12-Letter Words Starting with C

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.""

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

""The act of consummating, or the state of being consummated; completed; completion; perfection; termination; end (as of the world or of life).""

Serving to consummate; completing.

Consumption

Consumptive

In a contagious manner.

Container

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

Containment

Contaminant

Polluted - anatomic dent (anagram)

No longer pure

Polluted, 'no admittance' order required

See circled squares

Spoils actions meant to rectify

""CONTAMINATE To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile.""

To happen at the same time.

Revolting beyond The Pale

Despicable company gets half-hearted bite after introducing lure

Vile

In a contemptible manner.

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

Short story on for example Radio 4 generates controversy

Contiguity

Contiguous

Paper money of 1776.

Contingence

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

Continuance

Persistence, going on

An extension of something else

Extension or carrying on to a further point

A term or expression denoting continuance.

Continuator

Continuing

Continuity

Without interruption

Capable of contraction.

English teacher's interest in Labor Day (wordplay)

Sign of Labour and Tory battles about heads of Treasury

Gainsaid.

Gainsaid

Gainsayer.

Against various points of gismos

Frequent topic in marriage counseling

Perverse inclination

Worries I can't dispel on the other side

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.""

In regret, almost buy gift

Something given towards a common purpose

Gift of half buck bestowed in sorrow

""Contributing, or tending to contribute.""

Contributor

""Contributing to the same stock or purpose; promoting the same end; bringing assistance to some joint design, or increase to some common stock; contributive.""

Deep sorrow and penitence for sin; contrition.

Contrivance

Stroppily disobedient

Exhibiting contumely; rudely contemptuous; insolent; disdainful.

Conurbation

Recuperating

CONVECTION The act or process of conveying or transmitting.

Ladies and gentlemen serving the public

In a handy manner

One who supports or frequents conventicles.

Conventicle

Customary assembly with a learner

Customary; not 9 ac

The traditional way to gangster

Something to talk about (wordplay)

Exchange broken cast-iron oven

End of quotation

""CONVERSION The act of turning or changing from one state or condition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation; change.""

Stock cars (wordplay)

Cars for the sun belt (pl.)

Stock cars?

""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.""

CONVEYORISE

Conveyorise

CONVEYORIZE

Conveyorize

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

Cheerfulness and sociability

Cheerful socialising

Convocation

Convolution

In a convulsive manner.

United group actions

Cooperative

Coordinate

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

Working together on Ontario CID reform

Ordered action together

Balanced movement

Same as coordinating.coordinating.

Coordinator

Copartner

Copingstone

""POLYMERIZE To cause polymerization of; to produce polymers from; to increase the molecular weight of, without changing the atomic proportions; thus, certain acids polymerize aldehyde. polymerize aldehyde.""

Policeman gets a lead on forgers - metalworkers!

Copresent

Copresident

Coprincipal

PROCESSING process

Coproduct

Coprophagy

""An abnormal, often obsessive interest in excrement, especially the use of feces for sexual excitement.""

Coprophilia

""Living or growing on excrement, as certain fungi.""

""PROPRIETOR One who has the legal right or exclusive title to anything, whether in possession or not; an owner; as, the proprietor of farm or of a mill. as, the proprietor of farm or of a mill.""

""PROSPERITY The state of being prosperous; advance or gain in anything good or desirable; successful progress in any business or enterprise; attainment of the object desired; good fortune; success; as, commercial prosperity; national prosperity. as, commercial prosperity; national prosperity.""

PUBLISHERS publisher

Copublish

Copyright

In a coquettish manner.

Coralberry

Cordiality

Corecipient

Corequisite

Corkscrew

Cornhusking

Corporation

Corporatism

The state of being corporeal; corporeal existence.

Corporeity

Corpulency

""Tending to, or intended for, correction; used for correction; as, a correctional institution. as, a correctional institution.""

Correct or appropriate behavior.

Corrective

Correlation

Words having mutual relation

Corrugation

Corruptive

Coruscation

Space traveller coming in across the universe in a gratuitous manner

Cosmetician

COSMETICIZE

Cosmeticize

The science of the chemical composition of the universe.

Belonging to cosmogony.

Cosmogonist

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

Of or pertaining to cosmology.

Cosmologist

Cosmopolis

Familiar with many cultures

Liberal and worldly, or a cocktail

Citizen of the world

Cosmopolite

Cosponsor

Costliness

Coulometry

""COUNCILMAN A member of a council, especially of the common council of a city; a councilor.""

""A woman who is a member of a council, especially of the local governing body of a city or town.""

""A man who is a member of a council, especially of the local governing body of a city or town.""

Counselling

That can be counted: countable items; countable sins.

Dibs on kitchen space (wordplay)

Bar call demanding response

Amount cleric squandered opposing submission

Countercry

Makes money (wordplay)

What a forger does suspect, if centre's out

Makes bread locally for stall at Writer's Centre in Irish festival

Past tense or past participle

Counterfire

Counterfoil

Noun (-age)

Countermine

Melody added to another

Combination of melodies

Feature of much of Bach's music

Weight balancing another

Balance of one picture, so uneven

Balance cost in Europe being reorganised

Counterraid

"This window closed," etc.

Authorises notice found in bars

This window closed, etc.

Countersink

Counterspy

A stain of a contrasting color used to color the components in a microscopic specimen that are not made visible by the principal stain.

COUNTERSUE

Countersuit

Countervail

Counterview

This puzzle's title, or a hint to half of its theme (wordplay)

Covariation

Playwright with words to say about singular lack of courage

Playwright's including some text not characteristic of hero

Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy.

Craftiness

Cragginess

""Of or pertaining to the cranium and face; as, the craniofacial angle. as, the craniofacial angle.""

Craniology

Of or associated with both the cranium and the sacrum.

Craniotomy

Crankiness

Creakiness

Creaminess

Creationism

Creationist

Ability to use imagination constructively

Productivity

Creativity

Credential

Having an acceptable credit rating.

Creepiness

Crematorium

Crenelation

King's mistress engaged in making battlement

Battlement

Pretty, witty mistress, famously involved in making a 2 in the 22 (wordplay)

Crenulation

""CREOLIZE to cause a language to become creole, also CREOLISE""

Crepitation

Crescendo

CRIMINALIZE to declare (an act) to be illegal.

Criminalize

Crimination

Crispiness

Repeatedly moved back and forth around (a place)

Crisscross

""The state or quality of being critical, or of occurring at a critical time.""

Criticaster

""CRITICIZE same as criticise; as, The paper criticized the new movie.criticise; as, The paper criticized the new movie.""

Crocidolite

Crocodilian

Croquignole

Abstract noun (-ity)

Crossband

Crossbar

Crosscut

Crossruff

Crucifixion