12-Letter Words Starting with C

Copresent

Copresident

Coproduct

""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.""

Copyright

In a coquettish manner.

Cordiality

Corecipient

Corequisite

Adulterer agreeing to lose one of two rights

Pressman's only one right person in divorce case

Time capsules' locales

Building blocks

Individuals going after growth, formerly seen as linchpins

Cornstarch

Corporation

Corporatism

The state of being corporeal; corporeal existence.

Corporeity

""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

Affirmed

Corroborate

""CORROBORATE To make strong, or to give additional strength to; to strengthen.""

Corrugation

Corruptive

Coruscation

Space traveller coming in across the universe in a gratuitous manner

Cosmetician

COSMETICIZE

Cosmeticize

The science of the chemical composition of the universe.

Cosmogonist

Cosmologist

Familiar with many cultures

Liberal and worldly, or a cocktail

Citizen of the world

Cosmopolite

Fruit and veg seller

Fruit/veg seller

Barrow boy

Costliness

SURFACTANT

Cotoneaster

Inflected form of TRANSDUCED Inflected form of TRANSDUCE

Cotransduce

Cotransport

Cottonmouth

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

Coulometry

That can be counted: countable items; countable sins.

Admitted as possible

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

Looks back, facing Sodom initially

Approves of facial expressions

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

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.

Covariation

Covertness

Desire (for another's property)

Craftiness

English word

A craftsman or a craftswoman.

Craniotomy

Some casino patrons

Creationism

Creationist

Ability to use imagination constructively

Productivity

Creativity

English word

Credential

Having an acceptable credit rating.

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

Crimination

""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

Abstract noun (-ity)

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

Crustiness

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

Culmination

Cultivable.

Cultivation

Cumulative

Same as cunnilingus.cunnilingus.

Cupellation

Curability

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

Curatorship

Curettement

Flu, mono, etc. (wordplay)

They reduce short illnesses

Cuspidation

Customhouse

Variant of customhouse .

Cutability

Cuttlefish

CYANOGEN a compound of carbon and nitrogen

Cybernation

CYBERNETIC

Cycadophyte

Cyclization

English word

""CYCLOSTYLE A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred with an inked roller.""

Cyclothymia

Cyproterone

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

Cystoscopy

English word

Cells ()

Cytogenetic

See cell membrane .

""Of or pertaining to the cytoskeleton; as, cytoskeletal microtubules.as, cytoskeletal microtubules.""

""An arrangement of microtubules, microfilaments, and larger filaments within a cell serving to provide structural support of components of the cell, and to transport components from one part of the cell to another; the filaments are composed of protein and form a latticelike arrangement which may change rapidly with time.""