9-Letter Words Ending in C

Relating to a form of carbon

What the lead in your pencil actually is

Like some Olympic rings

My acting's absurdly acrobatic

Sign my cat, anagram

HAPLONT an organism with a particular chromosomal structure

Chime gone off, denoting leadership in the league

Ruling.

""Any substance, such as an iron salt or organic compound containing iron, which when ingested tends to increase the hemoglobin contents of the blood.""

""Of or pertaining to hematite, or resembling it.""

Of or pertaining to hemolysis; causing hemolysis.

HETERO a heterosexual

Serving to make a point

Method of solving

Leading to discovery

Adjective (-ic)

HOLOTYPE the original type specimen of an animal or plant

Of the art of preaching

Of the preaching arts

Adjective (-ic)

HOMONYM a word similar in structure to another

Title expressing respect

Showing respect of choir in broadcast

Title of respect

Excessively proud

Is rich but unfortunately showing arrogance

Bush critic one caught falling out. So pride goes before a fall!

Operated by liquid (water or oil)

Relating to liquids under pressure

Operated by water under pressure

EMIC analysed linguistically by internal structure

HYPEROPE a farsighted person

MANIC one who is affected with mania

Low in tension, as muscles

Fixer to note: this is lacking muscle tone

Adjective (-ic)

Concerned with ideas.

Visionary

Like climbing the walls (wordplay)

Of language style

Having a distinct style

Of vers libre.

Absolutely fatuous.

Stupid single honour for Croatian tennis player

Stumbling I climb across mounting freeze. How foolish!

Rued this, by the sound of it

Seems I am tactful, but not likewise

Not prudent

Describing a wartime girdle.

Stiff or unyielding

Intolerant etc in sail at sea

Not carbonated (wordplay)

Non-carbon (chemistry)

Branch of chemistry

""Affecting the contraction of muscle, especially heart muscle: an inotropic drug.""

One watching a TV test pattern, perhaps

Late Late Show viewer, maybe

One to be out all night? Most unlikely!

Essential (to)

Belonging by its very nature

Preparation of ricin isn't essential

Adjective (-ic)

Adjective (-ic)

Exercises that add centimetres!

Form of eroticism in exercising muscles

Having equal dimensions

""Having equal density, as different regions of a medium; passing through points at which the density is equal; as, an isopycnic line or surface. as, an isopycnic line or surface.""

Having the same or equal osmotic pressure; isotonic; -- used of solutions. Contrasted with hypertonic and hypotonichypertonic and hypotonic

Under equal pressure from every side.

One like this still in a state of equilibrium

(Chemistry) Chem (of a stereospecific polymer) having identical steric configurations of the groups on each asymmetric carbon atom on the chain Compare syndiotactic

Uniform in all directions

Having the same properties irrespective of direction

JUDGE to {estimate=v}

Of or relating to a cold flow of air traveling downward: a katabatic wind.

Pl. keratoses (-s z) Excessive growth of horny tissue of the skin.

""The formation of ketone bodies, as occurs in diabetes.""

Pertaining to motions of bodies

Relating to motion

Treating of the motion of bodies in space.

Of soil produced by the decomposition of rocks

LATOSOL a tropical soil

The garlic (anagram)

The reverse of energetic

Short of energy

LEVIRATE the custom of marrying the widow of one's brother

LIMONITE a major ore of iron

Pl. lipolyses (-s z ) The hydrolysis of lipids.

Verse ()

Pity Hal with the MC for a gland

LYOPHILE pertaining to a type of colloid

LYOPHOBE not readily dispersed

Harboring a temperate virus

Characterized by a mixture of languages.

Hodgepodge, as the etymology of a word

A comic ran about like 'Michelle, ma belle ... '

MELANITE a black variety of garnet

"", Melanistic.""

Like one expected to deliver (wordplay)

Having a cult following, say

Like some sacred music

Kind of weight loss

Pertaining to chemical processes of life

Of an energy-giving process.

""Having the same elements united in the same proportion by weight, and with the same molecular weight, but possessing a different structure and different properties; as, methyl ether and ethyl alcohol are metameric compounds. See Isomeric. as, methyl ether and ethyl alcohol are metameric compounds. See Isomeric.""

METONYM a word used in metonymy

""MIASMA a noxious vapor, also MIASM""

MIDRASH an early Jewish interpretation of a biblical text

What Don Juan wasn't

MITOGEN a substance the induces mitosis

Roman building with style of kings

Of hereditary rule

Lisa perhaps, right in fashion like a queen

""Consisting of, or containing, one atom; as, the molecule of mercury is monatomic. as, the molecule of mercury is monatomic.""

