10-Letter Words Containing C

Macaronic

Macaroni

Macedoine

Macerate

Process of soaking fixed amount of spice

Process of breaking up staff allowance

Staff given allowance in softening-up process

Macerator

Suited to lathe-working

Joined with friend inside and plotted

Schemed to get married outside the country

Fancy plates

Plotter in country besieged by dull soldiers

Leader of men taking a country to right is seen as a plotter

Machinist

Scotsman worn out (wordplay)

Designer label in top and rubbish coat

Cover for an art-nouveau designer

Universes

Macrocyte

""MACROCYTE An abnormally large red blood cell, associated with pernicious anemia.""

Macromere

A large phagocyte.

A macroscopic plant.

English word

Maculate

Stain

""Resembling, or pertaining to, the genus Madrepora.Madrepora.""

Maffick

Wise men's girl on bench

Mark a point with sharp beaks

The bench

Grand; splendid; illustrious; magnificent.

Weird faint magic of canticle

One replaces measure in beautiful hymn

Song of rhapsody and praise.

Magnifico

Mahlstick

""A large letter, either capital or uncial, used in writing or printing.""

Capital letters

Malachite

The science which relates to the structure and habits of mollusks.

Crab, not the apple

One with grouse

Faultfinding type

Maledict

Criminal testosterone (wordplay)

Fellow-broker may be a gangster

Agent in pursuit of man is a criminal

Hurtful as one of Gordon's evil-doers

Like evildoers

Doing evil

Pl. malignancies also malignance (-n ns) The state or quality of being malignant.

""The state or quality of being malignant; extreme malevolence; bitter enmity; malice; disposition toward evil; intense ill will; as, malignancy of heart.as, malignancy of heart.""

Secondary fermentation

Mammock

""A euphorbiaceous tree (Hippomane Mancinella) of tropical America, having a poisonous and blistering milky juice, and poisonous acrid fruit somewhat resembling an apple. Hippomane Mancinella) of tropical America, having a poisonous and blistering milky juice, and poisonous acrid fruit somewhat resembling an apple.""

Appropriate or peculiar to a mandarin.

Master murderer back with friend in a mad way

Manicure

Hands-on beautician (wordplay)

Marital mismatch quip (Part 2)

She's defiled (wordplay)

Araucaria absent in exam about dealing with comparison of pressures

Manticore

Author's typed draft

Musicologist's find

The earliest literary form

What when drunk is crimson, aha!

Liqueur makes chairman so drunk!

Harmonicas (anagram) - cherry liqueur

Marcasite

Marcel

Marchpane

Mascara

Hard cheese? Far from it!

Mum's only eating fish and cheese

A soft Italian cream cheese

Masculine

Masochism

Painfully aware people (wordplay)

Scots Amish splinter group getting pleasure from pain

Massacrer

Doing a lot of damage to*

Wiping out call after service bill

Of or pertaining to the masseter.

""Pl. mastectomies Surgical removal of all or part of a breast, sometimes including excision of the underlying pectoral muscles and regional lymph nodes, usually performed as a treatment for cancer.""

Chewed on

Chewed

Chews

One who masticates.

MASTODON an extinct elephant-like mammal

A board that has a groove cut into one edge and a tongue cut into the other so they fit tightly together (as in a floor); see match boarding.match boarding.

PHILLUMENIST

Containers of a sort.

Phillumenist's collection

Small cardboard containers

Union shuts away old guns

Test God as Cupid (wordplay)

Dolly Levi, for one

Boxing's Don King (wordplay)

Red-headed striker (wordplay)

How to light up a game with criticism

Agree to fix being very thin

Matchwood

See Mathematical. Mathematical.

Matriarch

Rule by mothers

Rule by women

Woman bosses modified hems on tiny armchair

Of or pertaining to matricide.

They're sure to live longer than their mothers

Name deriving from female ancestor; my, romantic (anagram)

Maulstick

Bottom for one without intelligence

Kind of drawing

Fixer and Mafia boss, unconscious

Mechanism

Mechanist

MECHANIZE To cause to be mechanical.

MECHANIZE To cause to be mechanical.

Provides with armored motor vehicles

Makes automatic

Meclizine

""MEDEVAC to evacuate the wounded from a battlefield by helicopter, also MEDIVAC""

MEDIAE media

Doctor meant to change the remedy

Healing substance

Curative substance

Medicate

Nurse's concern

Doctor's offering

Caught in a way to settle dispute: drugs, perhaps

Medicinal

Medicine

Person of only average ability

Clay forms each summer

for example Tobacco pipe

Pipe bowl material

Megacity

Little woman's transports (wordplay)

Huge bikes in engineering units

Like Stonehenge

One million parsecs.

""MEGAPHONE A device to magnify sound, or direct it in a given direction in a greater volume, as a very large funnel used as an ear trumpet or as a speaking trumpet.""

""MEGASCOPE A modification of the magic lantern, used esp. for throwing a magnified image of an opaque object on a screen, solar or artificial light being used.""

MEGASPORE

What is 6? 2 says 'fruit and veg'

Blue state (wordplay)

Dog that eats honeydew?

