9-Letter Words Starting with C

Boat for felines (wordplay)

America's Cup winner, perhaps

Feline boat (wordplay)

The monthly courses of women; menstrual discharges; menses.

Diet portion for Tabby (wordplay)

Diet portion for Tabby?

How much feline is a lynx, for instance

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

Area from which river derives its flow

Area from which school's pupils are drawn

Water collection difficulty: pieces start to tear

Catechin

Linked in a series

Links

Catenoid

CATFACE a deformity of fruit

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

Catnaper

Had a short sleep during the day

Took forty winks.

Beaten about at noon, took a brief rest

Grabber of winks or a lynx (wordplay)

Capable parent's not fit to flop around one dropping off

CATTIE an Asian unit of weight

Neat fellow on the ranch (wordplay)

Ben Cartwright, for one

Shepherd's nemesis, in many oaters

Characters in "Old Arizona."

The sound of their work may be heard

Prime factors in the meat situation.

Caucus

Very large pots used for boiling

Vessels for boiling

Potion props

Caulking

Reason why

Why one thing leads to another (wordplay)

Effect producer

War, Ned, as well (wordplay)

Education (anagram)

Given a warning about education

Cavatina

Caveat

Cavern

Vast and hollow

Huge, in a way

Like Carlsbad

Cavil

Larking about in underground activity? Nothing right in that

Gamboling

Shrub with blue flowers

Unsteady diligence having an upper limit

Ceinture

Flowering plant - decennial (anagram)

Flower found in parcel, and in envelope

Plant of buttercup family

Mass Observation director

Someone to get mad with priest

Toaster, for example

Cellar

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

Workers with mortar.

Bricklayers

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

Specially chosen guards make use of monuments

Descriptive of a Watch-and-Warder.

Having a vet remove something

Hays office job

Denying free speech

Severe critics

Reprimanding, rebuking formally

Blaming a number before making sure

Reprimanding, rebuking

Census

Fabulous creature presses on each star thistle, for example

A 100th anniversary

One hundredth anniversary

That's for a hundred gone in time

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.

Central

How a middleman works (wordplay)

At the middle

Not put on side in this way

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

Centuple

Increases 100 times

Millennial breakdowns (wordplay)

Periods of 100 years

Hundreds of years

Man of 18 (wordplay)

Roman army commander

Roman army officer

Cephalin

They're worn of late

The correct wear for grave occasions

It's wearing for those that are late

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

Sky blues

Cesarean

Cesarian

Stopping canoeists capsizing

Process of ending

The ending or being brought to an end

Whales and dolphins

Old Spanish dances

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

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

Dispute (a statement)

Question truth of - dare

Dare to raise an objection

Lizard hard for animal to eat (wild one)

Quick change artist (wordplay)

Lizard able to change its skin colour

Chamfron

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

The Braves in 1995

The Yankees often in the 20's

They win first place in competitions

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

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

Service leaders in the service

Members of clergy ministering to institutions

Fellows hanging around US city with trendy clergy

Old tourist coach

Old tourist vehicle

British bus for sightseers

Characin

Caginess. wariness

Caution needed if there's a rainfall during the game

Wariness

Flamboyant deceiver, mountebank

Quack, fraud, a flamboyant deceiver

Cleaner's mostly slow, and an imposter

Tea-lady appears daily

Office building cleaner

Cleaner nation under fish wife

Some cleaners

Cleaning ladies

Cleaners.

Chasse

Many raced, getting beaten (wordplay)

Took to task

Humiliated, Charlie stepped on the gas

That which subdues

Discipliner.

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.""

Chaunter

Chaunt

'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

Scan sheep (anagram)

Jack Benny trait

Parsimony

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

Butt sex (wordplay)

Structure beneath the eye

Supermodel's asset, often

Chelate

The process of removing a heavy metal from a solution by means of a chelate;

Hen Nicola chopped up for reptile

Chenille

Chenopod

Dress requiring cash - men go wild

Chinese dress with split skirt

Oriental dress hems can go crooked

""A very black topsoil, rich in humus, typical of cool to temperate semiarid regions, such as the grasslands of European Russia.""

Maybe they are no longer funny trees

Box with crazy old jokes (wordplay)

Equestrian's favorite snack (wordplay)

Cheveron

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

Chicken

Emir or raja

Leading man's changing it, if he can

One newt in file is the leader

A chap on foot (wordplay)

Painful swelling brought on by cold

Painful swelling in winter

Coolness; coldness; a chill.

Gift for the second wedding anniversary.

Chopsticks (wordplay)

Feature informed on Delft art

Chinbone

More miserly Slang.

More miserly: Slang.

Chestnut tree Var.

Chestnut tree variable

Chinky

More colorfully gaudy

More gaudy-looking

Small striped rodents

Disney cartoon duo

High-pitched singers

CHISEL to use a cutting tool

""Having the nature of chitin; consisting of, or containing, chitin.""

Small intestines of pigs prepared as food

Chitosan

Pestering (someone to do something)

An acnelike skin disorder caused by prolonged exposure to chlorinated hydrocarbons.

""A colorless, odorless, viscous liquid, C 10 H 6 Cl 8 , used as an insecticide. It may be toxic to humans and wildlife as a result of its effect on the nervous system.""

Chlordan

Chlorine

CHOKING choke

A meteoric stone characterized by the presence of chondrules.

""A peculiar rounded granule of some mineral, usually enstatite or chrysolite, found imdedded more or less aboundantly in the mass of many meteoric stones, which are hence called chondrites. chondrites.""

CHORION an embryonic membrane

Laughing gleefully

Embrace, hugging king in passionate laughter

Chuckling

CHORUS to sing in unison

Dog-faced glutton?

Half-breed dog (wordplay)

Dog-faced glutton (wordplay)

Chrismon

Breaks a bottle on, maybe

Uses for the first time

Performs ship-launching ceremony.

Order discovered in laboratory animal in feature which contains DNA

Chroming

Vegetable coloring matter other than green; chromule.

""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

Of the underworld

Little Charlie having a laugh

Charles and Heather are obviously amused

Throw the fish away with a laugh

Chunky

Chunter

Church

Ecclesiastic

CHURCH to bring to a building for Christian worship

Churning

Chymosin

Sightseeing guides

Was the Roman orator, Tully, the first of these guides (wordplay)

Guides.

Cilantro

CILIATE a class of protozoans

Cinchona

Cincture

Cincture

Cinder

Unorthodox scenarist with no right to enthral European film buffs

Just picture how moving this is!

Related to movies

Of the movies

Plant ashes in these places (wordplay)

Flower for the (say) sinner and the song

Showy flower from the Canary Islands.

Like ashes.

Ashen

CINGULA cingulum

Mercury sources

Ishpingo trees.

Cinnamyl

Cinquain

Cioppino