2-Letter Words Ending in C

Adjective (-ic)

""Composed of, containing, or resembling, pisolite.""

""PLASMA the liquid part of the blood, also PLASM""

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.

PODIA podium

GAMIC requiring fertilisation

Of or relating to polygeny; polygenetic.

Like nylon, chemically

Polytechnic type almost in charge of many subdivisions

Sensible MP with a tragic undoing

Matter-of-fact.

Matter-of-fact

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""

Producing rainbow colors, say

Is Ma with it in a crisp, light way (wordplay)

Rainbow-hued

Leaning forward; said of certain monosyllabic words which are so closely attached to the following word as not to have a separate accent.

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

PROPHASE the first stage in mitosis

For seeing sound (wordplay)

Criminal hit copper - that's ominous!

Telling of tomorrow

Of or pertaining to the prostate gland.

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

A noncontagious inflammatory skin disease characterized by recurring reddish patches covered with silvery scales.

Itchy cops (anagram)

Like Hannibal Lecter

Out of touch with reality

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

Decomposition or transformation of a compound caused by heat.

Containing pyroxene; composed chiefly of pyroxene.

Kind of equation graphed as a parabola

Type of algebraic equation

Like some equations solved in Algebra I

What Borges' magic may be (wordplay)

It is clear (anagram)

Like Zola or Flaubert works

How some people wax (wordplay)

Expressing ecstatic feeling

Exalted description of Liszt piece

Kind of fever - irate chum (anagram)

Afflicted with pain in joints etc

Affected by an inflammatory disease

RHYOLITE a volcanic rock

""Obtaining nourishment by absorption of dissolved organic and inorganic materials, as in protozoans and some fungi.""

Snidely stated, perhaps

Full of barbs

Using mocking wit

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

""Body, Human""

Descriptive of a scurvy knave (wordplay)

What a scurvy knave may be

""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.""

In a total mess

Chaotic and inefficient

Confused clash involving mob I fancy

A disease of the lungs caused by continued inhalation of the dust of siliceous minerals and characterized by progressive fibrosis and a chronic shortness of breath.

SMECTITE a clayey mineral

""SODOMITE one who practices sodomy, also SODOMIST""

SOPHIST one who use sophisms

Poor sci-fi rerun sending one to sleep

Inducing drowsiness or sleep

That's enough to make one drop off

Done in short bursts

Done in brief irregular bursts

Faulty compass I'd disconnected

""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

Slugging percentage, for one

R.B.I., for one

E.g. crime figure

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

STEMMA a family tree

A notorious profligate or criminal who has been branded; one who bears the marks of infamy or punishment.

Digestive medicine for cat in African country is fashionable

The "S" in SALT

Forming part of a long-term plan

Of military importance.

Artistic city's redesigned around tip

Pertaining to literary design or appearance

Rhetorical

Designating Greenland, Baffin Land, etc

Very tiny coat - bum is suffering!

Smaller than small

Like a quark

TROPIC an imaginary circle on the celestial sphere

Singular bubble with incomplete opening will make one sweat

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

Sensuous city bar is demolished

Affording, enjoying, luxury

Devoted to luxury

""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.""

Mutually beneficial

Of different organisms, living together for mutual benefit

Equally balanced

Evenly proportioned.

Well proportioned

Ecology Occupying the same or overlapping geographic areas without interbreeding. Used of populations of closely related species.

Like some music? My, Chopin's fantastic!

My! Chopin's unusually melodic

Like a major classical music form

""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.""

Cynic heard about my refusal to come up with the same definition

Relating to language structure

Random choice of Smollett

Clerical doctor has a bit of a scheme concerned with aspect of language

Man-made (fibre)

Artificially-made compound

Dacron, for example

Contractile

Relating to classification

Of classes

Looking good on the tube, say

Suitable for box cameras (wordplay)

Made for the screen

Of seas, especially if small or inland

Not entirely gormless, clasping a girl of the seas

Of the seas, especially those that are small or inland

Of or relating to theogony.

Of the study of religion and revelation

Impractical heretic to change

Concerned with hypotheses

Not practical

Elegiac

TOPONYM the name of a place

Typical of sightseers

Producing poison; toxicogenic.

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, trachyte.""

Of aeronautical speeds.

Close to speed of sound

Prepares in cartons really fast

Shocking so to cut it with a ram

Painful, in a way

Likely to scar

Like water and carbon dioxide

Description of a molecule such as water

Water is converting it to air, absorbing mass at the speed of light

""Having, or characterized by, three unequal axes intersecting at oblique angles. See the Note under crystallization. crystallization.""

CYCLIC moving in complete circles

TROPIST a user of tropes

""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 .""

""ULTRA an advocate of extreme measures, also ULTRAIST""

DYNAMIC a physical force

Excreting urea as the chief component of nitrogenous waste.

