2-Letter Words Starting with C

They're out of control

Ship repairers.

Lurchers.

Tossing from side to side

This could become very upsetting, e'en in such a worrying way

Careerer

Going full tilt

Calling over the gin, out of control

Rushing wildly

Concern for personal advancement

Advancement at any cost

One on the way up

Ladder climber

Worry at first about one wanting to get on

With caution or prudence

With caution

Mate entertaining a judge without taking risks

Live-in nurse, perhaps

Many an in-home helper

Caresser

Treating with fondness.

Worries start 5 down with love

Treating with kindness

CARESS to touch lovingly

Caretake

Conscientious building worker (wordplay)

Sexton, for one

Janitor, e.g

Caretake

Tunes represented in a scroll

Comedy films' sound made by campanologists

Not well enough to switch cars going around noisy lot in tower

""Shaped like the keel or prow of a ship; having a carina or keel; as, a carinate calyx or leaf; a carinate sternum (of a bird).as, a carinate calyx or leaf; a carinate sternum (of a bird).""

Caritas

Soul-searching criminal (wordplay)

Motorist's menace

Vehicle thief

Honda and Hyundai

Some Detroiters

""The state of being carnal; fleshly lust, or the indulgence of lust; grossness of mind.""

America perhaps, after auto plant

What a blooming mechanical people!

Country estate perhaps first in bloom

Carnauba

Did Inca learn of this gem (wordplay)

Red cross member (wordplay)

Variety of quartz

Carnify

Carnify

A betaine commonly occurring in the liver and in skeletal muscle that functions in fatty acid transport across mitochondrial membranes.

Circuses

Carrion Virginia mixed for flesh-eaters

Wolves etc mostly fair when tackling men

Order soldiers to stop endless festivity

T. Rex, for one

Tip of rhubarb? No, I crave tripe!

Lion or tiger, for example

An ore of uranium

Caroach

Holiday entertainers

Soho seasonal singing

Singing Christmas hymns

Singing at 7 across

Carolus

Carotene

Noisy revels

Wild times.

Where you may find the pretty horses

Ornate amusement park rides

Kids hold their horses on them

Merrymakers

Reveler's activity

Many awakening us with their 28 across

Heading for a hangover

Thinly-sliced raw beef

Dish of thinly sliced raw meat

Italian hors d'oeuvre

One of Salinger's artisans (wordplay)

Fish becomes woodworker (wordplay)

Craftsman/river sign (wordplay)

Trade in a chippy (wordplay)

One of the trades

Woodwork at the fish gate

Mid-1800s luggage

Luggage of the 1800s

Piece of luggage

Covering darling in fond embrace

Concerned about sweetheart dressing down

End of the quip

CARPING the act of one who {carps=v}

Got to work greenly

Used the HOV lane

Rode with colleagues and complained about John's return

Morning pick-me-up (wordplay)

H.O.V. lane user

HOV lane user

Mini modified genera of seaweed

Purplish-red, edible seaweed

Purplish-red North Atlantic seaweed

A crossroads.

Gigs and cabriolets

Victoria and clarence.

Coaches affected airs and graces endlessly

Carriole

Carroch

Carrom

""A kind of short cannon, formerly in use, designed to throw a large projectile with small velocity, used for the purpose of breaking or smashing in, rather than piercing, the object aimed at, as the side of a ship. It has no trunnions, but is supported on its carriage by a bolt passing through a loop on its under side.""

Carroty

Carrotin

Lucille Ball for one

Nicole Kidman, for one

Lucille Ball for one

Merry-go-round

Renovated roundabout for Central Park.

Give someone a shout locally after vehicle takes left by roundabout

One-horse carriages.

Beach bags.

Tax return credit.

Tax law provision affecting prior years

Famous racehorse.

Carryout

It is what ferries do with what is left

Take on to a new page

Transfer to the next column, in math

CARTEL a business organization

CARTEL a business organization

Flexible connective tissue

Connective tissue of the human body

Kind of bone

Wagons full

Crafty type follows college lads around inside for large amounts

Carton

Worked on a panel (wordplay)

Worked for Mad, maybe

Worked on a strip

CARTOP able to fit in top of a car

Oblong in Egyptian hieroglyphs

Tablet in scroll form

Any scroll-shaped ornament.

Credit rag (anagram)

Sort of paper-round (wordplay)

Sort of paper round (wordplay)

""A register, or record, as of a monastery or church.""

Is it your turn to do this (wordplay)

Handspring's kin

Part of a gymnastic routine

Caruncle

""A thick oily liquid, C10H13.OH, of a strong taste and disagreeable odor, obtained from oil of caraway (Carum carui). C10H13.OH, of a strong taste and disagreeable odor, obtained from oil of caraway (Carum carui).""

Auto-cleaning services

Some school fundraisers

Drive-thru cleanings

Women carrying building materials

Greek women relied on for support

Pillars in the form of female figures

Pl. caryopses (- p s z ) or caryopsides (- p s -d z ) See grain .

""A onecelled, dry, indehiscent fruit, with a thin membranous pericarp, adhering closely to the seed, so that fruit and seed are incorporated in one body, forming a single grain, as of wheat, barley, etc.""

Caryotin

Cascabel

Cascable

Descending in steps

Flowing like a waterfall over rocks

Emulating a waterfall

Caseate

A degeneration of animal tissue into a cheesy or curdy mass.

