2-Letter Words Ending in C

""Having waters rich in mineral and organic nutrients that promote a proliferation of plant life, especially algae, which reduces the dissolved oxygen content and often causes the extinction of other organisms. Used of a lake or pond.""

Pertaining to the Gospels

Pertaining to the Bible

Based on the Gospels

EXCITON a combination of excited electron and hole

Releasing energy.

External to a chemical ring structure: an exocyclic double bond.

Not essential or inherent

Originating from the outside

Not inherent

Producing or intended to produce happiness.

FIDEIST a believer in {fideism=n}

FIREMAN a man employed to extinguish fires

GENITAL pertaining to reproduction

GENOTYPE the genetic constitution of an organism

George starts to get a man with a jerk in a divine way

Kind of mean (wordplay)

Making tiger come out of a pyramid, say

Of lines, points and surfaces

Movement of a motile organism using the earth's gravity for orientation.

Like some plants to go with price reduced

Price to go travelling up and down with the growth of the plants

Old Spice Girl with three hits, say

Singularly old medical care (wordplay)

Good criteria for treatment of the old

GRAPHEME a unit of a writing system

Chime gone off, denoting leadership in the league

Ruling.

""Any substance, such as an iron salt or organic compound containing iron, which when ingested tends to increase the hemoglobin contents of the blood.""

""Of or pertaining to hematite, or resembling it.""

Of or pertaining to hemolysis; causing hemolysis.

HETERO a heterosexual

Serving to make a point

Method of solving

Leading to discovery

Of the art of preaching

Of the preaching arts

EMIC analysed linguistically by internal structure

HYPEROPE a farsighted person

Adjective (-ic)

Concerned with ideas.

Visionary

Absolutely fatuous.

Stupid single honour for Croatian tennis player

Stumbling I climb across mounting freeze. How foolish!

Describing a wartime girdle.

Stiff or unyielding

Intolerant etc in sail at sea

Adjective (-ic)

Exercises that add centimetres!

Form of eroticism in exercising muscles

Having equal dimensions

Pl. keratoses (-s z) Excessive growth of horny tissue of the skin.

""The formation of ketone bodies, as occurs in diabetes.""

Pertaining to motions of bodies

Relating to motion

Treating of the motion of bodies in space.

Of soil produced by the decomposition of rocks

The garlic (anagram)

The reverse of energetic

Short of energy

LEVIRATE the custom of marrying the widow of one's brother

Verse ()

Harboring a temperate virus

MELANITE a black variety of garnet

"", Melanistic.""

Like one expected to deliver (wordplay)

Having a cult following, say

Like some sacred music

Kind of weight loss

Pertaining to chemical processes of life

Of an energy-giving process.

""Having the same elements united in the same proportion by weight, and with the same molecular weight, but possessing a different structure and different properties; as, methyl ether and ethyl alcohol are metameric compounds. See Isomeric. as, methyl ether and ethyl alcohol are metameric compounds. See Isomeric.""

METONYM a word used in metonymy

MITOGEN a substance the induces mitosis

Of or pertaining to monogenesis.

Like molecules that can bond in a polymer

Of or pertaining to a morpheme.

MUTAGEN a substance that causes biological mutation

From the later stone age

Of the late Stone Age.

Period beginning about 8,000 B.C.

Describes Jade to writer returning to human resources and IT in charge

Obsolete word for medicine for the kidneys

13, quarantined from relation, suggestive of kidney disease

Of nerve pain

Gain ulcer, resulting in nervous pain

Going over university clearing turned out painful

""NEUTRON a subatomic particle, also NEUTRINO""

EROTIC an amatory poem

ETHNIC a member of a racial or cultural group

EXOTIC something from another part of the world

METRIC a standard of measurement

POETIC pertaining to {poetry=n}

NUCLEON a subatomic particle

In the matter of deliverance, perhaps

Relating to childbirth

Bit with corset strained from childbirth

ONCOGENE a gene that causes a cell to become cancerous

Biology

Smash it! Cor! Hope of correct pronunciation (wordplay)

Awfully pricey nag gaining high praise

Public and elaborate eulogy

Praise excited gay prince

One looking for signs of life (wordplay)

One seeking signs of life (wordplay)

Ambulatory staff (wordplay)

Tincture of opium.

Pain reliever

Inverted headgear in which one received, radiophonically, a palliative

PEARLITE a cast iron alloy

Relating to teaching

Picky journalist keen to appear in film

Educational.

