12-Letter Words Starting with C

Cabbageworm

Premier craftsman (wordplay)

Taoiseach perhaps builds up bureau

President's second career (wordplay)

Cabinetwork

Cacography

Cadaverous

Calcareous

Calculated

Type of fitness training

Exercise class I organized around shy group featuring Keith Emerson

A craftsperson of excellent character

He's a fine script writer

Callowness

Calorimeter

Of or pertaining to process of using the calorimeter.

Camaraderie

Film set worker

Cancelation

Abandonment

Annulment

Candelabrum

Candescence

Candidature

Candidness

Candlefish

Support for burning light

MENORAH

Candlelight

Candlepower

Supporters of wicked things

They give light support, though quite powerless

Candyfloss

CANNIBALISE

Cannibalise

CANNIBALIZE

Cannibalize

Cannonball

Canonicity

The quality of being musical.

Ratty makes sure a knot can be undone

Wrongful Korean acts - UN peevish

Contrary and quarrelsome

Cantilever

Talents

Capacitance

Capacitive

Large grouse; a paler icicle (anagram)

Grouse to jump about - one left to rest

Type of northern grouse

""A large grouse (Tetrao urogallus), native to northern Europe and having dark plumage and a fanlike tail. Also called wood grouse .""

Capitulary

Captious disposition or manner.

""CARAMELISE to to change into caramel, by the action of heat; as, The sugar caramelized quickly.as, The sugar caramelized quickly.""

CARAMELIZE to to convert

Eastern unfurnished inn

Fitzgerald's battered inn

Eastern inn

""Any of various enzymes, such as amylase, that catalyze the hydrolysis of a carbohydrate.""

Type of food

Botched array disrupted energy source

Component of food Deborah and Tracy munched

""Pertaining to, containing, or composed of, carbon.""

Carboxylase

CARBOXYLATE to treat a chemical compound with carboxyl or carboxylic acid.

Carboxylate

Carburetion

Carburetter

Carburet

Carburettor

Producing cancer

Causing cancer

Cardinalate

Cardiology

CARDSHARPER cardsharp

Believing (someone as committed crime)

Failure to act with prudence

Unconcerned attitude

'Ringer' vehicle ailing on climbing trip round head of Eskdale

Carminative

The occupation or work of a carpenter; the act of workingin timber; carpentry.

Corrupt Northerner of 1865.

Scalawag's confederate

Non-local candidate

Carrageenan

Carrageenin

Carriageway

CARROTTOP

One making maps

Occupation that the bad chef might be better at (wordplay)

Map-maker

CARTWHEELER cartwheel

Cartwheel

Cassiterite

Casualness

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

Plural or third person singular

See electrophoresis .

See electrophoresis .

Houston N.L. team boo-boos

Utter disasters

Fiascos.

"Got it!" and "Roger that!" (wordplay)

T-shirt slogans, perhaps

Got it! and "Roger that!" (wordplay)

""Relating to or consisting in, asking questions and receiving answers, according to the ancient manner of teaching.""

CATEGORISE

CATEGORIZE To insert in a category or list; to class; to catalogue.

Many-legged larvae tracks

Gives food with support for larvae

They make tracks for these garden bugs

""The cry of cats; a harsh, disagreeable noise or cry like the cry of cats.""

CATHETERIZE To operate on with a catheter.

Catheterize

Catholicate

CATHOLICIZE To make or to become catholic or Roman Catholic.

Catholicize

Catholicos

Cauliflower

Causticity

Prudence, wariness

Cavalierism

Share in famous people's festivities

Bar elections confusing parties

Cabinet's role upsets parties

Plural or third person singular

""CELLULITIS An inflammantion of the cellular or areolar tissue, esp. of that lying immediately beneath the skin.""

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

Cementation

Of the nature of cement.

Critically, I curse so only when upset

People over 100

Once in a hundred years.

Centerboard

CENTERED center

Dinner party decorations

Dinner table decorations

Centimorgan

CENTRALISE

CENTRALIST

Centrality

Centralizer

Causing to concentrate at a center. Opposite of decentralizing.decentralizing.

