12-Letter Words Ending in C

Pertaining to absolutism; absolutist.

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

""Not astigmatic; free of astigmatism; -- pertaining to a lens or lens system, and used especially of a lens system which consists of a converging lens and a diverging lens of equal and opposite astigmatism but different focal lengths, and sensibly free from astigmatism.""

""ANORTHOSITE A granular igneous rock composed almost exclusively of a soda-lime feldspar, usually labradorite.""

Little colonizer in torment (wordplay)

Little colonizer in torment?

Stupid giant's action showing opposition

Counteracting hysteria.

Of or pertaining to an antistrophe.

Satiric actor playing noble

Of the nobility

Satiric actor turning 'blue'

ARTHROSCOPE

Showing no symptoms of disease.

Having symmetry around an axis: an axisymmetric cone.

BELLETRIST

Of or pertaining to biosynthesis.

Of or pertaining to a blastocoel.

Competitive, in a way

Like some investors

Excellent criticism, mostly about one motivated by profit

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

Chaotic parts (anagram)

I catch pastor out in dire straits

Causing sudden damage

CENTRALIST

Exaggeratedly patriotic

Aggressively patriotic

Having an aggressive or fanatical patriotism

Adjective (-ic)

""Of or pertaining to classicism; as, classicistic tradition.as, classicistic tradition.""

CLAVIERIST

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

""Kzmgrfk, Cosmographical Of or pertaining to cosmography.""

Having ten syllables

Characterizing the ovum when it has two primary germinal layers.

Phonograph Records

SYMMETRIC Symmetrical.

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.""

Ardent - thin suitcase (anagram)

Showing keen interest

Intensely keen and interested

EOSINOPHILE

Of or pertaining to euhemerism.

In revolutionary church, angry vigilantes like a preacher

FIBROBLAST

FLUOROSCOPE An instrument for observing or exhibiting fluorescence.

FOLKLORIST

""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).""

Of or pertaining to gastroscopy.

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

HENOTHEIST

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

""Expressing a phrase or sentence in a single word, as is the case in the aboriginal languages of America.""

HYDROSPHERE The aqueous vapor of the entire atmosphere.

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

Of or pertaining to hyperplasia.

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

""Endearing; diminutive; as, the hypocoristic form of a name. as, the hypocoristic form of a name.""

Attacking cherished institutions

Attacking cherished beliefs

Criticising cherished beliefs

PSYCHIC one sensitive to extrasensory phenomena

Existing or taking place within the mind or psyche: intrapsychic conflict.

ISOANTIGEN

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

ISOENZYME

Like newspaper writers

""LAPAROSCOPE A slender endoscope, containing fiber-optic viewing capability and miniature surgical devices, which can be inserted through a small incision in the abdominal wall, allowing a surgeon to perform minor surgery with minimal damage to the abdominal muscles.""

""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.""

MERISTEM formative plant tissue

Of or pertaining to the mesothorax.

Copy, including rewritten score, is of a small movement

Warlike

Having a dislike of humankind

Disliking all mankind

Right! I can stop him, with manipulation, having a hatred of mankind

Woman-hating

Likely to control a market

Adjective (-ic)

It is, although isn't

Using only words like yes and no

Like John, Paul, or George, but not Ringo, speaking briefly (wordplay)

Having one neural synapse.

Judeo-Christian, for example

MYELOBLAST

Egotistical

Based on real life

Imitating real life

True-to-life representation of acts in ritual

NEGATIVIST

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

""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.

Of or pertaining to the Nominalists.

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

Not parasitic.

Inflected form of PSYCHOTIC Inflected form of PSYCHO a mentally unstable person

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.

Also octosyllabic ( k t -s -l b k) a. A line of verse containing eight syllables.

""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.""

PARAPHRAST A paraphraser.

Word play; punning.

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

PHENOCRYST One of the prominent embedded crystals of a porphyry.

PHOSPHATIDE

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

Of or pertaining to the photosphere.

""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.

""PLAGIARIST One who plagiarizes; or purloins the words, writings, or ideas of another, and passes them off as his own; a literary thief; a plagiary.""

Of or pertaining to a planisphere.

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

HISTORIC important in history

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}

POSITIVIST A believer in positivism.

Adjective (-ic)

Adjective (-ic)

Adjective (-ic)

Adjective (-ic)

Situated behind or occurring after a synapse: postsynaptic neurons.

PRAGMATIST One who is pragmatic.

Of or pertaining to the first formation of living bodies.

Measuring mental processes

Pathologically violent and antisocial

Type of drug affecting mental state

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

Described by Einstein's theory

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

Pertaining to revivals.

""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).""

""SECULARIST One who theoretically rejects every form of religious faith, and every kind of religious worship, and accepts only the facts and influences which are derived from the present life; also, one who believes that education and other matters of civil policy should be managed without the introduction of a religious element.""

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

Of or pertaining to a semimetal; possessing metallic properties in an inferior degree; resembling metal.

MONASTIC a {monk=n}

Sensual.

Of or pertaining to separatists; characterizing separatists; schismatical.

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

SOLIDARIST

""SPECIALIST One who devotes himself to some specialty; as, a medical specialist, one who devotes himself to diseases of particular parts of the body, as the eye, the ear, the nerves, etc. as, a medical specialist, one who devotes himself to diseases of particular parts of the body, as the eye, the ear, the nerves, etc.""

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.

""ANTARCTIC Opposite to the northern or arctic pole; relating to the southern pole or to the region near it, and applied especially to a circle, distant from the pole 23° 28&min;. Thus we say the antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc. antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc.""

(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

""(Engineering / General Engineering) such a metal, alloy, etc. superplasticity  ""

Like Magritte, say

Like the art of Dali or Magritte

Bizarre pragmatist in endless cruise at sea

""Pertaining to, or characterized by, syncretism; as, a syncretistic mixture of the service of Jehovah and the worship of idols. as, a syncretistic mixture of the service of Jehovah and the worship of idols.""

An instrument for measuring tensile strength.

Maintaining a constant temperature

Temperature-controlled

Corsican with Etna erupting over the sea

Canine co-star bombed over the water

Contain scare flying across the sea

Span Arctic if at sea spanning an ocean

Spanning a specific ocean

Relating to the lowest layer of the atmosphere

Not rigorously investigated

Not systematic or methodical in thought

Lacking a satisfactory analytical process

Not methodical

Lacking method

Not ordered

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