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

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

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

Like Ernst Haeckel's law

BIOGRAPH to write a biography of

BIOMORPH a decorative image of a living thing

BIOSPHERE

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.

Of or pertaining to a bolometer.

""Of or pertaining to bronchitis; as, bronchitic inflammation. as, bronchitic inflammation.""

Of or pertaining to bryophytes.

Having a hidden meaning

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

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

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

Millenarian.

An addict always at the bar (wordplay)

One needing kisses, say

One who can't resist Hershey's, say

""Granular; pertaining to, or having the granular structure characteristic of, the class of meteorites called chondrites.""

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

COENOCYTE

COLORIST a person skilled in the use of color

Having a common center

Like some circles

Like rings on target

Of the same biological group

""Containing, pertaining to, or of the nature of, coprolites.""

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

Produced by cosmic rays.

Pl. cosmogonies The astrophysical study of the origin and evolution of the universe.

Crescentshaped.

Having an affinity for or thriving at low temperatures.

CRYOSCOPE an instrument for measuring freezing and melting points.

CRYOSTAT a refrigeration apparatus

CYANOGEN a compound of carbon and nitrogen

Relating to mechanical man

Relating to a mechanical man.

Concerning robot brains.

Containing all branches of knowledge

Representation

Adjective (-ic)

Of or relating to degeneration or disease of cells.

Having an affinity for 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.""

Insulator, derelict IC (anagram)

DILEMMA a perplexing situation

Descended from two ancestral lines or individuals.

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

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

DYNAMIST an adherent of {dynamism=n}

""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)

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

""Medicine Of, relating to, or afflicted with dystrophy.""

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

FABULIST a {liar=n}

Adjective (-ic)

Believing in the inevitability of events

Accepting the inevitable.

Not believing a lot can be changed

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

FLORIGEN a plant hormone

Causing cold or freezing

Like much sci-fi

Fruit is cut, prepared for 7

Mixed fruit is cut ahead of time

Famous person among group of workers in charge of nerve centre

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.

""GLUCOSIDE One of a large series of amorphous or crystalline substances, occurring very widely distributed in plants, rarely in animals, and regarded as influental agents in the formation and disposition of the sugars. They are frequently of a bitter taste, but, by the action of ferments, or of dilute acids and alkalies, always break down into some characteristic substance (acid, aldehyde, alcohol, phenole, or alkaloid) and glucose (or some other sugar); hence the name. They are of the nature of complex and compound ethers, and ethereal salts of the sugar carbohydrates. glucose (or some other sugar); hence the name. They are of the nature of complex and compound ethers, and ethereal salts of the sugar carbohydrates.""

""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.""

GLYCOL an {alcohol=n}

GLYCOSIDE

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

Providing stability through spin

Giving stability through high-speed rotation

Cog so pricy to fix, spinning as a ship's navigational aid, say (wordplay)

Saints

HALOPHILE

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

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