2-Letter Words Ending in C

The description and classification of rocks.

""PHAGOCYTE A leucocyte which plays a part in retrogressive processes by taking up (eating), in the form of fine granules, the parts to be removed.""

Men's club musician (wordplay)

Orchestra's man arranged main orch.

Devoted to music

""PHONOGRAM A letter, character, or mark used to represent a particular sound.""

""PHONOGRAPH A character or symbol used to represent a sound, esp. one used in phonography.""

PHOSPHATIDE

Of or relating to the energy of light.

Exact (of memory)

Like a retentive memory

Pictured accurately in detail

""Capable of producing a voltage when exposed to radiant energy, especially light.""

Of or pertaining to phyllotaxy.

""PHYSIOCRAT One of the followers of Quesnay of France, who, in the 18th century, founded a system of political economy based upon the supremacy of natural order.""

PICTOGRAPH A picture or hieroglyph representing and expressing an idea.

""PLAGIARIST One who plagiarizes; or purloins the words, writings, or ideas of another, and passes them off as his own; a literary thief; a plagiary.""

Having the longer axis inclined away from the vertical line.

Of or pertaining to a planisphere.

""A process for printing from a smooth surface, as lithography or offset.""

An instrument used to measure the rotation of the plane of polarization of polarized light passing through an optical structure or sample.

""Of or pertaining to the polariscope; obtained by the use of a polariscope; as, polariscopic observations. as, polariscopic observations.""

Describing paragraph or sentence but not word (wordplay)

Like the word you need to write but not the words in the clue

SYNAPTIC pertaining to {synapsis=n}

""Of or pertaining to pornography; lascivious; licentious; as, pornographic writing. as, pornographic writing.""

Adjective (-ic)

Adjective (-ic)

Situated behind or occurring after a synapse: postsynaptic neurons.

PRAGMATIST One who is pragmatic.

ECLAMPTIC

Like music which depicts something

Providing introductory instruction.

A medicine which preserves or defends against disease; a preventive.

Of or pertaining to the first formation of living bodies.

Pathologically violent and antisocial

""Of or for a four-channel sound system in which speakers are positioned at all four corners of the listening space, reproducing signals that are independent of each other.""

Variant of quadraphonic .

One paralysed in every limb

""RADIOGRAPH A picture produced by the R\'94ntgen rays upon a sensitive surface, photographic or fluorescent, especially a picture of opaque objects traversed by the rays.""

Having effects on living tissue similar to those produced by radiation: a radiomimetic chemical.

Described by Einstein's theory

""The process of reproducing, reprinting, or copying graphic material especially by mechanical, photographic, or electronic means.""

Pertaining to revivals.

""Pertaining to, or involving, sansculottism; radical; revolutionary; Jacobinical.""

SARCOPLASM

""Of, relating to, or characteristic of scenography: "Contemporary design has a strongly scenographic appeal, as if modern rooms were meant to be stage sets" (Los Angeles Times).""

""SECULARIST One who theoretically rejects every form of religious faith, and every kind of religious worship, and accepts only the facts and influences which are derived from the present life; also, one who believes that education and other matters of civil policy should be managed without the introduction of a religious element.""

Of or pertaining to a semimetal; possessing metallic properties in an inferior degree; resembling metal.

MONASTIC a {monk=n}

Sensual.

Of or pertaining to separatists; characterizing separatists; schismatical.

SOLIDARIST

""SPECIALIST One who devotes himself to some specialty; as, a medical specialist, one who devotes himself to diseases of particular parts of the body, as the eye, the ear, the nerves, etc. as, a medical specialist, one who devotes himself to diseases of particular parts of the body, as the eye, the ear, the nerves, etc.""

Shorthander's notes unusually explicit

It's related to what I've asked you to write, in short

""A method in neurosurgery and neurological research for locating points within the brain using an external, three-dimensional frame of reference usually based on the Cartesian coordinate system.""

""ANTARCTIC Opposite to the northern or arctic pole; relating to the southern pole or to the region near it, and applied especially to a circle, distant from the pole 23° 28&min;. Thus we say the antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc. antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc.""

(Sociology) Sociol (no longer widely used) relating to those aspects of a culture that are conceived as being superior to the individual members of the society superorganicism   n

""(Engineering / General Engineering) such a metal, alloy, etc. superplasticity  ""

Like Magritte, say

Like the art of Dali or Magritte

Bizarre pragmatist in endless cruise at sea

Like a government of scientists

THALLOPHYTE Same as Thallogen. Thallogen.

THAUMATURGE A magician; a wonder worker.

Maintaining a constant temperature

Temperature-controlled

Of or retaining to thermotaxis.

