14-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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| communications | 22 | the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.) | communications is his major field of study |
| constitutional | 16 | existing as an essential constituent or characteristic | a constitutional inability to tell the truth |
| correspondence | 21 | (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane | - |
| characteristic | 23 | a prominent attribute or aspect of something | generosity is one of his best characteristics |
| congratulation | 17 | (usually plural) an expression of pleasure at the success or good fortune of another | I sent them my sincere congratulations on their marriage |
| claustrophobic | 25 | suffering from claustrophobia; abnormally afraid of closed-in places | - |
| cinematography | 27 | the act of making a film | - |
| circumstantial | 20 | fully detailed and specific about particulars | a circumstantial report about the debate |
| coincidentally | 22 | happening at the same time | - |
| classification | 21 | the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | - |
| congratulating | 18 | - | - |
| claustrophobia | 23 | a morbid fear of being closed in a confined space | - |
| cardiovascular | 22 | of or pertaining to or involving the heart and blood vessels | cardiovascular conditioning |
| contemporaries | 20 | all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age | - |
| comprehensible | 25 | capable of being comprehended or understood | an idea comprehensible to the average mind |
| cardiomyopathy | 30 | a disorder (usually of unknown origin) of the heart muscle (myocardium) | - |
| counterculture | 18 | a culture with lifestyles and values opposed to those of the established culture | - |
| confidentially | 23 | in a confidential manner | spoke to him intimately and confidentially |
| congratulatory | 20 | expressive of sympathetic pleasure or joy on account of someone's success or good fortune | a congratulatory telegram |
| capitalization | 27 | the sale of capital stock | - |
| conversational | 19 | characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation | the broken syntax and casual enunciation of conversational English |
| conservatively | 25 | in a conservative manner | we estimated the number of demonstrators conservatively at 200,000. |
| conventionally | 22 | in a conventional manner | he usually behaves rather conventionally |
| countermeasure | 18 | an action taken to offset another action | - |
| counterbalance | 20 | contrast with equal weight or force | - |
| conjunctivitis | 28 | inflammation of the conjunctiva of the eye | - |
| circumnavigate | 24 | travel around, either by plane or ship | - |
| commercialized | 32 | organized principally for financial gain | Christmas has become a commercialized spectacle |
| convertibility | 24 | the quality of being exchangeable (especially the ability to convert a currency into gold or other currencies without restriction) | - |
| constructively | 24 | in a constructive manner | it is my task to look critically and constructively at the flaws and the failures |
| conglomeration | 19 | a rounded spherical form | - |
| capriciousness | 20 | the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment | - |
| conspiratorial | 18 | relating to or characteristic of conspiracy or conspirators | a conspiratorial whisper |
| circumlocution | 22 | a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things | - |
| chromatography | 30 | a process used for separating mixtures by virtue of differences in absorbency | - |
