2-Letter Words Ending in C

""The posterior part of the forebrain that connects the midbrain with the cerebral hemispheres, encloses the third ventricle, and contains the thalamus and hypothalamus. Also called betweenbrain , interbrain , thalamencephalon .""

An instrument used to measure thermal expansion and dilation in solids and liquids.

""Pertaining to, or connected with, diphtheria.""

Characterizing the ovum when it has two primary germinal layers.

Phonograph Records

SYMMETRIC Symmetrical.

""Relating to, composed in, or consisting of twelve-tone music.""

DOPAMINE a form of dopa used to stimulate the heart

Any of several instruments used to measure mechanical power.

Adjective (-ic)

Relating to clergymen

Member of clergy; or, relating to church

Clergyman

""EISTEDDFOD Am assembly or session of the Welsh bards; an annual congress of bards, minstrels and literati of Wales, being a patriotic revival of the old custom.""

""Of or pertaining to electrogenesis; as, an electrogenic condition. as, an electrogenic condition.""

""ELECTROLYTE A compound decomposable, or subjected to decomposition, by an electric current.""

Of or pertaining to electrical tension; said of a supposed peculiar condition of a conducting circuit during its exposure to the action of another conducting circuit traversed by a uniform electric current when both circuits remain stationary.

""ENANTIOMER either of a pair of optical isomers of a chemical substance whose molecules are mirror images of each other, i. e., are related to each other as a right-handed to a left-handed glove; -- meaningful only for structures which have internal asymmetry.i. e., are related to each other as a right-handed to a left-handed glove; -- meaningful only for structures which have internal asymmetry.""

Inflammation of the brain.

Comprehensive in terms of information

ENTEROCOELE

Ardent - thin suitcase (anagram)

Showing keen interest

Intensely keen and interested

EOSINOPHILE

(Of saying) concise, witty

Like a short and witty saying

In the style of a concise and witty remark

ERYTHROCYTE

Seeing other cultures through one's own

Judging other cultures by the standards of one's own

Relating to racial customs and characteristics

Of or pertaining to euhemerism.

In revolutionary church, angry vigilantes like a preacher

""EXANTHEMA An efflorescence or discoloration of the skin; an eruption or breaking out, as in measles, smallpox, scarlatina, and the like diseases; sometimes limited to eruptions attended with fever.""

""Of or pertaining to, or characterized by, exophthalmia.""

Originating or occurring outside the liver.

""Pl. fibrinolyses (-s z ) The breakdown of fibrin, usually by the enzymatic action of plasmin.""

FIBROBLAST

""A system of printing on a rotary press employing water-based ink, used especially for printing on plastic, paper, or cardboard.""

Adjective (-ic)

""Instruments an instrument for measuring the emission of radiation in the form of visible light and identifying the substance that is its source. ; fluorometric,""

FLUOROSCOPE An instrument for observing or exhibiting fluorescence.

FOLKLORIST

""GALACTOSE A white, crystalline sugar, C6H12O6, isomeric with dextrose, obtained by the decomposition of milk sugar, and also from certain gums. When oxidized it forms mucic acid. Called also lactose (though it is not lactose proper). C6H12O6, isomeric with dextrose, obtained by the decomposition of milk sugar, and also from certain gums. When oxidized it forms mucic acid. Called also lactose (though it is not lactose proper).""

""GAMETOPHYTE In the alternation of generations in plants, that generation or phase which bears sex organs and produces gametes. In the lower plants, as the alg\'91, the gametophyte is the conspicuous part of the plant body; in mosses it is the so-called moss plant; in ferns it is reduced to a small, early perishing body; and in seed plants it is usually microscopic or rudimentary.""

Of or pertaining to gastroscopy.

Pl. geostrategies The branch of geopolitics that deals with strategy.

Old Age

Acting on or stimulating the gonads: a gonadotropic hormone.

GRANULOCYTE

Pl. gynecocracies or gynocracies Government by women.

""Of, relating to, or resulting from the magnetic properties of a spinning, electrically charged particle.""

Pl. hagiographies Biography of saints.

Revolving around the sun

Revolving round the sun

Of or pertaining to heliography or a heliograph; made by heliography.

HENOTHEIST

HETEROCYCLE

Type of writing

Of or relating to hierophants or their teachings.

Tissueproducing; connected with the formation and development of the organic tissues.

