9-Letter Words Starting with C

COUPON a voucher

Courante

Couranto

Variety of marrow

Zucchini is its American equivalent

Small green vegetable

Coursing

Kind and considerate

Respectful in manner

Outsource shifts of a diplomatic nature

She's seduced no curates (wordplay)

No curates get mixed up with her!

No curates should take her out

Courtier

More refined

Action scene (wordplay)

Setting for 'Brief Encounter' (wordplay)

Solicit space for trying suits

Boat for judges (wordplay)

Suitor.s heyday

Bar in front of boat leads to affair

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

Area surrounded by walls or buildings

Walled-in area

Open-air enclosure attached to a house

Relationship; kinship.

Couthie

Valentino, for one

Christian Dior, for example

Dior or Klein

""VALENCE a chemical bond, also VALENCY""

""VALENCY a chemical bond, also VALENCE""

""A function involving the coefficients and the variables of a quantic, and such that when the quantic is lineally transformed the same function of the new variables and coefficients shall be equal to the old function multiplied by a factor. An invariant is a like function involving only the coefficients of the quantic.""

""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.""

Pacts between witches and social workers

Wants to hold granny bonds

Agreements of witches with insects

COVER to spread something over

Insurance options

Mechanic's wear

Mechanic's garment

Handyman's outfit

They're on top of things

COVER to spread something over

Bedspreads

Spreads.

Coverlid

Bit of glass on a microscope slide

Section without deliveries is on the slide

Shelter.

Shelter

That may be coveted; desirable.

Lack of courage

Severe lack of courage

Timidity - lack of courage

Small dolphins

Cowhide

Cowinner

A staff or pole on which a vessel is supported between two persons.

Retreat attendees, maybe

Water cooler gatherers

Participants in water cooler chats

Cowrite

Like many screenplays

Like Rodgers/Hart songs

Like Lennon/McCartney songs

Coxalgia

Coxalgy

Silly conceit or vanity.

Coxitis

Shell directors

Coyness

A low rhamnaceous shrub (Karwinskia humboldtiana) of the southwestern United States and Mexico. Its berries are said to be poisonous to the coyote.Karwinskia humboldtiana) of the southwestern United States and Mexico. Its berries are said to be poisonous to the coyote.

Cozenage

Expert depressed by repressive measures

Repressive action taken

Newly appointed disciplinarian's measure

Be an abusive chef (wordplay)

Partly pixilated people

Their elevators don't go to the top

Cramoisy Crimson.

Crampoon

Crannoge

Gambling metaphor for a risky venture

Something determined entirely by chance

It's tough to predict

Surcharged with liquor; sick from excessive indulgence in liquor; drunk; given to excesses.

Crayola color action

Kindergarten artist.

Reactions to inventions

Designer garments Tories can display

Artworks, for example

Ones with IOUs

To whom one owes money

They are owed money

Sure could become gullible!

Likely to believe

Too ready to believe things

Burning (of a body)

Disposal of last atom in life (wordplay)

A burning romance somehow holds it back

Cremator

Mortuary furnace

A rounded tooth on the edge of a leaf.

Creodont

Creolise

Creolise

Creolize

Creolize

Old drunkard without principles given a coat

The core was in bits, so Edward got it tarred

Treated with a preservative, as telephone poles

Applies wood preservative

Flammable oily liquids

Wood preservatives

Growing louder (mus.)

Get high in the music room (wordplay)

Peak of intensity

Various countries lacking common sense

Very stupid

Not able to learn? Can, in special course

Cretonne

Cribwork

Criminal; involving great crime or grave charges; very wicked; heinous.

Boy involved in murder, say, with hand finally this (wordplay)

Ablush.

Councillor in old cord skirt (wordplay)

Does my bum look big in this (wordplay)

Does her bum look big in this (wordplay)

Swimsuit competition for one

Swimsuit competition for one

Where to play Touchstone (wordplay)

Croaky

Croceine

Did some needlework

'He, Edward, followed the crocodile in a decorative manner (9)'

CROCHET to work wool or thread with a small hook

Ornamented with crockets.

Alarm clock swallower in "Peter Pan"

Captain Hook's nemesis

Large aquatic reptile

Crocoite

1 across ordered books for 14 (part 2)

French breakfast food

Buttery bakery buy

Cromlech

Cronyism

A crooked back; one who has a crooked or deformed back; a hunchback.

Crooked

Honestly, that's not the way to do it

In a bent or twisted manner

Dishonestly, illegally

""Either of two varieties of squash, distinguished by their tapering, recurved necks. The summer crookneck is botanically a variety of the pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo) and matures early in the season. It is pale yellow in color, with warty excrescences. The winter crookneck belongs to a distinct species (Cucurbita moschata) and is smooth and often striped.summer crookneck is botanically a variety of the pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo) and matures early in the season. It is pale yellow in color, with warty excrescences. The winter crookneck belongs to a distinct species (Cucurbita moschata) and is smooth and often striped.""

Cropland

Croquet

Deep-fried dish

A fried roll of potato

Dish fried in breadcrumbs

What the Delaware was, Christmas, 1776.

Transverse bars.

They connect uprights

Uprights support them

Good field goals go over these

Angry on account of bird (wordplay)

Bird's exact heart (wordplay)

Flier's annoyed with demand for payment

Yields on hybrid weapons

Old-time weapons

William Tell's arsenal

Like designer dogs

Angry b-bloody mongrel

Hybridised

Saws

Telescopic sighting aid

Target-centering aid

Aiming aid

""A beam or bar across the head or end of a rod, etc., or a block attached to it and carrying a knuckle pin; as the solid crosspiece running between parallel slides, which receives motion from the piston of a steam engine and imparts it to the connecting rod, which is hinged to the crosshead.""

