2-Letter Words Ending in C

""Capable of being neutralized by a univalent base or basic radical; having but one acid hydrogen atom to be replaced; said of acids; as, acetic, nitric, and hydrochloric acids are monobasic. as, acetic, nitric, and hydrochloric acids are monobasic.""

MONOCYTE a type of white blood cell

""Pertaining to, or involving, monogamy.""

Of or pertaining to monogenesis.

Like molecules that can bond in a polymer

MONOSOME an unpaired chromosome

Uttered in a dull way

Unvarying in pitch

Love to get boost after day lacking variety

""Having but one type; containing but one representative; as, a monotypic genus, which contains but one species.as, a monotypic genus, which contains but one species.""

Of or pertaining to a morpheme.

Breaking down or hydrolyzing mucus or mucopolysaccharides.

MUTAGEN a substance that causes biological mutation

Causing dilatation of the pupil.

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

Of or pertaining to myopathia.

ATOMIC relating to an atom

METRIC a standard of measurement

""A rapid, involuntary, oscillatory motion of the eyeball.""

Pertaining to proper names

Like a secondhand signature on a sitcom rewrite

Of names

Random mating within a breeding population.

All-round (view)

Type of camera

Like a scenic view

One looking for signs of life (wordplay)

One seeking signs of life (wordplay)

Ambulatory staff (wordplay)

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

Using air (or a similar gas)

Kind of drill or tire

Type of tire.

Of or pertaining to the lungs; pulmonic.

GAMIC requiring fertilisation

Like nylon, chemically

Sensible MP with a tragic undoing

Matter-of-fact.

Matter-of-fact

ATOMIC relating to an atom

Producing rainbow colors, say

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

Rainbow-hued

Kind of fever - irate chum (anagram)

Afflicted with pain in joints etc

Affected by an inflammatory disease

Graphic new form of catechism

Catechism (anagram)

Catechism (anagram) - of a diagram

""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)

In a total mess

Chaotic and inefficient

Confused clash involving mob I fancy

SMECTITE a clayey mineral

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

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.""

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

Very tiny coat - bum is suffering!

Smaller than small

Like a quark

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

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

Strong-smelling gum resin

Relating to classification

Of classes

TOPONYM the name of a place

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

""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 .""

DYNAMIC a physical force

All about the cheekbone

Colourless church with scent outside

Colorless.

A dreamer with no name embraces church, having no shade

Like a city father with a clear mind

Local official's frenzied, hiding behind tree

Of or pertaining to allometry.

Could be ARIA 1100 HELP

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.""

Aiding the memory

Kind of lens used by moviemakers

DROMIC pertaining to a race-course

Same as Antemetic. Antemetic.

""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)

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

Not right insight (wordplay)

Suffering distortions of vision

Having double-vision

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.

AXOPLASM the cytoplasm of an axon

Of or pertaining to bacteremia.

Type of pressure

It's measured by the glass

Like some pressure

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.""

BIOMORPH a decorative image of a living thing

Of or pertaining to a bolometer.

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

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

Produced by cosmic rays.

Pl. cosmogonies The astrophysical study of the origin and evolution of the universe.

Representation

Adjective (-ic)

""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

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

DILEMMA a perplexing situation

Tactful negotiator in charge

Prudent to claim foul after drop

College choice for jerk is sensitive

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

DYNAMIST an adherent of {dynamism=n}

Pertaining to ecchymosis.

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.""

Relative of chromatic.

Having the same pitch but written differently, in a score

Of an embryonic layer

An instrument for measuring the amount of work done by a muscle or group of muscles.

""1. having a pleasing and harmonious rhythm, order, or structure""

Like some reactions

Releasing energy, as a chemical reaction

Adjective (-ic)

Iron skirts? Time, I see, to be demanding women's rights

Of or resembling the earth or its shape or surface configuration.

""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.""

Styptic

HERMAE herma

HEROIC an epic verse

Like John Singer Sargent's "Male Nudes Wrestling"

Like much of Shakespeare's and Sappho's love poetry

Disliking or fearing homosexuals to an unreasonable degree.

HOMOPHONE A letter or character which expresses a like sound with another.

Cultural

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a humorist.""

MANIC one who is affected with mania

Like a flu shot

Type of syringe

Kind of needle

IDEOGRAM a type of written symbol

Discordant

Dissonant

ISOENZYME

Of the conjugation of two similar reproductive cells

Isomorphous.

