2-Letter Words Ending in C

ALLERGIC a person with an allergy

ANALYTIC a scheme of analytical logic

ANATOMIC pertaining to {anatomy=n}

AROMATIC a fragrant substance

ARTISTIC pertaining to {art=n}

ATHLETIC relating to vigorous physical exercise

DIABETIC one who has diabetes

DIDACTIC instructive

DOGMATIC overbearing

DOMESTIC a household servant

DRAMATIC pertaining to {drama=n}

ECONOMIC relating to finance

""A substance that is not an electric; that which transmits electricity, as a metal.""

EMPHATIC stressed forcibly

HARMONIC an {overtone=n}

""MAGNETIC a metal that attracts iron, also MAGNET""

Like many elements are

OPERATIC the technique of staging operas

ORGASMIC pertaining to orgasm

PHONEMIC pertaining to {phoneme=n}

PHONETIC pertaining to speech sounds

Not assignable to a particular cause (med.)

Fellow found among unusually nice cops in general

SYLLABIC a speech sound of high sonority

SYMBOLIC pertaining to a symbol

SYSTEMIC a type of pesticide

THEISTIC pertaining to a {theist=n}

VOLCANIC a rock produced by a volcano

OBSCURANT One who obscures; one who prevents enlightenment or hinders the progress of knowledge and wisdom.

OCHLOCRAT

""Of or pertaining to ontogenesis; as, ontogenetic phenomena. as, ontogenetic phenomena.""

Adjective (-ic)

Relating to treatment of teeth/jaw irregularities

Killer keeps awfully hot - do I not? - aiming for straight sets

Making pegs fit in, doctor having difficulties introduces nevertheless

Dealing with treatment of bones

Of treatment of bones, muscles

Concerning the treatment of bones and muscles

""Giving an image in correct or normal proportions; giving a flat field of view; as, an orthoscopic eyepiece. as, an orthoscopic eyepiece.""

Relating to or caused by standing upright: orthostatic hypotension.

Of certain manipulators

Of the musculo-skeletal system

Treating by manipulation and massage

As is Cain, a maniac (wordplay)

Like mum and dad (wordplay)

Like 'dad' or 'mum' (wordplay)

Biology ()

The process of soil formation.

Same as pedophile.pedophile.

""PERIDOTITE An eruptive rock characterized by the presence of chrysolite (peridot). It also usually contains pyroxene, enstatite, chromite, etc. It is often altered to serpentine.""

One way to wax

Calm in adversity

Unruffled.

""PHONOGRAM A letter, character, or mark used to represent a particular sound.""

""(used with a sing. verb) The set of allowed arrangements or sequences of speech sounds in a given language. A word beginning with the consonant cluster (zv), for example, violates the phonotactics of English, but not of Russian.""

""Measurement of the properties of light, especially luminous intensity.""

(Miscellaneous Technologies / Photography) a large-scale detailed picture made up of many photographs See also mosaic

PHOTOPHOBE

PHOTOSTAT

Motion ()

(Of plant) turning towards light

Seeking the light

Physiological.

Instruments

""Introduction of fluids into a cell by invagination of the cell membrane, followed by formation of vesicles within the cells.""

""Pl. plasmolyses (-s z ) Shrinkage or contraction of the protoplasm away from the wall of a living plant or bacterial cell, caused by loss of water through osmosis.""

The control by a single gene of several distinct and seemingly unrelated phenotypic effects.

""Pertaining to pleomorphism; as, the pleomorphic character of bacteria. as, the pleomorphic character of bacteria.""

Deriving power from wealth

Rich and strong

Powerful and wealthy

CENTRIC situated at the center

Having many distinct sources; originating at various places or times.

""GRAPHIC a painting, print, illustration or diagram""

Polymorphous.

Help cynic to set off for college

Embracing many arts.

Former type of college

""Relating to, or resembling, porphyry, that is, characterized by the presence of distinct crystals, as of feldspar, quartz, or augite, in a relatively finegrained base, often aphanitic or cryptocrystalline.""

Adjective (-ic)

Designating a consonant or consonantal sound directly following a vowel.

BIOLOGIC a drug obtained from an organic source

Short price I misread is out of date

Very old or out of date

Before written records

ROMANTIC a fanciful person

Injured climber, a top becoming tricky

Uncertain or questionable

Raising a lot of doubt

""Pertaining to, or forming, the front of the head.""

