10-Letter Words Containing C

Skilled craftsmen

Mock trial, if CIA involved

Forced frail cat I upset to eat one

Kiss of life

Plural or third person singular

""A disease, usually accompanied by colicky pains and diarrhea, caused by the presence of ascarids in the gastrointestinal canal.""

A ben scaled could be construed as this

Canes get twisted up at the ball

Coming into prominence

Upper hand

Dominating influence (A, not E)

Candy canes (anagram)

Distributing candy canes with upper hand

Ancestors

Forebears

Ascendancy.

Governing or controlling influence; domination; power.

Ascendent

Carbon tip in abseil device, suitable for climbers

Climbs

Finds out in case star gets worried

Finds out Isaac Stern is playing

Establishes for sure the chump has swallowed it

Austerity of a strict hermit

Discipline of mind and body.

Diogenes belief

Asclepiad

ASCOCARP a spore-producing organ of certain fungi

Pl. ascogonia (-n - ) The female reproductive organ of ascomycetous fungi.

Any fungus of the class Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus.Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus.

Ascorbate

Ascospore

ASCOSPORE One of the spores contained in the asci of lichens and fungi.

Attributable (to)

I give praise to Paris in a hundred shapes

Assignment

The act of ascribing.

ASPHERIC not spherical

When drunk, can siestas help (wordplay)

One may give this by hand

Help a relative, protected by position

Oasis acted badly in a group, perhaps

Kind of press

Got together, tossing coats aside

Star has business ones

Word in many law firm names

Law firm employees

Identical vowel sounds

Stormy seasons can reveal sound correspondences

Promises dashed in University College, fools around

Promises

Asthmatic

Not right insight (wordplay)

Suffering distortions of vision

Having double-vision

Astrict

Astrocyte

ASTROCYTE a large star-shaped neuroglial cell in nervous tissue.

Sky-high (colloq.)

Extremely large (colloq.)

It can be so romantic - really great!

Not regularly shaped

Not perfectly balanced

Like this puzzle's grid

Type of curve, in math.

The relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times.

Ataractic

Athrocyte

With regards to nuclear energy

How a nation with nukes is armed

Barbarities at, or around, towns

Cruel deeds

Inhumanities

Capable of being fastened

Like Mr. Potato Head parts

Love sent by email (wordplay)

Love sent by e-mail (wordplay)

File with an email

Factor in grading, perhaps

Gate - enact Dante (anagram)

Guests at Blair's ball (wordplay)

Pheromone, notably

Treatise on origins of apparently toxic insect pheromone

Bringing in

Inviting.

It's not repulsive at drawing, perhaps

... for a tire company (wordplay)

Erotic experience is a drag, we're told

Easy on the ol' windows to the soul

Pleasing to the eye

In good taste

Attractor

Against expectations

One predictably in a way deviating from the expected pattern

Bill takes pity, moving colleague in an unusual way

One with lots to offer (wordplay)

One has lots to shift!

Man with lots on his mind (wordplay)

Cautioning over selling house

Activity around the block

Cautioning boss selling the house

Insolent acts

(Physics / General Physics) caused or produced by sound or an audio frequency an audiogenic epileptic fit

Adjective (-ic)

AURICULAE

To practice auscultation; to examine by auscultation.

Like a double rainbow, perhaps

Encouraging suspect given new start

Rosy doubtful about substituting top

Of or pertaining to austenite.

Autarchy

AUTARKIC relating to autarky

The branch of ecology that deals with the biological relationship between an individual organism or an individual species and its environment.

Native.

AUTOCLAVE A kind of French stewpan with a steamtight lid.

Pressure cookers

Having absolute power

Like Holmes's breakfast-table man

Croatia cut out being dictatorial

Law blaming the car (wordplay)

DIY learner in car committed the deed

Do-it-yourself learner

Having all stages of a life cycle occurring on the same host.

Autoecism

""Sexually self-satisfying, as by masturbation.""

Some cars

""AVALANCHE A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.""

Winter effects (wordplay)

Skiers' cover-alls (wordplay)

Hazard for skiers.

Adjective for Marner.

A king strangled by a savage is grasping

A savage eating most of arm, greedy

Earhart et al.

Earhart, Anne Lindbergh et al.

Amelia Earhart, and others

Rearing and care of birds.

Spare time activities

Free time fillers

Lesser jobs returning Mexican food in French planes

Avoidance

The act of avouching; positive declaration.

AXENIC free from germs

AXOPLASM the cytoplasm of an axon

Ayahuasca

Wild drunken revels

Revels in honor of the wine god.

Wild parties

Bacchante

""A polypeptide antibacterial antibiotic of known chemical structure effective against several types of Gram-positive organisms, and usually used topically for superficial local infection.""

*Ones who criticize others in their absence

Fleas

Nasty office gossip

Malicious talk

Saying mean things, at the wrestling match (wordplay)

Backbite

Backblock

Structures on basketball court.

Rebounding spots

Backcloth

Backcourt

Backdate

Football groups.

