2-Letter Words Ending in C

""Consisting of, or containing, one atom; as, the molecule of mercury is monatomic. as, the molecule of mercury is monatomic.""

""Capable of being neutralized by a univalent base or basic radical; having but one acid hydrogen atom to be replaced; said of acids; as, acetic, nitric, and hydrochloric acids are monobasic. as, acetic, nitric, and hydrochloric acids are monobasic.""

MONOCYTE a type of white blood cell

""Pertaining to, or involving, monogamy.""

Of or pertaining to monogenesis.

Like molecules that can bond in a polymer

MONOSOME an unpaired chromosome

Uttered in a dull way

Unvarying in pitch

Love to get boost after day lacking variety

""Having but one type; containing but one representative; as, a monotypic genus, which contains but one species.as, a monotypic genus, which contains but one species.""

Of or pertaining to a morpheme.

Breaking down or hydrolyzing mucus or mucopolysaccharides.

MUTAGEN a substance that causes biological mutation

Causing dilatation of the pupil.

""A sudden twitching of muscles or parts of muscles, without any rhythm or pattern, occurring in various brain disorders.""

Of or pertaining to myopathia.

From the later stone age

Of the late Stone Age.

Period beginning about 8,000 B.C.

Describes Jade to writer returning to human resources and IT in charge

Obsolete word for medicine for the kidneys

13, quarantined from relation, suggestive of kidney disease

Of nerve pain

Gain ulcer, resulting in nervous pain

Going over university clearing turned out painful

""NEUTRON a subatomic particle, also NEUTRINO""

""Pertaining to, or derived from, nicotine; nicotic; used specifically to designate an acid related to pyridine, obtained by the oxidation of nicotine, and called nicotinic acid. nicotinic acid.""

Like some paper

ATOMIC relating to an atom

Not occurring in cycles; not cyclic. Opposite of cyclic.cyclic.

EROTIC an amatory poem

ETHNIC a member of a racial or cultural group

EXOTIC something from another part of the world

METRIC a standard of measurement

POETIC pertaining to {poetry=n}

Private

Disease and Illness

Clings to a miserable yearning

Longing for the past

Fondly remembering the past

NUCLEON a subatomic particle

""A rapid, involuntary, oscillatory motion of the eyeball.""

In the matter of deliverance, perhaps

Relating to childbirth

Bit with corset strained from childbirth

Possibly contains one like Portnoy

ONCOGENE a gene that causes a cell to become cancerous

""The branch of medicine that deals with tumors, including study of their development, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.""

Pertaining to proper names

Like a secondhand signature on a sitcom rewrite

Of names

Biology

Tragic love is crazy and wild

Like a really wild party

Of frantic unrestrained celebrations

Smash it! Cor! Hope of correct pronunciation (wordplay)

OTOCYST an organ of balance in many invertabrates

OTOLITH a hard mass that forms in the inner ear

""OXYPHILE an organism that thrives on an acid environment, also OXYPHIL""

Awfully pricey nag gaining high praise

Public and elaborate eulogy

Praise excited gay prince

Random mating within a breeding population.

All-round (view)

Type of camera

Like a scenic view

Having an affinity for or indiscriminately affecting many kinds of tissue: pantropic viruses.

Like a curve or allegory

Like a type of curve

Expressed allegorically.

Drunk (informal)

Drunk city batsman quietly uplifted

Smashed CIA, partly struggling

One looking for signs of life (wordplay)

One seeking signs of life (wordplay)

Ambulatory staff (wordplay)

Delusional one

Person suffering from delusions of persecution

Sufferer from desusions of grandeur or persecution

Isaac trip badly, hanging on (wordplay)

Mean like one mite, almost (wordplay)

How like a sucker not to be independent!

Tincture of opium.

Pain reliever

Inverted headgear in which one received, radiophonically, a palliative

Like country fans (wordplay)

Typical of the country-lover (wordplay)

Having love for one's country

Relating to the early Church theologians

PEARLITE a cast iron alloy

Relating to teaching

Picky journalist keen to appear in film

Educational.

Like some hospital wards

Re children's health

Type of medicine

PEDOCAL a type of soil

Adjective (-ic)

""Soil the branch of medical science that studies the physical and psychological events of childhood. ; pedologist , ; pedological , adj . Children""

Like a green gem or olivine.

""PEROXIDE a bleaching agent, also PEROXID""

As old leaders of poverty hit and repressively armed oil nation in crisis

PHARE a lighthouse

Royal to snap, giving rise to invective

Name-calling speech.

Denunciatory speech

One who is phrenetic.

""PIANISTE someone who plays the piano, also PIANIST""

'Spiritual' - Mondrian? Perhaps 'artlessly artistic'

""One who has lost his hair by disease; a sneaking fellow, or one who is hardly used.""

