11-Letter Words Starting with C

Harshly discordant

Double-duty schoolrooms

CALCICOLE

""Bearing, producing, or containing calcite, or carbonate of lime.""

CALCIFUGE

Of or pertaining to mathematical calculations; performing or able to perform mathematical calculations.

Mathematical process; assessment

Devices for solving sums

Desktop devices that do sums

Hand-held devices that divide and multiply [1967]

Radioactive element of atomic number 98

Element named for a US state

Radioactive element

You'll cap GIs anyhow by having beautiful buttocks

Noisy demonstrations

Insensitivity

Brutality

Calmodulin

""CALUMNIATE To accuse falsely and maliciously of a crime or offense, or of something disreputable; to slander; to libel.""

Calumniate

One who calumniates.

Escaping detection

Hidden

Camouflage

CAMOUFLAGE

Bellshaped.

Outdoor accommodations

""Pl. canaliculi (-l ) A small canal or duct in the body, such as the minute channels in compact bone.""

A minute canal.

Cancerous

Menorah, for example

Holder for several lights

Source of light when lit

State of seeking election or nomination

A running for office.

*Sweet melons

Caoutchouc

Capacious

Gave in

Surrendered

Capitulate

Some coffee orders

CAPSULIZE

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.

Careful

Caution

Prudence

CARICATURA

Drew a grotesque picture of

Distorted images at circus are funny

Comical drawings

Predatory, like dinosaurs

Flesh-eating

Meat-eating

""Pl -nia [-nɪə] (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biology) the female sex organ of red algae, consisting of a swollen base containing the ovum and a long neck down which the male gametes pass carpogonial   adj CATCHPHRASE (= slogan ) → slogan m ; [ comedian, famous person ] → formule f hc_En_Fr() CENOSPECIES pl -species (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biology) a species related to another by the ability to interbreed dogs and wolves are cenospecies [from Greek koinos common + species ]""

Cartulary

""Of or pertaining to casuists or casuistry; as, casuistic thinking.as, casuistic thinking.""

Casuistry

""Having the lowest inferior segment of a pinna nearer the rachis than the lowest superior one; said of a mode of branching in ferns, and opposed to anadromous. anadromous.""

Catafalque

Cataloguer

Systematically listing

Hurling, as with a sling

Hurling as if with a sling

Of the nature of a cataract in the eye; affected with cataract.

Catechumen

Meowed

The practice or system of rule by a caudillo.

Variety of cabbage

It has an Orange Bouquet variety

It has a big head

Causality

In a causative manner.

Causeway

Emulating Mencken

Emergency-room action

Cavernous

Ceanothus

The state of having cells.

Cellulosic

Moving out from a centre

Carrying outwards from the centre

Using force away from centre

""CENTRIFUGE an apparatus having containers for liquids arrayed around a central pivot and rotated at a high speed, thus generating centrifugal force on the liquid, and separating substances (such as particles of solid or globules of an immiscible liquid) mixed together in suspension within the liquid. Suspensions which would settle only very slowly or not at all under gravity can be made to separate quickly in such a device.centrifugal force on the liquid, and separating substances (such as particles of solid or globules of an immiscible liquid) mixed together in suspension within the liquid. Suspensions which would settle only very slowly or not at all under gravity can be made to separate quickly in such a device.""

Centrifuge

They help maintain balance

Appropriate to grand formal occasions

Like a solemn observance

Elaborately polite

CHAMPER one that {champs=v}

Changeful

Cleaner and smarter - that's cold food!

Delicatessen or the meats sold in it

Cold cooked meats shop

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.""

Chautauqua

Chauvinism

Jingoes

Cheerful

Treatment of light and shade in drawing

Artist's treatment of light and shade

Caruso choir (anagram) - light and shade

Chinquapin

Chirurgeon

Lupus medication in the news

English word

Dolt or rockfish

Black-bellied plover.

Not so smart with a little laughter (wordplay)

A quiet laugh of mild amusement or satisfaction.

Chuckling

Chuckwalla

Chugalug

Churchgoer

Regularly going to worship

Churchly

Female pastor, e.g

Female pastor, for example

A woman who is a cleric.

Cathedral-length units (wordplay)

""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

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.""

Citrulline

In a vociferous fashion

Clangour

Bacterium causing tetanus and botulism

Bacterium

Cloudburst

Cloudless

Cloudscape

Clubhaul

COAGULATE Coagulated.

Hardening (of blood)

Nautical goo could be forming a clot

They keep strangers at bay

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

Coatimundi

Coauthor

Little men with big ideas.

Cocksucker

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.""

CULTURING culture

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

""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

FEATURING feature

Home of a hot drink (wordplay)

18th-century meeting place

Place where people work for beans (wordplay)

Cofunction

""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

Containing or resembling collagen.

Colloquial

Colloquist

Colloquium

Collusive

Florid musical instruments.

Some lyric sopranos

Sills et al.

Colporteur

A dovecote or pigeon house.

""COLUMNIST a journalist who writes or edits a regularly scheduled column{8} in a periodical, usually in editorial style; a type of editorialist.editorialist.""

Capable of igniting and burning

Easily excited with clue, it bombs miserably

Inflammable

COMBUST to {burn=v}

Combustion

Deserved rebuke Slang.

Deserved rebuke: Colloq.

Deserved rebuke Colloq.

""COMMINUTE To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth. as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth.""

The act of reducing to a fine powder or to small particles; pulverization; the state of being comminuted.

Of or pertaining to a commissure.

Commissure

Commixture

""A French theory of government which holds that commune should be a kind of independent state, and the national government a confederation of such states, having only limited powers. It is advocated by advanced French republicans; but it should not be confounded with communism.""

An advocate of communalism.

COMMUNAL belonging to the community

COMMUNAL belonging to the community

Eucharist partaker

Pass on (ideas)

Get a message across

Get one's idea across

Communique

COMMUNISE

Of the Left

Groups of people

Neighbourhoods

COMMUNIZE

COMMUTATE

A passing from one state to another; change; alteration; mutation.

Relative to exchange; interchangeable; reciprocal.

Commutator

Concisely comprehensive

Compendium

Compounder

*"On the way!"

*'On the way!'

Method of figuring bank interest

Compulsion

I'm feeling sorry for wordplay in cryptic not comic setting

""One who bears testimony or swears to the veracity or innocence of another. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager. Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager.""

The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning.

COMPUTER a machine that computes automatically

Code talking (wordplay)

COMPUTER a machine that computes automatically

COMPUTERISE COMPUTER a machine that computes automatically

Make an office modern, in a way

High-tech whiz

Conceptus

Part 2 of quip

Cohabitation of Tory with young pup when old

They power cells?

They power cells (wordplay)

Meeting of minds