9-Letter Words Starting with C

It holds kitchen items, often

Concern when renovating a kitchen

Carpenter's field

Suspended tracks

Loud discordant sounds

Discordant mixture of sounds

Harsh discordant sound

CADDISH resembling a {cad=n}

""CAGEY shrewd, also CAGY""

Calisaya

""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.""

A cosy lull is disturbed in an insensitive way

Unfeelingly

Unfeelingly.

Calotype

""A small,cup-shaped structure""

Calypso

Calypter

Calyptra

Hat in the ring

The seeking of election

Catty fund (anagram) - flower

Floral symbol of "indifference."

Bunch follows sweet flower

Canopy

Vessel from small island carrying post

Vessel revolutionising all piracy

Post collected by small island vessel

Round off, I agree, in excellent style

Very well, put the top on it, friend

Very well

Spinning responsibility!

As perfected by Mike Brearley

There is more to it than just spinning

State of being held prisoner

Hole, inside which pretty terrified inmate starts detention

Detention

Large South American rodents

Largest rodents

Carbamyl

Carbaryl

Carbonyl

Carboxyl

With caution or prudence

With caution

Mate entertaining a judge without taking risks

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

Trade in a chippy (wordplay)

One of the trades

Woodwork at the fish gate

CARPING the act of one who {carps=v}

One-horse carriages.

Beach bags.

Tax return credit.

Tax law provision affecting prior years

Famous racehorse.

Carryout

It is what ferries do with what is left

Take on to a new page

Transfer to the next column, in math

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

Women carrying building materials

Greek women relied on for support

Pillars in the form of female figures

Pl. caryopses (- p s z ) or caryopsides (- p s -d z ) See grain .

""A onecelled, dry, indehiscent fruit, with a thin membranous pericarp, adhering closely to the seed, so that fruit and seed are incorporated in one body, forming a single grain, as of wheat, barley, etc.""

Caryotin

Casefy

Bird so cautious under the bag up there

Bird that's scary was wild about nothing

So a cry was changed of the running bird

Some island dwellers

Gilligan and his companions

Gilligan and friends

The use of clever but false reasoning

Clever but false reasoning

Logic-chopping

Social or political upheaval.

Initially cats stay calm around upheaval

A clam cyst could be a disaster

Fit for a cat - a jumpy one, perhaps

Rigid state of seizure

Silas Marner ailment

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

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

Dune a drug? Possibly, to the vulnerable

""The agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect.""

Over-water roads

Roads over water

Raised roads over water

Star born during expedition

Well-known or famous person

Quick movement, penning boy's first name

A 100th anniversary

One hundredth anniversary

That's for a hundred gone in time

How a middleman works (wordplay)

At the middle

Not put on side in this way

Cerotype

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

Chambray

Chammy

Title holder burst tyre, which is illegal

Bubbly unfinished before getting extremely tipsy, which is illegal

Marine supply business

Place where candles are kept

Place selling things for boats

""Having a changeable, varying luster, or color, like that of a changeable silk, or oa a cat's eye in the dark.""

A science (of personal attraction?)

Elementary school subject (wordplay)

Element-ary school subject (wordplay)

Luscious fruit of tropical America.

Yearn for change after smart deception

Smart one from Peebles tracks fraud

Trickery used to gain an advantage

Chimbley

""CHIRAL of a molecule, having an asymmetry which gives it a handedness property""

Variant of cherimoya .

Work that's done sitting on foot

Treatment of ailments of the feet

Treatment by footage

Pestering (someone to do something)

Chlamys

The disorder a child may wreak!

Chlamys

Like many eclairs

Vienna singing group

Young stall-holders

Sunday singers

CHOKING choke

Pertaining to a chrysalis; resembling a chrysalis.

Make a pup a thing like this (wordplay)

Protection for future monarch (wordplay)

Pupa of an insect such as a butterfly

Chymosin

Cinnamyl

Innards of electronic gadgets

The current plan

Current plan shows a way round the railway

Citify

CITIZEN a resident of a city

For the people by the people (wordplay)

People of a country as a whole

Country group

Photo featuring a skyline

Eg London space possibly in view

What a skyline is part of

CIVIC pertaining to a {city=n}

CLAMANT {noisy=adj}

Claybank

Army loses, almost routed by100 blades

Double-edged broadswords

Scottish broadswords

Clayware

After a century there are men in the telly with mercy

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

CLONIC pertaining to {clonus=n}

CLOYING cloy

Where fuel is kept.

AXIALLY pertaining to an axial

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

Slang Trifling; nearly valueless.

To form with the manners or character of a cockney.

Systematically sorting

Coemploy

""A multinucleate cytoplasmic mass enclosed by a single cell wall, as in slime molds and certain fungi and algae.""

