12-Letter Words Starting with C

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

Conjecturer

Guessing

Conjuncture

Conjuration

By the act of nature; originally; from birth.

Judges in matters of taste hear no better than most

Spanish adventurer of the 16th century

Pizarro or Cortes

16th-century Spanish invader of Peru

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

CONSECRATE Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred.

Act of rendering holy

Dedication to a concern is unusual

CONSECRATE Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred.

Consecrator

Of or pertaining to the act of consecration; dedicatory.

Careful use (of a resource)

Preservation (of wildlife)

Change conversation from ecology

Opposition to change and innovation

Tory creed

Orthodoxy

Mr. or Mrs. Right (wordplay)

End of today's quote

Winston Churchill's party.

CONSERVE to {preserve=v}

Conservator

Spin a controversy from Belvedere

Sun lounge

It creates a controversy in Belvedere perhaps

Decent message about drones, I gathered

Regard as skilful and influential

Regard as skilful and substantial

Rook expertly capturing Rook on flank, remarkably

Of or pertaining to a consistory.

Is sitting between right-wingers in church councils

CONSOLIDATE Formed into a solid mass; made firm; consolidated.

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

Criminal, brutal say, thrashed coppers

Bill or Nick (wordplay)

Force changing brutal con, say

CONSTERNATE to cause to be confused; confuse emotionally; to dismay.

Consternate

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

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.""

Consummator

CONSUMMATOR

Container

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

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

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.

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

Continuator

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.

Conurbation

One who supports or frequents conventicles.

Convergence

Conversance

Something to talk about (wordplay)

Exchange broken cast-iron oven

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""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

CONVEYORISE

Conveyorise

CONVEYORIZE

Conveyorize

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

""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

Copyright

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

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

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

Cosponsor

Fruit and veg seller

Fruit/veg seller

Barrow boy

SURFACTANT

Cotoneaster

Inflected form of TRANSDUCED Inflected form of TRANSDUCE

Cotransduce

Cotransport

""Having a cotyledon; tufted; as, the cotyledonary placenta of the cow. as, the cotyledonary placenta of the cow.""

Coulometry

""One who countenances, favors, or supports.""

Counteract

English word

English word

Token expletive in defiant response

Strongly-worded reply

Token expletive in aggressive response

Counterblow

Restraint on a restraint

Dibs on kitchen space (wordplay)

Bar call demanding response

Amount cleric squandered opposing submission

Countercoup

Countercry

Makes money (wordplay)

What a forger does suspect, if centre's out

Makes bread locally for stall at Writer's Centre in Irish festival

Past tense or past participle

Counterfire

Counterflow

Counterfoil

An opposing force.

Noun (-age)

Declares invalid

Service area with major retail chain strikes out

""To march back, or to march in reversed order.""

Countermemo

Countermine

COUNTERMOVE To move in a contrary direction to.

Countermove

Countermyth

I'll give you $100 for that buffet table, for example

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Bedspreads

Counterpart

Counterplan

Counterplay

Counterplea

Counterplot

Counterploy

Melody added to another

Combination of melodies

Feature of much of Bach's music

Weight balancing another

Balance of one picture, so uneven

Balance cost in Europe being reorganised

COUNTERPOSE

Counterpose

Comparative adjective or agent noun