15-Letter Words Starting with C

""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.""

Carpetbaggery

Categorization

Centrifugation

Changeability

CHANGEFULNESS changeful

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

CHOLINERGIC

Chromatograph

Chromatograph

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

Chronobiology

The study of the effects of time and rhythmical phenomena on life processes.

January first (wordplay)

""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>,

'... 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

CIRCUMVALLATE To surround with a rampart or wall.

Cleistogamous

Coagulability

Coinvestigator

COLLATERALIZE

COMMERCIALISE commercial

""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

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

CONCEPTUALISE conceptual

""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.""

Stooping so, son ended cycling trip

In a disdainful way

Cold individual dropping in in a snooty way

CONFIDINGNESS confiding

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

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

Congressperson

CONGRUOUSNESS congruous

CONJUGATENESS conjugate

Conjugational

Consanguinity

CONTEXTUALIZE

In a corresponding manner; conformably.

Corrigibility

Part of a debate

Dialogue between diner waitresses (wordplay)

Debate side

English word

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

COUNTERCHARGE An opposing charge.

Countercheck

Counterclaim

English word

Countermarch

Counterorder

""COUNTERPLOT To oppose, as another plot, by plotting; to attempt to frustrate, as a stratagem, by stratagem.""

Counterpoint

Counterpunch

Counterrally

Countershading

Counterstain

Present participle or gerund

English word

Counterweight

""Of, relating to, or derived from more than one family of languages; as, cross-linguistic evidence.as, cross-linguistic evidence.""

Of or pertaining to the Crossopterygii.

Cryptozoology

Sasquatch studier, say

One studying this puzzle's sightings

Dinosaur hunter, by definition

Use for x-rays

Science concerned with the formation, properties and structure of clear quartz

CYANOETHYLATE

Cytogenetical

Cytogeneticist

Abbr. CMV Any of a group of herpes viruses that attack and enlarge epithelial cells. Such viruses also cause a disease of infants characterized by circulatory dysfunction and microcephaly.