2-Letter Words Ending in C

Instruments

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

An instrument that measures the area of a plane figure as a mechanically coupled pointer traverses the perimeter of the figure.

""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.""

PLURALIST A clerk or clergyman who holds more than one ecclesiastical benefice.

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

DIABETIC one who has diabetes

DYNASTIC pertaining to a {dynasty=n}

ELECTRIC something charged by electricity

Short price I misread is out of date

Very old or out of date

Before written records

ROMANTIC a fanciful person

SYNAPTIC pertaining to {synapsis=n}

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

New word in hip talk.

With exotic colour pattern, (drug-induced, maybe)

Vividly colourful

Concerned with treatment of the mind

Chirpy cat is mad about mental health

Concerned with the treatment of mental illness

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.

Adjective (-ic)

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

SOCIOPATH

SOLIPSIST

See antispasmodic .

Of or pertaining to a spherulite; characterized by the presence of spherulites.

""SPHINCTER A muscle which surrounds, and by its contraction tends to close, a natural opening; as, the sphincter of the bladder. as, the sphincter of the bladder.""

Concerning the occult.

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.""

""Body, Human""

Like a stock image

Conventional

SPECIFIC a remedy intended for a particular disease

Obsequious City chap son sacked

Servile - like a crawler

Obsequious and silly chap isn't coy

Likeable; sensitively designed

Showing fellow-feeling

Kindly ear to lend

Indicative (of a disease?)

Indicative, typical

Indicating disease

(Of language) omitting inessential words

In charge on paper that's economical with words

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

Relating to healing

Related to healing

Contributing to good heath

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

Adjective (-ic)

Of text setting

Like some errors

Not supporting one's country

Not loving one's country

Traitorous

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

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.

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

Bilaterally symmetrical. Used of organisms or parts.

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

Using words and numbers

Using A-Z and 0-9

Referring to both characters and figures

Adjective (-ic)

""AMPHIBRACH A foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short (\'de -- \'de); as, h. In modern prosody the accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, pro-phet\'b6ic.h. In modern prosody the accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, pro-phet\'b6ic.""

""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.""

A mythical serpent having a head at each end of its body.

ANALPHABETE

Of or pertaining to anaphylaxis; caused by anaphylaxis.

Pl. anencephalies Congenital absence of most of the brain and spinal cord.

Blood and Blood Vessels

ENTROPIC pertaining to {entropy=n}

I pitch a tent abroad without assent, initially causing bad blood

Opposed to upsetting Tina with old newsreel from jerk

PRURITIC pertaining to {pruritus=n}

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

Of a sea abounding in islands

ARTHROSCOPE

Showing no symptoms of disease.

Pert. to autohypnotism; self-hypnotizing.

""Of, relating to, or living in the depths of the ocean, especially between about 1,000 and 4,000 meters (3,280 and 13,120 feet).""

BIBLIOPHILE A lover of books.

A. The art of fine handwriting.

Competitive, in a way

Like some investors

Excellent criticism, mostly about one motivated by profit

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

""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.

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

""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.""

DEUTERANOPE

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

""The posterior part of the forebrain that connects the midbrain with the cerebral hemispheres, encloses the third ventricle, and contains the thalamus and hypothalamus. Also called betweenbrain , interbrain , thalamencephalon .""

""Pertaining to, or connected with, diphtheria.""

Characterizing the ovum when it has two primary germinal layers.

Phonograph Records

""Relating to, composed in, or consisting of twelve-tone music.""

DOPAMINE a form of dopa used to stimulate the heart

Adjective (-ic)

Inflammation of the brain.

Comprehensive in terms of information

EOSINOPHILE

(Of saying) concise, witty

Like a short and witty saying

In the style of a concise and witty remark

Relating to racial customs and characteristics

""Of or pertaining to, or characterized by, exophthalmia.""

Originating or occurring outside the liver.

""A system of printing on a rotary press employing water-based ink, used especially for printing on plastic, paper, or cardboard.""

FLUOROSCOPE An instrument for observing or exhibiting fluorescence.

""GAMETOPHYTE In the alternation of generations in plants, that generation or phase which bears sex organs and produces gametes. In the lower plants, as the alg\'91, the gametophyte is the conspicuous part of the plant body; in mosses it is the so-called moss plant; in ferns it is reduced to a small, early perishing body; and in seed plants it is usually microscopic or rudimentary.""

Of or pertaining to gastroscopy.

