13-letter words starting with C
Embark on a linguistic journey with words that begin with the letter C. This section showcases how C at the start shapes the identity and sound of various words. From commonly used terms to rare finds, explore the diverse range of words that start with C, enriching your vocabulary and appreciation for language.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| circumstances | 21 | your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) | a victim of circumstances |
| communication | 21 | the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information | they could not act without official communication from Moscow |
| consciousness | 17 | having knowledge of | his sudden consciousness of the problem he faced |
| concentration | 17 | the spatial property of being crowded together | - |
| consideration | 16 | kind and considerate regard for others | he showed no consideration for her feelings |
| controversial | 18 | marked by or capable of arousing controversy | the issue of the death penalty is highly controversial |
| confrontation | 18 | the act of hostile groups opposing each other | the government was not ready for a confrontation with the unions |
| concentrating | 18 | - | - |
| collaboration | 17 | act of cooperating traitorously with an enemy that is occupying your country | - |
| communicating | 22 | the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information | - |
| compassionate | 19 | share the suffering of | - |
| contradiction | 18 | (logic) a statement that is necessarily false | the statement `he is brave and he is not brave' is a contradiction |
| constellation | 15 | an arrangement of parts or elements | - |
| correspondent | 18 | someone who communicates by means of letters | - |
| choreographer | 24 | someone who creates new dances | - |
| conscientious | 17 | characterized by extreme care and great effort | conscientious application to the work at hand |
| congressional | 16 | of or relating to congress | congressional hearing |
| companionship | 24 | the state of being with someone | - |
| contamination | 17 | the state of being contaminated | - |
| comprehension | 22 | the relation of comprising something | - |
| contemplating | 20 | - | - |
| congratulated | 17 | - | - |
| comprehensive | 25 | an intensive examination testing a student's proficiency in some special field of knowledge | - |
| condescending | 20 | (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension | - |
| contradictory | 21 | unable for both to exist or be true at the same time | - |
| configuration | 19 | an arrangement of parts or elements | the outcome depends on the configuration of influences at the time |
| counterattack | 21 | an attack by a defending force against an attacking enemy force in order to regain lost ground or cut off enemy advance units etc. | - |
| complimentary | 24 | costing nothing | complimentary tickets |
| corresponding | 19 | conforming in every respect | boxes with corresponding dimensions |
| clarification | 20 | the act of removing solid particles from a liquid | - |
| collaborating | 18 | - | - |
| contraception | 19 | birth control by the use of devices (diaphragm or intrauterine device or condom) or drugs or surgery | - |
| characterized | 30 | - | - |
| craftsmanship | 25 | skill in an occupation or trade | - |
| chrysanthemum | 28 | any of numerous perennial Old World herbs having showy brightly colored flower heads of the genera Chrysanthemum, Argyranthemum, Dendranthema, Tanacetum; widely cultivated | - |
| circumference | 24 | the size of something as given by the distance around it | - |
| contemplation | 19 | a calm, lengthy, intent consideration | - |
| compatibility | 24 | a feeling of sympathetic understanding | - |
| certification | 20 | confirmation that some fact or statement is true through the use of documentary evidence | - |
