12-Letter Words Starting with C

CACHINNATE

""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.

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

""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.

Cartwheel

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.""

CENTRALISE

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

""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.""

Chairman

CHANNELIZE

Character

Charbroil

Chauffeur

Checkmark

Cheerlead

Mean with money

Mean to be cutting down dairy produce

Cheap greens I order, being parsimonious

Chemisorb

Like comic Hilda's female act

Shooting the breeze

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

Chugalug

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.

Clapboard

CLASSICIZE to make classic or classical.

Cocaptain

Illicit blood sport involving birds

Cockneyfy

Cocounsel

Codevelop

Cohostess

Video description, part 3

Commodify

Companion

""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

Concenter

One who attends a concert.

CONCERTIZE

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

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.

""CONGLOBATE Collected into, or forming, a rounded mass or ball; as, the conglobate""

CONGREGATE Collected; compact; close.

Guessing

Bringing into force

Against writing text for computer and compulsorily listing

CONSECRATE Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred.

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

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.

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

""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.""

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

Copresent

PROCESSING process

Copublish

Copyright

Corkscrew

Cosponsor

COUNTERSUE

Crescendo

Crossband

Crossbar

Crosscut

Crossruff

CRYSTALIZE

Currycomb

Curveball

""CYCLOSTYLE A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred with an inked roller.""