9-Letter Words Starting with C

Prison (US slang)

Jail, in slang

Prison, informally

A plant that thrives in soil rich in lime.

A plant that does not grow well in lime-rich soil.

Whitewash

Solve by mathematical procedure

Add or divide

Reckon copper in visit gets scoffed

Sunstroke, in medical parlance.

Adjust (gauge for accuracy)

Determine the capacity of

Mark a scale to use in taking readings

Ottoman office

Islamic state

Curly veg, if sound, consumed as religious rule

Having relaxing or pacifying properties; sedative.

Belly sounds from there (wordplay)

A belly building (wordplay)

Pitch your bell tent next to a river

One who says "Iran" (wordplay)

Potential MP maybe frank over high tea

Churchill's nominee

Thicket of a sort

Bamboo thicket

Southern thicket

Can no Dane make so much fire (wordplay)

Period of continuous heavy gunfire

Winner of 100th Kentucky Derby

CANOE to paddle a small slender boat

In a singing style (mus.)

In a smooth singing style

In a singing manner

Condense

Tell a riveting story, perhaps

Entrance the prisoner is put out at

Entrance prisoner's held at

CARBAMATE

The technical name for urea.

""(Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Dyeing) a colourless insoluble solid obtained from coal tar and used in the production of some dyes. Formula: C 12 H 9 N Also called diphenylenimine [daɪˌfiːnaɪˈlɛnɪmiːn] CARBONADE (Cookery) a stew of beef and onions cooked in beer""

(Cookery) a stew of beef and onions cooked in beer

Add bubbles to

To make soda water.

Add fizz to

To cover (an animal or vegatable substance) into a residue of carbon by the action of fire or some corrosive agent; to char.

Large pimple on face or neck

Sort of boil; a gem

Stone from eruption

CARBURISE

To combine wtih carbon or a carbon compound; said esp. of a process for conferring a higher degree of illuminating power on combustible gases by mingling them with a vapor of valatile hydrocarbons.

CARESS to touch lovingly

A betaine commonly occurring in the liver and in skeletal muscle that functions in fatty acid transport across mitochondrial membranes.

T. Rex, for one

Tip of rhubarb? No, I crave tripe!

Lion or tiger, for example

An ore of uranium

""A kind of short cannon, formerly in use, designed to throw a large projectile with small velocity, used for the purpose of breaking or smashing in, rather than piercing, the object aimed at, as the side of a ship. It has no trunnions, but is supported on its carriage by a bolt passing through a loop on its under side.""

CARTEL a business organization

CARTEL a business organization

Flexible connective tissue

Connective tissue of the human body

Kind of bone

Oblong in Egyptian hieroglyphs

Tablet in scroll form

Any scroll-shaped ornament.

Credit rag (anagram)

Sort of paper-round (wordplay)

Sort of paper round (wordplay)

CASEIN a milk protein

Dish (served in a dish of the same name)

Dish for bad loser in lawsuit (wordplay)

Church-supper dish

""A thin, twilled, woolen cloth, used for men's garments.""

Criticise cold wine scandal (wordplay)

Chastise - tacit sage (anagram)

Reprimand, showing players one way out

Library-user's aid

Mail-order item

Librarian's concern

Ball that should be held

Like a "can-of-corn" fly

Possibly infectious message passed round at church

Sheriff's officer is to arrest East European

Ken, ex-Australian rugby captain who always caught the ball

Bailiff.

Question closely

Question thoroughly

Cathedra

Act or agency that produces an effect

Burn, as a wound

Burn with a hot iron

Sear with a corrosive

Ceremonial procession, of horses say

Cowardly display (wordplay)

Murray, bounder, in hollow parade

Flowering plant - decennial (anagram)

Flower found in parcel, and in envelope

Plant of buttercup family

Have a party, say

Mark (a birthday)

Publicly praise (someone)

Charge for storing (wine?)

Certain storage charge

Cost of storing wine

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

Cercaria

Have an idea

Think hard

Just think how to get the beer into the crate

Dispute (a statement)

Question truth of - dare

Dare to raise an objection

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.

Propose as a different recent art form

Enamel work almost on a par with title holder

""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.""

Piaf, for one

Female singer, in a nightclub perhaps

Edith Piaf, for one

Parent at the prom, say

Teacher at a dance, say

Guardian could be no cheaper

Did Bates report her quarrel (wordplay)

Queen of puddings (wordplay)

She's a tart - but deep!

A satin-finished silk fabric.

A foot covering of any kind.

CHECK to {inspect=v}

Keep tabs on one's spouse?

Associate at a bank (wordplay)

Lioness in winter (wordplay)

Small gray-and-black songbird

Word in a W.C. Fields film title

Titmouse's cousin

Red squirrel named for the sound it makes

Gift for the second wedding anniversary.

