10-Letter Words Starting with C

Roar with merriment

Laugh loudly

Reserve falling away finally, natural to be in stitches

Cacodemon

""A syrupy, colorless, fuming ptomaine, C 5 H 14 N 2 , formed by the carboxylation of lysine by bacteria in decaying animal flesh.""

Caecilian

Caesarean

Caesarian

Caginess

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.""

Calamine

+Tangerinelike Philippine fruit

Calcify

""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

CALCINE to reduce to a calx by heating

CALCINE to reduce to a calx by heating

""A peptide hormone, produced by the thyroid gland in humans, that lowers plasma calcium and phosphate levels without augmenting calcium accretion. Also called thyrocalcitonin .""

Slated

Calender

CALENDER to smooth by pressing between rollers

Calendula

Calenture

Affected with darkness or dimness; dark; obscure.

Measuring thicknesses

Callous

Bid one's spades over West, showing immaturity

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.""

Calorize

Malice aunt spread to denigrate

Slander a hundred old students at start of event

Villify.

Restaged opera primarily unmusical? That's defamatory

Cardinal who is the papal treasurer

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

Campesino

Place to erect a tent

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

""Pl. canaliculi (-l ) A small canal or duct in the body, such as the minute channels in compact bone.""

Canalise

Canalize

CANCEL to {annul=v}

Canceller

Getting rid of corporal punishment when holding group of terrorists

""Having a spongy or porous stracture; made up of cancelli; cancellated; as, the cancellous texture of parts of many bones. as, the cancellous texture of parts of many bones.""

Light workout - land a brace!

Kind of 1 across (correctly 1 acrosses)

Menorahs, for example

White-hot vessel sinking

Glowing tin going down

Glowing beer container beside slope

Election Day hopefuls

Ones under consideration

Relatives of dark horses.

Honesty.

""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""

Candlenut

Game for skinny-legged keglers?

Kind of bowling

New England style bowling.

Inflammable material (wordplay)

Light fabric (wordplay)

It's often lit in near-darkness

It may be burned for light

Connecticut lake resort.

It's burned for light

Given spin, fair stuff (wordplay)

Light, fluffy confection of spun sugar

Fairground's pink confection

Candytuft

Reedy expanses

Caninity

""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.""

""A nonpsychoactive chemical constituent of cannabis, C 21 H 26 O 2 , from which THC forms.""

Cannabis

Literally, "large reeds"

Cylindrical stuffed pasta

Nine on call, cooking Italian food

Cannister

""CANNONADE The act of discharging cannon and throwing ball, shell, etc., for the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship, or fort; usually, an attack of some continuance.""

Reportedly, churchman assists shelling

Noises to greet the Fourth.

Sound of repetitive music boosts artillery attacks

Dive done with the arms around the knees

Way to make a big splash

Civil War missile.

Cannoneer

Cannonry

Canoness

""The dress prescribed by canon to be worn by a clergyman when oficiating. Sometimes, any distinctive professional dress.""

The state or quality of being canonical; agreement with the canon.

Canonise

Putting on a pedestal

Kissing and cuddling

CANOROUS {melodic=adj}

Hasn't a way to run away?

Hasn't a way to run away (wordplay)

Fruit worker gangster forced into car

Cantaloup

Songstress in a Paris musical

Tebaldi, for example

Concert singer.

English word

Cantilena

Projecting beam fixed at one end only

Kind of arch or bridge

Beam fixed at one end

Intone

Chinese citizens last in boot camp

Military quarters.

Soldiers from city on Pearl River served time in military camp

Canulate

Duck perched on a sail?

Duck perched on a sail (wordplay)

North American diving duck

Adjective meaning resembling

They conduct polls

Soliciting to make the painting squeal!

