2-Letter Words Ending in C

Adjective (-ic)

Biology ()

Medicine a. Occurring in an abnormal anatomic location: heterotopic bone formation.

""Biology Of, relating to, or being the reduction division of meiosis.""

HISTIOCYTE

""Undergoing complete segmentation; composed entirely of germinal matter, the whole of the yolk undergoing fission; opposed to meroblastic. meroblastic.""

In work at hospital in charge of alternative medicine

Of or pertaining to homeostasis; exhibiting homeostasis.

Producing gametes that contain only one type of sex chromosome.

""Of or pertaining to homoplasty; as, homoplasticorgans; homoplastic forms. as, homoplasticorgans; homoplastic forms.""

""Having male and female reproductive structures on the same thallus, as in some fungi and algae.""

""An instrument used to determine specific gravity, especially a sealed, graduated tube, weighted at one end, that sinks in a fluid to a depth used as a measure of the fluid's specific gravity.""

HYDROPATH A hydropathist.

HYDROPHYTE An aquatic plant; an alga.

Relating to pressure in still fluids

Relating to water pressure

Relating to pressures in liquids at rest

""Turning or bending towards moisture, as roots.""

Any of several instruments that measure atmospheric humidity.

HYGROPHYTE

HYLOZOIST A believer in hylozoism.

One who is critical beyond measure or reason; a carping critic; a captious censor.

METRIC a standard of measurement

STATIC random noise produced in a radio or television receiver

Of or pertaining to the hypogastrium or the hypogastric region.

PLASTIC a synthetic mouldable substance

THERMIC pertaining to heat

The measurement of elevation relative to sea level.

""IDIOBLAST An individual cell, differing greatly from its neighbours in regard to size, structure, or contents.""

Teach in unit that's phoney, not genuine

Not genuine

Like any statement from Trump where he tries to project empathy

Acting between atoms

ETHNIC a member of a racial or cultural group

Relating to pitch differences

Having equal electric potential.

Lustful; lewd; salacious; indecent; obscene.

JARGONIST One addicted to jargon; one who uses cant or slang.

""Of, pertaining to, or involving, kinaesthesia.""

LACCOLITH A mass of igneous rock intruded between sedimentary beds and resulting in a mammiform bulging of the overlying strata.

Like some nonlinear scales in mathematics

Descriptor for a type of spiral; am right coil (anagram)

Adjective (-ic)

LYMPHOCYTE

Like an organic wholefood diet

MACROPHYTE

""MANNERIST One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism. Mannerism.""

MARTENSITE

Enjoying one's own pain

Functioning like a machine

""(Spirituality, New Age, Astrology & Self-help / Alternative Belief Systems) of or relating to a spiritual medium""

MELIORIST

Of or pertainig to mentalism.

""Consisting only in part of germinal matter; characterized by partial segmentation only; as, meroblastic ova, in which a portion of the yolk only undergoes fission; meroblastic segmentation; opposed to holoblastic. as, meroblastic ova, in which a portion of the yolk only undergoes fission; meroblastic segmentation; opposed to holoblastic.""

Adjective (-ic)

""METACENTRE The point of intersection of a vertical line through the center of gravity of the fluid displaced by a floating body which is tipped through a small angle from its position of equilibrium, and the inclined line which was vertical through the center of gravity of the body when in equilibrium.""

Of or pertaining to metagenesis.

Found a cartoon character in charge of some rocks

Type of rock that has undergone transformation

Exhibiting structural change, as some rocks

Adjective (-ic)

""Normal transformation of tissue from one type to another, as in the ossification of cartilage to form bone.""

METASOMA the back portion of an arachnid with no appendages

METHODIST One who observes method.

Formed of small stones.

Up-to-date, for Bruce (wordplay)

Non-traditional; with new ideas

Relating to a recently developed style

Having but a single stomach.

One in genesis; resulting from one process of formation; used of a mountain range.

Derived from a single fertilized ovum or embryonic cell mass. Used especially of identical twins.

""Of, relating to, or including several ethnic groups.""

MULTIPHASE Having many phases;

MUTUALIST One practising or advocating the doctrine of mutualism.

Adjective (-ic)

""Of or relating to the electrical properties of muscle tissue from which impulses may be amplified, used especially in the control or operation of prosthetic devices.""

""A compulsion to embroider the truth, engage in exaggeration, or tell lies.""

Making or producing myths or mythical tales.

Composition of 18 regularly dropping off

Likely to drop off at any moment

Of a sleep disorder

(Medicine) Anatomy of or relating to the nose and stomach a nasogastric tube

Excretion of excessive amounts of sodium in the urine.

Practising magic

LOGISTIC a symbolic logic

Adjective (-ic)

See antipsychotic drug .

""Of or pertaining to neuropathy; of the nature of, or suffering from, nervous disease.""

Tending to affect or attack nervous tissue: a neurotropic venom.

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}

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

EMPHATIC stressed forcibly

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

Like many elements are

OPERATIC the technique of staging operas

PHONETIC pertaining to speech sounds

SYSTEMIC a type of pesticide

THEISTIC pertaining to a {theist=n}

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

Worshipping many gods

Of the origin of a mineral deposit.

""An apparent change in the direction of an object, caused by a change in observational position that provides a new line of sight.""

Of inserted comment.

In brackets

Like the end of this clue (in terms of punctuation)

""Body, Human , Perception""

The process of soil formation.

""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.""

Moving from place to place.

Itinerant with epic trip ate wildly

Travelling in your job

""Applied to the peculiar wormlike wave motion of the intestines and other similar structures, produced by the successive contraction of the muscular fibers of their walls, forcing their contents onwards; as, peristaltic movement. as, peristaltic movement.""

Presuming the worst

Looking on the black side

Fearing the worst

""(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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Concerned with treatment of the mind

Chirpy cat is mad about mental health

Concerned with the treatment of mental illness

One type of flow from a volcano

Related to fireworks

Holiday display adjective

Relating to fireworks

PYROXENITE A rock consisting essentially of pyroxene.

RACIALIST

""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 ,""

Invariably performed in the same way

Like religious services

Relating to ceremonies

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

Commentating on ancient literature

AQUATIC an organism living in or near water

SHAMANIST An adherent of Shamanism.

England's type of government

Relating to the study of group relationships

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.""

""STALACTITE A pendent cone or cylinder of calcium carbonate resembling an icicle in form and mode of attachment. Stalactites are found depending from the roof or sides of caverns, and are produced by deposition from waters which have percolated through, and partially dissolved, the overlying limestone rocks.""

""STALAGMITE A deposit more or less resembling an inverted stalactite, formed by calcareous water dropping on the floors of caverns; hence, a similar deposit of other material.""

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.

Likeable; sensitively designed

Showing fellow-feeling

Kindly ear to lend

Indicative (of a disease?)

Indicative, typical

Indicating disease

Cooperative, in a way

Working together to greater effect

One who sees smells or hears colors

SYNTAGMA a syntactic element

Technological.

(Of language) omitting inessential words

In charge on paper that's economical with words

Mentally moving

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.""

""An inherited form of anemia occurring chiefly among people of Mediterranean descent, caused by faulty synthesis of part of the hemoglobin molecule.""

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

THEOREM an established but not self-evident principle

Relating to healing

Related to healing

Contributing to good heath

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

THIXOTROPE