10-Letter Words Ending in C

""ACETYLENE A gaseous compound of carbon and hydrogen, in the proportion of two atoms of the former to two of the latter. It is a colorless gas, with a peculiar, unpleasant odor, and is produced for use as an illuminating gas in a number of ways, but chiefly by the action of water on calcium carbide. Its light is very brilliant.""

Colourless church with scent outside

Colorless.

A dreamer with no name embraces church, having no shade

ACTIVIST an advocate of {activism=n}

One anorak turned up with some work, in charge of stimulation

Pertaining to an important science.

Pertaining to the science of air travel

Of plane navigation

Affected with albinism.

Like a city father with a clear mind

Local official's frenzied, hiding behind tree

""ALKAHEST the hypothetical solvent sought by alchemists, also ALCAHEST""

Causing one to react rashly (wordplay)

Causing a rash reaction (wordplay)

Like penicillin, to some

Being genetically different although belonging to or obtained from the same species: allogeneic tissue grafts.

Of or pertaining to allometry.

""Ecology Occurring in separate, nonoverlapping geographic areas. Often used of populations of related organisms unable to crossbreed because of geographic separation.""

Of or pertaining to an allophone.

Of or involving a change in the shape and activity of an enzyme that results from molecular binding with a regulatory substance at a site other than the enzymatically active one.

Zero latitude given to everybody, in more than one form

Everything round earthly circle existing in more than one form

A couple of lines? Old line on map taking more than one form

Arranged just like these words? Yes!

Like some codes

Like characters in a script

Could be ARIA 1100 HELP

Unselfish liars? Cut it out!

Concerned for others' wellbeing

Hardly selfish

Partly one and partly the other; neither acid nor alkaline; neutral.

""Effecting the conversion of starch into soluble dextrin and sugar; as, an amylolytic ferment. as, an amylolytic ferment.""

Discrepancy between the chronological order of events and the order in which they are related in a plot.

Done in low relief, as a cameo

Aiding the memory

Kind of lens used by moviemakers

Of or pertaining to anaplasty.

Reclusive.

Of or pertaining to androgens; having physiological effects like that of an androgen.

Ether, for one

It may put you to sleep

It may be administered before surgery

Pl. angiogeneses (-s z ) The formation of new blood vessels.

""Pertaining to, or after the manner of, an annalist; as, the dry annalistic style. as, the dry annalistic style.""

""ANORTHITE A mineral of the feldspar family, commonly occurring in small glassy crystals, also a constituent of some igneous rocks. It is a lime feldspar. See Feldspar. Feldspar.""

Treatment for bacterial infections

Medicine destroying micro-organisms

Substance that destroys bacteria

DROMIC pertaining to a race-course

Same as Antemetic. Antemetic.

EROTIC an amatory poem

HEROIC an epic verse

POETIC pertaining to {poetry=n}

Application for injury benefit, perhaps

Preventing growth of microorganisms

Alcohol, for example.

Counteracting electrical build-up

Kind of carpet

Tending to resist charge build-up

Exactly opposite.

Opposite

Preventing or reducing anxiety; antianxiety.

""Pl. aphaereses or aphereses (-s z ) The loss of one or more sounds from the beginning of a word, as in till for until.""

Inclined to quote maxims

Like an adage

Expressed pithily.

1. unquestionably true by virtue of demonstration

In a sorry state (wordplay)

With hat in hand, perhaps

So sorry and disturbed, to ogle a pic

8 captain briefly could get mad

Red with rage

Overcome with anger

""Having or designating conspicuous or warning colors or structures indicative of special means of defense against enemies, as in the skunk.""

Intended to ward off evil: an apotropaic symbol.

""ARAGONITE A mineral identical in composition with calcite or carbonate of lime, but differing from it in its crystalline form and some of its physical characters.""

""Like, or imitative of, anything archaic; pertaining to an archaism.""

Activity for summer (wordplay)

Field of operations (wordplay)

R without an apostrophe (wordplay)

Lacking rhythm or regularity of rhythm: "a slight arrhythmic imperfection when the car idles" (Garrison Keillor).

Neuralgic pain in a joint or joints.

ASCOCARP a spore-producing organ of certain fungi

ASCOSPORE One of the spores contained in the asci of lichens and fungi.

