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.""

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

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.

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.

Arranged just like these words? Yes!

Like some codes

Like characters in a script

Could be ARIA 1100 HELP

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

Aiding the memory

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.

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.

Exactly opposite.

Opposite

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

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.""

Activity for summer (wordplay)

Field of operations (wordplay)

R without an apostrophe (wordplay)

Not regularly shaped

Not perfectly balanced

Like this puzzle's grid

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

Of or pertaining to austenite.

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

Of or pertaining to bacteremia.

Type of pressure

It's measured by the glass

Like some pressure

Of or pertaining to bentonite.

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

Like Ernst Haeckel's law

BIOSPHERE

Of or pertaining to a bolometer.

""(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

""CELLULOSE Consisting of, or containing, cells.""

(used with a sing. verb) The study of history using economic models and advanced mathematical methods of data processing and analysis.

COENOCYTE

Having a common center

Like some circles

Like rings on target

Of the same biological group

Produced by cosmic rays.

Crescentshaped.

CYANOGEN a compound of carbon and nitrogen

Relating to mechanical man

Relating to a mechanical man.

Concerning robot brains.

Containing all branches of knowledge

""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

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

""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.""

Insulator, derelict IC (anagram)

DILEMMA a perplexing situation

Descended from two ancestral lines or individuals.

An instrument that measures and indicates the amount of x-rays or radiation absorbed in a given period.

""An inflammatory disorder of the lower intestinal tract, usually caused by a bacterial, parasitic, or protozoan infection and resulting in pain, fever, and severe diarrhea, often accompanied by the passage of blood and mucus.""

Adjective (-ic)

Pertaining to ecchymosis.

Having I trouble (wordplay)

Selfish fellow swallows a penny?

Having I-strain (wordplay)

The "E" of "E-mail"

Controlled by semiconductors

The e in e-mail

Relating to or acting as a symbol

Representative

Symbolical

EMBOLISM obstruction of a blood vessel by an embolus

Feeling your pain

Showing concern

Having the power of entering another's feelings

""A pathological condition of the lungs marked by an abnormal increase in the size of the air spaces, resulting in labored breathing and an increased susceptibility to infection. It can be caused by irreversible expansion of the alveoli or by the destruction of alveolar walls.""

Requiring energy: an endergonic chemical reaction.

Living as a parasite or symbiont within the tissues of a host.

""(used with a sing. verb) The branch of dentistry that deals with diseases of the tooth root, dental pulp, and surrounding tissue.""

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) (of organisms, such as algae) growing inside rock""

ENDOPHYTE

Crazy picosecond of peering into people

Final large policeman in charge of instrument for viewing organs

Relative of chromatic.

Having the same pitch but written differently, in a score

Of an embryonic layer

""Inserted in the body of a word; as, an epenthetic letter or sound. as, an epenthetic letter or sound.""

Former partner under extreme pressure say has to call up offering explanation

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

Situated immediately over the stomach

Of or pertaining to the epigenesis; produced according to the theory of epigenesis.

""Pertaining to, or connected with, the epiglottis.""

EPIGRAPH an engraved inscription

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

An instrument for measuring the amount of work done by a muscle or group of muscles.

Originating from or causing sexual stimulation; erogenous

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

Like a writer of short pieces

""ESTROGEN a female sex hormone, also ESTRIOL, OESTRIOL, ESTRIN, OESTRIN, OESTROGEN, ESTRONE, OESTRONE, THEELIN, THEELOL""

Relating to study of various peoples

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

Being enthusiastic with detailed planning after European Union

""Belonging to the euphuists, or euphuism; affectedly refined.""

""1. having a pleasing and harmonious rhythm, order, or structure""

EURYBATH an organism that can live in various water depths

Adjective (-ic)

EVAPORITE

Pl. exocytoses (-s z ) A process of cellular secretion or excretion in which substances contained in vesicles are discharged from the cell by fusion of the vesicular membrane with the outer cell membrane.

