9-Letter Words Starting with C

Explained - made transparent

Swept away confusion

Elucidated

That which clarifies.

Makes more comprehensible

Sheds light on

Illuminates

Big band jazz instruments

Winds in a pit

Black winds

Clarion

Clarity

Of recognized excellence, music perhaps

Genre of music

Adhering to traditional forms.

Superlatively swank

Most stylish

Most elegant

Classism

Could luxury tops help society's snobs (wordplay)

... like a teacher (wordplay)

Lacking social distinctions

Society of socialist ideal

With whom one shares history, say

Inform a friend (wordplay)

Lab partner, for one

Where to find a paid informer (wordplay)

Lessons are learnt here

Where Ichabod Crane presided

Shaped like a lattice; cancellate.

Made a racket

Rattled.

Rattled

Klutz, perhaps

Claught

Cloistral.

A layer of the brain

Claver

Clavicle

Claybank

Army loses, almost routed by100 blades

Double-edged broadswords

Scottish broadswords

Clayware

CLEAN to rid of stain

Cleanly

Neat freak's obsession

Being under a hundred, one is so thin with the washing

Purity

Under-the-sink items

Detergents that could bring clearness

Spot removers

Incline to do wrong in the wash

Comet's purpose

Like a nice soak

Like easy high jump settings

Official permission (for an action)

Eviction from lands

Right of passage

Open forest areas

Settlements of differences of accounts.

Places where it's sunny

Freedom from confusion.

It's not a bit thick to be taught to be in cess

Go over loch that's showing anything but turbidity

Type of moth

Capable of cleaving or being divided.

Diamond fragments

Splits

After a century there are men in the telly with mercy

Clencher

Being tight-fisted (wordplay)

Ancient water clock

Dry places, not right for this to work

Dry places damaged this timekeeper

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

Cloth dress (wordplay)

In church they get to be so wearing

Priests and such

Bentley's characterful lines

Verses clergyman shortened - he was heartless

E. C. Bentley / Evidently / Used such rhymes / To reflect our times

Clerisy

Clerkdom

Clerkly

""State, quality, or business of a clerk.""

Cleveite

Empty cell on mountain? Most ingenious!

Most able mount comes from colt, oddly

The most able 150 are on top of mountain

Fairly sharp metal bar is breaking chain

State of being client.

Customers (of a shop)

A shop's customers

Lawyer's concern

Cliffy

Rising to a peak

Coming to exciting peak

Coming to a high point

Reaching the top

Coming to a conclusion

Easier than Everest

Arm wrapped in wire could be scaled

Easy to scale, for a mountaineer

Clincher

Clinch

Most tenacious

Doctor treating patients

Doctor working directly with patients

Workshop giver

Clinker

""Glittering; dressed in, or overlaid with, tinsel finery.""

Any temperate liliaceous plant of the genus Clintonia having broad basal leaves and white or yellowish or purplish flowers followed by blue or black berries.Clintonia having broad basal leaves and white or yellowish or purplish flowers followed by blue or black berries.

Paper carrier (wordplay)

Cut directors in sign of officialdom

Driving test prop

Scrapbook fodder

Removed articles

Perhaps it's beating that has them all in bits

""A sheet of paper containing news items and other newspaper material, usually printed on only one side for convenience in clipping and reprinting.""

Most exclusive

A region in the body walls of certain annelid worms

Storage area hides a tree (wordplay)

Outerwear store (wordplay)

Place for checkers (wordplay)

In the habit of being beaten (wordplay)

Beat badly

Hit hard

Clochard

With precision

Cow sickle (anagram)

Moving as hands do (wordplay)

*How time flies (wordplay)

The source of springtime (wordplay)

The wind of springtime (wordplay)

That goes for springtime

Cloddy

Clodpate

Clodpole

Clodpoll

Cloggy

Decorated with enamel which is inlaid

Close in on fantastic enamelwork

Partitioned enamel work.

Places to change a habit?

Places to change a habit (wordplay)

N.Y.C. museum

""Of, pertaining to, or confined in, a cloister; recluse.""

CLONIC pertaining to {clonus=n}

""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.""

CLOSE to make impassable

Shut completely, perhaps a business

Near to getting depressed? Gets wind up!

Secretive and depressed, stop operating

Quality of a hot, smoky room.