It's Dell, if one got rid of the hole (wordplay)

Second dismissal not going as intended

Returning soldiers will be having an undesired effect

Backfit

Support Bacon (wordplay)

Game belonging to the past? Nonsense!

Rump, ham or game (wordplay)

Second-floor family (wordplay)

Person's experience

One never comes to the fore

Like a tennis player's compliment?

Ambiguously flattering remark

Insincere, as a compliment.

A gift for dishonesty (wordplay)

Red Nah for a bribe at court (wordplay)

Bribe (in court?)

Backhaul

Backhouse

Backlash

BACKLASH to cause a reaction

Backlash

Backlight

Backlist

Backlog

Backpack

Traveller with a rucksack

One who likes to hike

One travelling with a rucksack

Football player goes biking (wordplay)

Starts to waffle

Does a volte-face.

Backrush

Recidivist supporter gains second cap

One who reverts

Relapser into sin

Becomes less virtuous.

Loses progress, in a way

Liberal entering behind rear seat perhaps slips

BACKSPACE

Hits the Delete key

SPLASH to scatter liquid about

Servants' secret flight (wordplay)

Type of intrigue

Scandalous

""A stitch made by setting the needle back of the end of the last stitch, and bringing it out in front of the end.""

Road in reverse (wordplay)

*Road less traveled

Best seller by Fannie Hurst

Oyakawa holds this Olympic record.

One way to swim

Swimming specialty

Backswing

Backsword

Searches for an error, maybe

Climbs down path guarded by defenders

Reluctantly; slowly; aversely.

Backwash

Backwash

Isolated, peaceful rural places

Isolated places

BACKWOODS the forest beyond cleared country

The presence of bacteria in the blood.

Of or pertaining to bacteremia.

BACTERIZE to subject to the action of bacteria.

Bacterize

Bacteroid

Fields of competence

Areas of knowledge

Areas of expertise

*Warm mask/cap amalgams

Pl. baldachins also baldachinos A rich fabric of silk and gold brocade.

Baldachin

Science of flight dynamics

Science of motion of projectiles.

Police-lab concerns

Balmacaan

Australian animals

Desperate declaration (seven letters)

Red state (wordplay)

State of insolvency

BARBASCO a variety of S American plants

Barbecuer

Behind tavern, be giving the signal by grilling

Bear cub's broken home - Goldilocks started by cooking outdoors

Venetian boat songs

Saloon girl's Venetian water music (wordplay)

Run about behind pub to hear sounds from bullfight sung on canal

Gondolier's song

Venetian boat song

Floating melody in tavern song left echo

Bareback

Burns celebrated this John

Malt liquor base

Subject of Burns poem.

Agent noun (-or)

Type of pressure

It's measured by the glass

Like some pressure

Barracker

Carmen in East London area, leading to boos and hisses (wordplay)

Barracoon

""Any of several voracious pikelike marine fishes allied to the gray mullets, constituting the genus Sphyr\'91na and family Sphyr\'91nid\'91. The great barracuda (Sphyr\'91na barracuda) of the West Indies, Florida, etc., is often six feet or more long, and as dangerous as a shark. In Cuba its flesh is reputed to be poisonous. Sphyr\'91na Argentea of the Pacific coast and Sphyr\'91na sphyr\'91na of Europe are smaller species, and are used as food.Sphyr\'91na and family Sphyr\'91nid\'91. The great barracuda (Sphyr\'91na barracuda) of the West Indies, Florida, etc., is often six feet or more long, and as dangerous as a shark. In Cuba its flesh is reputed to be poisonous. Sphyr\'91na Argentea of the Pacific coast and Sphyr\'91na sphyr\'91na of Europe are smaller species, and are used as food.""

Ferocious swimmers

""BARRICADE A fortification, made in haste, of trees, earth, palisades, wagons, or anything that will obstruct the progress or attack of an enemy. It is usually an obstruction formed in streets to block an enemy's access.""

You can't pass them on highways

Roadblocks

Obstacles in the way of a rotter protected by rails

Basicity

BASOPHILE

Deep-sea submersible

Pertaining to the Batrachia.

Beachcomb

Coastal strip of land, and a hint to the starts of the starred answers

Beachgoer

D-Day landing locales

Hair-cutting job

Candidate for "What's My Line?"

One who has to take a makeup test (wordplay)

Becarpet

Bechalk

Bechance

Becharm

Beclamor

Beclasp

Becloak

Beclog

Beclothe

Becloud

Beclown

In a becoming manner.

Becoward

Becrawl

Becrowd

Becrust

Becudgel

Where there may be a four-poster

Room for sleeping

Sleeping quarters

Nightcaps, for example (wordplay)

Pajamas, e.g

Sheets, blankets, etc.

Bedrench

Bedrench

Plural noun or verb form

Befleck

Complained

When in trouble, he called by and went on complaining

Beefed

Ring sailor? No time, he complains

Faultfinding type

Persistent complaints left by Chelsea wags

Complains

In the hold.

In a ship's hull... and where it's at

In the hull of a ship

Benchland

Sit McGwire and Teixeira (wordplay)

Criteria for judging judges (wordplay)

Points of reference, for surveyors.