""Expressing a phrase or sentence in a single word, as is the case in the aboriginal languages of America.""

HOMEOMORPH

HOMEOTHERM A homoiothermal animal.

Of or relating to hydrodynamics.

HYDROGRAPH

""Of or pertaining to the motions of fluids, or the forces which produce or affect such motions; opposed to hydrostatic. hydrostatic.""

Adjective (-ic)

HYDROSPHERE The aqueous vapor of the entire atmosphere.

ENDEMIC an endemial disease

Of or pertaining to hyperkinesis.

Adjective (-ic)

Pl. hyperostoses (-s z) Excessive or abnormal thickening or growth of bone tissue.

Of or pertaining to hyperplasia.

""Composed of, or containing, hypersthene.""

THERMIC pertaining to heat

TROPHIC pertaining to nutrition

Adjective (-ic)

""Endearing; diminutive; as, the hypocoristic form of a name. as, the hypocoristic form of a name.""

""GLYCEMIC having glucose in the blood, also GLYCAEMIC""

THALAMIC pertaining to the thalamus

Attacking cherished institutions

Attacking cherished beliefs

Criticising cherished beliefs

Of or pertaining to iconography.

ALLELIC pertaining to {allele=n}

GENERIC a type of drug

MITOTIC pertaining to {mitosis=n}

Like the QE2

PSYCHIC one sensitive to extrasensory phenomena

""Situated between vowels; immediately preceded and followed by vowel sounds, as, p in occupy, d in idea, etc.as, p in occupy, d in idea, etc.""

Within the heart.

Existing or taking place within the mind or psyche: intrapsychic conflict.

ISOANTIGEN

Developed alike in the directions of the several lateral axes; said of crystals of both the tetragonal and hexagonal systems.

ISOENZYME

Like newspaper writers

""Of or pertaining to karyokinesis; as, karyokinetic changes of cell division. as, karyokinetic changes of cell division.""

He can't help helping himself

Lifter of habit

Magpie trained to peck animal

""LAPAROSCOPE A slender endoscope, containing fiber-optic viewing capability and miniature surgical devices, which can be inserted through a small incision in the abdominal wall, allowing a surgeon to perform minor surgery with minimal damage to the abdominal muscles.""

Adjective (-ic)

The formation or production of white blood cells.

""Pertaining to, or characterized by, liberalism; as, liberalistic opinions. as, liberalistic opinions.""

LITERALIST One who adheres to the letter or exact word; an interpreter according to the letter.

Of metal or stone surface printing

""LITHOSPHERE The solid earth as distinguished from its fluid envelopes, the hydrosphere and atmosphere.""

Adjective (-ic)

MAMMOGRAPH

Act of controlling by force

Person with delusions of power

One thinking he is great

""A mental disorder characterized by severe depression, guilt, hopelessness, and withdrawal.""

Emotionally overblown (in theatre)

Exaggerated - over-emotional

Exaggerated, over-emotional

MERISTEM formative plant tissue

""Of or pertaining to meritocracy; as, meritocratic society.as, meritocratic society.""

Of or pertaining to the mesothorax.

Adjective (-ic)

Of or pertaining to the metathorax.

Of the study of weather

Of or pertaining to micrography.

Copy, including rewritten score, is of a small movement

Adjective (-ic)

Warlike

Having a dislike of humankind

Disliking all mankind

Right! I can stop him, with manipulation, having a hatred of mankind

Woman-hating

Pertaining to a monodrama.

Consisting of one metal; of or pertaining to monometallism.

""Of or pertaining to a single family or stock, or to development from a single common parent form; opposed to polyphyletic; as, monophyletic origin. polyphyletic; as, monophyletic origin.""

Likely to control a market

Adjective (-ic)

It is, although isn't

Using only words like yes and no

Like John, Paul, or George, but not Ringo, speaking briefly (wordplay)

Having one neural synapse.

Judeo-Christian, for example

Form ()

MYELOBLAST

Egotistical

Based on real life

Imitating real life

True-to-life representation of acts in ritual

NATUROPATH

Sexual pervert in police car, terribly hard to keep in

NEGATIVIST

REALISTIC Of or pertaining to the realists; in the manner of the realists; characterized by realism rather than by imagination.

NEPHELINITE

Pl. nephropathies A disease or abnormality of the kidney.