""Capable of being neutralized by a univalent base or basic radical; having but one acid hydrogen atom to be replaced; said of acids; as, acetic, nitric, and hydrochloric acids are monobasic. as, acetic, nitric, and hydrochloric acids are monobasic.""

MONOCYTE a type of white blood cell

""Pertaining to, or involving, monogamy.""

Of or pertaining to monogenesis.

Like molecules that can bond in a polymer

MONOSOME an unpaired chromosome

Uttered in a dull way

Unvarying in pitch

Love to get boost after day lacking variety

""Having but one type; containing but one representative; as, a monotypic genus, which contains but one species.as, a monotypic genus, which contains but one species.""

Of or pertaining to a morpheme.

Breaking down or hydrolyzing mucus or mucopolysaccharides.

MUTAGEN a substance that causes biological mutation

Causing dilatation of the pupil.

""A sudden twitching of muscles or parts of muscles, without any rhythm or pattern, occurring in various brain disorders.""

Of or pertaining to myopathia.

From the later stone age

Of the late Stone Age.

Period beginning about 8,000 B.C.

Describes Jade to writer returning to human resources and IT in charge

Obsolete word for medicine for the kidneys

13, quarantined from relation, suggestive of kidney disease

Of nerve pain

Gain ulcer, resulting in nervous pain

Going over university clearing turned out painful

""NEUTRON a subatomic particle, also NEUTRINO""

""Pertaining to, or derived from, nicotine; nicotic; used specifically to designate an acid related to pyridine, obtained by the oxidation of nicotine, and called nicotinic acid. nicotinic acid.""

Like some paper

ATOMIC relating to an atom

Not occurring in cycles; not cyclic. Opposite of cyclic.cyclic.

EROTIC an amatory poem

ETHNIC a member of a racial or cultural group

EXOTIC something from another part of the world

METRIC a standard of measurement

POETIC pertaining to {poetry=n}

Private

Disease and Illness

Clings to a miserable yearning

Longing for the past

Fondly remembering the past

NUCLEON a subatomic particle

""A rapid, involuntary, oscillatory motion of the eyeball.""

In the matter of deliverance, perhaps

Relating to childbirth

Bit with corset strained from childbirth

Possibly contains one like Portnoy

ONCOGENE a gene that causes a cell to become cancerous

""The branch of medicine that deals with tumors, including study of their development, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.""

Pertaining to proper names

Like a secondhand signature on a sitcom rewrite

Of names

Biology

Tragic love is crazy and wild

Like a really wild party

Of frantic unrestrained celebrations

Smash it! Cor! Hope of correct pronunciation (wordplay)

OTOCYST an organ of balance in many invertabrates

OTOLITH a hard mass that forms in the inner ear

""OXYPHILE an organism that thrives on an acid environment, also OXYPHIL""

Awfully pricey nag gaining high praise

Public and elaborate eulogy

Praise excited gay prince

Random mating within a breeding population.

All-round (view)

Type of camera

Like a scenic view

Having an affinity for or indiscriminately affecting many kinds of tissue: pantropic viruses.

Like a curve or allegory

Like a type of curve

Expressed allegorically.

Drunk (informal)

Drunk city batsman quietly uplifted

Smashed CIA, partly struggling

One looking for signs of life (wordplay)

One seeking signs of life (wordplay)

Ambulatory staff (wordplay)

Delusional one

Person suffering from delusions of persecution

Sufferer from desusions of grandeur or persecution

Isaac trip badly, hanging on (wordplay)

Mean like one mite, almost (wordplay)

How like a sucker not to be independent!

Tincture of opium.

Pain reliever

Inverted headgear in which one received, radiophonically, a palliative

Like country fans (wordplay)

Typical of the country-lover (wordplay)

Having love for one's country

Relating to the early Church theologians

PEARLITE a cast iron alloy

Relating to teaching

Picky journalist keen to appear in film

Educational.

Like some hospital wards

Re children's health

Type of medicine

PEDOCAL a type of soil

Adjective (-ic)

""Soil the branch of medical science that studies the physical and psychological events of childhood. ; pedologist , ; pedological , adj . Children""

Like a green gem or olivine.

""PEROXIDE a bleaching agent, also PEROXID""

As old leaders of poverty hit and repressively armed oil nation in crisis

PHARE a lighthouse

Royal to snap, giving rise to invective

Name-calling speech.

Denunciatory speech

One who is phrenetic.

