12-Letter Words Starting with C

Revolting beyond The Pale

Despicable company gets half-hearted bite after introducing lure

Vile

In a contemptible manner.

Contextual

Contiguous

Paper money of 1776.

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

Continuing

Without interruption

Capable of contraction.

Of music with more than one melody

Polyphonic

Singing voice wanting to hedge a bet with more than one melody

CONTRAST to place in opposition to display differences

Able to be managed

Controlment

Exhibiting contumely; rudely contemptuous; insolent; disdainful.

Getting better sort of home

Gradually recovering health

One recovering from medical treatment

Recuperating

CONVECTION The act or process of conveying or transmitting.

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

Conventual

""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?

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

Cheerfulness and sociability

Cheerful socialising

Convolution

In a convulsive manner.

Coordinate

""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.""

Copperplate

Coprincipal

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

Coprophilia

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

PUBLISHERS publisher

Copublish

In a coquettish manner.

Coralberry

Cordiality

The state of being corporeal; corporeal existence.

Corpulency

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

Corrective

""Such as can be correlated; as, correlatable phenomena. as, correlatable phenomena.""

Correlation

Words having mutual relation

Corruptive

Space traveller coming in across the universe in a gratuitous manner

Belonging to cosmogony.

Of or pertaining to cosmology.

Cosmologist

Cosmopolis

Familiar with many cultures

Liberal and worldly, or a cocktail

Citizen of the world

Cosmopolite

Costliness

""Having a cotyledon; tufted; as, the cotyledonary placenta of the cow. as, the cotyledonary placenta of the cow.""

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.

Token expletive in defiant response

Strongly-worded reply

Token expletive in aggressive response

Counterblow

Dibs on kitchen space (wordplay)

Bar call demanding response

Amount cleric squandered opposing submission

Counterflow

Counterfoil

Counterplan

Counterplay

Counterplea

Counterplot

Counterploy

Adverb

English word

English word

Countervail

English word

Bravely

Playwright with words to say about singular lack of courage

Playwright's including some text not characteristic of hero

Crackleware

English word

""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.

Credential

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""

CRIMINALIZE to declare (an act) to be illegal.

Criminalize

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

""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)

""The selective exposure of tissues to extreme cold, often by applying a probe containing liquid nitrogen, to bring about the destruction or elimination of abnormal cells.""

GCHQ worker

Code breaker

Codebreaker

A systemic infection caused by the fungus Cryptococcus neoformans that can affect any organ of the body but most often occurs in the central nervous system.

Cryptology

Redford, in "Three Days of the Condor"

Code expert

CRYSTALIZE

CRYSTALLISE

Crystallise

Crystallite

Smoothly coated with crystals of sugar; -- used especially of fruits.

""CRYSTALLIZE To cause to form crystals, or to assume the crystalline form.""

Crystallize

Crystalloid

""A species of Cardamine (C. pratensis), or lady's smock. Its leaves are used in salads. Also, the ragged robin (Lychnis Floscuculi). Cardamine (C. pratensis), or lady's smock. Its leaves are used in salads. Also, the ragged robin (Lychnis Floscuculi).""

Culmination

CULPABLE blameworthy

Cultivable.

Cultivation

Cumbersome

Cumulative

Storm cloud

Thundercloud

Same as cunnilingus.cunnilingus.

Cupellation

Cupronickel

Curability

Gruff

Flu, mono, etc. (wordplay)

They reduce short illnesses

Curveball

Cutability

Cuttlefish

CYBERNETIC

Cyclazocine

Cyclization

English word

Plural or third person singular

Plural noun or verb form

Cyclohexane

Cyclonical

Cycloolefin

Cyclopaedia

""A colorless flammable gas (C3H6) with a three-carbon ring, sometimes used as an anesthetic.C3H6) with a three-carbon ring, sometimes used as an anesthetic.""

Cycloserine

""An immunosuppressive drug obtained from certain soil fungi, used mainly to prevent the rejection of transplanted organs.""

""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.""

Cyclothymia

English word

Cells ()

""Of or pertaining to the cytoskeleton; as, cytoskeletal microtubules.as, cytoskeletal microtubules.""

""An arrangement of microtubules, microfilaments, and larger filaments within a cell serving to provide structural support of components of the cell, and to transport components from one part of the cell to another; the filaments are composed of protein and form a latticelike arrangement which may change rapidly with time.""