12-Letter Words Ending in C

""Pertaining to the measurement of the intensity of the solar rays, either (a) heating, or (b) actinic. (a) heating, or (b) actinic.""

(used with a sing. verb) The science of magnetic characteristics associated with atmospheric conditions.

The inhibition of growth in one species of plants by chemicals produced by another species.

Using words and numbers

Using A-Z and 0-9

Referring to both characters and figures

Adjective (-ic)

A mythical serpent having a head at each end of its body.

ANALPHABETE

""Centered or focused on men, often to the neglect or exclusion of women: an androcentric view of history; an androcentric health-care system.""

ANDROGEN a male sex hormone

Pl. anencephalies Congenital absence of most of the brain and spinal cord.

""Causing loss of appetite; as, an anorectic (or anorexigenic) drug.as, an anorectic (or anorexigenic) drug.""

Medicine to destroy worms

ACADEMIC a college student or teacher

DIABETIC one who has diabetes

ECONOMIC relating to finance

ENTROPIC pertaining to {entropy=n}

Counteracting hysteria.

LEUKEMIC one affected with leukemia

""MAGNETIC a metal that attracts iron, also MAGNET""

I pitch a tent abroad without assent, initially causing bad blood

Opposed to upsetting Tina with old newsreel from jerk

APOTHEGM a pithy saying

Of a sea abounding in islands

Having symmetry around an axis: an axisymmetric cone.

""Of, relating to, or living in the depths of the ocean, especially between about 1,000 and 4,000 meters (3,280 and 13,120 feet).""

BELLETRIST

(used with a sing. verb) Biochemistry The study of the flow and transformation of energy in and between living organisms and between living organisms and their environment.

Of or pertaining to biosynthesis.

Of or pertaining to a blastocoel.

Adjective (-ic)

BUREAUCRAT An official of a bureau; esp. an official confirmed in a narrow and arbitrary routine.

Of or pertaining to process of using the calorimeter.

Producing cancer

Causing cancer

""Pl. catachreses (-s z) The misapplication of a word or phrase, as the use of blatant to mean "flagrant."""

See electrophoresis .

""Of, relating to, or causing the hydrolysis of cellulose: cellulolytic organisms.""

CENTRALIST

Adjective (-ic)

An exceptionally precise timepiece.

The evolutionary change and diversification resulting from the branching off of new taxa from common ancestral lineages.

CLAVIERIST

Botany Of or relating to a flower that does not open and is self-pollinated in the bud.

""Any of various instruments used to determine or specify colors, as by comparison with spectroscopic or visual standards.""

CYANOGEN a compound of carbon and nitrogen

Having ten syllables

The branch of medicine that is concerned with the physiology and pathology of the skin.

DEUTERANOPE

Adjective (-ic)

""Relating to, or exhibiting, diageotropism.""

""The posterior part of the forebrain that connects the midbrain with the cerebral hemispheres, encloses the third ventricle, and contains the thalamus and hypothalamus. Also called betweenbrain , interbrain , thalamencephalon .""

An instrument used to measure thermal expansion and dilation in solids and liquids.

""Pertaining to, or connected with, diphtheria.""

SYMMETRIC Symmetrical.

""Relating to, composed in, or consisting of twelve-tone music.""

DOPAMINE a form of dopa used to stimulate the heart

Any of several instruments used to measure mechanical power.

Adjective (-ic)

Relating to clergymen

Member of clergy; or, relating to church

Clergyman

""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.""

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

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

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.

""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.""

Inflammation of the brain.

Comprehensive in terms of information

ENTEROCOELE

Ardent - thin suitcase (anagram)

Showing keen interest

Intensely keen and interested

EOSINOPHILE

(Of saying) concise, witty

Like a short and witty saying

In the style of a concise and witty remark

ERYTHROCYTE

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 euhemerism.

In revolutionary church, angry vigilantes like a preacher

""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.""

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

Originating or occurring outside the liver.

""A system of printing on a rotary press employing water-based ink, used especially for printing on plastic, paper, or cardboard.""