Acting on or stimulating the gonads: a gonadotropic hormone.

Pl. hagiographies Biography of saints.

Of or pertaining to heliography or a heliograph; made by heliography.

Type of writing

Of or relating to hierophants or their teachings.

""Expressing a phrase or sentence in a single word, as is the case in the aboriginal languages of America.""

HOMEOMORPH

HYDROGRAPH

Adjective (-ic)

HYDROSPHERE The aqueous vapor of the entire atmosphere.

ENDEMIC an endemial disease

Of or pertaining to hyperkinesis.

Adjective (-ic)

Pl. hyperostoses (-s z) Excessive or abnormal thickening or growth of bone tissue.

Of or pertaining to hyperplasia.

""Composed of, or containing, hypersthene.""

THERMIC pertaining to heat

TROPHIC pertaining to nutrition

Adjective (-ic)

""Endearing; diminutive; as, the hypocoristic form of a name. as, the hypocoristic form of a name.""

""GLYCEMIC having glucose in the blood, also GLYCAEMIC""

THALAMIC pertaining to the thalamus

Of or pertaining to iconography.

PSYCHIC one sensitive to extrasensory phenomena

Existing or taking place within the mind or psyche: intrapsychic conflict.

He can't help helping himself

Lifter of habit

Magpie trained to peck animal

""LAPAROSCOPE A slender endoscope, containing fiber-optic viewing capability and miniature surgical devices, which can be inserted through a small incision in the abdominal wall, allowing a surgeon to perform minor surgery with minimal damage to the abdominal muscles.""

The formation or production of white blood cells.

Of metal or stone surface printing

""LITHOSPHERE The solid earth as distinguished from its fluid envelopes, the hydrosphere and atmosphere.""

Adjective (-ic)

MAMMOGRAPH

Of or pertaining to micrography.

Having a dislike of humankind

Disliking all mankind

Right! I can stop him, with manipulation, having a hatred of mankind

""Of or pertaining to a single family or stock, or to development from a single common parent form; opposed to polyphyletic; as, monophyletic origin. polyphyletic; as, monophyletic origin.""

Likely to control a market

Adjective (-ic)

Having one neural synapse.

Form ()

NATUROPATH

Sexual pervert in police car, terribly hard to keep in

NEPHELINITE

Pl. nephropathies A disease or abnormality of the kidney.

""NEUTROPHILE One of a group of leukocytes whose granules stain only with neutral dyes; it is the chief phagocytic leukocyte in the circulating blood, comprising from 54% to 65% of the total number of leukocytes.""

Not parasitic.

Inflected form of PSYCHOTIC Inflected form of PSYCHO a mentally unstable person

NUCLEOPHILE

Under the influence of nympholepsy; ecstatic; frenzied.

Many champion dissolute sex addict

Lacking in plant nutrients and having a large amount of dissolved oxygen throughout. Used of a pond or lake.

Sounding like its meaning

""Making an impression upon an organ; plastic; said of the effect or impression produced by any substance on the organs of touch, taste, or smell, and also on the organism as a whole.""

""ORTHOGRAPH An orthographic projection, sometimes partly in section, esp. of a building.""

""Producing bone; as, osteoplastic cells. as, osteoplastic cells.""

""Pl. osteoporoses (-s z) A disease in which the bones become extremely porous, are subject to fracture, and heal slowly, occurring especially in women following menopause and often leading to curvature of the spine from vertebral collapse.""

Excessively emphatic.

Adjective (-ic)

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) the resemblance of adult animals to the young of their ancestors: seen in the evolution of modern man, who shows resemblances to the young stages of australopithecines""

Fossils

""The study and scholarly interpretation of earlier, especially ancient, writing and forms of writing.""

""Of or pertaining to palingenesis: as, a palingenetic process. as, a palingenetic process.""

Kind of film that gets romantic chap excited

""PANTOGRAPH An instrument for copying plans, maps, and other drawings, on the same, or on a reduced or an enlarged, scale.""

""A writer of memoirs of religious persona, as examples of Christian excellence.""

Weakly attracted by poles

PARAPHRAST A paraphraser.

Word play; punning.

Pathogenic.

""PERIPHRASE The use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; a roundabout, or indirect, way of speaking; circumlocution.""

""The branch of petrology that deals with the origin of rocks, especially igneous rocks.""

The description and classification of rocks.

""PHAGOCYTE A leucocyte which plays a part in retrogressive processes by taking up (eating), in the form of fine granules, the parts to be removed.""