13-Letter Words Containing C

Outsiders in the political arena

Opportunists, possibly, those grasping Persians

Opportunists

CARPETBAGGER An adventurer; a term of contempt for a Northern man seeking private gain or political advancement in the southern part of the United States after the Civil War (1865)< used now for any politician moving to a new location to take advantage of more favorable chances for election>.

CARPETBAG A portable bag for travelers; so called because originally made of carpet.

Carryforward

CARTELIZE CARTEL a business organization

Of or pertaining to cartilage; gristly; firm and tough like cartilage.

Map makers

They may need to get the political landscape mapped out afresh

Cartography

Castability

""CATABOLIC Of or pertaining to catabolism; as, catabolic processes, which give rise to substances (katastates) of decreasing complexity and increasing stability.as, catabolic processes, which give rise to substances (katastates) of decreasing complexity and increasing stability.""

Catalytical

The doctrine that the geological changes in the earth's crust have been caused by the sudden action of violent physical causes; opposed to the doctrine of uniformism. uniformism.

One who holds the theory or catastrophism.

CATATONIC of or pertaining to catatonia; suffering from catatonia.

CATECHIZE See Catechise. Catechise.

""Any of a group of chemicals including epinephrine and norepinephrine that are produced in the medulla of the adrenal gland. They function as nerotransmitters in the sympathetic nervous system. Also, any structurally related chemical substance, whether natural or synthetic.""

In an unqualified manner

In an unambiguously explicit manner

Without reserve

Diagonal.

CATHETERIZE To operate on with a catheter.

Catholicity

CATHOLICIZE To make or to become catholic or Roman Catholic.

English word

""The act of searing some morbid part by the application of a cautery or caustic; also, the effect of such application.""

Inhabiting caverns or caves: cavernicolous animals.

Ceaseless

Cellularity

Flying off from its circular path

Centripetal

""Domination of the head in animal life as expressed in the physical structure; localization of important organs or parts in or near the head, in animal development.""

Head

English word

""Any of a class of chemical substances, some of which have therapeutically useful antibacterial activity, whose structure contains a beta-lactam ring fused to a six-membered ring containing a sulfur and a nitrogen atom. The first of the series, cephalosporin C, was discovered by G. Brotzu in 1955 in the culture broth of a Cephalosporium species found off the coast of Sardinia. Other cephalosporins have been found to be produced by species of soil bacteria (actinomycetes). Many semisynthetic analogs have been tested for antibacterial effect, and several of them have found use as important clinically useful antibacterial agents, some of which may be taken orally for treatment of bacterial infections. The cephalosporins are the second class of beta-lactam antibiotic to be discovered, the first being the penicillins and more recent classes being the thienamycins and sulfazecins. The cephamycins are a variant of cephalosporins with a methoxyl group on the beta-lactam ring, rendering them more resistant to penicillinases. Among the cephalosporins which have been found clinically useful are cephalexin, cephaloridine, and cephalothin.cephalosporin C, was discovered by G. Brotzu in 1955 in the culture broth of a Cephalosporium species found off the coast of Sardinia. Other cephalosporins have been found to be produced by species of soil bacteria (actinomycetes). Many semisynthetic analogs have been tested for antibacterial effect, and several of them have found use as important clinically useful antiba

""The anterior portion of any one of the Arachnida and higher Crustacea, consisting of the united head and thorax.""

Of or pertaining to the central nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.

Adherence to external rites; fondness for ceremony.

""CEREMONIAL Relating to ceremony, or external rite; ritual; according to the forms of established rites.""

In a ceremonious way.

""CERTIFICATE A written testimony to the truth of any fact; as, certificate of good behavior. as, certificate of good behavior.""

Process of allocating film ratings

Confirmation through documentation

""CERTIFICATE A written testimony to the truth of any fact; as, certificate of good behavior. as, certificate of good behavior.""

A blood glycoprotein to which copper is bound during transport and storage.

Chairmanship

Chalcogenide

Chalcopyrite

Challenging

Adjective meaning resembling

The three in a "threepeat"

Posh mini crashed in men's competition

Where to find a winner's belt

Chancellery

Chancellory

The copper's expertise is compromised by The Amendments

Changeful

Stated precisely; -- of the meaning of words or concepts.

Characterize

Lacking a distinctive nature

Lacking distinctive qualities

Dull, like a blank sheet of paper (wordplay)

Charlatanism

Charlatanry

Chastisement

Home cook's entree (wordplay)

Contemporary of Lamartine.

Thick beef steak fillet

These have 64 squares

Reduce applause to head, causing gloom

Norah (wordplay)

Gloomy quality

Equipment for #3

Snappy remark about second egg on starters of rump steak in fast food

Cheeseparing

(Chemistry) an adsorption process in which an adsorbate is held on the surface of an adsorbent by chemical bonds

""A sensory nerve cell or sense organ, as of smell or taste, that responds to chemical stimuli.""

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

""Classification of organisms based on differences at the biochemical level, especially in the amino acid sequences of common proteins. Also called chemosystematics .""

Chemotropism

Lester bats while...

Lester bats while ...

Sweet-sounding land of Cheshire

1998's word: Artist like Rembrandt

Chieftaincy

""The leader or head of a group, especially of a clan or tribe.""

Childbearing

Lack of progeny

Childlike

Room features

CHIROGRAPHER One who practice the art or business of writing or engrossing.

