2-Letter Words Ending in C

EURYTHERM

""Characterized by increased fibrosis and cystic spaces, especially in glandular tissue: fibrocystic disease of the breast.""

GRANOPHYRE

""The branch of medicine dealing with health care for women, especially the diagnosis and treatment of disorders affecting the female reproductive organs.""

""Parthenogenesis in which the egg is activated by sperm, but without fusion of the egg and sperm nuclei.""

(used with a sing. verb) The study of the forces involved in the circulation of blood.

Biology ()

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

HISTIOCYTE

""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.

HYDROPHILE

""Of or pertaining to hydrophobia; producing or caused by rabies; as, hydrophobic symptoms; the hydrophobic poison. as, hydrophobic symptoms; the hydrophobic poison.""

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

Absorbing moisture from the air

HYLOZOIST A believer in hylozoism.

Adjective (-ic)

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

METRIC a standard of measurement

""Exceptionally exact or vivid memory, especially as associated with certain mental illnesses.""

Adjective (-ic)

STATIC random noise produced in a radio or television receiver

Of or relating to the partially conscious state that precedes complete awakening from sleep.

Of or pertaining to the hypogastrium or the hypogastric region.

Adjective (-ic)

MORPHIC pertaining to form

PLASTIC a synthetic mouldable substance

THERMIC pertaining to heat

The measurement of elevation relative to sea level.

Lustful; lewd; salacious; indecent; obscene.

""Of or pertaining to a kymograph; as, a kymographic tracing. as, a kymographic tracing.""

LYMPHOCYTE

MACROCYCLE

MACROPHYTE

MESOPHYLL

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

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.

ANALYTIC a scheme of analytical logic

SYLLABIC a speech sound of high sonority

SYMBOLIC pertaining to a symbol

SYSTEMIC a type of pesticide

Biology ()

Physiological.

""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.""

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.""

DYNASTIC pertaining to a {dynasty=n}

SYNAPTIC pertaining to {synapsis=n}

PROKARYOTE

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

PSILOPHYTE

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.

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

See antispasmodic .

""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

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

""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.""

Cooperative, in a way

Working together to greater effect

One who sees smells or hears colors

SYNTAGMA a syntactic element

""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 .""

SYLLABIC a speech sound of high sonority

Cave-dwelling

Inhabiting caves.

Of text setting

Like some errors

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

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

Bilaterally symmetrical. Used of organisms or parts.

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

""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.""

Of or pertaining to anaphylaxis; caused by anaphylaxis.

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

Counteracting hysteria.

Showing no symptoms of disease.

Pert. to autohypnotism; self-hypnotizing.

Having symmetry around an axis: an axisymmetric cone.

""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).""

Of or pertaining to biosynthesis.

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

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

CYANOGEN a compound of carbon and nitrogen

Having ten syllables

Containing two carboxyl groups per molecule.

SYMMETRIC Symmetrical.

Any of several instruments used to measure mechanical power.

Adjective (-ic)

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

Comprehensive in terms of information

ERYTHROCYTE

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

""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.""

GRANULOCYTE

Pl. gynecocracies or gynocracies Government by women.

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

HETEROCYCLE

Type of writing

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

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

PSYCHIC one sensitive to extrasensory phenomena

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

ISOENZYME

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

Woman-hating

""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.""

It is, although isn't

Using only words like yes and no

Like John, Paul, or George, but not Ringo, speaking briefly (wordplay)

Having one neural synapse.

MYELOBLAST

""Inflected form of ENZYMATIC Inflected form of ENZYME a complex protein, also ENZYM""

HEMOLYTIC of or pertaining to hemolysis; causing hemolysis.

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

SYMMETRIC Symmetrical.

Under the influence of nympholepsy; ecstatic; frenzied.

Many champion dissolute sex addict

Also octosyllabic ( k t -s -l b k) a. A line of verse containing eight syllables.

""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.""

PHENOCRYST One of the prominent embedded crystals of a porphyry.

Of or relating to the energy of 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.

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}

Adjective (-ic)

Situated behind or occurring after a synapse: postsynaptic neurons.

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

Measuring mental processes

Pathologically violent and antisocial

Type of drug affecting mental state

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

Drama ()

""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.""

THALLOPHYTE Same as Thallogen. Thallogen.

THROMBOCYTE

Pl. thrombolyses (-s z) Dissolution or destruction of a thrombus.

""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 .""

Not methodical

Lacking method

Not ordered

Of or pertaining to actinomycosis.

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

SYMMETRIC Symmetrical.

Pl. autocatalyses (-s z ) Catalysis of a chemical reaction by one of the products of the reaction.

Pl. bacteriolyses (-s z ) Dissolution or destruction of bacteria.

Of or pertaining to biosystematics.

""The dissolution or disintegration of chromophil material, such as chromatin, within a cell.""

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.""

CYCLOOLEFIN

""The classification of organisms based on cellular structure and function, especially on the structure and number of chromosomes.""

Painful menstruation.

The development and growth of an embryo.

Distribute a licenced copy full of information

Comprehensive

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

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) a type of symbiosis in which one organism lives inside the other, the two typically behaving as a single organism. It is believed to be the means by which such organelles as mitochondria and chloroplasts arose within eukaryotic cells endosymbiotic &nbsp; adj""

Adjective (-ic)

HOMOPOLYMER