Not right insight (wordplay)

Suffering distortions of vision

Having double-vision

ASTROCYTE a large star-shaped neuroglial cell in nervous tissue.

Sky-high (colloq.)

Extremely large (colloq.)

It can be so romantic - really great!

Not regularly shaped

Not perfectly balanced

Like this puzzle's grid

Type of curve, in math.

(Physics / General Physics) caused or produced by sound or an audio frequency an audiogenic epileptic fit

Adjective (-ic)

Of or pertaining to austenite.

Having absolute power

Like Holmes's breakfast-table man

Croatia cut out being dictatorial

""Sexually self-satisfying, as by masturbation.""

AXOPLASM the cytoplasm of an axon

Of or pertaining to bacteremia.

Type of pressure

It's measured by the glass

Like some pressure

BASOPHILE

Lithium injected into lamb etc I cooked with steel and tin, perhaps (wordplay)

In job, I met all I could, including Al with Mo, for example

""Of or relating to the study of the effects of dynamic processes, such as motion or acceleration, on living organisms.""

BIOGRAPH to write a biography of

A disc-shaped layer of cells on the surface of the yolk mass of an egg (such as that of a bird) which develops to form the embryo.

Having a hidden meaning

Pure rubber.

CARBONYL a chemical compound

""Of or pertaining to the carboxyl group; having a carboxyl group (written -COOH, -CO2H or -CO.OH); as, carboxylic acids are weakly acidic.carboxyl group; having a carboxyl group (written -COOH, -CO2H or -CO.OH); as, carboxylic acids are weakly acidic.""

""(Medicine / Pathology) (of a substance) producing caries, esp in the teeth""

""Wanting a syllable at the end, or terminating in an imperfect foot; as, a catalectic verse. as, a catalectic verse.""

Maybe schizophrenic spasm after pet gets dreadfully pale

Used as a cataphor [adj] : CATAPHORICALLY

""CHIASMA a connection formed during meiosis, also CHIASM""

Millenarian.

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the Corybantes or their rites; frantic; frenzied; as, a corybantic dance. as, a corybantic dance.""

CRYOSTAT a refrigeration apparatus

CYANOGEN a compound of carbon and nitrogen

Representation

Of or relating to degeneration or disease of cells.

Having an inhibitory action on cell growth or cell division.

""DECAMETRE A measure of length in the metric system; ten meters, equal to about 393.7 inches.""

DEKAMETRE

Party for the Clintons

Enabling the will of the people

One way to vote

""Of or concerned with phenomena, such as linguistic features, as they change through time.""

The process of chemical and physical change in deposited sediment during its conversion to rock.

Indicating the nature of an illness

Computer error message

A symptom used to identify a disease

""Excessive and frequent evacuation of watery feces, usually indicating gastrointestinal distress or disorder.""

""Affording a free passage to heat; as, diathermic substances. as, diathermic substances.""

DILEMMA a perplexing situation

Tactful negotiator in charge

Prudent to claim foul after drop

College choice for jerk is sensitive

Detectives welcoming one black friend's return with spondee, say

DYNAMIST an adherent of {dynamism=n}

""Abnormal development or growth of tissues, organs, or cells.""

Relating to or acting as a symbol

Representative

Symbolical

Feeling your pain

Showing concern

Having the power of entering another's feelings

Relative of chromatic.

Having the same pitch but written differently, in a score

""Of or relating to, or consisting of, the epiblast.""

Situated immediately over the stomach

EPIGRAPH an engraved inscription

Of or relating to the part of the oceanic zone into which enough sunlight enters for photosynthesis to take place.

Serving or tending to form an eschar;; producing a scar; caustic.

Like a writer of short pieces

Having cells with visible nuclei surrounded by a nuclear membrane; pertaining to eukaryotes. Contrasted with prokaryotic.prokaryotic.

EURYBATH an organism that can live in various water depths

Adjective (-ic)

EVAPORITE

FABULIST a {liar=n}

Adjective (-ic)

Believing in the inevitability of events

Accepting the inevitable.

Not believing a lot can be changed

Famous person among group of workers in charge of nerve centre

See phytogeography .

Regional

""GRANULITE A whitish, granular rock, consisting of feldspar and quartz intimately mixed; sometimes called whitestone, and leptynite.""

