2-Letter Words Ending in C

PHENOCRYST One of the prominent embedded crystals of a porphyry.

Men's club musician (wordplay)

Orchestra's man arranged main orch.

Devoted to music

Of or pertaining to philhellenism.

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

""PHONOGRAPH A character or symbol used to represent a sound, esp. one used in phonography.""

PHOSPHATIDE

""Pertaining to phosphorite; resembling, or of the nature of, phosphorite.""

""(Physics / General Physics) (of glass) changing colour with the intensity of incident light, used, for example, in sunglasses that darken as the sunlight becomes brighter""

Of or relating to the energy of light.

Exact (of memory)

Like a retentive memory

Pictured accurately in detail

Motion ()

Of or pertaining to the photosphere.

""Capable of producing a voltage when exposed to radiant energy, especially light.""

Of or pertaining to phyllotaxy.

""Relating to phylogenesis, or the race history of a type of organism.""

""PHYSIOCRAT One of the followers of Quesnay of France, who, in the 18th century, founded a system of political economy based upon the supremacy of natural order.""

Pl. physiognomies a. The art of judging human character from facial features.

PICTOGRAPH A picture or hieroglyph representing and expressing an idea.

""PLAGIARIST One who plagiarizes; or purloins the words, writings, or ideas of another, and passes them off as his own; a literary thief; a plagiary.""

Having the longer axis inclined away from the vertical line.

Of or pertaining to a planisphere.

""A process for printing from a smooth surface, as lithography or offset.""

An instrument used to measure the rotation of the plane of polarization of polarized light passing through an optical structure or sample.

""Of or pertaining to the polariscope; obtained by the use of a polariscope; as, polariscopic observations. as, polariscopic observations.""

Adjective (-ic)

HISTORIC important in history

PEPTIDIC pertaining to {peptide=n}

PHENOLIC a synthetic resin

""Pertaining to, or characterized by, descent from more than one root form, or from many different root forms; polygenetic; opposed to monophyletic. monophyletic.""

Of music, using more than one apparent time signature simultaneously

Describing paragraph or sentence but not word (wordplay)

Like the word you need to write but not the words in the clue

SYNAPTIC pertaining to {synapsis=n}

THEISTIC pertaining to a {theist=n}

""Of or pertaining to pornography; lascivious; licentious; as, pornographic writing. as, pornographic writing.""

POSITIVIST A believer in positivism.

Adjective (-ic)

Adjective (-ic)

Adjective (-ic)

Adjective (-ic)

Situated behind or occurring after a synapse: postsynaptic neurons.

PRAGMATIST One who is pragmatic.

ECLAMPTIC

Like music which depicts something

Providing introductory instruction.

A medicine which preserves or defends against disease; a preventive.

Of or pertaining to the first formation of living bodies.

PROTOTROPH

Measuring mental processes

Pathologically violent and antisocial

Type of drug affecting mental state

""Pertaining to, or dependent on, pyroelectricity; receiving electric polarity when heated.""

""Of or for a four-channel sound system in which speakers are positioned at all four corners of the listening space, reproducing signals that are independent of each other.""

Variant of quadraphonic .

One paralysed in every limb

""RADIOGRAPH A picture produced by the R\'94ntgen rays upon a sensitive surface, photographic or fluorescent, especially a picture of opaque objects traversed by the rays.""

""The process of reproducing, reprinting, or copying graphic material especially by mechanical, photographic, or electronic means.""

SARCOPLASM

""Of, relating to, or characteristic of scenography: "Contemporary design has a strongly scenographic appeal, as if modern rooms were meant to be stage sets" (Los Angeles Times).""

Of or pertaining to separatists; characterizing separatists; schismatical.

""SPECIALIST One who devotes himself to some specialty; as, a medical specialist, one who devotes himself to diseases of particular parts of the body, as the eye, the ear, the nerves, etc. as, a medical specialist, one who devotes himself to diseases of particular parts of the body, as the eye, the ear, the nerves, etc.""

Shorthander's notes unusually explicit

It's related to what I've asked you to write, in short

Combining separate sources of sound

(Of sound) multi-channel

With five kicked out, criminal evicts no-hoper from two places

Giving the impression of depth

Describing a three-dimensional effect.

""STETHOSCOPE An instrument used in auscultation for examining the organs of the chest, as the heart and lungs, by conveying to the ear of the examiner the sounds produced in the thorax.""

