12-Letter Words Starting with C

Commutation

""Companionlike; as, companionate marriage; a companionate dog.as, companionate marriage; a companionate dog.""

Companion

Ship's stair

Steps on a ship

Steps between decks

Comparatist

Adjectives ending in -er

Some hold gloves

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

Style of address or salutation; an appellation.

""COMPENSATE To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompence; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses. as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses.""

Award for, eg, injury

Redress main cost with open payout

Minnesota cop rigged damages

Affording compensation.

Compensator

Serving for compensation; making amends.

Compilation

Complacence

In a complacent manner.

Complainant

Maybe open acclaim's what's expected of a yes-man

Obliging nature accompanies first of lawyers, dubiously

""Supplying, or tending to supply, a deficiency; fully completing.""

A. Consisting of interconnected or interwoven parts; composite.

Of or pertaining to constitutional complexion.

Compliancy

Complicacy

Making more involved

Difficulty produced by aggravation of illness

Difficulty

""COMPONENT Serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent.""

That may be compounded.

""The act or practice of justifying or confirming a man's veracity by the oath of others; called also wager of law. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager. wager of law. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager.""

Compurgator

Computation

Comradeship

English word

""CONCATENATE To link together; to unite in a series or chain, as things depending on one another.""

Concatenate

Concealing

Concealment

English word

To celebrate together.

Deep Thought (wordplay)

Focused - made denser

Focus on The Last Word is reduced

Essential extracts from the press

""An apparatus for the separation of dry comminuted ore, by exposing it to intermittent puffs of air.""

Conceptacle

Pertaining to conception.

Conceptual

""CONCESSION The act of conceding or yielding; usually implying a demand, claim, or request, and thus distinguished from giving, which is voluntary or spontaneous. giving, which is voluntary or spontaneous.""

Conchoidal

CONCILIATE To win ower; to gain from a state of hostility; to gain the good will or favor of; to make friendly; to mollify; to propitiate; to appease.

Peaceful overcoming of hostilities

Stage of development

Appeasement

Conciliatory.

Conciliator

Acting as a mediator

Peace-making

Comic note can spoil accompaniment

Accompanying detail

Concomitant

Concordance

In a concordant manner.

Concubinage

Strong censure

Complete disapproval

Blame doesn't end with State getting bad press

Severely critical

Water collecting on a cold surface

Water forming on a cold surface

Lacking energy, new diets no one can digest

Conditional

Condonation

Conductance

""CONDUCTOR One who, or that which, conducts; a leader; a commander; a guide; a manager; a director.""

""Folded lengthwise along the midrib, the upper face being within; said of leaves or petals in vernation or \'91stivation.""

Fabricated past experiences

Shoots the breeze

Chats

Conversationalist

Need for cadet to be trained in civil war group (wordplay)

Fellow workers

Relating to conference.

Nature of autobiography (especially Rousseau's)

Booth in church finances loos being renovated

In which Higgins supplies a place for admission

Private fled in action, distressed

Inflicted on a (anagram) - private

Like T.S. Eliot's clerk

Making sure of ecclesiastical rite

Proof; a religious ceremony

Company people must accept solid proof

Serving to confirm; corroborative.

CONFISCATE Seized and appropriated by the government to the public use; forfeited.

Seizure of property by an authority

Confiscator

Effecting confiscation; characterized by confiscations.

Conformance

Rip off by Genesis - is that the shape of things to come (wordplay)

A dogsbody provides trick questionnaire at a charge

Confutation

Congealment

Congelation

The state or quality of being congenial; natural affinity; adaptation; suitableness.

Dupe officer with Italian brother in arms by inheritance

""CONGLOBATE Collected into, or forming, a rounded mass or ball; as, the conglobate""

The act or process of forming into a ball.

Coarse-grained rock; large corporation

Large company formed by merger

German ocelot may give great concern

""Glued together; united, as by some adhesive substance.""

Well-done toast (wordplay)

Praise (someone) for achievement

Praise an achievement

CONGREGATE Collected; compact; close.

Worshipful company (wordplay)

Churchgoers go on catering course

Churchgoers study going rate amendment

Congregator

Conjugation

Pl. conjunctivas or conjunctivae (-v ) The mucous membrane that lines the inner surface of the eyelid and the exposed surface of the eyeball.

Joining; connecting.

Conjunctiva

Conjuration

By the act of nature; originally; from birth.

""CONNECTION The act of connecting, or the state of being connected; junction; union; alliance; relationship.""

Graffiti on a jail wall (wordplay)

Prison graffiti or implications (wordplay)

""CONNUBIAL Of or pertaining to marriage, or the marriage state; conjugal; nuptial.""

