9-Letter Words Ending in C

Concerned with beauty

Organizing principle of beauty

Of pleasing appearance

Argumentative.

Not concerned with the past

AMORIST a {lover=n}

Agent allaying pain

Remedy allaying pain

Bill without a single wrong number

Like some poetic feet

Of or pertaining to anaphase.

""ANDESITE a volcanic rock, also ANDESYTE""

ANELE to {anoint=v}

Of belief in spirits, demons, etc.

Believing that the universe has a soul

Believing that objects have souls

Pauline perhaps relating to preachers

Relating to the Pope

Unholy topic also concerning Pope

""Pertaining to, of the nature of, or containing, asphalt; bituminous.""

Of a respiratory disease

German cathedral city

That's enough to make short of 27 down

Of a sentence in which conjunctions are omitted

Resembling remote ancestors

Reverting to something ancient

Involving reversion to an earlier type

Rejecting higher authority (wordplay)

Eschewing a higher calling (wordplay)

Not believing the man is in Greek mode

Less than molecular

Composed of simple elements

A cat is twitching, completely broken down (wordplay)

Wild description of missile (wordplay)

What's round is jerky for a missile

Irrational way to go

Phobic sir (anagram)

Seat of a Catholic official

See, that's for the church

""Of or pertaining to bismuth; containing bismuth, when this element has its higher valence; as, bismuthic oxide. as, bismuthic oxide.""

I cast bomb, being pompous in speech

Using too high-flown speech.

Like many stump speeches

Reasoning speciously

Oversubtle

CAUSAL a word expressing cause or reason

CISTRON a segment of DNA

CLADIST one who classifies by clades

Fine and dandy variable

Fine and dandy

Just fine, slangily

Fine and dandy variable

Fine and dandy Var.

CYTOSOL the fluid portion of cell material

Descriptive of Arp's art

Like some early 20th-century abstract art

Relating to diastase; having the properties of diastase; effecting the conversion of starch into sugar.

Part of a heart rhythm

I slid coat off, relaxed after being pumped up (wordplay)

Injecting iodine into clot aids dispersing of cardiac dilation

Muscle that helps in lowering lower jaw

DIOPSIDE a mineral

Consisting of two; pertaining to dualism or duality.

Having indigestion

Bad-tempered Syd held up savings scheme on credit nearly

""Impairment of speech and verbal comprehension, especially when associated with brain injury.""

""An emotional state characterized by anxiety, depression, or unease.""

Suffering from "I" strain (wordplay)

Cities got all puffed up

Of blind conceit.

Prepared by means of heat; burned in.

Record introduction of injection still concerned with genetic interaction

Relating to knowledge

Relating to the theory of knowledge

Relating to how you can ever really know something, to philosophers

EPSILON a Greek letter

Not essential or inherent

Originating from the outside

Not inherent

That's great!

Worker in firm put in charge? Great!

Way to go, man!

FASCISTI fascista

FAUNIST someone who studies fauna

FIDEIST a believer in {fideism=n}

FLORIST a grower or seller of flowers

""GASOLINE a liquid fuel, also GASOLENE""

Like some Olympic rings

My acting's absurdly acrobatic

Sign my cat, anagram

Serving to make a point

Method of solving

Leading to discovery

Excessively proud

Is rich but unfortunately showing arrogance

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

Of vers libre.

Describing a wartime girdle.

Stiff or unyielding

Intolerant etc in sail at sea

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

LATOSOL a tropical soil

Harboring a temperate virus

Like one expected to deliver (wordplay)

Having a cult following, say

Like some sacred music

""MIASMA a noxious vapor, also MIASM""

MIDRASH an early Jewish interpretation of a biblical text

What Don Juan wasn't

""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.""

MONOSOME an unpaired chromosome

Disease and Illness

Clings to a miserable yearning

Longing for the past

Fondly remembering the past

""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

Pertaining to proper names

Like a secondhand signature on a sitcom rewrite

Of names

Tragic love is crazy and wild

Like a really wild party

Of frantic unrestrained celebrations

OTOCYST an organ of balance in many invertabrates

Isaac trip badly, hanging on (wordplay)

Mean like one mite, almost (wordplay)

How like a sucker not to be independent!

Relating to the early Church theologians

PHARE a lighthouse

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

'Spiritual' - Mondrian? Perhaps 'artlessly artistic'

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

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

Producing rainbow colors, say

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

Rainbow-hued

PROPHASE the first stage in mitosis

Of or pertaining to the prostate gland.

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

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

""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

Designating Greenland, Baffin Land, etc

Very tiny coat - bum is suffering!

Smaller than small

Like a quark

TROPIC an imaginary circle on the celestial sphere

Singular bubble with incomplete opening will make one sweat

""SUPER to reinforce with a thin cotton mesh, as a book""

Sensuous city bar is demolished

Affording, enjoying, luxury

Devoted to luxury

""Pl. syllepses (-s z) A construction in which a word governs two or more other words but agrees in number, gender, or case with only one, or has a different meaning when applied to each of the words, as in He lost his coat and his temper.""

Mutually beneficial

Of different organisms, living together for mutual benefit

Equally balanced

Evenly proportioned.

Well proportioned

Ecology Occupying the same or overlapping geographic areas without interbreeding. Used of populations of closely related species.

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

Contractile

Of seas, especially if small or inland

Not entirely gormless, clasping a girl of the seas

Of the seas, especially those that are small or inland

Typical of sightseers

Of aeronautical speeds.

Close to speed of sound

Prepares in cartons really fast

TROPIST a user of tropes

""UTOPIST one who believes in the perfectibility of human society, also UTOPIAN""

Digital media item

Outmoded home entertainment medium

DVD component

VIRTUOSI virtuoso

WHOLIST a believer of holism

""ZOOSPORE a swarm-spore, also ZOOSPERM""