Centricity

Centrifugal

""CENTRIFUGE an apparatus having containers for liquids arrayed around a central pivot and rotated at a high speed, thus generating centrifugal force on the liquid, and separating substances (such as particles of solid or globules of an immiscible liquid) mixed together in suspension within the liquid. Suspensions which would settle only very slowly or not at all under gravity can be made to separate quickly in such a device.centrifugal force on the liquid, and separating substances (such as particles of solid or globules of an immiscible liquid) mixed together in suspension within the liquid. Suspensions which would settle only very slowly or not at all under gravity can be made to separate quickly in such a device.""

""CEPHALIC pertaining to the head, also KEPHALIC""

The measurement of the heads of living persons.

Cephalothin

Ceratopsian

Cerebration

Cerebroside

""According to rites and ceremonies; as, a person ceremonially unclean. as, a person ceremonially unclean.""

Authorized

Statements of qualification

Plural or third person singular

Cervicitis

Chaetognath

They direct random prison search

Agates

English word

""Copper pyrites, or yellow copper ore; a common ore of opper, containing copper, iron, and sulphur. It occurs massive and in tetragonal crystals of a bright brass yellow color.""

Chamaephyte

Chamberlain

Violent mama's birched the servants

Cleaner male helps holding decoration for cleaners

Where members sit with girls who work in hotels (wordplay)

Chanciness

Chandelier

Changeless

CHANNELIZE

Chansonnier

Edible, yellow, funnel-shaped mushrooms

Yellow mushrooms

A field away from 1 across turning on pipe, energy producing mushrooms!

Chanticleer

Chaperonage

Chaplaincy

""CHARACTER A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol.""

Charactery

Character

To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features.

CHARBROILER charbroil

Charcuterie

Chartulary

Chasteness

Beating faulty machine tests

Mate snitches, may result in a beating

Scolding Bond about messing up his SAT

Chatoyancy

Ear-chewers

Terribly OTT breach backing male or female gossips

Motormouths

Chattiness

Chauffeur

A spicy plant and its bright red berry; the wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens). Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry (Mitchella repens). Gaultheria procumbens). Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry (Mitchella repens).

Surface of 64 squares

Design of alternating squares

Examine hesitation for committee looking for kings in America (wordplay)

Checkmark

Cheekiness

Cheerful

State of Blithe Spirit

Cheeriness

Real "go-go" girls

Between-halves V.I.P.'s

Those rousing the crowd in support

Cheerlead

Fast food - begs cure here (anagram)

Lunch-counter specialty.

Fast food product

They cover half of 18 across with these cloches roughly

Mean with money

Mean to be cutting down dairy produce

Cheap greens I order, being parsimonious

Cheesiness

Adjective (-ic)

Chemisorb

""Selective destruction of tissue by use of chemicals, as for removing malignant skin lesions.""

The use of chemical agents to treat or control disease (or mental illness); -- also used especially in reference to the use of chemicals to treat cancer.

""Biology , Growth growth or motion in response to a chemical stimulus. ; chemotropic ,""

What's left of life in song (wordplay)

Shore dinner course.

Small quahogs

Cherubical

Sofa (with crooked spire?)

Type of sofa (in Derbyshire?)

Man of letters is well-upholstered

Chickenshit

Like comic Hilda's female act

The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.

Chilliness

Wildy; vainly; fancifully.

Fireplace surround

Chinaberry

Chinoiserie

One who practice the art or business of writing or engrossing.

Chiromancer

Chiromancy

Chiropteran

In vacant chippies one batters fish guts

Edible intestines of hogs

Holds on catching batsman, showing guts

Plant tissue consisting of parenchyma cells that contain chloroplasts.

Chlorinity

Chloroform

Chloroprene

Chloroquine

CHOCOLATIER chocolatie

Choiceness

Is orchestra prepared to embrace male musical directors (wordplay)

Chokeberry

CHOLERIC bad-tempered