10-Letter Words Starting with C

Take to heart (wordplay)

The state or condition of being central; the combination of several parts into one whole; centralization.

Advocate of stronger federal government

I concentrate power, as moderate protecting a Liberal

The state of being central; tendency towards a center.

Bring under a single control

Concentrate.

""A semisynthetic analogue of cephalosporin, C 16 H 17 N 3 O 4 S, used especially in the treatment of respiratory and urinary tract infections.""

Mushroom ring, seedcase and seafood, potentially

Mushroom ring shining on group of whales - or squid, say (wordplay)

Potter about before armistice arranged

Pot thrower

Made rebel clear off, being a bit brainy (wordplay)

In an intellectual manner

Thought

Cerebrate

System of protocol.

For show only

Formal lie - Cameron after Labour

Certain

Petition to a higher court

Writ from a higher court

Writ from High Court to call up the records of a lower court

Cervelas

Cessation

The bar gains come from them after a light start has blown away

Chaffer

CHAGRIN to humiliate

Chagrin

Chainsaw

""A chain pulley, or sprocket wheel.""

Slopes transport

Skiers' conveniences.

Skiers' conveyances

CHAIRMAN to act as chairman of

President's musical 21 mostly tinned

Committee honcho, sometimes

President has haircut up in prison

Certain committee leaders

Committee heads.

Chalazion

Cyclone had dislodged rocky stuff

Quartz coming from Ceylon and Chad

Cyclone had rolled stone

A lead-grey or black mineral, found as a copper ore or in veins

Chalcogen

It's often wiped clean

Didn't just accept

Took issue with tax date

Took issue with trial date

Daring sportsman (wordplay)

U.S. space shuttle

Professor in Doyle novels.

Converts pounds and euros to cut taxes

Throws down a gauntlet to annoy Hegel's clan

""Impregnated with salts of iron; having a taste like iron; as, chalybeate springs. as, chalybeate springs.""

Feature concealing light on good old-fashioned fornication

Lizards notable for changing colors

Camouflage experts' chosen meal - hash

They blend right in

Chamfer

Chamois

Chamomile

New Year's Eve beverages

Awkward German chaps not given right drinks

Winner with female name drinks after victories

Champaign

Advocate eats good northern mushroom

Small edible mushroom often found in a fairy-ring

Supported

Champleve

Lucky rollover for 20 (wordplay)

Govt. finance minister

German head's luck with press spin

Chancery

CHANCE to {risk=v}

Chancroid

Lighting up (wordplay)

Is it involving candle hire (wordplay)

The light fantastic (wordplay)

""CHANDELLE an abrupt climbing turn made by an airplane, in which the plane's momentum is used to achieve a higher than normal rate of climb, without stalling the aircraft.""

Chandelle

Subject to alteration

Fickle Charlie Clark ingesting drug (wordplay)

Fickle

In a changeable manner.

Board game division seraph = constant

Never-ending sponsor involved in game

Board game seraph = constant

Short song set in G minor (transposed)

Baby switched by fairies

Markedly altered

When tennis players meet in transition

Shifting of position.

Workplace activity, sometimes

Channeler

In touch with Cleopatra (wordplay)

Direct into a fixed course.

Channel

Cabaret songbirds

Piaf emulaters

Cabaret contingent

Ranchero's garb.

Plural noun or verb form

Chaparral

Drove to prom, say

Performed a duenna's duties

Like many first dates

Protectors of sorts

Dejected fellow killed in battle

A man dropped will naturally be dejected

Weary to an extreme.

Padre's position

Position involving work in the service of the army

Cleric's office bloke located at York, say, losing it

Chapter

Sightseeing buses, in London

Tour buses of Britain

Sight-seeing buses.

Book collection (wordplay)

Signs from eccentric people (wordplay)

Set in 10 like 11, say, after tea

The art or means of characterizing; a system of signs or characters; symbolism; distinctive mark.

Charbroil

Charcoal

Cautious about girl getting a drink

White wine grape

Variety of white wine

Liable to be accused

Supervisor gets help after assault

Pass under attack by group leader

Make worker pay - he's leader of a group

Her erotica (anagram)

Ben Hur, for one

Ben Hur (wordplay)

Chariot

Spiritual powers

Personal magnetisms

Like gift of new chair by board

Kindly moving chair where food is served

Good daily fare protects his heart

Generously

Charivari

Women who do are fools to accept a date

Cleaners for prince without a princess

Phonies burn and turn brown around Louisiana swamp, at first

Fakes a healthy looking colour to get hugged by boy leaving Spain

Fakes

Charlotte

Charmeuse

CHARMING charm

In a most pleasing way

In a delightfully attractive manner

Charterer

Charter

Stendhal's liqueur (wordplay)

Stendhal's Italian liqueur

Greenish-yellow colour of a liqueur

See Cartulary. Cartulary.

Chassepot

Chastener

A scent she's sprayed conveys purity

There's virtue having a gun in game

Dressing down

Teaching a lesson in front of class making rapid progress

Chastiser

Chastise

Chastity

Mistress of the household.

Mistress has to teach Liane composition

Mistress of a chateau.

Chatelain

Having a changeable luster.

Iridescent quality of some gems

Chatoyant

Talk of British beef? She never stops!