Adjective (-ic)

""Composed of, containing, or resembling, pisolite.""

""PLASMA the liquid part of the blood, also PLASM""

Excessively abundant

""Inflammation of the pleura, usually occurring as a complication of a disease such as pneumonia, accompanied by accumulation of fluid in the pleural cavity, chills, fever, and painful breathing and coughing.""

Using air (or a similar gas)

Kind of drill or tire

Type of tire.

Of or pertaining to the lungs; pulmonic.

PODIA podium

GAMIC requiring fertilisation

Of or relating to polygeny; polygenetic.

Like nylon, chemically

Polytechnic type almost in charge of many subdivisions

Sensible MP with a tragic undoing

Matter-of-fact.

Matter-of-fact

ATOMIC relating to an atom

Of time before appearance of living things

Harry Price to accept rewritten obit: 'Life still to come'

""EXILIC pertaining to exile, also EXILIAN""

Producing rainbow colors, say

Is Ma with it in a crisp, light way (wordplay)

Rainbow-hued

Leaning forward; said of certain monosyllabic words which are so closely attached to the following word as not to have a separate accent.

""PROLE to prowl, also PROLL, PROUL""

PROPHASE the first stage in mitosis

For seeing sound (wordplay)

Criminal hit copper - that's ominous!

Telling of tomorrow

Of or pertaining to the prostate gland.

""Of or pertaining to prothesis; as, a prothetic apparatus. as, a prothetic apparatus.""

A noncontagious inflammatory skin disease characterized by recurring reddish patches covered with silvery scales.

Itchy cops (anagram)

Like Hannibal Lecter

Out of touch with reality

""Producing heat; said of substances, as septic poisons, which elevate the temperature of the body and cause fever.""

Decomposition or transformation of a compound caused by heat.

Containing pyroxene; composed chiefly of pyroxene.

Kind of equation graphed as a parabola

Type of algebraic equation

Like some equations solved in Algebra I

What Borges' magic may be (wordplay)

It is clear (anagram)

Like Zola or Flaubert works

How some people wax (wordplay)

Expressing ecstatic feeling

Exalted description of Liszt piece

Kind of fever - irate chum (anagram)

Afflicted with pain in joints etc

Affected by an inflammatory disease

RHYOLITE a volcanic rock

""Obtaining nourishment by absorption of dissolved organic and inorganic materials, as in protozoans and some fungi.""

Snidely stated, perhaps

Full of barbs

Using mocking wit

Relating to or affected with scabies.

Graphic new form of catechism

Catechism (anagram)

Catechism (anagram) - of a diagram

SCHLIERE a small streak in an igneous rock

That's a morbid sort of hardening

Of an eye membrane

It's getting a bit thick to be so loving at last

""Body, Human""

Descriptive of a scurvy knave (wordplay)

What a scurvy knave may be

""Relating to signs or symbols, esp. spoken or written signs [adj] : SEMEIOTICALLY""

'Black Maria, a - herself, rummages through the Zodiac' (Tom Wolfe)

Issue A not quite complete, so is binding B to C (wordplay)

""Pl. serologies The science that deals with the properties and reactions of serums, especially blood serum.""

In a total mess

Chaotic and inefficient

Confused clash involving mob I fancy

A disease of the lungs caused by continued inhalation of the dust of siliceous minerals and characterized by progressive fibrosis and a chronic shortness of breath.

SMECTITE a clayey mineral

""SODOMITE one who practices sodomy, also SODOMIST""

SOPHIST one who use sophisms

Poor sci-fi rerun sending one to sleep

Inducing drowsiness or sleep

That's enough to make one drop off

Done in short bursts

Done in brief irregular bursts

Faulty compass I'd disconnected

""Of or pertaining to semen; as, the spermatic fluid, the spermatic vessels, etc. as, the spermatic fluid, the spermatic vessels, etc.""

Pencil set (anagram)

Being irritable, select pin differently

There's a splice around the cross net

Slugging percentage, for one

R.B.I., for one

E.g. crime figure

""Pertaining to, or of the nature of, steatite; containing or resembling steatite.""

STEMMA a family tree

A notorious profligate or criminal who has been branded; one who bears the marks of infamy or punishment.

Digestive medicine for cat in African country is fashionable

The "S" in SALT

Forming part of a long-term plan

Of military importance.

Artistic city's redesigned around tip

Pertaining to literary design or appearance

Rhetorical

Designating Greenland, Baffin Land, etc

Very tiny coat - bum is suffering!

