12-Letter Words Containing C

Abecedarian

Abjectness

Abracadabra

Pertaining to absolutism; absolutist.

Absorbancy

Absorbency

Absorptance

ABSTRACT to draw away

In an abstracted manner; separately; with absence of mind.

Abstraction

The quality of being abstract.

In a scholarly manner

Distinguished scholars

Academicism

Acatalectic

Accelerando

Gaining speed

Increasing speed

An increase in rate

Rate of increase of speed

A speeding up

Relating to acceleration; adding to velocity; quickening.

Throttles

ACCENTUATE To pronounce with an accent or with accents.

Giving special importance to something

Emphasis, stress

Acceptation

Accession

ACCESSORISE

Accessorise

ACCESSORIZE

Accessorize

Short grace note that is played very quickly

Not on purpose

Friend follows chance unwittingly

Ran into someone with friend by mistake

Accipitrine

Acclamation

Acclimation

Accustomed to new conditions

Accustomed to upset mice with acid and salt

Acclimatise

Peruvian city in adapted

""ACCLIMATIZE To inure or habituate to a climate different from that which is natural; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate; said of man, the inferior animals, or plants.""

Acclimatize

Adjusted and put up

Allowed room for

Made comfortable

Furnishes houses

""He who, or that which, accommodates.""

Pianists playing second fiddle (wordplay)

Accompany

Pulled off top

Done - with a high degree of skill

Having particular skills

One who accomplishes.

Accomplish

Squeeze box player

Player is into arranging following agreement

One's instrumental in making peace with Israeli supporter though not at frist

Scheme first ignored in bill for delivery

An accessory item of equipment or dress. Often used in the plural.

Article of equipment

Bill gathers another metre, making dress

Items of dress/equipment required for an activity

ACCREDIT to accept as true

Marked or produced by accretion.

ACCULTURATE

Acculturate

""ACCUMULATE To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money. as, to accumulate a sum of money.""

Process of gathering

Growth of capital

Build-up

Characterized by accumulation; serving to collect or amass; cumulative; additional.

Accumulator

The state or quality of being accurate; accuracy; exactness; nicety; precision.

ACCURSED accurse

Chemical expert sits on the deadly liquid

Acetanilide

English word

Acetylation

Even a chemist (anagram)

The done things

Exploits from active men he's translated

Absence of hydrochloric acid in the gastric secretions of the stomach.

Absence of hydrochloric acid in the gastric secretions of the stomach.

Achromatism

ACHROMATIZE To deprive of color; to make achromatic.

Achromatize

Acidimetry

Acidulation

Recognised information in a record

Admits information revealed in accounts

Admits information is revealed in the accounts

In relation to sound or to hearing.

Acoustician

Person one knows slightly

Someone one knows slightly

It was auld to Burns

Current inactivity gets the nod

Tacit approval

Consent

Acquirement

Acquisition

Acquittance

Acriflavine

Acrocentric

Acromegalic

Acromegaly

After the manner of an acrostic.

Actability

Photographic instruments.

""Pertaining to the measurement of the intensity of the solar rays, either (a) heating, or (b) actinic. (a) heating, or (b) actinic.""

""Botany Capable of being divided into equal halves along any diameter, as the flowers of the rose or tulip; radially symmetrical.""

""Any of various filamentous or rod-shaped, often pathogenic microorganisms of the order Actinomycetales that are found in soil and resemble bacteria and fungi.""

Actinomycin

Activeness

Acupressure

Acupuncture

""As, or in the manner of, an adjective; adjectively.""

""ADJUDICATE To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by judicial decree.""

Formal judgement

Civil judgment based on evidence presented

Adjudicating.

Adjudicator

ADJUDICATOR One who adjudicates.

Adolescence

Adolescent

A naturally occurring chemical formed during the oxidation of epinephrine.

Supplemental; additional; adventitious; ascititious.

Plug + truck + sticks = progress

Advertency

English word

Science of lift and flight

Scientific study in which secondary aim is dicey

Secondary aim to revise properties of flying objects

(used with a sing. verb) The science of magnetic characteristics associated with atmospheric conditions.

""The medical study and treatment of physiological and psychological disorders associated with atmospheric or space flight. Also called aerospace medicine , aviation medicine .""

AERONAUTIC

One versed in the theory of beauty and artistic expression.

The cult of the beautiful

Russell contacts relative over the jerk with master of art movement

AESTHETIC

Affectation

Deliberate pretence - exaggerated display

Artificial and pretentious characteristic

Warm-hearted - loving

Tender attachment to Buddy heading off

Disease destroyed loving

Afficionado

In an afflictive manner.

Affricative

Secondary results

Repercussions

Agnosticism

Agoraphobic

English word

Variant of agrochemical .

