2-Letter Words Ending in C

MELANITE a black variety of garnet

"", Melanistic.""

Kind of weight loss

Pertaining to chemical processes of life

Of an energy-giving process.

Breaking down or hydrolyzing mucus or mucopolysaccharides.

""A sudden twitching of muscles or parts of muscles, without any rhythm or pattern, occurring in various brain disorders.""

From the later stone age

Of the late Stone Age.

Period beginning about 8,000 B.C.

Of nerve pain

Gain ulcer, resulting in nervous pain

Going over university clearing turned out painful

Not occurring in cycles; not cyclic. Opposite of cyclic.cyclic.

Private

Disease and Illness

Clings to a miserable yearning

Longing for the past

Fondly remembering the past

NUCLEON a subatomic particle

""The branch of medicine that deals with tumors, including study of their development, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.""

OTOLITH a hard mass that forms in the inner ear

""OXYPHILE an organism that thrives on an acid environment, also OXYPHIL""

Like a curve or allegory

Like a type of curve

Expressed allegorically.

Drunk (informal)

Drunk city batsman quietly uplifted

Smashed CIA, partly struggling

PEARLITE a cast iron alloy

PEDOCAL a type of soil

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

Royal to snap, giving rise to invective

Name-calling speech.

Denunciatory speech

""One who has lost his hair by disease; a sneaking fellow, or one who is hardly used.""

""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.""

GAMIC requiring fertilisation

Of or relating to polygeny; polygenetic.

Like nylon, chemically

Polytechnic type almost in charge of many subdivisions

""EXILIC pertaining to exile, also EXILIAN""

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""

Decomposition or transformation of a compound caused by heat.

What Borges' magic may be (wordplay)

It is clear (anagram)

Like Zola or Flaubert works

RHYOLITE a volcanic rock

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""

""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.

Pencil set (anagram)

Being irritable, select pin differently

There's a splice around the cross net

Artistic city's redesigned around tip

Pertaining to literary design or appearance

Rhetorical

""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.""

Contractile

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 the study of religion and revelation

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

CYCLIC moving in complete circles

""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""

Excreting urea as the chief component of nitrogenous waste.

Medical Specialties

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

""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.""

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

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

Done in low relief, as a cameo

Of or pertaining to anaplasty.

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

Preventing or reducing anxiety; antianxiety.

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

Neuralgic pain in a joint or joints.

Adjective (-ic)

AXOPLASM the cytoplasm of an axon

BASOPHILE

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

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.

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.""

""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.""

Millenarian.

An addict always at the bar (wordplay)

One needing kisses, say

One who can't resist Hershey's, say

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

COLORIST a person skilled in the use of color

""Containing, pertaining to, or of the nature of, coprolites.""

Having an affinity for or thriving at low temperatures.

Containing all branches of knowledge

Representation

Adjective (-ic)

Having an affinity for cells.

Insulator, derelict IC (anagram)

DILEMMA a perplexing situation

Descended from two ancestral lines or individuals.

Tactful negotiator in charge

Prudent to claim foul after drop

College choice for jerk is sensitive

Detectives welcoming one black friend's return with spondee, say

""Abnormal development or growth of tissues, organs, or cells.""

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

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

""Of or relating to, or consisting of, the epiblast.""

""Pertaining to, or connected with, the epiglottis.""

Of or relating to the part of the oceanic zone into which enough sunlight enters for photosynthesis to take place.

Relating to study of various peoples

Being enthusiastic with detailed planning after European Union

FABULIST a {liar=n}

Adjective (-ic)

Believing in the inevitability of events

Accepting the inevitable.

Not believing a lot can be changed

FLORIGEN a plant hormone

Famous person among group of workers in charge of nerve centre

""GLUCOSIDE One of a large series of amorphous or crystalline substances, occurring very widely distributed in plants, rarely in animals, and regarded as influental agents in the formation and disposition of the sugars. They are frequently of a bitter taste, but, by the action of ferments, or of dilute acids and alkalies, always break down into some characteristic substance (acid, aldehyde, alcohol, phenole, or alkaloid) and glucose (or some other sugar); hence the name. They are of the nature of complex and compound ethers, and ethereal salts of the sugar carbohydrates. glucose (or some other sugar); hence the name. They are of the nature of complex and compound ethers, and ethereal salts of the sugar carbohydrates.""

