9-Letter Words Starting with C

""An abrupt climbing turn made by an airplane, in which the plane's momentum is used to achieve a higher than normal rate of climb, without stalling the aircraft.""

Raymond's candle makers

Playback man's are dealers in corn

Ship provisioners

Marine supply business

Place where candles are kept

Place selling things for boats

Chanfron

Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain.

Nailed an impersonation of, say

Did a great job impersonating, say

Spoke exactly like

Medium

Chantage

Piaf, for one

Female singer, in a nightclub perhaps

Edith Piaf, for one

Chantry

Dense brushwood of the southwestern US

Thicket of shrubs.

Thicket of dense tangled brushwood

Chapatti

Mrs Ewing wrote to it, from six

Parent at the prom, say

Teacher at a dance, say

Guardian could be no cheaper

Parents at school parties.

Overseers of a sort

Parents at school parties

Chapiter

Service leaders in the service

Members of clergy ministering to institutions

Fellows hanging around US city with trendy clergy

Fellow given sanction, man in special headgear

Chappati

Chapter

Chaqueta

Old tourist coach

Old tourist vehicle

British bus for sightseers

Characid

Characin

A card or a letter (wordplay)

Eccentric nature (wordplay)

Imaginary person in a work of fiction

Way to cook steak

Charcoal

Caginess. wariness

Caution needed if there's a rainfall during the game

Wariness

Chariot

I stir each (anagram)

Acts of aid to the needy

Donor's beneficiaries

Wedding music of sorts.

Vicar with hairstyle that's burlesque

Hawthorne tales, thus related

Flamboyant deceiver, mountebank

Quack, fraud, a flamboyant deceiver

Cleaner's mostly slow, and an imposter

Charlock

Did Bates report her quarrel (wordplay)

Queen of puddings (wordplay)

She's a tart - but deep!

A satin-finished silk fabric.

Conservative safe, but lacking allure

Cold and safe, lacking appeal

Offensive wing left in game

Charry

Hired, as a bus

Professionally qualified - not scheduled

Like some flights

Renter of bus or ship.

Tour operator, at times

Table is for Eliot with reformers

Reformers sit around surrounded by maps

Reformers in England, 1837-48.

Tea-lady appears daily

Office building cleaner

Cleaner nation under fish wife

Some cleaners

Cleaning ladies

Cleaners.

Chasse

Breech-loading rifle of Franco-Prussian war.

Dave's mate gets thirty days, having concealed old rifle

Chasseur

Many raced, getting beaten (wordplay)

Took to task

Humiliated, Charlie stepped on the gas

That which subdues

Discipliner.

Sad ethics (anagram)

Called on the carpet

Beaten at chess, I'd messed up

Smacker from singer drinking wines

One who severely reprimands

One strapping bear taken up by hunter

Takes to task

Dresses down

Criticizes severely

Such sable woven into vestments

Togetherness of Mitford girl

Chatchka

Chatchke

The master of a castle; a castellan.

""Having a changeable, varying luster, or color, like that of a changeable silk, or oa a cat's eye in the dark.""

Talked on and on

Talked quickly about trivia - like magpie (wordplay)

During December back there the mad one had a lot in a manner of speaking

He won't shut up

One talking idly or rapidly

Ear-bender

They talk most when the static is sorted

Most gossipy woman's appearing in court

Most talkative

Chauffer

Master of the Rolls (wordplay)

Driver for private car

One is paid to drive a car

Chaunter

Chaunt

A foot covering of any kind.

'Half a dozen grinning -s watching him (Richard Jefferies, Green Ferne Farm)

English word

English word

Lowered in general esteem.

Lost value

Discredited journalist chasing each poor writer

Inferior inexpensive card

Seller of inferior goods

Seller of shoddy goods

Scan sheep (anagram)

Jack Benny trait

Parsimony

Chechako

CHECK to {inspect=v}

*Symbol for 'O.K.'

*Symbol for "O.K."

Approval indicator

Keep tabs on one's spouse?

Associate at a bank (wordplay)

Lioness in winter (wordplay)

English word

Root on

Chelate

The process of removing a heavy metal from a solution by means of a chelate;

Chelator

""One of the anterior pair of mouth organs, terminated by a pincherlike claw, in scorpions and allied Arachnida. They are homologous with the falcers of spiders, and probably with the mandibles of insects.""

Hen Nicola chopped up for reptile

Fertilizers and weed killer, say

Revolutionary claims about agents in lab

Lab compounds

Dress requiring cash - men go wild

Chinese dress with split skirt

Oriental dress hems can go crooked

Luscious fruit of tropical America.

Chevalet

'Thank Heaven for Little Girls' singer

Each viler than the strange knight

A horseman or mounted knight

Chiasma

Chicaner

Yearn for change after smart deception

Smart one from Peebles tracks fraud

Trickery used to gain an advantage

Sophisticated article on gin cocktail leads to old form of cheating

Small gray-and-black songbird

Word in a W.C. Fields film title

Titmouse's cousin

Red squirrel named for the sound it makes

Baby bird vegetables (wordplay)

Garbanzo beans' alias

What the hatchery owner brought

Emir or raja

Leading man's changing it, if he can

One newt in file is the leader

Chigetai

A chap on foot (wordplay)

Painful swelling brought on by cold

Painful swelling in winter

Chiliasm

Believers in the millenium

She-monsters variable

CHIME to ring in harmony

Gift for the second wedding anniversary.

