9-Letter Words Starting with C

Cresting

Like the scrub jay

Idiocy

Various countries lacking common sense

Very stupid

Not able to learn? Can, in special course

Cretonne

Crevalle

Having deep fissures.

Perils for polar explorers

Climbers' obstacles

Deep fissures

Aldrin, Armstrong and Collins

Those people on boats kiss local skinhead with T-shirts

Cribbage

Cricetid

Played a bat-and-ball game

Don Bradman or David Gower, say

Wicket-keeper, for one

One striking on the square (wordplay)

Free of lawbreaking

Like paradise, to cops

Like a utopia

Charge with an offense

Crimpy

Boy involved in murder, say, with hand finally this (wordplay)

Ablush.

Having more bends and twists

Councillor in old cord skirt (wordplay)

Does my bum look big in this (wordplay)

Does her bum look big in this (wordplay)

Crippler

Crispen

Crispy

A quality of new bills.

Potato chip quality

Dry/brittle quality

Swimsuit competition for one

Swimsuit competition for one

Where to play Touchstone (wordplay)

English word

Find fault with

Point out problems or mistakes

Is it Circe who turned to find fault (wordplay)

Dress down

Carp

Like academic research, routinely

Dissertations involving analysis and assessment

Croaky

Croceine

Did some needlework

'He, Edward, followed the crocodile in a decorative manner (9)'

CROCHET to work wool or thread with a small hook

Ornamented with crockets.

Alarm clock swallower in "Peter Pan"

Captain Hook's nemesis

Large aquatic reptile

Crocoite

Cromlech

Crooked

Honestly, that's not the way to do it

In a bent or twisted manner

Dishonestly, illegally

""Either of two varieties of squash, distinguished by their tapering, recurved necks. The summer crookneck is botanically a variety of the pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo) and matures early in the season. It is pale yellow in color, with warty excrescences. The winter crookneck belongs to a distinct species (Cucurbita moschata) and is smooth and often striped.summer crookneck is botanically a variety of the pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo) and matures early in the season. It is pale yellow in color, with warty excrescences. The winter crookneck belongs to a distinct species (Cucurbita moschata) and is smooth and often striped.""

Croquet

Deep-fried dish

A fried roll of potato

Dish fried in breadcrumbs

What the Delaware was, Christmas, 1776.

Like designer dogs

Angry b-bloody mongrel

Hybridised

""A beam or bar across the head or end of a rod, etc., or a block attached to it and carrying a knuckle pin; as the solid crosspiece running between parallel slides, which receives motion from the piston of a steam engine and imparts it to the connecting rod, which is hinged to the crosshead.""

Crosslet

Asperity

Change one's bank, perhaps

Turncoat perhaps in bad mood at an end

Change one's bank perhaps

Support for a railway.

Railroad sleepers.

Rail supports

Transversely

Transversely.

Contrarily

Musical notes equal to two quavers

Quarters notes in music

They are whimsical notes

Out of sorts to a notable extent

Perhaps having a note of anger

Out of sorts, to a notable extent

Monte Carlo workers

Las Vegas figures.

Our prices are shocking: we rake it in

Croupy

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

""A heathlike plant of the genus Empetrum, and its fruit, a black, scarcely edible berry; also called crakeberry. Empetrum, and its fruit, a black, scarcely edible berry; also called crakeberry.""

Without a crown.

Crowstep

Metal-melting vessels

Melting pots

Catholic church upset over books lacking bishop trials

Crucifer

Nailed to a cross

Returned most of fig amid wailing, torments

Cruddy

No Polish for this

See, that's what 7 down is

Lack of politesse

Raw vegetables as hors d'oeuvre

Vulgar odds and ends

Most sadistic

The fourth described thus by poet in case change to 2 takes precedence

Insensitivity

Cruelty

Softest

Crumbly

Crummy

Crumply

U. S. Army "bulldozers."

Like Grape-Nuts vis-a-vis other cereals

Ivanhoe's allies

Holy Cross eleven.

Nader and others

Crusado

Flimsy cord around basket material

Prawns and lobster perhaps act as cure

A class made up of hard cases (wordplay)

Shrimp, lobsters, etc.

