9-Letter Words Starting with C

Credit rag (anagram)

Sort of paper-round (wordplay)

Sort of paper round (wordplay)

Women carrying building materials

Greek women relied on for support

Pillars in the form of female figures

""A onecelled, dry, indehiscent fruit, with a thin membranous pericarp, adhering closely to the seed, so that fruit and seed are incorporated in one body, forming a single grain, as of wheat, barley, etc.""

Caryotin

Descending in steps

Flowing like a waterfall over rocks

Emulating a waterfall

Caseate

A degeneration of animal tissue into a cheesy or curdy mass.

Casefy

CASEIN a milk protein

Fired, as a salesclerk (wordplay)

Scanned the goods, say

Dismissed from one's job

Casimere

Casimire

Casket

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

Casteism

Criticise cold wine scandal (wordplay)

Chastise - tacit sage (anagram)

Reprimand, showing players one way out

Mostly relaxed, artist captures popular tree

Reasoning speciously

Oversubtle

The use of clever but false reasoning

Clever but false reasoning

Logic-chopping

Not like certain steroids? That's general, not hard, including first two

""Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of catalases.""

Verse

Enzyme's job

Acceleration of chemical reaction by independent agent

Alice is sounding so catty to get a faster reaction

Type of converter

'Green' engine part - rev cycle attraction (anagram)

Constant withdrawal from capital turning City into stimulating reaction

The monthly courses of women; menstrual discharges; menses.

Catamite

Band once fronted by Cerys Matthews

State of rigidity and stupor

State of muscular rigidity and stupor

In a rigid trance.

... still giving pussy a drink

In an immobile stupor

Catbrier

Most memorable

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

Positive cat is to go in Eric's custody

Without exception included in a class

Unambiguously direct

Catenoid

CATFACE a deformity of fruit

Catfight

Types of "whiskered" swimmers

Misleads, online

Misrepresents oneself to on the internet, in a way

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

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

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

Mass producers (wordplay)

Most Poles and Portuguese

Mass group

Of or relating to mirrors and reflected images.

Cattery

CATTIE an Asian unit of weight

Caucus

Caudillo

Caulicle

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

""The agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect.""

Reason why

Why one thing leads to another (wordplay)

Effect producer

Act or agency that produces an effect

Short informal essays

Cozy chats

Chats

Cautery

Burn, as a wound

Burn with a hot iron

Sear with a corrosive

War, Ned, as well (wordplay)

Education (anagram)

Given a warning about education

English word

Royalists in vehicles could be alive

University of Virginia athletes

Royalists in the English Civil Wars

Cavally

Horseback troop groups

Cavatina

Caveat

Cavern

Those who nitpick

Cavil

Cavitate

Cavitate

Larking about in underground activity? Nothing right in that

Gamboling

See cedar waxwing .

Unsteady diligence having an upper limit

Ceinture

Flowering plant - decennial (anagram)

Flower found in parcel, and in envelope

Plant of buttercup family

Star born during expedition

Well-known or famous person

Quick movement, penning boy's first name

Celeriac

Lets Alice refurbish? How divine!

How heavenly to have been so Chinese!

In grace, lest I allow heart's divine

""Native strontium sulphate, a mineral so named from its occasional delicate blue color. It occurs crystallized, also in compact massive and fibrous forms.""

Nuns, by vow

Some priests

Holy types church sets free without hesitation

Cellar

A pure form of pyroxylin in which specimens for microscopic examination are embedded.

Gym-goer's target, maybe

Lumpy deposits of body fat

Certain fat deposit

Old movie film

Film material

What C might be doing on Crete (wordplay)

Making secure

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

""A hard brittle iron carbide, Fe 3 C, found in steel with more than 0.85 percent carbon.""

Cenobite

CENOBITE a member of a religious order

Descriptive of a Watch-and-Warder.

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

Copper coins of Italy.

One-hundredth of a balboa

Fraction of a lira, once

Hundredth of an Italian lira

Centiare

Metric-system unit

That grate of mine carries little weight

Approximate weight of a grain of sand

Many-legged invertebrates

Many-legged insect

Many-jointed myriapod.

Very little money distresses utterly Dome's supporters

""One of two small cylindrical cell organelles composes of nine triplet microtubules, which form the asters during mitosis.""

Centrism

People in the political center

CNN's metaphorical "Elephonkey" and others

Voters who remain undecided as the electon nears, often

Centroid

Millennial breakdowns (wordplay)

Periods of 100 years

Hundreds of years

Man of 18 (wordplay)

Roman army commander

Roman army officer

Cephalin

Some potters

Fictile craftsmen

Fictile craftsmen.

Cercaria

CERCARIA a parasitic worm

Cercaria

Certain

Art nicely represented? Yes!

Some left? Yes, of course

Definitely or positively

Cattery in trouble? No doubt about it!

Unusually tiny trace, no doubt

State of being sure

Like some important letters

Part of CPA

Mad that one had authenticated it

One giving formal confirmation

Guarantor

Certify

A feeling of conviction, given rectitude

You can't predict the weather with this

Feeling of surety

Cerusite

""Native lead carbonate; a mineral occurring in colorless, white, or yellowish transparent crystals, with an adamantine, also massive and compact.""

Cesarian

Stopping canoeists capsizing

Process of ending

The ending or being brought to an end

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""

Chalky

Challis

Chalutz

Chammy

Chamois

Rubs with a leathery cloth

Herb for tea

Herb in herbal tea

Aromatic plant of the daisy family

University town in east central Illinois

Victor contrived gain in old country

Hospital used during manoeuvres in open country

The Braves in 1995

The Yankees often in the 20's

They win first place in competitions

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.""

Chantry

Chapatti

Chapiter

Service leaders in the service

Members of clergy ministering to institutions

Fellows hanging around US city with trendy clergy

Chappati

Characid

Characin

Way to cook steak

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

Charry

Table is for Eliot with reformers

Reformers sit around surrounded by maps

Reformers in England, 1837-48.

Chasse

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

The master of a castle; a castellan.

They talk most when the static is sorted

Most gossipy woman's appearing in court

Most talkative

Chaunt

English word

English word

Pattern on heel is manifest

Written record of things to be done

Record of items to be verified

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

Cheddite

Most impudent

Most smile-prone

Superlatively upbeat

Least dismal

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;

""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)

Chenille

Luscious fruit of tropical America.

Lovingly cared for

See, it's her beloved self I got rid of

After a century it's her I got rid of so tenderly

One who cherishes.

Cares deeply about

Has fond thoughts of

Is fond of, keeps in one's heart

Cherty

Cherub

Chesty

'Thank Heaven for Little Girls' singer

Each viler than the strange knight

A horseman or mounted knight

Chiasma

Straight-stemmed tobacco-pipe

Long-stemmed pipe

Long Turkish tobacco pipe

Chicaner

Yearn for change after smart deception

Smart one from Peebles tracks fraud

Trickery used to gain an advantage

Sophisticated article on gin cocktail leads to old form of cheating

Small gray-and-black songbird

Word in a W.C. Fields film title

Titmouse's cousin

Red squirrel named for the sound it makes

Chicken

Baby bird vegetables (wordplay)

Garbanzo beans' alias

What the hatchery owner brought

Baby fowl don't grow on this

Plant that may grow on lawn

A little foul-sounding, a little D

Perennial herbs

Chiefdom

""Highest in rank, authority, or office.""

Emir or raja

Leading man's changing it, if he can

One newt in file is the leader