Points of intersection

Transits of Fast and McCarthy

They may be guarded

Crosslet

Asperity

Change one's bank, perhaps

Turncoat perhaps in bad mood at an end

Change one's bank perhaps

Traffic light site, maybe

Place for a stoplight.

Street, vis-a-vis an avenue

Bridge maneuver

Support for a railway.

Railroad sleepers.

Rail supports

Traversing Waltham, say

EastWest in Manhattan.

East-West in Manhattan.

Pedestrian's lane.

Corner-to-corner lines

Pedestrian's lane

Irritable habits of Meredith's girl (wordplay)

Transversely

How the second lawyer to question a witness gets (wordplay)

A blow in anger (wordplay)

Side-blow (wordplay)

Cyclist's woe

Transversely

Transversely.

Contrarily

Angry remark that puzzles (wordplay)

Puzzle (for the intelligent)

What are you doing here (wordplay)

Musical notes equal to two quavers

Quarters notes in music

They are whimsical notes

Out of sorts to a notable extent

Perhaps having a note of anger

Out of sorts, to a notable extent

Squatting

Monte Carlo workers

Las Vegas figures.

Our prices are shocking: we rake it in

Croupy

""Bread baked in a mold, and scooped out, to serve minces upon.""

""A heathlike plant of the genus Empetrum, and its fruit, a black, scarcely edible berry; also called crakeberry. Empetrum, and its fruit, a black, scarcely edible berry; also called crakeberry.""

Crowfoot

Without a crown.

Crowstep

Shaped like a cross

Cross-shaped

Vintage Formica cut for use in cathedral maybe

Crumhorn

Crusado

Cruzado

Cruzeiro

Requiring low temperatures

Relating to very low temperatures

Slippery icy conger kept at low temperatures

Cryolite

A surgical instrument used to apply extreme cold to tissues during cryosurgery.

An instrument for measuring freezing and melting points.

CRYOSCOPE an instrument for measuring freezing and melting points.

Cryostat

Cryotron

Starting below ground, this plant is never seedy

Old garment adopted by government leader after call from Moss, say

Code name

A disguised identification, especially for military purposes or in espionage

Snug place for young foxes (wordplay)

Snug enclosed space

Place for keeping bits and bobs

Betrayed at heart, wicked love caught in illicit cuddle

The state of being a cuckold; the practice of making cuckolds.

Cuckoo

Chips off the old block (wordplay)

Ancient writing system

Like Assyrian writing

Cuniform

Pieces of furniture for storage

Places for storing trophies around table

Absurd cop hiding in furniture

Cupola

Curassow

Road block (wordplay)

Part of the street scene.

Part of the sidewalk scene.

Curculio

It killed the cat, in a saying

Something unusual (that killed the cat?)

What killed the cat, in a saying

More strange, to Alice

Maybe doctor takes in personal debts for stranger

Inquisitive types behave so strangely

Not straight about signs of debt, oddly

Oddly, peculiarly

Horse-grooming tool

Hostler's need

Grooming tool

""Adapted to running or walking, and not to prehension; as, the limbs of the horse are cursorial. See Illust. of Aves. as, the limbs of the horse are cursorial. See Illust. of Aves.""

In a running or hasty manner; carelessly.

Eased, as from shock.

Softened and served dish on cue

Ring in copper polished and protected

Aim of many cowboys (wordplay)

Censor's concerns

Taboos around kids

Geezer's invectives

Of confinement - aids clout (anagram)

A sentence to be penned (wordplay)

Relating to a guard or guardian

Protector/guardian (of something)

He takes care to get a discount, perhaps

Keeper of keys

Custody

According to usual practice

See us to the girl in the usual way

Commonly used or practiced

Rituals welcoming the Queen's clients

They're always right, it's said

Shop's clients

Adapt for particular requirements

Heart of 5 replacing 5 in drunken Muscovite tailor

Chop, channel, slam, etc.

Relating to the skin

Of skin

Fiercely competitive - type of razor

Court that misrepresented killer

Merciless fox to hurt cat

Cyanogen

CYCAD a tropical plant

Cyclitol

""Pertaining to, or resembling, a cycloid; as, the cycloidal space is the space contained between a cycloid and its base. as, the cycloidal space is the space contained between a cycloid and its base.""

Vast empty city with no place to settle

Gigantic.

Massive

Pictures representing a continuous scene

Pictorial landscape encircling a viewer

Curved wall used as a stage background

Physicist's accelerator

Particle-accelerating machine

Apparatus accelerating particles

Cymbalom

Cymogene

See Chrysoberyl. Chrysoberyl.

Things that strongly attract attention

They provide guidance

Very Big Apple written up in parish priest's objects of admiration

""A minute vesicle in a red seaweed, which contains the reproductive spores.""

A concretion of mineral matter within a leaf or other part of a plant.

Cytokine

Any of a class of plant hormones that promote cell division and growth and delay the senescence of leaves.

""The branch of biology that deals with the formation, structure, and function of cells.""

""Cells the degeneration of cells. ; cytolytic ,""

""A substance, such as an antibody, capable of dissolving or destroying cells.""

""Cells the degeneration of cells. ; cytolytic ,""

The dissolution or destruction of a cell.

Cell stuff

Cytosine

CYTOSOL the fluid portion of cell material

""Of, relating to, or producing a toxic effect on cells.""

A substance having a specific toxic effect on certain cells.