| commemoration | 21 | a ceremony to honor the memory of someone or something | - |
| congresswoman | 21 | a member of the United States House of Representatives | - |
| contaminating | 18 | that infects or taints | - |
| categorically | 21 | in an unqualified manner | - |
| commemorative | 24 | intended as a commemoration | a commemorative plaque |
| contraceptive | 22 | capable of preventing conception or impregnation | contraceptive devices and medications |
| confederation | 19 | the state of being allied or confederated | - |
| comparatively | 25 | in a relative manner; by comparison to something else | - |
| complementary | 24 | either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or grey (in the case of pigments) | - |
| collaborative | 20 | accomplished by collaboration | collaborative research |
| counterfeiter | 18 | someone who makes copies illegally | - |
| corroboration | 17 | confirmation that some fact or statement is true through the use of documentary evidence | - |
| consecutively | 23 | in a consecutive manner | he was consecutively ill, then well, then ill again |
| chateaubriand | 21 | French statesman and writer; considered a precursor of the romantic movement in France (1768-1848) | - |
| chronological | 21 | relating to or arranged according to temporal order | chronological age |
| conservatoire | 18 | a schoolhouse with special facilities for fine arts | - |
| contortionist | 15 | an acrobat able to twist into unusual positions | - |
| communicative | 24 | able or tending to communicate | was a communicative person and quickly told all she knew |
| corroborating | 18 | - | - |
| contemplative | 22 | deeply or seriously thoughtful | - |
| counterweight | 22 | a weight that balances another weight | - |
| commemorating | 22 | intended as a commemoration | - |
| contractually | 20 | by virtue of a contract | they were contractually responsible |
| consolidating | 17 | - | - |
| conspicuously | 22 | in a prominent way | - |
| confectionery | 23 | a confectioner's shop | - |
| convalescence | 22 | gradual healing (through rest) after sickness or injury | - |
| consolidation | 16 | the act of combining into an integral whole | a consolidation of two corporations |
| consternation | 15 | fear resulting from the awareness of danger | - |
| cannibalistic | 19 | characteristic of cannibals or exhibiting cannibalism | cannibalistic behavior |
| climatologist | 18 | someone who is expert in climatology | - |
| characterless | 20 | lacking distinct or individual characteristics; dull and uninteresting | - |
| confectionary | 23 | a confectioner's shop | - |
| concertmaster | 19 | - | - |
| condescension | 18 | the trait of displaying arrogance by patronizing those considered inferior | - |
| contravention | 18 | coming into conflict with | - |
| circumscribed | 24 | subject to limits or subjected to limits | - |
| characterised | 21 | - | - |
| competitively | 25 | in competition | the companies should bid competitively |
| conflagration | 19 | a very intense and uncontrolled fire | - |
| cosmetologist | 18 | an expert in the use of cosmetics | - |
| connectedness | 18 | a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it) | - |
| ceremoniously | 20 | in a ceremonious manner | my mother advised her children ceremoniously |
| conceptualize | 28 | have the idea for | - |
| commissioning | 20 | the act of granting authority to undertake certain functions | - |
| commercialism | 23 | transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services) | - |
| consequential | 24 | having important issues or results | the year's only really consequential legislation |
| criminologist | 18 | a specialist in criminology | - |
| carboniferous | 20 | from 345 million to 280 million years ago | - |
