12-Letter Words Containing C

For this custom, brain's abandoned

One who makes dim, daft subtractions

Wrong subtractions standing in the way of enlightenment

Resisting enlightenment, having messed up subtractions

Obscuration

Process of becoming out of date

The state of falling into disuse

Out-of-date quality

Childbirth doctor

Medical specialist - is certain to get involved around start of birth (wordplay)

Expert with children, i.e. Scot involved with bairn taking temperature

Hindrances

Noisy disturbances on street after outside broadcast means barriers

Obstructive

Cosy in a local? Can be, sometimes

From time to time

Party supporter? Now and then

Occidental

Occultation

Relating to one's job or profession

Rehabilitation via practical activities

To do with work

Scientific study of the seas

A subject for deep study

Study of the sea

Oceanology

One whose main interest is scientific

Sea scientist

Scientist involved with study of the seas

Ochlocracy

Octahedral

Octapeptide

Old man's gone out with raincoat

Robert Frost, for example.

Veteran's gone out in shabby raincoat

Also octosyllabic ( k t -s -l b k) a. A line of verse containing eight syllables.

Octosyllabic.

President, for one.

Functionary from ticket endings

Last year's winner not skating - he's got a job

Officialdom

Officialese

Officialism

Officiation

Offscouring

English word

An apparatus for measuring the acuity of the sense of smell.

OLIGARCHIC

Oligochaete

Lacking in plant nutrients and having a large amount of dissolved oxygen throughout. Used of a pond or lake.

Omnipotence

Being everywhere at once

Drunk in recompense for divine existence (wordplay)

Ubiquity

Omniscience

Omniscient

ONCOGENIC

Any of a group of viruses that contain single-stranded RNA and produce tumors in birds and mammals.

English word

Sounding like its meaning

""Any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms; a member of the Onychophora, also called Malacopoda. See Malacopoda.Onychophora, also called Malacopoda. See Malacopoda.""

Pl. oophorectomies Surgical removal of one or both ovaries. Also called ovariectomy .

Opalescence

Opalescent

OPERATIC the technique of staging operas

Oratorical

Orchestral

Gold casket marked and scored

Arranged to have the dart score put out

Arranged for gold casket getting evaluated

ORCHESTRATE to write an orchestra score for; -- of a musical composition.

Arranges music

Narrow passages for killer whales (wordplay)

Or that scorer, perhaps (wordplay)

Speaker reserves royal box for arranger

Speaker keeps royal box for the organiser

""Pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order (Orchidace\'91) of endogenous plants of which the genus Orchis is the type. They are mostly perennial herbs having the stamens and pistils united in a single column, and normally three petals and three sepals, all adherent to the ovary. The flowers are curiously shaped, often resembling insects, the odd or lower petal (called the lip) being unlike the others, and sometimes of a strange and unexpected appearance. About one hundred species occur in the United States, but several thousand in the tropics. Orchidace\'91) of endogenous plants of which the genus Orchis is the type. They are mostly perennial herbs having the stamens and pistils united in a single column, and normally three petals and three sepals, all adherent to the ovary. The flowers are curiously shaped, often resembling insects, the odd or lower petal (called the lip) being unlike the others, and sometimes of a strange and unexpected appearance. About one hundred species occur in the United States, but several thousand in the tropics.""

Organicity

""Making an impression upon an organ; plastic; said of the effect or impression produced by any substance on the organs of touch, taste, or smell, and also on the organism as a whole.""

The branch of zoology that deals with the study of birds.

Relating to the description of mountains

Orthocenter

Canine training (wordplay)

Correction of dental irregularities

Branch of dentistry

""Biology progressive evolution, leading to the development of a new form, as can be seen through successive generations. See also society . ; orthogenetic , adj . Evolution the sociological theory that all cultures or societies follow the same fixed course of determinate evolution. See also evolution . ; orthogenetic,""

""ORTHOGRAPH An orthographic projection, sometimes partly in section, esp. of a building.""

The treatment of bone and muscle disorders

Rum do, as her topic is a medical speciality

Noting the system of crystallization which has three unequal axes at right angles to each other; trimetric. See Crystallization. Crystallization.

Devious colonialists making waves

Oscillogram

Device for recording electrical waves

Device for visualising, eg, fluctuations in current

Laboratory device for viewing waveforms

Laboratory instrument

Action is so, if developing then hardening

""OSTEOBLAST One of the protoplasmic cells which occur in the osteogenetic layer of the periosteum, and from or around which the matrix of the bone is developed; an osteoplast.""

OSTEOCLAST A myeloplax.

Of or pertaining to osteology.

""A disease of the bones, in which they lose their earthy material, and become soft, flexible, and distorted. Also called malacia. malacia.""

""Producing bone; as, osteoplastic cells. as, osteoplastic cells.""

""Pl. osteoporoses (-s z) A disease in which the bones become extremely porous, are subject to fracture, and heal slowly, occurring especially in women following menopause and often leading to curvature of the spine from vertebral collapse.""

