15-Letter Words Starting with C

CANNIBALIZE CANNIBAL one who eats his own kind

""CAPACIOUSNESS The quality of being capacious, as of a vessel, a reservoir a bay, the mind, etc.""

Total corporate liabilities

Features of proper nouns

'Z' in Italian, endlessly beset by subtitles in letters made large

""CARCINOGENIC Causing or tending to cause cancer; as, the carcinogenic action of certain chemicals or of ionizing radiation.as, the carcinogenic action of certain chemicals or of ionizing radiation.""

Carcinosarcoma

Pertaining to the heart and lungs

Carnivorous

Carpetbaggery

CATACLYSMIC Of or pertaining to a cataclysm.

Categorization

The operation of introducing a catheter.

CEASELESSNESS ceaseless

Centralization

Centrifugation

""The anterior section of arachnids and many crustaceans, consisting of the fused head and thorax.""

Cephalothorax

Of or relating to the blood vessels that supply the brain.

Chancellorship

Changeability

CHANGEFULNESS changeful

Channelization

Traits which with care vary in styles

Mark is in touch with jerks in Features

Honesty, politeness, charm, etc.

CHEMOAUTOTROPH

CHEMOTACTIC

Chemotaxonomy

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

Chemotherapist

""An antibiotic, C 11 H 12 Cl 2 N 2 O 5 , derived from the soil bacterium Streptomyces venezuelae or produced synthetically and effective against a broad spectrum of microorganisms.""

Chlorothiazide

Chlorpromazine

Chlorpropamide

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

See vitamin D .

Cholestyramine

CHOLINERGIC

Cholinesterase

Chondrocranium

Chordamesoderm

""The highly vascular fetal membrane that consists of the fused chorion and allantois, found adjacent to the eggshell in reptiles and birds and constituting the placenta in most mammals.""

A very vascular fetal membrane composed of the fused chorion and adjacent wall of the allantois.

Pl. choriocarcinomas or choriocarcinomata (-m -t ) A malignant tumor that develops from trophoblast cells and usually occurs in the uterus.

Chromatograph

Chromatograph

CHROMATOGRAPH a piece of equipment used to perform chromatography{2}.

January first (wordplay)

Chronotherapy

Film's camera-crew chief

Movie studio employe

James Wong Howe's occupation.

""CINEMATOGRAPH an older name for a movie projector, a machine, combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features, for projecting on a screen a series of pictures, moved rapidly (25 to 50 frames per second) and intermittently before an objective lens, and producing by persistence of vision the illusion of continuous motion; a moving-picture projector; also, any of several other machines or devices producing moving pictorial effects. Other older names for the movie projector are animatograph, biograph, bioscope, electrograph, electroscope, kinematograph, kinetoscope, veriscope, vitagraph, vitascope, zo\'94gyroscope, zo\'94praxiscope, etc.movie projector, a machine, combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features, for projecting on a screen a series of pictures, moved rapidly (25 to 50 frames per second) and intermittently before an objective lens, and producing by persistence of vision the illusion of continuous motion; a moving-picture projector; also, any of several other machines or devices producing moving pictorial effects. Other older names for the <altname>movie projector</altname> are <altname>animatograph</altname>, <altname>biograph</altname>, <altname>bioscope</altname>, <altname>electrograph</altname>, <altname>electroscope</altname>, <altname>kinematograph</altname>, <altname>kinetoscope</altname>, <altname>veriscope</altname>, <altname>vitagraph</altname>,

CIRCULARIZE CIRCULAR a leaflet

Circumambient

CIRCUMAMBULATE To walk round about.

Circumambulate

Miracle cure, if time allows, around a point of the compass

'... put a girdle round the earth ...'

Went Magellan one farther

Went completely around

Circumnavigate

Drake, for one

Phileas Fogg, for one

One of the great all-rounders

Describe in full detail

CIRCUMVALLATE To surround with a rampart or wall.

The act of surrounding with a wall or rampart.

CIVILIANIZE CIVILIAN a nonmilitary person

CLAMOROUSNESS clamorous

Clandestine

Clandestinity

I-A, II-C, IV-B, etc.

Claustrophobia

Asset for a mathematician

Cleistogamous

Coagulability

""DETERMINATION The act of determining, or the state of being determined.""

Codifiability

Coeducational

Inflected form of ENZYMATICALLY Inflected form of ENZYMATIC

Coinvestigator

One's showing ice - ie must have this!

Lack of affection

Unsympathetic quality

Collaborative

Collaterality

COLLATERALIZE

COLLENCHYMA A tissue of vegetable cells which are thickend at the angles and (usually) elongated.

Colloquiality

""A friend to colonization, esp. (U. S. Hist) to the colonization of Africa by emigrants from the colored population of the United States. (U. S. Hist) to the colonization of Africa by emigrants from the colored population of the United States.""

COLORFASTNESS colorfast

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

Combinatorial

State of being comfortable or comforting manner.

Commemorative

Commensuration

COMMERCIALISE commercial

COMMERCIALIST

Commerciality

""COMMERCIALIZE to make something commercial in character, either by placing it for sale on the open market, or by emphasizing its profit-making aspects; as, the Olympics have been excessively commercialized.as, the Olympics have been excessively commercialized.""