STROBOSCOPE An instrument for studying or observing the successive phases of a periodic or varying motion by means of light which is periodically interrupted.

(Sociology) Sociol (no longer widely used) relating to those aspects of a culture that are conceived as being superior to the individual members of the society superorganicism   n

""(Engineering / General Engineering) such a metal, alloy, etc. superplasticity  ""

Disliking 1 ac things

THALLOPHYTE Same as Thallogen. Thallogen.

""Heat-loving; -- applied especially to microorganisms such as certain bacteria, fungi and algae, which grow best at temperatures above 40<deg/ C (e.g. between 50<deg/ and 60<deg/), and in some cases at temperatures that would kill ordinary microorganisms. They are found in naturally hot locations, such as at hot springs or the thermal vents at the ocean bottom.""

Manifesting thermotropism.

""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 .""

Span Arctic if at sea spanning an ocean

Spanning a specific ocean

Relating to the lowest layer of the atmosphere

Far from contrite

Not expressing regret

Not sorry

Tactless for peacekeepers to join ambassador in charge

Gaffe-prone peacekeepers linked to foreign representative in charge

Tactless

""Botany Capable of being divided into equal halves along any diameter, as the flowers of the rose or tulip; radially symmetrical.""

""Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an allelomorph.""

AMPHITHEATRE

Reducing sexual desire

(Drug) tending to diminish sexual desire

(Of a drug) lowering sexual urges - Rio's a handicap (anagram)

A condition in which the refractive power of one eye differs from that of the other.

Originating in human activity

Same as Antepileptic. Antepileptic.

Inflected form of PARASITIC Inflected form of PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

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

Drug that helps to stay fit!

Canterbury or York, for example

High church office

Senior church post

Like the study of books

The study of the geographic distribution of organisms.

BRONCHOSCOPE

""Of or pertaining to, or produced by, a cardiograph.""

Head

""CHLOROPLAST A plastid containing chlorophyll, developed only in cells exposed to the light. Chloroplasts are minute flattened granules, usually occurring in great numbers in the cytoplasm near the cell wall, and consist of a colorless ground substance saturated with chlorophyll pigments. Under light of varying intensity they exhibit phototactic movements. In animals chloroplasts occur only in certain low forms.""

Relating to dance movements

Of or pertaining to the chromosphere.

Of or pertaining to a chronograph.

The analysis and deciphering of cryptographic writings or systems.

""Krptgrfk, Cryptographical Relating to cryptography; written in secret characters or in cipher, or with sympathetic ink.""

""Pertaining to a diaphragm; as, diaphragmatic respiration; the diaphragmatic arteries and nerves. as, diaphragmatic respiration; the diaphragmatic arteries and nerves.""

ECTOPARASITE Any parasite which lives on the exterior of animals; opposed to endoparasite. endoparasite.

ELECTROPHILE

Distribute a licenced copy full of information

Comprehensive

""Pertaining to, or containing, endolymph; as, the endolymphatic duct as, the endolymphatic duct""

""ENDOPARASITE Any parasite which lives in the internal organs of an animal, as the tapeworms, Trichina, etc.; opposed to ectoparasite. See Entozo\'94n. ectoparasite. See Entozo\'94n.""

""The branch of medicine that deals with the study of the causes, distribution, and control of disease in populations.""

Having the capacity to induce epilepsy.

Adjective (-ic)

Acting on or stimulating the gonads: a gonadotropic hormone.

The formation of blood or blood cells in the body.

""Deviating from the normal, perfect, or mature form; having different forms at different stages of existence, or in different individuals of the same species; applied especially to insects in which there is a wide difference of form between the larva and the adult, and to plants having more than one form of flower.""

HETEROTROPH

HOMOPOLYMER

""Relating to, or connected with, hydrocephalus, or dropsy of the brain.""

Adjective (-ic)

ESTHETIC appreciative of the beautiful

EUTECTIC a mixture with a low melting point

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

See hyperopia .

ROMANTIC a fanciful person

Patient with imaginary ailments

Morbidly anxious about health

One who imagines illnesses

Expansionist

Occurring within a species.

EPIDEMIC a widespread outbreak of a disease

PANDEMIC a widespread disease

SPECIFIC a remedy intended for a particular disease

Arising or occurring within a species: intraspecific competition.

Adjective (-ic)

Showing constant change (of colours?)

Multicoloured spice cook laid out

Showing changing colours

Like dictionary making

LYMPHOBLAST

Adjective (-ic)

Of or pertaining to the mesencephalon or midbrain.

