2-Letter Words Ending in C

Taken for granted

Pertaining to self-evident truths

Of universally received principles

Wild description of missile (wordplay)

What's round is jerky for a missile

Irrational way to go

BENTHON the organisms living in the benthos

BIBLE a book containing the Old and New Testaments

Of two groups

Of life expectancy measurement

Applying statistical analysis to biology

Like the most secure passports nowadays

Phobic sir (anagram)

Seat of a Catholic official

See, that's for the church

""Of or pertaining to bismuth; containing bismuth, when this element has its higher valence; as, bismuthic oxide. as, bismuthic oxide.""

I cast bomb, being pompous in speech

Using too high-flown speech.

Like many stump speeches

CACHE to store in a hiding place

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a corpse, or the changes produced by death; cadaverous; as, cadaveric rigidity. as, cadaveric rigidity.""

""Of, relating to, or used in a calendar.""

Like some dietary values

Like fattening foods

Relating to heat

Reasoning speciously

Oversubtle

Not like certain steroids? That's general, not hard, including first two

""Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of catalases.""

Type of converter

'Green' engine part - rev cycle attraction (anagram)

Constant withdrawal from capital turning City into stimulating reaction

In a rigid trance.

... still giving pussy a drink

In an immobile stupor

Positive cat is to go in Eric's custody

Without exception included in a class

Unambiguously direct

Cleansing - arctic hat (anagram)

Medicine found by little girl on a lorry

Releasing pent-up emotions

Of or pertaining to cathexis; invested with mental or emotional energy.

Of or relating to mirrors and reflected images.

CAUSAL a word expressing cause or reason

CENOBITE a member of a religious order

Old tourist coach

Old tourist vehicle

British bus for sightseers

CHIME to ring in harmony

Rival wrongly imprisoned by stylish noble

Knightly

""Pertaining to, or containing, chlorite; as, chloritic sand. as, chloritic sand.""

""Pertaining to, or affected by, chlorosis.""

Sophistic, involved argumentation

Overly complicated argumentation

One who bandies words Shakespeare.

CHORION an embryonic membrane

Trim coach (anagram)

Progressing by half tones

Relating to or characterised by colours

Just picture how moving this is!

Related to movies

Of the movies

""Pertaining to, caused by, or affected with, cirrhosis; as, cirrhotic degeneration; a cirrhotic liver. as, cirrhotic degeneration; a cirrhotic liver.""

CISTRON a segment of DNA

CLADIST one who classifies by clades

Rising to a peak

Coming to exciting peak

Coming to a high point

Capable of communicating color or tint to other bodies.

First-rate Slang

Just fine, thank you

Fine and dandy

Fine and dandy variable

Fine and dandy

Just fine, slangily

Fine and dandy variable

Fine and dandy Var.

COULOMB an electrical measure

Requiring low temperatures

Relating to very low temperatures

Slippery icy conger kept at low temperatures

""Slndrk, Cylindrical Having the form of a cylinder, or of a section of its convex surface; partaking of the properties of the cylinder.""

""The branch of biology that deals with the formation, structure, and function of cells.""

The dissolution or destruction of a cell.

CYTOSOL the fluid portion of cell material

""Of, relating to, or producing a toxic effect on cells.""

Descriptive of Arp's art

Like some early 20th-century abstract art

By way of being a teacher

Rabble-rousing

Agog in half a hundred like any schoolmaster

Pertaining to a demiurge; formative; creative.

""DENDRITE a branched part of a nerve cell, also DENDRON""

Maybe grave judge backs withdrawing help

Help over judge's accent (wordplay)

There's one in Quebec

Adjective (-ic)

Science of logic

Method of logic.

Relating to discourse

Absolutely opposed to as matricide

In direct opposition

Completely opposed

""Excessive and frequent evacuation of watery feces, usually indicating gastrointestinal distress or disorder.""

Relating to diastase; having the properties of diastase; effecting the conversion of starch into sugar.

Part of a heart rhythm

I slid coat off, relaxed after being pumped up (wordplay)

Injecting iodine into clot aids dispersing of cardiac dilation

""Pertaining to, or dependent on, a diathesis or special constitution of the body; as, diathetic disease. as, diathetic disease.""

