12-Letter Words Starting with C

CACHINNATE

Clubs can have people in stitches almost laughing out loud

Cacography

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

A. The art of fine handwriting.

CAMPHORATE To impregnate or treat with camphor.

Candlefish

Support for burning light

MENORAH

Candlelight

Cantharidin

Captainship

""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

""The condition, dignity, of office of a cardinal""

Cardiograph

Description of the heart.

CARDSHARPER cardsharp

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

Cartoonish

CARTWHEELER cartwheel

Cartwheel

""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.

Chaotic parts (anagram)

I catch pastor out in dire straits

Causing sudden damage

"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.""

CATHETERIZE To operate on with a catheter.

Catheterize

Cathodical

CATHOLIC a member of the early Christian church

Catholicate

CATHOLICIZE To make or to become catholic or Roman Catholic.

Catholicize

Catholicos

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

The measurement of the heads of living persons.

Cephalothin

Chaetognath

Chairman

Check high-level craft needed for executive position

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)

Vessel prized in the N.F.L.

Prize for today's puzzle's circles

The "C" In C.A.R.T. racing

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

Charbroil

Charcuterie

Charismatic

Animal starch (anagram) - quackery

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

Chaulmoogra

Exaggeratedly patriotic

Aggressively patriotic

Having an aggressive or fanatical patriotism

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

Chiaroscuro

Chickenshit

Like comic Hilda's female act

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

Chilliness

Wildy; vainly; fancifully.

Chimichanga

Fireplace surround

Chinaberry

Chinoiserie

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.""

Chiromancer

Chiromancy

They each go to work on foot

They have to get to work on foot

""A method of medical treatment that manipulates body structures, especially the spine, in the belief that it restores proper nerve functioning.""

One who manipulates the spine

Joint manipulator

Spine manipulator

Chiropteran

Shooting the breeze

In vacant chippies one batters fish guts

Edible intestines of hogs

Holds on catching batsman, showing guts

In a chivalrous manner; gallantly; magnanimously.

Plant tissue consisting of parenchyma cells that contain chloroplasts.

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

""The act or process of subjecting anything to the action of chlorine; especially, a process for the extraction of gold by exposure of the auriferous material to chlorine gas.""

Chlorinator

Chlorinity

Chloroform

""An aliphatic organic chemical compound that is both an alkyl chloride and an alcohol, frequently containing a single chlorine atom and a single hydroxyl group on adjacent carbon atoms.""

Chlorophyll

""An oily colorless liquid, CCl 3 NO 2 , that causes skin, lung, and mucous membrane irritation and is used in tear gas and in dyestuffs, disinfectants, insecticides, and soil fumigants. Also called nitrochloroform .""

Chloroplast

Chloroprene

Chloroquine

CHOCOLATIER chocolatie

Choiceness

Is orchestra prepared to embrace male musical directors (wordplay)

Chokeberry

CHOLERIC bad-tempered

Cholesterol

See mitochondrion .

Chondroitin

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.

Maps ()

Chowderhead

Anthology of writings

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

Chrismation

Christening

Christiania

""CHROMATIC Relating to color, or to colors.""

The quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength.

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

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

CHROMOPHORE Any chemical group or residue (as NO<?/; N<?/; or O<?/) which imparts some decided color to the compound of which it is an ingredient.

Chromoplast

""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

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

Chronometer

An exceptionally precise timepiece.

Chrysarobin

Chrysoberyl

Chrysomelid

Chrysophyte

Chrysoprase

Chubbiness

Chuckawalla

Chucklehead

Chugalug

Chumminess

Churchgoing

Abstract noun (-ity)

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.

Chylomicron

A pancreatic digestive enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of certain proteins in the small intestine into polypeptides and amino acids.

A pancreatic digestive enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of certain proteins in the small intestine into polypeptides and amino acids.

It may showcase art films

Citizenship

A tendency to associate with only a select group.

CLIQUISH {cliquey=adj}

CLODDISH like a clod

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

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

AUTHORSHIP The quality or state of being an author; function or dignity of an author.