14-Letter Words Starting with C

Cabinetmaking

CAMOUFLAGE

Bellringers

Campylobacter

""Having the ovules and seeds so curved, or bent down upon themselves, that the ends of the embryo are brought close together.""

Plural or third person singular

A pathological condition characterized by the presence of carcinomas that have metastasized to many parts of the body.

English word

""Pl. cardiomyopathies A disease or disorder of the heart muscle, especially of unknown or obscure cause.""

Catastrophism

Catecholamine

Cephalometry

Ceremonialism

Ceremonialist

Ceruloplasmin

Chemisorption

The physiological response of a sense organ to a chemical stimulus.

The physiological response of a sense organ to a chemical stimulus.

Chemoreceptor

Chemosurgery

Plural or third person singular

""Synthesis of organic compounds by energy derived from chemical changes or reactions. Chemosynthesis of carbohydrates occurs in the nitrite bacteria through the oxidation of ammonia to nitrous acid, and in the nitrate bacteria through the conversion of nitrous into nitric acid.Chemosynthesis of carbohydrates occurs in the nitrite bacteria through the oxidation of ammonia to nitrous acid, and in the nitrate bacteria through the conversion of nitrous into nitric acid.""

Synthesis of carbohydrate from carbon dioxide and water using energy obtained from the chemical oxidation of simple inorganic compounds. This form of synthesis is limited to certain bacteria and fungi.

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

Chemotherapy

""Remedies a procedure that uses radioisotopes of various elements, as iodine, phosphorus, and gold, to treat cancers of the thyroid gland, lungs, and other organs. Cancer""

Chlamydospore

A drug derived from phenothiazine and used as a sedative and tranquilizer.

(Medicine / Pharmacology) a sulfonylurea drug that reduces blood glucose and is administered orally in the treatment of diabetes mellitus. Formula: C 10 H 13 ClN 2 O 3 S

Cholangiogram

A drug used to lower serum cholesterol levels and treat itching associated with jaundice through its ability to bind intestinal bile acids and promote their excretion.

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

English word

Chrestomathy

Chromaticity

Chromatograph

A treatise on colors

Chromatophore

""(used with a sing. verb) The physics of the relationship between color-carrying quarks, especially the nature of their strong interaction, which is characterized by the exchange of gluons.""

Chromoprotein

Pertaining to a chronometer; measured by a chronometer.

Chrysanthemum

Churchmanship

Cinematograph

Art of film-making

To walk round about.

The sexes in science recur, after setting boundaries

The periphrasis 'abstaining from skating' was invented by 1 down

Caught three times, your turmoil is shown in diversion for roundabout

Sail round (the world)

Go round stirring up a civic argument

Perhaps fly round, racing wildly with active sign of doubt suppressed

Dehiscing or opening by a transverse fissure extending around (a capsule or pod). See Illust. of Pyxidium. Illust. of Pyxidium.

CIRCUMSCRIBE to write or engare around.

Cautious behaviour

Caution, prudence

(Of evidence) indirect

Tantric musical may be incidental

CIRCUMVALLATE To surround with a rampart or wall.

Circumvallate

""CIRCUMVENTION The act of prevailing over another by arts, address, or fraud; deception; fraud; imposture; delusion.""

The act of rolling round; the state of being rolled.

Of or pertaining to climatology.

'It's most logical to change': experts warning of catastrophe (wordplay)

Cliometrician

Clitorectomy

Pl. clitoridectomies also clitorectomies Surgical removal of the clitoris.

A member of a coast guard.

Screams on a tug'd send us scurrying (wordplay)

Colloquialism

The quality of being combustible.

Commandership

Commemoration

Commemorative

In a commensurate manner; so as to be equal or proportionate; adequately.

The act of commensurating; the state of being commensurate.

COMMERCIALISE commercial

COMMERCIALISE commercial

Commercialism

Commercialist

Organized principally for financial gain.