State of being very near

Intimacy of head on bosom

Sales with major markdowns

Final sales

Amount of clothes, say

Shutting up hard by the metal G

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

Cooping up

Closure

They wish to suit you

Rich stole (anagram) - tailors

Haberdashers

Acts of pulling on threads (wordplay)

Cloture

Murky to the max

Most gray, in a way

Least fair, in a way

Dreamland.

Like a sunny day

Fair, as the sky

(Of sky) clear

Diminutive cirri could with higher latitude? Why don't we (wordplay)

CLOYING cloy

Hill woman is gregarious

Clubby

Clubhand

Clubhaul

Where golfers meet

Golf course building

Building for members

Some airport VIP areas

Clubroot

Like the worst mascara

Clumsy

Clunky

Clupeoid

Nearly set (wordplay)

Unevenly distributed, in a way

Like some distributed computing systems

Hanging on for dear life

In a jumble

Not in order to be in the mess

How a hundred and fifty spoke in a mess

COACH to {tutor=v}

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

Coalbox

Came together as one

Came together to form one whole

Came together for company, drinks and starters of cheesy, exquisite dips

Comes together as one

Merges to close case

Comes together

Energy resource found in Nova Scotia

Region rich in fossil fuels

Energy source

Coalhole

Coalify

Coalify

Alliance to adopt fossil fuel, perhaps

The alliance of carbonisation, perhaps

Group of allies

Coalsack

Coalshed

Where fuel is kept.

Beach real estate

Littoral.

Seaside railway (wordplay)

Where the sea meets the shore

It's shaped by current events

They may be ridden (wordplay)

Political attire (wordplay)

They re ridden by association

AXIALLY pertaining to an axial

See vitamin B .

""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.""

""Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, cobalt; said esp. of cobalt compounds in which the metal has its lower valence.""

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

Scarlet dye - in a cloche (anagram)

Red food dye (from beetles)

Said to be a dying insect (wordplay)

Talking bird of Australia

Small crested Australian parrot

Australian parrot

Cockbill

Cockerel

""A coarse, composite weed, having a rough or prickly fruit; one of several species of the genus Xanthium; called also clotbur. Xanthium; called also clotbur.""

Cockloft

The ones, in one too many (wordplay)

Drinks raise heads? No!

Drinks before dinner, maybe

Cocobola

Cocobolo

COUNSEL to {advise=v}

CULTURE to cultivate

""DEVELOP to bring to a more advanced state, also DEVELOPE""

Coelom

""COELOME a body cavity in some animals, also COELOM, CELOM""

Coemploy

With coequality.

Not totally unyielding

Equally everlasting.

Olympian learnt about sharing immortality

It's characteristic of the Trinity to display tolerance

COEVAL one of the same era

Coevolve

Coevolve

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

COGNATE one that is related to another

Pinions perhaps by firm force with parts of feet

Coholder

Coistrel

Coistril

""COITION sexual intercourse, also COITUS""

Bowl-shaped strainers

Drainers and strainers

Pasta cooks' essentials

Irish cabbage, potato dish

Pass priest eating Northern Irish food

Cabbage mashed with potatoes

Pass Greek character with Latin plant

English word

Coldcock

They're tied for first

They're tied at the top

Colead

Coleseed

Vegetable dishes.

Rules according to vocalist Natalie (wordplay)

Colessee

Colessor

Colewort

Colicine

""A bitter American herb of the Bloodwort family, with the leaves all radical, and the small yellow or white flowers in a long spike (Aletris farinosa and A. aurea). Called sometimes star grass, blackroot, blazing star, and unicorn root. Aletris farinosa and A. aurea). Called sometimes star grass, blackroot, blazing star, and unicorn root.""

Coliform

A bacteriophage that infects the bacterium Escherichia coli.

Some sports venues

Old sports venues

Certain sports venues

Colistin

Colitis

Collagen

Collage

COLLAGE to arrange materials in an artistic way

Newly sold place fell down

Cracked up - gave way

Fell apart when pass ran out

What the scrum often does, untidily

Falls like a house of cards

Suddenly falls down or gives way

Collaret

Taking into custody

Police work

Putting in order

Making a meal of Lolita con (wordplay)

Fast food (wordplay)

Putting in sequence

Machines which merge sets of decks of punched cards

They order the US colours all around Los Angeles by tea, we hear

Those who set the sequence of colors surrounding Los Angeles team's debut

Pass to union workmate

Co-worker in company left union

Associate army officer left alliance

Also cool and calm (wordplay)

Cool and calm

Cool, one has gathered

Numismatist, for one.

Group-minded individual

One who accumulates things

Colleger