Corsican with Etna erupting over the sea

Canine co-star bombed over the water

Contain scare flying across the sea

Span Arctic if at sea spanning an ocean

Spanning a specific ocean

Having or existing in three different phases of color; having three distinct color varieties; said of certain birds and insects.

Of or pertaining to one or both of the trochanters.

Far from contrite

Not expressing regret

Not sorry

Power failure without show of hands

Organisation is not despotic or totalitarian

Curt comedian abandoned without popular support

Tactless for peacekeepers to join ambassador in charge

Gaffe-prone peacekeepers linked to foreign representative in charge

Tactless

Not methodical

Lacking method

Not ordered

(Physics / General Physics) Physics (of a solid or liquid) exhibiting both viscous and elastic behaviour when deformed viscoelasticity   n

Adjective (-ic)

""Botany Capable of being divided into equal halves along any diameter, as the flowers of the rose or tulip; radially symmetrical.""

Of or pertaining to actinomycosis.

Of or pertaining to adventurism.

""Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an allelomorph.""

AMPHITHEATRE

In the wrong time period

Anarchist icon destroyed before its time

Out of keeping with chronology

Reducing sexual desire

(Drug) tending to diminish sexual desire

(Of a drug) lowering sexual urges - Rio's a handicap (anagram)

A condition in which the refractive power of one eye differs from that of the other.

Originating in human activity

ARTHRITIC

Having a disappointing ending

Ending disappointingly

Ultimately disappointing

Same as Antepileptic. Antepileptic.

""METABOLIC Of or pertaining to metamorphosis; pertaining to, or involving, change.""

Inflected form of PARASITIC Inflected form of PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

Inflected form of PSYCHOTIC Inflected form of PSYCHO a mentally unstable person

""RHEUMATIC Derived from, or having the character of, rheum; rheumic.""

Counteracting scurvy.

Drug that helps to stay fit!

SYMMETRIC Symmetrical.

Canterbury or York, for example

High church office

Senior church post

The science of architecture.

Pl. autocatalyses (-s z ) Catalysis of a chemical reaction by one of the products of the reaction.

""The study of bacteria, especially in relation to medicine and agriculture.""

Pl. bacteriolyses (-s z ) Dissolution or destruction of bacteria.

BEHAVIORIST a psychologist who subscribes to behaviorism.

Like the study of books

Of or pertaining to bimetallism.

The study of the geographic distribution of organisms.

Of or pertaining to biosystematics.

Having people for meals (wordplay)

Like one who scoffs when folk get heated (wordplay)

""Of or pertaining to, or produced by, a cardiograph.""

Head

""CHLOROPLAST A plastid containing chlorophyll, developed only in cells exposed to the light. Chloroplasts are minute flattened granules, usually occurring in great numbers in the cytoplasm near the cell wall, and consist of a colorless ground substance saturated with chlorophyll pigments. Under light of varying intensity they exhibit phototactic movements. In animals chloroplasts occur only in certain low forms.""

Relating to dance movements

""The dissolution or disintegration of chromophil material, such as chromatin, within a cell.""

CHROMONEMA

Of or pertaining to a chronograph.

COLONIALIST a believer in or advocate of colonialism{3}.

""CONGLOMERATE Gathered into a ball or a mass; collected together; concentrated; as, conglomerate rays of light. as, conglomerate rays of light.""

The analysis and deciphering of cryptographic writings or systems.

""Krptgrfk, Cryptographical Relating to cryptography; written in secret characters or in cipher, or with sympathetic ink.""

""The classification of organisms based on cellular structure and function, especially on the structure and number of chromosomes.""

""Pertaining to a diaphragm; as, diaphragmatic respiration; the diaphragmatic arteries and nerves. as, diaphragmatic respiration; the diaphragmatic arteries and nerves.""

ECTOPARASITE Any parasite which lives on the exterior of animals; opposed to endoparasite. endoparasite.

Pertaining to electrostatics.

Distribute a licenced copy full of information

Comprehensive

""Pertaining to, or containing, endolymph; as, the endolymphatic duct as, the endolymphatic duct""

""ENDOPARASITE Any parasite which lives in the internal organs of an animal, as the tapeworms, Trichina, etc.; opposed to ectoparasite. See Entozo\'94n. ectoparasite. See Entozo\'94n.""

EUDAEMONIST

Located or originating beyond the Milky Way.

FERRIMAGNET

FERROMAGNET

Adjective (-ic)

Relating to measuring small currents

GERONTOCRAT

Acting on or stimulating the gonads: a gonadotropic hormone.

GRANODIORITE

The formation of blood or blood cells in the body.

HETEROGAMETE

""Producing male and female gametangia in different structures or plants, as in some algae and fungi.""

