9-Letter Words Ending in C

Not biogenic; not produced by living organisms

ACRONYM a word formed from initials

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

Argumentative.

Of farm management

Pertaining to crop production

Like farming

Affected with albinism.

""Pertaining to, or contained in, the allantois.""

Being genetically different although belonging to or obtained from the same species: allogeneic tissue grafts.

""AMMONITE the coiled shell of an extinct mollusk, also AMMONOID""

Psychological dependence on others.

Lacking free oxygen

Like the bacteria in a septic tank

Causing an oxygen debt, as exercise

Can pet ail awfully? Here's a drug

Restorative

Invigorating

Agent allaying pain

Remedy allaying pain

Bill without a single wrong number

A deadening or absence of the sense of pain without loss of consciousness.

Like some poetic feet

Of or pertaining to anaphase.

Strange air Pancho adopts, referring back in this rhetorical fashion

Like the phrase "she's beauty, she's grace", in linguistics

""ANDESITE a volcanic rock, also ANDESYTE""

ANECDOTE a brief story

ANELE to {anoint=v}

The absence of pleasure or the ability to experience it.

Of belief in spirits, demons, etc.

Believing that the universe has a soul

Believing that objects have souls

Anatomy The consolidation of bones or their parts to form a single unit.

Lacking appetite

Deep frozen (wordplay)

In pole position (wordplay)

Where to pick up a penguin (wordplay)

Human error in pact with rhino

Like some immunological agents

Triggering, in immunology

I can get in trouble for being stimulating

In opposition to one another

Like a venom neutralizer

Counteracting poison.

Does Auntie Tock get sick of such a cure (wordplay)

ANTONYM a word opposite in meaning to another

Resembling aphanite; having a very finegrained structure.

""Having two or more parts of different curvatures, so combined as to remove spherical aberration; said of a lens.""

Of a sentence in which conjunctions are omitted

Real thin with a cute bust!

Genuine, not a copy

Real thin with a cute bust

Golden garment on back of film needs training to relieve stress

Like a nervous system

Occurring involuntarily

Acting independently.

BENTHON the organisms living in the benthos

Of two groups

""Of, relating to, or used in a calendar.""

In a rigid trance.

... still giving pussy a drink

In an immobile stupor

CENOBITE a member of a religious order

Old tourist coach

Old tourist vehicle

British bus for sightseers

CHORION an embryonic membrane

Just picture how moving this is!

Related to movies

Of the movies

CISTRON a segment of DNA

Requiring low temperatures

Relating to very low temperatures

Slippery icy conger kept at low temperatures

""Slndrk, Cylindrical Having the form of a cylinder, or of a section of its convex surface; partaking of the properties of the cylinder.""

""DENDRITE a branched part of a nerve cell, also DENDRON""

Adjective (-ic)

Zoology 1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) of or relating to digenesis

DIPLONT an organism with a particular chromosomal structure

DYNAMITE to blow up with a powerful explosive

So odd that it's not in the middle!

Entire 300 destroyed? That's odd!

Crank, socially and mechanically

One who says "irate" (wordplay)

Incessant self-Googler, perhaps

Vanity case (wordplay)

In an early stage.

In early stage of development

At an early stage

Prepared by means of heat; burned in.

Occurring with absorption of energy.

Of processes of change within the earth

A toxin produced by certain bacteria and released upon destruction of the bacterial cell.

Running around, say

Full of life

Full of beans

Magnetic around one - mysterious!

I get manic about puzzling!

Mysterious giant mice on the run!

Like some breakdowns

Like some reactions

Pl. epiphanies Epiphany a. A Christian feast celebrating the manifestation of the divine nature of Jesus to the Gentiles as represented by the Magi.

EPSILON a Greek letter

Like a good office chair, perhaps

Like some chairs

Built for comfort

""ETHYLENE a flammable gas, also ETHENE""

Pertaining to the Gospels

Pertaining to the Bible

Based on the Gospels

EXCITON a combination of excited electron and hole

Releasing energy.

Not essential or inherent

Originating from the outside

Not inherent

That's great!

Worker in firm put in charge? Great!

Way to go, man!

FAUNIST someone who studies fauna

FIREMAN a man employed to extinguish fires

""GASOLINE a liquid fuel, also GASOLENE""

GENITAL pertaining to reproduction

GENOTYPE the genetic constitution of an organism

George starts to get a man with a jerk in a divine way

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.""

Adjective (-ic)

HOMONYM a word similar in structure to another

Title expressing respect

Showing respect of choir in broadcast

Title of respect

MANIC one who is affected with mania

Low in tension, as muscles

Fixer to note: this is lacking muscle tone

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)

""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.""

""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.

LIMONITE a major ore of iron

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

METONYM a word used in metonymy

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.""

MUTAGEN a substance that causes biological mutation

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

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.""

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

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.

Delusional one

Person suffering from delusions of persecution

Sufferer from desusions of grandeur or persecution

Adjective (-ic)

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

One who is phrenetic.

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

Adjective (-ic)

Using air (or a similar gas)

Kind of drill or tire

Type of tire.

Of or pertaining to the lungs; pulmonic.

Of or relating to polygeny; polygenetic.

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

Containing pyroxene; composed chiefly of pyroxene.

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

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

Pencil set (anagram)

Being irritable, select pin differently

There's a splice around the cross net

Like some music? My, Chopin's fantastic!

My! Chopin's unusually melodic

Like a major classical music form

""Uniting and blending together different systems, as of philosophy, morals, or religion.""

""Genetically identical or closely related, so as to allow tissue transplant; immunologically compatible: syngeneic grafts; syngeneic animals.""

Cynic heard about my refusal to come up with the same definition

Relating to language structure

Random choice of Smollett

Clerical doctor has a bit of a scheme concerned with aspect of language

Man-made (fibre)

Artificially-made compound

Dacron, for example

Relating to classification

Of classes

Looking good on the tube, say

Suitable for box cameras (wordplay)

Made for the screen

Of or relating to theogony.

Elegiac

TOPONYM the name of a place

Producing poison; toxicogenic.

Of aeronautical speeds.

Close to speed of sound

Prepares in cartons really fast

""Having, or characterized by, three unequal axes intersecting at oblique angles. See the Note under crystallization. crystallization.""

DYNAMIC a physical force

""Overactivity or irritability of the vagus nerve, adversely affecting function of the blood vessels, stomach, and muscles.""

""VIBRION a bacterium with a slight spiral curve, also VIBRIO""