12-Letter Words Starting with C

Commiserate

Of or pertaining to a commissary.

Early Soviet government department

Miss aromatic stew in food supplies

Maoist racism possibly observable in old-style Soviet department

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.""

Commodify

In a commodious manner.

Commonalty

Communalism

Communalist

COMMUNALIZE

Communalize

Catching Tommy, Eunice bounds away into lead

(Of disease) able to be passed on to others

""COMMUNICABLE Capable of being communicated, or imparted; as, a communicable disease; communicable knowledge. as, a communicable disease; communicable knowledge.""

Communicant

COMMUNICATE To share in common; to participate in.

English word

Communicate

From banisher to bullhorn (wordplay)

Person (good at) imparting news etc

Commutation

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

Companion

Ship's stair

Steps on a ship

Steps between decks

Comparatist

Adjectives ending in -er

""COMPATRIOT One of the same country, and having like interests and feeling.""

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.

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

Compilation

Complainant

Maybe open acclaim's what's expected of a yes-man

Obliging nature accompanies first of lawyers, dubiously

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

Making more involved

Difficulty produced by aggravation of illness

Difficulty

Complicity

COMPLICIT

Paid tribute to writer behind one version of Congratulations

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

Musical creations

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

Compression

Compromiser

Like some positions

Officer starts marching, hopeful of meeting someone halfway

Making concessions and undertaking to support firm measures initially

By compulsion; by force.

COMPULSIVE Having power to compel; exercising or applying compulsion.

; by force or constraint. by force or constraint.

Compunction

""Of the nature of compunction; caused by conscience; attended with, or causing, compunction.""

""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.""

Computation

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

Computerise

Computerist

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

Computerize

Adjective meaning resembling

Computernik

Comradeship

English word

Concealing

Concenter

Pertaining to conception.

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.

Conchoidal

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.

Peaceful overcoming of hostilities

Stage of development

Appeasement

Conciliatory.

Conciliator

Acting as a mediator

Peace-making

Concinnity

In a decisive manner

Comic note can spoil accompaniment

Accompanying detail

Concomitant

CONCRETIZE

Concubinage

Tory getting prize money is above being lecherous

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

Strong censure

Complete disapproval

Blame doesn't end with State getting bad press

Water collecting on a cold surface

Water forming on a cold surface

Lacking energy, new diets no one can digest

Conditional

CONDITIONER condition

Improving (hair); training to respond

Training to behave in a certain way

Flowers for developers (wordplay)

Certain dwellings

Condonation

""The quality or power of conducting, or of receiving and transmitting, as, the conductivity of a nerve. as, the conductivity of a nerve.""

""CONDUCTOR One who, or that which, conducts; a leader; a commander; a guide; a manager; a director.""

""Folded lengthwise along the midrib, the upper face being within; said of leaves or petals in vernation or \'91stivation.""

Mars, for one

Sweet maker/seller

Seller of sweets

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

Relating to conference.

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)

Making sure of ecclesiastical rite

Proof; a religious ceremony

Company people must accept solid proof

Serving to confirm; corroborative.

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

Seizure of property by an authority

Confiscator

Effecting confiscation; characterized by confiscations.

Confliction

Rip off by Genesis - is that the shape of things to come (wordplay)

A dogsbody provides trick questionnaire at a charge

Conformity

Confutation

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.

""Glued together; united, as by some adhesive substance.""

CONGREGATE Collected; compact; close.

Worshipful company (wordplay)

Churchgoers go on catering course

Churchgoers study going rate amendment

Congruency

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

Guessing

Conjugation

Words like 'and' and 'but'

Link words such as 'and', 'but'

Astronomical alignments

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

Joining; connecting.

Conjunctiva

Conjunctive

Conjuration

""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

Graffiti on a jail wall (wordplay)

Prison graffiti or implications (wordplay)

""CONNUBIAL Of or pertaining to marriage, or the marriage state; conjugal; nuptial.""

The quality of being connubial; something characteristics of the conjugal state; an expression of connubial tenderness.

Spanish adventurer of the 16th century

Pizarro or Cortes

16th-century Spanish invader of Peru

""Governed by, or according to, conscience; reasonable; just.""

Bringing into force

Against writing text for computer and compulsorily listing

He's impressed by this (wordplay)

Compulsory enlistment

Service requirement to study text no one recalled

CONSECRATE Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred.

Act of rendering holy

Dedication to a concern is unusual

CONSECRATE Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred.

Consecution

With consent; in a compliant manner.

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}

Decent message about drones, I gathered

Regard as skilful and influential

Regard as skilful and substantial

Rook expertly capturing Rook on flank, remarkably

""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

Consistence

Every time (the same conditions arise)

In the same way

(Done) without contradictions

Of or pertaining to a consistory.

Is sitting between right-wingers in church councils

CONSOCIATE An associate; an accomplice.

Intimate union; fellowship; alliance; companionship; confederation; association; intimacy.

Consolation

Combined into a single unit

Made firm adapt to island code

Odd sectional parts merged

Gets together with disconsolate nuts

CONSOLIDATE Formed into a solid mass; made firm; consolidated.

Consonancy

Conspecific

Plots against Press? CIA, I fancy

Unlawful secret agreements

Plots extremely pathetic and scenario is ludicrous

Agreement or concurrence for some end or purpose; conspiracy.

Swindles by eg Hook mostly, or Smee initially - they plot together!

Tricks foreign airports and those in a number of schemes

Ring

Causing constipation.

Difficulty going on after Ascot tip in racing

It's treated by gastroenterologists, strangely, not opticians

District represented by MP

Division of country for voting purposes

MP's electors

Components

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

Health charter (wordplay)

State of health; composition

Fundamental U.S. principles

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

Forcing prisoners to take exercise

Restricting severely

What you might see in prisoners' exercise yard is compelling

Constrict

Turn out of building for one to make it tighter

Serving or tending to bind or constrict.

Constrictor

""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

Prisoners tense: row is building

Process of erecting buildings

Act of building

Serving a useful purpose

Positive treatment for tic (nervous tic), liberating one

Old magistrate assigned place without sun for meeting

Discussion with a specialist involved coolant units

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

Consumerism