12-Letter Words Starting with C

Cabbageworm

Premier craftsman (wordplay)

Taoiseach perhaps builds up bureau

President's second career (wordplay)

Cabinetwork

Cacography

Cadaverous

Calcareous

Calibration

Californium

A craftsperson of excellent character

He's a fine script writer

A. The art of fine handwriting.

Calorimeter

Of or pertaining to process of using the calorimeter.

Calumniator

Camaraderie

Film set worker

CAMPHORATE To impregnate or treat with camphor.

Candelabrum

Candidature

Support for burning light

MENORAH

Candlepower

The quality of being musical.

Ratty makes sure a knot can be undone

Wrongful Korean acts - UN peevish

Contrary and quarrelsome

Cantharidin

Cantilever

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 .""

Capitulary

Capricious

Caprolactam

""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

""Any of various enzymes, such as amylase, that catalyze the hydrolysis of a carbohydrate.""

Type of food

Botched array disrupted energy source

Component of food Deborah and Tracy munched

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

Carbonado

Carbonation

Carboxylase

CARBOXYLATE to treat a chemical compound with carboxyl or carboxylic acid.

Carboxylate

Carburetion

Carburetter

Carburet

Carburettor

Producing cancer

Causing cancer

Cardinalate

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

Cardiograph

Description of the heart.

Cardiology

Specialist in heart disease

Heart specialist

Doctor is one in suit I love to register with first

Cardiotonic

CARDSHARPER cardsharp

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.""

USA art critic (anagram)

A curt satiric version from Cruikshank

Artist producing comic portraits

'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.

Corrupt Northerner of 1865.

Scalawag's confederate

Non-local candidate

Carrageenan

Carrageenin

Carriageway

CARROTTOP

Girl we hear presuming to transfer figures

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

Cartoonish

CARTWHEELER cartwheel

Cartwheel

Cassiterite

""Pl. catachreses (-s z) The misapplication of a word or phrase, as the use of blatant to mean "flagrant."""

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)

CATEGORISE

CATEGORIZE To insert in a category or list; to class; to catalogue.

Many-legged larvae tracks

Gives food with support for larvae

They make tracks for these garden bugs

""The cry of cats; a harsh, disagreeable noise or cry like the cry of cats.""

CATHETERIZE To operate on with a catheter.

Catheterize

Cauliflower

Cavalierism

Share in famous people's festivities

Bar elections confusing parties

Cabinet's role upsets parties

Critically, I curse so only when upset

People over 100

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.""

The measurement of the heads of living persons.

Ceratopsian

Cerebration

Cerebroside

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

Authorized

Statements of qualification

Plural or third person singular

Cervicitis

Chairman

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.""

Chamberlain

Violent mama's birched the servants

Cleaner male helps holding decoration for cleaners

Where members sit with girls who work in hotels (wordplay)

Chandelier

Chansonnier

Edible, yellow, funnel-shaped mushrooms

Yellow mushrooms

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

Chanticleer

Chaperonage

""CHARACTER A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol.""

Charactery

Character

To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features.

CHARBROILER charbroil

Charbroil

Charcuterie

Charismatic

Animal starch (anagram) - quackery

Chartulary

Ear-chewers

Terribly OTT breach backing male or female gossips

Motormouths

Chauffeur

Chaulmoogra

A spicy plant and its bright red berry; the wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens). Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry (Mitchella repens). Gaultheria procumbens). Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry (Mitchella repens).

Surface of 64 squares

Design of alternating squares

Examine hesitation for committee looking for kings in America (wordplay)

Checkmark

Cheerful

State of Blithe Spirit

Cheeriness

Real "go-go" girls

Between-halves V.I.P.'s

Those rousing the crowd in support

Cheerlead

Fast food - begs cure here (anagram)

Lunch-counter specialty.

Fast food product

Mean with money

Mean to be cutting down dairy produce

Cheap greens I order, being parsimonious

Chemisorb

""Selective destruction of tissue by use of chemicals, as for removing malignant skin lesions.""

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 ,""

What's left of life in song (wordplay)

Shore dinner course.

Small quahogs

Cherubical

Sofa (with crooked spire?)

Type of sofa (in Derbyshire?)

Man of letters is well-upholstered

Chiaroscuro

Like comic Hilda's female act

Wildy; vainly; fancifully.

Chinaberry

Chinoiserie

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.""

Chiromancer

Chiromancy

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

In vacant chippies one batters fish guts

Edible intestines of hogs

Holds on catching batsman, showing guts

In a chivalrous manner; gallantly; magnanimously.

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

Chloroform

""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.""

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

Chloroquine

CHOCOLATIER chocolatie

Is orchestra prepared to embrace male musical directors (wordplay)

Chokeberry

CHOLERIC bad-tempered

Cholesterol

See mitochondrion .

Chondroitin

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 ()

Chowderhead

Anthology of writings

Mencken's book, a selection of passages, with notes.

Chrismation

Christening

Christiania

""CHROMATIC Relating to color, or to colors.""

The quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength.

""The paper strip, column, gel, or TLC plate on which subsances have been separated by a process of chromatography{2}.""