13-Letter Words Starting with C

Cabinetmaker

Superior joinery - PM's job (wordplay)

Craft evident in one of the PM's tasks

Cachinnation

""CACOGRAPHIC Pertaining to, or characterized by, cacography; badly written or spelled.""

Cacophonous

Caddishness

Hardening Muslim leader receiving 100 - one hundred - a hundred divided by one

Calculating

""CALCULATION The act or process, or the result, of calculating; computation; reckoning, estimate.""

Calefactory

Calligrapher

Calligraphy

Decorative writer

Does he practise strokes in particular waves (wordplay)

Producer of decorative writing a spiral glitch ruined

Like a loud brass band that's out of practice

Callousness

Calorimetry

Calumniation

They film the concert footage

Campanology

A belly boy (wordplay)

Belle (wordplay)

One skilled in bell ringing

Of the nature of camphor; containing camphor.

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Microbiology) a rod-shaped bacterium that causes infections in cattle and man. Unpasteurized milk infected with campylobacter is a common cause of gastroenteritis [from Greek kampulos bent + bacter ( ium )]

Canalization

Cancellation

Candleberry

Candleholder

Candlelight

Candlelight

""An implement with a bell-shaped cup and often a long slender handle, used to extinguish the flame of a candle.""

CANNIBALISE

Having people for meals (wordplay)

Like one who scoffs when folk get heated (wordplay)

CANNIBALIZE

Cannonball

Canonization

English word

Cantilever

Cantillation

Capableness

Roomy quality

Capacitation

Capercaillie

Capercailzie

Capillarity

Capitulation

""The practice of hanging, upon the cultivated fig tree, branches of the wild fig infested with minute hymenopterous insects.""

Caravansary

Caravanserai

Carbohydrase

Sugar, for one

Source of energy in food

Such as 36 across

Producing coal; geological period

Period yielding 10 addled brain? Of course!

The act or process of carbonizing.

CARBONYLATE CARBONYL a chemical compound

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

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

""The act, process, or result of carburizing.""

Of or pertaining to carcinoma.

Cardinality

Cardinalship

""Of or pertaining to, or produced by, a cardiograph.""

""The medical study of the structure, function, and disorders of the heart.""

Heart specialists

Cardiopathy

Carefulness

Caricaturist

Carillonneur

Carnivorous

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.""

""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

Cheeseparing

""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 .""

1998's word: Artist like Rembrandt

Chieftaincy

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

Childbearing

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

""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.""

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

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.""

CHROMONEMA

Chromosomal

Of or pertaining to a chronograph.

Arranged on order of occurrence

Arranged in order of occurrence

In time order

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

""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

CIRCULARISE

Circularity

CIRCULARIZE

Surrounding; inclosing or being on all sides; encompassing.

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.

Citification

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