11-Letter Words Starting with C

Caterpillar that is a pest of certain green vegetables

Cabinetry

Pride of the kitchen, perhaps

Kitchen feature

""CALIBRATE To ascertain the caliber of, as of a thermometer tube; also, more generally, to determine or rectify the graduation of, as of the various standards or graduated instruments.""

9 politician to wear raincoat when going out

Calibrator

Adjective (-able)

Old religious ornaments.

Menorah, for example

Holder for several lights

Source of light when lit

""Tree A shrub (the Myrica cerifera, or waxbearing myrtle), common in North America, the little nuts of which are covered with a greenish white wax, which was formerly, used for hardening candles; also called bayberry tree, bayberry, or candleberry. Myrica cerifera, or waxbearing myrtle), common in North America, the little nuts of which are covered with a greenish white wax, which was formerly, used for hardening candles; also called bayberry tree, bayberry, or candleberry.""

CANNABIN a resin extracted from cannabis

Cannabinol

To salvage parts from wreck is in balance

Island's cutting three-quarters of shrewdest use for spare parts

Not very humanist practice (wordplay)

The eating of one's own species

Like eating like

Use parts of one thing to repair another thing

Passes from Boavista's Reggie (wordplay)

Splashy dives

Some dives

Large diving ducks

Patio furniture

Wild ducks

The quality or state of being capable; capability; adequateness; competency.

Carabineer

Carabinero

""Pl. carabinieri (-b n-yâr , -b -ny r ) A member of the Italian police force.""

Italian paramilitary police

Carabinier

""Having a ring composed exclusively of carbon atoms, as benzene.""

Carbonado

Carbonado

""CARBONATE A salt or carbonic acid, as in limestone, some forms of lead ore, etc.""

Process that makes water bubbly

Pasta-and-potato-loving country (wordplay)

Soda-making process that explains four transformations in this puzzle (wordplay)

CARBONIZE To cover (an animal or vegatable substance) into a residue of carbon by the action of fire or some corrosive agent; to char.

Carbonnade

An enzyme that catalyzes a carboxylation or decarboxylation reaction.

To treat a chemical compound with carboxyl or carboxylic acid.

Belonging to a carbuncle; resembling a carbuncle; red; inflamed.

CARBURET to combine chemically with carbon

CARBURET to combine chemically with carbon

Pre-EFI fuel/air mixers

Fuel injection forerunners

Parts of '69 Mustangs

Carburet

CARBURET to combine chemically with carbon

Part of car engine

Part of internal combustion engine

Car's petrol/air-mixing device

CARBURISE

CARBURIZE To combine wtih carbon or a carbon compound; said esp. of a process for conferring a higher degree of illuminating power on combustible gases by mingling them with a vapor of valatile hydrocarbons.

Casebearer

Abstract noun (-ity)

Catabolism

Catabolite

CATABOLIZE

Catabolize

Rebel acting riotously, living it up

Commemorating having binge with claret flowing

Clubs excite Beatle - Ringo's not old and is at party ...

Star's allowance for party (wordplay)

Reception, for example

Famous person with share in a 10

They praise able rector's broadcast

Revelers

Festive

People fodder (wordplay)

Big names in disarray: I cite rebels

Famous people

Cellobiose

Sailboat device.

They help maintain balance

Thinking

""Action of the brain, whether conscious or unconscious.""

""Any of various lipid compounds containing glucose or galactose and glucose, and found in the brain and other nerve tissue.""

Presenting symptoms of mental illness sufficient for legal commitment to a mental institution.

CERTIFIABLE presenting symptoms of mental illness sufficient for legal commitment to a mental institution.

Chalkboard

Chalybeate

Court official - former Prime Minister!

British Prime Minister, 1937.

PM's domestic officer

Servant combining charm with bed? I am!

Source of mints, at times

Making bed with charm, am I? Possibly

Grilled on a rack that leaves black stripes

Charbroil

Chemisorb

CHERISH to hold dear

Things that have black squares

Chifforobe

Due processes (wordplay)

Jam-packed timer filled with wine notes

Crammed to capacity

Filled to capacity

Not staining readily with dye. Used of a cell or cell structure.

