9-Letter Words Ending in C

EXOTIC something from another part of the world

METRIC a standard of measurement

POETIC pertaining to {poetry=n}

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

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

Random mating within a breeding population.

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

Drunk (informal)

Drunk city batsman quietly uplifted

Smashed CIA, partly struggling

Isaac trip badly, hanging on (wordplay)

Mean like one mite, almost (wordplay)

How like a sucker not to be independent!

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

Like some hospital wards

Re children's health

Type of medicine

Like a green gem or olivine.

One who is phrenetic.

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

'Spiritual' - Mondrian? Perhaps 'artlessly artistic'

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.

PODIA podium

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'

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""

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

Decomposition or transformation of a compound caused by heat.

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

Kind of fever - irate chum (anagram)

Afflicted with pain in joints etc

Affected by an inflammatory disease

RHYOLITE a volcanic rock

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

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)

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

""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

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.

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

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

Strong-smelling gum resin

Relating to classification

Of classes

Looking good on the tube, say

Suitable for box cameras (wordplay)

Made for the screen

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

Of or relating to theogony.

Of the study of religion and revelation

Impractical heretic to change

Concerned with hypotheses

Not practical

Elegiac

TOPONYM the name of a place

Typical of sightseers

Producing poison; toxicogenic.

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, trachyte.""

Of aeronautical speeds.

Close to speed of sound

Prepares in cartons really fast

Shocking so to cut it with a ram

Painful, in a way

Likely to scar

Like water and carbon dioxide

Description of a molecule such as water

Water is converting it to air, absorbing mass at the speed of light

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

CYCLIC moving in complete circles

TROPIST a user of tropes

""An infectious disease caused by the bacterium Francisella tularensis that chiefly affects rodents but can also be transmitted to humans through the bite of various insects or contact with infected animals. In humans, the disease is characterized by intermittent fever and swelling of the lymph nodes. Also called rabbit fever .""

""ULTRA an advocate of extreme measures, also ULTRAIST""

Excreting urea as the chief component of nitrogenous waste.

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

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

VIRTUOSI virtuoso

Cruelly savage (criticism)

Civil riot can be expressive of ill will

Capable of destroying by chemical action

WHOLIST a believer of holism

All about the cheekbone