Medical Specialties

PROKARYOTE

""Converting proteid or albuminous matter into soluble and diffusible products, as peptones.""

Of or pertaining to the prothorax.

""Sensing pain, pressure, heat, or cold in a nonspecific manner, usually without localizing the stimulus. Used especially of certain sensory nerves.""

PROTOSTELE

PSILOPHYTE

Birds

Originating in the mind or in mental or emotional processes; having a psychological rather than a physiological origin. Used of certain disorders.

Thought-related

One type of flow from a volcano

Related to fireworks

Holiday display adjective

Relating to fireworks

PYROXENITE A rock consisting essentially of pyroxene.

""Sun an instrument for measuring the intensity of radiant energy, composed of vanes which rotate at speeds proportionate to the intensity of the energy source. ; radiometric ,""

Adjective (-ic)

Feeding or growing upon decaying anomal or vegetable matter; pertaining to a saprophyte or the saprophytes.

Adjective (-ic)

Commentating on ancient literature

NOMADIC pertaining to a {nomad=n}

England's type of government

Relating to the study of group relationships

SOCIOPATH

SOLIPSIST

See antispasmodic .

An instrument for measuring the volume of air entering and leaving the lungs.

""SPOROPHYTE In plants exhibiting alternation of generations, the generation which bears asexual spores; -- opposed to gametophyte. It is not clearly differentiated in the life cycle of the lower plants.gametophyte. It is not clearly differentiated in the life cycle of the lower plants.""

Of or pertaining to staurolite; resembling or containing staurolite.

""Body, Human""

STENOBATH

""A method in neurosurgery and neurological research for locating points within the brain using an external, three-dimensional frame of reference usually based on the Cartesian coordinate system.""

Like a stock image

Conventional

Obsequious City chap son sacked

Servile - like a crawler

Obsequious and silly chap isn't coy

Logically drawing a conclusion from premises

SYMBOLIST One who employs symbols.

Indicative (of a disease?)

Indicative, typical

Indicating disease

""SYNECDOCHE A figure or trope by which a part of a thing is put for the whole (as, fifty sail for fifty ships), or the whole for a part (as, the smiling year for spring), the species for the genus (as, cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (as, a creature for a man), the name of the material for the thing made, etc. sail for fifty ships), or the whole for a part (as, the smiling year for spring), the species for the genus (as, cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (as, a creature for a <i>man</i>), the name of the material for the thing made, etc.""

Technological.

Having the centromere in a terminal position. Used of a chromosome.

TERATOGEN

The biological study of birth defects.

""TERRORIST One who governs by terrorism or intimidation; specifically, an agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France.""

""TETRASPORE A nonsexual spore, one of a group of four regularly occurring in red seaweeds.""

Centering on God as the prime concern: a theocentric cosmology.

THEOREM an established but not self-evident principle

""Capable of surviving high temperatures, especially those of pasteurization. Used of a microorganism.""

THIXOTROPE

""A hormone secreted by the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland that stimulates and regulates the activity of the thyroid gland. Also called thyroid-stimulating hormone , thyrotropic hormone .""

Relating to an X-ray cross section visualisation technique

Adjective (-ic)

Showing hills and rivers, as a map

""The study of the nature, effects, and detection of poisons and the treatment of poisoning.""

Adjective (-ic)

Cave-dwelling

Inhabiting caves.

Capable of causing tumors.

Of text setting

Like some errors

Tending to cause an ulcer.

Inflected form of IDIOMATIC Inflected form of IDIOM a mode of expression peculiar to a language

Not supporting one's country

Not loving one's country

Traitorous

""A sudden constriction of a blood vessel, causing a reduction in blood flow.""

VIOLINIST A player on the violin.

An instrument used to measure viscosity. Also called viscosimeter .

VOODOOIST

""A person who derives sexual gratification from observing the naked bodies or sexual acts of others, especially from a secret vantage point.""

A dry photographic or photocopying process in which a negative image formed by a resinous powder on an electrically charged plate is electrically transferred to and thermally fixed as positive on a paper or other copying surface.

Both dry and hot: a xerothermic climate.

""XYLOGRAPH An engraving on wood, or the impression from such an engraving; a print by xylography.""

Bilaterally symmetrical. Used of organisms or parts.

Pertaining to absolutism; absolutist.

Absence of hydrochloric acid in the gastric secretions of the stomach.