Commercialize

European allowances underpinning trainee chef's sympathies

Sympathy for the apprentice chef getting English food

Some morticians trained to offer expressions of sympathy

Uniformed door attendant

Uniformed doorman

A woman who is a member of a committee.

A man who is a member of a committee.

State of being commodious; suitableness for its purpose; convience; roominess.

Having or exhibiting native good judgment: "commonsense scholarship on the foibles and oversights of a genius" (Times Literary Supplement).

Showing sound judgement

House redesigned in scale that's not silly

Down-to-earth sons men upset? Funny about that

Communication

Communitarian

Communization

Companionship

Comparable

Comparativist

Compartment

COMPASSIONATE Having a temper or disposition to pity; sympathetic; merciful.

Compassionate

Compassion

Compatibility; consistency; fitness; agreement.

Abstract noun (-ity)

COMPENSATION The act or principle of compensating.

COMPLEMENT That which fills up or completes; the quantity or number required to fill a thing or make it complete.

Completeness

Composedness

Able to be understood. Opposite of incomprehensible.incomprehensible.

Able to be understood

Not half common and grasping, grasping book that may be grasped

With great extent of signification; comprehensively.

Comprehension

Compulsive

Compulsivity

""COMPUTERIZE to provide with computers; as, Our office is fully computerized now.as, Our office is fully computerized now.""

Computerphobe

Fear of something

COMPUTERPHOBE

Conceptualism

Those who know everything about philosopher Immanuel (wordplay)

The head violinist or leader of the strings in an orchestra; the subleader of the orchestra; concert master.

Adjective (-ic)

Adjective (-ic)

(tr) (may take a clause as object) to prove to be true or valid; corroborate; verify

""CONFIRMATION The act of confirming or strengthening; the act of establishing, ratifying, or sanctioning; as, the confirmation of an appointment. as, the confirmation of an appointment.""

CONFORMATION The act of conforming; the act of producing conformity.

English word

""CONGLOMERATE Gathered into a ball or a mass; collected together; concentrated; as, conglomerate rays of light. as, conglomerate rays of light.""

Assortment of sorts

Mixed, coherent mass

Large group of merged companies

""CONGLOMERATE Gathered into a ball or a mass; collected together; concentrated; as, conglomerate rays of light. as, conglomerate rays of light.""

Conglomerator

""CONSTRUCTIVE Having ability to construct or form; employed in construction; as, to exhibit constructive power. as, to exhibit constructive power.""

Contamination

Contemplation

Contemplative

Tories are mad about one in Commons following Conservative peers

Contemporary

CONTEMPORIZE to happen at the same time.

With scorn I leave police: you mustn't worry

Conterminous

Contumacious

'No music', you tell the mess with haughty scorn

""Inflected form of POLYMERIZING Inflected form of POLYMERIZE To cause polymerization of; to produce polymers from; to increase the molecular weight of, without changing the atomic proportions; thus, certain acids polymerize aldehyde. polymerize aldehyde.""

Corporativism

Cosmetologist

COSMOCHEMIST

Of or pertaining to cosmography.

Cosmological

Cosmopolitism

Counterclaim

Counterdemand

Exception to a general rule

Countermand

Countermarch

Countermarch

Bar tape perhaps provides antidote

Action taken to offset another

Retaliatory move

Counterreform

Counterstream

Craftsmanship

Credentialism

CRIMINALIST One versed in criminal law.

Of or pertaining to criminology.

Experts helping police to sort minor logistics out

CRYPTORCHID

Cumbersome

Cumbrousness

Cumulative

Cumulonimbus

""Pl. cyanobacteria (-tîr - ) A photosynthetic bacterium of the class Coccogoneae or Hormogoneae, generally blue-green in color and in some species capable of nitrogen fixation. Cyanobacteria were once thought to be algae. Also called blue-green alga .""

See vitamin B .

Cycloheximide

The study of cells and chemical compounds within cells by means of a cytophotometer.

Cytotaxonomy