11-Letter Words Starting with C

Chimaerism

A type of deep-fried burrito

Tortilla appetizer

J. Goodall subjects

Goodall subjects

Primates

Chinchilla

Chinquapin

Chionodoxa

Chirality

""The art of writing or engrossing; handwriting; as, skilled in chirography. as, skilled in chirography.""

Palm reader

Same as chiropter.chiropter.

Did some social work (wordplay)

Made small talk

Shot the breeze

Chivaree

CHLORALOSE

Chloralose

Chloramine

""CHLORINATE To treat, or cause to combine, with chlorine.""

Chlorinate

""CHLORINATE To treat, or cause to combine, with chlorine.""

""A plastid containing chlorophyll, developed only in cells exposed to the light. Chloroplasts are minute flattened granules, usually occurring in great numbers in the cytoplasm near the cell wall, and consist of a colorless ground substance saturated with chlorophyll pigments. Under light of varying intensity they exhibit phototactic movements. In animals chloroplasts occur only in certain low forms.""

Choanocyte

Jam-packed timer filled with wine notes

Crammed to capacity

Filled to capacity

Sweet maker/seller

Specialist confectioner

Sweet maker

Man of music.

Church music leader

Lifter of voices

Plural or third person singular

Suppression of biliary flow.

Suppression of biliary flow.

Devise movements for (ballet)

Compose moves (for a ballet)

Emulated Michael Kidd

The mapping or description of a region or district.

Numskull.

Numbskull

Ignoramus

""The act of applying the chrism, or consecrated oil.""

Name of Oslo from 1624 to 1877

Former name for Oslo

Ex-name of Oslo

CHROMATIN Tissue which is capable of being stained by dyes.

The difference between one color and a reference color of the same brightness and chromaticity.

""A plastid that contains pigments other than chlorophyll, usually yellow or orange carotenoids.""

CHROMOSOME One of the minute bodies into which the chromatin of the nucleus is resolved during mitotic cell division; the idant of Weismann. idant of Weismann.

Chronical

Chronogram

Accurate time-measuring device

Chrysalid

Chrysalis

""A bitter, yellow substance forming the essential constituent of Goa powder, and yielding chrysophanic acid proper; hence formerly called also chrysphanic acid. chrysphanic acid.""

""An applegreen variety of chalcedony, colored by nickel. It has a dull flinty luster, and is sometimes used in jewelry.""

English word

Dolt or rockfish

Black-bellied plover.

Not so smart with a little laughter (wordplay)

Chuckwalla

Chugalug

Female pastor, e.g

Female pastor, for example

Cathedral-length units (wordplay)

""Relating to, or having the character of, a cicatrix.""

""CICATRIZE To heal or induce the formation of a cicatrix in, as in wounded or ulcerated flesh.""

Cinemagoer

CINEMATIZE

Cinematize

""Pertaining to, or resembling, cinnabar; consisting of cinnabar, or containing it; as, cinnabarine sand. as, cinnabarine sand.""

Circinate

CIRCULAR a leaflet

The quality or state of being circular; a circular form.

CIRCULAR a leaflet

""Moving or flowing in a circuit and returning to the same point; as, steam circulating through the pipes; the circulating thyroid hormones.as, steam circulating through the pipes; the circulating thyroid hormones.""

Caloric unit (anagram)

Blood flow round body

Number representing total magazines sold

Promoting circulation; circulating.

Circulator

Going round and round

After crucial operation, politician's making the rounds

Revolving about or surrounding the moon.

""About the pole; applied to stars that revolve around the pole without setting; as, circumpolar stars. as, circumpolar stars.""

""A high-altitude, thin, hazy cloud, usually covering the sky and often producing a halo effect.""

CITRONELLA

Citronella

CIVILIAN a nonmilitary person

Cladoceran

Cladophyll

Rene, the prophet (wordplay)

Broken crayon vital for one who makes 3s

First-year law course

In a vociferous fashion

Wound isn't cleaned in private

Intend tailing tribe in secret

Almost doomed by family secret

Clangour

Clapboard

To fight and scratch.

Artie Shaw, for one

Woody Allen, for one

Woodwind player (US spelling)

In a classical manner; according to the manner of classical authors.

Classicism

Greek scholars

CLASSICIZE to make classic or classical.

Classicize

Newspaper ad handlers

Putting things into categories

Taxonomist's job

Clavichord

Clavierist

Past tense or past participle

Concern of the fastidious

Proverbially, almost as good as piety

Student leaves Nell, nice lass taking trouble in keeping pure

Cleanness

Mentally alert

Alert; logical

Perceptive

Clearness

Botany Of or relating to a flower that does not open and is self-pollinated in the bud.

A woman who is a member of the clergy.

An excessive devotion to the interests of the sacerdotal order; undue influence of the clergy; sacerdotalism.