""Pertaining to the measurement of the intensity of the solar rays, either (a) heating, or (b) actinic. (a) heating, or (b) actinic.""

(used with a sing. verb) The science of magnetic characteristics associated with atmospheric conditions.

The inhibition of growth in one species of plants by chemicals produced by another species.

Adjective (-ic)

""Of or pertaining to the Amphictyons or their League or Council; as, an Amphictyonic town or state; the Amphictyonic body. as, an Amphictyonic town or state; the Amphictyonic body.""

""Centered or focused on men, often to the neglect or exclusion of women: an androcentric view of history; an androcentric health-care system.""

ANDROGEN a male sex hormone

Blood and Blood Vessels

""Causing loss of appetite; as, an anorectic (or anorexigenic) drug.as, an anorectic (or anorexigenic) drug.""

""ANORTHOSITE A granular igneous rock composed almost exclusively of a soda-lime feldspar, usually labradorite.""

Little colonizer in torment (wordplay)

Little colonizer in torment?

Stupid giant's action showing opposition

Of or pertaining to an anticyclone; moving in the opposite direction of a cyclone.

DOGMATIC overbearing

ECONOMIC relating to finance

ENTROPIC pertaining to {entropy=n}

ROMANTIC a fanciful person

Of or pertaining to an antistrophe.

Examination of the aorta using x-rays following the injection of a radiopaque substance.

""Free from chromatic and spherical aberration; -- said esp. of a lens in which rays of three or more colors are brought to the same focus, the degree of achromatism thus obtained being more complete than where two rays only are thus focused, as in the ordinary achromatic objective.""

APOTHEGM a pithy saying

Satiric actor playing noble

Of the nobility

Satiric actor turning 'blue'

ARTHROSCOPE

Showing no symptoms of disease.

AUTODIDACT One who is selftaught; an automath.

Pert. to autohypnotism; self-hypnotizing.

""Pl. avitaminoses (-s z) A disease, such as scurvy, beriberi, or pellagra, caused by deficiency of one or more essential vitamins.""

One with a passionate enthusiasm for books

BIBLIOPHILE A lover of books.

(used with a sing. verb) Biochemistry The study of the flow and transformation of energy in and between living organisms and between living organisms and their environment.

Of or pertaining to biosynthesis.

Of or pertaining to a blastocoel.

Adjective (-ic)

Of or pertaining to process of using the calorimeter.

Producing cancer

Causing cancer

Pertaining to map-making

Chap tragic or silly in respect of maps

Relating to the drawing of maps

Of or relating to an optical system that uses both reflective and refractive optical devices.

See electrophoresis .

Chaotic parts (anagram)

I catch pastor out in dire straits

Causing sudden damage

""Of, relating to, or causing the hydrolysis of cellulose: cellulolytic organisms.""

Adjective (-ic)

""CHIROGRAPH A writing which, reguiring a counterpart, was engrossed twice on the same piece of parchment, with a space between, in which was written the word chirographum, through which the parchment was cut, and one part given to each party. It answered to what is now called a charter party. chirographum, through which the parchment was cut, and one part given to each party. It answered to what is now called a charter party.""

""A method of medical treatment that manipulates body structures, especially the spine, in the belief that it restores proper nerve functioning.""

Maps ()

CHROMOPHORE Any chemical group or residue (as NO<?/; N<?/; or O<?/) which imparts some decided color to the compound of which it is an ingredient.

An exceptionally precise timepiece.

A pancreatic digestive enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of certain proteins in the small intestine into polypeptides and amino acids.

The evolutionary change and diversification resulting from the branching off of new taxa from common ancestral lineages.

Botany Of or relating to a flower that does not open and is self-pollinated in the bud.

""Any of various instruments used to determine or specify colors, as by comparison with spectroscopic or visual standards.""

""COMPATRIOT One of the same country, and having like interests and feeling.""

""An abnormal, often obsessive interest in excrement, especially the use of feces for sexual excitement.""

""Kzmgrfk, Cosmographical Of or pertaining to cosmography.""

""COUNCILMAN A member of a council, especially of the common council of a city; a councilor.""

CYANOGEN a compound of carbon and nitrogen

The branch of medicine that is concerned with the physiology and pathology of the skin.

DEUTERANOPE

Adjective (-ic)

""Relating to, or exhibiting, diageotropism.""

Containing two carboxyl groups per molecule.

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

Characterizing the ovum when it has two primary germinal layers.