13-Letter Words Starting with C

Container

Rotterdam, for example

Large transport vessel

Large cargo vessel

Vessel such as docks at Felixstowe

Making toxic, say

Addition of impurities or pollutants

Prisoner stupid to maintain corruption

Pollution, defilement

""CONTAMINATE To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile.""

Contaminator

Looking or just thinking about it

'Sages leave your --s' (carol)

Thinker's forte

Long and thoughtful observation

Employing meditation

Contemplator

CONTEMPORIZE to happen at the same time.

Contemporize

The pleasure of using new scented notes

Quarrelsomely

Contestation

CONTEXTUAL

Continental

Contingency

Continuation

One with rubber limbs

One who gets bent out of shape

One provides entertainment supply

One who traffic illegaly; a smuggler.

CONTRABASSI

Double-reeded instrument

Low-pitched wind instrument

Low wind instrument

Mechanism blocked by church (wordplay)

Gubbins the church brought in for limiting population

Birth control device

Capable of preventing pregnancy

The quality or property by which bodies shrink or contract.

""CONTRACTION The act or process of contracting, shortening, or shrinking; the state of being contracted; as, contraction of the heart, of the pupil of the eye, or of a tendion; the contraction produced by cold. as, contraction of the heart, of the pupil of the eye, or of a tendion; the contraction produced by cold.""

Contractual

Disagreeing with

Accent once heard in Managua (wordplay)

Accord not in it (wordplay)

Statement opposing one already made

Contradictor

Mutually inconsistent

Paradoxical

Inconsistent

Taking place or originating in a corresponding part on an opposite side.

Contraoctave

One who writes music in the style of Bach, say

Contrariety

Contrastive

Infringement (of a law)

Infringement Arthur raised in assembly

Breach agreement about returning paintings

Legitimate deductions

Subscriptions

Donations

Causing heated debate

Likely to cause disagreement

Is Rev. a control freak? It's debatable

Controversy

CONTROVERTER One who controverts; a controversial writer; a controversialist.

Controvert

Recuperation (from illness)

(Time of) gradual recovery of health

Recovery of health and strength

Not favouring valley odours? They're not so bad as they have been

Conveniency

Conventicler

CONVENTION The act of coming together; the state of being together; union; coalition.

Convergency

Conversancy

Conversation

""A meeting or assembly for conversation, particularly on literary or scientific subjects.""

Scholarly gatherings for discussion

Variant of convertiplane .

An airplane built to fly vertically as well as forward.

Conveyancing

CONVEYORISE

CONVEYORIZE

Of or pertaining to a convocation.

Convolvulus

Pertaining to convulsion; convulsive. "Convulsionary struggles." Convulsionary struggles."

Coordination

Coparcenary

Business arrangement between equals

Conservative arranged intro, perhaps, for business association

Copiousness

Coplanarity

Plural of gerund noun

PRODUCTIONS production

Cordialness

Cordwainery

Fellow believer shows heart and is toiling with difficulty

""RESIDENTIAL Of or pertaining to a residence or residents; as, residential trade. as, residential trade.""

One can tell adulterers by their shoes!

""Conversion into, or formation of, horn; a becoming like horn.""

Corporeality; corporeity.

Correctness

""CORRELATION Reciprocal relation; corresponding similarity or parallelism of relation or law; capacity of being converted into, or of giving place to, one another, under certain conditions; as, the correlation of forces, or of zymotic diseases. as, the correlation of forces, or of zymotic diseases.""

A journalist who actually writes!

Reporter on specialist areas

Like a reporter

Reciprocal match in centre of Margate

Conforming in every respect

Similar writing

Corresponding; conformable; adapted.

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

Confirmation

Gosh, talk about cheat! There's confirmation from evidence

Corrosive

""One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption.""

Corruptness

See ACTH .

Cosignatory

COSMETICIZE

Commanders clean up old literature and answer cultured people

SPONSORSHIP State of being a sponsor.

Barrow boys sort me out with fish round

Costiveness

Cosurfactant

Coterminous

Inflected form of TRANSDUCING Inflected form of TRANSDUCE

Past tense or past participle

Cotransport

The function and rank or office of a counselor.

Countenancer

Facing (wordplay)

On the face of it, one is tolerating this

Sanctioning

Working against bar, giving performance

Something done to offset ringing up a sale, maybe

Opposition; neutralisation

Active response

Tending to counteract.

Counteragent

COUNTERARGUE

Counterargue

Reverse the charge (wordplay)

Riposte to an offensive

How the customers strike back

English word

Counterblast

To give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange.

Retaliatory accusation

Countercheck

Counterclaim

English word

English word

Made in the forge (wordplay)

You might say he works at the forge

Does one work at the forge (wordplay)

Moneymaker (wordplay)

Present participle or gerund

Counterforce

Counterimage

Was all in order to cancel it

Document a nerd composed is withdrawn

Overturned

English word

COUNTERMOVE To move in a contrary direction to.

Counteroffer

Counterorder

English word

Counterplay

Counterpoint

COUNTERPOISE To act against with equal weight; to equal in weght; to balance the weight of; to counterbalance.

Counterpoise

COUNTERPOSE

Counterpower

Past tense or past participle

English word

Countersign

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Counterspell

Counterstain

COUNTERSTATE

Counterstate

English word

English word

Retaliatory attack

Counterstyle

Seldom-heard singers.

Intended to prevent or counteract terrorism: counterterror measures; counterterror weapons.

English word

English word

Countertrade

Countertrend

Countervail

Equalizer on a scale

Compensating mass

Counterworld

Nursery-rhyme king's den

Place for the king

There once was a king there

That's nice, in a manner of speaking

Consideration

Courtliness

Crabbedness

A man who practices a craft with great skill.

Skill in an occupation

(Worker's) skill

Chapman's first translation shows this (wordplay)

Craftsperson

Craniometry

Credential

CREDENTIAL Giving a title or claim to credit or confidence; accrediting.

CREDENTIAL Giving a title or claim to credit or confidence; accrediting.

Readiness to believe on slight evidence; credulity.

Crenellation

Creolization

Crestfallen

Criminality

CRIMINALIZE to declare (an act) to be illegal.

Criminology

Expert in breaking the law (wordplay)

One studying felons

One who studies felons

Crisscross

Crookedness

CROSSBANDING crossband

Blood transfusion (wordplay)

This does not make pure bread, by the sound of it

Hybridisation

Conflicting flows

Steamed up dried fruits? Heard they're watery and might go against you!

They're so conflicting they may make one shockingly angry

Crosscutting

It provides shade for access door in Ford

2 down will not get pure bred birds from this, it seems

""The state or character of being crotchety, or whimsical.""

Crowdedness

Crumbliness

Crunchiness

CRYOGENIC

Plural or third person singular

Process of deciphering codes

Code-busting

Code breaking

Turing's team at Bletchley Park, for example

The analysis and deciphering of cryptographic writings or systems.

""CRYSTALLINE Consisting, or made, of crystal.""

CRYSTALLISE

""CRYSTALLIZE To cause to form crystals, or to assume the crystalline form.""

Cultishness

Cunnilingus

Cunningness

Curableness

Curarization

Curiousness

Currentness

Cursiveness