A methodology for the thermophysical characterization of liquids and liquid mixtures based on measurements of density, sound speed and isobaric heat capacity per unit volume at atmospheric pressure as a function of temperature is proposed. Density and sound speed data are used to determine the isentropic compressibility from the Laplace equation. The precision in density measurements allows one to obtain the isobaric thermal expansivity at different temperatures using an incremental procedure with quite acceptable accuracy and precision. The isothermal compressibility and isochoric molar heat capacity are both obtained from the previous properties, using well-known thermodynamic relations. The accuracy of the proposed methodology was checked by determining the above-mentioned properties for liquid n-hexane, n-heptane, n-octane, n-dodecane, n-hexadecane, cyclohexane, and toluene over the temperature range (288.15–333.15) K and comparing the results with selected reported data. The average absolute deviations from the latter showed data obtained with the proposed methodology to be reasonably accurate. The excess quantities for nine binary mixtures of the cyclohexane + n-dodecane system were also determined with a view to assessing precision, which was found to be quite good as regards the dependence on both composition and temperature.