Affected with melanism; of the nature of melanism.

An epidermal cell capable of synthesizing melanin.

With multiple notes sung to one syllable

In threatening manner

Glance in my direction in intimidatory manner

MENARCHE the first occurrence of menstruation

A demonic mad American lying

(adj.) obsessed with fixing things

Having used Monica, resorted to lying

Begging to repair vessel in the cold

Those poor solicitors!

Alms seekers

These poor beggars finish by the thousand in cats

MENING mene

Meniscus

Relating to trade or commerce

Engaged in trade.

Mail centre becomes profit oriented

Mercaptan

MERCERISE

Mercerise

""MERCERIZE To treat (cotton fiber or fabrics) with a solution of caustic alkali. Such treatment causes the fiber to shrink in length and become stronger and more receptive of dyes. If the yarn or cloth is kept under tension during the process, it assumes a silky luster.""

Mercerize

Merchant

To one's great relief

MERCURATE

Mercurate

Mercurial

Ruler chosen for excellence

Mescaline

""The part of the embryonic mesoderm, consisting of loosely packed, unspecialized cells set in a gelatinous ground substance, from which connective tissue, bone, cartilage, and the circulatory and lymphatic systems develop.""

Pertaining to a mesentery; mesaraic.

MESOPHYTE

Any of ten human bones

Bone in hand

Bone came apart, fragments left

Came across a fish with useless bones

Part of hand between wrist and fingers

Palm bone

""∨ tre The point of intersection of a vertical line through the center of gravity of the fluid displaced by a floating body which is tipped through a small angle from its position of equilibrium, and the inclined line which was vertical through the center of gravity of the body when in equilibrium.""

""(used with a sing. verb) The study of the meaning and nature of ethical terms, judgments, and arguments.""

Like "chariot of fire" for the sun

Not literal

Figurative way to omit chapter where model disappears

Philosophical groundwork

In what orchestras make, the pay varies - there's no universal system of thought

""Of, pertaining to, or caused by, metastasis; as, a metastatic abscess; the metastatic processes of growth. as, a metastatic abscess; the metastatic processes of growth.""

METATE a stone used for grinding grains

Of a space-travelling object that has fallen to earth

English word

Systematic though brief in examination

Way I state to be orderly

Organised Oldie match at sea

Very careful and precise

Super-attentive to detail

Extremely careful

In a metrical manner.

METRICIZE

Metricize

""METRONOME An instrument consisting of a short pendulum with a sliding weight. It is set in motion by clockwork, and serves to measure time in music.""

Micrify

Microbeam

Microbrew

Sudden localized air current

Sudden violent downrush of air

Severe, storm-related downdraft

Microbus

Potato products in computers (wordplay)

Snack for an amoeba (wordplay)

Byte to eat (wordplay)

""A mineral of the feldspar group, like orthoclase or common feldspar in composition, but triclinic in form.""

""Pl. micrococci (-k k s , -k k ) A spherical, aerobic, gram-positive bacterium of the genus Micrococcus, usually occurring in irregular clusters.""

Microcode

Tiny universes

Miniature versions

English word

Microcyte

""MICROCYTE One of the elementary granules found in blood. They are much smaller than an ordinary corpuscle, and are particularly noticeable in disease, as in an\'91mia.""

The millionth part of a farad.

English word

Tiny tuna (wordplay)

Outmoded data storage

Strange choice firm made for archive medium

Microfilm

Extremely small plants

Microform

English word

Microgram

An instrument for executing minute writing or engraving.

Noun (-age)

""MICROLITE A rare mineral of resinous luster and high specific gravity. It is a tantalate of calcium, and occurs in octahedral crystals usually very minute.""

Microlith

Microlux

Microlux

Micromere

Tiny distance measure

Precision instrument

Measure of the small-time crime waves engulfing capital

Micromini

English word

Micromole

MICRONIZE

Micronize

A small phagocyte.

Just the instrument for great sound!

Sound investment (wordplay)

Emcee's need

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) Botany the relatively small type of leaf produced by club mosses and horsetails Compare megaphyll

English word

Micropore

(Miscellaneous Technologies / Photography) Photog a small prism incorporated in the focusing screen of many single-lens reflex cameras. The prism stops shimmering when the subject is in focus

English word

Botany A minute opening in the ovule of a seed plant through which the pollen tube usually enters.

Micropyle

English word

English word

An eye for detail (wordplay)

This makes for swell viewing!

It blows up in the lab

Seeing Little and Large in road, credit impersonation

""A feeble earth tremor not directly perceptible, but detected only by means of specially constructed apparatus.""

MICROSOME a tiny granule in the cytoplasm of a cell; it consists of ribosomes bound to fragments of the endoplasmic reticulum and mitochondria.

Microsome

""One of the exceedingly minute spores found in certain flowerless plants, as Selaginella and Isoetes, which bear two kinds of spores, one very much smaller than the other. Cf. Macrospore. Selaginella and Isoetes, which bear two kinds of spores, one very much smaller than the other. Cf. Macrospore.""

MICROS micro

Microtome

MICROTONE

Microtone