12-Letter Words Starting with C

Cadaverous

Calamitous

Calcareous

Calculated

Estimates

Californium

""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

Calumnious

CAMOUFLAGE

Candelabrum

Candidature

The quality of being musical.

Ratty makes sure a knot can be undone

Wrongful Korean acts - UN peevish

Contrary and quarrelsome

Capitulary

""CAPITULATE To settle or draw up the heads or terms of an agreement, as in chapters or articles; to agree.""

Natural environment

Surrender

Capricious

Captious disposition or manner.

""Pertaining to, containing, or composed of, carbon.""

Carburetion

Carburetter

Carburet

Carburettor

""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

'Ringer' vehicle ailing on climbing trip round head of Eskdale

Casualness

""The cry of cats; a harsh, disagreeable noise or cry like the cry of cats.""

Caudillismo

Cauliflower

Causticity

Prudence, wariness

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.""

Of the nature of cement.

Critically, I curse so only when upset

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.""

""CHARACTER A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol.""

Charcuterie

Chartulary

Chauffeur

Chaulmoogra

Exaggeratedly patriotic

Aggressively patriotic

Having an aggressive or fanatical patriotism

Cheerful

State of Blithe Spirit

Fast food - begs cure here (anagram)

Lunch-counter specialty.

Fast food product

""Selective destruction of tissue by use of chemicals, as for removing malignant skin lesions.""

Cherubical

Chiaroscuro

In a chivalrous manner; gallantly; magnanimously.

Chloroquine

Chubbiness

Chuckawalla

Chucklehead

Chugalug

Chumminess

Churchgoing

Abstract noun (-ity)

Regard for the church.

Parish officer - long-stemmed pipe

Long-stemmed clay pipe

Pipe officer

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

It may showcase art films

Cinquecento

Circuitous

CIRCULARISE

Circularise

CIRCULARIZE

Circularize

CIRCULAR a leaflet

""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.

English word

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 around or surrounding.

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.

Lying round; borderong on every side.

Confine within limited range

Restrict; draw round

Draw a line around

Pomp and - (Elgar)

Ceremony; attendant fact

Ceremony; an attendant fact

Circumvent

High-altitude cloud

High-altitude cloud forming a broken layer

See under Cloud. Cloud.

The cultivation of citrus fruits.

""Pertaining to, or characterized by, clairaudience.""

Clangorous

A halting or limping.

CLIQUISH {cliquey=adj}

Smooth clue set: hollow-eyed and tight-lipped

... M-U-T-E

Reticent

Cloudberry

Cloudiness

Clubbiness

Clumsiness

Plural or third person singular

Coagulation

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

COCKSURE {certain=adj}

Cocounsel

COUNSELLED counsel

""CULTIVATED marked by refinement in taste and manners; as, cultivated tastes in art.as, cultivated tastes in art.""

Cocultivate

CURRICULAR

Coeducation

Coequality

Coevolution

Coffeehouse

Coinsurance

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

Adjective (-ous)

Colloquial

COLORFUL full of color

The employment or arrangement of columns in a structure.

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

Comeuppance

The same meat runs out during visit

Appropriate (to)

Corresponding in size

Comminution

In a commodious manner.

Communalism

Communalist

COMMUNALIZE

Communalize

Catching Tommy, Eunice bounds away into lead

(Of disease) able to be passed on to others

""COMMUNICABLE Capable of being communicated, or imparted; as, a communicable disease; communicable knowledge. as, a communicable disease; communicable knowledge.""

Communicant

COMMUNICATE To share in common; to participate in.

English word

Communicate

From banisher to bullhorn (wordplay)

Person (good at) imparting news etc

Commutation

COMPLICIT

That may be compounded.

By compulsion; by force.

COMPULSIVE Having power to compel; exercising or applying compulsion.

; by force or constraint. by force or constraint.

Compunction

""Of the nature of compunction; caused by conscience; attended with, or causing, compunction.""

""The act or practice of justifying or confirming a man's veracity by the oath of others; called also wager of law. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager. wager of law. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager.""

Compurgator

Computation

Computerdom

Computerese

Posh tea (unfinished) included sandwiches produced by machines (wordplay)

Computerise

Computerist

""Stored, processed, or analyzed by computer.""

Computerize

COMPUTER a machine that computes automatically

Adjective meaning resembling

Computernik

Conceptual

In a decisive manner

Concubinage

Tory getting prize money is above being lecherous

Lustful jailbird has item from women's underwear, I discern

Concurrence

At the same time

Study now simultaneously

Flowers for developers (wordplay)

Certain dwellings

Conductance

""The quality or power of conducting, or of receiving and transmitting, as, the conductivity of a nerve. as, the conductivity of a nerve.""

""CONDUCTOR One who, or that which, conducts; a leader; a commander; a guide; a manager; a director.""

""Folded lengthwise along the midrib, the upper face being within; said of leaves or petals in vernation or \'91stivation.""

Fabricated past experiences

Shoots the breeze

Chats

Conversationalist

Confounded

CONFUSED confuse

Confutation

""Glued together; united, as by some adhesive substance.""

Well-done toast (wordplay)

Praise (someone) for achievement

Praise an achievement

Congruency

Conjecturer

Guessing

Conjugation

Words like 'and' and 'but'

Link words such as 'and', 'but'

Astronomical alignments

Pl. conjunctivas or conjunctivae (-v ) The mucous membrane that lines the inner surface of the eyelid and the exposed surface of the eyeball.

Joining; connecting.

Conjunctiva

Conjunctive

Conjuncture

Conjuration

By the act of nature; originally; from birth.

Judges in matters of taste hear no better than most

""CONNUBIAL Of or pertaining to marriage, or the marriage state; conjugal; nuptial.""

The quality of being connubial; something characteristics of the conjugal state; an expression of connubial tenderness.

Spanish adventurer of the 16th century

Pizarro or Cortes

16th-century Spanish invader of Peru

Consecution

Consensual

They follow the game

Results - parlour game

Crime series creates results

As a result

As a result, chess opening only covers queen's remarkable gambit ultimately

Conspectus

Criminal, brutal say, thrashed coppers

Bill or Nick (wordplay)

Force changing brutal con, say

District represented by MP

Division of country for voting purposes

MP's electors

Components