EXORCIST one who practices {exorcism=n}

EXOSPHERE

Like some reactions

Releasing energy, as a chemical reaction

Iron skirts? Time, I see, to be demanding women's rights

FLORIGEN a plant hormone

See phytogeography .

Having the earth as a center.

Revolving around the earth

Like Ptolemy's universe

Regional

Of or resembling the earth or its shape or surface configuration.

""GLYCERIDE A compound ether (formed from glycerin). Some glycerides exist ready formed as natural fats, others are produced artificially. glycerin). Some glycerides exist ready formed as natural fats, others are produced artificially.""

Concerned with self-gratification

Devoted to pleasure

Pleasure-seeking

""Of or relating to worms, or Helminthes; expelling worms.""

Paralysis affecting only one side of the body.

""Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or afflicted with hemophilia; hemophiliac.""

Styptic

HERMAE herma

HEROIC an epic verse

Arranged in order of rank

Classified according to various criteria

Rich Archie upset about order of importance

Like John Singer Sargent's "Male Nudes Wrestling"

Like much of Shakespeare's and Sappho's love poetry

""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.""

Over the top

Type of geometry

Like some geometric curves

HYPERGOL a rocket fuel

MANIC one who is affected with mania

Abnormally deep or rapid breathing.

Faster than Mach 5

Very much faster than sound

Why person ice-skating circles very fast (wordplay)

""Having a higher osmotic pressure than a comparison solution; -- of an aqueous solution. Increasing the concentration of dissolved solids increases the osmotic pressure, and thus the tonicity of a solution. Opposite of hypotonic and contrasting with isotonic.hypotonic and contrasting with isotonic.""

Like a flu shot

Type of syringe

Kind of needle

Of or pertaining to hysteresis.

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

IONIC a style of type

Adjective (-ic)

Having equal entropy.

ISOENZYME

Of the conjugation of two similar reproductive cells

Having equal pressure.

ISOPLETH a type of {isogram=n}

KERYGMA the early preaching of the Christian gospel

English word

Inducing lactation.

Fussy about rules

Excessively adhering to the law

Formal to a fault

LEUKOCYTE

An abnormally low number of white blood cells in the circulating blood.

""Excessive, uncontrollable, or incoherent talkativeness""

Adjective (-ic)

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

Araucaria absent in exam about dealing with comparison of pressures

Of or pertaining to the masseter.

See Mathematical. Mathematical.

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

MENING mene

Pertaining to a mesentery; mesaraic.

MESOPHYTE

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 a space-travelling object that has fallen to earth

""METRONOME An instrument consisting of a short pendulum with a sliding weight. It is set in motion by clockwork, and serves to measure time in music.""

MONOSTELE

Adjective (-ic)

Abnormal muscular weakness or fatigue.

MYELOCYTE

Of or relating to the making of myths.

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

Revivalist (art)

Recreating ancient motifs

In a style revived from the past

English word

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

NEPHELINE

NEPOTIST one who practices {nepotism=n}

Caused by the nervous system

The medical science that deals with the nervous system and disorders affecting it.

A toxin that damages or destroys nerve tissue.

NOMOTHETE A lawgiver.

ALLELIC pertaining to {allele=n}

ASCETIC one who practices self-denial for religious reasons

Twine, as opposed to rubber bands

ENZYMIC pertaining to an {enzyme=n}

GENETIC pertaining to {genetics=n}

MIMETIC resembling {mimesis=n}

NOVELIST one who writes novels

OLIGOMER a type of complex chemical compound

The practice or profession of an optometrist.

OROGEN a region which has undergone orogeny

Certain kind of shoe or brace

Like some shoes

Back in the USA? One could have such a problem

Instruments ()

Osteogenetic.

A patricide (anagram)

I act with a pride, running round, dealing with sick children

Adjective (-ic)

Amid 17, shorten form of an organ

Of or pertaining to pangenesis.