12-Letter Words Ending in C

Word play; punning.

Pathogenic.

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

The description and classification of rocks.

""PHAGOCYTE A leucocyte which plays a part in retrogressive processes by taking up (eating), in the form of fine granules, the parts to be removed.""

PHENOCRYST One of the prominent embedded crystals of a porphyry.

Men's club musician (wordplay)

Orchestra's man arranged main orch.

Devoted to music

""PHONOGRAM A letter, character, or mark used to represent a particular sound.""

""PHONOGRAPH A character or symbol used to represent a sound, esp. one used in phonography.""

PHOSPHATIDE

""Pertaining to phosphorite; resembling, or of the nature of, phosphorite.""

""(Physics / General Physics) (of glass) changing colour with the intensity of incident light, used, for example, in sunglasses that darken as the sunlight becomes brighter""

Of or relating to the energy of light.

Exact (of memory)

Like a retentive memory

Pictured accurately in detail

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Of or pertaining to the photosphere.

""Capable of producing a voltage when exposed to radiant energy, especially light.""

Of or pertaining to phyllotaxy.

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

""PHYSIOCRAT One of the followers of Quesnay of France, who, in the 18th century, founded a system of political economy based upon the supremacy of natural order.""

Pl. physiognomies a. The art of judging human character from facial features.

PICTOGRAPH A picture or hieroglyph representing and expressing an idea.

Having the longer axis inclined away from the vertical line.

""A process for printing from a smooth surface, as lithography or offset.""

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

""Of or pertaining to the polariscope; obtained by the use of a polariscope; as, polariscopic observations. as, polariscopic observations.""

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HISTORIC important in history

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.""

Of music, using more than one apparent time signature simultaneously

Describing paragraph or sentence but not word (wordplay)

Like the word you need to write but not the words in the clue

SYNAPTIC pertaining to {synapsis=n}

THEISTIC pertaining to a {theist=n}

""Of or pertaining to pornography; lascivious; licentious; as, pornographic writing. as, pornographic writing.""

POSITIVIST A believer in positivism.

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Situated behind or occurring after a synapse: postsynaptic neurons.

Like music which depicts something

Providing introductory instruction.

A medicine which preserves or defends against disease; a preventive.

Of or pertaining to the first formation of living bodies.

PROTOTROPH

Measuring mental processes

Pathologically violent and antisocial

Type of drug affecting mental state

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

""Of or for a four-channel sound system in which speakers are positioned at all four corners of the listening space, reproducing signals that are independent of each other.""

Variant of quadraphonic .

""RADIOGRAPH A picture produced by the R\'94ntgen rays upon a sensitive surface, photographic or fluorescent, especially a picture of opaque objects traversed by the rays.""

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

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

UNIONISTIC Of or pertaining to union or unionists; tending to promote or preserve union.

""Pertaining to, or involving, sansculottism; radical; revolutionary; Jacobinical.""

SARCOPLASM

""Of, relating to, or characteristic of scenography: "Contemporary design has a strongly scenographic appeal, as if modern rooms were meant to be stage sets" (Los Angeles Times).""

""Of or pertaining to seismometry, or seismometer; as, seismometric instruments; seismometric measurements. as, seismometric instruments; seismometric measurements.""

MONASTIC a {monk=n}

""Activated by or capable of liberating serotonin, especially in transmitting nerve impulses: serotonergic neurons; serotonergic drugs.""

SOLIDARIST

Shorthander's notes unusually explicit

It's related to what I've asked you to write, in short

Combining separate sources of sound

(Of sound) multi-channel

With five kicked out, criminal evicts no-hoper from two places

Giving the impression of depth

Describing a three-dimensional effect.

""A method in neurosurgery and neurological research for locating points within the brain using an external, three-dimensional frame of reference usually based on the Cartesian coordinate system.""

""STETHOSCOPE An instrument used in auscultation for examining the organs of the chest, as the heart and lungs, by conveying to the ear of the examiner the sounds produced in the thorax.""

Drama ()

STROBOSCOPE An instrument for studying or observing the successive phases of a periodic or varying motion by means of light which is periodically interrupted.

(Sociology) Sociol (no longer widely used) relating to those aspects of a culture that are conceived as being superior to the individual members of the society superorganicism   n

Relating to or characterized by the changes effected by modern advances in technology and electronics: the technetronic era; our technetronic society.

Like a government of scientists

Disliking 1 ac things

An instrument for measuring tensile strength.

THALLOPHYTE Same as Thallogen. Thallogen.

Relating to temperature measurement

""Heat-loving; -- applied especially to microorganisms such as certain bacteria, fungi and algae, which grow best at temperatures above 40<deg/ C (e.g. between 50<deg/ and 60<deg/), and in some cases at temperatures that would kill ordinary microorganisms. They are found in naturally hot locations, such as at hot springs or the thermal vents at the ocean bottom.""

Maintaining a constant temperature

Temperature-controlled

Of or retaining to thermotaxis.

Manifesting thermotropism.

THROMBOCYTE

Pl. thrombolyses (-s z) Dissolution or destruction of a thrombus.

""A hormone secreted by the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland that stimulates and regulates the activity of the thyroid gland. Also called thyroid-stimulating hormone , thyrotropic hormone .""

Corsican with Etna erupting over the sea

Canine co-star bombed over the water

Contain scare flying across the sea

Having or existing in three different phases of color; having three distinct color varieties; said of certain birds and insects.

Of or pertaining to one or both of the trochanters.

Relating to the lowest layer of the atmosphere

Far from contrite

Not expressing regret

Not sorry

Power failure without show of hands

Organisation is not despotic or totalitarian

Curt comedian abandoned without popular support

Tactless for peacekeepers to join ambassador in charge

Gaffe-prone peacekeepers linked to foreign representative in charge

Tactless

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(Physics / General Physics) Physics (of a solid or liquid) exhibiting both viscous and elastic behaviour when deformed viscoelasticity &nbsp; n

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ZWITTERION