12-Letter Words Starting with C

English word

Communicate

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

Adjectives ending in -er

Some hold gloves

Style of address or salutation; an appellation.

Compelling

""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.

Competency

It comes top in rigged contests

Contests this is to keep up with the Joneses at school

Contests firm is getting 1000 written protests with signatures

Complacence

In a complacent manner.

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.""

Complement

The state of being complete.

A. Consisting of interconnected or interwoven parts; composite.

Past tense or past participle

Complexify

Of or pertaining to constitutional complexion.

""Having (such) a complexion; used in composition; as, a darkcomplexioned or a ruddycomplexioned person. as, a darkcomplexioned or a ruddycomplexioned person.""

Knotty problems.

Compliancy

Complicacy

Complicity

Paid tribute to writer behind one version of Congratulations

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

Comportment

COMPOSED compose

That may be compounded.

Understood

Compressed

""Capable of being pressed together or forced into a narrower compass, as an elastic or spongy substance.""

Compression

Compromiser

Company member takes on fishermen and financial officers

By compulsion; by force.

Computerdom

Computerese

Posh tea (unfinished) included sandwiches produced by machines (wordplay)

Computerise

Computerist

""Stored, processed, or analyzed by computer.""

Computerize

COMPUTER a machine that computes automatically

Adjective meaning resembling

Computernik

Comradeship

""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.

Concenter

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

Concernment

Live music lovers interested in performance by 22 across, for example

Show green light to superstar in the middle of audience

One who attends a concert.

CONCERTIZE

""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.""

Concession

By way of concession.

Conchology

Conciliatory.

Concinnity

In a decisive manner

Comic note can spoil accompaniment

Accompanying detail

Concordance

Coalescence of particles; growth; increase by the addition of particles.

The quality of being concrete.

CONCRETIZE

Concubinage

Tory getting prize money is above being lecherous

Lustful jailbird has item from women's underwear, I discern

Concurrence

At the same time

Study now simultaneously

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

Patronized

Deigned to provide account of last bit of prisoner's escape over wall

Stooped

CONDITIONER condition

Conductance

""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

Mars, for one

Sweet maker/seller

Seller of sweets

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

Fellow workers

CONFERENCE The act of comparing two or more things together; comparison.

Relating to conference.

Conferrence

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

Labour constrictions (wordplay)

Conformance

Conformity

Confounded

CONFUSED confuse

Congealment

Congelation

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

Dupe officer with Italian brother in arms by inheritance

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

Congruency

A specialized fungal hypha (a branch of the fungal mycelium) that produces conidia.

Conjecturer

Guessing

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

Conjunctive

Conjuncture

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

In connjunction; jointly.

State of being linked

Judges in matters of taste hear no better than most

""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.

Consecution

Consensual

With consent; in a compliant manner.

They follow the game

Results - parlour game

Crime series creates results

As a result

As a result, chess opening only covers queen's remarkable gambit ultimately

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

Agrees, packing forged Ming shipments

Batches of fraudsters receiving omen on the way back

Consistence

Every time (the same conditions arise)

In the same way

(Done) without contradictions

Is sitting between right-wingers in church councils

Combined into a single unit

Made firm adapt to island code

Odd sectional parts merged

Gets together with disconsolate nuts

Consonancy

Conspecific

Conspectus

Plots against Press? CIA, I fancy

Unlawful secret agreements

Plots extremely pathetic and scenario is ludicrous

""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

District represented by MP

Division of country for voting purposes

MP's electors

Components

Tending or assisting to constitute or compose; elemental; essential.

Serving or tending to bind or constrict.

""Having the quality of contracting, binding, or compressing.""

Serving a useful purpose

Positive treatment for tic (nervous tic), liberating one

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

Consumerism

Consumerist

""One that consumes, especially one that acquires goods or services for direct use or ownership rather than for resale or use in production and manufacturing.""

In a consummate manner; completely.

Serving to consummate; completing.

Consumptive

Container

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

Containment

Polluted - anatomic dent (anagram)

No longer pure

Polluted, 'no admittance' order required

See circled squares

Spoils actions meant to rectify

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

To happen at the same time.

Revolting beyond The Pale

Despicable company gets half-hearted bite after introducing lure

Vile

In a contemptible manner.

Put on costume, turning arrogant

Scornful of fashionable costume put on

Disdainful

Contentment

""Having the same bounds, or limits; bordering upon; contiguous.""

Short story on for example Radio 4 generates controversy

Contextual

Contiguity

Paper money of 1776.

Contingence

In a contingent manner; without design or foresight; accidentally.

Continuance

A term or expression denoting continuance.

Continuity

Contrabass

Capable of contraction.