| chlorpromazine | 32 | a drug (trade name Thorazine) derived from phenothiazine that has antipsychotic effects and is used as a sedative and tranquilizer | - |
| conceptualized | 30 | - | - |
| conservatorium | 21 | - | - |
| capitalisation | 18 | the sale of capital stock | - |
| circumspection | 24 | the trait of being circumspect and prudent | - |
| characterizing | 31 | - | - |
| chemosynthetic | 29 | - | - |
| changelessness | 20 | the quality of being unchangeable; having a marked tendency to remain unchanged | - |
| coquettishness | 28 | - | - |
| constructivism | 23 | an abstractionist artistic movement in Russia after World War I; industrial materials were used to construct nonrepresentational objects | - |
| congregational | 18 | of or pertaining to or characteristic of a Congregational church | - |
| cabinetmakings | 25 | - | - |
| cacophonically | 28 | - | - |
| cadaverousness | 20 | - | - |
| caesaropapisms | 22 | - | - |
| calamitousness | 18 | - | - |
| calcifications | 23 | - | - |
| calculatedness | 19 | - | - |
| carcinological | 21 | - | - |
| cardiothoracic | 24 | - | - |
| carefreenesses | 19 | - | - |
| carelessnesses | 16 | - | - |
| carnifications | 21 | - | - |
| carpometacarpi | 24 | - | - |
| cartelisations | 16 | - | - |
| cartelizations | 25 | - | - |
| cardiomegalies | 20 | - | - |
| carcinologists | 19 | - | - |
| carcinomatoses | 20 | - | - |
| carcinomatosis | 20 | - | - |
| carcinosarcoma | 22 | a malignant neoplasm composed of carcinoma and sarcoma extensively intermixed | - |
| cardiocenteses | 19 | - | - |
| cardiocentesis | 19 | - | - |
| cardiographers | 23 | - | - |
| cardiographies | 23 | - | - |
| cartographical | 24 | of or relating to the making of maps or charts | - |
| castrametation | 18 | - | - |
| casualisations | 16 | - | - |
| catechumenates | 23 | - | - |
| catechumenical | 25 | - | - |
| catechumenisms | 25 | - | - |
| catechumenship | 28 | - | - |
| categorisation | 17 | the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | - |
| categorization | 26 | the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | - |
| cathodographer | 26 | - | - |
| cauliflowerets | 22 | - | - |
| catecholamines | 23 | - | - |
| catechizations | 30 | - | - |
| casualizations | 25 | - | - |
| catachrestical | 23 | constituting or characterized by or given to catachresis | - |
| catadioptrical | 21 | - | - |
| cataleptically | 23 | - | - |
| catastrophisms | 23 | - | - |
| catastrophists | 21 | - | - |
| catechetically | 26 | - | - |
| catechisations | 21 | - | - |
| cauterisations | 16 | - | - |
| carcinogenesis | 19 | - | - |
| caliginosities | 17 | - | - |
| campylotropous | 25 | (of a plant ovule) curved with the micropyle near the base almost touching its stalk | - |
| cancellariates | 18 | - | - |
| cancerophobias | 25 | - | - |
| candidateships | 23 | - | - |
| candlelighters | 21 | - | - |
| candlesnuffers | 23 | - | - |
| cankerednesses | 21 | - | - |
| canorousnesses | 16 | - | - |
| campylobacters | 27 | - | - |
| campanulaceous | 22 | - | - |
| calligraphical | 24 | of or relating to or expressed in calligraphy | - |
| calligraphists | 22 | - | - |
| calorification | 21 | - | - |
| calorimetrical | 20 | - | - |
| calycanthemies | 26 | - | - |
| camouflageable | 24 | - | - |
| campanological | 23 | - | - |
| campanologists | 21 | - | - |
| cantankerously | 23 | in a bad mood | he answered her cantankerously |
| canthaxanthine | 29 | - | - |
| canthaxanthins | 29 | - | - |
| caramelization | 27 | - | - |
| carbamazepines | 31 | - | - |
| carbonisations | 18 | - | - |
| carbonizations | 27 | - | - |
| carbonylations | 21 | - | - |
