10-Letter Words Starting with C

Old forms of electronic messages

Overseas wires

Caciquism

Cacodemon

Ring-tailed cat

English word

Dual-purpose room in a school

Scrambling on crag's rim - here (wordplay)

National park with Britain's only herd of reindeer

The act of cajoling; the state of being cajoled; cajolery.

""Wood A valuable furniture wood from India and Ceylon, of a hazelbrown color, with black stripes, very hard in texture. It is a species of ebony, and is obtained from the Diospyros qusesita. Called also Coromandel wood. Diospyros qusesita. Called also Coromandel wood.""

Calamary

Calamine

Disasters cause a hit in cities

Change of a climate is bringing disasters

Disasters

The DI's aster is blooming awful

Dreadful alternative to a musical

Catastrophic changes to a musical

+Tangerinelike Philippine fruit

""CALCIMINE A white or colored wash for the ceiling or other plastering of a room, consisting of a mixture of clear glue, Paris white or zinc white, and water.""

Calcimine

Boisterous parade

Calmative

Calmness

""A calcium-binding protein found in all nucleated cells that affects the activity of many calcium-sensitive enzymes, including those involved in muscular contraction.""

Malice aunt spread to denigrate

Slander a hundred old students at start of event

Villify.

Restaged opera primarily unmusical? That's defamatory

Camarilla

Modern devices for home movies

Certain houses

Old name for the giraffe

Old mammal arrived with another short of energy

Obsolete word for a giraffe

Cardinal who is the papal treasurer

Camisado

English word

English word

Disguise (from enemy)

Hide male in a foul cage after beating

Means of disguise

Lobbied for water charges during election, for instance? They did it!

Crusaded

Person on a trail

Man running for office.

Party man in action.

Belly buildings (wordplay)

Bell towers

Pitch your tent over a river's belly places

Campanula

Campcraft

Campesino

Growing in level fields.

Place to erect a tent

Only common word in the English language with the consecutive letters MPG

Treat with a type of insect-repellent

""The larva of two species of geometrid moths which are very injurious to fruit and shade trees by eating, and often entirely destroying, the foliage. Other similar larv\'91 are also called cankerworms.""

Chinese citizens last in boot camp

Military quarters.

Soldiers from city on Pearl River served time in military camp

Politico-economic system

America's economic system

U.S. economic system, for example

Carambola

""To to change into caramel, by the action of heat; as, The sugar caramelized quickly.as, The sugar caramelized quickly.""

Turn sugar brown

Cook sugar for apples

Carbamate

Carbamide

Carcinoma

Chaotic drama with corgi and ticker tape

Diagnostic aid

Beat record

Careerism

Song and dance of the French Revolution

Cassimere

Castoreum

""The breakdown of more complex substances into simpler ones with release of energy, in living organisms; destructive or downward metabolism; -- a form of metabolism, opposed to anabolism. See also Disassimilation.metabolism, opposed to anabolism. See also Disassimilation.""

Natural disasters

Boats that move on the double (wordplay)

Twin-hulled boats

Crafts based on fundamental duplicity

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

Catamount

Cataplasm

Catchment

After Catherine, the church is taking manuscript for religious books

One preparing for confirmation.

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

Neophyte

Little Bighorn fighter

Mounted soldier

Horse soldier

Soldiers on horseback

All the world wondered at 600 of them

Old troops on horseback

A photoelectric instrument for ascertaining cloud heights.

Cementite

Grave positions one may end up in

Settings of many horror film scenes

Graveyards

Divided into hundredths

Like dollars and euros

Centesimo

Centigram

Almost two-fifths of an inch

*Approximate width of a pencil

Unit, as a Salk vaccine.

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

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.

Potter about before armistice arranged

Pot thrower

Piece of mind (wordplay)

The little brain.

Lower brain

System of protocol.

For show only

Formal lie - Cameron after Labour

Their master orders the programme

Formal events

Religious rituals

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

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.

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

Spiritual powers

Personal magnetisms

Charmeuse

CHARMING charm

In a most pleasing way

In a delightfully attractive manner

Excessive nationalism

Frightfully vain chum is showing fanatical pride

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)

They're called left-luggage offices in Britain

According to chemical principles; by chemical process or operation.