Adjective (-ic)

""Instruments an instrument for measuring the emission of radiation in the form of visible light and identifying the substance that is its source. ; fluorometric,""

""GALACTOSE A white, crystalline sugar, C6H12O6, isomeric with dextrose, obtained by the decomposition of milk sugar, and also from certain gums. When oxidized it forms mucic acid. Called also lactose (though it is not lactose proper). C6H12O6, isomeric with dextrose, obtained by the decomposition of milk sugar, and also from certain gums. When oxidized it forms mucic acid. Called also lactose (though it is not lactose proper).""

""GAMETOPHYTE In the alternation of generations in plants, that generation or phase which bears sex organs and produces gametes. In the lower plants, as the alg\'91, the gametophyte is the conspicuous part of the plant body; in mosses it is the so-called moss plant; in ferns it is reduced to a small, early perishing body; and in seed plants it is usually microscopic or rudimentary.""

Pl. geostrategies The branch of geopolitics that deals with strategy.

Old Age

Pl. gynecocracies or gynocracies Government by women.

""Of, relating to, or resulting from the magnetic properties of a spinning, electrically charged particle.""

Revolving around the sun

Revolving round the sun

Of or pertaining to heliography or a heliograph; made by heliography.

HENOTHEIST

HETEROCYCLE

Type of writing

Of or relating to hierophants or their teachings.

Tissueproducing; connected with the formation and development of the organic tissues.

HOMEOMORPH

HOMEOTHERM A homoiothermal animal.

""Of or pertaining to the motions of fluids, or the forces which produce or affect such motions; opposed to hydrostatic. hydrostatic.""

HYDROSPHERE The aqueous vapor of the entire atmosphere.

ENDEMIC an endemial disease

Of or pertaining to hyperkinesis.

Adjective (-ic)

Pl. hyperostoses (-s z) Excessive or abnormal thickening or growth of bone tissue.

Of or pertaining to hyperplasia.

""Composed of, or containing, hypersthene.""

THERMIC pertaining to heat

TROPHIC pertaining to nutrition

Adjective (-ic)

""GLYCEMIC having glucose in the blood, also GLYCAEMIC""

ALLELIC pertaining to {allele=n}

GENERIC a type of drug

MITOTIC pertaining to {mitosis=n}

Like the QE2

PSYCHIC one sensitive to extrasensory phenomena

""Situated between vowels; immediately preceded and followed by vowel sounds, as, p in occupy, d in idea, etc.as, p in occupy, d in idea, etc.""

ISOANTIGEN

Developed alike in the directions of the several lateral axes; said of crystals of both the tetragonal and hexagonal systems.

ISOENZYME

""Of or pertaining to karyokinesis; as, karyokinetic changes of cell division. as, karyokinetic changes of cell division.""

He can't help helping himself

Lifter of habit

Magpie trained to peck animal

Adjective (-ic)

The formation or production of white blood cells.

""Pertaining to, or characterized by, liberalism; as, liberalistic opinions. as, liberalistic opinions.""

LITERALIST One who adheres to the letter or exact word; an interpreter according to the letter.

""LITHOSPHERE The solid earth as distinguished from its fluid envelopes, the hydrosphere and atmosphere.""

Adjective (-ic)

Act of controlling by force

Person with delusions of power

One thinking he is great

""A mental disorder characterized by severe depression, guilt, hopelessness, and withdrawal.""

Emotionally overblown (in theatre)

Exaggerated - over-emotional

Exaggerated, over-emotional

MERISTEM formative plant tissue

""Of or pertaining to meritocracy; as, meritocratic society.as, meritocratic society.""

Of or pertaining to the mesothorax.

Adjective (-ic)

Of or pertaining to the metathorax.

Of the study of weather

Copy, including rewritten score, is of a small movement

Adjective (-ic)

Consisting of one metal; of or pertaining to monometallism.

""Of or pertaining to a single family or stock, or to development from a single common parent form; opposed to polyphyletic; as, monophyletic origin. polyphyletic; as, monophyletic origin.""

Adjective (-ic)

Judeo-Christian, for example

Form ()

MYELOBLAST

Sexual pervert in police car, terribly hard to keep in

NEGATIVIST

REALISTIC Of or pertaining to the realists; in the manner of the realists; characterized by realism rather than by imagination.

