8 Letter Words for Centaury
centaury, cyanuret
7 Letter Words for Centaury
caunter, cautery, centaur, century, encraty, nectary, truancy, uncrate, untrace
6 Letter Words for Centaury
acture, acuter, aunter, autecy, canter, carnet, catery, cauter, centra, centry, cranet, craney, creant, cretan, cruent, cruety, curate, curney, eyrant, nature, nectar, recant, tanrec, tenacy, tenury, trance, trayne, turney, uncart, uncate
5 Letter Words for Centaury
acute, ancre, antre, anury, arent, arnut, atren, atune, autre, caner, canty, caret, carey, carne, carny, carte, carty, cater, catur, centu, cerat, certy, crane, crany, crate, craye, crena, creta, cruet, crunt, cunea, cunye, curat, curet, curny, cuter, cutey, ecart, enact, enray, enrut, entry, eruca, eruct, nacre, nacry, rance, ranty, rayne, react, recut, renay, retan, runty, tayer, teary, terna, trace, truce, tuarn, tunca, tuner, tuyer, tyran, unact, unare, unary, unray, untar, urate, urena, urent, urnae, yearn, yenta, yrent, yurta
4 Letter Words for Centaury
acer, acne, acre, actu, ance, anet, anre, ante, antu, anyu, aren, aret, arte, arty, atry, aune, aunt, aute, ayen, ayne, ayre, cane, cant, cany, care, carn, cart, cate, cent, cera, cern, cert, cran, cray, crue, crut, cunt, cura, cure, curn, curt, cury, cute, cuya, cyan, cyte, earn, ecru, ency, entr, erat, eruc, etna, etua, eyra, nace, narc, nare, nary, natr, natu, naur, naut, near, neat, neut, nyet, race, racy, rane, rant, rate, ratu, raun, rean, rect, rent, reny, ruen, rune, runt, ruta, ryen, rynt, tace, taen, tane, tare, tarn, taun, taur, tean, tear, teca, tera, tern, trac, tray, trey, trna, true, trun, trye, tuan, tuna, tune, tuny, turn, tyer, tyne, unca, unce, unct, unta, uran, urea, urna, yare, yarn, yate, yean, year, yeat, yern, yeta, yuan, yuca, yurt
3 Letter Words for Centaury
ace, act, acy, aer, anc, ane, ant, anu, any, arc, are, arn, art, aru, ary, ate, aye, ayr, ayu, can, car, cat, cay, cen, cer, crt, cru, cry, cte, ctn, ctr, cue, cun, cur, cut, ean, ear, eat, eau, ect, ecu, enc, era, ern, ert, eta, etc, ety, eyn, eyr, nae, nar, nat, nay, nea, net, nur, nut, nye, ran, rat, ray, rct, rea, rec, rna, rte, ruc, rue, run, rut, rya, rye, tan, tar, tau, tay, tea, tec, ten, ter, tra, try, tua, tue, tun, tur, tuy, tye, tyr, uca, uey, una, unc, ura, ure, urn, uta, utc, ute, yan, yar, yat, yea, yen, yer, yet, yue
Definitions for Centaury
[1] any of various plants belonging to the genus Centaurium, of the gentian family, having clusters of small pink or red flowers.
[2] any of several other plants of the genera Centaurea and Sabatia.
[3] any Eurasian plant of the genus Centaurium, esp C. erythraea, having purplish-pink flowers and formerly believed to have medicinal properties: family Gentianaceae
[4] any plant of the genus Centaurea, which includes the cornflower and knapweed: family Compositae (composites)
Words nearby Centaury
centas, centaur, centaurea, centaurs, centaurus, centaury, centavo, centenarian, centenary, centenionalis, centennial
Origin of Centaury
before 1000; Middle English, Old English centaurie < Medieval Latin centauria, apparently < Greek kentaúria, neuter plural (taken in ML as feminine singular) of kentaúrion, noun use of neuter of kentaúrios (adj.), equivalent to kéntaur(os ) centaur + -ios adj. suffix; said to be in reference to the centaur Chiron, known for his knowledge of medicinal plants
Word origin for Centaury
C14: ultimately from Greek Kentauros the Centaur; from the legend that Chiron the Centaur divulged its healing properties