Caparison

Payment per head

Memorable mention about a prince introducing poll-tax

Beginners' alphabet in wording under diagram could be taxing

Caponize

Sounds like Al's hat (wordplay)

Frothy coffee drink

Type of coffee

Capriole

Capsaicin

Captain

Caption

A nicer bear mauled sharpshooter

Soldier calling about a container

Cavalry soldier

Foreign policeman in vehicle with a large but not good emperor

A Spanish or South American frontier guard or customs official

Mountaineer's rope fasteners

""CARABINE a carbon compound, also CARABIN""

Caracole

Caravaner

CARAVAN to travel in a portable home

Exotic dancer in possession of a vehicle took touring holiday

He keeps moving house

Carbanion

Carbonade

Carbonado

Carbonara

Fizzy, as a soft drink

Like some beverages.

Fizzy element consumed by daughter

Carbonate

CARBONIZE To cover (an animal or vegatable substance) into a residue of carbon by the action of fire or some corrosive agent; to char.

Carbonize

CARBON a nonmetallic element

English word

CARBONYL a chemical compound

Set with carbuncles.

Run into vehicle with relatives' jewels

Rubies of old.

Cause of cancer

Wanting a cigar, one can perhaps be at risk from this

Vehicle 101 has complete lack of data that produces growth

Carcinoid

Carcinoma

CARDINAL a bright red bird

""An individual, such as a physician, nurse, or social worker, who assists in the identification, prevention, or treatment of an illness or disability.""

Mark on script by a man in charge looking after things

""(Medicine / Pathology) (of a substance) producing caries, esp in the teeth""

Tending to a flat (wordplay)

Vehicle stealing

Song and dance of the French Revolution

""A hydrous chloride of potassium and magnesium, sometimes found associated with deposits of rock salt.""

Adapted to eating flesh.

Acorns ain't nuts; they're flowers

Florist's stock

Ohio state flowers

Red varieties of quartz

Carnify

Carnitine

Cats and dogs, for example

Lions and tigers and bears

Dangerous dinosaurs

Carnotite

""CAROTENE a plant pigment, also CAROTIN, CARROTIN""

""CAROTIN a plant pigment, also CAROTENE, CARROTIN""

They saw how the fish gets in

"(They Long to Be) Close to You" duo

We've Only Just Begun performers

Carpeting

English word

Riding in the far-left lane, perhaps

Fuel-saving strategy

Gas-saving plan

Carrageen

Variant of carrageen .

Carronade

Pulitzer Prize category

Not true to life, perhaps

Exaggerated

Strip artist (wordplay)

Eg, Peter Brookes

Arno or Nast, for example

Caseation

Caseinate

Dismissing a wrongdoer from the armed forces

Reach GIs in disarray, moving from military position

Castellan

Making ineffective players score

Actors taking part? It leads to voices being raised

Nonchalance

Casuarina

Catalog

Catalyze

Boats that move on the double (wordplay)

Twin-hulled boats

Crafts based on fundamental duplicity

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

Catamount

""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.""

Catatonia

Catatonic

Alternative to booing or hissing

Evacuating hotel, pick up everyone in grand display of disapproval

Catchment

Arrest by copper with appeal of reduced charge

Nab lady providing worthless bit of goods

Extremely coy about unfortunate penchant for trumpery

One preparing for confirmation.

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

Neophyte

Catenary

Catenate

Linkage

Catfacing

Cathect

Cathepsin

A remedy for all diseases; a panacea.

Catnapper

Taking a short sleep

Stealing pet that's briefly asleep (wordplay)

Caucus

Causation

Shout about gold turning into a warning

Sort of Belloc stories which were new

Intended to warn one out working in bright yellow

Caution

Little Bighorn fighter

Mounted soldier

Horse soldier

Soldiers on horseback

All the world wondered at 600 of them

Old troops on horseback

Cavitate

CAVITATE to form cavities

Flowers and antelope in these French surroundings

Star harangues people officiating

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

Celloidin

Musical food wrapping (wordplay)

Musical food wrapping?

Film about packaged food (wordplay)

Cementite

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