""UTOPIST one who believes in the perfectibility of human society, also UTOPIAN""

""Overactivity or irritability of the vagus nerve, adversely affecting function of the blood vessels, stomach, and muscles.""

""VIBRION a bacterium with a slight spiral curve, also VIBRIO""

Digital media item

Outmoded home entertainment medium

DVD component

Medical Specialties

VIRTUOSI virtuoso

Cruelly savage (criticism)

Civil riot can be expressive of ill will

Capable of destroying by chemical action

WHOLIST a believer of holism

ZOOPHILE a lover of animals

""ZOOSPORE a swarm-spore, also ZOOSPERM""

All about the cheekbone

""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.""

Colourless church with scent outside

Colorless.

A dreamer with no name embraces church, having no shade

ACTIVIST an advocate of {activism=n}

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

Affected with albinism.

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.

""Ecology Occurring in separate, nonoverlapping geographic areas. Often used of populations of related organisms unable to crossbreed because of geographic separation.""

Of or pertaining to an allophone.

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.

Zero latitude given to everybody, in more than one form

Everything round earthly circle existing in more than one form

A couple of lines? Old line on map taking more than one form

Arranged just like these words? Yes!

Like some codes

Like characters in a script

Could be ARIA 1100 HELP

Unselfish liars? Cut it out!

Concerned for others' wellbeing

Hardly selfish

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

""Effecting the conversion of starch into soluble dextrin and sugar; as, an amylolytic ferment. as, an amylolytic ferment.""

Discrepancy between the chronological order of events and the order in which they are related in a plot.

Done in low relief, as a cameo

Aiding the memory

Kind of lens used by moviemakers

Of or pertaining to anaplasty.

Reclusive.

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.

""Pertaining to, or after the manner of, an annalist; as, the dry annalistic style. as, the dry annalistic style.""

""ANORTHITE A mineral of the feldspar family, commonly occurring in small glassy crystals, also a constituent of some igneous rocks. It is a lime feldspar. See Feldspar. Feldspar.""

Treatment for bacterial infections

Medicine destroying micro-organisms

Substance that destroys bacteria

DROMIC pertaining to a race-course

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.

Counteracting electrical build-up

Kind of carpet

Tending to resist charge build-up

Exactly opposite.

Opposite

Preventing or reducing anxiety; antianxiety.

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

Inclined to quote maxims

Like an adage

Expressed pithily.

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.""

Intended to ward off evil: an apotropaic symbol.

""ARAGONITE A mineral identical in composition with calcite or carbonate of lime, but differing from it in its crystalline form and some of its physical characters.""

""Like, or imitative of, anything archaic; pertaining to an archaism.""

Activity for summer (wordplay)

Field of operations (wordplay)

R without an apostrophe (wordplay)

Lacking rhythm or regularity of rhythm: "a slight arrhythmic imperfection when the car idles" (Garrison Keillor).

Neuralgic pain in a joint or joints.

ASCOCARP a spore-producing organ of certain fungi

ASCOSPORE One of the spores contained in the asci of lichens and fungi.

Not right insight (wordplay)

Suffering distortions of vision

Having double-vision

ASTROCYTE a large star-shaped neuroglial cell in nervous tissue.

Sky-high (colloq.)

Extremely large (colloq.)

It can be so romantic - really great!

Not regularly shaped

Not perfectly balanced

Like this puzzle's grid

Type of curve, in math.

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

Adjective (-ic)

Of or pertaining to austenite.

Having absolute power

Like Holmes's breakfast-table man

Croatia cut out being dictatorial

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

AXOPLASM the cytoplasm of an axon

Of or pertaining to bacteremia.

Type of pressure

It's measured by the glass

Like some pressure

BASOPHILE

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

""Of or relating to the study of the effects of dynamic processes, such as motion or acceleration, on living organisms.""

Like Ernst Haeckel's law

BIOGRAPH to write a biography of

BIOMORPH a decorative image of a living thing

BIOSPHERE

A disc-shaped layer of cells on the surface of the yolk mass of an egg (such as that of a bird) which develops to form the embryo.

Of or pertaining to a bolometer.

""Of or pertaining to bronchitis; as, bronchitic inflammation. as, bronchitic inflammation.""

Of or pertaining to bryophytes.

Having a hidden meaning

CARBONYL a chemical compound

""Of or pertaining to the carboxyl group; having a carboxyl group (written -COOH, -CO2H or -CO.OH); as, carboxylic acids are weakly acidic.carboxyl group; having a carboxyl group (written -COOH, -CO2H or -CO.OH); as, carboxylic acids are weakly acidic.""

""(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

Used as a cataphor [adj] : CATAPHORICALLY

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

""CHIASMA a connection formed during meiosis, also CHIASM""

Millenarian.

An addict always at the bar (wordplay)

One needing kisses, say

One who can't resist Hershey's, say