Chopsticks (wordplay)

Feature informed on Delft art

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

""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.""

Bar snack (wordplay)

Cause of many a breakout (wordplay)

Food available in bars (wordplay)

""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.""

Form a scar

English word

& 9 Smoking accommodation (wordplay)

Not a patch on wanting one (wordplay)

Smoke under fire.

CINGULA cingulum

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

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)

Cisterna

Photo featuring a skyline

Eg London space possibly in view

What a skyline is part of

Message about league goal being within reach (wordplay)

With whom one shares history, say

Inform a friend (wordplay)

Lab partner, for one

Shaped like a lattice; cancellate.

CLEAN to rid of stain

Like easy high jump settings

Official permission (for an action)

Eviction from lands

Right of passage

Capable of cleaving or being divided.

State of being client.

Easier than Everest

Arm wrapped in wire could be scaled

Easy to scale, for a mountaineer

CLOSE to make impassable

Hill woman is gregarious

COACH to {tutor=v}

""Any of various enzymes, such as rennin or thrombin, that induce coagulation, especially of the blood.""

Thicken or clot, like blood

(Of blood) solidify

Clot in catalogue

Seaside railway (wordplay)

Where the sea meets the shore

It's shaped by current events

COAST to {glide=v}

""A rare silver-white to gray mineral, cobalt sulfarsenide, CoAsS, that is a cobalt ore and is used in ceramics.""

""A mineral of a nearly silver-white color, composed of arsenic, sulphur, and cobalt.""

To treat or an\'91sthetize with cocaine.

""COELOME a body cavity in some animals, also COELOM, CELOM""

FEATURE to present prominently

FINANCE to supply the money for

Dog has run out with programme? That's rarely conceivable!

A bacteriophage that infects the bacterium Escherichia coli.

Pass to union workmate

Co-worker in company left union

Associate army officer left alliance

To tie or bind together.

Make parallel

Set; placed. [Obs.] [Obs.]

Pillars of the establishment (wordplay)

One surrounds the Parthenon

Architectural holder-upper

Specious; plausible; having an appearance of right or justice.

Comatula

With a CHIP on one's shoulder

Ornery, in a way

Eager to fight, aggressive

Joint use of anything

Joint use of a pasture

Reverse direction of an electric current

Conferva

Give different forms of (a verb)

Do a tense recitation (wordplay)

Give forms of (a verb)

Prisoners' surface for chow (wordplay)

Furniture in a prison (wordplay)

Hoax the firm with a painting (wordplay)

Place to get a passport

Seek advice about a European embassy

Residence of a Foreign Service officer.

There's a barrel of work for one in this

17 across after C comes from here

Where to buy kegs

Be one of a team of surgeons (wordplay)

How surgeons work together (wordplay)

Act jointly with others.

Like many reefs

Pinky knackered in the middle

Type of atoll composition.

Elusive grassland bird

Bird with rasping cry

Secretive grassland bird

""Krllt, Corollated Having a corolla or corollas; like a corolla.""

Like Bonds in business (wordplay)

Kind of takeover

Relating to a large group; united

Corrosive.

Make a connection between (things)

Do a statistician's job

One of a pair

Wrinkled; crumpled; furrowed; contracted into ridges and furrows.

Gleam in flashes

Sparkle as American chap in central part

Glance confusing to accuser

Measureable by numbers

Subject to enumeration

Measurable by numbers

Relationship; kinship.

""VALENCE a chemical bond, also VALENCY""

COVER to spread something over

That may be coveted; desirable.

Lack of courage

Severe lack of courage

Timidity - lack of courage

Cramoisy Crimson.

Crotchety engine feature (wordplay)

What gets the shaft (wordplay)

Trial of a grouch (wordplay)

Off-white pottery

""Krnlt, Crenulated Minutely crenate.""

Make a crackling noise.

Rattle stone that's found outside

What it swallowed at last could be crackling

Charge with an offense

What the Delaware was, Christmas, 1776.

""Bread baked in a mold, and scooped out, to serve minces upon.""

Flimsy cord around basket material

""Kkllt ∨ kkllt, Cucullated Hooded; cowled; covered, as with a hood.""

Come to a climax (in)

Reach a climax (in)

Reach a peak

Four-couple sect (wordplay)

Grow (crops)

Encourage secretive group that is hiding tax

Surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity (as the uterus) by scraping with a curette; the act of scraping with a curette.

Garden - short one, where gale is raging

Degree of bending

The bending

Continual bending

Spicated, you say, otherwise barbed

Pointed cap suited Lulu

Cuticula

""A caustic acidic crystalline compound, NHCNH, prepared by treating calcium cyanamide with sulfuric acid.""

Salt a runner used in run (wordplay)

Artificial sweetener could hurt my cat, Alec!

Sweetener

See Chrysoberyl. Chrysoberyl.