11-Letter Words Starting with C

Centrosome

Ceramicist

""Any of several four-footed herbivorous horned dinosaurs with enormous beaked skulls, of the late Cretaceous in North America and Mongolia.""

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.""

Formalities.

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

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.

Exam pass document

Document verifying qualifications etc

Statement of qualifications

Certiorari

Chagrin

CHAIRMAN to act as chairman of

Presided over

President reformed prisoner after tea

Committee head, feminist style

*Board meeting VIP

Chalkboard

Opponents

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

Champerty

CHAMPER one that {champs=v}

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

Chandlery

Swaps

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

Character

Grilled on a rack that leaves black stripes

Charbroil

Sketching, in a certain way.

Cleaner and smarter - that's cold food!

Delicatessen or the meats sold in it

Cold cooked meats shop

Chardonnay

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

Chariness

Drivers making a commotion amid applause

Horse race - it involved old contestants

Being wild, I scare other drivers

Having compelling charm

Able to attract and inspire people

1999 2 out of 3 winner

Undue pretensions to skill; quackery; wheedling; empiricism.

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

Chartreuse

Chauffeur

""Any of several tropical Asian trees of the genus Hydnocarpus, whose seeds contain an oil formerly used to treat skin lesions caused by leprosy and other diseases.""

Checkmark

Checkrow

Cheerful

Split personality (wordplay)

During the game, she's no reserve!

Root for the frontrunner (wordplay)

Cheerless

Chemisorb

Chemistry

CHERISH to hold dear

CHERNOZEM

14 pounds of maraschinos (wordplay)

Pit that's sometimes spit

One more may make a soldier a sailor

Things that have black squares

Treatment of light and shade in drawing

Artist's treatment of light and shade

Caruso choir (anagram) - light and shade

Stylish subterfuges (wordplay)

Stylish subterfuges?

Scams to get rich I can see working

Chiffonier

Chifforobe

Due processes (wordplay)

Chimaerism

Style of art inspired by the East

Chirality

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

Palm reader

Chironomid

Chiropody

Specialist in the treatment of feet

One treating the feet

One who treats feet

Same as chiropter.chiropter.

Chirurgeon

Chivaree

CHLORALOSE

Chloralose

Chloramine

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

Chlorinate

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

Chloroform

Pigment making plants green

Green pigment in plants

Green coloring matter of plants

""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.""

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

Lupus medication in the news

Sweet maker/seller

Specialist confectioner

Sweet maker

Man of music.

Church music leader

Lifter of voices

""The astringent fruit of a species of wild cherry (Prunus Virginiana); also, the bush or tree which bears such fruit. Prunus Virginiana); also, the bush or tree which bears such fruit.""

""Pertaining to cholesterin, or obtained from it; as, cholesteric acid. as, cholesteric acid.""

Level many seek to lower

Compound believed to harden arteries

Statins lower it

CHOLINE an alcohol found bile

A major constituient of cartilage

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.""

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.""

Chromomere

CHROMOMERE

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

Any chemical group or residue (as NO<?/; N<?/; or O<?/) which imparts some decided color to the compound of which it is an ingredient.

""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.

Genetic bundles

Threadlike bodies that carry genes in a linear order

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.

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.""

""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.""

Chrysolite

Of or belonging to the family Chrysomelidae.

English word

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

Chrysotile

Churchgoer

Regularly going to worship

Churchly

Female pastor, e.g

Female pastor, for example

A woman who is a cleric.

Cathedral-length units (wordplay)

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

""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

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

Coded messages

Circinate

Circuitry

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

""CIRCUMCISE To cut off the prepuce of foreskin of, in the case of males, and the internal labia of, in the case of females.""

One who performs circumcision.

Circumcise

CIRCUMFUSE To pour round; to spread round.

Circumfuse

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.""

Cautious PC cuts crime drastically

Cautious, prudent

Cautious around religious group, taking first precautions in their midst

Circumvent

""A high-altitude cloud composed of a series of small, regularly arranged cloudlets in the form of ripples or grains.""

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

Citizenry

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

Cladoceran

Rene, the prophet (wordplay)

Broken crayon vital for one who makes 3s

First-year law course

In a vociferous fashion

Clangour

Clapboard

To fight and scratch.

Artie Shaw, for one

Woody Allen, for one

Woodwind player (US spelling)

Newspaper ad handlers

Clavichord

Clavierist

Mentally alert

Alert; logical

Perceptive

Clearness

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

Clinometer

Cliometric

Footwear of sorts.

Large, heavy shoes

Heavy shoes

Clofibrate

Cloister

CLOSTRIDIA

Bacterium causing tetanus and botulism

Bacterium

Cloudburst

Impressive highway formations

Highway interchanges

Interstate interchanges

Coacervate

Coanchor

Coappear

Confinement to a narrow space.

They keep strangers at bay

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

Coatdress