10-Letter Words Starting with C

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Calcify

Given spin, fair stuff (wordplay)

Light, fluffy confection of spun sugar

Fairground's pink confection

Candytuft

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

CANOROUS {melodic=adj}

Gardener's skill (wordplay)

Faculty garden designer (wordplay)

Power (to do something)

English word

In a faultfinding way

CARBONYL a chemical compound

""Of or pertaining to the carboxyl group; having a carboxyl group (written -COOH, -CO2H or -CO.OH); as, carboxylic acids are weakly acidic.carboxyl group; having a carboxyl group (written -COOH, -CO2H or -CO.OH); as, carboxylic acids are weakly acidic.""

CARDINAL a bright red bird

Study of poker (wordplay)

Study of the heart

Heart doctor's field

One who wants in on the deal

One holds hands during the game

World Series participant

By way of a rasher (wordplay)

In a lax way

Yell scares criminal in an offhand way

Carnify

""Belonging to, forming, or containing carpels.""

Carryback

Carryover

Caryatid

CASTRATOR

Natural disasters

Catalyzer

Catalyze

Arrest by copper with appeal of reduced charge

Nab lady providing worthless bit of goods

Extremely coy about unfortunate penchant for trumpery

CATHODAL pertaining to a {cathode=n}

Causeway

Corrosiveness

Shout about gold turning into a warning

Sort of Belloc stories which were new

Intended to warn one out working in bright yellow

In St Lucia you are travelling with care

How label signs hard-partying rocker (wordplay)

Warily

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

Little Bighorn fighter

Mounted soldier

Horse soldier

Soldiers on horseback

All the world wondered at 600 of them

Old troops on horseback

The state of being central; tendency towards a center.

The state or quality of being centric; centricalness.

In an intellectual manner

Certify

Cyclone had dislodged rocky stuff

Quartz coming from Ceylon and Chad

Cyclone had rolled stone

""Impregnated with salts of iron; having a taste like iron; as, chalybeate springs. as, chalybeate springs.""

In a changeable manner.

Padre's position

Position involving work in the service of the army

Cleric's office bloke located at York, say, losing it

The art or means of characterizing; a system of signs or characters; symbolism; distinctive mark.

Cautious about girl getting a drink

White wine grape

Variety of white wine

Generously

In a most pleasing way

In a delightfully attractive manner

See Cartulary. Cartulary.

Having a changeable luster.

Iridescent quality of some gems

Chatoyant

CHEAPISH somewhat cheap

In a happy manner

In happy fashion

Alleluia! In all respects that displays happiness

According to chemical principles; by chemical process or operation.

Cherimoya

Adjective meaning resembling

In an immature fashion

Cold food consumed like a baby

Casserole in the fridge, say? (letters 5-8)

CHILLING chill

Ornamental tree

Chirimoya

One Gypsy man getting into risky fortunetelling

Greek character and gypsy outside front of circus fortune-telling

Palmistry

""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.

""CHLORINE a gaseous element, also CHLORIN""

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.

""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 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.""

CHRONIC one who suffers from a long-lasting disease

Science of time arrangement

Sequence of events

Order of events

Chrysalid

Mineral used in making refractories

Stone makes loser itchy

Yellowish gemstone

Fibrous variety of serpentine, a form of asbestos

Burial ground (usually)

God's acre

Burial place

In a churlish manner.

In a circular manner.

View of Delft, etc.

""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).""

CLANKING clank

CLANNISH like a clan

Clarify

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

Old water clocks

Clepsydra

High-window section of a structure

Upper row of windows

Upper part of church with its own row of windows

""CLERICAL a member of the clergy, also CLERIC""

In a clinical manner.

CLIQUISH {cliquey=adj}

""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.""

CLOWNISH resembling a clown

Coalify

CATALYST a substance that speeds a chemical reaction

In a crooked manner

""Characteristic of, or resembling, cockneys.""

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

COCKSURE {certain=adj}

Manuscripts ()

Coemploy

Coenocyte

COENOCYTE

""The state of being on an equality, as in rank or power.""

By force

COERCIVE serving to coerce

Within a court's jurisdiction

Only cheer leader of team excitedly in an orderly way

Logically

In a unified manner

HOMOLOGY similarity in structure and origin

Collotype

Collyrium

Colocynth

COLONIAL a citizen of a colony

COLORFUL full of color

COLOSSAL {gigantic=adj}

The quality of being comical; something comical.

The office or rank of a commander.