Like some hospital wards

Re children's health

Type of medicine

PEDOCAL a type of soil

Adjective (-ic)

""Soil the branch of medical science that studies the physical and psychological events of childhood. ; pedologist , ; pedological , adj . Children""

Like a green gem or olivine.

""PEROXIDE a bleaching agent, also PEROXID""

One who is phrenetic.

'Spiritual' - Mondrian? Perhaps 'artlessly artistic'

Excessively abundant

""Inflammation of the pleura, usually occurring as a complication of a disease such as pneumonia, accompanied by accumulation of fluid in the pleural cavity, chills, fever, and painful breathing and coughing.""

Using air (or a similar gas)

Kind of drill or tire

Type of tire.

Of or pertaining to the lungs; pulmonic.

Of or relating to polygeny; polygenetic.

Like nylon, chemically

ATOMIC relating to an atom

Of time before appearance of living things

Harry Price to accept rewritten obit: 'Life still to come'

""EXILIC pertaining to exile, also EXILIAN""

""PROLE to prowl, also PROLL, PROUL""

For seeing sound (wordplay)

Criminal hit copper - that's ominous!

Telling of tomorrow

""Of or pertaining to prothesis; as, a prothetic apparatus. as, a prothetic apparatus.""

""Producing heat; said of substances, as septic poisons, which elevate the temperature of the body and cause fever.""

Containing pyroxene; composed chiefly of pyroxene.

What Borges' magic may be (wordplay)

It is clear (anagram)

Like Zola or Flaubert works

Kind of fever - irate chum (anagram)

Afflicted with pain in joints etc

Affected by an inflammatory disease

Relating to or affected with scabies.

Graphic new form of catechism

Catechism (anagram)

Catechism (anagram) - of a diagram

SCHLIERE a small streak in an igneous rock

That's a morbid sort of hardening

Of an eye membrane

It's getting a bit thick to be so loving at last

""Relating to signs or symbols, esp. spoken or written signs [adj] : SEMEIOTICALLY""

'Black Maria, a - herself, rummages through the Zodiac' (Tom Wolfe)

Issue A not quite complete, so is binding B to C (wordplay)

""Pl. serologies The science that deals with the properties and reactions of serums, especially blood serum.""

SMECTITE a clayey mineral

""Of or pertaining to semen; as, the spermatic fluid, the spermatic vessels, etc. as, the spermatic fluid, the spermatic vessels, etc.""

Pencil set (anagram)

Being irritable, select pin differently

There's a splice around the cross net

""Pertaining to, or of the nature of, steatite; containing or resembling steatite.""

STEMMA a family tree

The "S" in SALT

Forming part of a long-term plan

Of military importance.

""SUPER to reinforce with a thin cotton mesh, as a book""

""Pl. syllepses (-s z) A construction in which a word governs two or more other words but agrees in number, gender, or case with only one, or has a different meaning when applied to each of the words, as in He lost his coat and his temper.""

Equally balanced

Evenly proportioned.

Well proportioned

""Uniting and blending together different systems, as of philosophy, morals, or religion.""

""Genetically identical or closely related, so as to allow tissue transplant; immunologically compatible: syngeneic grafts; syngeneic animals.""

Man-made (fibre)

Artificially-made compound

Dacron, for example

Looking good on the tube, say

Suitable for box cameras (wordplay)

Made for the screen

Of or relating to theogony.

Of the study of religion and revelation

Impractical heretic to change

Concerned with hypotheses

Not practical

Elegiac

Producing poison; toxicogenic.

""An infectious disease caused by the bacterium Francisella tularensis that chiefly affects rodents but can also be transmitted to humans through the bite of various insects or contact with infected animals. In humans, the disease is characterized by intermittent fever and swelling of the lymph nodes. Also called rabbit fever .""

Excreting urea as the chief component of nitrogenous waste.

Digital media item

Outmoded home entertainment medium

DVD component

""ACETYLENE A gaseous compound of carbon and hydrogen, in the proportion of two atoms of the former to two of the latter. It is a colorless gas, with a peculiar, unpleasant odor, and is produced for use as an illuminating gas in a number of ways, but chiefly by the action of water on calcium carbide. Its light is very brilliant.""

One anorak turned up with some work, in charge of stimulation

Pertaining to an important science.

Pertaining to the science of air travel

Of plane navigation

Like a city father with a clear mind

Local official's frenzied, hiding behind tree

""ALKAHEST the hypothetical solvent sought by alchemists, also ALCAHEST""

Causing one to react rashly (wordplay)

Causing a rash reaction (wordplay)

Like penicillin, to some

Being genetically different although belonging to or obtained from the same species: allogeneic tissue grafts.

Of or pertaining to allometry.

