9-Letter Words Starting with C

""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

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)

Celeriac

Lets Alice refurbish? How divine!

How heavenly to have been so Chinese!

In grace, lest I allow heart's divine

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.

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

Specially chosen guards make use of monuments

Descriptive of a Watch-and-Warder.

Fabulous creature presses on each star thistle, for example

A 100th anniversary

One hundredth anniversary

That's for a hundred gone in time

Centiare

Metric-system unit

That grate of mine carries little weight

Approximate weight of a grain of sand

Central

How a middleman works (wordplay)

At the middle

Not put on side in this way

Cephalin

Some potters

Fictile craftsmen

Fictile craftsmen.

Cercaria

CERCARIA a parasitic worm

Cercaria

Parts of brains

Lower posterior parts of the brain

Occupiers of the skull's posterior fossa

Cerebral

Have an idea

Think hard

Just think how to get the beer into the crate

Certain

Art nicely represented? Yes!

Some left? Yes, of course

Definitely or positively

Cattery in trouble? No doubt about it!

Unusually tiny trace, no doubt

State of being sure

Sky blues

Cervelat

Cesarean

Cesarian

Stopping canoeists capsizing

Process of ending

The ending or being brought to an end

Whales and dolphins

Of or pertaining to the Cetacea.

Old Spanish dances

Chaffer

One who chaffers; a bargainer.

Chaffy

Refuse unit of column in flier

Measure husks first for the bird

Small European bird with a cheerful song

Feeling humiliation, dispersed in charge by Duke

Put out

Upset

Power-driven cutting tools

Lumberjack's devices

Noisy horror weapons

Skier's aid

Skier's need

Way up the slope

Chairman

""A tumour of the eyelid, pl CHALAZIONS or CHALAZIA""

""(Chemistry / Elements & Compounds) any of the elements oxygen, sulphur, selenium, tellurium, or polonium, of group 6A of the periodic table [from chalco ( pyrite ) + -gen ]""

Dry measures of old England.

Dry measures of old England

Chalky

Dispute (a statement)

Question truth of - dare

Dare to raise an objection

Challis

Chalutz

Like a nautilus

Chambray

Lizard hard for animal to eat (wild one)

Quick change artist (wordplay)

Lizard able to change its skin colour

Chamfer

Chamfron

Chammy

Chamois

Rubs with a leathery cloth

Herb for tea

Herb in herbal tea

Aromatic plant of the daisy family

It's the wine talking - fake anguish!

Holiday sparkler (wordplay)

Symbol of luxurious living.

University town in east central Illinois

Victor contrived gain in old country

Hospital used during manoeuvres in open country

Title holder burst tyre, which is illegal

Bubbly unfinished before getting extremely tipsy, which is illegal

The Braves in 1995

The Yankees often in the 20's

They win first place in competitions

Propose as a different recent art form

Enamel work almost on a par with title holder

Hazardous.

Chancy

""A venereal sore, resembling a chancre in its seat and some external characters, but differing from it in being the starting point of a purely local process and never of a systemic disease; called also soft chancre. soft chancre.""

Of the nature of a chancre; having chancre.