10-Letter Words Starting with C

Nonchalance

Victims of leisurewear (wordplay)

Informal neckwear (wordplay)

People hurt in promiscuous relationships

A substance produced by the process of catabolism.

CATABOLIZE

Decorated bier

Bier

""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

They process album listings reference

""CATALOGUE A list or enumeration of names, or articles arranged methodically, often in alphabetical order; as, a catalogue of the students of a college, or of books, or of the stars. as, a catalogue of the students of a college, or of books, or of the stars.""

One who makes a listing or inventory

Lynx becomes list maker

He should make the list

Conversations with one's kitty (wordplay)

All the items there make up the E. coast of Gaul

Lists

Catalyzer

""Pertaining to the catamenia, or menstrual discharges.""

Shot out when a cult taped broadcast

Launched at great speed

""One of the Catarrhina, a division of Quadrumana, including the Old World monkeys and apes which have the nostrils close together and turned downward. See Monkey. Catarrhina, a division of Quadrumana, including the Old World monkeys and apes which have the nostrils close together and turned downward. See Monkey.""

Yawn, in slang

Catchment

Arrest by copper with appeal of reduced charge

Nab lady providing worthless bit of goods

Extremely coy about unfortunate penchant for trumpery

Catchpole

Pl. catecheses (-s z) Oral instruction given to catechumens.

Pl. catecheses (-s z) Oral instruction given to catechumens.

After Catherine, the church is taking manuscript for religious books

Catechist

CATECHIZE See Catechise. Catechise.

CATECHIZE See Catechise. Catechise.

Catechize

One preparing for confirmation.

Christian Union chaps outside a college making new convert (wordplay)

Neophyte

Tories cage working classes

Game of lists

Word game

I agree cost is incorporated in order

Tie cargoes roughly and put into boxes

Type 'A secret I foolishly try to hide'

Arrange in groups

Label

Classify

Catenary

Catenate

Linkage

Cateress

Night alley sounds

Backyard sounds.

Shrill cries

Cathect

St. Patrick's et al.

Notre-Dame and St. Paul's, notably

They keep large flocks

Cathepsin

Catnapper

Causative

Causeway

Like the Hydra's necks, post-decapitation

Cauterize

Marches as gangster leading another baddy into grottoes (wordplay)

Cavalier

""In a supercilious, disdainful, or haughty manner; arroganty.""

English word

Soldiers on horseback

All the world wondered at 600 of them

Old troops on horseback

Cavefish

Cedarbird

Cedarwood

A photoelectric instrument for ascertaining cloud heights.

Flowers and antelope in these French surroundings

Star harangues people officiating

People who rejoice seeing tirades by B-lister (wordplay)

Known to be well like this (wordplay)

Noted Conservative bet leader changes

Observed (festival); famous

Sings the praises of, makes famous

Takes the car, beetles off and whoops it up

Bar elects rogue taking Ecstasy and has a party

New Year's Eve figure.

Jubilant one

Dec. 31 figure

Celerity

Celestial

Celestite

Celibacy

Cellarage

A cabinet for storing bottles of wine or liquor.

A disaccharide that is produced from the partial hydrolysis of cellulose.

Celloidin

Musical food wrapping (wordplay)

Musical food wrapping?

Film about packaged food (wordplay)

Cellulase

Cellulite

Inflammation of subcutaneous tissue

Cute lips break up, it is subcutaneous inflammation

Celluloid

Cellulose

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

Cementite

Grave positions one may end up in

Settings of many horror film scenes

Graveyards

Severely critical

Severely critical, but course is on anyhow

Disapproving

Bowdler's vessel (wordplay)

Will Hays's craft (wordplay)

Will Hays's craft?

""Deserving of censure; blamable; culpable; reprehensible; as, a censurable person, or censurable conduct. as, a censurable person, or censurable conduct.""

Centaurea

Centaury

Colorado (with "state")

May 11, 2014, for "E" as a "D"

Anniversary of note

Magazine opening (wordplay)

Magazine middle, maybe

Model position (wordplay)

CENTER to place at the middle point

Two-lane road feature

*Painted highway divider

Stripe that equally divides the road

Divided into hundredths

Like dollars and euros

Centesimo

Possibly cited range of temperature

Term replaced by Celsius

Coin I rank by scale

Centigram

Small metric unit

Unit equal to 0.338 fluid ounce

.6102 cubic inch

Enormous number

Almost two-fifths of an inch

*Approximate width of a pencil

Unit, as a Salk vaccine.

Bugs that technically are misnamed

Gives up about pet in trouble from bugs

Primarily nocturnal arthropods

Central

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.

The state or quality of being centric; centricalness.

Chem-lab device

Dairy machine.

Rotating machine that separates particles

Cylindrical cell parts near the nuclei that divide during mitosis

A specialized condensed region of a chromosomes that appears during mitosis where the chromatids are held together to form an X shape.

A peculiar rounded body lying near the nucleus of a cell. It is regarded as the dynamic element by means of which the machinery of cell division is organized.

Centuple

Former officers dispersed in 10

Roman officers run section badly

Yank runs notice for old commanders

""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)

Piece of mind (wordplay)

The little brain.

Lower brain

In an intellectual manner

Thought

Cerebrate

Cerecloth

System of protocol.

For show only

Formal lie - Cameron after Labour

Their master orders the programme

Formal events

Religious rituals

Certain

Certifier

Certify

Petition to a higher court

Writ from a higher court

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

Sure, that's all they are

Is T sure cited so as to make them sure (wordplay)

""Pertaining to, or secreting, cerumen; as, the ceruminous glands. as, the ceruminous glands.""

Cerussite

Cervelas

Plural or third person singular

Inflammation of the cervix of the uterus.

Cessation

Cetology

One versed in cetology.

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

Chaffer

Chagrin

Chainsaw

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

CHAIRMAN to act as chairman of

Certain committee leaders

Committee heads.

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

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

Chamomile

New Year's Eve beverages

Awkward German chaps not given right drinks

Winner with female name drinks after victories

Supported

Champleve

Lucky rollover for 20 (wordplay)

Govt. finance minister

German head's luck with press spin

Chancery

CHANCE to {risk=v}

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

Plural noun or verb form

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.

Chapter

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.

Charcoal

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)

Like gift of new chair by board

Kindly moving chair where food is served

Good daily fare protects his heart

Women who do are fools to accept a date

Cleaners for prince without a princess

Charlotte

Charmeuse

CHARMING charm

Charterer

Charter

Stendhal's liqueur (wordplay)

Stendhal's Italian liqueur

Greenish-yellow colour of a liqueur

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

Chastity

Mistress of the household.

Mistress has to teach Liane composition

Mistress of a chateau.

Chatelain

Having a changeable luster.

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

Reducing the worth or value of something