9-Letter Words Containing C

""A kind of short cannon, formerly in use, designed to throw a large projectile with small velocity, used for the purpose of breaking or smashing in, rather than piercing, the object aimed at, as the side of a ship. It has no trunnions, but is supported on its carriage by a bolt passing through a loop on its under side.""

Carroty

Carrotin

Lucille Ball for one

Nicole Kidman, for one

Lucille Ball for one

Merry-go-round

Renovated roundabout for Central Park.

Give someone a shout locally after vehicle takes left by roundabout

One-horse carriages.

Beach bags.

Tax return credit.

Tax law provision affecting prior years

Famous racehorse.

Carryout

It is what ferries do with what is left

Take on to a new page

Transfer to the next column, in math

CARTEL a business organization

CARTEL a business organization

Flexible connective tissue

Connective tissue of the human body

Kind of bone

Wagons full

Crafty type follows college lads around inside for large amounts

Carton

Worked on a panel (wordplay)

Worked for Mad, maybe

Worked on a strip

CARTOP able to fit in top of a car

Oblong in Egyptian hieroglyphs

Tablet in scroll form

Any scroll-shaped ornament.

Credit rag (anagram)

Sort of paper-round (wordplay)

Sort of paper round (wordplay)

""A register, or record, as of a monastery or church.""

Is it your turn to do this (wordplay)

Handspring's kin

Part of a gymnastic routine

Caruncle

""A thick oily liquid, C10H13.OH, of a strong taste and disagreeable odor, obtained from oil of caraway (Carum carui). C10H13.OH, of a strong taste and disagreeable odor, obtained from oil of caraway (Carum carui).""

Auto-cleaning services

Some school fundraisers

Drive-thru cleanings

Women carrying building materials

Greek women relied on for support

Pillars in the form of female figures

Pl. caryopses (- p s z ) or caryopsides (- p s -d z ) See grain .

""A onecelled, dry, indehiscent fruit, with a thin membranous pericarp, adhering closely to the seed, so that fruit and seed are incorporated in one body, forming a single grain, as of wheat, barley, etc.""

Caryotin

Cascabel

Cascable

Descending in steps

Flowing like a waterfall over rocks

Emulating a waterfall

Caseate

A degeneration of animal tissue into a cheesy or curdy mass.

Law library items

Records about broken oboes having keys with centres missing

Medical records, one of which describes work of consultant assisted by doctor

Casefy

CASEIN a milk protein

Legal woes (wordplay)

Social workers' work

Lawyers' burdens

Warship gun enclosures.

Comrades of the box for security

Roger for one may be seen through

Windows with vertical hinges

One may see through such as Sir Roger

Casework

Caseworm

Cashbook

How Johnny recharges offstage (wordplay)

Bread holders

Dough containers

Fired, as a salesclerk (wordplay)

Scanned the goods, say

Dismissed from one's job

Some scarves, coats or sweaters

Some Donna Karan products

Some scarves

Casimere

Casimire

Casket

Dish (served in a dish of the same name)

Dish for bad loser in lawsuit (wordplay)

Church-supper dish

Compact cases for recordings

Walkman owner's supply

Containers for magnetic tapes

""A thin, twilled, woolen cloth, used for men's garments.""

Dish thrown out as lost cause (wordplay)

Stew with beans

Stew of scouse, late, endlessly stewed

Bird so cautious under the bag up there

Bird that's scary was wild about nothing

So a cry was changed of the running bird

Flamenco clappers (wordplay)

They may click at dances

Spanish dancer's clickers

Some island dwellers

Gilligan and his companions

Gilligan and friends

Casteism

Governor of a fortress

Warden in a medieval stronghold.

For one running keep tin of beer (wordplay)

Criticise cold wine scandal (wordplay)

Chastise - tacit sage (anagram)

Reprimand, showing players one way out

The oil secreted from the beaver that is used as bait by trappers

Actors awarded stars? Done!

