12-Letter Words Starting with C

Premier craftsman (wordplay)

Taoiseach perhaps builds up bureau

President's second career (wordplay)

Cabinetwork

CACHINNATE

Clubs can have people in stitches almost laughing out loud

Calcination

Estimates

Calibration

Californium

Type of fitness training

Exercise class I organized around shy group featuring Keith Emerson

Callowness

""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

Calypsonian

Film set worker

CAMOUFLAGE

CAMPHORATE To impregnate or treat with camphor.

""Construction of, or furnishing with, a canal or canals.""

Cancelation

Abandonment

Annulment

Candelabrum

Candescence

Candidature

Candidness

Candlefish

Support for burning light

MENORAH

Candlelight

Candlepower

Supporters of wicked things

They give light support, though quite powerless

Candyfloss

Cannabinoid

CANNIBALISE

Cannibalise

Cannibalism

CANNIBALIZE

Cannibalize

Cannonball

Canonicity

It would take a miracle to happen

The quality of being musical.

Ratty makes sure a knot can be undone

Wrongful Korean acts - UN peevish

Contrary and quarrelsome

Cantharidin

Cantilever

CANTILLATE To chant; to recite with musical tones.

A chanting; recitation or reading with musical modulations.

Capacitance

CAPACITATE To render capable; to enable; to qualify.

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.""

Natural environment

Surrender

Captainship

Captious disposition or manner.

Captivation

""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

Eastern unfurnished inn

Fitzgerald's battered inn

Eastern inn

""Pertaining to, containing, or composed of, carbon.""

Carbonado

Carbonation

Carburetion

Carburet

Producing cancer

Causing cancer

Cardinalate

""The condition, dignity, of office of a cardinal""

Cardiotonic

Believing (someone as committed crime)

Failure to act with prudence

Unconcerned attitude

""CARICATURE An exaggeration, or distortion by exaggeration, of parts or characteristics, as in a picture.""

'Ringer' vehicle ailing on climbing trip round head of Eskdale

Carillon

Carminative

The occupation or work of a carpenter; the act of workingin timber; carpentry.

Carrageenan

Carrageenin

Cartoonish

Cartwheel

Castigation

Casualness

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.""

CATIONIC relating to a cation

Prudence, wariness

Share in famous people's festivities

Bar elections confusing parties

Cabinet's role upsets parties

Cementation

Of the nature of cement.

Critically, I curse so only when upset

People over 100

Once in a hundred years.

Centerboard

CENTERED center

Dinner party decorations

Dinner table decorations

Centimorgan

CENTRALISE

CENTRALIST

Centrality

Centralizer

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

Centricity

Centrifugal

""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.""

Cephalothin

Ceratopsian

Cerebration

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

Chaetognath

Chairman

Check high-level craft needed for executive position

They direct random prison search

Agates

English word

Chamberlain

Vessel prized in the N.F.L.

Prize for today's puzzle's circles

The "C" In C.A.R.T. racing

Chanciness

Chandelier

Changeless

CHANNELIZE

Chansonnier

Edible, yellow, funnel-shaped mushrooms

Yellow mushrooms

A field away from 1 across turning on pipe, energy producing mushrooms!

Chanticleer

Chaperonage

Chaplaincy

Character

Charbroil

Animal starch (anagram) - quackery

Chasteness

Beating faulty machine tests

Mate snitches, may result in a beating

Scolding Bond about messing up his SAT

Chatoyancy

Chattiness

Chauffeur

Exaggeratedly patriotic

Aggressively patriotic

Having an aggressive or fanatical patriotism

Checkmark

Cheekiness

State of Blithe Spirit

Cheeriness

Cheerlead

Mean with money

Mean to be cutting down dairy produce

Cheap greens I order, being parsimonious

Cheesiness

Chemisorb

What's left of life in song (wordplay)

Shore dinner course.

Small quahogs

Chickenshit

Like comic Hilda's female act

The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.

Chilliness

Chimichanga

Fireplace surround

Chinaberry

Chinoiserie

Chiromancer

Chiromancy

Chiropteran

Shooting the breeze

In vacant chippies one batters fish guts

Edible intestines of hogs

Holds on catching batsman, showing guts

Plant tissue consisting of parenchyma cells that contain chloroplasts.

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

""The act or process of subjecting anything to the action of chlorine; especially, a process for the extraction of gold by exposure of the auriferous material to chlorine gas.""

Chlorinator

Chlorinity

""An aliphatic organic chemical compound that is both an alkyl chloride and an alcohol, frequently containing a single chlorine atom and a single hydroxyl group on adjacent carbon atoms.""

""An oily colorless liquid, CCl 3 NO 2 , that causes skin, lung, and mucous membrane irritation and is used in tear gas and in dyestuffs, disinfectants, insecticides, and soil fumigants. Also called nitrochloroform .""

Chloroprene

Chloroquine

Choiceness

See mitochondrion .

Chondroitin

Choppiness

Chrismation

Christening

Christiania

Chrominance

Comparative adjective or agent noun

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

Chronicity

Chronograph

A description or record of past time; history.

Chronologer

Time after time they should get the order right

One has placed an order for The Times

Chronometer

An exceptionally precise timepiece.

Chrysarobin

Chubbiness

Chugalug

Chumminess

Churchgoing

Abstract noun (-ity)

Regard for the church.

Parish officer - long-stemmed pipe

Long-stemmed clay pipe

Pipe officer

Rudeness of manners or temper; lack of kindness or courtesy.

Chylomicron

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

Cinquecento

CIRCULAR a leaflet

Circulation