Coenzyme

With coequality.

COEVAL one of the same era

COGNATE one that is related to another

A sticking or cleaving together; union of parts of the same body; cohesion.

Printing process used in book illustration and advertising

An eye lotion

""The light spongy pulp of the fruit of the bitter cucumber (Citrullus, ∨ Cucumis, colocynthis), an Asiatic plant allied to the watermelon; coloquintida. It comes in white balls, is intensely bitter, and a powerful cathartic. Called also bitter apple, bitter cucumber, bitter gourd. Citrullus, ∨ Cucumis, colocynthis), an Asiatic plant allied to the watermelon; coloquintida. It comes in white balls, is intensely bitter, and a powerful cathartic. Called also bitter apple, bitter cucumber, bitter gourd.""

Blimp's rank

Rosin used for preparing bows used to play musical instruments

""COLOR to paint, also COLOUR""

Pl. colostomies Surgical construction of an artificial excretory opening from the colon.

COLTISH like a colt

In a funny manner

COMMODE a {cabinet=n}

Article for trade

Traded raw material

Article of trade

It has 'county' and 'city' inside

Group of people living in a local area

It has a "county" and "city" within

In a compact manner; with close union of parts; densely; tersely.

In a complex manner; not simply.

Comply

Showing close friendship

Buddy-buddy

Being attractive keeps gunner's daughter matey

The spirit of comradeship; comradeship.

""A concave surface, or the space bounded by it; the state of being concave.""

Briefly and compactly

Clearly and in few words

In short

According to merit.

Shaped like or pertaining to a condyle.

""Pl. condylomas or condylomata (-m -t ) A wartlike growth on the skin or mucous membrane, usually in the area of the anus or the external genital organs.""

Point of agreement

Engineer crying out for agreement

Harmony in G.I. country

How dunce caps are shaped

CONNATE {innate=adj}

Faithfulness and dependability

Faithfulness to crafty canny Scot

Faithfulness of canny Scot showing off

CONTRAST to place in opposition to display differences

Stubborn perverseness; pertinacious resistance to authority.

Rudeness compounded of haughtiness and contempt; scornful insolence; despiteful treatment; disdain; contemptuousness in act or speech; disgrace.

Outwardly curved surface

Conveyer

Expressing

Signifying

Conveyor

Convoy

In a copious manner.

Synthetic compound with molecules of more than one kind

Plagiarize (wordplay)

Pupils' needs.

Copydesk

Corrects typos, perhaps

Copyhold

Copyread

Big cat, say, now drowned

Make a true facsimile?

Make a true facsimile (wordplay)

In a cordate form.

String one on the same side so warmly

With grace and courtesy

Letter writer's sign-off.

Trousers of ribbed cotton fabric

Pants with texture

Casual pants

Result of observing line on petals

Direct consequence or result

It follows naturally

The right way

In a proper manner

In an accurate manner

In a corrupt manner; by means of corruption or corrupting influences; wronfully.

Corybant

""A plant of the genus Corydalis, with beautiful compound foliage and spurred tubular flowers.Corydalis, with beautiful compound foliage and spurred tubular flowers.""

""Consisting of corymbs, or resembling them in form.""

Pl. coryphaei (-f ) The leader of a Greek chorus.

Coryphee

""The creation of the world or universe; a theory or account of such creation; as, the poetical cosmogony of Hesoid; the cosmogonies of Thales, Anaxagoras, and Plato. as, the poetical cosmogony of Hesoid; the cosmogonies of Thales, Anaxagoras, and Plato.""

Study of women's magazines (wordplay)

Oort Cloud watcher's field, perhaps

Science of the universe's origin

In a costive manner.

COSTUMER one that {dresses=v}

NCO old, yet turned over a new leaf

COUNT to {number=v}

Area surrounded by walls or buildings

Walled-in area

Open-air enclosure attached to a house

""VALENCY a chemical bond, also VALENCE""

Silly conceit or vanity.

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.

Type of juice

Thanksgiving Day sauce source

Small red fruit

CRANIAL pertaining to the skull

Crawlway

Crayola color action

Kindergarten artist.

Does this drive gardeners loco?

Does this drive gardeners loco (wordplay)

Tendency to believe anything

Willingness to swallow anything

Disposition to believe without sufficient evidence

Mortuary furnace

Cronyism

Honestly, that's not the way to do it

In a bent or twisted manner

Dishonestly, illegally

Irritable habits of Meredith's girl (wordplay)

Transversely

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

Out of sorts to a notable extent

Perhaps having a note of anger

Out of sorts, to a notable extent

""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.""

Essentially, copper is outside entrance to Room 101 with partner

Vitally

CRUNCHIE derogatory name for an Afrikaaner

They weep over trivial things

Sore losers

Constant complainers.

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