12-Letter Words Ending in C

Pertaining to absolutism; absolutist.

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

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

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

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

Using words and numbers

Using A-Z and 0-9

Referring to both characters and figures

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.

Rearranging the letters of a word or phrase

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

ANALPHABETE

Of or pertaining to anaphylaxis; caused by anaphylaxis.

""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.""

""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

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

Blood and Blood Vessels

""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

Medicine to destroy worms

ACADEMIC a college student or teacher

Of or pertaining to an anticyclone; moving in the opposite direction of a cyclone.

DIABETIC one who has diabetes

DOGMATIC overbearing

ECONOMIC relating to finance

ENTROPIC pertaining to {entropy=n}

Counteracting hysteria.

LEUKEMIC one affected with leukemia

""MAGNETIC a metal that attracts iron, also MAGNET""

I pitch a tent abroad without assent, initially causing bad blood

Opposed to upsetting Tina with old newsreel from jerk

PRURITIC pertaining to {pruritus=n}

Good against the rickets.

ROMANTIC a fanciful person

Of or pertaining to an antistrophe.

Examination of the aorta using x-rays following the injection of a radiopaque substance.

""Free from chromatic and spherical aberration; -- said esp. of a lens in which rays of three or more colors are brought to the same focus, the degree of achromatism thus obtained being more complete than where two rays only are thus focused, as in the ordinary achromatic objective.""

APOTHEGM a pithy saying

Of a sea abounding in islands

Satiric actor playing noble

Of the nobility

Satiric actor turning 'blue'

ARTHROSCOPE

Showing no symptoms of disease.

AUTODIDACT One who is selftaught; an automath.

Pert. to autohypnotism; self-hypnotizing.

""Pl. avitaminoses (-s z) A disease, such as scurvy, beriberi, or pellagra, caused by deficiency of one or more essential vitamins.""

Having symmetry around an axis: an axisymmetric cone.

""Of, relating to, or living in the depths of the ocean, especially between about 1,000 and 4,000 meters (3,280 and 13,120 feet).""

BELLETRIST

One with a passionate enthusiasm for books

BIBLIOPHILE A lover of books.

(used with a sing. verb) Biochemistry The study of the flow and transformation of energy in and between living organisms and between living organisms and their environment.

Of or pertaining to biosynthesis.

Of or pertaining to a blastocoel.

Adjective (-ic)

BUREAUCRAT An official of a bureau; esp. an official confirmed in a narrow and arbitrary routine.

A. The art of fine handwriting.

Of or pertaining to process of using the calorimeter.

Competitive, in a way

Like some investors

Excellent criticism, mostly about one motivated by profit

Producing cancer

Causing cancer

Pertaining to map-making

Chap tragic or silly in respect of maps

Relating to the drawing of maps

""Pl. catachreses (-s z) The misapplication of a word or phrase, as the use of blatant to mean "flagrant."""

Of or relating to an optical system that uses both reflective and refractive optical devices.

See electrophoresis .

Chaotic parts (anagram)

I catch pastor out in dire straits

Causing sudden damage

""Of, relating to, or causing the hydrolysis of cellulose: cellulolytic organisms.""

CENTRALIST

Exaggeratedly patriotic

Aggressively patriotic

Having an aggressive or fanatical patriotism

Adjective (-ic)

""CHIROGRAPH A writing which, reguiring a counterpart, was engrossed twice on the same piece of parchment, with a space between, in which was written the word chirographum, through which the parchment was cut, and one part given to each party. It answered to what is now called a charter party. chirographum, through which the parchment was cut, and one part given to each party. It answered to what is now called a charter party.""

""A method of medical treatment that manipulates body structures, especially the spine, in the belief that it restores proper nerve functioning.""

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CHROMOPHORE Any chemical group or residue (as NO<?/; N<?/; or O<?/) which imparts some decided color to the compound of which it is an ingredient.

An exceptionally precise timepiece.

A pancreatic digestive enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of certain proteins in the small intestine into polypeptides and amino acids.

The evolutionary change and diversification resulting from the branching off of new taxa from common ancestral lineages.

""Of or pertaining to classicism; as, classicistic tradition.as, classicistic tradition.""

