12-Letter Words Starting with C

Cabbageworm

Premier craftsman (wordplay)

Taoiseach perhaps builds up bureau

President's second career (wordplay)

Calamitous

Californium

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

Camaraderie

Film set worker

CAMOUFLAGE

CAMPHORATE To impregnate or treat with camphor.

Candelabrum

Cannibalism

Caprolactam

""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

Carminative

Caudillismo

Cavalierism

Cementation

Of the nature of cement.

Centimorgan

The measurement of the heads of living persons.

""According to rites and ceremonies; as, a person ceremonially unclean. as, a person ceremonially unclean.""

Chairman

Check high-level craft needed for executive position

Chamaephyte

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

Charismatic

Animal starch (anagram) - quackery

Beating faulty machine tests

Mate snitches, may result in a beating

Scolding Bond about messing up his SAT

Chaulmoogra

Checkmark

Adjective (-ic)

Chemisorb

""Selective destruction of tissue by use of chemicals, as for removing malignant skin lesions.""

The use of chemical agents to treat or control disease (or mental illness); -- also used especially in reference to the use of chemicals to treat cancer.

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

Wildy; vainly; fancifully.

Chimichanga

Fireplace surround

Chiromancer

Chiromancy

Plant tissue consisting of parenchyma cells that contain chloroplasts.

Chloroform

Is orchestra prepared to embrace male musical directors (wordplay)

See mitochondrion .

Anthology of writings

Mencken's book, a selection of passages, with notes.

Chrismation

""CHROMATIC Relating to color, or to colors.""

The quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength.

""The paper strip, column, gel, or TLC plate on which subsances have been separated by a process of chromatography{2}.""

Chrominance

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Pl. chromonemata (-m -t ) The spirally coiled central filament of a chromatid along which the chromomeres are aligned.

Chromophore

CHROMOPHORE Any chemical group or residue (as NO<?/; N<?/; or O<?/) which imparts some decided color to the compound of which it is an ingredient.

Chromoplast

""An atmosphere of rare matter, composed principally of incandescent hydrogen gas, surrounding the sun and enveloping the photosphere. Portions of the chromosphere are here and there thrown up into enormous tongues of flame.""

Chronometer

An exceptionally precise timepiece.

Chrysomelid

Chumminess

Chylomicron

A pancreatic digestive enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of certain proteins in the small intestine into polypeptides and amino acids.

A pancreatic digestive enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of certain proteins in the small intestine into polypeptides and amino acids.

It may showcase art films

CINEMATIZE

The center of a circle that circumscribes a triangle.

English word

Circumciser

""CIRCUMCISE To cut off the prepuce of foreskin of, in the case of males, and the internal labia of, in the case of females.""

""The act of cutting off the prepuce or foreskin of males, or the internal labia of females.""

Circumflex

Flowing around or surrounding.

Flowing round; surrounding in the manner of a fluid.

CIRCUMFUSE To pour round; to spread round.

The act of pouring or spreading round; the state of being spread round.

Lying round; borderong on every side.

Confine within limited range

Restrict; draw round

Draw a line around

Pomp and - (Elgar)

Ceremony; attendant fact

Ceremony; an attendant fact

Circumvent

High-altitude cloud

High-altitude cloud forming a broken layer

Clamminess

Botany Of or relating to a flower that does not open and is self-pollinated in the bud.

Clericalism

Climacteric

Climatical

Pl. clitoridectomies also clitorectomies Surgical removal of the clitoris.

Smooth clue set: hollow-eyed and tight-lipped

... M-U-T-E

Reticent

Clumsiness

""CHAIRWOMAN a female officer who presides at the meetings of a committee, meeting, or organization; a female chairperson.""

CHAIRWOMEN

Baristas from 7 down and 1 across

They might drip

Restaurant equipment.

Cohomology

Economic theory favouring state control

Pick-up one opposing belief in state's economic land practice

Pick up one opposing belief in state's economic land practice

Collembolan

Adjective (-ous)

Collenchyma

Collimation

Cologarithm

Colonialism

Colorimeter

""Any of various instruments used to determine or specify colors, as by comparison with spectroscopic or visual standards.""

The employment or arrangement of columns in a structure.

""MANAGEMENT The act or art of managing; the manner of treating, directing, carrying on, or using, for a purpose; conduct; administration; guidance; control; as, the management of a family or of a farm; the management of state affairs. as, the management of a family or of a farm; the management of state affairs.""

Curry is including country mixtures

Search thoroughly island lands for a number of blends

Comes around head and shoulders for one lawyer provided they burn easily

The Bonfire of the Vanities perhaps is incendiary to society

They're likely to go off on one, having a fiery disposition on bender

Comeliness

Comeuppance

Comforting

Comicality

Seized arbitrarily

Commandery

In a commanding manner.

Holy orders (wordplay)

Orders, maybe 10

Holy orders

Called to remembrance

Remembered, celebrated

Remembers common prices, memo is enclosed

One who commemorates.

Care of Bond's boss, hands Bond opening

Graduation ceremony

Commanding officer and male crew fix launch

I'd comment on a poor endorsement

Formal praise

Official praise

Serving to commend; containing praise or commendation; commending; praising.

The act of eating together; table fellowship.

The same meat runs out during visit

Appropriate (to)

Corresponding in size

Those running on air seem romantic fantasy

They may be running the moment race is organised

A thousand blokes in bed with stars, according to reports!

Video description, part 3

Commentator

In a business way.

Commination

Comminution

""COMMISERATE To feel sorrow, pain, or regret for; to pity.""

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

Commonness

Commonplace

Pennsylvania, for one.

Joint account (wordplay)

Mutual fund (wordplay)

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

Some hold gloves

""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.

Compensator

Serving for compensation; making amends.

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

Complacence

In a complacent manner.

Complainant

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

Obliging nature accompanies first of lawyers, dubiously

""Supplying, or tending to supply, a deficiency; fully completing.""

Complement

The state of being complete.

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

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