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8-Letter Words Starting with C (65 words)

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8-Letter Words (65):

cableway (18 points)

Hoisting system

C·3+A·1+B·3+L·1+E·1+W·4+A·1+Y·4 = 18 pts

caecally (15 points)

In the manner of a caecum

C·3+A·1+E·1+C·3+A·1+L·1+L·1+Y·4 = 15 pts

cajolery (20 points)

Wheedler's forte

Sweet talk, flattery

Flattery intended to persuade

C·3+A·1+J·8+O·1+L·1+E·1+R·1+Y·4 = 20 pts

category (14 points)

Grey coat (anagram)

Is Catherine kind of bloody (wordplay)

Classification of grey-coat

C·3+A·1+T·1+E·1+G·2+O·1+R·1+Y·4 = 14 pts

catenary (13 points)

Moggy and girl beside railway curve

Trace any random curve

Like a chain.

C·3+A·1+T·1+E·1+N·1+A·1+R·1+Y·4 = 13 pts

causeway (16 points)

Reason and means to build elevated road

Raised road crossing shallow water

Overseas Highway feature

C·3+A·1+U·1+S·1+E·1+W·4+A·1+Y·4 = 16 pts

celerity (13 points)

Speed of dancing reel in Edinburgh maybe

Heartless star's expedition

Famous person's heartless haste

C·3+E·1+L·1+E·1+R·1+I·1+T·1+Y·4 = 13 pts

celibacy (17 points)

Obstructor of congress (wordplay)

State without a congress (wordplay)

Bachelor's button

C·3+E·1+L·1+I·1+B·3+A·1+C·3+Y·4 = 17 pts

cemetery (15 points)

Dead centre (wordplay)

Paris's Pere Lachaise, for one

Graveyard shift locale

C·3+E·1+M·3+E·1+T·1+E·1+R·1+Y·4 = 15 pts

centaury (13 points)

One in a hundred may be a weed

Plant of gentian family

Plant named for a mythological species

C·3+E·1+N·1+T·1+A·1+U·1+R·1+Y·4 = 13 pts

ceremony (15 points)

Occasion for wedded one? Mercy!

Ritual - my encore (anagram)

What a stickler may stand on (wordplay)

C·3+E·1+R·1+E·1+M·3+O·1+N·1+Y·4 = 15 pts

cetology (14 points)

Study of whales

C·3+E·1+T·1+O·1+L·1+O·1+G·2+Y·4 = 14 pts

chancery (18 points)

He can cry (anagram)

Court puts HM in dodgy situation

Risky to circumvent the Queen's court

C·3+H·4+A·1+N·1+C·3+E·1+R·1+Y·4 = 18 pts

chastely (16 points)

In a chaste manner

C·3+H·4+A·1+S·1+T·1+E·1+L·1+Y·4 = 16 pts

chattery (16 points)

Loquacious

C·3+H·4+A·1+T·1+T·1+E·1+R·1+Y·4 = 16 pts

cheekily (20 points)

In an impudent manner

C·3+H·4+E·1+E·1+K·5+I·1+L·1+Y·4 = 20 pts

cheerily (16 points)

In a jolly manner

With a smile, weirdly following church

With a smile on one's face

C·3+H·4+E·1+E·1+R·1+I·1+L·1+Y·4 = 16 pts

cheesily (16 points)

In an inferior but popular way

C·3+H·4+E·1+E·1+S·1+I·1+L·1+Y·4 = 16 pts

chemurgy (19 points)

A branch of applied chemistry

C·3+H·4+E·1+M·3+U·1+R·1+G·2+Y·4 = 19 pts

chimbley (20 points)

""A chimney, also CHIMBLY, CHIMLA, CHIMLEY""

C·3+H·4+I·1+M·3+B·3+L·1+E·1+Y·4 = 20 pts

choicely (18 points)

In a choice manner

C·3+H·4+O·1+I·1+C·3+E·1+L·1+Y·4 = 18 pts

cinerary (13 points)

Pertaining to ashes.

Containing ashes

Like some urns, terribly rare, nicked from the east

C·3+I·1+N·1+E·1+R·1+A·1+R·1+Y·4 = 13 pts

clattery (13 points)

Like rattling sounds

Like a bucket of bolts

Like a drawer full of silverware

C·3+L·1+A·1+T·1+T·1+E·1+R·1+Y·4 = 13 pts

clemency (17 points)

Act of mercy

Quality of being merciful

Mercy or charity

C·3+L·1+E·1+M·3+E·1+N·1+C·3+Y·4 = 17 pts

cleverly (16 points)

In a skilful way

In a talented way

With ingenuity the prize is in this

C·3+L·1+E·1+V·4+E·1+R·1+L·1+Y·4 = 16 pts

clownery (16 points)

Comical performance

C·3+L·1+O·1+W·4+N·1+E·1+R·1+Y·4 = 16 pts

clustery (13 points)

Growing in bunches, as grapes

C·3+L·1+U·1+S·1+T·1+E·1+R·1+Y·4 = 13 pts

cluttery (13 points)

Disordered

C·3+L·1+U·1+T·1+T·1+E·1+R·1+Y·4 = 13 pts

coagency (16 points)

A joint agency

C·3+O·1+A·1+G·2+E·1+N·1+C·3+Y·4 = 16 pts

coarsely (13 points)

In a coarse manner

C·3+O·1+A·1+R·1+S·1+E·1+L·1+Y·4 = 13 pts

cobwebby (22 points)

Unclean (of corners in attics, perhaps?)

