12-Letter Words Starting with C

Cholesterol

See mitochondrion .

Choppiness

Choreograph

Steps on a stage

The designing of ballet steps

Routine arrangements for trippers

One who describes or makes a map of a district or region.

Chowderhead

Anthology of writings

Mencken's book, a selection of passages, with notes.

Christening

Chrominance

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Pl. chromonemata (-m -t ) The spirally coiled central filament of a chromatid along which the chromomeres are aligned.

Chromophore

""An atmosphere of rare matter, composed principally of incandescent hydrogen gas, surrounding the sun and enveloping the photosphere. Portions of the chromosphere are here and there thrown up into enormous tongues of flame.""

Chronicity

Chronologer

Time after time they should get the order right

Chronometer

An exceptionally precise timepiece.

Chrysoberyl

Chrysomelid

Chrysophyte

Chrysoprase

Chubbiness

Chucklehead

Chumminess

Regard for the church.

Parish officer - long-stemmed pipe

Long-stemmed clay pipe

Pipe officer

Rudeness of manners or temper; lack of kindness or courtesy.

It may showcase art films

CINEMATIZE

Cinquecento

CIRCULARISE

Circularise

CIRCULARIZE

Circularize

CIRCULAR a leaflet

""CIRCULATE To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body. as, the blood circulates in the body.""

The center of a circle that circumscribes a triangle.

English word

Circumciser

Circumflex

Flowing around or surrounding.

Lying round; borderong on every side.

Confine within limited range

Restrict; draw round

Draw a line around

Pomp and - (Elgar)

Ceremony; attendant fact

Ceremony; an attendant fact

Circumvent

Citizeness

Citizenship

The cultivation of citrus fruits.

Citronellal

Citronellol

CIVILIANIZE

Civilianize

Plural or third person singular

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

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

""Pertaining to, or characterized by, clairaudience.""

Relative of ESP

Second sight

Heightened perception of Veronica with lacy pants

Clamminess

A tendency to associate with only a select group.

Clapperclaw

Clarinetist

Musician, like Benny Goodman, say

Goodman or J. Dorsey.

Musician's recital stint broadcast

Capable of being classified.

Classiness

With clattering.

CLAVIERIST

Abstract noun (-ity)

Clearstory

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

Clerestory

Clericalism

Clericalist

Cleverness

Climacteric

CLIQUISH {cliquey=adj}

Pl. clitoridectomies also clitorectomies Surgical removal of the clitoris.

CLODDISH like a clod

Cloistress

Smooth clue set: hollow-eyed and tight-lipped

... M-U-T-E

Reticent

Model for fashionable wear (inf.)

One with a big closet, perhaps

Spirit animal of a couturier (wordplay)

CLOTHESLINE A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.

Designers' wares (wordplay)

Where washing dries

Changes of gear may depend on them

Garment wrinkle remover

Where you find the shirts and trousers in Vogue for one (wordplay)

Where you find the shirts and trousers in Vogue for one

Cloudberry

Cloudiness

Modern highway intersections.

Features of many superhighways

Lucky foursome

The manners of a clown; coarseness or rudeness of behavior.

Clubbiness

Clumsiness

A heaping together.

Plural or third person singular

Coalescence

Coarseness

COBBLESTONE A large pebble; a rounded stone not too large to be handled; a small boulder; used for paving streets and for other purposes.

They may pave the way

Tough cycling surfaces

""CARCINOGEN Any substance that produces cancer; as, to test for carcinogens in the drinking water.as, to test for carcinogens in the drinking water.""

CHAIRWOMEN

COCKEYED having a cockeye

Flimsy boats for crewmen

Cockneyfy

COCKSURE {certain=adj}

Cocounsel

COUNSELLED counsel

""CULTIVATED marked by refinement in taste and manners; as, cultivated tastes in art.as, cultivated tastes in art.""

Cocultivate

Codefendant

Al-Anon topic

DEPENDENCY State of being dependent; dependence; state of being subordinate; subordination; concatenation; connection; reliance; trust.

Codependent

DEVELOPERS developer

Codevelop

Codicology

Codirection

Codiscover

Codiscover

Coeducation

Coefficient

Aquatic invertebrate such as jellyfish or anemone

Coequality

COERCIVE serving to coerce

Coercivity

Coevolution

Coexistence

Coffeehouse

Baristas from 7 down and 1 across

They might drip

Restaurant equipment.

""GENERATION The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.""

Cogenerator

COHESION the act of sticking together

Tendency to stick together

Sticking together I chose seven mates in the end to travel around

Cohomology

Cohostess

Coincidence

Firm of less importance gets chance

Happening by chance

Apparently randomly concurrent

With coincidence.

Coinsurance

Coleopteran

One versed in the study of the Coleoptera.

Having wings covered with a case or sheath; belonging to the Coleoptera.

Joined forces with strangely adorable clot

Collaborate

Collagenase

Side by side; by the side.

Collectable

Collectible

All together

To bring under collective control; to organize for operation by the principles of collectivism; -- especially of farms and industrial enterprises. Same as collectivize.collectivize.

Economic theory favouring state control

Pick-up one opposing belief in state's economic land practice

Pick up one opposing belief in state's economic land practice

An advocate of collectivism.

Quality or state of being collective.

To bring under collective control; to organize for operation by the principles of collectivism; -- especially of farms and industrial enterprises.

COLLEGIAL Collegiate.

Collegiate

Collembolan

Adjective (-ous)

Collenchyma

COLLINEAR

Feeling of apprehension

Bellboy with scowl suffering pain

Upset stomach

COLONIALIZE

Colonialize

COLONIAL a citizen of a colony

COLORFUL full of color

Colorimeter

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

""MANAGEMENT The act or art of managing; the manner of treating, directing, carrying on, or using, for a purpose; conduct; administration; guidance; control; as, the management of a family or of a farm; the management of state affairs. as, the management of a family or of a farm; the management of state affairs.""

Comes around head and shoulders for one lawyer provided they burn easily

The Bonfire of the Vanities perhaps is incendiary to society

They're likely to go off on one, having a fiery disposition on bender

Comeliness

Comeuppance

Comicality

Seized arbitrarily

Commandery

Holy orders (wordplay)

Orders, maybe 10

Holy orders

Called to remembrance

Remembered, celebrated

Remembers common prices, memo is enclosed

One who commemorates.

Care of Bond's boss, hands Bond opening

Graduation ceremony

Commanding officer and male crew fix launch

I'd comment on a poor endorsement

Formal praise

Official praise

Serving to commend; containing praise or commendation; commending; praising.

The act of eating together; table fellowship.

The same meat runs out during visit

Appropriate (to)

Corresponding in size

Those running on air seem romantic fantasy

They may be running the moment race is organised

A thousand blokes in bed with stars, according to reports!

Video description, part 3

Commentator

In a business way.

""COMMISERATE To feel sorrow, pain, or regret for; to pity.""

Commiserate

Commissary

Commission

Head of police organisation

Government official.

Senior policeman

A member of a committee.

""COMMITTEE One or more persons elected or appointed, to whom any matter or bussiness is referred, either by a legislative body, or by a court, or by any collective body of men acting together.""

Commonalty

Commonness

Commonplace

Pennsylvania, for one.

Joint account (wordplay)

Mutual fund (wordplay)

COMMUNALIZE

Communalize

Catching Tommy, Eunice bounds away into lead

(Of disease) able to be passed on to others

COMMUNICATE To share in common; to participate in.