KERYGMA the early preaching of the Christian gospel

Adjective (-ic)

Adjective (-ic)

""MACROCYTE An abnormally large red blood cell, associated with pernicious anemia.""

""Resembling, or pertaining to, the genus Madrepora.Madrepora.""

Secondary fermentation

Appropriate or peculiar to a mandarin.

Araucaria absent in exam about dealing with comparison of pressures

Of or pertaining to the masseter.

MASTODON an extinct elephant-like mammal

See Mathematical. Mathematical.

Name deriving from female ancestor; my, romantic (anagram)

MEDIAE media

Like Stonehenge

One million parsecs.

""MEGAPHONE A device to magnify sound, or direct it in a given direction in a greater volume, as a very large funnel used as an ear trumpet or as a speaking trumpet.""

""MEGASCOPE A modification of the magic lantern, used esp. for throwing a magnified image of an opaque object on a screen, solar or artificial light being used.""

MEGASPORE

Affected with melanism; of the nature of melanism.

With multiple notes sung to one syllable

MENING mene

Pertaining to a mesentery; mesaraic.

MESOPHYTE

Like "chariot of fire" for the sun

Not literal

Figurative way to omit chapter where model disappears

Philosophical groundwork

In what orchestras make, the pay varies - there's no universal system of thought

""Of, pertaining to, or caused by, metastasis; as, a metastatic abscess; the metastatic processes of growth. as, a metastatic abscess; the metastatic processes of growth.""

METATE a stone used for grinding grains

Of a space-travelling object that has fallen to earth

""METRONOME An instrument consisting of a short pendulum with a sliding weight. It is set in motion by clockwork, and serves to measure time in music.""

""MICROCYTE One of the elementary granules found in blood. They are much smaller than an ordinary corpuscle, and are particularly noticeable in disease, as in an\'91mia.""

""Of, or relating to, a mobocracy.""

""MONOACID a type of acid, also MONACID""

MONOCARP a plant that yields fruit only once before dying

""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.""

Relating to a government whose leader has absolute power

Having one ring of atoms in the molecule

Containing one replaceable atom of hydrogen.

Immovably massive

Monumental record ignited this as the Romans said

Fitness freak, for one

Person obsessed with one issue

Obsessive type

Like most 1950s recordings

MONOSTELE

Pronouncing on issues of right and wrong

Upright, to a fault

Righteously ethical

Of a form of marriage

Kind of marriage.

Of a kind of royal marriage

Adjective (-ic)

MUSCARINE

Abnormal muscular weakness or fatigue.

MYELOCYTE

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

Of or relating to the making of myths.

NOMOTHETE A lawgiver.

ENZYMIC pertaining to an {enzyme=n}

MIMETIC resembling {mimesis=n}

Pertaining to collectors' items.

Relating to coins or currency

Of coins

OLIGOMER a type of complex chemical compound

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

Hopeful and confident

Happy-go-lucky

When Mr. Tebow is hopeful, he feels...

The practice or profession of an optometrist.

ORGANISM any form of animal or plant life

Instruments ()

Like plastic silverware

Of wordless expression

Rubbish for parodying, like some theatrical entertainment

""Mathematics a. A constant in an equation that varies in other equations of the same general form, especially such a constant in the equation of a curve or surface that can be varied to represent a family of curves or surfaces.""

Russian middle name

Sort of name unusual for Cypriot man

Name derived from forefather

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, pegmatite; as, the pegmatic structure of certain rocks resembling graphic granite. as, the pegmatic structure of certain rocks resembling graphic granite.""

Spectral tailless rodents seen by parking area in southern county

Eerie

Being thus makes the GP calm, I fancy

Precarious plight came without emotion

Calm on pitch with game left in the air

PHONEME a unit of speech

Having more than one atom in the molecule; consisting of several atoms.

Pertaining to polymathy; acquainted with many branches of learning.

Adjective (-ic)

MEIOTIC pertaining to {meiosis=n}

MYCOTIC pertaining to {mycosis=n}

One who loves lighting (wordplay)

One who goes up on flames (wordplay)

He's a flaming nutter!

Any of various thermometers used for measuring high temperatures.

Causing division in the RC Church

Favouring separation from a church

Singular elegance about theory volunteers rejected being fractious (wordplay)

PUBLIC people as a whole