NEPHELINITE

Pl. nephropathies A disease or abnormality of the kidney.

""A psychological disorder characterized by chronic fatigue and weakness, loss of memory, and generalized aches and pains, formerly thought to result from exhaustion of the nervous system. No longer in scientific use.""

NEUTRALIST A neutral; one who professes or practices neutrality.

""NEUTROPHILE One of a group of leukocytes whose granules stain only with neutral dyes; it is the chief phagocytic leukocyte in the circulating blood, comprising from 54% to 65% of the total number of leukocytes.""

Inflected form of AESTHETIC Inflected form of AESTHETE a person who affects an extravagant love of art

ANTIGENIC

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

HEMOLYTIC of or pertaining to hemolysis; causing hemolysis.

""METAMERIC Having the same elements united in the same proportion by weight, and with the same molecular weight, but possessing a different structure and different properties; as, methyl ether and ethyl alcohol are metameric compounds. See Isomeric. as, methyl ether and ethyl alcohol are metameric compounds. See Isomeric.""

REALISTIC Of or pertaining to the realists; in the manner of the realists; characterized by realism rather than by imagination.

Without any long-term focus

SYMMETRIC Symmetrical.

A condition of normal body temperature.

NUCLEOPHILE

Under the influence of nympholepsy; ecstatic; frenzied.

Sounding like its meaning

""Making an impression upon an organ; plastic; said of the effect or impression produced by any substance on the organs of touch, taste, or smell, and also on the organism as a whole.""

""Biology progressive evolution, leading to the development of a new form, as can be seen through successive generations. See also society . ; orthogenetic , adj . Evolution the sociological theory that all cultures or societies follow the same fixed course of determinate evolution. See also evolution . ; orthogenetic,""

""OSTEOBLAST One of the protoplasmic cells which occur in the osteogenetic layer of the periosteum, and from or around which the matrix of the bone is developed; an osteoplast.""

OSTEOCLAST A myeloplax.

""Producing bone; as, osteoplastic cells. as, osteoplastic cells.""

""Pl. osteoporoses (-s z) A disease in which the bones become extremely porous, are subject to fracture, and heal slowly, occurring especially in women following menopause and often leading to curvature of the spine from vertebral collapse.""

DRAMATIC pertaining to {drama=n}

Excessively emphatic.

Adjective (-ic)

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) the resemblance of adult animals to the young of their ancestors: seen in the evolution of modern man, who shows resemblances to the young stages of australopithecines""

Fossils

""The study and scholarly interpretation of earlier, especially ancient, writing and forms of writing.""

""Of or pertaining to palingenesis: as, a palingenetic process. as, a palingenetic process.""

Weakly attracted by poles

Pathogenic.

""PERIPHRASE The use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; a roundabout, or indirect, way of speaking; circumlocution.""

""The branch of petrology that deals with the origin of rocks, especially igneous rocks.""

The description and classification of rocks.

PHENOCRYST One of the prominent embedded crystals of a porphyry.

Of or pertaining to philhellenism.

Motion ()

Of or pertaining to the photosphere.

""Relating to phylogenesis, or the race history of a type of organism.""

Of or pertaining to a planisphere.

An instrument used to measure the rotation of the plane of polarization of polarized light passing through an optical structure or sample.

Adjective (-ic)

PEPTIDIC pertaining to {peptide=n}

PHENOLIC a synthetic resin

""Pertaining to, or characterized by, descent from more than one root form, or from many different root forms; polygenetic; opposed to monophyletic. monophyletic.""

THEISTIC pertaining to a {theist=n}

Adjective (-ic)

ECLAMPTIC

Providing introductory instruction.

Measuring mental processes

""Pertaining to, or dependent on, pyroelectricity; receiving electric polarity when heated.""

One paralysed in every limb

Having effects on living tissue similar to those produced by radiation: a radiomimetic chemical.

RECIDIVIST One who is recidivous or is characterized by recidivism; an incorrigible criminal.

Described by Einstein's theory

""The process of reproducing, reprinting, or copying graphic material especially by mechanical, photographic, or electronic means.""