Smaller than small

Like a quark

TROPIC an imaginary circle on the celestial sphere

Singular bubble with incomplete opening will make one sweat

""SUPER to reinforce with a thin cotton mesh, as a book""

Sensuous city bar is demolished

Affording, enjoying, luxury

Devoted to luxury

""Pl. syllepses (-s z) A construction in which a word governs two or more other words but agrees in number, gender, or case with only one, or has a different meaning when applied to each of the words, as in He lost his coat and his temper.""

Mutually beneficial

Of different organisms, living together for mutual benefit

Equally balanced

Evenly proportioned.

Well proportioned

Ecology Occupying the same or overlapping geographic areas without interbreeding. Used of populations of closely related species.

Like some music? My, Chopin's fantastic!

My! Chopin's unusually melodic

Like a major classical music form

""Uniting and blending together different systems, as of philosophy, morals, or religion.""

""Genetically identical or closely related, so as to allow tissue transplant; immunologically compatible: syngeneic grafts; syngeneic animals.""

Cynic heard about my refusal to come up with the same definition

Relating to language structure

Random choice of Smollett

Clerical doctor has a bit of a scheme concerned with aspect of language

Man-made (fibre)

Artificially-made compound

Dacron, for example

Contractile

Strong-smelling gum resin

Relating to classification

Of classes

Looking good on the tube, say

Suitable for box cameras (wordplay)

Made for the screen

Of seas, especially if small or inland

Not entirely gormless, clasping a girl of the seas

Of the seas, especially those that are small or inland

Of or relating to theogony.

Of the study of religion and revelation

Impractical heretic to change

Concerned with hypotheses

Not practical

Elegiac

TOPONYM the name of a place

Typical of sightseers

Producing poison; toxicogenic.

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, trachyte.""

Of aeronautical speeds.

Close to speed of sound

Prepares in cartons really fast

Shocking so to cut it with a ram

Painful, in a way

Likely to scar

Like water and carbon dioxide

Description of a molecule such as water

Water is converting it to air, absorbing mass at the speed of light

""Having, or characterized by, three unequal axes intersecting at oblique angles. See the Note under crystallization. crystallization.""

CYCLIC moving in complete circles

TROPIST a user of tropes

""An infectious disease caused by the bacterium Francisella tularensis that chiefly affects rodents but can also be transmitted to humans through the bite of various insects or contact with infected animals. In humans, the disease is characterized by intermittent fever and swelling of the lymph nodes. Also called rabbit fever .""

""ULTRA an advocate of extreme measures, also ULTRAIST""

DYNAMIC a physical force

Excreting urea as the chief component of nitrogenous waste.

""UTOPIST one who believes in the perfectibility of human society, also UTOPIAN""

""Overactivity or irritability of the vagus nerve, adversely affecting function of the blood vessels, stomach, and muscles.""

""VIBRION a bacterium with a slight spiral curve, also VIBRIO""

Digital media item

Outmoded home entertainment medium

DVD component

Medical Specialties

VIRTUOSI virtuoso

Cruelly savage (criticism)

Civil riot can be expressive of ill will

Capable of destroying by chemical action

WHOLIST a believer of holism

ZOOPHILE a lover of animals

""ZOOSPORE a swarm-spore, also ZOOSPERM""

All about the cheekbone

""ACETYLENE A gaseous compound of carbon and hydrogen, in the proportion of two atoms of the former to two of the latter. It is a colorless gas, with a peculiar, unpleasant odor, and is produced for use as an illuminating gas in a number of ways, but chiefly by the action of water on calcium carbide. Its light is very brilliant.""

Colourless church with scent outside

Colorless.

A dreamer with no name embraces church, having no shade

ACTIVIST an advocate of {activism=n}

One anorak turned up with some work, in charge of stimulation

Pertaining to an important science.

Pertaining to the science of air travel

Of plane navigation

Affected with albinism.

Like a city father with a clear mind

Local official's frenzied, hiding behind tree

""ALKAHEST the hypothetical solvent sought by alchemists, also ALCAHEST""

Causing one to react rashly (wordplay)

Causing a rash reaction (wordplay)

Like penicillin, to some

Being genetically different although belonging to or obtained from the same species: allogeneic tissue grafts.

Of or pertaining to allometry.

""Ecology Occurring in separate, nonoverlapping geographic areas. Often used of populations of related organisms unable to crossbreed because of geographic separation.""

Of or pertaining to an allophone.

Of or involving a change in the shape and activity of an enzyme that results from molecular binding with a regulatory substance at a site other than the enzymatically active one.

Zero latitude given to everybody, in more than one form

Everything round earthly circle existing in more than one form

A couple of lines? Old line on map taking more than one form

Arranged just like these words? Yes!

Like some codes

Like characters in a script

Could be ARIA 1100 HELP

Unselfish liars? Cut it out!

Concerned for others' wellbeing

Hardly selfish