""A psychological disorder characterized by chronic fatigue and weakness, loss of memory, and generalized aches and pains, formerly thought to result from exhaustion of the nervous system. No longer in scientific use.""

NEUTRALIST A neutral; one who professes or practices neutrality.

""NEUTROPHILE One of a group of leukocytes whose granules stain only with neutral dyes; it is the chief phagocytic leukocyte in the circulating blood, comprising from 54% to 65% of the total number of leukocytes.""

Of or pertaining to the Nominalists.

ADIABATIC Not giving out or receiving heat.

Inflected form of AESTHETIC Inflected form of AESTHETE a person who affects an extravagant love of art

Soft (drink)

Virgin, to a bartender

Unlike most things sold in bars, like chocolate

ANTIGENIC

Same as hand-operated.hand-operated.

""Inflected form of ENZYMATIC Inflected form of ENZYME a complex protein, also ENZYM""

HEMOLYTIC of or pertaining to hemolysis; causing hemolysis.

""METAMERIC 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.""

Not parasitic.

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

REALISTIC Of or pertaining to the realists; in the manner of the realists; characterized by realism rather than by imagination.

Without any long-term focus

SYMMETRIC Symmetrical.

A condition of normal body temperature.

NUCLEOPHILE

Under the influence of nympholepsy; ecstatic; frenzied.

Many champion dissolute sex addict

Also octosyllabic ( k t -s -l b k) a. A line of verse containing eight syllables.

Lacking in plant nutrients and having a large amount of dissolved oxygen throughout. Used of a pond or lake.

Sounding like its meaning

""Making an impression upon an organ; plastic; said of the effect or impression produced by any substance on the organs of touch, taste, or smell, and also on the organism as a whole.""

The branch of zoology that deals with the study of birds.

""Biology progressive evolution, leading to the development of a new form, as can be seen through successive generations. See also society . ; orthogenetic , adj . Evolution the sociological theory that all cultures or societies follow the same fixed course of determinate evolution. See also evolution . ; orthogenetic,""

""ORTHOGRAPH An orthographic projection, sometimes partly in section, esp. of a building.""

Noting the system of crystallization which has three unequal axes at right angles to each other; trimetric. See Crystallization. Crystallization.

""OSTEOBLAST One of the protoplasmic cells which occur in the osteogenetic layer of the periosteum, and from or around which the matrix of the bone is developed; an osteoplast.""

OSTEOCLAST A myeloplax.

""Producing bone; as, osteoplastic cells. as, osteoplastic cells.""

""Pl. osteoporoses (-s z) A disease in which the bones become extremely porous, are subject to fracture, and heal slowly, occurring especially in women following menopause and often leading to curvature of the spine from vertebral collapse.""

DRAMATIC pertaining to {drama=n}

Excessively emphatic.

Adjective (-ic)

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) the resemblance of adult animals to the young of their ancestors: seen in the evolution of modern man, who shows resemblances to the young stages of australopithecines""

Fossils

""The study and scholarly interpretation of earlier, especially ancient, writing and forms of writing.""

""Of or pertaining to palingenesis: as, a palingenetic process. as, a palingenetic process.""

Kind of film that gets romantic chap excited

""PANTOGRAPH An instrument for copying plans, maps, and other drawings, on the same, or on a reduced or an enlarged, scale.""

""A writer of memoirs of religious persona, as examples of Christian excellence.""

Weakly attracted by poles

PARAPHRAST A paraphraser.

Word play; punning.

Pathogenic.

""PERIPHRASE The use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; a roundabout, or indirect, way of speaking; circumlocution.""

""The branch of petrology that deals with the origin of rocks, especially igneous rocks.""

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.""

PHENOCRYST One of the prominent embedded crystals of a porphyry.

Men's club musician (wordplay)

Orchestra's man arranged main orch.

Devoted to music

Of or pertaining to philhellenism.

""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

""Pertaining to phosphorite; resembling, or of the nature of, phosphorite.""

""(Physics / General Physics) (of glass) changing colour with the intensity of incident light, used, for example, in sunglasses that darken as the sunlight becomes brighter""

Of or relating to the energy of light.

Exact (of memory)

Like a retentive memory

Pictured accurately in detail

Motion ()

Of or pertaining to the photosphere.

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

Of or pertaining to phyllotaxy.

""Relating to phylogenesis, or the race history of a type of organism.""

""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.""

Pl. physiognomies a. The art of judging human character from facial features.