9-Letter Words Starting with C

Prison (US slang)

Jail, in slang

Prison, informally

Adjust (gauge for accuracy)

Determine the capacity of

Mark a scale to use in taking readings

Thicket of a sort

Bamboo thicket

Southern thicket

CANOE to paddle a small slender boat

In a singing style (mus.)

In a smooth singing style

In a singing manner

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.

Ball that should be held

Like a "can-of-corn" fly

Possibly infectious message passed round at church

Have a party, say

Mark (a birthday)

Publicly praise (someone)

Have an idea

Think hard

Just think how to get the beer into the crate

CHECK to {inspect=v}

Butt sex (wordplay)

Structure beneath the eye

Supermodel's asset, often

Straight-stemmed tobacco-pipe

Long-stemmed pipe

Long Turkish tobacco pipe

Message about league goal being within reach (wordplay)

CLEAN to rid of stain

Like easy high jump settings

Capable of cleaving or being divided.

Easier than Everest

Arm wrapped in wire could be scaled

Easy to scale, for a mountaineer

CLOSE to make impassable

Hill woman is gregarious

Where golfers meet

Golf course building

Building for members

COACH to {tutor=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.""

Member of The Abbey from company is one backing Sting

Not totally unyielding

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

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

Like or related to snakes of the genus Coluber.

Flower for Harlequin (wordplay)

Flower display in emo club

Name of Gen. Eisenhower's plane.

""A mineral of a black color, submetallic luster, and high specific specific gravity. It is a niobate (or columbate) of iron and manganese, containing tantalate of iron; first found in New England.""

With a CHIP on one's shoulder

Ornery, in a way

Eager to fight, aggressive

Kept woman

Mistress has care of one whelp among nine

Mistress, caught at the right moment, carries bin

Prison record keeper (wordplay)

Enlist new son, symbol of 8, into church

Prisoners' surface for chow (wordplay)

Furniture in a prison (wordplay)

Hoax the firm with a painting (wordplay)

A sculptured basket of flowers or fruits used as an architectural ornament.

""Consisting of corymbs, or resembling them in form.""

Measureable by numbers

Subject to enumeration

Measurable by numbers

COVER to spread something over

That may be coveted; desirable.

What the Delaware was, Christmas, 1776.

Flimsy cord around basket material

A surgical instrument used to apply extreme cold to tissues during cryosurgery.

Snug place for young foxes (wordplay)

Snug enclosed space

Place for keeping bits and bobs

Road block (wordplay)

Part of the street scene.

Part of the sidewalk scene.