A tumor having the structure of a sacroma in which there is a deposit of bone; sarcoma connected with bone.

Ostracoderm

Plural or third person singular

""A disease of the ear in which the movement of the stapes within the oval window becomes impeded by abnormal deposits of spongy bone, leading to a progressive loss of hearing.""

OUTACHIEVE

OUTBALANCE To outweight; to exceed in weight or effect.

Outcavil

OUTCOMPETE

Outcropping

Left (a competitor) far behind

Leaves behind.

""The process of facilitating a terminated employee's search for a new job by provision of professional services, such as counseling, paid for by the former employer.""

Outpolitick

Outpreach

OUTPRODUCE

Word with prefix out-

Outsourcing

(Of arms) extended

Poor tutors and the like he had extended

Fashion etc, the Tudors extended

Outstretch

ABSTRACT to draw away

ACHIEVED achieve

Academic Type A personality

Hardly a slacker

*Person who constantly exceeds expectations

Overachieve

ACTIVITY the state of being active

Fell down

Overbalance

Overbleach

Overbleach

More than is required for six deliveries (wordplay)

Problem with space? Ring father going back to room for everybody!

Overcasting

Overcaution

A curious vote, sadly going for the ultra-safe option (wordplay)

Electrician's worry?

Electrician's worry (wordplay)

Ripping off

Overchill

Overclaim

CLASSIFY to arrange in categories

Overclean

Overclear

Overcloud

Overcoach

COMPRESS to {compact=v}

Overconcern

CONSUMED consume

Overconsume

Overcontrol

Overcorrect

Overcount

Overcram

A civil rector sadly becoming too judgmental

Casanova loses the head with serious type that's hard to please

Overcrop

Presence of people beyond a comfortable level

Filling beyond what is usual or comfortable

DECORATE to {adorn=v}

Overdirect

DISCOUNT to reduce the price of

DOCUMENT to support by conclusive information

DRAMATIC pertaining to {drama=n}

EDUCATED educate

Overeducate

Excessively emphatic.

Virgin provided with Exocet is bad for blood pressure

EXERCISE to perform a set drill

EXPLICIT conclusion or last words in a book

Overfocus

FOCUSSED focus

FOCUSSES focus

ISSUANCE the act of {issuing=v}

Overmatch

MEDICATE to treat with medicine

PACKAGED package

Overpackage

PRODUCED produce

Overproduce

Overprotect

REACHERS reacher

Aiming too high

Going too far.

Laying it on thick

Excessive response

Finish is about excitement and that's excessive for a comeback

RELIANCE confident or trustful dependence

SERVICED service

Overservice

Overstock

Oxalacetate

OXALOACETATE

Denoting welding or cutting techniques using a very hot flame

It is used in blowpipes for cutting and welding materials at high temperatures

Pachysandra

""The act or process of pacifying, or of making peace between parties at variance; reconciliation.""

Pacificator

""A place where foodstuffs are processed and packed; as, they came from an apple packinghouse.as, they came from an apple packinghouse.""

Adjective (-ic)

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) the resemblance of adult animals to the young of their ancestors: seen in the evolution of modern man, who shows resemblances to the young stages of australopithecines""

Fossils

The branch of ecology that deals with the interaction between ancient organisms and their environment.

""The study and scholarly interpretation of earlier, especially ancient, writing and forms of writing.""

""Of or pertaining to palingenesis: as, a palingenetic process. as, a palingenetic process.""

Kind of film that gets romantic chap excited

Inflammation of the pancreas.

See cholecystokinin .

See aplastic anemia .

British warehouse or van

Removal van

Furniture van

""A Utopian community, in which all should rule equally, such as was devised by Coleridge, Lovell, and Southey, in their younger days.""

""PANTOGRAPH An instrument for copying plans, maps, and other drawings, on the same, or on a reduced or an enlarged, scale.""

Fall Guys

""A writer of memoirs of religious persona, as examples of Christian excellence.""

""Of or pertaining to, or resembling, paradise; paradisiacal; as, paradisaical innocence; an age of paradisaical happiness.as, paradisaical innocence; an age of paradisaical happiness.""

""Of or pertaining to paradise; suitable to, or like, paradise; paradisaic.""

Weakly attracted by poles

Paramedical

""PARANOIC one affected with paranoia, also PARANOID""

PARAPHRAST A paraphraser.

Anything used to destroy parasites.

""PARATACTIC Of pertaining to, or characterized by, parataxis.""

PARFOCALIZE

Parfocalize

Small-mindedness

Lamia's Orphic new version betrays narrow outlook

Word play; punning.

Sharers.

Joined in quietly and looked forward to knight becoming king

Takes part (in)

""One who participates, or shares with another; a partaker.""

(In)temperate advice, part 3

Very careful with clay, oddly

In a marked way

Smoke, essentially

Passacaglia

Patchiness

Pathetical

Pathogenic.

Relating to or exhibiting disease

(adj.) adept at doing mazes

Relating to a disease

""The office, dignity, or jurisdiction of a patriarch.""

Patriarchy