""PIANISTE someone who plays the piano, also PIANIST""

'Spiritual' - Mondrian? Perhaps 'artlessly artistic'

""One who has lost his hair by disease; a sneaking fellow, or one who is hardly used.""

Adjective (-ic)

""Composed of, containing, or resembling, pisolite.""

""PLASMA the liquid part of the blood, also PLASM""

Excessively abundant

""Inflammation of the pleura, usually occurring as a complication of a disease such as pneumonia, accompanied by accumulation of fluid in the pleural cavity, chills, fever, and painful breathing and coughing.""

Using air (or a similar gas)

Kind of drill or tire

Type of tire.

Of or pertaining to the lungs; pulmonic.

PODIA podium

GAMIC requiring fertilisation

Of or relating to polygeny; polygenetic.

Like nylon, chemically

Polytechnic type almost in charge of many subdivisions

Sensible MP with a tragic undoing

Matter-of-fact.

Matter-of-fact

ATOMIC relating to an atom

Of time before appearance of living things

Harry Price to accept rewritten obit: 'Life still to come'

""EXILIC pertaining to exile, also EXILIAN""

Producing rainbow colors, say

Is Ma with it in a crisp, light way (wordplay)

Rainbow-hued

Leaning forward; said of certain monosyllabic words which are so closely attached to the following word as not to have a separate accent.

""PROLE to prowl, also PROLL, PROUL""

PROPHASE the first stage in mitosis

For seeing sound (wordplay)

Criminal hit copper - that's ominous!

Telling of tomorrow

Of or pertaining to the prostate gland.

""Of or pertaining to prothesis; as, a prothetic apparatus. as, a prothetic apparatus.""

A noncontagious inflammatory skin disease characterized by recurring reddish patches covered with silvery scales.

Itchy cops (anagram)

Like Hannibal Lecter

Out of touch with reality

""Producing heat; said of substances, as septic poisons, which elevate the temperature of the body and cause fever.""

Decomposition or transformation of a compound caused by heat.

Containing pyroxene; composed chiefly of pyroxene.

Kind of equation graphed as a parabola

Type of algebraic equation

Like some equations solved in Algebra I

What Borges' magic may be (wordplay)

It is clear (anagram)

Like Zola or Flaubert works

How some people wax (wordplay)

Expressing ecstatic feeling

Exalted description of Liszt piece

Kind of fever - irate chum (anagram)

Afflicted with pain in joints etc

Affected by an inflammatory disease

RHYOLITE a volcanic rock

""Obtaining nourishment by absorption of dissolved organic and inorganic materials, as in protozoans and some fungi.""

Snidely stated, perhaps

Full of barbs

Using mocking wit

Relating to or affected with scabies.

Graphic new form of catechism

Catechism (anagram)

Catechism (anagram) - of a diagram

SCHLIERE a small streak in an igneous rock

That's a morbid sort of hardening

Of an eye membrane

It's getting a bit thick to be so loving at last

""Body, Human""

Descriptive of a scurvy knave (wordplay)

What a scurvy knave may be

""Relating to signs or symbols, esp. spoken or written signs [adj] : SEMEIOTICALLY""

'Black Maria, a - herself, rummages through the Zodiac' (Tom Wolfe)

Issue A not quite complete, so is binding B to C (wordplay)

""Pl. serologies The science that deals with the properties and reactions of serums, especially blood serum.""

In a total mess

Chaotic and inefficient

Confused clash involving mob I fancy

A disease of the lungs caused by continued inhalation of the dust of siliceous minerals and characterized by progressive fibrosis and a chronic shortness of breath.

SMECTITE a clayey mineral

""SODOMITE one who practices sodomy, also SODOMIST""

SOPHIST one who use sophisms

Poor sci-fi rerun sending one to sleep

Inducing drowsiness or sleep

That's enough to make one drop off

Done in short bursts

Done in brief irregular bursts

Faulty compass I'd disconnected

""Of or pertaining to semen; as, the spermatic fluid, the spermatic vessels, etc. as, the spermatic fluid, the spermatic vessels, etc.""

Pencil set (anagram)

Being irritable, select pin differently

There's a splice around the cross net

Slugging percentage, for one

R.B.I., for one

E.g. crime figure

""Pertaining to, or of the nature of, steatite; containing or resembling steatite.""

STEMMA a family tree

A notorious profligate or criminal who has been branded; one who bears the marks of infamy or punishment.

Digestive medicine for cat in African country is fashionable

The "S" in SALT

Forming part of a long-term plan

Of military importance.

Artistic city's redesigned around tip

Pertaining to literary design or appearance

Rhetorical