Most peevish

CRUST to form a hardened outer surface

Cruzado

Cruzeiro

They weep over trivial things

Sore losers

Constant complainers.

Requiring low temperatures

Relating to very low temperatures

Slippery icy conger kept at low temperatures

Cryolite

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

An instrument for measuring freezing and melting points.

A comblike anatomical structure

Cubature

Snug place for young foxes (wordplay)

Snug enclosed space

Place for keeping bits and bobs

Betrayed at heart, wicked love caught in illicit cuddle

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

Long green fruits

Cylindrical green fruits

Veggies on the salad bar

Most huggable idle stud condemned by Conservative

Cudgeler

CUDGEL to beat with a heavy club

Beaten cow food thickened up

Bovine foodstuff, formed into a mass and battered

Clubbed together, perhaps, after something having been chewed over

Cuirass

Cuirass

Culicine

A strainer. See Colander. Colander.

Come to a climax (in)

Reach a climax (in)

Reach a peak

Cultigen

Four-couple sect (wordplay)

Grow (crops)

Encourage secretive group that is hiding tax

Culverin

Cumberer

Cumber

Heaped together

Piles up

Chips off the old block (wordplay)

Ancient writing system

Like Assyrian writing

Cunning

Ganymede's saucer (wordplay)

Wine server, to a king

Certain servant in a royal palace

Cupeller

Cupel

Curarine

Curarize

Curarize

Curative

Curbside

Road block (wordplay)

Part of the street scene.

Part of the sidewalk scene.

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.

Curette

More strange, to Alice

Maybe doctor takes in personal debts for stranger

Curlicue

Signatory's flourishes

Calligraphy flourishes

Script extras

State of being curly.

""(Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Hairdressing & Grooming) a strip of paper used to roll up and set a section of hair, usually wetted, into a curl""

Curlycue

At the present time

Now spiralling payment is contained

At the moment

Curricle

Cursed

CURSIVE a type of flowing handwriting

Clipped two dogs (last two of breed)

Limited the last batsmen (wordplay)

In short, the dog has been docked

One who curtails.

Shut off with a portiere.

Like some windows

Like living room, for instance, with new cedar unit

Life tenures inherited from wives Law.

Life tenures inherited from wives: Law

Garden - short one, where gale is raging

Bobbed - bent the knee

Degree of bending

The bending

Continual bending

Pitch that fixes everything (wordplay)

It may cause a strike

Delivery that could lead to a strike

CURVET to {prance=v}

Mean beast checked out and frisked

Frolicked.

Eased, as from shock.

Softened and served dish on cue

Ring in copper polished and protected

Spicated, you say, otherwise barbed

Pointed cap suited Lulu

Custody

Rituals welcoming the Queen's clients

They're always right, it's said

Shop's clients

Adapt for particular requirements

Heart of 5 replacing 5 in drunken Muscovite tailor

Chop, channel, slam, etc.

Relating to the skin

Of skin

Cutesy

Cuticula

Cutinise

Cutinise

Cutinize

Cutinize

Points in nautical history (wordplay)

Ignore the girls with weapons

Count oddly misses weapons

Cutlery

Pickpockets

Cutwater

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

Cyanogen

Blade Runner film genre

Science fiction subgenre

Altered Carbon genre

CYCAD a tropical plant

Salt a runner used in run (wordplay)

Artificial sweetener could hurt my cat, Alec!

Sweetener

Downward-bent flowers

Low-cost, lightweight autos of the 1910s-'20s

Cyclery

Vast empty city with no place to settle

Gigantic.

Massive

Printing press rollers

Lyrics end strangely in round containers

Piston chambers of an engine.

Cymbaler

Cymogene

See Chrysoberyl. Chrysoberyl.

Things that strongly attract attention

They provide guidance

Very Big Apple written up in parish priest's objects of admiration

Cypher

Evergreen trees

Some evergreens

Trees.

Cysteine

Cytaster

Cytidine

Cytokine

""Cells the degeneration of cells. ; cytolytic ,""

Cytosine

Czarevna