9-Letter Words Starting with C

A plant that thrives in soil rich in lime.

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

Whitewash

Adjust (gauge for accuracy)

Determine the capacity of

Mark a scale to use in taking readings

Ottoman office

Islamic state

Curly veg, if sound, consumed as religious rule

Having relaxing or pacifying properties; sedative.

Belly sounds from there (wordplay)

A belly building (wordplay)

Pitch your bell tent next to a river

One who says "Iran" (wordplay)

Potential MP maybe frank over high tea

Churchill's nominee

In a singing style (mus.)

In a smooth singing style

In a singing manner

Condense

Tell a riveting story, perhaps

Entrance the prisoner is put out at

Entrance prisoner's held at

The technical name for urea.

To cover (an animal or vegatable substance) into a residue of carbon by the action of fire or some corrosive agent; to char.

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.

CARESS to touch lovingly

A betaine commonly occurring in the liver and in skeletal muscle that functions in fatty acid transport across mitochondrial membranes.

T. Rex, for one

Tip of rhubarb? No, I crave tripe!

Lion or tiger, for example

An ore of uranium

CARTEL a business organization

CARTEL a business organization

Flexible connective tissue

Connective tissue of the human body

Kind of bone

Credit rag (anagram)

Sort of paper-round (wordplay)

Sort of paper round (wordplay)

CASEIN a milk protein

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

Criticise cold wine scandal (wordplay)

Chastise - tacit sage (anagram)

Reprimand, showing players one way out

Question closely

Question thoroughly

Act or agency that produces an effect

Burn, as a wound

Burn with a hot iron

Sear with a corrosive

Flowering plant - decennial (anagram)

Flower found in parcel, and in envelope

Plant of buttercup family

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

Gym-goer's target, maybe

Lumpy deposits of body fat

Certain fat deposit

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

Many-legged invertebrates

Many-legged insect

Many-jointed myriapod.

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

Cercaria

A feeling of conviction, given rectitude

You can't predict the weather with this

Feeling of surety

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

Herb for tea

Herb in herbal tea

Aromatic plant of the daisy family

Straight-stemmed tobacco-pipe

Long-stemmed pipe

Long Turkish tobacco pipe

Small gray-and-black songbird

Word in a W.C. Fields film title

Titmouse's cousin

Red squirrel named for the sound it makes

Innocent and trustful (wordplay)

Young and innocent, you might say

Showing youthful innocence

Gift for the second wedding anniversary.

Chopsticks (wordplay)

Feature informed on Delft art

A meteoric stone characterized by the presence of chondrules.

""Pl. chronaxies The minimum interval of time necessary to electrically stimulate a muscle or nerve fiber, using twice the minimum current needed to elicit a threshold response.""

Account of important events

(Make a) historical record

Narrative description of past events

Form a scar

English word

& 9 Smoking accommodation (wordplay)

Not a patch on wanting one (wordplay)

Smoke under fire.

CINGULA cingulum

""Rolled together downward, the tip occupying the center; a term used in reference to foliation or leafing, as in ferns.""

Move around (at a function)

Move around (at a party)

Make to go round, in a curve perhaps

On the Roman side of the Alps

Is place in chaos south of the mountains (wordplay)

Cisterna

Photo featuring a skyline

Eg London space possibly in view

What a skyline is part of

Message about league goal being within reach (wordplay)

State of being client.

Customers (of a shop)

A shop's customers

Lawyer's concern

Easier than Everest

Arm wrapped in wire could be scaled

Easy to scale, for a mountaineer

With precision

Cow sickle (anagram)

Moving as hands do (wordplay)

*How time flies (wordplay)

Decorated with enamel which is inlaid

Close in on fantastic enamelwork

Partitioned enamel work.

""A synthetic drug, C 9 H 9 Cl 2 N 3 , used in the treatment of hypertension, the prevention of migraine headaches, and the management of Tourette's syndrome and opiate withdrawal.""

Seaside railway (wordplay)

Where the sea meets the shore

It's shaped by current events

COAST to {glide=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.""

To treat or an\'91sthetize with cocaine.

Member of The Abbey from company is one backing Sting

Not totally unyielding

FINANCE to supply the money for

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

Re: thinking (wordplay)

Of conscious intellectual activity

Involving the intellect

A woman hairdresser.

A bacteriophage that infects the bacterium Escherichia coli.

To tie or bind together.

Make parallel

Fraudulent

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

Mix, blend

""To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth. as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth.""

Group of people selected to run things

Group delegated to consider some matter

Panel set up for a purpose

COMMUNE to converse intimately

COMMUNE to converse intimately

Something made of diverse elements

Combined to make notes about it

Made up of several distinct parts

Porter, caretaker (esp. Fr.)

Residential block porter

Doorkeeper, in France

Kept woman

Mistress has care of one whelp among nine

Mistress, caught at the right moment, carries bin

Likely to lead (to)

Favorable

Tending.

Set up company with new person

Set up argument against human form

Assemble, as a computer system

Fruit preserves

One nominated in conjunction with another; a joint nominee.

Prison record keeper (wordplay)

Enlist new son, symbol of 8, into church

Recipient

A piece of petrified dung; a fossil excrement.

Like many reefs

Pinky knackered in the middle

Type of atoll composition.

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

Corrosive.

Caustic about Ivor's broken heart

Caustic and destructive

Destroying by chemical action

New drug for arthritis.

Steroid developed nice torso

Miraculous new remedy for arthritis.

""The area immediately bordering the official court of play, as in tennis or basketball.""

Relationship; kinship.

""Kvlln, Covellite A native sulphide of copper, occuring in masses of a dark blue color; hence called indigo copper. indigo copper.""

""A native sulphide of copper, occuring in masses of a dark blue color; -- hence called indigo copper.indigo copper.""

Lack of courage

Severe lack of courage

Timidity - lack of courage

Cramoisy Crimson.

Make a crackling noise.

Rattle stone that's found outside

What it swallowed at last could be crackling

Charge with an offense

Councillor in old cord skirt (wordplay)

Does my bum look big in this (wordplay)

Does her bum look big in this (wordplay)

Find fault with

Point out problems or mistakes

Is it Circe who turned to find fault (wordplay)

Dress down

Carp

Alarm clock swallower in "Peter Pan"

Captain Hook's nemesis

Large aquatic reptile

Transversely

Transversely.

Contrarily

Come to a climax (in)

Reach a climax (in)

Reach a peak

Four-couple sect (wordplay)

Grow (crops)

Encourage secretive group that is hiding tax

Garden - short one, where gale is raging

Spicated, you say, otherwise barbed

Pointed cap suited Lulu

Adapt for particular requirements

Heart of 5 replacing 5 in drunken Muscovite tailor

Chop, channel, slam, etc.

Cuticula

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