Players given value - done

Like a gelding thrown a painter by boy

Loses membership (wordplay)

... knackers pitch and charges

CASTRATO a singer castrated in boyhood

Mostly relaxed, artist captures popular tree

Reasoning speciously

Oversubtle

The use of clever but false reasoning

Clever but false reasoning

Logic-chopping

Not like certain steroids? That's general, not hard, including first two

Social or political upheaval.

Initially cats stay calm around upheaval

A clam cyst could be a disaster

Maze full of dead ends (wordplay)

Underground burial chambers

Rooms full of Roman remains

Catalase

""Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of catalases.""

Fit for a cat - a jumpy one, perhaps

Rigid state of seizure

Silas Marner ailment

Verse

Verse

Listed

Librarian, at times

List maker

Library-user's aid

Mail-order item

Librarian's concern

Catalyse

Enzyme's job

Acceleration of chemical reaction by independent agent

Alice is sounding so catty to get a faster reaction

They cause change

They cause things to happen

They make things happen

Type of converter

'Green' engine part - rev cycle attraction (anagram)

Constant withdrawal from capital turning City into stimulating reaction

Catalyze

CATALYZE to act at a catalyst

Catalyze

Boat for felines (wordplay)

America's Cup winner, perhaps

Feline boat (wordplay)

The monthly courses of women; menstrual discharges; menses.

Catamite

Diet portion for Tabby (wordplay)

Diet portion for Tabby?

How much feline is a lynx, for instance

""The use of a linguistic unit, such as a pronoun, to refer ahead to another unit, for example, the use of him to refer to John in the sentence Near him, John saw a snake.""

Poultice

A morbid condition caused by an overwhelming shock or extreme fear and marked by rigidity of the muscles.

Flight-deck devices

Middle Ages weapons

Old missile launchers

Waterfalls - in the eye (wordplay)

Waterfalls in the eyes (wordplay)

What Niagara Falls consists of.

""Pertaining to, produced by, or attending, catarrh; of the nature of catarrh.""

Band once fronted by Cerys Matthews

State of rigidity and stupor

State of muscular rigidity and stupor

In a rigid trance.

... still giving pussy a drink

In an immobile stupor

Catbrier

Catcall

Ball that should be held

Like a "can-of-corn" fly

Possibly infectious message passed round at church

Certain bags, closets, attics, etc.

Most memorable

Area from which river derives its flow

Area from which school's pupils are drawn

Water collection difficulty: pieces start to tear

Sheriff's officer is to arrest East European

Ken, ex-Australian rugby captain who always caught the ball

Bailiff.

A bailiff's assistant.

Doh! for one

"Doh!" for one

A favorite saying

Catechin

Series of questions

Set of questions for religious teaching

Religious instructions

""One who instructs by question and answer, especially in religions matters.""

Question closely

Question thoroughly

Catechol

Positive cat is to go in Eric's custody

Without exception included in a class

Unambiguously direct

Linked in a series

Links

Catenoid

Feline shriek - cult aware (anagram)

Queens on wall heard thus (wordplay)

Tempting appeal from the Queen's Mews!

CATFACE a deformity of fruit

Catfight

Types of "whiskered" swimmers

Misleads, online

Misrepresents oneself to on the internet, in a way

Discharges of pent-up emotions

Ah! elicitors

Releases

Purification - is rash act (anagram)

Oddly, chap to head riskiest release

Purification for suspect archaists

Cleansing - arctic hat (anagram)

Medicine found by little girl on a lorry

Releasing pent-up emotions

Cathect

Of or pertaining to cathexis; invested with mental or emotional energy.

Cathedra

Saint Paul's, for one

Winchester, for one

St Patrick's in Dublin, say

Cathedra

Any of various proteolytic enzymes found in animal tissue that catalyze the hydrolysis of proteins into polypeptides.