""Pl. metencephala (-l ) The anterior part of the embryonic hindbrain, which gives rise to the cerebellum and pons.""

MICROCEPHAL

Adjective (-ic)

MONOPSONIST

Of or pertaining to morphogenesis; concerned with the process of development of the normal features of an organism.

An apparatus used to measure the size and concentration of particles in a liquid by analysis of light scattered by the liquid.

Inflected form of ALPHABETIC Inflected form of ALPHABET a system of letters

""DIPLOMATIC A minister, official agent, or envoy to a foreign court; a diplomatist.""

PARAMETRIC

""PATHOGENIC Of or pertaining to pathogeny; producting disease; as, a pathogenic organism; a pathogenic bacterium. as, a pathogenic organism; a pathogenic bacterium.""

Of or pertaining to nucleoplasm; esp. applied to a body formed in the developing ovum from the plasma of the nucleus of the germinal vesicle.

The exploration and scientific study of the ocean and its phenomena. Also called oceanology .

Trade

Like "buzz" and "whir"

Ready to take any advantage

Taking immediate advantage

Exploiting passing advantages

""OSCILLOSCOPE An electronic measuring instrument which provides a visual representation of the time variation of electrical quantities, such as voltage or current. It may be used to measure the shape of a voltage pulse or the frequency of an oscillating voltage. It can also be used to measure properties of other physical variables, such as sound or light intensity, if they can be translated into electrical voltage or current.""

Fossils

The branch of ecology that deals with the interaction between ancient organisms and their environment.

""(Earth Sciences / Geological Science) the study of the fossil magnetism in rocks, used to determine the past configurations of the continents and to investigate the past shape and magnitude of the earth's magnetic field palaeomagnetic &nbsp; adj""

Fossils

Of or pertaining to a pantisocracy.

The scientific study of parasitism.

Formed from a compound word.

Caring but condescending

Behaving in a fatherly but unwelcome way

Closely supervising

""Specially or decisively characteristic of a disease; indicating with certainty a disease; as, a pathognomonic symptom. as, a pathognomonic symptom.""

PERSONALIST

""Centered on men or on a male viewpoint, especially one held to entail the domination of women by men.""

""The science of drugs, including their composition, uses, and effects.""

Donating to good causes

Doing good works

Intended to promote the welfare of others

Blood and Blood Vessels ()

The study of the effects of light on living organisms and biological processes.

Emitting electrons under light

Light-detecting

Adjective (-ic)

PHOTOPERIOD

PHREATOPHYTE

PHYSICALIST

See physical geography .

(Of a crystal) producing charge under pressure

Geology ()

POINTILLISTE

POLAROGRAPH

Multi-coloured

Multicoloured

Old mum wrapped in pricy cloth, magically displaying range of colours

Inflected form of CISTRONIC Inflected form of CISTRON a segment of DNA

Polyembryonate.

Following the embryonic stage of development.

Adjective (-ic)

Following injury or resulting from it: posttraumatic amnesia.

""ANESTHETIC Same as An\'91sthesia, An\'91sthetic.An\'91sthesia, An\'91sthetic.""

""GANGLIONIC Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, ganglia or ganglion cells; as, a ganglionic artery; the ganglionic columns of the spinal cord. as, a ganglionic artery; the ganglionic columns of the spinal cord.""

""SCIENTIFIC Of or pertaining to science; used in science; as, scientific principles; scientific apparatus; scientific observations. as, scientific principles; scientific apparatus; scientific observations.""

Quite simple, with five

Like Stone Age culture

Based on chance variation

PROGESTOGEN

History

Adjective (-ic)

PSEUDOMORPH An irregular or deceptive form.

""A psychological disorder characterized by phobias, obsessions, compulsions, or excessive anxiety. No longer in scientific use.""

""(used with a sing. or pl. verb) The interaction of various conscious and unconscious mental or emotional processes, especially as they influence personality, behavior, and attitudes.""

""The origin and development of psychological processes, personality, or behavior.""

Moving things by mental force

Pertaining to mind and body, as a unit.

(Of illness) caused by mental factors

Of mind and body as a unit.

Adjective (-ic)

Thriving at relatively low temperatures. Used of organisms such as bacteria and fungi.

Adjective (-ic)

RADIOISOTOPE

SPIROMETRIC

SCHIZOPHRENE

A device for producing a scintigram; a scintiscanner.