12-Letter Words Ending in C

Pertaining to absolutism; absolutist.

""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.

Adjective (-ic)

""Of or pertaining to the Amphictyons or their League or Council; as, an Amphictyonic town or state; the Amphictyonic body. as, an Amphictyonic town or state; the Amphictyonic body.""

Rearranging the letters of a word or phrase

Like this puzzles four long answers, in relation to each other

ANALPHABETE

Of or pertaining to anaphylaxis; caused by anaphylaxis.

""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.""

""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

""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

Medicine to destroy worms

ACADEMIC a college student or teacher

Of or pertaining to an anticyclone; moving in the opposite direction of a cyclone.

DIABETIC one who has diabetes

DOGMATIC overbearing

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

PRURITIC pertaining to {pruritus=n}

Good against the rickets.

ROMANTIC a fanciful person

Of or pertaining to an antistrophe.

Examination of the aorta using x-rays following the injection of a radiopaque substance.

""Free from chromatic and spherical aberration; -- said esp. of a lens in which rays of three or more colors are brought to the same focus, the degree of achromatism thus obtained being more complete than where two rays only are thus focused, as in the ordinary achromatic objective.""

APOTHEGM a pithy saying

Satiric actor playing noble

Of the nobility

Satiric actor turning 'blue'

ARTHROSCOPE

Showing no symptoms of disease.

AUTODIDACT One who is selftaught; an automath.

Pert. to autohypnotism; self-hypnotizing.

""Pl. avitaminoses (-s z) A disease, such as scurvy, beriberi, or pellagra, caused by deficiency of one or more essential vitamins.""

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.

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.

Competitive, in a way

Like some investors

Excellent criticism, mostly about one motivated by profit

Pertaining to map-making

Chap tragic or silly in respect of maps

Relating to the drawing of maps

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

Of or relating to an optical system that uses both reflective and refractive optical devices.

See electrophoresis .

Chaotic parts (anagram)

I catch pastor out in dire straits

Causing sudden damage

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

CENTRALIST

Exaggeratedly patriotic

Aggressively patriotic

Having an aggressive or fanatical patriotism

Adjective (-ic)

""A method of medical treatment that manipulates body structures, especially the spine, in the belief that it restores proper nerve functioning.""

An exceptionally precise timepiece.

A pancreatic digestive enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of certain proteins in the small intestine into polypeptides and amino acids.

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

""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.

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

""COMPATRIOT One of the same country, and having like interests and feeling.""

CYANOGEN a compound of carbon and nitrogen

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

DEUTERANOPE

Adjective (-ic)

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

In the form of a simplified drawing

Graphic figure has many a convulsion

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

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

Characterizing the ovum when it has two primary germinal layers.

SYMMETRIC Symmetrical.

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.

ENTEROCOELE

Ardent - thin suitcase (anagram)

Showing keen interest

Intensely keen and interested

(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.

""Pl. fibrinolyses (-s z ) The breakdown of fibrin, usually by the enzymatic action of plasmin.""

FIBROBLAST

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,""

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).""

""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.""

Of or pertaining to gastroscopy.

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

Old Age

Acting on or stimulating the gonads: a gonadotropic hormone.

GRANULOCYTE

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

HENOTHEIST

HETEROCYCLE

Of or relating to hierophants or their teachings.

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.""

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.""

Of or pertaining to hyperkinesis.

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

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

THALAMIC pertaining to the thalamus

Attacking cherished institutions

Attacking cherished beliefs

Criticising cherished beliefs

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.""

Within the heart.

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

""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

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.

Of metal or stone surface printing

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

Adjective (-ic)

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

Adjective (-ic)

Warlike

Having a dislike of humankind

Disliking all mankind

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

Woman-hating

Pertaining to a monodrama.

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.""

Likely to control a market

Having one neural synapse.

Judeo-Christian, for example

Form ()

MYELOBLAST

Egotistical

Based on real life

Imitating real life

True-to-life representation of acts in ritual

NATUROPATH

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.""

Of or pertaining to the Nominalists.

ADIABATIC Not giving out or receiving heat.

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

ANTIGENIC

Same as hand-operated.hand-operated.

""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.""

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.

A condition of normal body temperature.

Under the influence of nympholepsy; ecstatic; frenzied.

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

Lacking in plant nutrients and having a large amount of dissolved oxygen throughout. Used of a pond or lake.

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.""

The branch of zoology that deals with the study of birds.

""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,""

""ORTHOGRAPH An orthographic projection, sometimes partly in section, esp. of a building.""

Noting the system of crystallization which has three unequal axes at right angles to each other; trimetric. See Crystallization. Crystallization.

""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.