| carboxylations | 28 | - | - |
| carburisations | 18 | - | - |
| carburizations | 27 | - | - |
| caramelisation | 18 | - | - |
| captiousnesses | 18 | - | - |
| cantonisations | 16 | - | - |
| cantonizations | 25 | - | - |
| capellmeisters | 20 | - | - |
| capparidaceous | 23 | - | - |
| caprifications | 23 | - | - |
| carcinogeneses | 19 | - | - |
| counterweights | 23 | - | - |
| craniometrical | 20 | of or relating to craniometry | - |
| craniometrists | 18 | - | - |
| cranioscopists | 20 | - | - |
| craunchinesses | 21 | - | - |
| creativenesses | 19 | - | - |
| creatureliness | 16 | - | - |
| credentialisms | 19 | - | - |
| credentialling | 18 | - | - |
| craniocerebral | 20 | - | - |
| craftsmanships | 26 | - | - |
| counterworkers | 23 | - | - |
| counterworking | 24 | - | - |
| countinghouses | 20 | - | - |
| courageousness | 17 | a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear | - |
| covetivenesses | 22 | - | - |
| covetousnesses | 19 | - | - |
| cowardlinesses | 20 | - | - |
| coxcombicality | 34 | - | - |
| crediblenesses | 19 | - | - |
| creditableness | 19 | - | - |
| criminalistics | 20 | - | - |
| crymotherapies | 26 | - | - |
| cryobiological | 24 | - | - |
| cryobiologists | 22 | - | - |
| cryopreserving | 25 | - | - |
| cryoprotectant | 23 | - | - |
| cryoprotective | 26 | - | - |
| cryptaesthesia | 24 | - | - |
| cryptaesthetic | 26 | - | - |
| crushabilities | 21 | - | - |
| cruiserweights | 23 | - | - |
| criminological | 21 | of or relating to or involved in criminology | - |
| criminologists | 19 | - | - |
| criticalnesses | 18 | - | - |
| crossabilities | 18 | - | - |
| crossbreedings | 20 | - | - |
| crosshatchings | 25 | - | - |
| cruciverbalism | 25 | - | - |
| cruciverbalist | 23 | - | - |
| cryptesthesias | 24 | - | - |
| counterweighed | 24 | - | - |
| counterfeiting | 20 | - | - |
| counterpleaded | 20 | - | - |
| counterplotted | 19 | - | - |
| counterpointed | 19 | - | - |
| counterpoising | 19 | - | - |
| counterproject | 27 | - | - |
| counterprotest | 18 | - | - |
| counterpunched | 24 | - | - |
| counterpuncher | 23 | - | - |
| counterplayers | 21 | - | - |
| counterpickets | 24 | - | - |
| countermanding | 20 | - | - |
| countermarched | 24 | - | - |
| countermarches | 23 | - | - |
| countermotions | 18 | - | - |
| counterordered | 18 | - | - |
| counterparties | 18 | - | - |
| counterpeising | 19 | - | - |
| counterpunches | 23 | - | - |
| counterrallied | 17 | - | - |
| counterrallies | 16 | - | - |
| counterstrikes | 20 | - | - |
| counterstrokes | 20 | - | - |
| countersubject | 27 | - | - |
| countertactics | 20 | - | - |
| counterterrors | 16 | - | - |
| counterthreats | 19 | - | - |
| counterthrusts | 19 | - | - |
| countertrading | 18 | - | - |
| counterstreams | 18 | - | - |
| counterstating | 17 | - | - |
| counterreforms | 21 | - | - |
| countersealing | 17 | - | - |
| countershading | 21 | - | - |
| countersigning | 18 | - | - |
| countersinking | 21 | - | - |
| countersnipers | 18 | - | - |
| counterspyings | 22 | - | - |
| counterstained | 17 | - | - |
| countervailing | 20 | - | - |
| cyberterrorist | 21 | - | - |
| cylindricities | 22 | - | - |
| cyproheptadine | 27 | an antihistamine (trade name Periactin) used to treat some allergic reactions | - |
| cystolithiases | 22 | - | - |
| cystolithiasis | 22 | - | - |
| cytogeneticist | 22 | a geneticist who specializes in the cellular components associated with heredity | - |
| cytopathogenic | 27 | of or relating to or causing pathological changes in cells | - |
| cytophotometry | 29 | the study of chemical compounds inside a cell by means of a cytophotometer | - |