Adjective (-ic)

Muscle that helps in lowering lower jaw

Zoology 1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) of or relating to digenesis

Of or pertaining to a digraph.

Having the property of dimorphism; dimorphous.

DIOPSIDE a mineral

DIPLONT an organism with a particular chromosomal structure

Derived from two separately fertilised eggs

""Of the nature of dolerite; as, much lava is doleritic lava. as, much lava is doleritic lava.""

Pertaining to dolomite.

Consisting of two; pertaining to dualism or duality.

DYNAMITE to blow up with a powerful explosive

Having indigestion

Bad-tempered Syd held up savings scheme on credit nearly

""Impairment of speech and verbal comprehension, especially when associated with brain injury.""

""An emotional state characterized by anxiety, depression, or unease.""

So odd that it's not in the middle!

Entire 300 destroyed? That's odd!

Crank, socially and mechanically

Speech

""Coma and convulsions before, during, or shortly after childbirth, characterized by edema, hypertension, and proteinuria.""

One who says "irate" (wordplay)

Incessant self-Googler, perhaps

Vanity case (wordplay)

Suffering from "I" strain (wordplay)

Cities got all puffed up

Of blind conceit.

In an early stage.

In early stage of development

At an early stage

Prepared by means of heat; burned in.

Occurring with absorption of energy.

Of processes of change within the earth

A toxin produced by certain bacteria and released upon destruction of the bacterial cell.

Running around, say

Full of life

Full of beans

Magnetic around one - mysterious!

I get manic about puzzling!

Mysterious giant mice on the run!

Like some breakdowns

Like some reactions

Of sensory nerve fibres of the skin capable of fine discrimination

""Pertaining to, resembling, or having the motion of, an epicycle.""

I'm pierced, with deformation of skin

Of skin's outer layer

Relating to the skin's outer layer

Relating to a nervous disorder

Pl. epiphanies Epiphany a. A Christian feast celebrating the manifestation of the divine nature of Jesus to the Gentiles as represented by the Magi.

EPIPHYTE a plant growing on another plant

Record introduction of injection still concerned with genetic interaction

Relating to knowledge

Relating to the theory of knowledge

Relating to how you can ever really know something, to philosophers

Pertaining to an epitaph; epitaphian.

EPITHET to {term=v}

Affecting a large number of animals at the same time within a particular region or geographic area. Used of a disease.

EPSILON a Greek letter

Like a good office chair, perhaps

Like some chairs

Built for comfort

""ETHYLENE a flammable gas, also ETHENE""

Assigning a cause to

Harmonious Mercury hit, one side scratched, unfortunately

EU photo captures Tory rebels being tolerant of different conditions

""Having waters rich in mineral and organic nutrients that promote a proliferation of plant life, especially algae, which reduces the dissolved oxygen content and often causes the extinction of other organisms. Used of a lake or pond.""

Pertaining to the Gospels

Pertaining to the Bible

Based on the Gospels

EXCITON a combination of excited electron and hole

Releasing energy.

External to a chemical ring structure: an exocyclic double bond.

Not essential or inherent

Originating from the outside

Not inherent

That's great!

Worker in firm put in charge? Great!

Way to go, man!

FASCISTI fascista

FAUNIST someone who studies fauna

Producing or intended to produce happiness.

FIDEIST a believer in {fideism=n}

FIREMAN a man employed to extinguish fires

FLORIST a grower or seller of flowers

""FLUOR a mineral form of calcium fluoride, also FLUORITE""

Traditional, in a way

Definition of some traditional music, speaking ill of rock, perhaps

Produced by mechanically followed rules

Unimaginative motor-racing clubs

Too predictable, as a plot

""FUMAROLE a hole which emits volcanic vapours, also FUMEROLE""

""GASOLINE a liquid fuel, also GASOLENE""

GENITAL pertaining to reproduction

GENOTYPE the genetic constitution of an organism

George starts to get a man with a jerk in a divine way

Kind of mean (wordplay)

Making tiger come out of a pyramid, say

Of lines, points and surfaces

Movement of a motile organism using the earth's gravity for orientation.

