2-Letter Words Ending in C

""Pl. catachreses (-s z) The misapplication of a word or phrase, as the use of blatant to mean "flagrant."""

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

CENTRALIST

""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.""

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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.

CLAVIERIST

""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.""

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

DEUTERANOPE

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

In the form of a simplified drawing

Graphic figure has many a convulsion

Containing two carboxyl groups per molecule.

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

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

Phonograph Records

SYMMETRIC Symmetrical.

DOPAMINE a form of dopa used to stimulate the heart

Any of several instruments used to measure mechanical power.

""Of or pertaining to electrogenesis; as, an electrogenic condition. as, an electrogenic condition.""

""ELECTROLYTE A compound decomposable, or subjected to decomposition, by an electric current.""

Of or pertaining to electrical tension; said of a supposed peculiar condition of a conducting circuit during its exposure to the action of another conducting circuit traversed by a uniform electric current when both circuits remain stationary.

""ENANTIOMER either of a pair of optical isomers of a chemical substance whose molecules are mirror images of each other, i. e., are related to each other as a right-handed to a left-handed glove; -- meaningful only for structures which have internal asymmetry.i. e., are related to each other as a right-handed to a left-handed glove; -- meaningful only for structures which have internal asymmetry.""

ENTEROCOELE

(Of saying) concise, witty

Like a short and witty saying

In the style of a concise and witty remark

ERYTHROCYTE

Seeing other cultures through one's own

Judging other cultures by the standards of one's own

Relating to racial customs and characteristics

Of or pertaining to euhemerism.

Originating or occurring outside the liver.

""Pl. fibrinolyses (-s z ) The breakdown of fibrin, usually by the enzymatic action of plasmin.""

FIBROBLAST

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

Adjective (-ic)

""Instruments an instrument for measuring the emission of radiation in the form of visible light and identifying the substance that is its source. ; fluorometric,""

FLUOROSCOPE An instrument for observing or exhibiting fluorescence.

FOLKLORIST

Of or pertaining to gastroscopy.

Pl. geostrategies The branch of geopolitics that deals with strategy.

Old Age

Acting on or stimulating the gonads: a gonadotropic hormone.

GRANULOCYTE

Pl. gynecocracies or gynocracies Government by women.

""Of, relating to, or resulting from the magnetic properties of a spinning, electrically charged particle.""

Pl. hagiographies Biography of saints.

Revolving around the sun

Revolving round the sun

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

HETEROCYCLE

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

HOMEOTHERM A homoiothermal animal.

Of or relating to hydrodynamics.

HYDROGRAPH

""Of or pertaining to the motions of fluids, or the forces which produce or affect such motions; opposed to hydrostatic. hydrostatic.""

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

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

Of or pertaining to iconography.

ALLELIC pertaining to {allele=n}

GENERIC a type of drug

MITOTIC pertaining to {mitosis=n}

Like the QE2

PSYCHIC one sensitive to extrasensory phenomena

""Situated between vowels; immediately preceded and followed by vowel sounds, as, p in occupy, d in idea, etc.as, p in occupy, d in idea, etc.""

Within the heart.

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

Developed alike in the directions of the several lateral axes; said of crystals of both the tetragonal and hexagonal systems.

Like newspaper writers

""Of or pertaining to karyokinesis; as, karyokinetic changes of cell division. as, karyokinetic changes of cell division.""

""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.""

""Pertaining to, or characterized by, liberalism; as, liberalistic opinions. as, liberalistic opinions.""

LITERALIST One who adheres to the letter or exact word; an interpreter according to the letter.

Of metal or stone surface printing

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

Adjective (-ic)

MAMMOGRAPH

Emotionally overblown (in theatre)

Exaggerated - over-emotional

Exaggerated, over-emotional

MERISTEM formative plant tissue

""Of or pertaining to meritocracy; as, meritocratic society.as, meritocratic society.""