Gossip in phone kiosk (wordplay)

Harry H Corbett: a cross windbag

Chatterer

Chewing the fat, the cat's upset by call

Starlings' activity

Caught mad character in government, babbling

A fondness for talking

Some prom night drivers

Chaussure

*Rural educational gathering

New York lake and colony

Cultural center in N.Y. State

Excessive nationalism

Frightfully vain chum is showing fanatical pride

Fanatical patriot

Superpatriot.

Staunchly patriotic companion gets gold, plus French wine first

Chawbacon

Reducing the worth or value of something

CHEAPISH somewhat cheap

Cheapjack

Penny-pinching ray (wordplay)

Inexpensive fish (wordplay)

Ray that wont pay (wordplay)

They may be next to correct answers

*Approval indicators

/Approval indicators/

Keep an eye on the old woman and man in a doomed situation

European, we hear, got married and finished on board

Machine (not A1, note) tacked badly, totally frustrated

Spouses with a joint account (wordplay)

Finishes game (chess)

Beat petty officers at chess (wordplay)

Cheechako

Participates in a pep rally

Titillating bakery product (wordplay)

Photographer's dessert (wordplay)

Pin-up's favorite dessert (wordplay)

CHELATE to combine a metal ion with a compound

Chelation

""Pl. chelicerae (- -r ) Either of the first pair of fanglike appendages near the mouth of an arachnid, such as a spider, often modified for grasping and piercing.""

""CHELICERA One of the anterior pair of mouth organs, terminated by a pincherlike claw, in scorpions and allied Arachnida. They are homologous with the falcers of spiders, and probably with the mandibles of insects.""

Chelonian

According to chemical principles; by chemical process or operation.

Plural or third person singular

The characteristic movement or orientation of an organism or cell along a chemical concentration gradient either toward or away from the chemical stimulus.

Cheongsam

Cherimoya

Where one may run into a mate (wordplay)

Bossed char (anagram)

Where to find a perfect mate (wordplay)

Knights

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

Black-capped birds

Titmice.

Blackcaps

Chickaree

Heads

Small European warbler

Type of warbler

A common warbler

Finely shredded leaf vegetables used as a base for a dish or as a garnish

Digital problem Bill fixed in series

Painful swellings on extremities

Inflammation of toes, ears, due to cold

Millenarian.

Noun denoting doctrine or practice

Wild, like animals in a compound (wordplay)

Wild; fanciful

One strange miracle church originally put down as 'fanciful'

Cornelius, for one

Bonobo, e.g

Close relative of man

Ornamental tree

Chinaware

Facial fur (wordplay)

Pearly-gray fur

Feature cool on a rodent

Dwarf chestnuts

Dwarf chestnut tree found in eastern USA

A number supporting feature as tree

Dwarf chestnut tree of eastern USA with edible nuts

Glory-of-the-snow

Chipboard

Chirimoya

One Gypsy man getting into risky fortunetelling

Greek character and gypsy outside front of circus fortune-telling

Palmistry

Chess rival I overturned, lacking small courtesies

Courteous and gallant

Gentlemanly

Bold challenger's lead evaporated during shambolic chorus

Chivari

""Pl. chlamydiae (- - ) Any of various gram-negative, coccoid microorganisms of the genus Chlamydia, especially C. psittaci and C. trachomatis, that are pathogenic to humans and other animals, causing conjunctivitis in cattle and sheep and trachoma, urethritis, and proctitis in humans.""

CHLAMYDIA a coccoid rickettsia which may infect birds and mammals; it causes infections of eyes and lungs and the genitourinary tract.

Chloasma

Chloracne

English word

""Any of several compounds containing nitrogen and chlorine, especially an unstable colorless liquid, NH 2 Cl, used to make hydrazine.""

Chlordane

Chlorella

Treat pool water, maybe

Any of the flagellated cells in sponges having a collar of cytoplasm around base of the flagellum; they maintain a flow of water through the body.

Now's the time for . . .

These are sometimes nutty

17 across might give or get them today

""CHOCOLATE A paste or cake composed of the roasted seeds of the Theobroma Cacao ground and mixed with other ingredients, usually sugar, and cinnamon or vanilla. Theobroma Cacao ground and mixed with other ingredients, usually sugar, and cinnamon or vanilla.""

""Having the lower chop or jaw depressed; hence, crestfallen; dejected; dispirited;downcast. See Chapfallen. Chapfallen.""

Choragus

Readily stained with chromium salts: chromaffin cells of the adrenal medulla.

Scientific study of colors

Chromatid

Chromatin

Pl. chromonemata (-m -t ) The spirally coiled central filament of a chromatid along which the chromomeres are aligned.

Chronaxy

""An inscription in which certain numeral letters, made to appear specially conspicuous, on being added together, express a particular date or epoch, <as>as in the motto of a medal struck by Gustavus Adolphus in 1632:""

Chrysalid

Type of iguana

Large dark-bodied lizard living in Mexico and the southern USA

Grayish lizard once used as food by Native Americans

Burial ground (usually)

God's acre

Burial place

Scars.

Scars

Cicatrix

""CICATRIZE To heal or induce the formation of a cicatrix in, as in wounded or ulcerated flesh.""

Cicatrize

Tobacconist's commodity.

Broken grate included in quotes smokes

Oasis linked them with alcohol

Cigarillo

Ciguatera

Ciliation

Film buff, say, could make one grimace

I see picture blur once image runs

One sees pictures to make one grimace

CINEMA a motion-picture theatre

Cineraria

Death

In a circular manner.

Distributed about mid-July, admitted man

Conservative reform curtailed, it's reported

Mingled