9-Letter Words Starting with C

It holds kitchen items, often

Concern when renovating a kitchen

Carpenter's field

Loud discordant sounds

Discordant mixture of sounds

Harsh discordant sound

CADDISH resembling a {cad=n}

""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.

Hat in the ring

The seeking of election

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

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}

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

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

The use of clever but false reasoning

Clever but false reasoning

Logic-chopping

Fit for a cat - a jumpy one, perhaps

Rigid state of seizure

Silas Marner ailment

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

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

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

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

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

A science (of personal attraction?)

Elementary school subject (wordplay)

Element-ary school subject (wordplay)

Yearn for change after smart deception

Smart one from Peebles tracks fraud

Trickery used to gain an advantage

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

Work that's done sitting on foot

Treatment of ailments of the feet

Treatment by footage

Like many eclairs

CHOKING choke

Innards of electronic gadgets

The current plan

Current plan shows a way round the railway

CITIZEN a resident of a city

For the people by the people (wordplay)

People of a country as a whole

Country group

CIVIC pertaining to a {city=n}

CLAMANT {noisy=adj}

After a century there are men in the telly with mercy

CLONIC pertaining to {clonus=n}

CLOYING cloy

AXIALLY pertaining to an axial

Slang Trifling; nearly valueless.

To form with the manners or character of a cockney.

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.

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.

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.

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

In a copious manner.

In a cordate form.

String one on the same side so warmly

With grace and courtesy

Letter writer's sign-off.

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.

""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}

COUNT to {number=v}

""VALENCY a chemical bond, also VALENCE""

Silly conceit or vanity.

Type of juice

Thanksgiving Day sauce source

Small red fruit

CRANIAL pertaining to the skull

Tendency to believe anything

Willingness to swallow anything

Disposition to believe without sufficient evidence

Mortuary furnace

Honestly, that's not the way to do it

In a bent or twisted manner

Dishonestly, illegally

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

CRYOSCOPE an instrument for measuring freezing and melting points.

In a cubical method.

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

CULTISH having the qualities of a cult

With guile

Artfully.

It killed the cat, in a saying

Something unusual (that killed the cat?)

What killed the cat, in a saying

Inquisitive types behave so strangely

Not straight about signs of debt, oddly

Oddly, peculiarly

At the present time

Now spiralling payment is contained

At the moment

CURRISH like a cur

CURSIVE a type of flowing handwriting

In a running or hasty manner; carelessly.

According to usual practice

See us to the girl in the usual way

Commonly used or practiced

In a cutting manner.

CYCLIC moving in complete circles

In a cynical manner.