12-Letter Words Starting with C

Chronologer

Time after time they should get the order right

One has placed an order for The Times

Chronometer

Chrysarobin

Chrysoberyl

Chrysomelid

Chrysophyte

Chrysoprase

Chubbiness

Chuckawalla

Chucklehead

Chumminess

Churchgoing

Regard for the church.

Rudeness of manners or temper; lack of kindness or courtesy.

Chylomicron

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

Cinquecento

Circuitous

CIRCULARISE

Circularise

Circularize

CIRCULAR a leaflet

Circulation

Circumciser

""CIRCUMCISE To cut off the prepuce of foreskin of, in the case of males, and the internal labia of, in the case of females.""

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

Circumflex

Flowing round; surrounding in the manner of a fluid.

CIRCUMFUSE To pour round; to spread round.

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

Confine within limited range

Restrict; draw round

Draw a line around

Pomp and - (Elgar)

Ceremony; attendant fact

Ceremony; an attendant fact

High-altitude cloud

High-altitude cloud forming a broken layer

See under Cloud. Cloud.

Citizeness

Citizenship

Citronellal

Citronellol

Civilianize

Advanced human society (S, not Z)

Plural or third person singular

The evolutionary change and diversification resulting from the branching off of new taxa from common ancestral lineages.

Some can communicate via crystal no differently

Clamminess

Clangorous

A tendency to associate with only a select group.

Clapperclaw

Clarinetist

Musician, like Benny Goodman, say

Goodman or J. Dorsey.

Musician's recital stint broadcast

""CLASSICAL Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.""

""Of or pertaining to classicism; as, classicistic tradition.as, classicistic tradition.""

CLASSICIZE to make classic or classical.

Capable of being classified.

Classiness

CLAVIERIST

Clearstory

Botany Of or relating to a flower that does not open and is self-pollinated in the bud.

Clerestory

Clericalism

Clericalist

Cleverness

Climacteric

CLIQUISH {cliquey=adj}

CLODDISH like a clod

Cloistress

Smooth clue set: hollow-eyed and tight-lipped

... M-U-T-E

Reticent

Model for fashionable wear (inf.)

One with a big closet, perhaps

Spirit animal of a couturier (wordplay)

CLOTHESLINE A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.

Designers' wares (wordplay)

Where washing dries

Changes of gear may depend on them

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

Cloudberry

Cloudiness

Modern highway intersections.

Features of many superhighways

Lucky foursome

The manners of a clown; coarseness or rudeness of behavior.

Cloxacillin

Clubbiness

Clumsiness

Plural or third person singular

Coagulation

Coalescence

One who joins or promotes a coalition; one who advocates coalition.

Coarctation

Coarseness

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

COBBLESTONE A large pebble; a rounded stone not too large to be handled; a small boulder; used for paving streets and for other purposes.

They may pave the way

Tough cycling surfaces

COCKEYED having a cockeye

Flimsy boats for crewmen

COCKSURE {certain=adj}

Cocounsel

COUNSELLED counsel

Cocultivate

Codefendant

Codependent

DEVELOPERS developer

Codicology

Codirection

Codiscover

Codiscover

Coeducation

Coefficient

Coequality

COERCIVE serving to coerce

Coercivity

Coevolution

Coexistence

Coffeehouse

Baristas from 7 down and 1 across

They might drip

Restaurant equipment.

Cogenerator

COHESION the act of sticking together

Tendency to stick together

Sticking together I chose seven mates in the end to travel around

Cohomology

Cohostess

Coincidence

Coinsurance

Coleopteran

One versed in the study of the Coleoptera.

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

Collaborate

Collagenase

Collectable

Collectible

To bring under collective control; to organize for operation by the principles of collectivism; -- especially of farms and industrial enterprises. Same as collectivize.collectivize.

Economic theory favouring state control

Pick-up one opposing belief in state's economic land practice

Pick up one opposing belief in state's economic land practice

An advocate of collectivism.

Collembolan

Adjective (-ous)

Collenchyma

No logistical alternative to these connections

Collimation

Juxtapositions

Feeling of apprehension

Bellboy with scowl suffering pain

Upset stomach

Cologarithm

Colonialism

Colonialist

Colonialize

COLONIAL a citizen of a colony

Locations reviewed by one on settlement

COLORFUL full of color

Colorimeter

Curry is including country mixtures

Search thoroughly island lands for a number of blends

Comes around head and shoulders for one lawyer provided they burn easily

The Bonfire of the Vanities perhaps is incendiary to society

They're likely to go off on one, having a fiery disposition on bender

Comeliness

Comeuppance

Comicality

Commandery

Holy orders (wordplay)

Orders, maybe 10

Holy orders

Remembers common prices, memo is enclosed

The act of eating together; table fellowship.

The same meat runs out during visit

Appropriate (to)

Corresponding in size

Those running on air seem romantic fantasy

They may be running the moment race is organised

A thousand blokes in bed with stars, according to reports!

Commentator

Commination

Comminution

""COMMISERATE To feel sorrow, pain, or regret for; to pity.""

Commiserate

Of or pertaining to a commissary.

Early Soviet government department

Miss aromatic stew in food supplies

Maoist racism possibly observable in old-style Soviet department

Commissary

Commission

Head of police organisation

Government official.

Senior policeman

In a commodious manner.

Commonalty

Commonness

Commonplace

Communalism

Communalist

Communalize

Communicant

Communicate

Commutation

Comparatist

Adjectives ending in -er

Some hold gloves

""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

Complainant

Maybe open acclaim's what's expected of a yes-man

Obliging nature accompanies first of lawyers, dubiously

The state of being complete.

Complexify

Knotty problems.

Compliancy

Complicacy

Complicity

COMPLICIT

Comportment

COMPOSED compose

Musical creations

Compressed

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

Compression