2-Letter Words Ending in C

Sophistic, involved argumentation

Overly complicated argumentation

One who bandies words Shakespeare.

CHORION an embryonic membrane

Trim coach (anagram)

Progressing by half tones

Relating to or characterised by colours

""Pertaining to, caused by, or affected with, cirrhosis; as, cirrhotic degeneration; a cirrhotic liver. as, cirrhotic degeneration; a cirrhotic liver.""

CISTRON a segment of DNA

Capable of communicating color or tint to other bodies.

First-rate Slang

Just fine, thank you

Fine and dandy

Fine and dandy variable

Fine and dandy

Just fine, slangily

Fine and dandy variable

Fine and dandy Var.

COULOMB an electrical measure

Requiring low temperatures

Relating to very low temperatures

Slippery icy conger kept at low temperatures

""The branch of biology that deals with the formation, structure, and function of cells.""

The dissolution or destruction of a cell.

CYTOSOL the fluid portion of cell material

""Of, relating to, or producing a toxic effect on cells.""

By way of being a teacher

Rabble-rousing

Agog in half a hundred like any schoolmaster

Part of a heart rhythm

I slid coat off, relaxed after being pumped up (wordplay)

Injecting iodine into clot aids dispersing of cardiac dilation

Having the property of dimorphism; dimorphous.

DIOPSIDE a mineral

DIPLONT an organism with a particular chromosomal structure

Derived from two separately fertilised eggs

""Of the nature of dolerite; as, much lava is doleritic lava. as, much lava is doleritic lava.""

Pertaining to dolomite.

""An emotional state characterized by anxiety, depression, or unease.""

Speech

One who says "irate" (wordplay)

Incessant self-Googler, perhaps

Vanity case (wordplay)

Suffering from "I" strain (wordplay)

Cities got all puffed up

Of blind conceit.

In an early stage.

In early stage of development

At an early stage

Occurring with absorption of energy.

Of processes of change within the earth

A toxin produced by certain bacteria and released upon destruction of the bacterial cell.

Affecting a large number of animals at the same time within a particular region or geographic area. Used of a disease.

EPSILON a Greek letter

Like a good office chair, perhaps

Like some chairs

Built for comfort

Assigning a cause to

EU photo captures Tory rebels being tolerant of different conditions

""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.""

EXCITON a combination of excited electron and hole

Releasing energy.

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

FLORIST a grower or seller of flowers

""FLUOR a mineral form of calcium fluoride, also FLUORITE""

Traditional, in a way

Definition of some traditional music, speaking ill of rock, perhaps

Produced by mechanically followed rules

Unimaginative motor-racing clubs

Too predictable, as a plot

""FUMAROLE a hole which emits volcanic vapours, also FUMEROLE""

""GASOLINE a liquid fuel, also GASOLENE""

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

GOLIARD a medieval student who indulged in goliardy

HAPLONT an organism with a particular chromosomal structure

Chime gone off, denoting leadership in the league

Ruling.

Of or pertaining to hemolysis; causing hemolysis.

HETERO a heterosexual

Adjective (-ic)

HOLOTYPE the original type specimen of an animal or plant

Of the art of preaching

Of the preaching arts

Adjective (-ic)

HOMONYM a word similar in structure to another

Title expressing respect

Showing respect of choir in broadcast

Title of respect

HYPEROPE a farsighted person

MANIC one who is affected with mania

Low in tension, as muscles

Fixer to note: this is lacking muscle tone

Adjective (-ic)

Concerned with ideas.

Visionary

Like climbing the walls (wordplay)

Of language style

Having a distinct style

Rued this, by the sound of it

Seems I am tactful, but not likewise

Not prudent

Not carbonated (wordplay)

Non-carbon (chemistry)

Branch of chemistry

""Affecting the contraction of muscle, especially heart muscle: an inotropic drug.""

One watching a TV test pattern, perhaps

Late Late Show viewer, maybe

One to be out all night? Most unlikely!

Adjective (-ic)

Adjective (-ic)

Exercises that add centimetres!

Form of eroticism in exercising muscles

Having equal dimensions

""Having equal density, as different regions of a medium; passing through points at which the density is equal; as, an isopycnic line or surface. as, an isopycnic line or surface.""

Having the same or equal osmotic pressure; isotonic; -- used of solutions. Contrasted with hypertonic and hypotonichypertonic and hypotonic

Under equal pressure from every side.

One like this still in a state of equilibrium

(Chemistry) Chem (of a stereospecific polymer) having identical steric configurations of the groups on each asymmetric carbon atom on the chain Compare syndiotactic

Uniform in all directions

Having the same properties irrespective of direction

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

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

LATOSOL a tropical soil

LIMONITE a major ore of iron

Pl. lipolyses (-s z ) The hydrolysis of lipids.

Verse ()

LYOPHILE pertaining to a type of colloid

LYOPHOBE not readily dispersed

Harboring a temperate virus

Characterized by a mixture of languages.

Hodgepodge, as the etymology of a word

A comic ran about like 'Michelle, ma belle ... '

"", Melanistic.""

Kind of weight loss

Pertaining to chemical processes of life

Of an energy-giving process.

METONYM a word used in metonymy

What Don Juan wasn't

MITOGEN a substance the induces mitosis

Roman building with style of kings

Of hereditary rule

Lisa perhaps, right in fashion like a queen

""Consisting of, or containing, one atom; as, the molecule of mercury is monatomic. as, the molecule of mercury is monatomic.""

""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.

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

Of or pertaining to myopathia.

From the later stone age

Of the late Stone Age.

Period beginning about 8,000 B.C.

13, quarantined from relation, suggestive of kidney disease

""NEUTRON a subatomic particle, also NEUTRINO""

""Pertaining to, or derived from, nicotine; nicotic; used specifically to designate an acid related to pyridine, obtained by the oxidation of nicotine, and called nicotinic acid. nicotinic acid.""

Like some paper

ATOMIC relating to an atom

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

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}

Private

Disease and Illness

Clings to a miserable yearning

Longing for the past

Fondly remembering the past

NUCLEON a subatomic particle

In the matter of deliverance, perhaps

Relating to childbirth

Bit with corset strained from childbirth

Possibly contains one like Portnoy

ONCOGENE a gene that causes a cell to become cancerous

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

Pertaining to proper names

Like a secondhand signature on a sitcom rewrite

Of names

Biology

Tragic love is crazy and wild

Like a really wild party

Of frantic unrestrained celebrations

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

OTOCYST an organ of balance in many invertabrates

OTOLITH a hard mass that forms in the inner ear

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

All-round (view)

Type of camera

Like a scenic view

Having an affinity for or indiscriminately affecting many kinds of tissue: pantropic viruses.

Like a curve or allegory

Like a type of curve

Expressed allegorically.

Delusional one

Person suffering from delusions of persecution

Sufferer from desusions of grandeur or persecution

Tincture of opium.

Pain reliever

Inverted headgear in which one received, radiophonically, a palliative

Like country fans (wordplay)

Typical of the country-lover (wordplay)

Having love for one's country

Relating to teaching

Picky journalist keen to appear in film

Educational.

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""

As old leaders of poverty hit and repressively armed oil nation in crisis

Adjective (-ic)

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

Excessively abundant

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

ATOMIC relating to an atom

Of time before appearance of living things

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

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.

How some people wax (wordplay)

Expressing ecstatic feeling

Exalted description of Liszt piece

RHYOLITE a volcanic rock

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

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.

""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

Digestive medicine for cat in African country is fashionable

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

Mutually beneficial

Of different organisms, living together for mutual benefit

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

Relating to classification

Of classes

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