11-Letter Words Starting with C

Appropriate to grand formal occasions

Like a solemn observance

Elaborately polite

True facts

Sure things; specific Father's Day gifts (wordplay)

Things that are sure to bring particular obligations

Any worm of the Chaetognatha; transparent marine worm with horizontal lateral and caudal fins and a row of movable curved spines at each side of the mouth.

Birds

Chagrin

Chainsaw

Chainwheel

CHAIRMAN to act as chairman of

Presided over

President reformed prisoner after tea

Committee head, feminist style

*Board meeting VIP

Of or pertaining to chalcedony.

Opponents

Demanding one's best efforts

Provoking

Court official - former Prime Minister!

British Prime Minister, 1937.

PM's domestic officer

""CHAMELEON A lizardlike reptile of the genus Cham\'91leo, of several species, found in Africa, Asia, and Europe. The skin is covered with fine granmulations; the tail is prehensile, and the body is much compressed laterally, giving it a high back. Cham\'91leo, of several species, found in Africa, Asia, and Europe. The skin is covered with fine granmulations; the tail is prehensile, and the body is much compressed laterally, giving it a high back.""

Champignon

Champion

Office attached to embassy

Office of a chief minister or judge

Chancellor

""CHANCELLOR A judicial court of chancery, which in England and in the United States is distinctively a court with equity jurisdiction.""

Of or pertaining to a chancroid.

Chandelier

""CHANDELLE 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.""

Chandlery

Changeful

Changeling

Swaps

CHANNELIZE

Channelize

Channel

CHANSON a {song=n}

Highest string of a violin.

Yellow mushroom favored in France

Yellow mushroom favored in France

Rooster in medieval tales.

Proper name for a bird.

Archetypal name for a rooster

Kind of accompaniment

Escorting important individual not south after tea

Chaperon

Sketching, in a certain way.

Chardonnay

Work leaders may have gone out with hard cash but no love

Chariness

Undue pretensions to skill; quackery; wheedling; empiricism.

The power or quality of pleasing or delighting; attractiveness: a breezy tropical setting of great charm.

Ornamental key holders

'Evita' star has discussions about key situations

Chatoyance

Chauvinism

Jingoes

Cheapness

""CHECKMATE The position in the game of chess when a king is in check and cannot be released, which ends the game.""

Border stops ... or a hint to four squares in this puzzle

Border stops... or a hint to four squares in this puzzle

Checkrow

CHERNOZEM

14 pounds of maraschinos (wordplay)

Pit that's sometimes spit

One more may make a soldier a sailor

Stylish subterfuges (wordplay)

Stylish subterfuges?

Scams to get rich I can see working

A false statement that is considered to indicate timidity or fear.

""CHIEFTAIN A captain, leader, or commander; a chief; the head of a troop, army, or clan.""

Chiffonade

Chiffonier

Chillness

A type of deep-fried burrito

Tortilla appetizer

Adjective meaning resembling

J. Goodall subjects

Goodall subjects

Primates

Chinchilla

Style of art inspired by the East

Chinquapin

Chionodoxa

Palm reader

Chironomid

Same as chiropter.chiropter.

Chirurgeon

Chivaree

Chloramine

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

Chlorinate

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

""A colorless liquid, C 4 H 5 Cl, that polymerizes to neoprene.""

Lupus medication in the news

Choanocyte

CHOLINE an alcohol found bile

A major constituient of cartilage

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

Using for the first time

Naming ceremony

Baptising

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.

""Containing, or capable of forming, chromogen; as, chromogenic bacteria. as, chromogenic bacteria.""

Chronical

Chronicler

CHRONICLE An historical register or account of facts or events disposed in the order of time.

Chronogram

Accurate time-measuring device

Same as Chronologist. Chronologist.

Arranged in order of time of occurrence.

Metal casing on timer? No, I'm timer

Instrument measuring time

Watch to find the enemy's position

The art of measuring time; the measuring of time by periods or divisions.

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

Chuckling

Regularly going to worship

Female pastor, e.g

Female pastor, for example

A woman who is a cleric.

One of the microscopic particles of emulsified fat found in the blood and lymph and formed during the digestion of fats.

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

Cimetidine

Cinchonine

Cinchonism

Cinemagoer

CINEMATIZE

Cinematize

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

""The sixteenth century, when applied to Italian art or literature; as, the sculpture of the Cinquecento; Cinquecento style. as, the sculpture of the Cinquecento; Cinquecento style.""

Cinquefoil

Circinate

""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

Revolving about or surrounding the moon.

Circumvent

Citizenry

Immigrant test taker's goal

Status of a national of a state

Status for being part of a country

CITRONELLA

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

Rene, the prophet (wordplay)

Broken crayon vital for one who makes 3s

First-year law course

Wound isn't cleaned in private

Intend tailing tribe in secret

Almost doomed by family secret

Clangour

Artie Shaw, for one

Woody Allen, for one

Woodwind player (US spelling)

Putting things into categories

Taxonomist's job

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

Clearness

A woman who is a member of the clergy.

Female priests

Clinching

Clingstone

Clinometer

Boorish; rude.

Cloister

Clomiphene

Clonicity

Closeness

Fashion designer's work (wordplay)

Air dryer (wordplay)

Washing up - and drying!

Laundry room supply, for some

Laundry room supply

They leave things hanging

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

Clubhaul

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

Coatimundi

Coattend

Coattest

Coauthor

Part of old road surface

Rounded irregular lump used in paving

Piece of road surfacing material

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

Cocaptain

Cochampion

Cockbill

Cockiness

COCKNEY a resident of London's East End

Cockneyfy

Cockneyism

Cocktail

Cocounsel

CULTURING culture

Partner in crime, perhaps

Often danced around in front of the judge

Relying heavily on a partner

Codesign

Codirect

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

Codominant

""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""

""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.""

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.""

FEATURING feature

FINANCING finance

Cofunction

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

Cogitation

COGNITION The act of knowing; knowledge; perception.

Cognitive

Cognizance

Expert

Well-informed people

Very well-informed people

Those in the know since con got busted

Capable of being known.

Cohabitant