12-Letter Words Starting with C

The center of a circle that circumscribes a triangle.

""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.""

Flowing around or surrounding.

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.

Pomp and - (Elgar)

Ceremony; attendant fact

Ceremony; an attendant fact

Circumvent

""-fies , -fying , -fied (tr) to cause to conform to or adopt the customs, habits, or dress of city people""

Citizeness

Citizenship

Citronellal

Citronellol

CIVILIANIZE

Civilianize

Advanced human society (S, not Z)

""The act of civilizing, or the state of being civilized; national culture; refinement.""

Plural or third person singular

The evolutionary change and diversification resulting from the branching off of new taxa from common ancestral lineages.

The evolutionary change and diversification resulting from the branching off of new taxa from common ancestral lineages.

""Pertaining to, or characterized by, clairaudience.""

Relative of ESP

Second sight

Heightened perception of Veronica with lacy pants

Some can communicate via crystal no differently

Clamminess

Clangorous

A tendency to associate with only a select group.

Clapboard

Clarinetist

Musician, like Benny Goodman, say

Goodman or J. Dorsey.

Musician's recital stint broadcast

CLASSICIZE to make classic or classical.

Classiness

With clattering.

A halting or limping.

Abstract noun (-ity)

Cleverness

CLIQUISH {cliquey=adj}

CLODDISH like a clod

CLOTHESLINE A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.

Designers' wares (wordplay)

Where washing dries

Changes of gear may depend on them

Cloudiness

The manners of a clown; coarseness or rudeness of behavior.

Cloxacillin

Clubbiness

Clumsiness

A heaping together.

Mutual adaption.

Coagulation

Coalescence

One who joins or promotes a coalition; one who advocates coalition.

Coarctation

Coarseness

COBBLESTONE A large pebble; a rounded stone not too large to be handled; a small boulder; used for paving streets and for other purposes.

They may pave the way

Tough cycling surfaces

Cocaptain

""CARCINOGEN Any substance that produces cancer; as, to test for carcinogens in the drinking water.as, to test for carcinogens in the drinking water.""

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

CHAIRWOMEN

COCKEYED having a cockeye

Illicit blood sport involving birds

Cockneyfy

COCKSURE {certain=adj}

Cocounsel

COUNSELLED counsel

Codefendant

Al-Anon topic

DEPENDENCY State of being dependent; dependence; state of being subordinate; subordination; concatenation; connection; reliance; trust.

Codependent

Codevelop

The act or process of codifying or reducing laws to a code.

Codirection

Coeducation

Coefficient

Aquatic invertebrate such as jellyfish or anemone

COERCIVE serving to coerce

Coevolution

Coexistence

""GENERATION The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.""

Cogenerator

Living together

Living together in love abode I read about

Getting together before a possible match (wordplay)

COHESION the act of sticking together

Tendency to stick together

Sticking together I chose seven mates in the end to travel around

Cohostess

Coincidence

Firm of less importance gets chance

Happening by chance

Apparently randomly concurrent

With coincidence.

Coinsurance

Coleopteran

Collagenase

Collembolan

Collenchyma

No logistical alternative to these connections

Collimation

COLLINEAR

Juxtapositions

Colonialism

Colonialist

COLONIALIZE

Colonialize

COLONIAL a citizen of a colony

Locations reviewed by one on settlement

""Tha act of colonizing, or the state of being colonized; the formation of a colony or colonies.""

COLORFUL full of color

""COLORIZE to give color to black and white film, also COLORISE""

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

Comeliness

Comeuppance

Comforting

Seized arbitrarily

Commandery

In a commanding manner.

Holy orders (wordplay)

Orders, maybe 10

Holy orders

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

Commination

Comminution

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

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

Some hold gloves

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.

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.""

Compliancy

Making more involved

Difficulty produced by aggravation of illness

Difficulty

Paid tribute to writer behind one version of Congratulations

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

Comportment

COMPOSED compose

Musical creations

That may be compounded.

Understood

Compression

Like some positions

Officer starts marching, hopeful of meeting someone halfway

Making concessions and undertaking to support firm measures initially

Compunction

""Of the nature of compunction; caused by conscience; attended with, or causing, compunction.""

""The act or practice of justifying or confirming a man's veracity by the oath of others; called also wager of law. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager. wager of law. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager.""

Computation

Computernik

English word

""CONCATENATE To link together; to unite in a series or chain, as things depending on one another.""

Concatenate

Concealing

Concealment

English word

To celebrate together.

Concenter

Deep Thought (wordplay)

Focused - made denser

Focus on The Last Word is reduced

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""An apparatus for the separation of dry comminuted ore, by exposing it to intermittent puffs of air.""

Conceptacle

Pertaining to conception.

Conceptual