12-Letter Words Starting with C

Knock back drink by bar

Retaliation from buffoon hiding under work surface

Boxer might take this drink, sitting next to bar

Counterraid

Adverb

Countershot

"This window closed," etc.

Authorises notice found in bars

This window closed, etc.

Countersink

English word

Counterspy

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

COUNTERS counter

Counterstep

English word

COUNTERSUE

Countersuit

Singer getting note say, below bar

A singing bank teller (wordplay)

Singer with note heard at end of bar

International barter in which one country agrees to import commodities from another country to which it exports commodities.

English word

Countervail

Counterview

English word

Countryseat

This puzzle's title, or a hint to half of its theme (wordplay)

She lives in a rural district

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

Bravely

Covariation

Covertness

Playwright with words to say about singular lack of courage

Playwright's including some text not characteristic of hero

Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy.

Crackerjack

Crackleware

Craftiness

English word

A craftsman or a craftswoman.

Cragginess

""Of or pertaining to the cranium and face; as, the craniofacial angle. as, the craniofacial angle.""

Craniology

Of or associated with both the cranium and the sacrum.

Craniotomy

Crankiness

Some casino patrons

Cravenness

Creakiness

Creaminess

Creationism

Creationist

Ability to use imagination constructively

Productivity

Creativity

English word

Credential

Having an acceptable credit rating.

Creepiness

Crematorium

Crenelation

King's mistress engaged in making battlement

Battlement

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

Crenulation

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

Crepitation

Crescendo

CRIMINALIZE to declare (an act) to be illegal.

Criminalize

Crimination

Crispiness

Repeatedly moved back and forth around (a place)

Crisscross

""The state or quality of being critical, or of occurring at a critical time.""

Criticaster

""CRITICIZE same as criticise; as, The paper criticized the new movie.criticise; as, The paper criticized the new movie.""

Crocidolite

Crocodilian

Croquignole

Abstract noun (-ity)

Crossband

Crossbar

Crossbearer

Flow at an angle to the main flow

A tendency in conflict with another

Hybrid present in turbulent water

Crosscut

Shaded with lines

Crosshatch

Peevish people

Crossruff

Crucifixion

Crumminess

Crustiness

English word

Cryosurgeon

""The selective exposure of tissues to extreme cold, often by applying a probe containing liquid nitrogen, to bring about the destruction or elimination of abnormal cells.""

GCHQ worker

Code breaker

Codebreaker

Cryptarithm

A systemic infection caused by the fungus Cryptococcus neoformans that can affect any organ of the body but most often occurs in the central nervous system.

""Any of various yeastlike fungi of the genus Cryptococcus, commonly occurring in the soil and including certain pathogenic species, such as the causative agent of cryptococcosis.""

""Of or pertaining to the series Cryptogamia, or to plants of that series.""

Cryptograph

A cracking job!

Study of final resting places (wordplay)

Study of writing and deciphering codes

Cryptology

Redford, in "Three Days of the Condor"

Code expert

Cryptomeria

Cryptorchid

A developmental defect marked by the failure of the testes to descend into the scrotum.

CRYSTALIZE

CRYSTALLISE

Crystallise

Crystallite

Smoothly coated with crystals of sugar; -- used especially of fruits.

""CRYSTALLIZE To cause to form crystals, or to assume the crystalline form.""

Crystallize

Crystalloid

Ctenophoran

""A species of Cardamine (C. pratensis), or lady's smock. Its leaves are used in salads. Also, the ragged robin (Lychnis Floscuculi). Cardamine (C. pratensis), or lady's smock. Its leaves are used in salads. Also, the ragged robin (Lychnis Floscuculi).""

Cumbersome

CUMBROUS {unwieldy=adj}

Cupronickel

Curability

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

Curatorship

Curettement

Gruff

Currycomb

Cursedness

Flu, mono, etc. (wordplay)

They reduce short illnesses

Curveball

Cyanohydrin

Cybernation

CYBERNETIC

English word

""A colorless flammable gas (C3H6) with a three-carbon ring, sometimes used as an anesthetic.C3H6) with a three-carbon ring, sometimes used as an anesthetic.""

Cycloserine

""An immunosuppressive drug obtained from certain soil fungi, used mainly to prevent the rejection of transplanted organs.""

Cypripedium

Cyproterone

""The larval stage of certain tapeworms, resembling a cysticercus but having the scolex completely filling the enclosing cyst.""

See cell membrane .

Czarevitch