Medical devices

Mass producers (wordplay)

Most Poles and Portuguese

Mass group

Brothels (slang) - hot sauces (anagram)

Catnaper

Had a short sleep during the day

Took forty winks.

Beaten about at noon, took a brief rest

Grabber of winks or a lynx (wordplay)

Capable parent's not fit to flop around one dropping off

Of or relating to mirrors and reflected images.

Cattalo

Cattery

CATTIE an Asian unit of weight

Neat fellow on the ranch (wordplay)

Ben Cartwright, for one

Shepherd's nemesis, in many oaters

Characters in "Old Arizona."

The sound of their work may be heard

Prime factors in the meat situation.

Dune a drug? Possibly, to the vulnerable

Caucus

Caucus

Caucus

Caudillo

Very large pots used for boiling

Vessels for boiling

Potion props

Caulicle

Caulking

""(Medicine / Pathology) Pathol a burning sensation along the course of a peripheral nerve together with local changes in the appearance of the skin [from New Latin, from Greek kausos fever + -algia ]""

CAUSAL a word expressing cause or reason

""The agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect.""

Reason why

Why one thing leads to another (wordplay)

Effect producer

Act or agency that produces an effect

Without principles to stand for

Chartered accountant no good without provocation

Wingers for Chelsea ineffectual, lacking goals

Short informal essays

Cozy chats

Chats

Over-water roads

Roads over water

Raised roads over water

Cautery

Burn, as a wound

Burn with a hot iron

Sear with a corrosive

War, Ned, as well (wordplay)

Education (anagram)

Given a warning about education

Ceremonial procession, of horses say

Cowardly display (wordplay)

Murray, bounder, in hollow parade

Cavalero

English word

Royalists in vehicles could be alive

University of Virginia athletes

Royalists in the English Civil Wars

Cavally

Horseback troop groups

Cavatina

Caveat

Caveator

Cavern

Vast and hollow

Huge, in a way

Like Carlsbad

Those who nitpick

Cavil

Cavitate

Cavitate

Cavorter

Larking about in underground activity? Nothing right in that

Gamboling

Shrub with blue flowers

Constant, and lacking relief (wordplay)

Going on continually, incessant

Constant and unending

See cedar waxwing .

Raced round copse for timber

Hard, sweet-smelling timber

Durable fragrant timber

Unsteady diligence having an upper limit

Ceinture

Flowering plant - decennial (anagram)

Flower found in parcel, and in envelope

Plant of buttercup family

Mass Observation director

Someone to get mad with priest

Toaster, for example

Have a party, say

Mark (a birthday)

Publicly praise (someone)

Star born during expedition

Well-known or famous person

Quick movement, penning boy's first name

Celeriac

Lets Alice refurbish? How divine!

How heavenly to have been so Chinese!

In grace, lest I allow heart's divine

""Native strontium sulphate, a mineral so named from its occasional delicate blue color. It occurs crystallized, also in compact massive and fibrous forms.""

Nuns, by vow

Some priests

Holy types church sets free without hesitation

Charge for storing (wine?)

Certain storage charge

Cost of storing wine

Monks for the commissary

Cabinets for wine.

Sideboards

Cellar

Folks who share a joint (wordplay)

Pen pals (wordplay)

Partners in crime, so to speak.

A pure form of pyroxylin in which specimens for microscopic examination are embedded.

""Any of several enzymes produced chiefly by fungi, bacteria, and protozoans that catalyze the hydrolysis of cellulose.""

Gym-goer's target, maybe

Lumpy deposits of body fat

Certain fat deposit

Old movie film

Film material

Tissue in room you finally drop

Main constituent of plant cell walls

Chief constituent of all plant tissues

Workers with mortar.

Bricklayers

What C might be doing on Crete (wordplay)

Making secure

That's got C on Crete, just to make it hard

""A hard brittle iron carbide, Fe 3 C, found in steel with more than 0.85 percent carbon.""