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.

Centralization

Centrifugation

Adjective (-ic)

Attention to formal procedures

Formality of style that could make connoisseur seem silly

Chancellorship

Changeability

Channelization

Traits which with care vary in styles

Mark is in touch with jerks in Features

Honesty, politeness, charm, etc.

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

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

See vitamin D .

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

Chondrocranium

""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 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)

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>,

CIRCULARIZE CIRCULAR a leaflet

Circumambient

CIRCUMAMBULATE To walk round about.

Circumambulate

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

Rhetorical evasions

Ways of talking round Milton? C-c-curious work

'... 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

An inscription written around anything.

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

Describe in full detail

CIRCUMVALLATE To surround with a rampart or wall.

The act of surrounding with a wall or rampart.

Circumvolution

Citriculturist

CIVILIANIZE CIVILIAN a nonmilitary person

Clandestine

Clandestinity

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

Claustrophobia

Cleistogamous

Coagulability

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

Codifiability

Coeducational

Inflected form of ENZYMATICALLY Inflected form of ENZYMATIC

Coinvestigator

Collaborative

Collaterality

COLLATERALIZE

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.""

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

Combinatorial

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 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

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

Compositional

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

Computational

""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.""

Concertmeister

Ballpark figures (wordplay)

Certain lunch counter operators.

Ballpark figures

Concretization

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

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

CONFIRMEDNESS A fixed state.

Confraternity

In an in-your-face way

Dealing hostilely with others

Aggressively hostile

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

Conjugational

Conjunctional

Connaturality

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.

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

Walks once taken by Truman

Mr. Truman's early warm-ups.

Daily health regimes

Certain interpreter of laws

Interpreter of the Constitution

Certain jurist

Constructivism

Constructivist

Consultantship

Containerboard

Thoughtfully.

The state of being contemporaneous.

The quality of being contemptible; contemptibleness.

Logomachist's trait

Belligerence

CONTEXTUALIZE

Flexible, as an acrobat

""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

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

In a corresponding manner; conformably.

Corrigibility

CORROSIVENESS corrosive

Some anti-inflammatories

Corticosterone