Explanatory essay

Series or book of critical notes

Fantastic racy moment tells the story of match

Store of a sort.

The common people; those classes and conditions of people who are below the rank of nobility; the commons.

As a group

Company

Equally taking care of politician: how to grow crops (wordplay)

Noncontradictorily

Ability

Fitness

Hook, line and sinker

All conform, injecting permitted drug

Totally allow English to consent to making case

COMPLEX to make complicated

Elaboration 22 across, follow brackets

Intricacy

Cooperation

A state of being complicate or intricate.

Partnership in wrongdoing

Collusion

COMPOSED compose

Obliged to be done

De rigueur

Mandatory

CONCEDED concede

Study of mollusks and shells

Harmony; studied elegance, as of literary style.

Conclusive.

In a tangible way

In real terms

Condyloma

CONFOCAL having the same focus

Acceptance of general standards

Behaviour matching that of most other people

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

In a confused manner.

Congruence.

In a conjoint manner; untitedly; jointly; together.

In a conjugal manner; matrimonially; connubially.

""Primarily, a place of standing or staying together; hence, any solemn assembly or council.""

""Accord or agreement of sounds produced simultaneously, as a note with its third, fifth, and eighth.""

Studies hijacking - quite a racket!

Does bootlegging intrigue (wordplay)

Quote: Part III

Time after time

In a uniform manner.

At all times

Excessively.

The state of being contiguous; intimate association; nearness; proximity.

Movie scenario.

Never hear the end of it on the television

Sequence that needs to be checked in a film studio

In a stubborn way

Acting in opposition

Result of flying high over River Wye, reportedly in reverse direction

With penitence

Talk with heartless lady ? or vice versa

Legal document that could be a trap

Vehicle for transferring property

Legal document for vehicle

Copolymer

Feeding on excrement: coprophagous beetles.

Pertaining to copulation; tending or serving to unite; copulative.

Copycat

Copyedit

Keeps the paper united with impression of custodian

An editor who prepares text for publication.

Intellectual property protection

Claims to exclusive authority over literary, musical or artistic work

Producer of text for ad

Public relations position

Author who wrote pricy composition

A North American deciduous shrub (Symphoricarpos orbiculatus) cultivated for its abundant clusters of coral-red berrylike fruits.Symphoricarpos orbiculatus) cultivated for its abundant clusters of coral-red berrylike fruits.

With string I lay it twisted and welcome to it

Corduroy

Crook approaches diagonally

""In or with the body; bodily; as, to be corporally present. as, to be corporally present.""

The state of having a body; the state of being corporeal; materiality.

Fatness

CORTICAL pertaining to a {cortex=n}

Wild attendants of the goddess Cybele

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the Corybantes or their rites; frantic; frenzied; as, a corybantic dance. as, a corybantic dance.""

Having the shape of a corynebacterium.

CORYPHE the {chief=n}

""With the sun at rising or setting; as, a star is said to rise or set cosmically when it rises or sets with the sun. as, a star is said to rise or set cosmically when it rises or sets with the sun.""

COSTLESS free of charge

Cotyledon

""Any of an extinct order (Cotylosauria) of massive primitive reptiles of the Carboniferous and Permian periods that included the ancestors of all of the reptiles. Also called root reptile , stem reptile .""

An analytical method for determining the amount of a substance released during electrolysis in which the number of coulombs used is measured.

COUNTER to {oppose=v}

In-store surveillance expert (wordplay)

Mole sees ape trapping 'awks, perhaps (wordplay)

Secret agent working against or investigating enemy espionage

COUNTRY the territory of a nation

Rural dweller

Compatriot

Rustic individual offering to go, for instance, with worker

Rustic types who were asked to lend an ear (wordplay)

Enclosed patios

Atria

COVALENT sharing electron pairs

COVETING covet

Make 100 and you've lost, corrupted with a jealous heart

Coyotillo

""The department of science (as of ethnology or arch\'91ology) which deals with the shape, size, proportions, indications, etc., of skulls; the study of skulls.""

""The operation of opening the fetal head, in order to effect delivery.""

CRASHING crash

Crayfish

Crayonist

Crazyweed

CREATIVE having the ability to create

Inventive or imaginative power

Artist's gift

Architect's asset

Creatural; characteristic of a creature.

In a praiseworthy way

CRESCIVE increasing

In violation of law; wickedly.

How ill was the reviewer (wordplay)

Severely judge a friend

Not being in favour, he maystill be on your side to a dangerous extent