| cytostatically | 24 | - | - |
| cylindricality | 25 | the roundness of a 3-dimensional cylinder | - |
| cyclostomatous | 23 | - | - |
| cyclanthaceous | 26 | - | - |
| cycloadditions | 23 | - | - |
| cycloaliphatic | 28 | - | - |
| cyclobarbitone | 25 | - | - |
| cyclohexanones | 31 | - | - |
| cycloheximides | 34 | - | - |
| cycloparaffins | 29 | - | - |
| cyclopentolate | 23 | - | - |
| cytotaxonomies | 28 | - | - |
| cytotaxonomist | 28 | - | - |
| cytotechnology | 28 | - | - |
| cytotoxicities | 28 | - | - |
| cyberterrorism | 23 | - | - |
| cryptococcoses | 27 | - | - |
| crystallizable | 30 | - | - |
| crystallomancy | 26 | - | - |
| cucurbitaceous | 22 | of or relating to plants of the family Cucurbitaceae | - |
| culpablenesses | 20 | - | - |
| cumbersomeness | 22 | trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape | - |
| cumbrousnesses | 20 | - | - |
| cummingtonites | 21 | - | - |
| cumulativeness | 21 | - | - |
| crystallitises | 19 | - | - |
| crystallisable | 21 | - | - |
| cryptococcosis | 27 | a fungal infection characterized by nodular lesions--first in the lungs and spreading to the nervous system | - |
| cryptographers | 27 | - | - |
| cryptographies | 27 | - | - |
| cryptographist | 27 | - | - |
| cryptorchidism | 29 | failure of one or both testes to move into the scrotum as the male fetus develops | - |
| cryptosporidia | 24 | - | - |
| crystalisation | 19 | - | - |
| crystalization | 28 | - | - |
| cumulonimbuses | 22 | - | - |
| cunnilinctuses | 18 | - | - |
| curativenesses | 19 | - | - |
| cyanoethylates | 25 | - | - |
| cyanogenamides | 23 | - | - |
| cyberathletics | 26 | - | - |
| cybercriminals | 25 | - | - |
| cybernetically | 26 | - | - |
| cyberneticians | 23 | - | - |
| cyberneticists | 23 | - | - |
| cybersquatters | 30 | - | - |
| cyanoethylated | 26 | - | - |
| cyanocobalamin | 25 | a B vitamin that is used to treat pernicious anemia | - |
| curietherapies | 21 | - | - |
| curvilinearity | 22 | - | - |
| custodianships | 22 | - | - |
| customisations | 18 | - | - |
| customizations | 27 | - | - |
| cyanoacetylene | 24 | - | - |
| cyanoacrylates | 24 | - | - |
| cyanobacterium | 25 | - | - |
| cybersquatting | 31 | - | - |
| clavichordists | 25 | - | - |
| clinopinakoids | 23 | - | - |
| clinopyroxenes | 28 | - | - |
| cliometricians | 20 | - | - |
| cliquishnesses | 28 | - | - |
| clishmaclavers | 26 | - | - |
| clitorectomies | 20 | - | - |
| clitoridectomy | 24 | excision of the clitoris | - |
| cloddishnesses | 21 | - | - |
| clinopinacoids | 21 | - | - |
| clinodiagonals | 18 | - | - |
| clavicytherium | 29 | - | - |
| cleanabilities | 18 | - | - |
| clearinghouses | 20 | - | - |
| cleavabilities | 21 | - | - |
| climatological | 21 | - | - |
| climatologists | 19 | - | - |
| clingingnesses | 18 | - | - |
| clinicalnesses | 18 | - | - |
| clothespresses | 21 | - | - |
| clownishnesses | 22 | - | - |
| clubbabilities | 22 | - | - |
| cochairpersons | 23 | - | - |
| cockeyednesses | 26 | - | - |
| cocknification | 27 | - | - |
| cocksurenesses | 22 | - | - |
| coconspirators | 20 | - | - |
| cocultivations | 21 | - | - |
| codeclinations | 19 | - | - |
| codependencies | 22 | - | - |
| cocarcinogenic | 23 | - | - |
| cocarboxylases | 30 | - | - |
| coachbuildings | 25 | - | - |
| coadjutorships | 29 | - | - |
| coalifications | 21 | - | - |
| coastguardsman | 20 | a member of a coastguard | - |
| coastguardsmen | 20 | - | - |
| cobelligerents | 19 | - | - |
| cocainisations | 18 | - | - |
| cocainizations | 27 | - | - |
| coelanaglyphic | 27 | - | - |
| circumforanean | 23 | - | - |
