12-Letter Words Starting with C

Cabbageworm

CACHINNATE

Cacography

A craftsperson of excellent character

He's a fine script writer

A. The art of fine handwriting.

""CALUMNIATE To accuse falsely and maliciously of a crime or offense, or of something disreputable; to slander; to libel.""

CAMOUFLAGE

CAMPHORATE To impregnate or treat with camphor.

Candlelight

CANTILLATE To chant; to recite with musical tones.

CAPACITATE To render capable; to enable; to qualify.

Caparison

CAPITALISE

""CAPITALIZE To convert into capital, or to use as capital.""

""CAPITULATE To settle or draw up the heads or terms of an agreement, as in chapters or articles; to agree.""

""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

Carbonado

Carburet

Producing cancer

Causing cancer

Cardiograph

Description of the heart.

Cardiology

Specialist in heart disease

Heart specialist

Doctor is one in suit I love to register with first

""CARICATURE An exaggeration, or distortion by exaggeration, of parts or characteristics, as in a picture.""

Carillon

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

One making maps

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

Map-maker

Pertaining to map-making

Chap tragic or silly in respect of maps

Relating to the drawing of maps

Cartwheel

Castigation

CATABOLIZE

CATEGORISE

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

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

Centimorgan

CENTRALISE

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

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.""

Chaetognath

Chairman

English word

Changeless

CHANNELIZE

Chaperonage

Character

Charbroil

Chauffeur

Chaulmoogra

Checkmark

Cheerlead

Fast food - begs cure here (anagram)

Lunch-counter specialty.

Fast food product

Mean with money

Mean to be cutting down dairy produce

Cheap greens I order, being parsimonious

Chemisorb

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

Like comic Hilda's female act

Chimichanga

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

""CHIROGRAPH A writing which, reguiring a counterpart, was engrossed twice on the same piece of parchment, with a space between, in which was written the word chirographum, through which the parchment was cut, and one part given to each party. It answered to what is now called a charter party. chirographum, through which the parchment was cut, and one part given to each party. It answered to what is now called a charter party.""

Shooting the breeze

In vacant chippies one batters fish guts

Edible intestines of hogs

Holds on catching batsman, showing guts

""CHLORINATE To treat, or cause to combine, with chlorine.""

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.

Maps ()

Christening

""The paper strip, column, gel, or TLC plate on which subsances have been separated by a process of chromatography{2}.""

Chronograph

A description or record of past time; history.

Chronologer

Time after time they should get the order right

One has placed an order for The Times

Chugalug

Churchgoing

CINEMATIZE

""CIRCUMCISE To cut off the prepuce of foreskin of, in the case of males, and the internal labia of, in the case of females.""

CIRCUMFUSE To pour round; to spread round.

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.

Clangorous

Clapboard

CLASSICIZE to make classic or classical.

With clattering.

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

Coagulation

Cocaptain

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

Illicit blood sport involving birds

Cockneyfy

Cocounsel

Codevelop

Codicology

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

Cogenerator

Cohomology

Cohostess

Collagenase

COLLEGIAL Collegiate.

Collegiate

No logistical alternative to these connections

Cologarithm

""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.""

Comforting

In a commanding manner.

Video description, part 3

Commodify

Companion

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.""

Making more involved

Like some positions

Officer starts marching, hopeful of meeting someone halfway

Making concessions and undertaking to support firm measures initially

""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

Concealing

Concenter

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

Conchology

""One who studies, or is versed in, conchology.""

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.

CONCRETIZE

Concubinage

Improving (hair); training to respond

Training to behave in a certain way

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

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

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

Congruency

Guessing

Conjugation

Bringing into force

Against writing text for computer and compulsorily listing

CONSECRATE Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred.

With consent; in a compliant manner.

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

Agrees, packing forged Ming shipments

Batches of fraudsters receiving omen on the way back

CONSOCIATE An associate; an accomplice.

Causing constipation.

CONSTITUTE To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.

Forcing prisoners to take exercise

Restricting severely

What you might see in prisoners' exercise yard is compelling

Constrict

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

CONSTRINGE To dawn together; to contract; to force to contract itself; to constrict; to cause to shrink.

Building prisoner's training in to get released

Randomly counting carts leaving a building

Building

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

In a contagious manner.

Contiguity

Contiguous

Contingence

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

Continuing

Coming in conflict with meeting about beach in Ireland

""CONTRIBUTE To give or grant i common with others; to give to a common stock or for a common purpose; to furnish or suply in part; to give (money or other aid) for a specified object; as, to contribute food or fuel for the poor. as, to contribute food or fuel for the poor.""

Recuperating

Convergence

""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.""

In a convincing manner; in a manner to compel assent.

Firm talking about loud noise leads to working in harmony

Matching sound of baby for research and development at home with unhappy giant

Blending in with some gentle mutterings over research and development in Austria

Copartner

Copingstone

Copresent

PROCESSING process

Coprophagy

""Feeding upon dung, as certain insects.""

Copublish

Copyright

Corkscrew

Cornhusking

Coronagraph

Coronograph

Corrugation

Belonging to cosmogony.

Cosmogonist

""One who describes the world or universe, including the heavens and the earth.""

""Kzmgrfk, Cosmographical Of or pertaining to cosmography.""

Of or pertaining to cosmology.

Cosmologist

Cosponsor

Fruit and veg seller

Fruit/veg seller

Barrow boy

Counselling

English word

English word

Noun (-age)