| computerizing | 29 | - | - |
| confraternity | 21 | - | - |
| cyanobacteria | 22 | predominantly photosynthetic prokaryotic organisms containing a blue pigment in addition to chlorophyll; occur singly or in colonies in diverse habitats; important as phytoplankton | - |
| chromatograph | 26 | - | - |
| computational | 19 | of or involving computation or computers | computational linguistics |
| confessionary | 21 | - | - |
| connotatively | 21 | - | - |
| crystallizing | 28 | the formation of crystals | - |
| counterstrike | 19 | make a counterattack | - |
| cannibalizing | 27 | - | - |
| cinematograph | 23 | - | - |
| concatenation | 17 | a series of things depending on each other as if linked together | a complicated concatenation of circumstances |
| coconspirator | 19 | a member of a conspiracy | - |
| calcification | 22 | an inflexible and unchanging state | the calcification of negotiations |
| cinematically | 22 | - | - |
| christianized | 28 | - | - |
| clandestinely | 19 | - | - |
| cerebrospinal | 19 | of or relating to the brain and spinal cord | cerebrospinal fluid |
| compositional | 19 | arranging or grouping | - |
| conditionally | 19 | subject to a condition | he accepted the offer conditionally |
| concupiscence | 23 | a desire for sexual intimacy | - |
| colloquialism | 26 | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech | - |
| conversazione | 27 | - | - |
| corporateness | 17 | - | - |
| conglomerated | 19 | - | - |
| consanguinity | 19 | (anthropology) related by blood | - |
| countinghouse | 19 | office used by the accountants of a business | - |
| creditability | 21 | - | - |
| cauterisation | 15 | the act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing | - |
| crowdsourcing | 22 | - | - |
| chloroethenes | 21 | - | - |
| cholesterates | 18 | - | - |
| chondrophores | 24 | - | - |
| chondrosamine | 21 | - | - |
| chromocentres | 22 | - | - |
| churchmanlier | 25 | - | - |
| circuiteering | 18 | - | - |
| circumrotated | 20 | - | - |
| chlorocalcite | 22 | - | - |
| chirognomists | 21 | - | - |
| ceraunographs | 21 | - | - |
| cerebrotonics | 19 | - | - |
| changearounds | 20 | - | - |
| cheiromancers | 22 | - | - |
| cheiromancies | 22 | - | - |
| childmindings | 23 | - | - |
| childproofing | 25 | - | - |
| childrenswear | 22 | - | - |
| circumrotates | 19 | - | - |
| clearcuttings | 18 | - | - |
| coprocessings | 20 | - | - |
| couchsurfings | 24 | - | - |
| counterplayed | 21 | - | - |
| counterraided | 17 | - | - |
| crashworthier | 24 | - | - |
| creditorships | 21 | - | - |
| crossbarrings | 18 | - | - |
| crowdfundings | 24 | - | - |
| contrastingly | 19 | in a contrasting manner | contrastingly, both the rooms leading off it gave an immediate impression of being disgraced |
| clickjackings | 35 | - | - |
| coelioscopies | 19 | - | - |
| colorableness | 17 | - | - |
| colourcasting | 18 | - | - |
| comorbidities | 20 | - | - |
| completedness | 20 | - | - |
| configurators | 19 | - | - |
| contrafagotti | 19 | - | - |
| centrednesses | 16 | - | - |
| celibatarians | 17 | - | - |
| cardboardiest | 19 | - | - |
| cathiodermies | 21 | - | - |
| cryptesthetic | 25 | - | - |
| cyberbullying | 26 | - | - |
| cyberchondria | 26 | - | - |
| cyberstalkers | 24 | - | - |
| cyberstalking | 25 | - | - |
| curvilineally | 21 | - | - |
| counterbidden | 19 | - | - |
| cybercitizens | 31 | - | - |
| cyberattacker | 26 | - | - |
| cryptosystems | 25 | - | - |
| clergypersons | 21 | - | - |
| clomipramines | 21 | - | - |
| clotrimazoles | 26 | - | - |
| coadministers | 18 | - | - |
| connectionist | 17 | - | - |
| conspiracists | 19 | - | - |
| contrarianism | 17 | - | - |
| cotransferred | 19 | - | - |
| cotransporter | 17 | - | - |
| counterfiring | 19 | - | - |
| crossmatching | 23 | - | - |
| christophines | 23 | - | - |
| christophenes | 23 | - | - |
