9-Letter Words Starting with C

Cabbalah

Cabochon

Sperm whales

Endangered whales

CACHE to store in a hiding place

Ornamental casings for flower containers

Cachet

Cachexia

Cachexy

Cachucha

Uncontrollable desire, often for something harmful

Loud discordant sounds

Discordant mixture of sounds

Harsh discordant sound

CADDISH resembling a {cad=n}

Student's term in military school

Academy student's stint

Doctor I despatch for military training

Ottoman office

Islamic state

Curly veg, if sound, consumed as religious rule

Calthrop

Camphene

Camphine

Camphire

Rotating car parts

Engine items nicknamed "bump sticks"

Auto engine parts

Canephor

""A beetle (Lytta, ∨ Cantharis, vesicatoria), having an elongated cylindrical body of a brilliant green color, and a nauseous odor; the blister fly or blister beetle, of the apothecary; also called Spanish fly. Many other species of Lytta, used for the same purpose, take the same name. See Blister beetle, under Blister. The plural form in usually applied to the dried insects used in medicine. Lytta, ∨ Cantharis, vesicatoria), having an elongated cylindrical body of a brilliant green color, and a nauseous odor; the blister fly or blister beetle, of the apothecary; also called Spanish fly. Many other species of Lytta, used for the same purpose, take the same name. See Blister beetle, under Blister. The plural form in usually applied to the dried insects used in medicine.""

Capouch

Some monkeys and monks

China cups for friars or monkeys

A cup intricately carved: features monks

English word

Casino employee, perhaps

Deck guy who's cheating (wordplay)

Cheater at, say, poker

Caroach

Carroch

Oblong in Egyptian hieroglyphs

Tablet in scroll form

Any scroll-shaped ornament.

Is it your turn to do this (wordplay)

Handspring's kin

Part of a gymnastic routine

Auto-cleaning services

Some school fundraisers

Drive-thru cleanings

Cashbook

How Johnny recharges offstage (wordplay)

Bread holders

Dough containers

Fired, as a salesclerk (wordplay)

Scanned the goods, say

Dismissed from one's job

Some scarves, coats or sweaters

Some Donna Karan products

Some scarves

""The use of a linguistic unit, such as a pronoun, to refer ahead to another unit, for example, the use of him to refer to John in the sentence Near him, John saw a snake.""

""Pertaining to, produced by, or attending, catarrh; of the nature of catarrh.""

Ball that should be held

Like a "can-of-corn" fly

Possibly infectious message passed round at church

Certain bags, closets, attics, etc.

Most memorable

Area from which river derives its flow

Area from which school's pupils are drawn

Water collection difficulty: pieces start to tear

Sheriff's officer is to arrest East European

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

Bailiff.

A bailiff's assistant.

Doh! for one

"Doh!" for one

A favorite saying

Catechin

Series of questions

Set of questions for religious teaching

Religious instructions

""One who instructs by question and answer, especially in religions matters.""

Question closely

Question thoroughly

Catechol

Catfight

Types of "whiskered" swimmers

Misleads, online

Misrepresents oneself to on the internet, in a way

Discharges of pent-up emotions

Ah! elicitors

Releases

Purification - is rash act (anagram)

Oddly, chap to head riskiest release

Purification for suspect archaists

Cleansing - arctic hat (anagram)

Medicine found by little girl on a lorry

Releasing pent-up emotions

Cathect

Of or pertaining to cathexis; invested with mental or emotional energy.

Cathedra

Saint Paul's, for one

Winchester, for one

St Patrick's in Dublin, say

Cathedra

Any of various proteolytic enzymes found in animal tissue that catalyze the hydrolysis of proteins into polypeptides.

Medical devices

Mass producers (wordplay)

Most Poles and Portuguese

Mass group

Brothels (slang) - hot sauces (anagram)

Shrub with blue flowers

Specially chosen guards make use of monuments

Cephalin

That's the stuff for grave occasions

Old Spanish dances

Chaffer

One who chaffers; a bargainer.

Chaffy

Refuse unit of column in flier

Measure husks first for the bird

Small European bird with a cheerful song

Feeling humiliation, dispersed in charge by Duke

Put out

Upset

Power-driven cutting tools

Lumberjack's devices

Noisy horror weapons

Skier's aid

Skier's need

Way up the slope

Chairman

""A tumour of the eyelid, pl CHALAZIONS or CHALAZIA""

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

Dry measures of old England.

Dry measures of old England

Chalky

Dispute (a statement)

Question truth of - dare

Dare to raise an objection

Challis

Chalutz

Like a nautilus

Chambray

Lizard hard for animal to eat (wild one)

Quick change artist (wordplay)

Lizard able to change its skin colour

Chamfer

Chamfron

Chammy

Chamois

Rubs with a leathery cloth

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.

University town in east central Illinois

Victor contrived gain in old country

Hospital used during manoeuvres in open country

Title holder burst tyre, which is illegal

Bubbly unfinished before getting extremely tipsy, which is illegal

The Braves in 1995

The Yankees often in the 20's

They win first place in competitions

Propose as a different recent art form

Enamel work almost on a par with title holder

Hazardous.

Chancy

""A venereal sore, resembling a chancre in its seat and some external characters, but differing from it in being the starting point of a purely local process and never of a systemic disease; called also soft chancre. soft chancre.""

Of the nature of a chancre; having chancre.

""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}

Bill payer's need

It needs balancing

It must be carefully balanced

Like some careers

Like a finish flag

That can not be checked or restrained.

Pattern on heel is manifest

Written record of things to be done

Record of items to be verified

*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)

Checkoff

Checkout

A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; called also a bearing rein. bearing rein.

Place for coats in a cafe

Restaurant convenience

Checkrow

Cheddite

English word

Butt sex (wordplay)

Structure beneath the eye

Supermodel's asset, often

Cheekful

Most impudent

Most smile-prone

Superlatively upbeat

Least dismal

Root on

Gridiron fans without their leaders!

Reel drunkenly in game lacking spirit

Dismal end of White Queen left in game

Like Kraft macaroni (wordplay)

Most inferior in quality

Most shoddy

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.""

Cheliped

Hen Nicola chopped up for reptile

Fertilizers and weed killer, say

Revolutionary claims about agents in lab

Lab compounds

(Chemistry) (tr) to take up (a substance) by chemisorption

A science (of personal attraction?)

Elementary school subject (wordplay)

Element-ary school subject (wordplay)