15-Letter Words Starting with C

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

""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.""

Carnivorous

Carpetbaggery

Categorization

The operation of introducing a catheter.

CEASELESSNESS ceaseless

Centralization

Centrifugation

Adjective (-ic)

""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.

Attention to formal procedures

Formality of style that could make connoisseur seem silly

Chancellorship

Changeability

CHANGEFULNESS changeful

Channelization

Traits which with care vary in styles

Mark is in touch with jerks in Features

Honesty, politeness, charm, etc.

CHEERLESSNESS cheerless

CHEMOAUTOTROPH

Chemoreception

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

CHILDLESSNESS The state of being childless.

CHILDLIKENESS childlike

Star-of-Bethlehem flowers

""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

See vitamin D .

Pl. cholecystectomies Surgical removal of the gallbladder.

Plural or third person singular

Cholecystitis

""Abbr. CCK A hormone produced principally by the small intestine in response to the presence of fats, causing contraction of the gallbladder, release of bile, and secretion of pancreatic digestive enzymes. Also called pancreozymin .""

Cholestyramine

CHOLINERGIC

Cholinesterase

Chordamesoderm

Chromatograph

Chromatograph

Chronobiology

Chronotherapy

""Of or relating to a style of baroque architecture of Spain and its Latin-American colonies, characterized by elaborate and extravagant decoration.""

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>,

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

CIRCUMSPECTION Attention to all the facts and circumstances of a case; caution; watchfulness.

Describe in full detail

CLAMOROUSNESS clamorous

Clandestine

Clandestinity

Asset for a mathematician

Cleistogamous

CLOUDLESSNESS cloudless

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

COLLECTEDNESS A collected state of the mind; selfpossession.

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

Colloquiality

COLORFASTNESS colorfast

COLORLESSNESS colorless

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

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 quality of being commonplace; commonness.

Communicative

Commutativity

Comparability

Comparative

Olympic season at variance with feeling

With humane feeling.

With sympathy

Compatibility

The state or quality of being compendious.

Competitive

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.

Complementizer

Complicated

At no cost

How Ph.D. aspirants are tested

So as to contain everything

Including everything

""The quality of being compressible of being compressible; as, the compressibility of elastic fluids. as, the compressibility of elastic fluids.""

English word

Computability

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

Computerphobia

Comradeliness

CONCEITEDNESS The state of being conceited; conceit; vanity.

Conceivable

Concelebration

Concentricity

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.""

CONCERTEDNESS concerted

Concertmeister

Ballpark figures (wordplay)

Certain lunch counter operators.

Ballpark figures

Concretization

Condescendence

Stooping so, son ended cycling trip

In a disdainful way

Cold individual dropping in in a snooty way

CONDUCIVENESS The quality of conducing.

Confectionary

Sweet products in set, refine Coco Pops

Force nieces into cooking lots of sweets (wordplay)

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

CONFIDINGNESS confiding

CONFIRMEDNESS A fixed state.

Confraternity

Conglomerateur

Mixed coherent masses.

Left to invade African country with armies, not revolutionary masses

Mixtures

Congressional

Congressperson

CONGRUOUSNESS congruous

CONJUGATENESS conjugate

Connaturality

CONNECTEDNESS connected

His cousin, person cast in the role of a pundit

Skill of well-informed person somehow crushes opinions

Consanguinity

Acting so is trying to do what is right

""CONSCIOUSNESS The state of being conscious; knowledge of one's own existence, condition, sensations, mental operations, acts, etc.""

The state or quality of being consecutive.

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

Conspicuous

Containerboard

Thoughtfully.

The state of being contemporaneous.

Like Shakespeare and Bacon

Arising at the same time.

Occurring at the same time

The quality of being contemptible; contemptibleness.

CONTENTEDNESS contented

Logomachist's trait

Belligerence

CONTEXTUALIZE

Contractility

Opposites

Advised against a treatment

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

Makes inadvisable

Contrapositive

Controllership

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.""

The state of being convertible; convertibility.

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

Cooperationist

What police seek in an investigation

CORPOREALNESS Corporeality; corporeity.

Letters

In a corresponding manner; conformably.

Corrigibility

CORROSIVENESS corrosive

Some anti-inflammatories

Corticosterone

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.""

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.

Countercheck

Counterclaim

COUNTERCULTURE