12-Letter Words Containing C

EDULCORATE To render sweet; to sweeten; to free from acidity.

The power to be effective.

EFFECTUATE To bring to pass; to effect; to achieve; to accomplish; to fulfill.

Act of effectuating.

Effeminacy

Bubbly

Fizzy

Sparkling

""EFFERVESCE To be in a state of natural ebullition; to bubble and hiss, as fermenting liquors, or any fluid, when some part escapes in a gaseous form.""

Efficacity

Savings; economies

""That effloresces, or is liable to effloresce on exposure; as, an efflorescent salt. as, an efflorescent salt.""

EFFLORESCE To blossom forth.

Egocentrism

In an egoistic manner.

Eigenvector

""EISTEDDFOD Am assembly or session of the Welsh bards; an annual congress of bards, minstrels and literati of Wales, being a patriotic revival of the old custom.""

Ejaculation

Of or pertaining to the Elasmobranchii.

Elasticity

Chosen deliberately; singled out.

Electioneer

ELECTIVE an optional subject of study

Like some charged particles

Currently getting to choose an old police friend

Experts on current problems

Nice articles about juice suppliers (wordplay)

Those working on The Wire produced lots of sparks

Electrify

Killed by shock

Dead of shock

Killed by a current

Electrocute

Electroform

""Of or pertaining to electrogenesis; as, an electrogenic condition. as, an electrogenic condition.""

Electrogram

Electrolyse

Method of removing hair roots

One way to remove unwanted hair

Method for removing unwanted hair

Electrolyte

""ELECTROLYTE A compound decomposable, or subjected to decomposition, by an electric current.""

ELECTROLYZE To decompose by the direct action of electricity.

Electrolyze

Instrument for measuring differences in potential

A chemical compound or group that is attracted to electrons and tends to accept electrons.

""Pl. electrophori (- -r , - -r ) An apparatus for generating static electricity, consisting of a hard rubber disk that is given a negative charge by friction and a metal plate that is given a net positive charge by induction when in contact with the disk.""

Coat with metal

Put a thin coat on and choose to run to work, delayed

Charge-detecting instrument

Make off without damaging soccer team's leader's scientific apparatus

See electroconvulsive therapy .

Of or pertaining to electrical tension; said of a supposed peculiar condition of a conducting circuit during its exposure to the action of another conducting circuit traversed by a uniform electric current when both circuits remain stationary.

""The modified condition of a nerve, when a constant current of electricity passes through any part of it. See Anelectrotonus, and Catelectrotonus. Anelectrotonus, and Catelectrotonus.""

""ELECTROTYPE A facsimile plate made by electrotypy for use in printing; also, an impression or print from such plate. Also used adjectively.""

One making a copy by coating a mould with deposited copper

Electrotype

Things drawn out

Evocations.

In the form of an ellipse.

Relating to the clear expression of speech

Teacher of clear speech

Elucidation

ELUCUBRATE See Lucubrate. Lucubrate.

See Lucubration. Lucubration.

""EMANCIPATE To set free from the power of another; to liberate; as: (a) To set free, as a minor from a parent; as, a father may emancipate a child. (b) To set free from bondage; to give freedom to; to manumit; as, to emancipate a slave, or a country. (a) To set free, as a minor from a parent; as, a father may emancipate a child. (b) To set free from bondage; to give freedom to; to manumit; as, to emancipate a slave, or a country.""

Freedom from parents (wordplay)

Lincoln's concern

Abe's decree

Emancipator

EMASCULATE To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld.

Cut on a male is resulting in this!

Emasculator

Embarcadero

""Pertaining to, containing, or consisting in, an emblem; symbolic; typically representative; representing as an emblem; as, emblematic language or ornaments; a crown is emblematic of royalty; white is emblematic of purity.as, emblematic language or ornaments; a crown is emblematic of royalty; white is emblematic of purity.""

Embracement

Embrocation

EMPATHIC pertaining to {empathy=n}

They claim pal is suffering with stress

In a forceful way

Emplacement

""ENANTIOMER either of a pair of optical isomers of a chemical substance whose molecules are mirror images of each other, i. e., are related to each other as a right-handed to a left-handed glove; -- meaningful only for structures which have internal asymmetry.i. e., are related to each other as a right-handed to a left-handed glove; -- meaningful only for structures which have internal asymmetry.""

Drunk saluted pecan in a nutshell

Encapsulate

Inflammation of the brain.

Turning practically senile with hepatic disorder

Enchainment

In a delightful manner

Enchantment

""(Linguistics) (tr) to convert (a message, document, etc.) from plain text into code or cipher; encode encipherer   n""

Act of surrounding

Comprehensively including

Meeting

Encrimson

An advance beyond expected limits

Gradual intrusion

Intrusion

Variant of incrustation .

Same as Incumbrancer. Incumbrancer.