Saints

HALOPHILE

""HALOPHYTE A plant found growing in salt marshes, or in the sea.""

Styptic

HERMAE herma

Arranged in order of rank

Classified according to various criteria

Rich Archie upset about order of importance

Cultural

""Of, pertaining to, or using a pressure that is greater than normal atmospheric pressure; as, a hyperbaric chamber, where divers may decompress slowly to avoid the bends.as, a hyperbaric chamber, where divers may decompress slowly to avoid the bends.""

MANIC one who is affected with mania

Leading to sleep; applied to the illusions of one who is half asleep.

STATIC random noise produced in a radio or television receiver

TACTIC a manoeuvre for gaining an objective

I tire and can go funny - caused by medical treatment (wordplay)

High-minded - italicised (anagram)

Utopian cities laid out

Striving for perfection

IDEOGRAM a type of written symbol

Clip of fool in 2 down in charge of disease with no known cause

Lacking in drawing power (wordplay)

Lacking in taste

Lacking creative talent; intact iris (anagram)

Having frequencies below those of audible sounds

Cars, if in no condition, cannot be heard

Discordant

Dissonant

Adjective (-ic)

Adjective (-ic)

Of the conjugation of two similar reproductive cells

KAOLINITE

Adjective (-ic)

KARYOTYPE

KERYGMA the early preaching of the Christian gospel

English word

Inducing lactation.

Disease and Illness

Adjective (-ic)

Fussy about rules

Excessively adhering to the law

Formal to a fault

""MACROCYTE An abnormally large red blood cell, associated with pernicious anemia.""

""Resembling, or pertaining to, the genus Madrepora.Madrepora.""

Secondary fermentation

Appropriate or peculiar to a mandarin.

Araucaria absent in exam about dealing with comparison of pressures

Of or pertaining to the masseter.

MASTODON an extinct elephant-like mammal

See Mathematical. Mathematical.

Name deriving from female ancestor; my, romantic (anagram)

MEDIAE media

Like Stonehenge

One million parsecs.

""MEGAPHONE A device to magnify sound, or direct it in a given direction in a greater volume, as a very large funnel used as an ear trumpet or as a speaking trumpet.""

""MEGASCOPE A modification of the magic lantern, used esp. for throwing a magnified image of an opaque object on a screen, solar or artificial light being used.""

MEGASPORE

Affected with melanism; of the nature of melanism.

With multiple notes sung to one syllable

Like "chariot of fire" for the sun

Not literal

Figurative way to omit chapter where model disappears

Philosophical groundwork

In what orchestras make, the pay varies - there's no universal system of thought

""Of, pertaining to, or caused by, metastasis; as, a metastatic abscess; the metastatic processes of growth. as, a metastatic abscess; the metastatic processes of growth.""

METATE a stone used for grinding grains

""Of, or relating to, a mobocracy.""

""MONOACID a type of acid, also MONACID""

MONOCARP a plant that yields fruit only once before dying

Relating to a government whose leader has absolute power

Fitness freak, for one

Person obsessed with one issue

Obsessive type

Pronouncing on issues of right and wrong

Upright, to a fault

Righteously ethical

Of a form of marriage

Kind of marriage.

Of a kind of royal marriage

MUSCARINE

Abnormal muscular weakness or fatigue.

NAPHTHENE A peculiar hydrocarbon occuring as an ingredient of Caucasian petroleum.

Relating to nativism.

Revivalist (art)

Recreating ancient motifs

In a style revived from the past

English word

""Of or pertaining to neoplasty, or neoplasia.""

ALLELIC pertaining to {allele=n}

AQUATIC an organism living in or near water

ASCETIC one who practices self-denial for religious reasons

CALORIC heat

CARDIAC a person with a heart disorder

Twine, as opposed to rubber bands

ORGANIC a substance of animal or vegetable origin

PLASTIC a synthetic mouldable substance

Pertaining to collectors' items.

Relating to coins or currency

Of coins

Relating to rule by a few

Of a tightknit ruling group

Chimp loath to get hit about the eye

Located in the region of the eye

Regarding the eyes, doubly hard to claim pension, initially, after surgery

ORGANISM any form of animal or plant life