Chopsticks (wordplay)

Feature informed on Delft art

Chestnut tree Var.

Chestnut tree variable

Pieces of wood bound together in sheets

Pressed, recycled paper used for notepad backing

Panel of people in charge of potato fries (wordplay)

""CHIRAL of a molecule, having an asymmetry which gives it a handedness property""

Variant of cherimoya .

Conversations re an i.o.u. (wordplay)

Conversations re an i.o.u.?

Has words get a lift in a musical

Chitosan

Rival wrongly imprisoned by stylish noble

Knightly

Chivaree

Chivaree

Chivari

Chivari

Chlamys

The disorder a child may wreak!

Chlamys

An acnelike skin disorder caused by prolonged exposure to chlorinated hydrocarbons.

Salts for treating cloth ears!

Compound of ochre salt or salts

""A colorless, odorless, viscous liquid, C 10 H 6 Cl 8 , used as an insecticide. It may be toxic to humans and wildlife as a result of its effect on the nervous system.""

Chlordan

An alga responsible for turning stagnant water an opaque green

Bar snack (wordplay)

Cause of many a breakout (wordplay)

Food available in bars (wordplay)

Like many eclairs

Chordate

Choriamb

Pertaining to the choroid coat.

Chresard

Chromate

Trim coach (anagram)

Progressing by half tones

Relating to or characterised by colours

One of two identical genetic strands

Order discovered in laboratory animal in feature which contains DNA

""Pl. chronaxies The minimum interval of time necessary to electrically stimulate a muscle or nerve fiber, using twice the minimum current needed to elicit a threshold response.""

Pertaining to a chrysalis; resembling a chrysalis.

Make a pup a thing like this (wordplay)

Protection for future monarch (wordplay)

Pupa of an insect such as a butterfly

Of the underworld

Chubasco

Drinks in one gulp

Ecclesiastic

Chutzpah

Form a scar

English word

& 9 Smoking accommodation (wordplay)

Not a patch on wanting one (wordplay)

Smoke under fire.

Small tobacco product

Small roll of tobacco

Crushed garlic oil can be smoked

""Poisoning caused by ingesting fish contaminated with ciguatoxin, characterized by gastrointestinal and neurological symptoms.""

Cilantro

CILIATE a class of protozoans

Cimbalom

Cinchona

Unorthodox scenarist with no right to enthral European film buffs

Just picture how moving this is!

Related to movies

Of the movies

Plant ashes in these places (wordplay)

Flower for the (say) sinner and the song

Showy flower from the Canary Islands.

CINGULA cingulum

Mercury sources

Ishpingo trees.

Cinnamyl

Cinquain

Of daily biological processes

""Rolled together downward, the tip occupying the center; a term used in reference to foliation or leafing, as in ferns.""

CIRCUIT to move around

Printed letters

Move around (at a function)

Move around (at a party)

Make to go round, in a curve perhaps

On the Roman side of the Alps

Is place in chaos south of the mountains (wordplay)

""A platinum-containing chemotherapeutic drug, Cl 2 H 6 N 2 Pt, used in the treatment of metastatic ovarian or testicular cancers and advanced bladder cancer.""

Cisterna

CISTERNA a fluid-containing sac

A ward's perhaps coming with them

Leadfoots' comeuppances

Tickets

Photo featuring a skyline

Eg London space possibly in view

What a skyline is part of

CIVIC pertaining to a {city=n}

They're non-military

Noncombatants.

Clabber

Cladding

CLADIST one who classifies by clades

CLADODE a leaflike part of a stem

""A branching, treelike diagram in which the endpoints of the branches represent specific species of organisms. It is used to illustrate phylogenetic relationships and show points at which various species have diverged from common ancestral forms.""

Message about league goal being within reach (wordplay)

People with rights.

Prospectors, perhaps, in Sri Lanka to target insects

How a hundred and fifty want to have a shot at the insects

CLAMANT {noisy=adj}

Some beach parties

Political rallies, so dubbed.

Political outings

Went up like a monkey

Scaled awkwardly

Climbed awkwardly

He's on the way up

Awful career, not a person heading for the top

Dankest.

Clamorer

Clamor

Loud and demanding

Making a din

Confusedly noisy

Made loud demands (for)

Clubs in Paris love English duke that's created uproar

Called for peace: change of heart by Katharine Viner

Get a grip (wordplay)

Attempt at suppression

Attempt to suppress something

The hinged door of a cargo aircraft

Cape Cod ashtray

Sea creature's protection

Clamworm

Clangor

Clangour

Applaud committee for proving cladding

Old word for wood for barrel staves

Slate used to ID film shots

Pompous writings

Claqueur

Four-wheeled carriages.

Explained - made transparent

Swept away confusion

Elucidated

That which clarifies.

Makes more comprehensible

Sheds light on

Illuminates

Big band jazz instruments

Winds in a pit

Black winds

Clarion

Clarity

Of recognized excellence, music perhaps

Genre of music

Adhering to traditional forms.

Superlatively swank

Most stylish

Most elegant