9-Letter Words Starting with C

Couranto

Variety of marrow

Zucchini is its American equivalent

Small green vegetable

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

Couthie

Valentino, for one

Christian Dior, for example

Dior or Klein

""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.""

""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

Bedspreads

Spreads.

Shelter.

Shelter

That may be coveted; desirable.

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

Cowrite

Like many screenplays

Like Rodgers/Hart songs

Like Lennon/McCartney songs

Coxitis

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.

Most ill-tempered

Most grouchy

Crabmeat

""A stick, cane, or cudgel, made of the wood of the carb tree.""

Be an abusive chef (wordplay)

Partly pixilated people

Their elevators don't go to the top

Crafty

Boatyard worker (wordplay)

Skilled sailor (wordplay)

Expert shipwright (wordplay)

Males with manual skills

Males with skill in the manual arts

Manual workers with great skill

Craggy

Craniate

Most irritable

Crappy

Gambling metaphor for a risky venture

Something determined entirely by chance

It's tough to predict

Cliff goes round tip of west Ireland disfiguring the landscape

Small cavity atop a volcano

Crawly

Kindergarten artist.

Most dilapidated.

Most smooth, as peanut butter

Richest, as soups

(Of sauce/soup) richest

Creasy

Creatine

Reactions to inventions

Designer garments Tories can display

Artworks, for example

Belonging to a creature; having the qualities of a creature.

Elves, reindeer, etc.

Bilbo and Bigfoot

A rest cure arranged for dependants

Believing or trusting

Having faith in.

Ones with IOUs

To whom one owes money

They are owed money

Tendency to believe anything

Willingness to swallow anything

Disposition to believe without sufficient evidence

Most spine-chilling

Describing a ghost story.

Most unsettling

Burning, of a corpse say

Making about a thousand for burning

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.

""Krnlt, Crenulated Minutely crenate.""

Creodont

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

Nectar: it's spread around top of pork crackling

Crackling

Make a crackling noise.

Rattle stone that's found outside

What it swallowed at last could be crackling

Aspects of the moon.

See about the smells of the curves

Things shaped like the waxing moon

Cresting

Like the scrub jay

Idiocy

Various countries lacking common sense

Very stupid

Not able to learn? Can, in special course

Cretonne

Aldrin, Armstrong and Collins

Cricetid

Played a bat-and-ball game

Don Bradman or David Gower, say

Wicket-keeper, for one

One striking on the square (wordplay)

Charge with an offense

Crimpy

Crispy

Swimsuit competition for one

Swimsuit competition for one

Where to play Touchstone (wordplay)

English word

Find fault with

Point out problems or mistakes

Is it Circe who turned to find fault (wordplay)

Trilling's forte.

Analysis and judgment of artistic work

Pulitzer Prize category since 1970

Dress down

Carp

Like academic research, routinely

Dissertations involving analysis and assessment

Croaky

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.

Crocoite

1 across ordered books for 14 (part 2)

French breakfast food

Buttery bakery buy

Croquet

Deep-fried dish

A fried roll of potato

Dish fried in breadcrumbs

Saws

Crosslet

Support for a railway.

Railroad sleepers.

Rail supports

Traversing Waltham, say

EastWest in Manhattan.

East-West in Manhattan.

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

Croupy

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

Crowfoot

Crowstep

Cruddy

Raw vegetables as hors d'oeuvre

Vulgar odds and ends

Most sadistic

The fourth described thus by poet in case change to 2 takes precedence

Cruelty

Softest

Crummy

Prawns and lobster perhaps act as cure

A class made up of hard cases (wordplay)

Shrimp, lobsters, etc.

Most peevish

CRUST to form a hardened outer surface

The wool from a sheep's bottom

Cryolite

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

A comblike anatomical structure

Cubature

""Kkllt ∨ kkllt, Cucullated Hooded; cowled; covered, as with a hood.""

Cucurbit

Most huggable idle stud condemned by Conservative

Cuittle

""Being vertical, or at the highest point of altitude; hence, predominant.""

Come to a climax (in)

Reach a climax (in)

Reach a peak

Cultigen

CULTISH having the qualities of a cult

Cultivar

Four-couple sect (wordplay)

Grow (crops)

Encourage secretive group that is hiding tax

English word

Culture

Heaped together

Piles up

Curative

Road block (wordplay)

Part of the street scene.

Part of the sidewalk scene.

Surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity (as the uterus) by scraping with a curette; the act of scraping with a curette.

Curette

It killed the cat, in a saying

Something unusual (that killed the cat?)

What killed the cat, in a saying

At the present time

Now spiralling payment is contained

At the moment

Cursed

Clipped two dogs (last two of breed)

Limited the last batsmen (wordplay)

In short, the dog has been docked

One who curtails.

Shut off with a portiere.

Like some windows

Like living room, for instance, with new cedar unit

Life tenures inherited from wives Law.

Life tenures inherited from wives: Law

Garden - short one, where gale is raging

Bobbed - bent the knee

Bobbing in respectful greeting

Bowing daintily

Degree of bending

The bending

Continual bending

CURVET to {prance=v}

Mean beast checked out and frisked

Frolicked.

Spicated, you say, otherwise barbed

Pointed cap suited Lulu

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.

Custumal

Relating to the skin

Of skin

Cutesy

Cuticula

""Pertaining to the cuticle, or external coat of the skin; epidermal.""

Cutinise

Cutinise

Cutinize

Cutinize

Points in nautical history (wordplay)

Ignore the girls with weapons

Count oddly misses weapons

Cutlery

Pickpockets

Fiercely competitive - type of razor

Court that misrepresented killer

Merciless fox to hurt cat

In a cutting manner.

Cutwater

Salt a runner used in run (wordplay)

Artificial sweetener could hurt my cat, Alec!

Sweetener

CYCLIC moving in complete circles

Cyclitol

Physicist's accelerator

Particle-accelerating machine

Apparatus accelerating particles

In audition, emblem is attached to foremost musician

Cysteine

""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.

Cytaster

Cytidine

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.

Czaritza