| calcipotriene | 19 | - | - |
| calcipotriols | 19 | - | - |
| canyoneerings | 19 | - | - |
| capnographies | 23 | - | - |
| cardioversion | 19 | - | - |
| cardioverters | 19 | - | - |
| categorizable | 27 | - | - |
| channelopathy | 26 | - | - |
| chintzinesses | 27 | - | - |
| cholecystites | 23 | - | - |
| chuckleheaded | 29 | - | - |
| cinematheques | 29 | - | - |
| cinquecentist | 26 | - | - |
| ciprofloxacin | 29 | an oral antibiotic (trade name Cipro) used against serious bacterial infections of the skin or respiratory tract or urinary tract or bones or joints | - |
| circassiennes | 17 | - | - |
| circularisers | 17 | - | - |
| circularising | 18 | - | - |
| cinchonidines | 21 | - | - |
| cinchonaceous | 22 | - | - |
| churchmanship | 30 | - | - |
| churchwardens | 27 | - | - |
| chylification | 26 | - | - |
| chymification | 28 | - | - |
| chymotrypsins | 28 | - | - |
| cicatrichules | 22 | - | - |
| cicatrisation | 17 | - | - |
| cicatrization | 26 | - | - |
| circularities | 17 | - | - |
| circularizers | 26 | - | - |
| circularizing | 27 | - | - |
| circumflected | 25 | - | - |
| circumflexion | 29 | - | - |
| circumfluence | 24 | - | - |
| circumfusions | 22 | - | - |
| circumgyrated | 24 | - | - |
| circumgyrates | 23 | - | - |
| circumjacency | 33 | - | - |
| circumlocuted | 22 | - | - |
| circumductory | 25 | - | - |
| circumambages | 24 | - | - |
| circumambient | 23 | - | - |
| circumcenters | 21 | - | - |
| circumcentres | 21 | - | - |
| circumcircles | 23 | - | - |
| circumcisions | 21 | - | - |
| circumducting | 23 | - | - |
| circumduction | 22 | a circular movement of a limb or eye | - |
| circumlocutes | 21 | - | - |
| chrysophilite | 26 | - | - |
| chrematistics | 22 | - | - |
| chromaticisms | 24 | - | - |
| chromaticness | 22 | - | - |
| chromatograms | 23 | - | - |
| chromatolyses | 23 | - | - |
| chromatolysis | 23 | - | - |
| chromatolytic | 25 | - | - |
| chromatophore | 25 | - | - |
| chromatically | 25 | with respect to color | chromatically pure |
| christianizes | 27 | - | - |
| chrestomathic | 25 | - | - |
| chrismatories | 20 | - | - |
| christcrosses | 20 | - | - |
| christianised | 19 | - | - |
| christianiser | 18 | - | - |
| christianises | 18 | - | - |
| christianizer | 27 | - | - |
| chromatopsias | 22 | - | - |
| chromocenters | 22 | - | - |
| chromonematic | 24 | - | - |
| chronologised | 20 | - | - |
| chronologises | 19 | - | - |
| chronologists | 19 | - | - |
| chronologized | 29 | - | - |
| chronologizes | 28 | - | - |
| chronometries | 20 | - | - |
| chronotherapy | 26 | - | - |
| chronographic | 26 | - | - |
| chromophorous | 25 | - | - |
| chromoprotein | 22 | - | - |
| chromosomally | 25 | - | - |
| chromospheres | 25 | - | - |
| chromospheric | 27 | - | - |
| chromotherapy | 28 | - | - |
| chronobiology | 24 | - | - |
| chronographer | 24 | - | - |
| chrysocracies | 25 | - | - |
| classlessness | 15 | - | - |
| cleistogamies | 18 | - | - |
| cleistogamous | 18 | exhibiting or relating to cleistogamy | - |
| cleptocracies | 21 | - | - |
| cleptomaniacs | 21 | - | - |
| clerklinesses | 19 | - | - |
| cleveralities | 18 | - | - |
| cliffhangings | 26 | - | - |
| climacterical | 21 | - | - |
| cleavableness | 20 | - | - |
| clearinghouse | 19 | - | - |
| claudications | 18 | - | - |
| claustrations | 15 | - | - |
| claustrophobe | 22 | a person suffering from claustrophobia | - |
| clavicembalos | 24 | - | - |
| clavichordist | 24 | - | - |
| clavicytheria | 26 | - | - |
| cleanlinesses | 15 | - | - |
| clearheadedly | 23 | - | - |
| climactically | 24 | - | - |
| climatography | 26 | - | - |
| climatologies | 18 | - | - |
| cloudlessness | 16 | the lightness of a sunny day when there are no clouds in the sky | - |
| clovergrasses | 19 | - | - |
| clubabilities | 19 | - | - |
| coacervations | 20 | - | - |