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

""A mineral, found in crystals, of a yellow to green or brown color, and consisting of aluminia and glucina. It is very hard, and is often used as a gem.""

Cicisbeism

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

Clapboard

Clofibrate

Cloudburst

Clubhaul

Part of old road surface

Rounded irregular lump used in paving

Piece of road surfacing material

Cobwebby

Cockbill

Coembody

Capable of being known.

Cohabitant

Abstract noun (-ity)

Work together

Work jointly

Like an air-filled lifeboat

Like card tables

Able to be folded down

They link the scapula and sternum

COLLECT to {gather=v}

Capable of being collected.

See springtail .

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.

Capable of igniting and burning

Easily excited with clue, it bombs miserably

Inflammable

COMBUST to {burn=v}

Combustion

Articles of food

Timeless cob (anagram) - food

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.

Worthy of praise

Deserving praise

COMMEND to {praise=v}

Mad, but it can be done

That may be compacted.

Capable of being compassed or accomplished.

Compatible

Capable of being compelled or constrained.

Receiving money for services rendered.

Capable of being concealed.

""Capable of being conceived, imagined, or understood.""

Possibly

Cohabitation of Tory with young pup when old

Worthy of condemnation; blamable; culpable.

""Capable of being condensed; as, vapor is condensable. as, vapor is condensable.""

""Capable of being condensed; as, a gas condensible to a liquid by cold. as, a gas condensible to a liquid by cold.""

Capable of being conducted.

Chat

Capable of being conferred.

CONFESS to admit or disclose

That may be confirmed.

Capable of being confiscated; liable to forfeiture.

""Corresponding in form, character, opinions, etc.; similar; like; consistent; proper or suitable; -- usually followed by to.to.""

CONFORM to {comply=v}

""CONGLOBATE Collected into, or forming, a rounded mass or ball; as, the conglobate""

Conglobate

CONNECT to join together

To link or be linked together; join; fasten

Connubial

CONSCRIBE To enroll; to enlist.

CONSIGN to give over to another's care

CONSTRUE to interpret

Consumable

Able to be constrained

Possible to control

Capable of being contested; debatable.

Contraband

Given change but no credit

Added to

Added

Contribute

One sending in articles for publication

One writing for, eg, magazine

Donor, giver

Extended built-up area

Agglomeration of towns

Sprawl of linked towns

Qualified for conversation; disposed to converse; sociable; free in discourse.

Car not fixed (wordplay)

Car to suit missionary (wordplay)

Type of car

In a convertible manner.

Copublish

Copublish

Copublish

Cornerback

Capable of being corrected.

Strengthening; supporting; corroborating.

Confirm Conservative talk about 12, say

Back up (a statement)

Confirm (a statement)

Corroboree

Open to bribery

CORRUPT to {debase=v}

In corymbs.

English word

Counterbid

A retaliatory hit

Befitting or indicating a coxcomb; like a coxcomb; foppish; conceited.

Coxcombry

CRABBED crab

Some pesky weeds

Crackbrain

Small red fruits

Fruity Thanksgiving sauce base

Product of Cape Cod.

Cranesbill

Talent for being convincing

Quality of being believable

Convincing quality

Crispbread

Crookback

""A term used when a narrow ribbon of veneer is inserted into the surfase of any piece of furniture, wainscoting, etc., so that the grain of it is contrary to the general surface.""

Crossbar

One who carries a Christian symbol

Religious procession VIP

Angry toxophilite (wordplay)

Irritated archer

An ill-natured musician, expert with the arbalest

CROSSBOW a weapon for shooting bolts

Schnoodles and others

Mules are leading boys into prickly tall grass

Crowbar

Crowberry

CRUMBLE to break up and fall away

The study of the effects of very low temperatures on living organisms.

Blameworthiness

Cumberbund

Cummerbund

""Pl. cumulonimbuses or cumulonimbi (-b ) An extremely dense, vertically developed cumulus with a relatively hazy outline and a glaciated top extending to great heights, usually producing heavy rains, thunderstorms, or hailstorms.""

CURABLE able to be cured

Did a groom's job

Curveball

Cuttlebone

Computer control of machines

Ersatz-brain study

Science comparing computers with man's nervous system

Scientific study here in Switzerland by heartless company jerks

Cyberspace