11-Letter Words Starting with C

Citronella

""A colorless liquid, C 10 H 20 O, with a roselike odor, derived from any of several essential oils or made synthetically and used extensively in perfumery.""

Citrulline

CIVILIAN a nonmilitary person

Cladoceran

Wound isn't cleaned in private

Intend tailing tribe in secret

Almost doomed by family secret

Clapboard

To fight and scratch.

Artie Shaw, for one

Woody Allen, for one

Woodwind player (US spelling)

CLASSICIZE to make classic or classical.

Classicize

Newspaper ad handlers

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.

Female priests

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

Clingstone

Clinometer

Cliometric

Footwear of sorts.

Large, heavy shoes

Heavy shoes

Clofibrate

Cloister

Clomiphene

Clonicity

Mean and prepared to fight

Stingy

Closeness

Closestool

Fashion designer's work (wordplay)

Air dryer (wordplay)

Washing up - and drying!

Laundry room supply, for some

Laundry room supply

They leave things hanging

Cloudless

Cloudscape

Impressive highway formations

Highway interchanges

Interstate interchanges

Coacervate

A coming together

The growing together of parts

Growing together

Coappear

Coatdress

Coattend

Coattest

Part of old road surface

Rounded irregular lump used in paving

Piece of road surfacing material

Cobwebby

Cocaptain

Plural or third person singular

Cockatrice

Cockchafer

Cockiness

Protection for mollusc - flimsy boat

Small, light, flimsy boat

Small shallow boat

COCKNEY a resident of London's East End

Cockneyfy

Cockneyism

Cockroach

Cocksucker

Cocomposer

Cocounsel

""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

Relying heavily on a partner

Codesign

Codevelop

Codevelop

Codirect

""DIRECTION The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o. as, the direction o.""

Codirector

Codiscover

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

Mathematical multiplier (in an equation)

Factor that measures some property (physics)

Numerical multiplier of an algebraic variable

Coelacanth

Pl. coelentera (-t r- ) The saclike cavity within the body of a coelenterate.

Coembody

Coemploy

Coenamor

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

Coevality

""EVOLUTION The act of unfolding or unrolling; hence, in the process of growth; development; as, the evolution of a flower from a bud, or an animal from the egg. as, the evolution of a flower from a bud, or an animal from the egg.""

Coexecutor

Subject of current controversy.

Proposed substitute for cold war.

One alternative to an armed world.

Coextend

""Equally extensive; having as, consciousness and knowledge are coextensive. as, consciousness and knowledge are coextensive.""

Cofavorite

FEATURING feature

Home of a hot drink (wordplay)

18th-century meeting place

Place where people work for beans (wordplay)

Percolator, machine for making hot drinks

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

Cognitive

Cognizance

Expert

Well-informed people

Very well-informed people

Those in the know since con got busted

Capable of being known.

Coheiress

Coherency

Cohostess

Cohostess

Simultaneous or connected occurrence

Believe It or Not! item, often

Correspondence, result of an accident (wordplay)

Coinfer

""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.""

Cointer

Coinvent

Coinventor

Coinvestor

Colatitude

Colchicine

Unaffected by emotion

Like the cruel meteorologist

Lacking compassion

Colemanite

Insect having hard or horny forewings

Coleoptile

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.""

Composedly; coolly.

Capable of being collected.

Merit badge since 1991

Kibbutzim, for example

Collegial

See springtail .

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

COLLIGATE To tie or bind together.

Collusive

Colonelcy

COLONIAL a citizen of a colony

Colophony

""An instrument for measuring the depth of the color of anything, especially of a liquid, by comparison with a standard liquid.""

The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance.

Colorless

Colostomy

Colportage

Colporteur

Playful nature

Frisky nature

Combative

Produced by a combinatorial process.

Capable of igniting and burning

Easily excited with clue, it bombs miserably

Inflammable

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

Stand-up kind of gals (wordplay)

Coca, May, Raye, etc.

Funny femmes

Articles of food

Timeless cob (anagram) - food

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

Offering no consolation

Lacking consolation

Capable of being commanded.

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

COMMEND to {praise=v}

Commensal

COMMENTATE To write comments or notes upon; to make comments.

Commentate

Sports match reporter

One who reports on sports event

Broadcaster describing sports events

Programmus interrupti

Empathise (with)

Express sympathy

Sympathize with.

Commissure

Commitment

Mad, but it can be done

Commixture

COMMODE a {cabinet=n}

Commodify

Pork-barrel contents (wordplay)

Pork-barrel contents?

Staples in the market slump.

Saw Tooting, maybe

Run-of-the-mill

Nothing special

Thomas Paine work.

Paine pamphlet of 1776

Tom Paine's treatise, 1776.

Welfares of the public.

COMMUNAL belonging to the community

Pass on (ideas)

Get a message across

Get one's idea across

Communique

Groups of people

Neighbourhoods

Relative to exchange; interchangeable; reciprocal.

That may be compacted.

The state or quality of being compact; close union of parts; density.

Companion

Relative that may have more

Part of speech, 'for richer, for poorer'

It could be better or worse

Remark about role in section

Divide into separate sections

Something said about piece or section

Capable of being compassed or accomplished.

Compatible

Capable of being compelled or constrained.

Concisely comprehensive

Compendium

Receiving money for services rendered.

Remunerated

Reimburses (#7)

""One who, or that which, compensates; a name applied to various mechanical devices.""

Competence

Bridal bio word

With skill

Rival prize crossword (wordplay)

The life of trade.

Final part of the chance card

""Of or pertaining to competition; producing competition; competitory; as, a competitive examination. as, a competitive examination.""

Group being played against

Rivals

Players

Contented self-satisfaction.

Smug feeling

Do what you're told about champion network computer, but admit to it!

Smugness

Complainer

Complect