The quality of being connubial; something characteristics of the conjugal state; an expression of connubial tenderness.

Spanish adventurer of the 16th century

Pizarro or Cortes

16th-century Spanish invader of Peru

""Governed by, or according to, conscience; reasonable; just.""

CONSECRATE Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred.

Act of rendering holy

Dedication to a concern is unusual

CONSECRATE Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred.

Consecrator

Of or pertaining to the act of consecration; dedicatory.

Consensual

Careful use (of a resource)

Preservation (of wildlife)

Change conversation from ecology

Opposition to change and innovation

Tory creed

Orthodoxy

Mr. or Mrs. Right (wordplay)

End of today's quote

Winston Churchill's party.

CONSERVE to {preserve=v}

Conservator

Spin a controversy from Belvedere

Sun lounge

It creates a controversy in Belvedere perhaps

Decent message about drones, I gathered

Regard as skilful and influential

Regard as skilful and substantial

Rook expertly capturing Rook on flank, remarkably

""The act of consigning; the act of delivering or committing to another person, place, or state.""

Of or pertaining to a consistory.

CONSOCIATE An associate; an accomplice.

Intimate union; fellowship; alliance; companionship; confederation; association; intimacy.

Consolation

Combined into a single unit

Made firm adapt to island code

Odd sectional parts merged

Gets together with disconsolate nuts

CONSOLIDATE Formed into a solid mass; made firm; consolidated.

Consonancy

Plots against Press? CIA, I fancy

Unlawful secret agreements

Plots extremely pathetic and scenario is ludicrous

Agreement or concurrence for some end or purpose; conspiracy.

Swindles by eg Hook mostly, or Smee initially - they plot together!

Tricks foreign airports and those in a number of schemes

Ring

Criminal, brutal say, thrashed coppers

Bill or Nick (wordplay)

Force changing brutal con, say

""CONSTELLATE To join luster; to shine with united radiance, or one general light.""

Constellate

CONSTERNATE to cause to be confused; confuse emotionally; to dismay.

Consternate

Causing constipation.

Difficulty going on after Ascot tip in racing

It's treated by gastroenterologists, strangely, not opticians

Forcing prisoners to take exercise

Restricting severely

What you might see in prisoners' exercise yard is compelling

Old magistrate assigned place without sun for meeting

Discussion with a specialist involved coolant units

Pertaining to consultation; having the privilege or right of conference.

In a consummate manner; completely.

CONSUMMATE Carried to the utmost extent or degree; of the highest quality; complete; perfect.

""The act of consummating, or the state of being consummated; completed; completion; perfection; termination; end (as of the world or of life).""

Serving to consummate; completing.

Consummator

CONSUMMATOR

In a contagious manner.

Container

""CONTAINER One who, or that which, contains.""

Containment

Contaminant

Polluted - anatomic dent (anagram)

No longer pure

Polluted, 'no admittance' order required

See circled squares

Spoils actions meant to rectify

""CONTAMINATE To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile.""

Thought about

Did deliberate swindle with blueprint to get diamonds

The Parisian should be held in scorn, journalist considered

Muses.

One who contemplates.

With passing of the same age

Marlowe was Shakespeare's

Peer's perverse, penning funny poem

Short story on for example Radio 4 generates controversy

Contextual

Paper money of 1776.

Continuance

Persistence, going on

An extension of something else

Extension or carrying on to a further point

A term or expression denoting continuance.

Continuator

Contrabass

Capable of contraction.

English teacher's interest in Labor Day (wordplay)

Sign of Labour and Tory battles about heads of Treasury

Contracture

Gainsaid.

Gainsaid

Gainsayer.

English word

Against various points of gismos

Of music with more than one melody

Polyphonic

Singing voice wanting to hedge a bet with more than one melody

Frequent topic in marriage counseling

Perverse inclination

Worries I can't dispel on the other side

CONTRAST to place in opposition to display differences

Contravener

Coming in conflict with meeting about beach in Ireland

Contredanse

Contrivance

Able to be managed

Stroppily disobedient

Conurbation

Getting better sort of home

Gradually recovering health

One recovering from medical treatment

Recuperating

CONVECTION The act or process of conveying or transmitting.

Customary assembly with a learner

Customary; not 9 ac

The traditional way to gangster

Conventual

Conversance

Something to talk about (wordplay)

Exchange broken cast-iron oven

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""CONVERSION The act of turning or changing from one state or condition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation; change.""

Conveyancer

""The business of a conveyancer; the act or business of drawing deeds, leases, or other writings, for transferring the title to property from one person to another.""

Cheerfulness and sociability

Cheerful socialising

Convocation

United group actions

Cooperative