| circumnutatory | 23 | - | - |
| circumposition | 22 | - | - |
| circumscissile | 22 | - | - |
| circumscribers | 24 | - | - |
| circumscribing | 25 | - | - |
| circumspective | 27 | - | - |
| circumstancing | 23 | - | - |
| circumnutation | 20 | - | - |
| circumnutating | 21 | - | - |
| circumgyrating | 25 | - | - |
| circumgyration | 24 | - | - |
| circumgyratory | 27 | - | - |
| circumlittoral | 20 | - | - |
| circumlocuting | 23 | - | - |
| circumlocutory | 25 | roundabout and unnecessarily wordy | had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression |
| circumvallated | 24 | - | - |
| circumvallates | 23 | - | - |
| clapperclawers | 25 | - | - |
| clapperclawing | 26 | - | - |
| claptrapperies | 22 | - | - |
| clarifications | 21 | - | - |
| classicalities | 18 | - | - |
| classificatory | 24 | relating to or involving classification | classificatory criteria |
| claustrophobes | 23 | - | - |
| clannishnesses | 19 | - | - |
| clairvoyancies | 24 | - | - |
| circumventions | 23 | - | - |
| circumvolution | 23 | the act of turning or winding or folding around a central axis | - |
| circumvolutory | 26 | - | - |
| citriculturist | 18 | - | - |
| civilisational | 19 | - | - |
| civilizational | 28 | - | - |
| clairaudiences | 19 | - | - |
| clairaudiently | 20 | - | - |
| colourizations | 25 | - | - |
| commentatorial | 20 | - | - |
| commercialeses | 22 | - | - |
| commercialised | 23 | organized principally for financial gain | - |
| commercialises | 22 | - | - |
| commercialisms | 24 | - | - |
| commercialists | 22 | - | - |
| commercializes | 31 | - | - |
| commensuration | 20 | - | - |
| commensurately | 23 | - | - |
| colourlessness | 16 | the visual property of being without chromatic color | - |
| combustibility | 25 | the quality of being capable of igniting and burning | - |
| cometographies | 24 | - | - |
| commandantship | 26 | - | - |
| commanderships | 26 | - | - |
| commemorations | 22 | - | - |
| commemoratives | 25 | - | - |
| commensalities | 20 | - | - |
| commiserations | 20 | - | - |
| commissaryship | 28 | - | - |
| commissionaire | 20 | a uniformed doorman | - |
| communizations | 29 | - | - |
| commutableness | 22 | - | - |
| compaginations | 21 | - | - |
| companionhoods | 24 | - | - |
| companionships | 25 | - | - |
| comparableness | 22 | - | - |
| comparativists | 23 | - | - |
| compartmenting | 23 | - | - |
| communitarians | 20 | - | - |
| communisations | 20 | - | - |
| committeeships | 25 | - | - |
| committeewoman | 25 | a woman who is a member of a committee | - |
| committeewomen | 25 | - | - |
| commodiousness | 21 | spatial largeness and extensiveness (especially inside a building) | - |
| commonsensible | 22 | exhibiting native good judgment | - |
| commonsensical | 22 | exhibiting native good judgment | unlearned and commonsensical countryfolk were capable of solving problems that beset the more sophisticated |
| communautaires | 20 | - | - |
| compassionable | 22 | - | - |
| colourisations | 16 | - | - |
| coenaesthesias | 19 | - | - |
| coinvestigator | 20 | - | - |
| collaborations | 18 | - | - |
| collaboratives | 21 | - | - |
| collapsability | 23 | - | - |
| collapsibility | 23 | - | - |
| collateralised | 17 | - | - |
| collateralises | 16 | - | - |
| collateralized | 26 | - | - |
| coinheritances | 21 | - | - |
| coercivenesses | 21 | - | - |
| coessentiality | 19 | - | - |
| coetaneousness | 16 | - | - |
| coevolutionary | 22 | - | - |
| cogitativeness | 20 | - | - |
| cognominations | 19 | - | - |
| cohesibilities | 21 | - | - |
| cohesivenesses | 22 | - | - |
| collateralizes | 25 | - | - |
| colleagueships | 22 | - | - |