Chirography

Chiropractic

Professionals who might get your back up (wordplay)

""A thick-walled, asexual fungal spore that is derived from a hyphal cell and can function as a resting spore.""

Chlorenchyma

Chlorination

""A colorless, volatile flammable liquid, C 6 H 5 Cl, used to prepare phenol, DDT, and aniline and as a general solvent.""

Chloroform

Chlorohydrin

Chloropicrin

""CHLOROPLAST A plastid containing chlorophyll, developed only in cells exposed to the light. Chloroplasts are minute flattened granules, usually occurring in great numbers in the cytoplasm near the cell wall, and consist of a colorless ground substance saturated with chlorophyll pigments. Under light of varying intensity they exhibit phototactic movements. In animals chloroplasts occur only in certain low forms.""

What a fruit squeezer can do

X-ray examination of the bile ducts following administration of a radiopaque contrast medium.

Plural or third person singular

CHOLECYST

Chondriosome

Pl. chondrocraniums or chondrocrania (-n - ) The cartilaginous cranium of an embryo before ossification.

Choreograph

I arrange steps (wordplay)

Robbins, for one

One skilled in arranging dances

Relating to dance movements

Chorographer

Chorography

Chowderhead

In a chromatic manner.

Chromaticism

Chromatogram

A piece of equipment used to perform chromatography{2}.

Plural or third person singular

""The dissolution or disintegration of chromophil material, such as chromatin, within a cell.""

""The dissolution or disintegration of chromophil material, such as chromatin, within a cell.""

""A contractile cell or vesicle containing liquid pigment and capable of changing its form or size, thus causing changes of color in the translucent skin of such animals as possess them. They are highly developed and numerous in the cephalopods.""

Chromocenter

CHROMONEMA

""A conjugated protein, such as hemoglobin, that contains a pigmented prosthetic group, such as heme.""

Chromosomal

Chromosphere

Of or pertaining to the chromosphere.

The study of the effects of time and rhythmical phenomena on life processes.

Of or pertaining to a chronograph.

Arranged on order of occurrence

Arranged in order of occurrence

In time order

Chronologist

Chronometry

See chronotherapeutics .

Common garden plant

Showy flower such as the ox-eye daisy

Bright garden flower

Stupid *

The state or quality of being a churchman; attachment to the church.

Churchwarden

Chymotrypsin

""The process of forming a cicatrix, or the state of being cicatrized.""

Cinematheque

CINEMATIC

Old apparatus for films

Instrument for producing film

Motion-picture theater, to a Londoner

""An Italian of the sixteenth century, esp. a poet or artist.""

CIRCULARISE

Circularity

CIRCULARIZE

Surrounding; inclosing or being on all sides; encompassing.

Circumcenter

Circumcircle

Circumcision

Distance around circle

Perimeter of circle

Boundary of a circle

Circumfusion

Restricted, CID curbs crime in a riot

Limited

Circumscribe

In a cautious manner

Placed in a particular position or condition; situated.

Everything that happens to one in life!

*They may be beyond one's control

Last part of sign

Revolving around or surrounding a star.

To surround with a rampart or wall.

Circumvent

Process of getting round something

Citification

Citriculture

CIVILIANIZE

Civilisation

Part 2 of quip

CLADISTIC

Super hearing about Euclidian acre

Clairvoyance

Clairvoyant

Clamorous

Group to end taking railway on the sly

Sly cent in deal (anagram) - on the sly

In a secret manner

Privacy or secrecy.

Clapperclaw

Something making more comprehensible

Process of making more comprehensible

Making more comprehensible

Clarinettist

Classless

Claudication

One fearing confined spaces

""CLAVICHORD A keyed stringed instrument, now superseded by the pianoforte. See Clarichord. Clarichord.""

Cleanliness

Clearheaded

Central collection place (2 words)

Residence in a glade (wordplay)

Banks' go-between

Cleistogamy

""Having, beside the usual flowers, other minute, closed flowers, without petals or with minute petals; -- said of certain species of plants which possess flowers of two or more kinds, the closed ones being so constituted as to insure self-fertilization.""

Climactical

Climatology

One studying, eg, global warming

Global warming expert's got coal limits resolved

(used with a sing. verb) The study of history using economic models and advanced mathematical methods of data processing and analysis.

Fashion-obsessed teenagers

Their closets are full

Some candidates for the "best-dressed" list.

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

Cloudless

Coacervation

Coadaptation

The quality of being coagulable; capacity of being coagulated.

""Compression and hardening over long periods of time, the processes by which coal is formed from plant materials.""

Coalitionist

English word

COASTGUARD

Coauthorship

Carryng on war in conjunction with another power.

COCAINIZE To treat or an\'91sthetize with cocaine.

CARBOXYLASE

Cocarcinogen

""CHAIRPERSON the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization; -- same as chair{3} or chairman{1}, but used to achieve a sex-neutral register.chair{3} or chairman{1}, but used to achieve a sex-neutral register.""

COCKFIGHTING The act or practice of pitting gamecocks to fight.

Cabal member

Fellow plotter

COUNSELLING counsel

""Inflected form of CULTIVATING Inflected form of CULTIVATE To bestow attention, care, and labor upon, with a view to valuable returns; to till; to fertilize; as, to cultivate soil. as, to cultivate soil.""

CULTIVATION The art or act of cultivating; improvement for agricultural purposes or by agricultural processes; tillage; production by tillage.

Codependence

Manuscripts ()

Abstract noun (-ity)

Codification