9-Letter Words Containing C

Cenobite

CENOBITE a member of a religious order

Specially chosen guards make use of monuments

Descriptive of a Watch-and-Warder.

Having a vet remove something

Hays office job

Denying free speech

Severe critics

Reprimanding, rebuking formally

Blaming a number before making sure

Reprimanding, rebuking

Census

Fabulous creature presses on each star thistle, for example

A 100th anniversary

One hundredth anniversary

That's for a hundred gone in time

Adjusting an axis to normal position

Moving away from the sides

Copper coins of Italy.

One-hundredth of a balboa

Fraction of a lira, once

Hundredth of an Italian lira

Centiare

Metric-system unit

That grate of mine carries little weight

Approximate weight of a grain of sand

Many-legged invertebrates

Many-legged insect

Many-jointed myriapod.

Central

How a middleman works (wordplay)

At the middle

Not put on side in this way

Very little money distresses utterly Dome's supporters

""One of two small cylindrical cell organelles composes of nine triplet microtubules, which form the asters during mitosis.""

Centrism

People in the political center

CNN's metaphorical "Elephonkey" and others

Voters who remain undecided as the electon nears, often

Centroid

Centuple

Increases 100 times

Millennial breakdowns (wordplay)

Periods of 100 years

Hundreds of years

Man of 18 (wordplay)

Roman army commander

Roman army officer

Cephalin

Some potters

Fictile craftsmen

Fictile craftsmen.

Cercaria

CERCARIA a parasitic worm

Cercaria

Parts of brains

Lower posterior parts of the brain

Occupiers of the skull's posterior fossa

Cerebral

Have an idea

Think hard

Just think how to get the beer into the crate

Cerebrum

That's the stuff for grave occasions

They're worn of late

The correct wear for grave occasions

It's wearing for those that are late

Cerotype

Certain

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

Like some important letters

Part of CPA

Mad that one had authenticated it

One giving formal confirmation

Guarantor

Certify

A feeling of conviction, given rectitude

You can't predict the weather with this

Feeling of surety

Sky blues

Cerusite

""Native lead carbonate; a mineral occurring in colorless, white, or yellowish transparent crystals, with an adamantine, also massive and compact.""

Cervelat

Cesarean

Cesarian

Stopping canoeists capsizing

Process of ending

The ending or being brought to an end

Cesspool

Whales and dolphins

Of or pertaining to the Cetacea.

Old Spanish dances

Chaffer

One who chaffers; a bargainer.

Chaffy

Refuse unit of column in flier

Measure husks first for the bird

Small European bird with a cheerful song

Feeling humiliation, dispersed in charge by Duke

Put out

Upset

Power-driven cutting tools

Lumberjack's devices

Noisy horror weapons

Skier's aid

Skier's need

Way up the slope

Chairman

""A tumour of the eyelid, pl CHALAZIONS or CHALAZIA""

""(Chemistry / Elements & Compounds) any of the elements oxygen, sulphur, selenium, tellurium, or polonium, of group 6A of the periodic table [from chalco ( pyrite ) + -gen ]""

Dry measures of old England.

Dry measures of old England

Chalky

Dispute (a statement)

Question truth of - dare

Dare to raise an objection

Challis

Chalutz

Like a nautilus

Chambray

Lizard hard for animal to eat (wild one)

Quick change artist (wordplay)

Lizard able to change its skin colour

Chamfer

Chamfron

Chammy

Chamois

Rubs with a leathery cloth

Herb for tea

Herb in herbal tea

Aromatic plant of the daisy family

It's the wine talking - fake anguish!

Holiday sparkler (wordplay)

Symbol of luxurious living.

University town in east central Illinois

Victor contrived gain in old country

Hospital used during manoeuvres in open country

Title holder burst tyre, which is illegal

Bubbly unfinished before getting extremely tipsy, which is illegal

The Braves in 1995

The Yankees often in the 20's

They win first place in competitions

Propose as a different recent art form

Enamel work almost on a par with title holder

Hazardous.

Chancy

""A venereal sore, resembling a chancre in its seat and some external characters, but differing from it in being the starting point of a purely local process and never of a systemic disease; called also soft chancre. soft chancre.""

Of the nature of a chancre; having chancre.

""An abrupt climbing turn made by an airplane, in which the plane's momentum is used to achieve a higher than normal rate of climb, without stalling the aircraft.""

Raymond's candle makers

Playback man's are dealers in corn

Ship provisioners

Marine supply business

Place where candles are kept

Place selling things for boats

Chanfron

Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain.

Nailed an impersonation of, say

Did a great job impersonating, say

Spoke exactly like

Medium

Chantage

Piaf, for one

Female singer, in a nightclub perhaps

Edith Piaf, for one

Chantry

Dense brushwood of the southwestern US

Thicket of shrubs.

Thicket of dense tangled brushwood

Chapatti

Mrs Ewing wrote to it, from six

Parent at the prom, say

Teacher at a dance, say

Guardian could be no cheaper

Parents at school parties.

