12-Letter Words Starting with C

Health charter (wordplay)

State of health; composition

Fundamental U.S. principles

Tending or assisting to constitute or compose; elemental; essential.

Forcing prisoners to take exercise

Restricting severely

What you might see in prisoners' exercise yard is compelling

Constrict

Turn out of building for one to make it tighter

Serving or tending to bind or constrict.

Constrictor

""Having the quality of contracting, binding, or compressing.""

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

Prisoners tense: row is building

Process of erecting buildings

Act of building

Serving a useful purpose

Positive treatment for tic (nervous tic), liberating one

Constructor

Old magistrate assigned place without sun for meeting

Discussion with a specialist involved coolant units

Pertaining to consultation; having the privilege or right of conference.

Consumerism

Consumerist

""One that consumes, especially one that acquires goods or services for direct use or ownership rather than for resale or use in production and manufacturing.""

In a consummate manner; completely.

CONSUMMATE Carried to the utmost extent or degree; of the highest quality; complete; perfect.

""The act of consummating, or the state of being consummated; completed; completion; perfection; termination; end (as of the world or of life).""

Serving to consummate; completing.

Consummator

CONSUMMATOR

Consumption

Consumptive

In a contagious manner.

Container

""CONTAINER One who, or that which, contains.""

Containment

Contaminant

Polluted - anatomic dent (anagram)

No longer pure

Polluted, 'no admittance' order required

See circled squares

Spoils actions meant to rectify

""CONTAMINATE To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile.""

Thought about

Did deliberate swindle with blueprint to get diamonds

The Parisian should be held in scorn, journalist considered

Muses.

One who contemplates.

With passing of the same age

Marlowe was Shakespeare's

Peer's perverse, penning funny poem

To happen at the same time.

Revolting beyond The Pale

Despicable company gets half-hearted bite after introducing lure

Vile

In a contemptible manner.

Put on costume, turning arrogant

Scornful of fashionable costume put on

Disdainful

Contentment

""Having the same bounds, or limits; bordering upon; contiguous.""

Short story on for example Radio 4 generates controversy

Contextual

Contiguity

Contiguous

Paper money of 1776.

Contingence

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

Continuance

Persistence, going on

An extension of something else

Extension or carrying on to a further point

A term or expression denoting continuance.

Continuator

Continuing

Continuity

Without interruption

Contrabass

Capable of contraction.

English teacher's interest in Labor Day (wordplay)

Sign of Labour and Tory battles about heads of Treasury

Contracture

Gainsaid.

Gainsaid

Gainsayer.

English word

Against various points of gismos

Of music with more than one melody

Polyphonic

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

Frequent topic in marriage counseling

Perverse inclination

Worries I can't dispel on the other side

CONTRAST to place in opposition to display differences

Contravener

Coming in conflict with meeting about beach in Ireland

Contredanse

""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.""

In regret, almost buy gift

Something given towards a common purpose

Gift of half buck bestowed in sorrow

""Contributing, or tending to contribute.""

Contributor

""Contributing to the same stock or purpose; promoting the same end; bringing assistance to some joint design, or increase to some common stock; contributive.""

Deep sorrow and penitence for sin; contrition.

Contrivance

Able to be managed

Controlment

Controvert

One who controverts; a controversial writer; a controversialist.

Stroppily disobedient

Exhibiting contumely; rudely contemptuous; insolent; disdainful.

Conurbation

Getting better sort of home

Gradually recovering health

One recovering from medical treatment

Recuperating

CONVECTION The act or process of conveying or transmitting.

Ladies and gentlemen serving the public

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

Convergence

Conversance

Something to talk about (wordplay)

Exchange broken cast-iron oven

End of quotation

""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?

Conveyancer

""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.""

CONVEYORISE

Conveyorise

CONVEYORIZE

Conveyorize

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

Cheerfulness and sociability

Cheerful socialising

Convocation

Convolution

In a convulsive manner.

United group actions

Cooperative

Coordinate

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

Working together on Ontario CID reform

Ordered action together

Balanced movement

Same as coordinating.coordinating.

Coordinator

Copartner

Copingstone

""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

Policeman gets a lead on forgers - metalworkers!

Copresent

Copresident

Coprincipal

PROCESSING process

Coprocessor

Coproduct

Coprophagy

""Feeding upon dung, as certain insects.""

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

Coprophilia

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

""PROPRIETOR One who has the legal right or exclusive title to anything, whether in possession or not; an owner; as, the proprietor of farm or of a mill. as, the proprietor of farm or of a mill.""

""PROSPERITY The state of being prosperous; advance or gain in anything good or desirable; successful progress in any business or enterprise; attainment of the object desired; good fortune; success; as, commercial prosperity; national prosperity. as, commercial prosperity; national prosperity.""

PUBLISHERS publisher

Copublish

Copyright

In a coquettish manner.

Coralberry

Cordiality

Corecipient

Corepressor

Corequisite

RESEARCHER One who researches.

Adulterer agreeing to lose one of two rights

Pressman's only one right person in divorce case

Corkscrew

Time capsules' locales

Building blocks

Individuals going after growth, formerly seen as linchpins

Cornhusking

Cornstarch

Coronagraph

Coronograph

Corporation

Corporatism

The state of being corporeal; corporeal existence.

Corporeity

Corpulency

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

Correct or appropriate behavior.

Corrective

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

Correlation

Words having mutual relation

Seconder with drop-out conformed

Wrote and agreed

Kept in touch.

Affirmed

Corroborate

""CORROBORATE To make strong, or to give additional strength to; to strengthen.""

Corrugation

Corruptive

Coruscation

Space traveller coming in across the universe in a gratuitous manner

Cosmetician

COSMETICIZE

Cosmeticize

The science of the chemical composition of the universe.

Belonging to cosmogony.

Cosmogonist

""One who describes the world or universe, including the heavens and the earth.""

""Kzmgrfk, Cosmographical Of or pertaining to cosmography.""

Of or pertaining to cosmology.

Cosmologist

Cosmopolis

Familiar with many cultures

Liberal and worldly, or a cocktail

Citizen of the world

Cosmopolite

Cosponsor

Fruit and veg seller

Fruit/veg seller

Barrow boy

Costliness

SURFACTANT

Cotoneaster

Inflected form of TRANSDUCED Inflected form of TRANSDUCE

Cotransduce

Cotransport

Cottonmouth

""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.""