Like some plants to go with price reduced

Price to go travelling up and down with the growth of the plants

Old Spice Girl with three hits, say

Singularly old medical care (wordplay)

Good criteria for treatment of the old

GOLIARD a medieval student who indulged in goliardy

GRAPHEME a unit of a writing system

Relating to a form of carbon

What the lead in your pencil actually is

Like some Olympic rings

My acting's absurdly acrobatic

Sign my cat, anagram

HAPLONT an organism with a particular chromosomal structure

Chime gone off, denoting leadership in the league

Ruling.

""Any substance, such as an iron salt or organic compound containing iron, which when ingested tends to increase the hemoglobin contents of the blood.""

""Of or pertaining to hematite, or resembling it.""

Of or pertaining to hemolysis; causing hemolysis.

HETERO a heterosexual

Serving to make a point

Method of solving

Leading to discovery

Adjective (-ic)

HOLOTYPE the original type specimen of an animal or plant

Of the art of preaching

Of the preaching arts

Adjective (-ic)

HOMONYM a word similar in structure to another

Title expressing respect

Showing respect of choir in broadcast

Title of respect

Excessively proud

Is rich but unfortunately showing arrogance

Bush critic one caught falling out. So pride goes before a fall!

Operated by liquid (water or oil)

Relating to liquids under pressure

Operated by water under pressure

EMIC analysed linguistically by internal structure

HYPEROPE a farsighted person

MANIC one who is affected with mania

Low in tension, as muscles

Fixer to note: this is lacking muscle tone

Adjective (-ic)

Concerned with ideas.

Visionary

Like climbing the walls (wordplay)

Of language style

Having a distinct style

Of vers libre.

Absolutely fatuous.

Stupid single honour for Croatian tennis player

Stumbling I climb across mounting freeze. How foolish!

Rued this, by the sound of it

Seems I am tactful, but not likewise

Not prudent

Describing a wartime girdle.

Stiff or unyielding

Intolerant etc in sail at sea

Not carbonated (wordplay)

Non-carbon (chemistry)

Branch of chemistry

""Affecting the contraction of muscle, especially heart muscle: an inotropic drug.""

One watching a TV test pattern, perhaps

Late Late Show viewer, maybe

One to be out all night? Most unlikely!

Essential (to)

Belonging by its very nature

Preparation of ricin isn't essential

Adjective (-ic)

Adjective (-ic)

Exercises that add centimetres!

Form of eroticism in exercising muscles

Having equal dimensions

""Having equal density, as different regions of a medium; passing through points at which the density is equal; as, an isopycnic line or surface. as, an isopycnic line or surface.""

Having the same or equal osmotic pressure; isotonic; -- used of solutions. Contrasted with hypertonic and hypotonichypertonic and hypotonic

Under equal pressure from every side.

One like this still in a state of equilibrium

(Chemistry) Chem (of a stereospecific polymer) having identical steric configurations of the groups on each asymmetric carbon atom on the chain Compare syndiotactic

Uniform in all directions

Having the same properties irrespective of direction

JUDGE to {estimate=v}

Of or relating to a cold flow of air traveling downward: a katabatic wind.

Pl. keratoses (-s z) Excessive growth of horny tissue of the skin.

""The formation of ketone bodies, as occurs in diabetes.""

Pertaining to motions of bodies

Relating to motion

Treating of the motion of bodies in space.

Of soil produced by the decomposition of rocks

LATOSOL a tropical soil

The garlic (anagram)

The reverse of energetic

Short of energy

LEVIRATE the custom of marrying the widow of one's brother

LIMONITE a major ore of iron

Pl. lipolyses (-s z ) The hydrolysis of lipids.

Verse ()

Pity Hal with the MC for a gland

LYOPHILE pertaining to a type of colloid

LYOPHOBE not readily dispersed

Harboring a temperate virus

Characterized by a mixture of languages.

Hodgepodge, as the etymology of a word

A comic ran about like 'Michelle, ma belle ... '

MELANITE a black variety of garnet

"", Melanistic.""

Like one expected to deliver (wordplay)

Having a cult following, say

Like some sacred music

Kind of weight loss

Pertaining to chemical processes of life

Of an energy-giving process.

""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.""

METONYM a word used in metonymy

""MIASMA a noxious vapor, also MIASM""

MIDRASH an early Jewish interpretation of a biblical text

What Don Juan wasn't

MITOGEN a substance the induces mitosis

Roman building with style of kings

Of hereditary rule

Lisa perhaps, right in fashion like a queen