CLAVIERIST

Botany Of or relating to a flower that does not open and is self-pollinated in the bud.

""Any of various instruments used to determine or specify colors, as by comparison with spectroscopic or visual standards.""

""COMPATRIOT One of the same country, and having like interests and feeling.""

""An abnormal, often obsessive interest in excrement, especially the use of feces for sexual excitement.""

""Kzmgrfk, Cosmographical Of or pertaining to cosmography.""

""COUNCILMAN A member of a council, especially of the common council of a city; a councilor.""

CYANOGEN a compound of carbon and nitrogen

Having ten syllables

The branch of medicine that is concerned with the physiology and pathology of the skin.

DEUTERANOPE

Adjective (-ic)

""Relating to, or exhibiting, diageotropism.""

In the form of a simplified drawing

Graphic figure has many a convulsion

Containing two carboxyl groups per molecule.

""The posterior part of the forebrain that connects the midbrain with the cerebral hemispheres, encloses the third ventricle, and contains the thalamus and hypothalamus. Also called betweenbrain , interbrain , thalamencephalon .""

An instrument used to measure thermal expansion and dilation in solids and liquids.

""Pertaining to, or connected with, diphtheria.""

Characterizing the ovum when it has two primary germinal layers.

Phonograph Records

SYMMETRIC Symmetrical.

""Relating to, composed in, or consisting of twelve-tone music.""

DOPAMINE a form of dopa used to stimulate the heart

Any of several instruments used to measure mechanical power.

Adjective (-ic)

Relating to clergymen

Member of clergy; or, relating to church

Clergyman

""EISTEDDFOD Am assembly or session of the Welsh bards; an annual congress of bards, minstrels and literati of Wales, being a patriotic revival of the old custom.""

""Of or pertaining to electrogenesis; as, an electrogenic condition. as, an electrogenic condition.""

""ELECTROLYTE A compound decomposable, or subjected to decomposition, by an electric current.""

Of or pertaining to electrical tension; said of a supposed peculiar condition of a conducting circuit during its exposure to the action of another conducting circuit traversed by a uniform electric current when both circuits remain stationary.

""ENANTIOMER either of a pair of optical isomers of a chemical substance whose molecules are mirror images of each other, i. e., are related to each other as a right-handed to a left-handed glove; -- meaningful only for structures which have internal asymmetry.i. e., are related to each other as a right-handed to a left-handed glove; -- meaningful only for structures which have internal asymmetry.""

Inflammation of the brain.

Comprehensive in terms of information

ENTEROCOELE

Ardent - thin suitcase (anagram)

Showing keen interest

Intensely keen and interested

EOSINOPHILE

(Of saying) concise, witty

Like a short and witty saying

In the style of a concise and witty remark

ERYTHROCYTE

Seeing other cultures through one's own

Judging other cultures by the standards of one's own

Relating to racial customs and characteristics

Of or pertaining to euhemerism.

In revolutionary church, angry vigilantes like a preacher

""EXANTHEMA An efflorescence or discoloration of the skin; an eruption or breaking out, as in measles, smallpox, scarlatina, and the like diseases; sometimes limited to eruptions attended with fever.""

""Of or pertaining to, or characterized by, exophthalmia.""

Originating or occurring outside the liver.

""Pl. fibrinolyses (-s z ) The breakdown of fibrin, usually by the enzymatic action of plasmin.""

FIBROBLAST

""A system of printing on a rotary press employing water-based ink, used especially for printing on plastic, paper, or cardboard.""

Adjective (-ic)

""Instruments an instrument for measuring the emission of radiation in the form of visible light and identifying the substance that is its source. ; fluorometric,""

FLUOROSCOPE An instrument for observing or exhibiting fluorescence.

FOLKLORIST

""GALACTOSE A white, crystalline sugar, C6H12O6, isomeric with dextrose, obtained by the decomposition of milk sugar, and also from certain gums. When oxidized it forms mucic acid. Called also lactose (though it is not lactose proper). C6H12O6, isomeric with dextrose, obtained by the decomposition of milk sugar, and also from certain gums. When oxidized it forms mucic acid. Called also lactose (though it is not lactose proper).""

