12-Letter Words Starting with C

Cacography

A craftsperson of excellent character

He's a fine script writer

A. The art of fine handwriting.

Calypsonian

Film set worker

CAMPHORATE To impregnate or treat with camphor.

Candlepower

Talents

Capacitance

CAPACITATE To render capable; to enable; to qualify.

CAPACITATE To render capable; to enable; to qualify.

Capacitive

Caparison

Large grouse; a paler icicle (anagram)

Grouse to jump about - one left to rest

Type of northern grouse

""A large grouse (Tetrao urogallus), native to northern Europe and having dark plumage and a fanlike tail. Also called wood grouse .""

CAPITALISE

Competitive, in a way

Like some investors

Excellent criticism, mostly about one motivated by profit

""CAPITALIZE To convert into capital, or to use as capital.""

Capitulary

""CAPITULATE To settle or draw up the heads or terms of an agreement, as in chapters or articles; to agree.""

Natural environment

Surrender

Capricious

Caprolactam

Captainship

Captious disposition or manner.

Captivation

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

Cardiograph

Description of the heart.

CARDSHARPER cardsharp

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

Corrupt Northerner of 1865.

Scalawag's confederate

Non-local candidate

CARROTTOP

One making maps

Occupation that the bad chef might be better at (wordplay)

Map-maker

Pertaining to map-making

Chap tragic or silly in respect of maps

Relating to the drawing of maps

Of or relating to an optical system that uses both reflective and refractive optical devices.

Plural or third person singular

See electrophoresis .

See electrophoresis .

Houston N.L. team boo-boos

Utter disasters

Fiascos.

Chaotic parts (anagram)

I catch pastor out in dire straits

Causing sudden damage

"Got it!" and "Roger that!" (wordplay)

T-shirt slogans, perhaps

Got it! and "Roger that!" (wordplay)

Many-legged larvae tracks

Gives food with support for larvae

They make tracks for these garden bugs

Dinner party decorations

Dinner table decorations

""CEPHALIC pertaining to the head, also KEPHALIC""

The measurement of the heads of living persons.

Cephalothin

Ceratopsian

Check high-level craft needed for executive position

They direct random prison search

""Copper pyrites, or yellow copper ore; a common ore of opper, containing copper, iron, and sulphur. It occurs massive and in tetragonal crystals of a bright brass yellow color.""

Chamaephyte

Vessel prized in the N.F.L.

Prize for today's puzzle's circles

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

Chaperonage

Chaplaincy

Mean with money

Mean to be cutting down dairy produce

Cheap greens I order, being parsimonious

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 ,""

Fireplace surround

One who practice the art or business of writing or engrossing.

""CHIROGRAPH A writing which, reguiring a counterpart, was engrossed twice on the same piece of parchment, with a space between, in which was written the word chirographum, through which the parchment was cut, and one part given to each party. It answered to what is now called a charter party. chirographum, through which the parchment was cut, and one part given to each party. It answered to what is now called a charter party.""

They each go to work on foot

They have to get to work on foot

""A method of medical treatment that manipulates body structures, especially the spine, in the belief that it restores proper nerve functioning.""

One who manipulates the spine

Joint manipulator

Spine manipulator

Chiropteran

Chlorophyll

""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 .""

Chloroplast

Chloroprene

Choppiness

Choreograph

Steps on a stage

The designing of ballet steps

Routine arrangements for trippers

One who describes or makes a map of a district or region.

Maps ()

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.""

Chronograph

A description or record of past time; history.

Chrysophyte

Chrysoprase

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.

Citizenship

Clapboard

Clapperclaw

Garment wrinkle remover

Where you find the shirts and trousers in Vogue for one (wordplay)

Where you find the shirts and trousers in Vogue for one

Mutual adaption.

AUTHORSHIP The quality or state of being an author; function or dignity of an author.

Cocaptain

Al-Anon topic

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

Codependent

DEVELOPERS developer

Codevelop

Coleopteran

One versed in the study of the Coleoptera.

Having wings covered with a case or sheath; belonging to the Coleoptera.

Comeuppance

Commonplace

""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

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

Compressed

""Capable of being pressed together or forced into a narrower compass, as an elastic or spongy substance.""

Compression

Compromiser

Like some positions

Officer starts marching, hopeful of meeting someone halfway

Making concessions and undertaking to support firm measures initially

Company member takes on fishermen and financial officers

By compulsion; by force.

COMPULSIVE Having power to compel; exercising or applying compulsion.

; by force or constraint. by force or constraint.

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.""

Compurgator

Computation

Computerdom

Computerese

Posh tea (unfinished) included sandwiches produced by machines (wordplay)

Computerise

Computerist

""Stored, processed, or analyzed by computer.""

Computerize

COMPUTER a machine that computes automatically

Adjective meaning resembling

Computernik

Comradeship

Conceptacle

Pertaining to conception.

Conceptual

Tory getting prize money is above being lecherous

Lustful jailbird has item from women's underwear, I discern

""Folded lengthwise along the midrib, the upper face being within; said of leaves or petals in vernation or \'91stivation.""

A specialized fungal hypha (a branch of the fungal mycelium) that produces conidia.

Bringing into force

Against writing text for computer and compulsorily listing

He's impressed by this (wordplay)

Compulsory enlistment

Service requirement to study text no one recalled

Conspecific

Conspectus

Plots against Press? CIA, I fancy

Unlawful secret agreements

Plots extremely pathetic and scenario is ludicrous

Agreement or concurrence for some end or purpose; conspiracy.

Swindles by eg Hook mostly, or Smee initially - they plot together!

Tricks foreign airports and those in a number of schemes

Ring

Causing constipation.

Difficulty going on after Ascot tip in racing

It's treated by gastroenterologists, strangely, not opticians

""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.""

Consumption

Consumptive

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

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

United group actions

Cooperative

Copartner