9-Letter Words Containing C

Abbotcy

Capable of being renounced

Rejected ruling (wordplay)

Without Kitty, Jack croaked and gave up

Resigned as a royal

Becomes unruly (wordplay)

Gives up an office from basic date

Resigns, at a high level

Edward VIII in 1936

He's giving up

King Edward VIII, for example

Taking by force

Carrying off (of a person)

Taking badly (wordplay)

Alien encounter, some claim

Courts get rough with bad kidnappers

Departure from the norm

Welsh mouth to Breton river? There's freakishness for you!

Lincoln rector originally managed church going in the wrong direction

Wandering or straying state

It's just not normal

Deviance by nearby car is the subject of worry

States of suspension

Temporary suspensions

Temporary suspensions.

Abidance

Not biogenic; not produced by living organisms

Hopeless state of protest when leader's been replaced

Abrachia

Create bad upset, having released repressed emotions

Abscess

Jobs for dentists

Shedding

Abscisin

Some Cartesian coordinates

Non-ordinate coordinates

'x' co-ordinates make BASIC essay wrong, not 'y'

Distances from the y-axis on a graph

X-coordinates, in math

BASIC compiled two directions as co-ordinate values

Went without saying

Tried to avoid arrest, say

Ran away to avoid legal process

Person on the run

Band score rewritten for The Fugitive

Fugitive running Bond's race

Takes works of Picasso, say

Removes works by Pollock, say

Summaries of books.

Abstrict

A bread roll twist perhaps is plenty

Plenty, but it isn't a cake-walk!

Lots of baking at the ball (wordplay)

Academia

College professors, for example

Professors and such

Important section on college websites

Schools whence ideas came (wordplay)

Places of study

I made case out for specialised schools

Adherence to formal rules in art or literature

Madame is upset about constant adherence to formal rules

""All cnidarians (jellyfishes) collectively, compare ACALEPH, ACALEPHAN, ACALEPHE""

Acalephe

ACARI acarus

ACARI acarus

(Medicine / Pharmacology) any drug or formulation for killing acarids

Acaridan

A hundred cent gin with emphasis

With stress in a manner of speaking, perhaps

The way you might be talking if gin made it stronger

Accentor

About a nurse, overcome by real stress showing

Accepting; receiving.

Acceptee

Yes-men, maybe (wordplay)

Recipients

That says one will

Being no refuse here, it seems

Save for the sound

Fit for acceptance.

Acceptor

""Accompanying, as a subordinate; additional; accessory; esp., uniting in, or contributing to, a crime, but not as chief actor. See Accessory. Accessory.""

Retrieving (computer data)

The act of becoming monarch

Pretender's dream.

Getting to the office

Hat or handbag, say

John Oates, to Daryl Hall (wordplay)

Trapping criminal associate (wordplay)

That's to do with grammar, for a change, and not by chance, by the sound of it

The sound of the mishaps may get to grammar for a change like this

They happen, they say

They happen on the race track

Spills, falls, trips, etc.

A hawk

Hawk shows caprice flying - the thing must be caught

Gave a hand

Famous Latin academic has a breakdown

Publicly praised

Applauder

Get used to (Amer.)

Cool indoor conditions (wordplay)

Harden against PAin, etc.

Upward slope

Accountant before NYC, for one, admits Long Island five has its own slant

Pulitzer Prizes, Oscars, etc.

Expressions of praise

Expressions of great praise

Escort to affirm (wordplay)

Play second fiddle to, in a way

Travel along with

Harmonious

Consonant.

Yes-men with absurd cares about a line

Corresponding with Jennings (wordplay)

As reported or stated by

Allotting or granting

Push my buttons!

Musical folder (wordplay)

Welk's instrument

Approaching and speaking to.

Policeman's activity, at times

Making a bold approach

Totted up to a hundred, for all that

Considered to be a hundred totted up

All added up to a century

Provides with furnishings

US equips air conditioning - cold son grabs remote

Outfitted and equipped

Dressed or equipped as a warrior

Equipped, in England

Provides with gear, in Gloucester

Furnishes

Certifies, as colleges

Certifies

Growing together

Collecting corps' soldiers during battle

Process of growth

Increase of carbon in explosive reaction

Gradually built up

""ACCRUE to accumulate, also ACCREW""

Accusant

Gets used (to)

This gets used

Habituates

Aceldama

Lacking the basic structure of life

Like viruses having a rest, lying back inside maple

Made bitter perfect, judged imbibing beer's head

Put out account with wrong rebate to daughter

Made sour

Makes sour.

Annoys someone

Makes bitter

Pl. acervuli (-l ) A tiny cushionlike or blisterlike structure produced by certain fungi on a plant host and consisting of a mass of hyphae-bearing asexually produced spores.

Acescent

Pl. acetabula (-l ) Anatomy The cup-shaped cavity at the base of the hipbone into which the ball-shaped head of the femur fits.

Solvent used in lacquers

Chemical came with a diet specially formulated

Musty-smelling crystalline solid (chemistry), emaciated (anagram)

Acetamid

Soured star bound to accept condition

In a mess, if iced tea turned into vinegar

Acetify

Acetoxyl

Receive substitution of an acetyl group; of chemical compounds

It's a gas!

A collection o' thin ones? Great gas!

Kind of torch

""The failure of a ring of muscle fibers, such as a sphincter of the esophagus, to relax.""

When they're high, they perform well

They have made the grade

People who get things done

Bringing to a successful outcome

Gaining with effort

Getting a larcenous Conservative for leader ...

