12-Letter Words Starting with C

Premier craftsman (wordplay)

Taoiseach perhaps builds up bureau

President's second career (wordplay)

Cabinetwork

CACHINNATE

Clubs can have people in stitches almost laughing out loud

Cacography

Calamitous

Calcination

Estimates

Calibration

Californium

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.

Calorimeter

Of or pertaining to process of using the calorimeter.

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

""False accusation of crime or offense, or a malicious and false representation of the words or actions of another, with a view to injure his good name.""

Calumniator

Calumnious

Calypsonian

Camaraderie

CAMOUFLAGE

CAMPHORATE To impregnate or treat with camphor.

""Construction of, or furnishing with, a canal or canals.""

Cancelation

Abandonment

Annulment

Candidature

Candidness

Candlefish

Candlelight

Supporters of wicked things

They give light support, though quite powerless

Cannabinoid

CANNIBALISE

Cannibalise

Cannibalism

CANNIBALIZE

Cannibalize

Canonicity

It would take a miracle to happen

Cantharidin

Cantilever

CANTILLATE To chant; to recite with musical tones.

A chanting; recitation or reading with musical modulations.

Talents

Capacitance

CAPACITATE To render capable; to enable; to qualify.

CAPACITATE To render capable; to enable; to qualify.

Capacitive

Caparison

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 .""

CAPITALISE

Competitive, in a way

Like some investors

Excellent criticism, mostly about one motivated by profit

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

Capitulary

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

Natural environment

Surrender

Capricious

Captainship

Captious disposition or manner.

Captivation

""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

Carbonado

Carbonation

Carburetion

Carburet

Producing cancer

Causing cancer

Cardinalate

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

Cardiograph

Description of the heart.

Cardiology

Specialist in heart disease

Heart specialist

Doctor is one in suit I love to register with first

Cardiotonic

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

USA art critic (anagram)

A curt satiric version from Cruikshank

Artist producing comic portraits

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

Carillon

Carminative

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

Carrageenin

Carriageway

Pertaining to map-making

Chap tragic or silly in respect of maps

Relating to the drawing of maps

Cartoonish

Cartwheel

Cassiterite

Castigation

CATABOLIZE

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

Of or relating to an optical system that uses both reflective and refractive optical devices.

See electrophoresis .

See electrophoresis .

Chaotic parts (anagram)

I catch pastor out in dire straits

Causing sudden damage

""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

Cathodical

CATHOLIC a member of the early Christian church

Catholicate

CATHOLICIZE To make or to become catholic or Roman Catholic.

Catholicize

Catholicos

CATIONIC relating to a cation

Caudillismo

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.

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""

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

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.""

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

CHANNELIZE

Chansonnier

Chanticleer

Chaplaincy

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

Beating faulty machine tests

Mate snitches, may result in a beating

Scolding Bond about messing up his SAT

Chatoyancy

Chattiness

Chauffeur

Exaggeratedly patriotic

Aggressively patriotic

Having an aggressive or fanatical patriotism

Checkmark

Cheekiness

Cheeriness

Cheerlead

Mean with money

Mean to be cutting down dairy produce

Cheap greens I order, being parsimonious

Cheesiness

Adjective (-ic)

Chemisorb

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

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