Lulu Craig art (anagram)

Related to farming

Relating to farming

Agriculture

""A chemical, such as a fertilizer, hormone, fungicide, insecticide or soil treatment, that improves the production of crops.""

In the manner of alchemy.

Alcyonarian

Algolagniac

The inhibition of growth in one species of plants by chemicals produced by another species.

One sort of order

Related to 26 characters

Like letters in CHIMPS and BIJOUX

Using words and numbers

Using A-Z and 0-9

Referring to both characters and figures

Set-to with ACTIONS (wordplay)

Rowdy reacts a lot in noisy squabbles

Modify particles in rows

Ambivalence

The quality of being amicable; amicability.

AMITOTIC pertaining to {amitosis=n}

Amoxicillin

Amoxycillin

Adjective (-ic)

""AMPHIBRACH A foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short (\'de -- \'de); as, h. In modern prosody the accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, pro-phet\'b6ic.h. In modern prosody the accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, pro-phet\'b6ic.""

""Of or pertaining to the Amphictyons or their League or Council; as, an Amphictyonic town or state; the Amphictyonic body. as, an Amphictyonic town or state; the Amphictyonic body.""

A mythical serpent having a head at each end of its body.

Amylopectin

Things misplaced in time

Untimely errors made by chairman's son

They're out of date to think Molly Bloom wore Lainey Keogh and Orla Kiely

Anacoluthon

Weird goings-on about a king of Thebes in Greek poems

Surprisingly satanic, these numbers!

Medical discipline

Anagogical

Rearranging the letters of a word or phrase

Like this puzzles four long answers, in relation to each other

In an analogical sense; in accordance with analogy; by way of similitude.

ANALPHABETE

By studying the relationship between individual components

Of or pertaining to anaphylaxis; caused by anaphylaxis.

In an uncontrolled manner

""Not astigmatic; free of astigmatism; -- pertaining to a lens or lens system, and used especially of a lens system which consists of a converging lens and a diverging lens of equal and opposite astigmatism but different focal lengths, and sensibly free from astigmatism.""

As the body is structured, a nuclear link could be needed

Female forebears

English word

""An anchorman or anchorwoman.. The anchorperson usually begins the broadcast, discusses certain topics, and introduces new topics, which may be discussed by other reprorters, especially when the report is recorded or broadcast from a location other than the main broadcast studio.anchorman or anchorwoman.. The anchorperson usually begins the broadcast, discusses certain topics, and introduces new topics, which may be discussed by other reprorters, especially when the report is recorded or broadcast from a location other than the main broadcast studio.""

""Centered or focused on men, often to the neglect or exclusion of women: an androcentric view of history; an androcentric health-care system.""

ANDROGEN a male sex hormone

""ANECDOTAL Pertaining to, or abounding with, anecdotes; as, anecdotal conversation. as, anecdotal conversation.""

""ANECDOTAL Pertaining to, or abounding with, anecdotes; as, anecdotal conversation. as, anecdotal conversation.""

ANELASTIC

Pl. anencephalies Congenital absence of most of the brain and spinal cord.

Blood and Blood Vessels

Anilinctus

A public statement

Press release, for example

Press release, e.g

ANNUNCIATE To announce.

Original Christmas forecast (wordplay)

Annunciator

""Pertaining to, or containing, announcement; making known.""

""Causing loss of appetite; as, an anorectic (or anorexigenic) drug.as, an anorectic (or anorexigenic) drug.""

""ANORTHOSITE A granular igneous rock composed almost exclusively of a soda-lime feldspar, usually labradorite.""

Little colonizer in torment (wordplay)

Little colonizer in torment?

Stupid giant's action showing opposition

Antecedence

""Previously; before in time; at a time preceding; as, antecedently to conversion. as, antecedently to conversion.""

Base merchant re-established in rooms at the front

Medicine to destroy worms

Anthocyanin

""Pertaining to anthology; consisting of beautiful extracts from different authors, especially the poets.""

Anthracnose

ACADEMIC a college student or teacher

""Designed for or used for defense against attack by aircraft; as, anti-aircraft cannon.as, anti-aircraft cannon.""

BACKLASH to cause a reaction

ANTIBLACK discriminatory against black people; opposed to black people

Word with prefix anti-

ANTICIPATE To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action.

Carly Simon tune

Foretaste - expectancy

Expectation, prediction

Anticipator

Thinking ahead, snap up article dividing Labour (wordplay)

Opposed to the power of the clergy

Denouement downers

Damp squibs

Big letdowns

CLOTTING clot

COLONIAL a citizen of a colony

CONSUMER one who {consumes=v}

CREATIVE having the ability to create