| coachbuilders | 23 | - | - |
| coachbuilding | 24 | - | - |
| coadaptations | 18 | - | - |
| coadjacencies | 27 | - | - |
| clotheslining | 19 | - | - |
| clotheshorses | 21 | - | - |
| clinodiagonal | 17 | - | - |
| clinometrical | 19 | - | - |
| clinopinacoid | 20 | - | - |
| clinopinakoid | 22 | - | - |
| clinopyroxene | 27 | - | - |
| cliometrician | 19 | - | - |
| clishmaclaver | 25 | - | - |
| coadjutorship | 28 | - | - |
| classicalness | 17 | - | - |
| circumnutated | 20 | - | - |
| circumventing | 23 | - | - |
| circumvention | 22 | the act of evading by going around | - |
| circumventive | 25 | - | - |
| circumventors | 22 | - | - |
| circumvolving | 26 | - | - |
| cirrostrative | 18 | - | - |
| citifications | 20 | - | - |
| citricultures | 17 | - | - |
| circumventers | 22 | - | - |
| circumvallate | 22 | surround with or as if with a rampart or other fortification | - |
| circumnutates | 19 | - | - |
| circumscriber | 23 | - | - |
| circumscribes | 23 | - | - |
| circumspectly | 26 | in a cagey manner | - |
| circumstanced | 22 | - | - |
| circumstellar | 19 | - | - |
| cityfications | 23 | - | - |
| civilianising | 19 | - | - |
| civilianizing | 28 | - | - |
| clandestinity | 19 | - | - |
| clapperboards | 22 | - | - |
| clapperclawed | 25 | - | - |
| clapperclawer | 24 | - | - |
| clarinettists | 15 | - | - |
| classicalisms | 19 | - | - |
| clamorousness | 17 | - | - |
| clamjamphries | 31 | - | - |
| civilisations | 18 | - | - |
| civilizations | 27 | - | - |
| cladistically | 21 | - | - |
| cladosporiums | 20 | - | - |
| clairaudience | 18 | - | - |
| clairaudients | 16 | - | - |
| clairvoyances | 23 | - | - |
| clairvoyantly | 24 | - | - |
| classicalists | 17 | - | - |
| chowderheaded | 27 | - | - |
| chairmanships | 25 | - | - |
| chameleonlike | 24 | - | - |
| championesses | 22 | - | - |
| championships | 27 | - | - |
| chancelleries | 20 | - | - |
| chancellories | 20 | - | - |
| changeability | 24 | the quality of being changeable; having a marked tendency to change | - |
| changefulness | 22 | the quality of being changeable and variable | - |
| chaplainships | 25 | - | - |
| challengingly | 23 | - | - |
| challengeable | 21 | capable of being challenged | - |
| chalazogamies | 30 | - | - |
| chalcanthites | 23 | - | - |
| chalcedonyxes | 31 | - | - |
| chalcogenides | 22 | - | - |
| chalcographer | 26 | - | - |
| chalcographic | 28 | - | - |
| chalcopyrites | 25 | - | - |
| chalicotheres | 23 | - | - |
| chapterhouses | 23 | - | - |
| characteriser | 20 | - | - |
| charlatanries | 18 | - | - |
| charlestoning | 19 | - | - |
| chartographer | 24 | - | - |
| chartographic | 26 | - | - |
| chastisements | 20 | - | - |
| checkerblooms | 28 | - | - |
| checkerboards | 27 | - | - |
| charlatanisms | 20 | - | - |
| charlatanical | 20 | - | - |
| characterises | 20 | - | - |
| characterisms | 22 | - | - |
| characterizer | 29 | - | - |
| characterizes | 29 | - | - |
| chargeability | 24 | - | - |
| charioteering | 19 | - | - |
| checkweighers | 31 | - | - |
| chainstitches | 23 | - | - |
| ceaselessness | 15 | the quality of something that continues without end or interruption | - |
| centuplicated | 20 | - | - |
| centuplicates | 19 | - | - |
| centuriations | 15 | - | - |
| cephalisation | 20 | - | - |
| cephalization | 29 | - | - |
| cephalometers | 22 | - | - |
| cephalometric | 24 | - | - |
| cephalopodans | 23 | - | - |
| centumvirates | 20 | - | - |
| centrospheres | 20 | - | - |
| cellularities | 15 | - | - |
| celluliferous | 18 | - | - |
| censurability | 20 | - | - |
| centillionths | 18 | - | - |
| centricalness | 17 | - | - |
| centrifugally | 22 | - | - |
| centrifugence | 21 | - | - |
| centripetally | 20 | - | - |
| cephalopodous | 23 | - | - |
| cephaloridine | 21 | a broad spectrum semisynthetic antibiotic produced by modifying cephalosporin | - |
