9-Letter Words Starting with C

Cabal

Cabbage

Ancestor of a fax

Telegraphed message

Overseas message

Cabotage

Cachet

Cadence

Holds to an opinion about duration of life for birds in aviary

""CAGEY shrewd, also CAGY""

Quartz variety

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

Calcine

Callus

Camber

Cambogia

Presses the flesh

Takes the stump

Political moments of semi-truth

Campus

Canal

CANCEL to {annul=v}

Canker

Cannon

Canopy

Providing fast food around the North

Is 'e unable to phone at speed (wordplay)

Is 'e unable to phone in a hurry (wordplay)

Canton

Canvas

Caprifig

Fitting hats (wordplay)

Fitting hats?

Turning over headwear before measuring

Capsule

Portraying very well

Captain, you get around to what's catching

Caragana

Carageen

Carangid

They have pockets for cigars and change

Halves of twinsets

Sweaters with buttons

Tossing from side to side

This could become very upsetting, e'en in such a worrying way

Going full tilt

Calling over the gin, out of control

Rushing wildly

Live-in nurse, perhaps

Many an in-home helper

Treating with fondness.

Worries start 5 down with love

Treating with kindness

Soho seasonal singing

Singing Christmas hymns

Singing at 7 across

Reveler's activity

Many awakening us with their 28 across

Heading for a hangover

Mid-1800s luggage

Luggage of the 1800s

Piece of luggage

Covering darling in fond embrace

Concerned about sweetheart dressing down

End of the quip

CARPING the act of one who {carps=v}

Mini modified genera of seaweed

Purplish-red, edible seaweed

Purplish-red North Atlantic seaweed

Gigs and cabriolets

Victoria and clarence.

Coaches affected airs and graces endlessly

Carrom

Flexible connective tissue

Connective tissue of the human body

Kind of bone

Carton

Credit rag (anagram)

Sort of paper-round (wordplay)

Sort of paper round (wordplay)

Descending in steps

Flowing like a waterfall over rocks

Emulating a waterfall

Caseate

Casefy

Casket

Criticise cold wine scandal (wordplay)

Chastise - tacit sage (anagram)

Reprimand, showing players one way out

Listed

Librarian, at times

List maker

Library-user's aid

Mail-order item

Librarian's concern

Positive cat is to go in Eric's custody

Without exception included in a class

Unambiguously direct

CATFACE a deformity of fruit

Catfight

Caucus

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

Caveat

Cavern

Cavil

Larking about in underground activity? Nothing right in that

Gamboling

Unsteady diligence having an upper limit

Charge for storing (wine?)

Certain storage charge

Cost of storing wine

Cellar

What C might be doing on Crete (wordplay)

Making secure

That's got C on Crete, just to make it hard

Having a vet remove something

Hays office job

Denying free speech

Reprimanding, rebuking formally

Blaming a number before making sure

Reprimanding, rebuking

Census

Adjusting an axis to normal position

Moving away from the sides

Metric-system unit

That grate of mine carries little weight

Approximate weight of a grain of sand

Very little money distresses utterly Dome's supporters

Feeling humiliation, dispersed in charge by Duke

Put out

Upset

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

Dispute (a statement)

Question truth of - dare

Dare to raise an objection

Chammy

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

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

Chantage

Chasse

Chaunt

Chelate

Dress requiring cash - men go wild

Chinese dress with split skirt

Oriental dress hems can go crooked

Sophisticated article on gin cocktail leads to old form of cheating

Chigetai

Frank-and-beans concoctions

Stadium fare topped with meat and beans

Stadium snacks

CHISEL to use a cutting tool

Small intestines of pigs prepared as food

Pestering (someone to do something)

CHOKING choke

Sophistic, involved argumentation

Overly complicated argumentation

One who bandies words Shakespeare.

Laughing gleefully

Embrace, hugging king in passionate laughter

Chuckling

CHORUS to sing in unison

Chroming

Vegetable coloring matter other than green; chromule.

Little Charlie having a laugh

Charles and Heather are obviously amused

Throw the fish away with a laugh

Drinks in one gulp

Church

Churning

& 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.""

Cinder

CINGULA cingulum

Cipher

Citify

Cladding

""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.""

Clamor

Clangor

Clangour

Claught

Claver

Incline to do wrong in the wash

Comet's purpose

Like a nice soak

Open forest areas

Settlements of differences of accounts.

Places where it's sunny

Type of moth

Diamond fragments

Splits

Being tight-fisted (wordplay)

Is he in a service industry (wordplay)

My clanger about the vicar (wordplay)

Person of the cloth

Cloth workers (wordplay)

Revs may have them in masses 99)

Spiritual leaders of a Christian Church

State of being client.

Reaching the top

Coming to a conclusion

Clinch

Most tenacious

Scrapbook fodder

Removed articles

Perhaps it's beating that has them all in bits

Cloggy

Shutting up hard by the metal G

Hard by the tin - Gee, that's shutting up!

Cooping up

Closure

Acts of pulling on threads (wordplay)

Cloture

CLOYING cloy

Hanging on for dear life

Substance that aids clotting

Substance that causes or assists clotting of blood

""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

Coagulum

Coasting

""Of or pertaining to the coccyx; as, the coccygeal vertebr\'91. as, the coccygeal vertebr\'91.""

Cocker

Contest between birds

Illegal contest of birds

Battle as between roosters

Cocoon

Codesign

Systematically sorting

Codrive

Coedit

Coempt

Coffer

Coffin

Cogency

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

Thought about love, inhibited about sex

Thunk with sophistication

Thought hard

Works the old bean

Muses get a Stoic in trouble

Ponders company portals embracing information technology

COGNATE one that is related to another

Relationship by blood; descent from the same original; kindred.

Cognise

Knowledge - incognito (anagram)

Knowledge - no to icing (anagram)

Faculty of knowing while incognito

Re: thinking (wordplay)

Of conscious intellectual activity

Involving the intellect

Aware

Aware.

Cognizer

Cognize

Cognomen

Cognomen

Cognovit

Pinions perhaps by firm force with parts of feet

Cohead

Police chap, or police trap

Sharing the stage, in a way

Working like Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan, say

Cojoin

Colead

A bacteriophage that infects the bacterium Escherichia coli.

Collagen

Collage

COLLAGE to arrange materials in an artistic way

Taking into custody

Police work

Putting in order

Pass to union workmate

Co-worker in company left union

Associate army officer left alliance

Colleger

Pertaining to, say, Eton

Among one's co-workers

Marked by sharing of authority

Student pass many picked up

Fisk attendee, for example

Student makes Colorado member confront Scotsman

Body of members of equal authority

Collet

Running into.

Might there be fifty-one running into the cold gin (wordplay)

To tie or bind together.

Collogue

Speaks to privately

Collude

Coloring

This is giving just a shade

Brit's complexion

A dye, for instance

Oversaw jointly

Supervision-sharing job

Comanage

COMBAT to fight against

United with the rake in the gin

Putting together to form a whole

Putting together

Comingle

Comingle

Mix, blend