| collectiveness | 21 | - | - |
| colloquialisms | 27 | - | - |
| colloquialists | 25 | - | - |
| colloquialness | 25 | - | - |
| colonialnesses | 16 | - | - |
| colorfulnesses | 19 | - | - |
| colorimetrical | 20 | of or relating to colorimetry | - |
| coloristically | 21 | - | - |
| colourableness | 18 | - | - |
| colloidalities | 17 | - | - |
| colliquescence | 29 | - | - |
| collectivising | 22 | - | - |
| collectivistic | 23 | subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively | - |
| collectivities | 21 | - | - |
| collectivizing | 31 | - | - |
| collectorships | 23 | - | - |
| collegialities | 17 | - | - |
| collieshangies | 20 | - | - |
| collinearities | 16 | - | - |
| colourfastness | 19 | - | - |
| circumfluences | 25 | - | - |
| characterizers | 30 | - | - |
| cheerfulnesses | 22 | - | - |
| cheerishnesses | 22 | - | - |
| chemautotrophs | 26 | - | - |
| chemisorptions | 23 | - | - |
| chemoautotroph | 26 | - | - |
| chemoreception | 25 | - | - |
| chemoreceptive | 28 | of or relating to chemoreceptors | - |
| chemoreceptors | 25 | - | - |
| checkerberries | 27 | - | - |
| chateaubriands | 22 | - | - |
| characterology | 25 | - | - |
| chargeableness | 22 | - | - |
| charitableness | 21 | generosity as manifested by practicing charity (as for the poor or unfortunate) | - |
| charlatanistic | 21 | - | - |
| charterparties | 21 | - | - |
| chartographers | 25 | - | - |
| chartographies | 25 | - | - |
| chemosurgeries | 22 | - | - |
| chemosyntheses | 27 | - | - |
| chemosynthesis | 27 | synthesis of carbohydrate from carbon dioxide and water; limited to certain bacteria and fungi | - |
| chimericalness | 23 | - | - |
| chimneybreasts | 26 | - | - |
| chincherinchee | 29 | South African perennial with long-lasting spikes of white blossoms that are shipped in to Europe and America for use as winter cut flowers | - |
| chinkerinchees | 28 | - | - |
| chirographical | 27 | - | - |
| chirographists | 25 | - | - |
| chivalrousness | 22 | - | - |
| chlamydospores | 27 | - | - |
| childishnesses | 23 | - | - |
| chieftainships | 27 | - | - |
| chemotaxonomic | 32 | - | - |
| chemotherapies | 26 | - | - |
| chemotherapist | 26 | - | - |
| chiaroscurisms | 23 | - | - |
| chiaroscurists | 21 | - | - |
| chickenhearted | 29 | easily frightened | - |
| chieftainesses | 22 | - | - |
| chlorargyrites | 23 | - | - |
| cauterizations | 25 | - | - |
| centrifugation | 20 | the process of separating substances of different densities by the use of a centrifuge | - |
| centrifugences | 22 | - | - |
| centripetalism | 20 | - | - |
| centrolecithal | 21 | - | - |
| centuplicating | 21 | - | - |
| centuplication | 20 | - | - |
| cephalisations | 21 | - | - |
| cephalizations | 30 | - | - |
| centrifugalize | 29 | - | - |
| centrifugalise | 20 | - | - |
| cautiousnesses | 16 | - | - |
| celebratedness | 19 | - | - |
| censoriousness | 16 | - | - |
| censurableness | 18 | - | - |
| centenarianism | 18 | - | - |
| centerednesses | 17 | - | - |
| centralisation | 16 | the act of consolidating power under a central control | - |
| centralization | 25 | the act of consolidating power under a central control | - |
| cephalometries | 23 | - | - |
| cephaloridines | 22 | - | - |
| cephalosporins | 23 | - | - |
| chancellorship | 26 | the office of chancellor | - |
| changeableness | 22 | the quality of being changeable; having a marked tendency to change | the changeableness of the weather |
| channelisation | 19 | management through specified channels of communication | - |
| channelization | 28 | management through specified channels of communication | - |