Overseers of a sort

Parents at school parties

Chapiter

Service leaders in the service

Members of clergy ministering to institutions

Fellows hanging around US city with trendy clergy

Fellow given sanction, man in special headgear

Chappati

Chapter

Chaqueta

Old tourist coach

Old tourist vehicle

British bus for sightseers

Characid

Characin

A card or a letter (wordplay)

Eccentric nature (wordplay)

Imaginary person in a work of fiction

Way to cook steak

Charcoal

Caginess. wariness

Caution needed if there's a rainfall during the game

Wariness

Chariot

I stir each (anagram)

Acts of aid to the needy

Donor's beneficiaries

Wedding music of sorts.

Vicar with hairstyle that's burlesque

Hawthorne tales, thus related

Flamboyant deceiver, mountebank

Quack, fraud, a flamboyant deceiver

Cleaner's mostly slow, and an imposter

Charlock

Did Bates report her quarrel (wordplay)

Queen of puddings (wordplay)

She's a tart - but deep!

A satin-finished silk fabric.

Conservative safe, but lacking allure

Cold and safe, lacking appeal

Offensive wing left in game

Charry

Hired, as a bus

Professionally qualified - not scheduled

Like some flights

Renter of bus or ship.

Tour operator, at times

Table is for Eliot with reformers

Reformers sit around surrounded by maps

Reformers in England, 1837-48.

Tea-lady appears daily

Office building cleaner

Cleaner nation under fish wife

Some cleaners

Cleaning ladies

Cleaners.

Chasse

Breech-loading rifle of Franco-Prussian war.

Dave's mate gets thirty days, having concealed old rifle

Chasseur

Many raced, getting beaten (wordplay)

Took to task

Humiliated, Charlie stepped on the gas

That which subdues

Discipliner.

Sad ethics (anagram)

Called on the carpet

Beaten at chess, I'd messed up

Smacker from singer drinking wines

One who severely reprimands

One strapping bear taken up by hunter

Takes to task

Dresses down

Criticizes severely

Such sable woven into vestments

Togetherness of Mitford girl

Chatchka

Chatchke

The master of a castle; a castellan.

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

Talked on and on

Talked quickly about trivia - like magpie (wordplay)

During December back there the mad one had a lot in a manner of speaking

He won't shut up

One talking idly or rapidly

Ear-bender

They talk most when the static is sorted

Most gossipy woman's appearing in court

Most talkative

Chauffer

Master of the Rolls (wordplay)

Driver for private car

One is paid to drive a car

Chaunter

Chaunt

A foot covering of any kind.

'Half a dozen grinning -s watching him (Richard Jefferies, Green Ferne Farm)

English word

English word

Lowered in general esteem.

Lost value

Discredited journalist chasing each poor writer

Inferior inexpensive card

Seller of inferior goods

Seller of shoddy goods

Scan sheep (anagram)

Jack Benny trait

Parsimony

Chechako

CHECK to {inspect=v}

Bill payer's need

It needs balancing

It must be carefully balanced

Like some careers

Like a finish flag

That can not be checked or restrained.

Pattern on heel is manifest

Written record of things to be done

Record of items to be verified

*Symbol for 'O.K.'

*Symbol for "O.K."

Approval indicator

Keep tabs on one's spouse?

Associate at a bank (wordplay)

Lioness in winter (wordplay)

Checkoff

Checkout

A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; called also a bearing rein. bearing rein.

Place for coats in a cafe

Restaurant convenience

Checkrow

Cheddite

English word

Butt sex (wordplay)

Structure beneath the eye

Supermodel's asset, often

Cheekful

Most impudent

Most smile-prone

Superlatively upbeat

Least dismal

Root on

Gridiron fans without their leaders!

Reel drunkenly in game lacking spirit

Dismal end of White Queen left in game

Like Kraft macaroni (wordplay)

Most inferior in quality

Most shoddy

Chelate

The process of removing a heavy metal from a solution by means of a chelate;

Chelator

""One of the anterior pair of mouth organs, terminated by a pincherlike claw, in scorpions and allied Arachnida. They are homologous with the falcers of spiders, and probably with the mandibles of insects.""

Cheliped

Hen Nicola chopped up for reptile

Fertilizers and weed killer, say

Revolutionary claims about agents in lab

Lab compounds

(Chemistry) (tr) to take up (a substance) by chemisorption

A science (of personal attraction?)

Elementary school subject (wordplay)

Element-ary school subject (wordplay)

Chenille

Chenopod

Dress requiring cash - men go wild

Chinese dress with split skirt

Oriental dress hems can go crooked

Board of Harlequins (wordplay)

Like a chess board

Something that may bounce, like ball in test, up and down

Luscious fruit of tropical America.

Lovingly cared for

See, it's her beloved self I got rid of

After a century it's her I got rid of so tenderly

One who cherishes.

Cares deeply about

Has fond thoughts of

Is fond of, keeps in one's heart

""A very black topsoil, rich in humus, typical of cool to temperate semiarid regions, such as the grasslands of European Russia.""

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