Impedimenta

Book of knowledge

Reference work

Reference book

Comprehensive in terms of information

Endemicity

Inflammation in heart

Growing or developing within cartilage; applied esp. to developing bone.

Any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of bonds between nucleic acids in the interior of a DNA or RNA molecule.

Within or passing through the trachea: an endotracheal tube.

Enforcement

Given the right to vote

Enfranchise

Improvements

Ensorcel

""Pl. enterococci (-k k s , -k k ) A usually nonpathogenic streptococcus that inhabits the intestine.""

""Pl. enterococci (-k k s , -k k ) A usually nonpathogenic streptococcus that inhabits the intestine.""

Enterocoele

ENTEROCOELE

Ardent - thin suitcase (anagram)

Showing keen interest

Intensely keen and interested

Gate soldiers go to first in a state of joy

After getting in fellows start to tingle with sense of delight

Entranceway

Protection from opponents, church people hid in river

ENTROPIC pertaining to {entropy=n}

Enucleation

Enunciation

EOSINOPHILE

Relating to epexegesis; explanatory; exegetical.

Fastidiousness in luxury

A nice umpire's unusual sort of philosophy

""The outermost layer of cuticle of an arthropod exoskeleton, composed mostly of wax.""

""Pertaining to the epicycloid, or having its properties.""

In an epidemic manner.

Epidiascope

(Of saying) concise, witty

Like a short and witty saying

In the style of a concise and witty remark

""Of or pertaining to epigraphs or to epigraphy; as, an epigraphic style; epigraphical works or studies.as, an epigraphic style; epigraphical works or studies.""

Epiphytotic

Episcopacy

Episodical

Equinoctial

""Equal in force, power, effectiveness, or significance.""

Equivalence

VOCALITY the possession of exercise of vocal powers

""EQUIVOCATE To use words of equivocal or doubtful signification; to express one's opinions in terms which admit of different senses, with intent to deceive; to use ambiguous expressions with a view to mislead; as, to equivocate is the work of duplicity. as, to equivocate is the work of duplicity.""

Use of intentionally vague language

Use of deliberately vague language

A beating about the bush

Equivocator

Eradication

Erectility

Ergodicity

Erythrocyte

ERYTHROCYTE

Common antibiotic

Escapology

I must get away!

One's bound to be entertaining

Entertainer is to go places when free

In an esoteric manner.

Esotericism

Esthetician

Estheticism

Ethicality

Seeing other cultures through one's own

Judging other cultures by the standards of one's own

Relating to racial customs and characteristics

Of or pertaining to ethnology.

Noun (-ence)

Dealing with word origins

Relating to word origins

Eucalyptole

Fast-growing trees

Euchromatin

Of or pertaining to euhemerism.

Euphonical

EUPHORIC pertaining to {euphoria=n}

Evanescence

In revolutionary church, angry vigilantes like a preacher

EVISCERATE To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; to gut.

Disembowelling

Making worse.

Making (something) worse

EXACTING exact

""EXANTHEMA An efflorescence or discoloration of the skin; an eruption or breaking out, as in measles, smallpox, scarlatina, and the like diseases; sometimes limited to eruptions attended with fever.""

""EXCAVATION The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.""

Excellency

Capable of being exchanged; fit or proper to be exchanged.

The quality of being readily excited; proneness to be affected by exciting causes.

Rats! et al.

Can a mole exist with its head cut off? No! Never!

Snappy utterances

Tending to exclude; causing exclusion; exclusive.

""One who would exclude another from some right or privilege; esp., one of the antipopish politicians of the time of Charles <?/.""

Exclusivism

Exclusivist

EXCOGITATE To think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise; to contrive.

The act of excogitating; a devising in the thoughts; invention; contrivance.

EXCOGITATE To think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise; to contrive.

Excoriation

Excrescence

Excrescent

Racking collapses in exit, accruing ...

Intensely painful

Very painful

""The act of inflicting agonizing pain, or the state of being thus afflicted; that which excruciates; torture.""

Exculpation

""One who goes on an excursion, or pleasure trip.""

Whose inappropriate musical offering recorded by 7 (wordplay)

They're known for taking the head off others for the chairmen (wordplay)

They get away with murder taking the head off others

Exercise; practice; use.

Exonuclease

""Of or pertaining to, or characterized by, exophthalmia.""

Exorbitance

EXORCISTIC

Exoterical

Exoticness

Expectancy

Hopes for the future

Realistic hopes

Bank on answer to half the objections with hope and conjecture

EXPECTED expect

Expectorant

Anticipated accepting nothing traitor coughed up

Expectorate

Expediency

""EXPERIENCE Trial, as a test or experiment.""

Explication

The quality of being explicit; clearness; directness.

Exsiccation

""A sense organ, such as the ear, that receives and responds to stimuli originating from outside the body.""

Located or occurring outside the cranium.

Extractive

Originating or occurring outside the liver.