""GAMETOPHYTE In the alternation of generations in plants, that generation or phase which bears sex organs and produces gametes. In the lower plants, as the alg\'91, the gametophyte is the conspicuous part of the plant body; in mosses it is the so-called moss plant; in ferns it is reduced to a small, early perishing body; and in seed plants it is usually microscopic or rudimentary.""

Of or pertaining to gastroscopy.

Pl. geostrategies The branch of geopolitics that deals with strategy.

Old Age

Acting on or stimulating the gonads: a gonadotropic hormone.

GRANULOCYTE

Pl. gynecocracies or gynocracies Government by women.

""Of, relating to, or resulting from the magnetic properties of a spinning, electrically charged particle.""

Pl. hagiographies Biography of saints.

Revolving around the sun

Revolving round the sun

Of or pertaining to heliography or a heliograph; made by heliography.

HENOTHEIST

HETEROCYCLE

Type of writing

Of or relating to hierophants or their teachings.

Tissueproducing; connected with the formation and development of the organic tissues.

""Expressing a phrase or sentence in a single word, as is the case in the aboriginal languages of America.""

HOMEOMORPH

HOMEOTHERM A homoiothermal animal.

Of or relating to hydrodynamics.

HYDROGRAPH

""Of or pertaining to the motions of fluids, or the forces which produce or affect such motions; opposed to hydrostatic. hydrostatic.""

Adjective (-ic)

HYDROSPHERE The aqueous vapor of the entire atmosphere.

ENDEMIC an endemial disease

Of or pertaining to hyperkinesis.

Adjective (-ic)

Pl. hyperostoses (-s z) Excessive or abnormal thickening or growth of bone tissue.

Of or pertaining to hyperplasia.

""Composed of, or containing, hypersthene.""

THERMIC pertaining to heat

TROPHIC pertaining to nutrition

Adjective (-ic)

""Endearing; diminutive; as, the hypocoristic form of a name. as, the hypocoristic form of a name.""

""GLYCEMIC having glucose in the blood, also GLYCAEMIC""

THALAMIC pertaining to the thalamus

Attacking cherished institutions

Attacking cherished beliefs

Criticising cherished beliefs

Of or pertaining to iconography.

ALLELIC pertaining to {allele=n}

GENERIC a type of drug

MITOTIC pertaining to {mitosis=n}

Like the QE2

PSYCHIC one sensitive to extrasensory phenomena

""Situated between vowels; immediately preceded and followed by vowel sounds, as, p in occupy, d in idea, etc.as, p in occupy, d in idea, etc.""

Within the heart.

Existing or taking place within the mind or psyche: intrapsychic conflict.

ISOANTIGEN

Developed alike in the directions of the several lateral axes; said of crystals of both the tetragonal and hexagonal systems.

ISOENZYME

Like newspaper writers

""Of or pertaining to karyokinesis; as, karyokinetic changes of cell division. as, karyokinetic changes of cell division.""

He can't help helping himself

Lifter of habit

Magpie trained to peck animal

""LAPAROSCOPE A slender endoscope, containing fiber-optic viewing capability and miniature surgical devices, which can be inserted through a small incision in the abdominal wall, allowing a surgeon to perform minor surgery with minimal damage to the abdominal muscles.""

Adjective (-ic)

The formation or production of white blood cells.

""Pertaining to, or characterized by, liberalism; as, liberalistic opinions. as, liberalistic opinions.""

LITERALIST One who adheres to the letter or exact word; an interpreter according to the letter.

Of metal or stone surface printing

""LITHOSPHERE The solid earth as distinguished from its fluid envelopes, the hydrosphere and atmosphere.""

Adjective (-ic)

MAMMOGRAPH

Act of controlling by force

Person with delusions of power

One thinking he is great

""A mental disorder characterized by severe depression, guilt, hopelessness, and withdrawal.""

Emotionally overblown (in theatre)

Exaggerated - over-emotional

Exaggerated, over-emotional

MERISTEM formative plant tissue

""Of or pertaining to meritocracy; as, meritocratic society.as, meritocratic society.""

Of or pertaining to the mesothorax.

Adjective (-ic)

Of or pertaining to the metathorax.

Of the study of weather