12-Letter Words Starting with C

CONSTITUTE To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.

Health charter (wordplay)

State of health; composition

Fundamental U.S. principles

Tending or assisting to constitute or compose; elemental; essential.

Building prisoner's training in to get released

Randomly counting carts leaving a building

Building

Prisoners tense: row is building

Process of erecting buildings

Act of building

Serving a useful purpose

Positive treatment for tic (nervous tic), liberating one

Constructor

Old magistrate assigned place without sun for meeting

Discussion with a specialist involved coolant units

Pertaining to consultation; having the privilege or right of conference.

Consumerism

Consumerist

""One that consumes, especially one that acquires goods or services for direct use or ownership rather than for resale or use in production and manufacturing.""

In a consummate manner; completely.

CONSUMMATE Carried to the utmost extent or degree; of the highest quality; complete; perfect.

""The act of consummating, or the state of being consummated; completed; completion; perfection; termination; end (as of the world or of life).""

Serving to consummate; completing.

Consummator

CONSUMMATOR

Consumption

Consumptive

In a contagious manner.

Put on costume, turning arrogant

Scornful of fashionable costume put on

Disdainful

""Having the same bounds, or limits; bordering upon; contiguous.""

Contextual

Contiguity

Contiguous

Continuance

Persistence, going on

An extension of something else

Extension or carrying on to a further point

A term or expression denoting continuance.

Continuator

Continuing

Continuity

Without interruption

Contracture

Of music with more than one melody

Polyphonic

Singing voice wanting to hedge a bet with more than one melody

""CONTRIBUTE To give or grant i common with others; to give to a common stock or for a common purpose; to furnish or suply in part; to give (money or other aid) for a specified object; as, to contribute food or fuel for the poor. as, to contribute food or fuel for the poor.""

In regret, almost buy gift

Something given towards a common purpose

Gift of half buck bestowed in sorrow

""Contributing, or tending to contribute.""

Contributor

""Contributing to the same stock or purpose; promoting the same end; bringing assistance to some joint design, or increase to some common stock; contributive.""

Stroppily disobedient

Exhibiting contumely; rudely contemptuous; insolent; disdainful.

Conurbation

Conventual

Convolution

In a convulsive manner.

Coproduct

""Feeding upon dung, as certain insects.""

""Living or growing on excrement, as certain fungi.""

PUBLISHERS publisher

Copublish

In a coquettish manner.

Corequisite

Cornhusking

Corpulency

Correct or appropriate behavior.

Corrugation

Corruptive

Coruscation

SURFACTANT

Inflected form of TRANSDUCED Inflected form of TRANSDUCE

Cotransduce

Cottonmouth

Coulometry

""COUNCILMAN A member of a council, especially of the common council of a city; a councilor.""

""A woman who is a member of a council, especially of the local governing body of a city or town.""

""A man who is a member of a council, especially of the local governing body of a city or town.""

Counselling

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.

Bravely

Desire (for another's property)

English word

Crematorium

Crenulation

Croquignole

Flow at an angle to the main flow

A tendency in conflict with another

Hybrid present in turbulent water

Crosscut

Crossruff

Crucifixion

Crumminess

Crustiness

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.""

""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.""

""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).""

Culmination

CULPABLE blameworthy

Cultivable.

Cultivation

Cumbersome

CUMBROUS {unwieldy=adj}

Cumulative

Storm cloud

Thundercloud

Same as cunnilingus.cunnilingus.

Cupellation

Cupronickel

Curability

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

Curatorship

Curettement

Gruff

Currycomb

Cursedness

Flu, mono, etc. (wordplay)

They reduce short illnesses

Curveball

Cuspidation

Cussedness

Customhouse

Variant of customhouse .

Cutability

Cuttlefish

Cypripedium