Commiserating

Percentage rise ordered to cover area hotel employees

DOORKEEPERS

""The inappropriate treatment of something as if it can be acquired or marketed like other commodities the commodification of human life CYCLOPENTADIENE (Chemistry / Elements & Compounds) a colourless liquid unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon obtained in the cracking of petroleum hydrocarbons and the distillation of coal tar: used in the manufacture of plastics and insecticides. Formula: C 5 H 6 DIAPHOTOTROPISM (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) growth of a plant or plant part in a direction transverse to that of the light [from Greek, from dia- + phototropic ]""

The quality of being commonplace; commonness.

The quality of being communicable; capability of being imparted.

""Used in communication; as, he had few communicational grooves available for use.as, he had few communicational grooves available for use.""

Communicative

""COMMUNISTIC Of or pertaining to communism or communists; as, communistic theories. as, communistic theories.""

Commutativity

Comparability

Comparative

Olympic season at variance with feeling

With humane feeling.

With sympathy

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

Compatibility

Complementary

Complementary

The state or quality of being complementary: "This is where the complementarity of the masculine and the feminine so acutely emerges. They are the necessary poles of a dialectic process" (Therese Namenek).

The grammatical relation of a word or phrase to a predicate.

Complicated

At no cost

Compositional

Computability

Computational

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

Computerphobia

Comradeliness

Conceivable

Concelebration

CONCEPTUALISE conceptual

Initially inferior count: sceptical, sadly, about making a baby (wordplay)

Conceptuality

Conceptualizer

""CONCEPTUALIZE to to form a concept of; as, He could not conceptualize a robot that would help paralyzed patients.as, He could not conceptualize a robot that would help paralyzed patients.""

Ballpark figures (wordplay)

Certain lunch counter operators.

Ballpark figures

Concretization

Confectionary

An exaggerated estimate of the importance of giving full assent to any particular formula of the Christian faith.

""A priest hearing, or sitting to hear, confession.""

Subject of some business agreements

Indicate loft in untidy yard in secret state

Secrecy and infidelity can't upset when love comes in

""CONFIGURATION Form, as depending on the relative disposition of the parts of a thing' shape; figure.""

Confraternity

In an in-your-face way

Dealing hostilely with others

Aggressively hostile

Conglomerateur

Mixed coherent masses.

Left to invade African country with armies, not revolutionary masses

Mixtures

Conglutination

Way to go!

Word often heard at weddings

Greeting-card message

Congressional

CONJUGATENESS conjugate

Conjugational

Conjunctional

Connaturality

Consanguinity

Unanimously; concurrently

As a result, and a hint to a three-letter chunk in the five long Down answers

Take one person for a ride, then another of some importance

A greenkeeper (wordplay)

Green satin cover is not to be changed

T.R. was one

""A person in charge of maintaining or restoring valuable items, as in a museum or library.""

Considerate

Walks once taken by Truman

Mr. Truman's early warm-ups.

Daily health regimes

Consultantship

Containerboard

Thoughtfully.

The state of being contemporaneous.

Like Shakespeare and Bacon

Arising at the same time.

Occurring at the same time

CONTEXTUALIZE

""Capability of being contracted; quality of being contractible; as, the contractibiliy and dilatability of air. as, the contractibiliy and dilatability of air.""

Contractility

Opposites

In a contradictory manner.

Advised against a treatment

Line of prisoners pegged out, having received punishment against medical advice

Makes inadvisable

Contraposition

Contrapositive

Power of regulation

Horse purchaser's consideration

In a polemical manner.

Polemically

Italian footballer and friend entertaining Tranmere team in a contentious manner

""That which is received or established by convention or arbitrary agreement; that which is in accordance with the fashion, tradition, or usage.""

One who adheres to a convention or treaty.

Reluctance to stand out

Customary nature

Custom.

""To make designs in art, according to conventional principles. Cf. Conventionalize, v. t., 2. Conventionalize, v. t., 2.""

""CONVEYORIZE CONVEYOR one that conveys, also CONVEYER""

Cooperationist

What police seek in an investigation

CORPOREALNESS Corporeality; corporeity.

CORYNEBACTERIA

""Any member of the genus Corynebacterium, consisting of gram-positive usually nonmotile irregularly rod-shaped bacteria, some of which are pathogenic or parasitic in humans and domestic animals, such as Corynebacterium diphtheriae, which causes diphtheria.Corynebacterium, consisting of gram-positive usually nonmotile irregularly rod-shaped bacteria, some of which are pathogenic or parasitic in humans and domestic animals, such as Corynebacterium diphtheriae, which causes diphtheria.""

Being a citizen of the world

State of world citizenship

Plot with a commission to destroy the global view

Inflected form of TRANSDUCTIONS Inflected form of TRANSDUCTION The act of conveying over.

COULOMETRIC

Part of a debate

Dialogue between diner waitresses (wordplay)

Debate side

Counterassault

Responded in kind, in a way

One who fights back

One who fights fire with fire

Set off accelerant - bound to get in trouble

Neutralized

Amounts owed at a diner (wordplay)

Offsets

English word

English word

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

COUNTERCHARGE An opposing charge.

Counterclaim

COUNTERCULTURE

Intended to compensate for immoderate developments in a business cycle: a countercyclical federal aid program.

Counterexample

English word

Noun (-ance)

Distractive annoyance

Countermarch

Perhaps 1 evaluates retaliations (wordplay)

Haberdasher uses these precautions

Retaliatory actions

An offer of marriage in store (wordplay)

Response to unsatis- factory plan

Negotiator's offering

Counterrally

Noun (-tion)

Countershading