9-Letter Words Starting with C

Type of aria

Adepts in the occult.

Wine list heading

Alternatives to Merlots

Popular reds

Cabestro

It holds kitchen items, often

Concern when renovating a kitchen

Carpenter's field

Cabotage

Cabresta

Cabresto

Cabretta

Torero's transport (wordplay)

Coupe's relative

Soft-top car

Where to get taxis

Certain no-parking zones

First-come, first-served pickup spots

Sperm whales

Endangered whales

CACHE to store in a hiding place

Ornamental casings for flower containers

Cachet

Uncontrollable desire, often for something harmful

Cadaster

Dealt a last card, showing value of holding

Public register's showing bounder among the stars

Cadastre

CADENT having rhythm

Student's term in military school

Academy student's stint

Doctor I despatch for military training

Caestus

Care if tea spilled here (wordplay)

The only waiting here is at the counter!

Eatery where there's no waiting!

Calamint

Calamite

Calctufa

Calctuff

Solve by mathematical procedure

Add or divide

Reckon copper in visit gets scoffed

Sunstroke, in medical parlance.

Adjust (gauge for accuracy)

Determine the capacity of

Mark a scale to use in taking readings

Califate

Ottoman office

Islamic state

Curly veg, if sound, consumed as religious rule

""A hard or thickened spot or protuberance; a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of continued pressure or friction.""

Greenest state with the least elevation

Having relaxing or pacifying properties; sedative.

Calotype

Calthrop

Calutron

Calypter

Calyptra

Scout's skill

Knowledge and skill required for outdoor life

RVers' rest stops

Places to stay

Locations for tents

Rotating car parts

Engine items nicknamed "bump sticks"

Auto engine parts

One who says "Iran" (wordplay)

Potential MP maybe frank over high tea

Churchill's nominee

Candid

Fired up for romance (wordplay)

Like meal with lover that's wicked!

Dance till jiggered by romantic glow

Oil-yielding tree

Hawaiians call it "kukui"

Catty fund (anagram) - flower

Floral symbol of "indifference."

Bunch follows sweet flower

Growing white

Tea holders.

Kitchen containers

Things that hold spray paint or tennis balls

""CANNIE prudent, also CANNY""

Do they prefere flat water (wordplay)

Ian Wynne and Tim Brabants, for instance

So can ties go paddling

Sanctions for experts in church law

In a singing style (mus.)

In a smooth singing style

In a singing manner

Relative of honeydew.

Fruit dish Paul at once failed to finish

Musk-melon

Providing fast food around the North

Is 'e unable to phone at speed (wordplay)

Is 'e unable to phone in a hurry (wordplay)

""A beetle (Lytta, ∨ Cantharis, vesicatoria), having an elongated cylindrical body of a brilliant green color, and a nauseous odor; the blister fly or blister beetle, of the apothecary; also called Spanish fly. Many other species of Lytta, used for the same purpose, take the same name. See Blister beetle, under Blister. The plural form in usually applied to the dried insects used in medicine. Lytta, ∨ Cantharis, vesicatoria), having an elongated cylindrical body of a brilliant green color, and a nauseous odor; the blister fly or blister beetle, of the apothecary; also called Spanish fly. Many other species of Lytta, used for the same purpose, take the same name. See Blister beetle, under Blister. The plural form in usually applied to the dried insects used in medicine.""

Hymns of praise

Songs used in church

Hymns whose strange accent is Latin

Ballad ain't clean when broadcast

Simple melodic passage

Musical part carrying melody

Canton

CANTOR a religious singer

Cantraip

Canulate

Canulate

Canzonet

Capable

Device used to store an electric charge

Energy-storage device

Charge-storing device

Round off, I agree, in excellent style

Very well, put the top on it, friend

Very well

Member of church order or chapter

Member of a religious chapter.

Member of a chapter, as of the Masonic order.

A flower cluster as in a daisy

Caponata

Finishing blocks, in architecture.

Crowning events

Culminations

Spinning responsibility!

As perfected by Mike Brearley

There is more to it than just spinning

Commanded, like Columbus

A pedantic sort was in charge

Go to Paris for a change to see them competing at the ice rink (wordplay)

With subtitles, say

Having a descriptive title.

Underwritten (wordplay)

Tell a riveting story, perhaps

Entrance the prisoner is put out at

Entrance prisoner's held at

State of being held prisoner

Hole, inside which pretty terrified inmate starts detention

Detention

""A drug used in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, such as hypertension and congestive heart failure, that functions by inhibiting the enzymes that activate angiotensin.""

Successful hunters

Portraying very well

Captain, you get around to what's catching

CARBAMATE

Add bubbles to

To make soda water.

Add fizz to

Carburet

Carcanet

One on the way up

Ladder climber

Worry at first about one wanting to get on

Caretake

Conscientious building worker (wordplay)

Sexton, for one

Janitor, e.g

Caretake

""Shaped like the keel or prow of a ship; having a carina or keel; as, a carinate calyx or leaf; a carinate sternum (of a bird).as, a carinate calyx or leaf; a carinate sternum (of a bird).""

Caritas

""The state of being carnal; fleshly lust, or the indulgence of lust; grossness of mind.""

