15-Letter Words Starting with C

CANNIBALIZE CANNIBAL one who eats his own kind

Total corporate liabilities

Features of proper nouns

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

Pertaining to the heart and lungs

CATACLYSMIC Of or pertaining to a cataclysm.

CEASELESSNESS ceaseless

Centralization

""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

CHEERLESSNESS cheerless

CHEMOTACTIC

CHILDLESSNESS The state of being childless.

CHILDLIKENESS childlike

""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 .

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

""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.

Chronobiology

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

January first (wordplay)

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

CIRCUMVALLATE To surround with a rampart or wall.

The act of surrounding with a wall or rampart.

Circumvolution

Citriculturist

CIVILIANIZE CIVILIAN a nonmilitary person

CLAMOROUSNESS clamorous

Clandestine

Clandestinity

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

Claustrophobia

Asset for a mathematician

Cleistogamous

CLOUDLESSNESS cloudless

Coagulability

Codifiability

Coeducational

Inflected form of ENZYMATICALLY Inflected form of ENZYMATIC

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

""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

COLORLESSNESS colorless

Combinatorial

State of being comfortable or comforting manner.

Commemorative

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

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.""

Comparability

Olympic season at variance with feeling

With humane feeling.

With sympathy

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.

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

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.""

Stooping so, son ended cycling trip

In a disdainful way

Cold individual dropping in in a snooty way

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.""

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

Conjugational

Conjunctional

Connaturality

Acting so is trying to do what is right

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

Walks once taken by Truman

Mr. Truman's early warm-ups.

Daily health regimes

Consultantship

Thoughtfully.

The quality of being contemptible; contemptibleness.

CONTEXTUALIZE

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

Contractility

In a contradictory manner.

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.

CORPOREALNESS Corporeality; corporeity.

In a corresponding manner; conformably.

Corrigibility

CORYNEBACTERIA

Being a citizen of the world

State of world citizenship

Plot with a commission to destroy the global view

COULOMETRIC

Councillorship

Counterassault

Set off accelerant - bound to get in trouble

Neutralized

Amounts owed at a diner (wordplay)

Offsets

English word

Counterclaim

COUNTERCULTURE

They maybe antiestablishment

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

Counterexample

English word

Countermelody

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

An offer of marriage in store (wordplay)

Response to unsatis- factory plan

Negotiator's offering

Counterrally

Noun (-ence)

Creditability

CREDULOUSNESS Readiness to believe on slight evidence; credulity.

Crestfallen

Act of making illegal

Outlawing

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

CRYPTANALYTIC

Cryptozoology

Sasquatch studier, say

One studying this puzzle's sightings

Dinosaur hunter, by definition

Crystallinity

""The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and sructure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized.""

Use for x-rays

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

Cultivability

English word

Cyanocobalamin

CYANOETHYLATE

CYANOETHYLATE

English word

Cytogenetical

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.

CYTOPLASMIC