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}

Pertaining to an important science.

Pertaining to the science of air travel

Of plane navigation

Affected with albinism.

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

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 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

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.""

Aiding the memory

Of or pertaining to anaplasty.

Reclusive.

Ether, for one

It may put you to sleep

It may be administered before surgery

""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.

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.

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.""

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

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

Pure rubber.

""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.

""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

""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.""

Crescentshaped.

CRYOSTAT a refrigeration apparatus

Relating to mechanical man

Relating to a mechanical man.

Concerning robot brains.

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

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

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

Feeling your pain

Showing concern

Having the power of entering another's feelings

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

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.""

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}

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

Like much sci-fi

Fruit is cut, prepared for 7

Mixed fruit is cut ahead of time

See phytogeography .

Having the earth as a center.

Revolving around the earth

Like Ptolemy's universe

GLYCOL an {alcohol=n}

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

""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.""

Styptic

HERMAE herma

Pl. histologies The anatomical study of the microscopic structure of animal and plant tissues.

This ironic novel is melodramatic

Of acting; dramatic

Like a ham's performance

Wholly or distinctively vegetable.

Like John Singer Sargent's "Male Nudes Wrestling"

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

Cultural

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a humorist.""

Tending to remove or separate water; eliminating water.

""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.""

STATIC random noise produced in a radio or television receiver

TACTIC a manoeuvre for gaining an objective

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

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)

IONIC a style of type

Adjective (-ic)

Having equal entropy.

Of the conjugation of two similar reproductive cells

Having equal pressure.

ISOPLETH a type of {isogram=n}

Loyal to a fault

Jack in turn is tribal leader in charge who is chauvinistic

Patriotic

KAOLINITE

KARYOTYPE

KERYGMA the early preaching of the Christian gospel

Inducing lactation.

Disease and Illness

Adjective (-ic)

Fussy about rules

Excessively adhering to the law

Formal to a fault

LEUKOCYTE

Related to speech

Belonging to language.

Relating to language

Having an affinity for lipids.

Rocky, light and cool, I suspect

Adjective (-ic)

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

Secondary fermentation

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)

Like Stonehenge

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.""

""MICROCYTE One of the elementary granules found in blood. They are much smaller than an ordinary corpuscle, and are particularly noticeable in disease, as in an\'91mia.""

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

Relating to a government whose leader has absolute power

Immovably massive

Monumental record ignited this as the Romans said