| cephalosporin | 22 | one of several broad spectrum antibiotic substances obtained from fungi and related to penicillin (trade names Mefoxin); addition of side chains has produced semisynthetic antibiotics with greater antibacterial activity | - |
| certificating | 21 | - | - |
| certificatory | 23 | serving to certify or endorse authoritatively | - |
| ceruloplasmin | 19 | - | - |
| cervicography | 29 | - | - |
| cesarevitches | 23 | - | - |
| cesarewitches | 23 | - | - |
| ceteosauruses | 15 | - | - |
| cerographists | 21 | - | - |
| cerographical | 23 | - | - |
| cephalothorax | 30 | - | - |
| cephalotomies | 22 | - | - |
| cercopithecid | 25 | - | - |
| cerebrotonias | 17 | - | - |
| ceremonialism | 19 | - | - |
| ceremonialist | 17 | - | - |
| chaenomeleses | 20 | - | - |
| chlorambucils | 24 | - | - |
| chloroformist | 23 | - | - |
| chlorohydrins | 25 | - | - |
| chloromethane | 23 | - | - |
| chlorometries | 20 | - | - |
| chlorophytums | 28 | - | - |
| chloropicrins | 22 | - | - |
| chloroplastal | 20 | - | - |
| chloroplastic | 22 | - | - |
| chloroforming | 24 | - | - |
| chloroformers | 23 | - | - |
| chlorargyrite | 22 | - | - |
| chlorenchymas | 28 | - | - |
| chlorhexidine | 29 | a long-lasting liquid antiseptic; used by surgeons to wash their hands before performing surgery | - |
| chlorimetries | 20 | - | - |
| chlorinations | 18 | - | - |
| chlorobenzene | 29 | a colorless volatile flammable liquid with an almond odor that is made from chlorine and benzene; used as a solvent and in the production of phenol and DDT and other organic compounds | - |
| chlorobromide | 23 | - | - |
| chlorocruorin | 20 | - | - |
| chokecherries | 27 | - | - |
| cholangiogram | 22 | - | - |
| cholecystitis | 23 | inflammation of the gall bladder | - |
| choreographic | 26 | of or concerned with choreography | - |
| choreologists | 19 | - | - |
| chorepiscopal | 24 | - | - |
| chorizontists | 27 | - | - |
| chorographers | 24 | - | - |
| chorographies | 24 | - | - |
| choroiditises | 19 | - | - |
| choreographed | 25 | - | - |
| choregraphing | 25 | - | - |
| chondriosomal | 21 | - | - |
| chondriosomes | 21 | - | - |
| chondroblasts | 21 | - | - |
| chondrocrania | 21 | - | - |
| chondromatous | 21 | - | - |
| chondrostians | 19 | - | - |
| choregraphers | 24 | - | - |
| choregraphies | 24 | - | - |
| chorusmasters | 20 | - | - |
| chlamydospore | 26 | thick-walled asexual resting spore of certain fungi and algae | - |
| cheerlessness | 18 | a feeling of dreary or pessimistic sadness | - |
| chemoautrophs | 25 | - | - |
| chemoreceptor | 24 | a sensory receptor that responds to chemical stimuli | - |
| chemosurgical | 23 | - | - |
| chemotaxonomy | 32 | - | - |
| chemotropisms | 24 | - | - |
| chequerboards | 30 | - | - |
| chesterfields | 22 | - | - |
| chiaroscurism | 22 | - | - |
| chemisorption | 22 | adsorption (especially when irreversible) by means of chemical instead of physical forces | chemisorption of gaseous nitrogen on iron catalysts |
| chemautotroph | 25 | - | - |
| cheeseburgers | 21 | - | - |
| cheesecutters | 20 | - | - |
| cheesehoppers | 25 | - | - |
| cheesemongers | 21 | - | - |
| cheeseparings | 21 | - | - |
| cheesepresses | 20 | - | - |
| cheesetasters | 18 | - | - |
| cheluviations | 21 | - | - |
| chiaroscurist | 20 | - | - |
| chickabiddies | 28 | - | - |
| chieftaincies | 23 | - | - |
| chinkerinchee | 27 | - | - |
| chiquichiquis | 41 | - | - |
| chirographers | 24 | - | - |
| chirographies | 24 | - | - |
| chirographist | 24 | - | - |
| chiromantical | 22 | - | - |
| chiropractics | 24 | - | - |
| chiropractors | 22 | - | - |
| chimneypieces | 27 | - | - |
| chimneybreast | 25 | - | - |
| chieftainries | 21 | - | - |
| chieftainship | 26 | the position of chieftain | - |
| childbearings | 22 | - | - |
| childcrowings | 25 | - | - |
