12-Letter Words Starting with C

Clubs can have people in stitches almost laughing out loud

""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.""

Film set worker

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

Abandonment

Annulment

It would take a miracle to happen

A chanting; recitation or reading with musical modulations.

CAPACITATE To render capable; to enable; to qualify.

Natural environment

Surrender

""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.""

""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 .""

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

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

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

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

Advanced human society (S, not Z)

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

A halting or limping.

A heaping together.

Mutual adaption.

""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

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

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

Living together

Living together in love abode I read about

Getting together before a possible match (wordplay)

Locations reviewed by one on settlement

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

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

The employment or arrangement of columns in a structure.

I'd comment on a poor endorsement

Formal praise

Official praise

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.""

Style of address or salutation; an appellation.

Award for, eg, injury

Redress main cost with open payout

Minnesota cop rigged damages

A. Consisting of interconnected or interwoven parts; composite.

Difficulty produced by aggravation of illness

Difficulty

""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.""

English word

Peaceful overcoming of hostilities

Stage of development

Appeasement

Strong censure

Complete disapproval

Blame doesn't end with State getting bad press

Water collecting on a cold surface

Water forming on a cold surface

Lacking energy, new diets no one can digest

Making sure of ecclesiastical rite

Proof; a religious ceremony

Company people must accept solid proof

Seizure of property by an authority

Rip off by Genesis - is that the shape of things to come (wordplay)

A dogsbody provides trick questionnaire at a charge

The act or process of forming into a ball.

Worshipful company (wordplay)

Churchgoers go on catering course

Churchgoers study going rate amendment

He's impressed by this (wordplay)

Compulsory enlistment

Service requirement to study text no one recalled

Act of rendering holy

Dedication to a concern is unusual

Careful use (of a resource)

Preservation (of wildlife)

Change conversation from ecology

""The act of consigning; the act of delivering or committing to another person, place, or state.""

Intimate union; fellowship; alliance; companionship; confederation; association; intimacy.

Agreement or concurrence for some end or purpose; conspiracy.

Difficulty going on after Ascot tip in racing

It's treated by gastroenterologists, strangely, not opticians

Health charter (wordplay)

State of health; composition

Fundamental U.S. principles

Turn out of building for one to make it tighter

Prisoners tense: row is building

Process of erecting buildings

Act of building

Old magistrate assigned place without sun for meeting

Discussion with a specialist involved coolant units

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

Short story on for example Radio 4 generates controversy

Persistence, going on

An extension of something else

Extension or carrying on to a further point

In regret, almost buy gift

Something given towards a common purpose

Gift of half buck bestowed in sorrow

Something to talk about (wordplay)

Exchange broken cast-iron oven

End of quotation

Working together on Ontario CID reform

Ordered action together

Balanced movement

Coproduct

Familiar with many cultures

Liberal and worldly, or a cocktail

Citizen of the world

""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.""

A stain of a contrasting color used to color the components in a microscopic specimen that are not made visible by the principal stain.

She lives in a rural district

A person from one's own country; a compatriot.

A craftsman or a craftswoman.

King's mistress engaged in making battlement

Battlement

Pretty, witty mistress, famously involved in making a 2 in the 22 (wordplay)

""CREOLIZE to cause a language to become creole, also CREOLISE""

""CURARIZE to poison with curare, also CURARISE""

English word

English word

""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.""