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8-Letter Words Starting with C (45 words)
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caducity (16 points)
{senility=n}
C·3+A·1+D·2+U·1+C·3+I·1+T·1+Y·4 = 16 pts
calamity (15 points)
Jane's grave disaster (wordplay)
Jane's disaster in film (wordplay)
A disaster, like Western heroine Jane
C·3+A·1+L·1+A·1+M·3+I·1+T·1+Y·4 = 15 pts
caninity (13 points)
Dog-like nature
C·3+A·1+N·1+I·1+N·1+I·1+T·1+Y·4 = 13 pts
capacity (17 points)
Put limits on a large urban area's size
Ability to perform or produce
Maximum amount that can be contained
C·3+A·1+P·3+A·1+C·3+I·1+T·1+Y·4 = 17 pts
castaway (16 points)
One sending a message in a bottle, maybe
Person on a deserted isle, perhaps
Alexander Selkirk, for one
C·3+A·1+S·1+T·1+A·1+W·4+A·1+Y·4 = 16 pts
casualty (13 points)
A cult, say (anagram)
TV hospital drama
Victim - injured person
C·3+A·1+S·1+U·1+A·1+L·1+T·1+Y·4 = 13 pts
catchfly (21 points)
Flowering plant named for its sticky stems
C·3+A·1+T·1+C·3+H·4+F·4+L·1+Y·4 = 21 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
cavitary (16 points)
Pertaining to the formation of cavities in tissue
C·3+A·1+V·4+I·1+T·1+A·1+R·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
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
cetology (14 points)
Study of whales
C·3+E·1+T·1+O·1+L·1+O·1+G·2+Y·4 = 14 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
chastity (16 points)
Medieval contraceptive device
Abstention from carnal activity
Cher's daughter
C·3+H·4+A·1+S·1+T·1+I·1+T·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
chattily (16 points)
In a talkative manner
C·3+H·4+A·1+T·1+T·1+I·1+L·1+Y·4 = 16 pts
circuity (15 points)
A roundabout course
C·3+I·1+R·1+C·3+U·1+I·1+T·1+Y·4 = 15 pts
citatory (13 points)
Relating to a citation
C·3+I·1+T·1+A·1+T·1+O·1+R·1+Y·4 = 13 pts
civility (16 points)
Good manners to get the 06:51 into town
Formal politeness and courtesy
Politeness, courtesy
C·3+I·1+V·4+I·1+L·1+I·1+T·1+Y·4 = 16 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
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
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
coitally (13 points)
In a coital manner
C·3+O·1+I·1+T·1+A·1+L·1+L·1+Y·4 = 13 pts
colotomy (15 points)
A surgical incision of the colon
C·3+O·1+L·1+O·1+T·1+O·1+M·3+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
conicity (15 points)
The state of being {conical=adj}
C·3+O·1+N·1+I·1+C·3+I·1+T·1+Y·4 = 15 pts
contrary (13 points)
Carry out (command)
In opposition (to)
For Mary to be quite like this
C·3+O·1+N·1+T·1+R·1+A·1+R·1+Y·4 = 13 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
costmary (15 points)
Aromatic plant involved girl in expense
Aromatic plant, formerly used for flavouring ale
C·3+O·1+S·1+T·1+M·3+A·1+R·1+Y·4 = 15 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
craftily (16 points)
With cunning
Cunningly, deceitfully
Cunningly, airmen landed upside-down within country's borders
C·3+R·1+A·1+F·4+T·1+I·1+L·1+Y·4 = 16 pts
crustily (13 points)
How a curmudgeon might speak
C·3+R·1+U·1+S·1+T·1+I·1+L·1+Y·4 = 13 pts
cubicity (17 points)
The state of being {cubical=adj}
C·3+U·1+B·3+I·1+C·3+I·1+T·1+Y·4 = 17 pts
cupidity (16 points)
Greed of Eros (wordplay)
Desire rather than love, perhaps
What a lovely sort of desire!
C·3+U·1+P·3+I·1+D·2+I·1+T·1+Y·4 = 16 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
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
cytology (17 points)
Study of plant and animal cells
Cell study
C·3+Y·4+T·1+O·1+L·1+O·1+G·2+Y·4 = 17 pts

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