanalytic adjective: Of or pertaining to cryptanalysis or cryptanalytics.
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Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under C: 60,525 words, in 202 parts.