""An undergarment, worn by women, usually covering the neck, shoulders, and breast.""

Chemisorb

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.

Chemurgy

Cheongsam

Cherimoya

Chernozem

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

Noun denoting doctrine or practice

Wild, like animals in a compound (wordplay)

Wild; fanciful

One strange miracle church originally put down as 'fanciful'

Chimerism

Cornelius, for one

Bonobo, e.g

Close relative of man

Chirimoya

One Gypsy man getting into risky fortunetelling

Greek character and gypsy outside front of circus fortune-telling

Palmistry

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a member of the Chironomidae, a family of nonbiting midges""

""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

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

General anaesthetic, of old

Sweet-smelling anaesthetic

Old anaesthetic

English word

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

Scientific study of colors

Chromatid

Chromatin

Chromize

Chromogen

One of the serially aligned beadlike granules of concentrated chromatin that constitutes a chromosome during the early phases of cell division.

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

Also chromophilic (-f l k) Readily stained with dyes. Used of a cell or cell structure.

Thread of life (wordplay)

Y for men only (wordplay)

Gene-carrying body Biol.

""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:""

Being friendly, mum turns trendy, when captivated by game

The state or conduct of a cicisbeo.

""A drug, C 10 H 16 N 6 S, that inhibits acid secretion in the stomach and is used to treat gastrointestinal disorders, such as peptic ulcers.""

""A condition produced by the excessive or longcontinued use of quinine, and marked by deafness, roaring in the ears, vertigo, etc.""

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

Death

Rock music welcomed by sorceress getting to perform a rite

Accent often used in French

Accent in the form of an upturned v

Accent around wire

To pour round; to spread round.

Find a way around

Steer clear of shifting much nicer TV hotel's dropped in

Bypass

Cladogram

Clamberer

Climbing with difficulty

Scaling awkwardly, with "up"

Moving awkwardly with stick, collecting fossil resin

State of being clammy or viscous.

Demanding to hold on to stifling romance

Suppressions of presses around county up north

Restrictions

Beach decor.

Adherence to ancient Greek and Roman principles

Timeless style is first model for this artistic movement

Conservative girl in charge is member in Greek style

Certain contemporary collegians

Group on a yearbook page

Eisenhower, Bradley, Van Fleet.

Places for lessons

Pupils' places

New schoolmasters lacking the places to teach

Full-dress coat, colloquially

Basic part of a tool kit

Puller or pounder

Some flowering vines

Virgin's-bowers, for example

Endless sex with model? A Spice Girl pulled up bloomers

Clemency

CLIMAX to reach a high point

Tool in forestry to measure slope, vertical angles and tree heights

Convert mile - not v. tricky if you have surveyor's instrument

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

Hogwarts storage facilities

Legislative lounges

""A synthetic drug, C 26 H 28 CINO, that is used in its citrate form to stimulate ovulation.""

Ineptitude shown since slums demolished

Coadmire

Coadmit

Coassume

Pl. coatimundi or coatimundis also coatimondi or coatimondis A coati.

Cobalamin

Committee leadership sharer

CHAIRMEN chairman

CHAMPION to defend or support

Boastful little fellow.

Turn up repeatedly before noon? That's ridiculous

Ridiculous

Harebrained

""The charasteristics, manners, or dialect, of a cockney.""

Garden bloomers

Amaranth plants.

Scarlet blooms

COMPOSER one who writes music

DOMINANT a controlling genetic character

Coelomate

Coembody

Coembody

Coemploy

Coenamor

Cofferdam

Of or pertaining to a cognomen; of the nature of a surname.

HOMOLOGY similarity in structure and origin

Colchicum

""A hydrous borate of lime occurring in transparent colorless or white crystals, also massive, in Southern California.""

Collegium

""COLLIMATE To render parallel to a certain line or direction; to bring into the same line, as the axes of telescopes, etc.; to render parallel, as rays of light.""

Collimate

Allot micro-switch to subsidiary telescope

Academic conference

Colluvium

Collyrium

Coloboma

Colosseum

Colostrum