13-Letter Words Starting with C

Cabinetmaker

Superior joinery - PM's job (wordplay)

Craft evident in one of the PM's tasks

Cachinnation

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

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

Calorimetry

Calumniation

A belly boy (wordplay)

Belle (wordplay)

One skilled in bell ringing

(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

Candlelight

Candlelight

Having people for meals (wordplay)

Like one who scoffs when folk get heated (wordplay)

Canonization

English word

Cantilever

Cantillation

Capacitation

Capillarity

Capitulation

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

Sugar, for one

Source of energy in food

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

Heart specialists

Cardiopathy

Caricaturist

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CARPETBAG A portable bag for travelers; so called because originally made of carpet.

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.""

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

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

""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.""

Chalcopyrite

The copper's expertise is compromised by The Amendments

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

(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.""

""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.""

Chiropractic

Professionals who might get your back up (wordplay)

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.""

Plural or third person singular

CHOLECYST

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.""

Chronologist

Chronometry

See chronotherapeutics .

Common garden plant

Showy flower such as the ox-eye daisy

Bright garden flower

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.""

Circularity

Surrounding; inclosing or being on all sides; encompassing.

Circumcenter

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

Civilisation

Part 2 of quip

CLADISTIC

Clairvoyant

Group to end taking railway on the sly

Sly cent in deal (anagram) - on the sly

In a secret manner

Privacy or secrecy.

Something making more comprehensible

Process of making more comprehensible

Making more comprehensible

Clarinettist

Claudication

One fearing confined spaces

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

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.

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.

COCKFIGHTING The act or practice of pitting gamecocks to fight.

Cabal member

Fellow plotter

""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.

Abstract noun (-ity)

Codification

Like mixed schools

Certainly not of the class of Eton, for instance

Instructing boys and girls, commander wrongly cautioned a learner

Coelenterate

Coextensive

Cogeneration

Cohabitation

Coilability

In a stony, unloving manner

In a callous manner

With no sympathy

Coleopterist

Colinearity

Jointly working

Concert party in an arrangement of hues

Cooperative work

Joint working

""Accomplished by collaboration; cooperative; as, collaborative effort of industry and the universities. Opposed to competitive.as, collaborative effort of industry and the universities. Opposed to competitive.""

Speakers supporting company dance set up as partners in crime

""COLLATERAL Coming from, being on, or directed toward, the side; as, collateral pressure. as, collateral pressure.""

""COLLATERAL Coming from, being on, or directed toward, the side; as, collateral pressure. as, collateral pressure.""

A collected state of the mind; selfpossession.

COLLECTIVISE to bring under collective control; to organize for operation by the principles of collectivism; -- especially of farms and industrial enterprises. Same as collectivize.collectivize.

Collectivise

Collectivism

Collectivist

Brought under collective ownership and operating under collectivist principles; -- used especially of organizations operating under the ownership by the state.

Collectivize

The office of a collector of customs or of taxes.

English word

COLLOCATION The act of placing; the state of being placed with something else; disposition in place; arrangement.

""COLLOQUIAL Pertaining to, or used in, conversation, esp. common and familiar conversation; conversational; hence, unstudied; informal; as, colloquial intercourse; colloquial phrases; a colloquial style. as, colloquial intercourse; colloquial phrases; a colloquial style.""

COLONIALIST a believer in or advocate of colonialism{3}.

Colonisation

Colonization

Colorfast

Colorimetry

Colorization

Coltishness

Columniation

Comanagement

The quality of being combative; propensity to contend or to quarrel.

Of or relating to combinations.

COMBINATE United; joined; betrothed.

COMBINATE United; joined; betrothed.

Of or pertaining to a commemoration; serving to commemorate.