America perhaps, after auto plant

What a blooming mechanical people!

Country estate perhaps first in bloom

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

An ore of uranium

Carotene

One of Salinger's artisans (wordplay)

Fish becomes woodworker (wordplay)

Craftsman/river sign (wordplay)

Trade in a chippy (wordplay)

One of the trades

Woodwork at the fish gate

Mid-1800s luggage

Luggage of the 1800s

Piece of luggage

Covering darling in fond embrace

Concerned about sweetheart dressing down

End of the quip

Carroty

Carrotin

Lucille Ball for one

Nicole Kidman, for one

Lucille Ball for one

Carryout

CARTEL a business organization

CARTEL a business organization

Flexible connective tissue

Connective tissue of the human body

Kind of bone

Wagons full

Crafty type follows college lads around inside for large amounts

Carton

Worked on a panel (wordplay)

Worked for Mad, maybe

Worked on a strip

CARTOP able to fit in top of a car

Oblong in Egyptian hieroglyphs

Tablet in scroll form

Any scroll-shaped ornament.

Credit rag (anagram)

Sort of paper-round (wordplay)

Sort of paper round (wordplay)

""A register, or record, as of a monastery or church.""

Is it your turn to do this (wordplay)

Handspring's kin

Part of a gymnastic routine

Women carrying building materials

Greek women relied on for support

Pillars in the form of female figures

Caryotin

Caseate

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

CASEIN a milk protein

Warship gun enclosures.

Comrades of the box for security

Roger for one may be seen through

Windows with vertical hinges

One may see through such as Sir Roger

Casket

Compact cases for recordings

Walkman owner's supply

Containers for magnetic tapes

Dish thrown out as lost cause (wordplay)

Stew with beans

Stew of scouse, late, endlessly stewed

Flamenco clappers (wordplay)

They may click at dances

Spanish dancer's clickers

Some island dwellers

Gilligan and his companions

Gilligan and friends

Casteism

Governor of a fortress

Warden in a medieval stronghold.

For one running keep tin of beer (wordplay)

Criticise cold wine scandal (wordplay)

Chastise - tacit sage (anagram)

Reprimand, showing players one way out

The oil secreted from the beaver that is used as bait by trappers

Actors awarded stars? Done!

Players given value - done

Like a gelding thrown a painter by boy

Loses membership (wordplay)

... knackers pitch and charges

CASTRATO a singer castrated in boyhood

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

Social or political upheaval.

Initially cats stay calm around upheaval

A clam cyst could be a disaster

Maze full of dead ends (wordplay)

Underground burial chambers

Rooms full of Roman remains

Catalase

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

Fit for a cat - a jumpy one, perhaps

Rigid state of seizure

Silas Marner ailment

Verse

Verse

Listed

Librarian, at times

List maker

Library-user's aid

Mail-order item

Librarian's concern

Catalyse

Enzyme's job

Acceleration of chemical reaction by independent agent

Alice is sounding so catty to get a faster reaction

They cause change

They cause things to happen

They make things happen

Type of converter

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

Constant withdrawal from capital turning City into stimulating reaction

Catalyze

CATALYZE to act at a catalyst

Catalyze

Boat for felines (wordplay)

America's Cup winner, perhaps

Feline boat (wordplay)

The monthly courses of women; menstrual discharges; menses.

Catamite

Diet portion for Tabby (wordplay)

Diet portion for Tabby?

How much feline is a lynx, for instance

""The use of a linguistic unit, such as a pronoun, to refer ahead to another unit, for example, the use of him to refer to John in the sentence Near him, John saw a snake.""

Poultice

A morbid condition caused by an overwhelming shock or extreme fear and marked by rigidity of the muscles.

Flight-deck devices

Middle Ages weapons

Old missile launchers

Waterfalls - in the eye (wordplay)

Waterfalls in the eyes (wordplay)

What Niagara Falls consists of.

""Pertaining to, produced by, or attending, catarrh; of the nature of catarrh.""

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

Catcall

Ball that should be held

Like a "can-of-corn" fly

Possibly infectious message passed round at church

Certain bags, closets, attics, etc.

Most memorable

Area from which river derives its flow

Area from which school's pupils are drawn

Water collection difficulty: pieces start to tear

Sheriff's officer is to arrest East European

Ken, ex-Australian rugby captain who always caught the ball

Bailiff.

A bailiff's assistant.

Doh! for one

"Doh!" for one

A favorite saying

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

Catechol

Positive cat is to go in Eric's custody

Without exception included in a class

Unambiguously direct

Linked in a series

Links

Catenoid

Feline shriek - cult aware (anagram)

Queens on wall heard thus (wordplay)

Tempting appeal from the Queen's Mews!

CATFACE a deformity of fruit

Catfight

Types of "whiskered" swimmers

Misleads, online

Misrepresents oneself to on the internet, in a way

Discharges of pent-up emotions

Ah! elicitors

Releases

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

Cathect

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

Cathedra

Saint Paul's, for one

Winchester, for one

St Patrick's in Dublin, say

Cathedra

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

Medical devices

Mass producers (wordplay)

Most Poles and Portuguese

Mass group

Brothels (slang) - hot sauces (anagram)

Catnaper