10-Letter Words Starting with C

Examples of the "do-it-yourself" era.

Busy places at noon

Places where cliques may be apparent

Dual-purpose room in a school

""One of the forms of vitamin D, a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets. It is an unsaturated alcohol, C28H43OH found in foods such as milk and fish liver oils. It is used as a dietary supplement in milk.vitamin D, a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets. It is an unsaturated alcohol, C28H43OH found in foods such as milk and fish liver oils. It is used as a dietary supplement in milk.""

Calcifuge

Calcify

Disguise (from enemy)

Hide male in a foul cage after beating

Means of disguise

Campcraft

""A marine fish (Thaleichthys Pacificus), allied to the smelt, found on the north Pacific coast; called also eulachon. It is so oily that, when dried, it may be used as a candle, by drawing a wick through it Thaleichthys Pacificus), allied to the smelt, found on the north Pacific coast; called also eulachon. It is so oily that, when dried, it may be used as a candle, by drawing a wick through it""

Given spin, fair stuff (wordplay)

Light, fluffy confection of spun sugar

Fairground's pink confection

Candytuft

Careful

Carnify

Carrefour

Decorated bier

Bier

Yawn, in slang

Catfacing

Cavefish

Magazine opening (wordplay)

Magazine middle, maybe

Model position (wordplay)

Chem-lab device

Dairy machine.

Rotating machine that separates particles

Certifier

Certify

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

Chaffer

Slopes transport

Skiers' conveniences.

Skiers' conveyances

Chamfer

Dejected fellow killed in battle

A man dropped will naturally be dejected

Weary to an extreme.

Some prom night drivers

In a happy manner

In happy fashion

Alleluia! In all respects that displays happiness

Chiefship

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

Working hard with officer in Cabinet

Ornamental cabinet.

Setter keeps fine rosebowl initially in a cabinet

Chiefly Southern U.S. A tall piece of furniture typically having drawers on one side and space for hanging clothes on the other.

Like some medicine bottles

Safe for youngsters

Description of some rear door locks (5,5)

General anaesthetic, of old

Sweet-smelling anaesthetic

Old anaesthetic

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

English word

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

Plant with flowers having 20 ac petals

Flower.

Accent often used in French

Accent in the form of an upturned v

Accent around wire

To pour round; to spread round.

Clarifier

Clarify

In the right form at school (wordplay)

Help wanted, for one

Secret, as files

One who classifies.

Sorts and labels.

Makes secret

Ranks

CLOFIBRATE

Closetful

Highway intersection arrangement

Looped freeway interchange

Highway loop-the-loop

Having a clubfoot.

Coalfield

Coalfish

Coalify

Large beetle

Large beetle destructive of vegetation - frock cache (anagram)

Cockfight

Cocksfoot

FAVORITE a person or thing preferred

FEATURED feature

Cofeature

DiMaggio's last pitch (wordplay)

They're warmed up

They are reached for at many breakfasts

Cofferdam

FINANCED finance

Cofinance

Cofounder

Cofound

FUNCTION to perform or act

Coiffeuse

Coiffure

Coinfer

COLORFUL full of color

Coltsfoot

Understood historian not American

Dame Muriel's may console

Spirit raisers

Advent claims keep reassuring

The approach about defence is reassuring

Arriving outside, keep giving reassurance

COMPLEX to make complicated

Black-eyed Susan.

Prairie blossom

Confab

Confect

Fellow replacing note in link? That's sweet

Bonbon

Of or relating to confederation or a specific confederation.

Session of party officials.

Meeting for consultation

Assembly for discussion

The act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift. Same as conferral.conferral.

Conferral

Conferrer

Confer

Owning up

Result of a grilling, maybe

Opposite of a line of work (wordplay)

Interrogator's goal

Confessor

Close friend, perhaps.

Study poem returned by poet's girlfriend

Female one entrusts with secrets

Confidant

Secret communication engendering trust

Private communication of faith

Kind of man or game

Set up as prisoner and judged

Writes specifications for

(Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) a candidate for confirmation

Confirm

Take away (property)

See circled letters (nonverbal)

Seize and study its face change

Confiteor

Confiture

Conflate

""A blowing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or of many fires in a foundry.""

Of two minds

Clashed.

Meeting of rivers

Where things flow together

Study effect of power when not in the Union

Confluent

CONFOCAL having the same focus

Conformer

Party getting together, not rebelling

Orthodoxy in thoughts and belief.

Not a Free Church member (wordplay)

What Babbitt was.

'Fitter' is beyond 'fit' in court

Acceptance of general standards

Behaviour matching that of most other people

Doing well in Plymouth, say, and not rocking the boat

Really annoying (nuisance)

Cursed swindle set up

Brought to confusion

One who confounds.

CONFRONTE

Challenged Catholic leader on 'Father Ted' carries on

Defiant one.

In a confused manner.

Confusion

*Like most Christmas trees

Description of some trees of course, in ground

Like some trees, if planted in clay, initially burdensome

Copurify

Copurify

Crows' hangouts

Take out clean forks and serve food

Breakfast bar staple

Sometime substitute for bread crumbs

Scented foot-growth (wordplay)

Scented foot-growth?

Hokey Bloomer (wordplay)

Having the shape of a corynebacterium.

TRANSFER to move from one place to another

Cowlstaff

Cunning quality

Rotating part of engine

Auto-engine part

Rotating engine part

Crawfish

Crawfish

Crayfish

""Resembling, or having the form of, a sieve; pierced with hokes; as, the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone; a cribriform compress. as, the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone; a cribriform compress.""

Crossruff

Crosses bustling circus, avoiding small holes

Cruciform

Crucify

Like some industrial-strength containers

Puffy; cloud-shaped

Cuneiform

Mollusc - leftish cut (anagram)

Squid-like mollusc

Source of sepia, artist's pigment.