Of or involving a change in the shape and activity of an enzyme that results from molecular binding with a regulatory substance at a site other than the enzymatically active one.

Arranged just like these words? Yes!

Like some codes

Like characters in a script

Could be ARIA 1100 HELP

Partly one and partly the other; neither acid nor alkaline; neutral.

Aiding the memory

Of or pertaining to androgens; having physiological effects like that of an androgen.

Ether, for one

It may put you to sleep

It may be administered before surgery

Pl. angiogeneses (-s z ) The formation of new blood vessels.

Same as Antemetic. Antemetic.

EROTIC an amatory poem

HEROIC an epic verse

POETIC pertaining to {poetry=n}

Application for injury benefit, perhaps

Preventing growth of microorganisms

Alcohol, for example.

Exactly opposite.

Opposite

""Pl. aphaereses or aphereses (-s z ) The loss of one or more sounds from the beginning of a word, as in till for until.""

1. unquestionably true by virtue of demonstration

In a sorry state (wordplay)

With hat in hand, perhaps

So sorry and disturbed, to ogle a pic

8 captain briefly could get mad

Red with rage

Overcome with anger

""Having or designating conspicuous or warning colors or structures indicative of special means of defense against enemies, as in the skunk.""

Activity for summer (wordplay)

Field of operations (wordplay)

R without an apostrophe (wordplay)

Not regularly shaped

Not perfectly balanced

Like this puzzle's grid

(Physics / General Physics) caused or produced by sound or an audio frequency an audiogenic epileptic fit

Of or pertaining to austenite.

""Sexually self-satisfying, as by masturbation.""

Of or pertaining to bacteremia.

Type of pressure

It's measured by the glass

Like some pressure

Of or pertaining to bentonite.

Lithium injected into lamb etc I cooked with steel and tin, perhaps (wordplay)

In job, I met all I could, including Al with Mo, for example

Like Ernst Haeckel's law

BIOSPHERE

Of or pertaining to a bolometer.

""(Medicine / Pathology) (of a substance) producing caries, esp in the teeth""

""Wanting a syllable at the end, or terminating in an imperfect foot; as, a catalectic verse. as, a catalectic verse.""

Maybe schizophrenic spasm after pet gets dreadfully pale

""CELLULOSE Consisting of, or containing, cells.""

(used with a sing. verb) The study of history using economic models and advanced mathematical methods of data processing and analysis.

COENOCYTE

Having a common center

Like some circles

Like rings on target

Of the same biological group

Produced by cosmic rays.

Crescentshaped.

CYANOGEN a compound of carbon and nitrogen

Relating to mechanical man

Relating to a mechanical man.

Concerning robot brains.

Containing all branches of knowledge

""DECAMETRE A measure of length in the metric system; ten meters, equal to about 393.7 inches.""

DEKAMETRE

Party for the Clintons

Enabling the will of the people

One way to vote

The process of chemical and physical change in deposited sediment during its conversion to rock.

""Excessive and frequent evacuation of watery feces, usually indicating gastrointestinal distress or disorder.""

""Affording a free passage to heat; as, diathermic substances. as, diathermic substances.""

Insulator, derelict IC (anagram)

DILEMMA a perplexing situation

Descended from two ancestral lines or individuals.

An instrument that measures and indicates the amount of x-rays or radiation absorbed in a given period.

""An inflammatory disorder of the lower intestinal tract, usually caused by a bacterial, parasitic, or protozoan infection and resulting in pain, fever, and severe diarrhea, often accompanied by the passage of blood and mucus.""

Adjective (-ic)

Pertaining to ecchymosis.

Having I trouble (wordplay)

Selfish fellow swallows a penny?

Having I-strain (wordplay)

The "E" of "E-mail"

Controlled by semiconductors

The e in e-mail

Relating to or acting as a symbol

Representative

Symbolical

EMBOLISM obstruction of a blood vessel by an embolus

Feeling your pain

Showing concern

Having the power of entering another's feelings

""A pathological condition of the lungs marked by an abnormal increase in the size of the air spaces, resulting in labored breathing and an increased susceptibility to infection. It can be caused by irreversible expansion of the alveoli or by the destruction of alveolar walls.""

Requiring energy: an endergonic chemical reaction.

Living as a parasite or symbiont within the tissues of a host.

""(used with a sing. verb) The branch of dentistry that deals with diseases of the tooth root, dental pulp, and surrounding tissue.""

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) (of organisms, such as algae) growing inside rock""

ENDOPHYTE

Crazy picosecond of peering into people

Final large policeman in charge of instrument for viewing organs