""GLYCERIDE A compound ether (formed from glycerin). Some glycerides exist ready formed as natural fats, others are produced artificially. glycerin). Some glycerides exist ready formed as natural fats, others are produced artificially.""

GLYCOL an {alcohol=n}

GLYCOSIDE

""GRANULITE A whitish, granular rock, consisting of feldspar and quartz intimately mixed; sometimes called whitestone, and leptynite.""

Saints

HALOPHILE

""HALOPHYTE A plant found growing in salt marshes, or in the sea.""

""Of or relating to worms, or Helminthes; expelling worms.""

Paralysis affecting only one side of the body.

""Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or afflicted with hemophilia; hemophiliac.""

Pl. histologies The anatomical study of the microscopic structure of animal and plant tissues.

Wholly or distinctively vegetable.

Water

Tending to remove or separate water; eliminating water.

HYDROSOL an aqueous solution of a colloid

HYDROXYL the group containing oxygen and hydrogen

Over the top

Type of geometry

Like some geometric curves

HYPERGOL a rocket fuel

High-minded - italicised (anagram)

Utopian cities laid out

Striving for perfection

Adjective (-ic)

ISOGLOSS a line indicating linguistically varied areas

ISOPLETH a type of {isogram=n}

KAOLINITE

Adjective (-ic)

English word

Inducing lactation.

Disease and Illness

Adjective (-ic)

Fussy about rules

Excessively adhering to the law

Formal to a fault

LEUKOCYTE

An abnormally low number of white blood cells in the circulating blood.

Adjective (-ic)

Related to speech

Belonging to language.

Relating to language

Having an affinity for lipids; -- of chemical substances or parts of molecules. Contrasted to lipophobic or polar.lipophobic or polar.

Having an affinity for lipids.

Rocky, light and cool, I suspect

""Excessive, uncontrollable, or incoherent talkativeness""

Adjective (-ic)

Secondary fermentation

Like Stonehenge

Affected with melanism; of the nature of melanism.

With multiple notes sung to one syllable

""Having one oblique intersection; said of that system of crystallization in which the vertical axis is inclined to one, but at right angles to the other, lateral axis. See Crystallization. Crystallization.""

Having one ring of atoms in the molecule

Immovably massive

Monumental record ignited this as the Romans said

MONOSTELE

Pronouncing on issues of right and wrong

Upright, to a fault

Righteously ethical

Adjective (-ic)

MYELOCYTE

""Of, relating to, or recorded in myths or mythology.""

Revivalist (art)

Recreating ancient motifs

In a style revived from the past

English word

""Of or pertaining to neoplasty, or neoplasia.""

NEPHELINE

The medical science that deals with the nervous system and disorders affecting it.

*Believing in nothing

Believing in nothing

Rejecting all values

ALLELIC pertaining to {allele=n}

CALORIC heat

Twine, as opposed to rubber bands

PLASTIC a synthetic mouldable substance

NOVELIST one who writes novels

Relating to rule by a few

Of a tightknit ruling group

OLIGOMER a type of complex chemical compound

OLIVINE a mineral

Chimp loath to get hit about the eye

Located in the region of the eye

Regarding the eyes, doubly hard to claim pension, initially, after surgery

Blame taken by feeble soldier about having immobilised lower section

Of or relating to pathology.

PEDOPHILE A person who has pedophilia.

PERICYCLE

PETROL to supply with petrol (gasoline)

Drunken hack almost lit pile of stamps

Relating to postage stamps

For stamp collectors

Being thus makes the GP calm, I fancy

Precarious plight came without emotion

Calm on pitch with game left in the air

""Of or pertaining to phlogiston, or to belief in its existence.""

Pl. phonologies The study of speech sounds in language or a language with reference to their distribution and patterning and to tacit rules governing pronunciation.

""Decaying the breakdown of matter or materials under the influence of light. ; photolytic , adj . Light ()""

PLANKTON the minute animal and plant life of a body of water

Having the property of pleochroism.