HISTAMINE

Statistics 1. (Mathematics & Measurements / Statistics) (of several distributions) having equal variance

""Relating to, or connected with, hydrocephalus, or dropsy of the brain.""

(used with a sing. verb) See magnetohydrodynamics .

Adjective (-ic)

ROMANTIC a fanciful person

Patient with imaginary ailments

Morbidly anxious about health

One who imagines illnesses

""A character or symbol representing an idea or a thing without expressing the pronunciation of a particular word or words for it, as in the traffic sign commonly used for "no parking" or "parking prohibited." Also called ideograph .""

Eccentric; dictionary (sic) (anagram)

Peculiar to the individual

Peculiar or individual

IMMANENTIST

Expansionist

Occurring within a species.

Like the Enterprise in "Star Trek"

Relating to empty space

Relating to deep space

METALLIC a fabric or yarn coated with metal

PANDEMIC a widespread disease

Occurring or situated within the space of a galaxy.

Arising or occurring within a species: intraspecific competition.

Within the thora<?/ or chest.

Showing constant change (of colours?)

Multicoloured spice cook laid out

Showing changing colours

Like dictionary making

""A written symbol representing an entire spoken word without expressing its pronunciation; for example, for 4 read "four" in English, "quattro" in Italian. Also called ideogram , logograph .""

LYMPHOBLAST

Adjective (-ic)

""(used with a sing. verb) The study of the overall aspects and workings of a national economy, such as income, output, and the interrelationship among diverse economic sectors.""

""Pertaining to, or employed in, the measurement of magnetic forces; obtained by means of a magnetometer; as, magnetometric instruments; magnetometric measurements. as, magnetometric instruments; magnetometric measurements.""

Adjective (-ic)

Valuing possessions and physical comfort

Keen on possessions

Coveting possessions

MEGALOBLAST

Of or pertaining to the mesencephalon or midbrain.

""A change in color caused by variation of the physical conditions to which a body is subjected, especially such a change caused by variation in temperature.""

""Pl. metencephala (-l ) The anterior part of the embryonic hindbrain, which gives rise to the cerebellum and pons.""

Pl. microanalyses (-s z ) The chemical identification and analysis of extremely small quantities of matter.

MICROCEPHAL

MICROCLIMATE

MINIATURIST A painter of miniatures.

MONOAMINE

Using only one colour

Term for all-over single color paint

Plain idle and amorous, lifting top of nightie

Monogrammic.

Adjective (-ic)

Adjective (-ic)

Adjective (-ic)

Extremely patriotic

Very patriotic

Supporting one's people, revise an initial cost

Adjective (-ic)

ALLERGENIC of or pertaining to allergens or allergenicity.

Inflected form of ALPHABETIC Inflected form of ALPHABET a system of letters

ANTIBIOTIC A chemical substance derived from a mold or bacterium that kills microorganisms and cures infections.

""DEMOCRATIC Pertaining to democracy; favoring democracy, or constructed upon the principle of government by the people.""

""DIPLOMATIC A minister, official agent, or envoy to a foreign court; a diplomatist.""

PARAMETRIC

""PATHOGENIC Of or pertaining to pathogeny; producting disease; as, a pathogenic organism; a pathogenic bacterium. as, a pathogenic organism; a pathogenic bacterium.""

Inflected form of SYSTEMATIC Inflected form of SYSTEM a group of interacting elements forming a unified whole

Stimulated by or releasing norepinephrine: noradrenergic neurons.

Of or pertaining to nucleoplasm; esp. applied to a body formed in the developing ovum from the plasma of the nucleus of the germinal vesicle.

The exploration and scientific study of the ocean and its phenomena. Also called oceanology .

ODONTOBLAST One of the more or less columnar cells on the outer surface of the pulp of a tooth; an odontoplast. They are supposed to be connected with the formation of dentine.

Like "buzz" and "whir"

Biology ()

Fossils

The branch of ecology that deals with the interaction between ancient organisms and their environment.

""(Earth Sciences / Geological Science) the study of the fossil magnetism in rocks, used to determine the past configurations of the continents and to investigate the past shape and magnitude of the earth's magnetic field palaeomagnetic &nbsp; adj""

Fossils

Of or pertaining to a pantisocracy.

The scientific study of parasitism.

Formed from a compound word.

Caring but condescending

Behaving in a fatherly but unwelcome way

Closely supervising

""Specially or decisively characteristic of a disease; indicating with certainty a disease; as, a pathognomonic symptom. as, a pathognomonic symptom.""

PERSONALIST

""Centered on men or on a male viewpoint, especially one held to entail the domination of women by men.""

""The science of drugs, including their composition, uses, and effects.""

Donating to good causes

Doing good works

Intended to promote the welfare of others