12-Letter Words Starting with C

Premier craftsman (wordplay)

Taoiseach perhaps builds up bureau

President's second career (wordplay)

Cabinetwork

CACHINNATE

Clubs can have people in stitches almost laughing out loud

Calamitous

Calcination

Calculated

Estimates

Calibration

Type of fitness training

Exercise class I organized around shy group featuring Keith Emerson

Calorimeter

Of or pertaining to process of using the calorimeter.

""CALUMNIATE To accuse falsely and maliciously of a crime or offense, or of something disreputable; to slander; to libel.""

""False accusation of crime or offense, or a malicious and false representation of the words or actions of another, with a view to injure his good name.""

Calumniator

CAMPHORATE To impregnate or treat with camphor.

""Construction of, or furnishing with, a canal or canals.""

Cancelation

Abandonment

Annulment

Candidature

Candlelight

Supporters of wicked things

They give light support, though quite powerless

Canonicity

It would take a miracle to happen

Ratty makes sure a knot can be undone

Wrongful Korean acts - UN peevish

Contrary and quarrelsome

Cantharidin

Cantilever

CANTILLATE To chant; to recite with musical tones.

A chanting; recitation or reading with musical modulations.

Talents

Capacitance

CAPACITATE To render capable; to enable; to qualify.

CAPACITATE To render capable; to enable; to qualify.

Capacitive

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

Caprolactam

Captainship

Captious disposition or manner.

Captivation

Type of food

Botched array disrupted energy source

Component of food Deborah and Tracy munched

Carbonation

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

Carboxylate

Carburetion

Carburetter

Carburet

Carburettor

Cardinalate

Specialist in heart disease

Heart specialist

Doctor is one in suit I love to register with first

Cardiotonic

""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

Carminative

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

Cartoonish

CARTWHEELER cartwheel

Cartwheel

Cassiterite

Castigation

CATABOLIZE

""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)

""Relating to or consisting in, asking questions and receiving answers, according to the ancient manner of teaching.""

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

Cathodical

CATHOLIC a member of the early Christian church

Catholicate

CATHOLICIZE To make or to become catholic or Roman Catholic.

Catholicize

Catholicos

CATIONIC relating to a cation

Causticity

Prudence, wariness

Share in famous people's festivities

Bar elections confusing parties

Cabinet's role upsets parties

Plural or third person singular

""CELLULITIS An inflammantion of the cellular or areolar tissue, esp. of that lying immediately beneath the skin.""

""Of, relating to, or causing the hydrolysis of cellulose: cellulolytic organisms.""

Cementation

Of the nature of cement.

People over 100

Once in a hundred years.

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.

Cephalothin

Ceratopsian

Cerebration

Authorized

Statements of qualification

Plural or third person singular

Cervicitis

Chaetognath

""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

Edible, yellow, funnel-shaped mushrooms

Yellow mushrooms

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

Chanticleer

""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.

Charcuterie

Charismatic

Animal starch (anagram) - quackery

Chartulary

Chasteness

Beating faulty machine tests

Mate snitches, may result in a beating

Scolding Bond about messing up his SAT

Chatoyancy

Ear-chewers

Terribly OTT breach backing male or female gossips

Motormouths

Chattiness

Exaggeratedly patriotic

Aggressively patriotic

Having an aggressive or fanatical patriotism

Cheerful

They cover half of 18 across with these cloches roughly

Adjective (-ic)

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

Sofa (with crooked spire?)

Type of sofa (in Derbyshire?)

Man of letters is well-upholstered

Chickenshit

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

Shooting the breeze

In vacant chippies one batters fish guts

Edible intestines of hogs

Holds on catching batsman, showing guts

""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

Chloroplast

CHOCOLATIER chocolatie

Is orchestra prepared to embrace male musical directors (wordplay)

Cholesterol

Chondroitin

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}.""

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Pl. chromonemata (-m -t ) The spirally coiled central filament of a chromatid along which the chromomeres are aligned.

Chromoplast

Chronicity

One has placed an order for The Times

Chronometer

An exceptionally precise timepiece.

Chrysophyte

Abstract noun (-ity)

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.

It may showcase art films

CINEMATIZE

Cinquecento

Circuitous

""CIRCULATE To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body. as, the blood circulates in the body.""

Circulation

The center of a circle that circumscribes a triangle.

Flowing around or surrounding.

Lying round; borderong on every side.

Pomp and - (Elgar)

Ceremony; attendant fact

Ceremony; an attendant fact

Circumvent

See under Cloud. Cloud.

""-fies , -fying , -fied (tr) to cause to conform to or adopt the customs, habits, or dress of city people""

Citizeness

Citizenship

The cultivation of citrus fruits.

Citronellal

Citronellol

Advanced human society (S, not Z)