Like attics in long-abandoned houses

Like an unswept corner

C·3+O·1+B·3+W·4+E·1+B·3+B·3+Y·4 = 22 pts

coembody (18 points)

To embody jointly

C·3+O·1+E·1+M·3+B·3+O·1+D·2+Y·4 = 18 pts

coemploy (17 points)

To employ together

C·3+O·1+E·1+M·3+P·3+L·1+O·1+Y·4 = 17 pts

coevally (16 points)

In contemporaneous fashion

C·3+O·1+E·1+V·4+A·1+L·1+L·1+Y·4 = 16 pts

cogently (14 points)

In a convincing way

Persuasively, convincingly

Softly supporting company in a convincing way

C·3+O·1+G·2+E·1+N·1+T·1+L·1+Y·4 = 14 pts

colliery (13 points)

1 of 2 say 24's lines

A coalmine and its buildings

Dog tracks in pit

C·3+O·1+L·1+L·1+I·1+E·1+R·1+Y·4 = 13 pts

comelily (15 points)

In a comely manner

C·3+O·1+M·3+E·1+L·1+I·1+L·1+Y·4 = 15 pts

cometary (15 points)

Racy tome, novel about heavenly body

C·3+O·1+M·3+E·1+T·1+A·1+R·1+Y·4 = 15 pts

convexly (23 points)

In a convex manner

C·3+O·1+N·1+V·4+E·1+X·8+L·1+Y·4 = 23 pts

coquetry (22 points)

Vainly seeking masculine attention

Flirtatiousness

Flirtation

C·3+O·1+Q·10+U·1+E·1+T·1+R·1+Y·4 = 22 pts

cornetcy (15 points)

A rank in the British cavalry

C·3+O·1+R·1+N·1+E·1+T·1+C·3+Y·4 = 15 pts

corsetry (13 points)

The work of making corsets

C·3+O·1+R·1+S·1+E·1+T·1+R·1+Y·4 = 13 pts

costumey (15 points)

Pertaining to a costume

C·3+O·1+S·1+T·1+U·1+M·3+E·1+Y·4 = 15 pts

cottagey (14 points)

Cottage-like

C·3+O·1+T·1+T·1+A·1+G·2+E·1+Y·4 = 14 pts

courtesy (13 points)

Common sense (wordplay)

It may be professional

Politeness makes Rosy cute

C·3+O·1+U·1+R·1+T·1+E·1+S·1+Y·4 = 13 pts

covertly (16 points)

On the sly

Secretly, not openly

In cloak-and-dagger style

C·3+O·1+V·4+E·1+R·1+T·1+L·1+Y·4 = 16 pts

cowberry (18 points)

A pasture shrub

C·3+O·1+W·4+B·3+E·1+R·1+R·1+Y·4 = 18 pts

cravenly (16 points)

In a spineless manner

How a coward acts

As a coward would

C·3+R·1+A·1+V·4+E·1+N·1+L·1+Y·4 = 16 pts

creakily (17 points)

In a creaky manner

C·3+R·1+E·1+A·1+K·5+I·1+L·1+Y·4 = 17 pts

creamery (15 points)

Site of separation anxiety (wordplay)

Where dairy products are made

Butter production factory

C·3+R·1+E·1+A·1+M·3+E·1+R·1+Y·4 = 15 pts

creamily (15 points)

In a creamy manner

C·3+R·1+E·1+A·1+M·3+I·1+L·1+Y·4 = 15 pts

credibly (16 points)

In a plausible way

In a plausible manner

Plausibly

C·3+R·1+E·1+D·2+I·1+B·3+L·1+Y·4 = 16 pts

creepily (15 points)

In a spine-chilling way

C·3+R·1+E·1+E·1+P·3+I·1+L·1+Y·4 = 15 pts

crockery (19 points)

Cups and saucers, etc.

China has many an ornamental garden

Cold alpine area in China

C·3+R·1+O·1+C·3+K·5+E·1+R·1+Y·4 = 19 pts

crookery (17 points)

Crooked activity

C·3+R·1+O·1+O·1+K·5+E·1+R·1+Y·4 = 17 pts

crousely (13 points)

In a lively manner

C·3+R·1+O·1+U·1+S·1+E·1+L·1+Y·4 = 13 pts

cryogeny (17 points)

Study of low temperatures

C·3+R·1+Y·4+O·1+G·2+E·1+N·1+Y·4 = 17 pts

currency (15 points)

Transference of money (wordplay)

Cash in circulation (wordplay)

Money (of a country)

C·3+U·1+R·1+R·1+E·1+N·1+C·3+Y·4 = 15 pts

curriery (13 points)

The shop of a currier

C·3+U·1+R·1+R·1+I·1+E·1+R·1+Y·4 = 13 pts

cursedly (14 points)

In a cursed manner

C·3+U·1+R·1+S·1+E·1+D·2+L·1+Y·4 = 14 pts

curvedly (17 points)

In a curved manner

C·3+U·1+R·1+V·4+E·1+D·2+L·1+Y·4 = 17 pts

cussedly (14 points)

In a cranky manner

C·3+U·1+S·1+S·1+E·1+D·2+L·1+Y·4 = 14 pts

cutchery (18 points)

A judicial office in India

C·3+U·1+T·1+C·3+H·4+E·1+R·1+Y·4 = 18 pts

cymosely (18 points)

In a cymose manner

C·3+Y·4+M·3+O·1+S·1+E·1+L·1+Y·4 = 18 pts

cytogeny (17 points)

The formation of cells

C·3+Y·4+T·1+O·1+G·2+E·1+N·1+Y·4 = 17 pts

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Refine to C+: CA CB CC CD CE CF CG CH CI CJ CK CL CM CN CO CP CQ CR CS CT CU CV CW CX CY CZ

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