Achillea

Achromat

Aciculum

Acidemia

Frequent trip takers

They have a habit of tripping

Drug users as cover for chief of police (wordplay)

Turned lemonade sour

Made into something turning litmus red

Soured

""A simple or compound principle, whose presence is necessary to produce acidity, as oxygen, chlorine, bromine, iodine, etc.""

Misconstrued sci-fi idea sours

Turns sour

Acidity

Growing well in an acid medium: acidophilic bacteria.

Make slightly sour.

Make slightly sour

That's enough to make you sour - and make you dead in the end

Having an acid quality; sour; acidulous.

Sharp with asperity

Claudius prepared to eat duck and tart

U.C.L.A. duo is sarcastic

Aciduria

Acierate

Turns into steel

Aconitum

Sound system (wordplay)

Stucco is a puzzle to science

Conductor's concern

Bill, charming little son, keeps up to date

This makes one know what's so nice and old-fashioned in the sac

Lets one know how attractively old-fashioned this is in the sac

Agree bill and become silent

Accept without protest

Agree or accept without protest

Acquirer

Developing, as a skill

Clear indeed, a pound maybe sought by 17

Outcome of the Lizzie Borden trial

Verdict of Not Guilty

Found not guilty and discharged

All let off so a hundred went off

Having been let off, a hundred left

One letting go

Acridine

Extreme bitter taste

That's enough to make your eye smart

English word

Well-balanced, perhaps

Taking a tumble (wordplay)

Well-balanced (wordplay)

Acrodont

Acrolect

Acrolein

Wooden statues with stone extremities

ACRONYM a word formed from initials

Like certain flowers in a batch - dead, gone over

(Of leaves and flowers) developing upwards from the base or point of attachment

Like the arrangement of some flowers in a batch with others

One who hates heights

Athens landmark arise (nonverbal)

Where the Parthenon was built.

Literally, "highest city"

ACROSOME a thin sac at the head of the sperm

Acrosome

Initial readings (wordplay)

NEWS for the four directions, and others

Certain word puzzles

Acrotism

Acrylate

Actinian

Series of radioactive elements

Elements playin' a part on fateful day

Uranium and plutonium, for example

Actinism

Actinium

Actinoid

Made operative

Switched on

Fourth part of play a youth set in motion

Sets in motion.

Stimulates

Vitalizes.

Turn-on (wordplay)

Chemical catalyst

Catalyst

Activism

Ones seeking change

They've got issues

Black Lives Matter demonstrators, for example

Activize

Activize

Bill locks ladies in green room, perhaps

Bill locks performers in theatre maybe

Glamorous Oscar Night parties (wordplay)

It's not a dream

Beingness or existence

State of real existence

Make a reality of

So to be working with figures is risky

Of life-expectancy calculation

Relating to statistical calculation

Risk assessors sign, after a drastic cut

They calculate insurance risks

Insurance company employees

Motivating

Process of making operate

Actuator

""Tapering to a point; pointed; as, acuminate leaves, teeth, etc. as, acuminate leaves, teeth, etc.""

Acutance

Quality of sharp pain

That seems a cunning attribute

Use secant with sharp perceptiveness

""A synthetic purine nucleoside analog, C 8 H 10 N 5 O 3 , derived from guanine and used in the treatment of herpes simplex, herpes zoster, and varicella zoster virus infections.""

Acylate

ACYLATE to introduce acyl into

Adamance

Pusher's activity

Monkey on one's back ("Henry V")

I did act on (anagram)

Maybe this is inhabited

Hard to give up

(Of drug) habit-forming

Habit-forming

Adduct

The act of adducing or bringing forward.

""Adducing, or bringing towards or to something.""

Inner thigh muscles

Certain thigh muscles

Observant quality present in fluid dance

You'd be stuck with that

Sticking ability

Maintaining the heat, key help to intercept agents from the south

Relating to process in which there is no transference of heat

Biological word for a fat-storing cell

Fat cell

Contiguity.

The good in "good riddance"

Modifier of a noun

'Dead' or 'alive'

By way of addition or adjunct; in connection with.

Assistant officer's role

Adscript

Advancer

Lending is increasing

Moving forward like army

Moving forward, as troops

Advect

ADVECT to transport by the flow of a fluid

ADVECT to transport by the flow of a fluid

Pled in support

Stood up for Dublin supporter from the start

Recommended

Recommends Scottish silks, perhaps

Goes to bat (for)

Promoters of Scottish silks

ADVOCATE to plead in favour of

Doing stunts with airplanes

Of stunt flying

One in novel boat race having high jinks

Aeroduct

""The study of the upper atmosphere, especially of regions of ionized gas.""

Soaring business (wordplay)

Opera case (anagram)

One industry above the rest (wordplay)

Concerned with beauty

Organizing principle of beauty

Of pleasing appearance

Affecter

Touching the emotions

Putting it on

Having an impact on the emotions

Feeling of fondness

Feeling of strong liking

Admiration of affectation from the army

Tending to affect; affecting.

Promised to go into a union

Betrothed

Engaged

Affiance

Sick, day after botched facelift

Caused pain to

Diseased; suffering

Well, that gets one off

Well, it's got off this

A guard contracts sickness in profusion

Affluence.

""A combination of a stop, or explosive, with an immediately following fricative or spirant of corresponding organic position, as pf in german Pfeffer, pepper, z (= ts) in German Zeit, time.pf in german Pfeffer, pepper, z (= ts) in German Zeit, time.""

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