Of or pertaining to the mesothorax.

Of or pertaining to the metathorax.

Of the study of weather

Of or pertaining to micrography.

Copy, including rewritten score, is of a small movement

Adjective (-ic)

Warlike

Having a dislike of humankind

Disliking all mankind

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

Pertaining to a monodrama.

Form ()

Egotistical

Based on real life

Imitating real life

True-to-life representation of acts in ritual

NATUROPATH

Sexual pervert in police car, terribly hard to keep in

REALISTIC Of or pertaining to the realists; in the manner of the realists; characterized by realism rather than by imagination.

Pl. nephropathies A disease or abnormality of the kidney.

""A psychological disorder characterized by chronic fatigue and weakness, loss of memory, and generalized aches and pains, formerly thought to result from exhaustion of the nervous system. No longer in scientific use.""

NEUTRALIST A neutral; one who professes or practices neutrality.

""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.""

""METAMERIC Having the same elements united in the same proportion by weight, and with the same molecular weight, but possessing a different structure and different properties; as, methyl ether and ethyl alcohol are metameric compounds. See Isomeric. as, methyl ether and ethyl alcohol are metameric compounds. See Isomeric.""

Not parasitic.

REALISTIC Of or pertaining to the realists; in the manner of the realists; characterized by realism rather than by imagination.

Without any long-term focus

SYMMETRIC Symmetrical.

A condition of normal body temperature.

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

""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.""

The branch of zoology that deals with the study of birds.

""Biology progressive evolution, leading to the development of a new form, as can be seen through successive generations. See also society . ; orthogenetic , adj . Evolution the sociological theory that all cultures or societies follow the same fixed course of determinate evolution. See also evolution . ; orthogenetic,""

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

Noting the system of crystallization which has three unequal axes at right angles to each other; trimetric. See Crystallization. Crystallization.

""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.""

DRAMATIC pertaining to {drama=n}

Excessively emphatic.

""(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""

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

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.

""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.

PHENOCRYST One of the prominent embedded crystals of a porphyry.

Men's club musician (wordplay)

Orchestra's man arranged main orch.

Devoted to music

""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.""

""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""

Exact (of memory)

Like a retentive memory

Pictured accurately in detail

Of or pertaining to the photosphere.

""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.""

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.""

HISTORIC important in history

Of music, using more than one apparent time signature simultaneously

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

Adjective (-ic)

Adjective (-ic)

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

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.""

Having effects on living tissue similar to those produced by radiation: a radiomimetic chemical.

RECIDIVIST One who is recidivous or is characterized by recidivism; an incorrigible criminal.

Described by Einstein's theory

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

UNIONISTIC Of or pertaining to union or unionists; tending to promote or preserve union.

Pertaining to revivals.

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).""

""SECULARIST One who theoretically rejects every form of religious faith, and every kind of religious worship, and accepts only the facts and influences which are derived from the present life; also, one who believes that education and other matters of civil policy should be managed without the introduction of a religious element.""

""Of or pertaining to seismometry, or seismometer; as, seismometric instruments; seismometric measurements. as, seismometric instruments; seismometric measurements.""

Of or pertaining to separatists; characterizing separatists; schismatical.

""Activated by or capable of liberating serotonin, especially in transmitting nerve impulses: serotonergic neurons; serotonergic drugs.""

SOLIDARIST

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.

""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.""

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

""ANTARCTIC Opposite to the northern or arctic pole; relating to the southern pole or to the region near it, and applied especially to a circle, distant from the pole 23&deg; 28&min;. Thus we say the antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc. antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc.""

(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 &nbsp; n

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

Like Magritte, say

Like the art of Dali or Magritte

Bizarre pragmatist in endless cruise at sea

""Pertaining to, or characterized by, syncretism; as, a syncretistic mixture of the service of Jehovah and the worship of idols. as, a syncretistic mixture of the service of Jehovah and the worship of idols.""