One devoted to matters of the clergy

Critical period or event

William -, Eng. politician, philanthropist

Atmosphere around college mostly productive? That's a crucial point

Study of long-term weather

Study of alarming changes, nowadays

Clofibrate

CLOSTRIDIA

Cloudscape

Impressive highway formations

Highway interchanges

Interstate interchanges

""A semisynthetic antibiotic of the penicillin group that is used primarily to treat infections caused by staphylococci, streptococci, or pneumococci.""

Clubhaul

Coacervate

Coadmit

COAGULATE Coagulated.

Hardening (of blood)

Nautical goo could be forming a clot

A coming together

The growing together of parts

Growing together

Coanchor

Coappear

Coaptation

Confinement to a narrow space.

Coassist

They keep strangers at bay

Because of these fellows' activities, a drug costs a mint

Coatdress

Coatimundi

Coattend

Coattest

Coauthor

COCAINIZE To treat or an\'91sthetize with cocaine.

Cocaptain

Cocatalyst

Cochampion

Little men with big ideas.

Cockatrice

Cockchafer

Cockroach

Cocktail

""CULTIVATE To bestow attention, care, and labor upon, with a view to valuable returns; to till; to fertilize; as, to cultivate soil. as, to cultivate soil.""

Partner in crime, perhaps

Often danced around in front of the judge

Of the nature of a codicil.

Codominant

Codswallop

""An educating together, as of persons of different sexes or races.""

Coelacanth

Coenamor

""Inflected form of ENZYMATIC Inflected form of ENZYME a complex protein, also ENZYM""

Coevality

Cofavorite

FEATURING feature

Percolator, machine for making hot drinks

FINANCING finance

""GENERATOR One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.""

Cogitation

COGNITION The act of knowing; knowledge; perception.

Cognizance

Cohabitant

Abstract noun (-ity)

""Insurance jointly with another or others; specif., that system of fire insurance in which the insurer is treated as insuring himself to the extent of that part of the risk not covered by his policy, so that any loss is apportioned between him and the insurance company on the principle of average, as in marine insurance or between other insurers.""

Colatitude

Unaffected by emotion

Like the cruel meteorologist

Lacking compassion

Colemanite

Insect having hard or horny forewings

Pl. coleorhizae (-z ) A protective sheath enclosing the embryonic root of grasses.

Inflected form of LINEARITY Inflected form of LINEAR resembling a straight line

Work together

Work jointly

Any of various enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of collagen and gelatin.

Containing or resembling collagen.

Like an air-filled lifeboat

Like card tables

Able to be folded down

They link the scapula and sternum

Collateral

COLLECT to {gather=v}

""Passages selected from various authors, usually for purposes of instruction; miscellany; anthology.""

Collegial

See springtail .

A tissue of vegetable cells which are thickend at the angles and (usually) elongated.

COLLIGATE To tie or bind together.

A binding together.

COLLIGATE To tie or bind together.

""COLLIMATE To render parallel to a certain line or direction; to bring into the same line, as the axes of telescopes, etc.; to render parallel, as rays of light.""

""The act of collimating; the adjustment of the line of the sights, as the axial line of the telescope of an instrument, into its proper position relative to the other parts of the instrument.""

Collimator

""COLLISION The act of striking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing.""

COLLOCATE Set; placed.

The placing of things together

Colloidal

Colloquial

""LOGARITHM One of a class of auxiliary numbers, devised by John Napier, of Merchiston, Scotland (15501617), to abridge arithmetical calculations, by the use of addition and subtraction in place of multiplication and division. The relation of logarithms to common numbers is that of numbers in an arithmetical series to corresponding numbers in a geometrical series, so that sums and differences of the former indicate respectively products and quotients of the latter; thus The relation of logarithms to common numbers is that of numbers in an arithmetical series to corresponding numbers in a geometrical series, so that sums and differences of the former indicate respectively products and quotients of the latter; thus""

Policy that forms empires

Ethnocentric foreign policy

Oscillation (anagram)

Oscillation (wordplay)

Advocate of a certain foreign policy.

COLONIAL a citizen of a colony

Combinations of hues

Chromatic patterns.

Florid musical instruments.

Some lyric sopranos

Sills et al.

Colportage

A dovecote or pigeon house.

Combative

Items joined together

Student's lock opener

Marriage state? Tease one at first

Produced by a combinatorial process.

COMBINATE United; joined; betrothed.

""MEDICALLY In a medical manner; with reference to healing, or to the principles of the healing art.""

Deserved rebuke Slang.

Deserved rebuke: Colloq.

Deserved rebuke Colloq.

At ease in body or mind

Like a broken-in easy chair

Cosy; free from money worries

COMFORT to {console=v}

Capable of being commanded.

Commandant

Takes possession of.

'Borrows' peremptorily

Borrows peremptorily

Order (one of ten)

A divine rule

Any of the Decalogue

Mark (an earlier event)

Serve as a reminder of

Celebrate, remember

Worthy of praise

Deserving praise