10-Letter Words Starting with C

Chamomile

Advocate eats good northern mushroom

Small edible mushroom often found in a fairy-ring

Supported

Lucky rollover for 20 (wordplay)

Govt. finance minister

German head's luck with press spin

Chancroid

When tennis players meet in transition

Shifting of position.

Workplace activity, sometimes

Ranchero's garb.

Plural noun or verb form

Drove to prom, say

Performed a duenna's duties

Like many first dates

Protectors of sorts

Charbroil

Charcoal

Cautious about girl getting a drink

White wine grape

Variety of white wine

Her erotica (anagram)

Ben Hur, for one

Ben Hur (wordplay)

Chariot

Charlotte

Chassepot

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

Chawbacon

Do accounting work (wordplay)

Banks issue them

Pay-as-you-go with these

Charlie, for one

Tartan to indicate barrier on border

Place for passport inspections

They're called left-luggage offices in Britain

Checkrow

Cheechako

Model's assets

Model's "high" features

Chelation

Chelonian

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.

Cheongsam

Cherimoya

Chernozem

Where one may run into a mate (wordplay)

Bossed char (anagram)

Where to find a perfect mate (wordplay)

Chibouque

Chiccory

Chickory

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.

Subjects for novelists.

Like some medicine bottles

Safe for youngsters

Description of some rear door locks (5,5)

Glory-of-the-snow

Chipboard

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""

A surgeon.

Courteous and gallant

Gentlemanly

Bold challenger's lead evaporated during shambolic chorus

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

""CHLORINE a gaseous element, also CHLORIN""

General anaesthetic, of old

Sweet-smelling anaesthetic

Old anaesthetic

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.

An addict always at the bar (wordplay)

One needing kisses, say

One who can't resist Hershey's, say

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.""

The quality of being of particular value or worth; nicely; excellence.

""The small appleshaped or pearshaped fruit of an American shrub (Pyrus arbutifolia) growing in damp thickets; also, the shrub. Pyrus arbutifolia) growing in damp thickets; also, the shrub.""

Chondrite

""Granular; pertaining to, or having the granular structure characteristic of, the class of meteorites called chondrites.""

Chondrule

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

Steak eaters' places

Restaurants in clubs supported by families after dance

Choplogic

Chopper

""Choppier , choppiest Having many small waves; rough: choppy seas.""

Prepare kindling (wordplay)

Cuts up little bloodsuckers (wordplay)

But you can't cut celery with them!

Choragus

Choregus

English word

'Christ rose transfigured', they sing

Sunday singers

Singing group

Chorus

Chowder

Big eaters

Gluttons Slang

Gluttons: Slang

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.

Chronaxy

CHRONIC one who suffers from a long-lasting disease

Recorded that condition of illness was first

Account king gives to historian

One has The Times ordered

One who records important events

Books of the Bible.

Records found before Ezra

Name of two Old Testament books

""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:""

Science of time arrangement

Sequence of events

Order of events

Mineral used in making refractories

Stone makes loser itchy

Yellowish gemstone

Fibrous variety of serpentine, a form of asbestos

Chuckhole

One who enters the services

Regular worshipper

A pious type, Winston, fit to move the queen

Cigarillo

Ciliation

One of the quinine group of alkaloids isomeric with and resembling cinchonidine; called also cinchonia. cinchonia.

""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

Plant with flowers having 20 ac petals

Flower.

(Of a route) roundabout

Roundabout

""One who, or that which, circulates.""

Cirrhotic

CITATION an official summons to appear

Summer-theater circuit

Additive in some bug repellents

Insect repellent sprayed into cellar

Of or belonging to the order Cladocera.

Cladogram

""A special branch, resembling a leaf, as in the apparent foliage of the broom (Ruscus) and of the common cultivated smilax (Myrsiphillum). Ruscus) and of the common cultivated smilax (Myrsiphillum).""

Demanding to hold on to stifling romance

Suppressions of presses around county up north

Restrictions

Clangor

Having a resonant metallic sound

Clangour

Clapboard

Clarion

Places for lessons

Pupils' places

New schoolmasters lacking the places to teach

Bach's instrument

Well-tempered item

Piano's early cousin

High area of a cathedral Var.

High area of a cathedral variable

One of Kipling's Plain Tales from the Hills as feature of church

High-window section of a structure

Upper row of windows

Upper part of church with its own row of windows

Variety of peach

It's a real peach

Variety of peach.

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

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

Clintonia

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

Props for driving instructors

Portable writing surfaces

Be a schoolhouse thief

Clitoris

Clitoris

Hogwarts storage facilities

Legislative lounges

Clobber

Clockwork

Hold copper (anagram)

Clumsy person (wearing heavy shoes?)

Ultralight balloon (wordplay)

CLOFIBRATE

Cloisonne

Secluded tree is cold like this

Like some nuns

Sheltered from outside society

A nun.

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

Clonidine

Closedown

""A utensil to hold a chamber vessel, for the use of the sick and infirm. It is usually in the form of a box, with a seat and tight cover.""

Closetful

""Pl. clostridia (- - ) Any of various rod-shaped, spore-forming, chiefly anaerobic bacteria of the genus Clostridium, such as the nitrogen-fixing bacteria found in soil and those causing botulism and tetanus.""

""Having rigid front and back covers, covered with cloth; -- of books. Contrasted to softcover.softcover.""

Line item (wordplay)

It's left hanging on the line

It may hold up your shorts

""A species of raspberry (Rubus Cham\'91merous) growing in the northern regions, and bearing edible, ambercolored fruit. Rubus Cham\'91merous) growing in the northern regions, and bearing edible, ambercolored fruit.""

Downpour (cf. spurt)

Sudden, heavy downpour

No drizzle, this.

The state of being cloudy.

Cloudland

Heavenly painting (wordplay)

Many a desktop background

Heavenly image could upset Catholic primate after Sunday

Highway intersection arrangement

Looped freeway interchange

Highway loop-the-loop

Clownery

CLOWNISH resembling a clown

Having a clubfoot.

19th-hole locations

Social centers.

Raised into a pile; collected into a crowd; heaped.

Coachwork

Coadjutor

A female coadjutor or assistant.

Coadmire

Coadmit

Coagency

Capable of being coagulated.

Coagulant

Coagulase

Semisolid (of blood)

In odd order, catalogued set

Solidified.

Coagulate

Merging into a single group.

Coming together

Growing together.

Coalesce

Coalfield

Coalfish

Coalify

Not social, I ruined alliances

Allies and Axis

Temporary alliances

Coanchor

Coannex

Coappear

""The adaptation or adjustment of parts to each other, as of a broken bone or dislocated joint.""

In a neglected state

Lack of refinement

Rough and boorish behavior

Becoming rude could make a son cringe

Making rough

Coassist

Coassume

Football player at the beach (wordplay)

The main service provider (wordplay)

CO at a drugs bust (wordplay)

Coastland

Seaboard contours

Certain borders

Shores.

Coastward

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

Coattend

Coattest

Wrote with someone else

Cobalamin

Cobaltine

Cobaltite

Cobwebby