12-Letter Words Starting with C

Chaplaincy

""CHARACTER A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol.""

Charactery

Character

To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features.

CHARBROILER charbroil

Charbroil

Charcuterie

Charismatic

Animal starch (anagram) - quackery

Chartulary

Chasteness

Beating faulty machine tests

Mate snitches, may result in a beating

Scolding Bond about messing up his SAT

Chatoyancy

Ear-chewers

Terribly OTT breach backing male or female gossips

Motormouths

Chattiness

Chauffeur

Chaulmoogra

Exaggeratedly patriotic

Aggressively patriotic

Having an aggressive or fanatical patriotism

A spicy plant and its bright red berry; the wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens). Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry (Mitchella repens). Gaultheria procumbens). Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry (Mitchella repens).

Surface of 64 squares

Design of alternating squares

Examine hesitation for committee looking for kings in America (wordplay)

Checkmark

Cheekiness

Cheerful

State of Blithe Spirit

Cheeriness

Real "go-go" girls

Between-halves V.I.P.'s

Those rousing the crowd in support

Cheerlead

Fast food - begs cure here (anagram)

Lunch-counter specialty.

Fast food product

They cover half of 18 across with these cloches roughly

Mean with money

Mean to be cutting down dairy produce

Cheap greens I order, being parsimonious

Cheesiness

Adjective (-ic)

Chemisorb

""Selective destruction of tissue by use of chemicals, as for removing malignant skin lesions.""

The use of chemical agents to treat or control disease (or mental illness); -- also used especially in reference to the use of chemicals to treat cancer.

""Biology , Growth growth or motion in response to a chemical stimulus. ; chemotropic ,""

What's left of life in song (wordplay)

Shore dinner course.

Small quahogs

Cherubical

Sofa (with crooked spire?)

Type of sofa (in Derbyshire?)

Man of letters is well-upholstered

Chiaroscuro

Chickenshit

Like comic Hilda's female act

The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.

Chilliness

Wildy; vainly; fancifully.

Chimichanga

Fireplace surround

Chinaberry

Chinoiserie

One who practice the art or business of writing or engrossing.

""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.""

Chiromancer

Chiromancy

They each go to work on foot

They have to get to work on foot

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

One who manipulates the spine

Joint manipulator

Spine manipulator

Chiropteran

Shooting the breeze

In vacant chippies one batters fish guts

Edible intestines of hogs

Holds on catching batsman, showing guts

In a chivalrous manner; gallantly; magnanimously.

Plant tissue consisting of parenchyma cells that contain chloroplasts.

""CHLORINATE To treat, or cause to combine, with chlorine.""

""The act or process of subjecting anything to the action of chlorine; especially, a process for the extraction of gold by exposure of the auriferous material to chlorine gas.""

Chlorinator

Chlorinity

Chloroform

""An aliphatic organic chemical compound that is both an alkyl chloride and an alcohol, frequently containing a single chlorine atom and a single hydroxyl group on adjacent carbon atoms.""

Chlorophyll

""An oily colorless liquid, CCl 3 NO 2 , that causes skin, lung, and mucous membrane irritation and is used in tear gas and in dyestuffs, disinfectants, insecticides, and soil fumigants. Also called nitrochloroform .""

Chloroplast

Chloroprene

Chloroquine

CHOCOLATIER chocolatie

Choiceness

Is orchestra prepared to embrace male musical directors (wordplay)

Chokeberry

CHOLERIC bad-tempered

Cholesterol

See mitochondrion .

Chondroitin

Choppiness

Choreograph

Steps on a stage

The designing of ballet steps

Routine arrangements for trippers

One who describes or makes a map of a district or region.

Maps ()

Chowderhead

Anthology of writings

Mencken's book, a selection of passages, with notes.

Chrismation

Christening

Christiania

""CHROMATIC Relating to color, or to colors.""

The quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength.

""The paper strip, column, gel, or TLC plate on which subsances have been separated by a process of chromatography{2}.""

Chrominance

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Pl. chromonemata (-m -t ) The spirally coiled central filament of a chromatid along which the chromomeres are aligned.

Chromophore

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.

Chromoplast

""An atmosphere of rare matter, composed principally of incandescent hydrogen gas, surrounding the sun and enveloping the photosphere. Portions of the chromosphere are here and there thrown up into enormous tongues of flame.""

Chronicity

Chronograph

A description or record of past time; history.

Chronologer

Time after time they should get the order right

One has placed an order for The Times

Chronometer

An exceptionally precise timepiece.

Chrysarobin

Chrysoberyl

Chrysomelid

Chrysophyte

Chrysoprase

Chubbiness

Chuckawalla

Chucklehead

Chugalug

Chumminess

Churchgoing

Abstract noun (-ity)

Regard for the church.

Parish officer - long-stemmed pipe

Long-stemmed clay pipe

Pipe officer

Rudeness of manners or temper; lack of kindness or courtesy.

Chylomicron

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

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

It may showcase art films

CINEMATIZE

Cinquecento

Circuitous

CIRCULARISE

Circularise

CIRCULARIZE

Circularize

CIRCULAR a leaflet

""CIRCULATE To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body. as, the blood circulates in the body.""

Circulation

The center of a circle that circumscribes a triangle.

English word

Circumciser

""CIRCUMCISE To cut off the prepuce of foreskin of, in the case of males, and the internal labia of, in the case of females.""

""The act of cutting off the prepuce or foreskin of males, or the internal labia of females.""

Circumflex

Flowing around or surrounding.

Flowing round; surrounding in the manner of a fluid.

CIRCUMFUSE To pour round; to spread round.

The act of pouring or spreading round; the state of being spread round.

Lying round; borderong on every side.

Confine within limited range

Restrict; draw round

Draw a line around

Pomp and - (Elgar)

Ceremony; attendant fact

Ceremony; an attendant fact

Circumvent

High-altitude cloud

High-altitude cloud forming a broken layer

See under Cloud. Cloud.

""-fies , -fying , -fied (tr) to cause to conform to or adopt the customs, habits, or dress of city people""

Citizeness

Citizenship

The cultivation of citrus fruits.

Citronellal

Citronellol

CIVILIANIZE

Civilianize

Advanced human society (S, not Z)

""The act of civilizing, or the state of being civilized; national culture; refinement.""

Plural or third person singular

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

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

""Pertaining to, or characterized by, clairaudience.""

Relative of ESP

Second sight

Heightened perception of Veronica with lacy pants

Some can communicate via crystal no differently

Clamminess

Clangorous

A tendency to associate with only a select group.

Clapboard

Clapperclaw

Clarinetist

Musician, like Benny Goodman, say

Goodman or J. Dorsey.

Musician's recital stint broadcast

""CLASSICAL Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.""

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

CLASSICIZE to make classic or classical.

Capable of being classified.

Classiness

With clattering.

A halting or limping.

CLAVIERIST

Abstract noun (-ity)

Clearstory

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

Clerestory

Clericalism

Clericalist

Cleverness

Climacteric

Climatical

CLIQUISH {cliquey=adj}

Pl. clitoridectomies also clitorectomies Surgical removal of the clitoris.

CLODDISH like a clod

Cloistress

Smooth clue set: hollow-eyed and tight-lipped

... M-U-T-E

Reticent

Model for fashionable wear (inf.)

One with a big closet, perhaps

Spirit animal of a couturier (wordplay)