Law library items

Records about broken oboes having keys with centres missing

Medical records, one of which describes work of consultant assisted by doctor

Casefy

CASEIN a milk protein

Legal woes (wordplay)

Social workers' work

Lawyers' burdens

Warship gun enclosures.

Comrades of the box for security

Roger for one may be seen through

Windows with vertical hinges

One may see through such as Sir Roger

Casework

Caseworm

Cashbook

How Johnny recharges offstage (wordplay)

Bread holders

Dough containers

Fired, as a salesclerk (wordplay)

Scanned the goods, say

Dismissed from one's job

Some scarves, coats or sweaters

Some Donna Karan products

Some scarves

Casimere

Casimire

Casket

Dish (served in a dish of the same name)

Dish for bad loser in lawsuit (wordplay)

Church-supper dish

Compact cases for recordings

Walkman owner's supply

Containers for magnetic tapes

""A thin, twilled, woolen cloth, used for men's garments.""

Dish thrown out as lost cause (wordplay)

Stew with beans

Stew of scouse, late, endlessly stewed

Bird so cautious under the bag up there

Bird that's scary was wild about nothing

So a cry was changed of the running bird

Flamenco clappers (wordplay)

They may click at dances

Spanish dancer's clickers

Some island dwellers

Gilligan and his companions

Gilligan and friends

Casteism

Governor of a fortress

Warden in a medieval stronghold.

For one running keep tin of beer (wordplay)

Criticise cold wine scandal (wordplay)

Chastise - tacit sage (anagram)

Reprimand, showing players one way out

The oil secreted from the beaver that is used as bait by trappers

Actors awarded stars? Done!

Players given value - done

Like a gelding thrown a painter by boy

Loses membership (wordplay)

... knackers pitch and charges

CASTRATO a singer castrated in boyhood

Mostly relaxed, artist captures popular tree

Reasoning speciously

Oversubtle

The use of clever but false reasoning

Clever but false reasoning

Logic-chopping

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

Social or political upheaval.

Initially cats stay calm around upheaval

A clam cyst could be a disaster

Maze full of dead ends (wordplay)

Underground burial chambers

Rooms full of Roman remains

Catalase

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

Fit for a cat - a jumpy one, perhaps

Rigid state of seizure

Silas Marner ailment

Verse

Verse

Listed

Librarian, at times

List maker

Library-user's aid

Mail-order item

Librarian's concern

Catalyse

Enzyme's job

Acceleration of chemical reaction by independent agent

Alice is sounding so catty to get a faster reaction

They cause change

They cause things to happen

They make things happen

Type of converter

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

Constant withdrawal from capital turning City into stimulating reaction

Catalyze

CATALYZE to act at a catalyst

Catalyze

Boat for felines (wordplay)

America's Cup winner, perhaps

Feline boat (wordplay)

The monthly courses of women; menstrual discharges; menses.

Catamite

Diet portion for Tabby (wordplay)

Diet portion for Tabby?

How much feline is a lynx, for instance

""The use of a linguistic unit, such as a pronoun, to refer ahead to another unit, for example, the use of him to refer to John in the sentence Near him, John saw a snake.""

Poultice

A morbid condition caused by an overwhelming shock or extreme fear and marked by rigidity of the muscles.

Flight-deck devices

Middle Ages weapons

Old missile launchers

Waterfalls - in the eye (wordplay)

Waterfalls in the eyes (wordplay)

What Niagara Falls consists of.

""Pertaining to, produced by, or attending, catarrh; of the nature of catarrh.""

Band once fronted by Cerys Matthews

State of rigidity and stupor

State of muscular rigidity and stupor

In a rigid trance.

... still giving pussy a drink

In an immobile stupor

Catbrier

Catcall

Ball that should be held

Like a "can-of-corn" fly

Possibly infectious message passed round at church

Certain bags, closets, attics, etc.

Most memorable

Area from which river derives its flow

Area from which school's pupils are drawn

Water collection difficulty: pieces start to tear

Sheriff's officer is to arrest East European

Ken, ex-Australian rugby captain who always caught the ball

Bailiff.

A bailiff's assistant.

Doh! for one

"Doh!" for one

A favorite saying

Catechin

Series of questions

Set of questions for religious teaching

Religious instructions

""One who instructs by question and answer, especially in religions matters.""

Question closely

Question thoroughly

Catechol

Positive cat is to go in Eric's custody

Without exception included in a class

Unambiguously direct

Linked in a series

Links

Catenoid

Feline shriek - cult aware (anagram)

Queens on wall heard thus (wordplay)

Tempting appeal from the Queen's Mews!

CATFACE a deformity of fruit

Catfight

Types of "whiskered" swimmers

Misleads, online

Misrepresents oneself to on the internet, in a way

Discharges of pent-up emotions

Ah! elicitors

Releases

Purification - is rash act (anagram)

Oddly, chap to head riskiest release

Purification for suspect archaists

Cleansing - arctic hat (anagram)

Medicine found by little girl on a lorry

Releasing pent-up emotions

Cathect

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

Cathedra

Saint Paul's, for one

Winchester, for one

St Patrick's in Dublin, say

Cathedra

Any of various proteolytic enzymes found in animal tissue that catalyze the hydrolysis of proteins into polypeptides.

Medical devices

Mass producers (wordplay)

Most Poles and Portuguese

Mass group

Brothels (slang) - hot sauces (anagram)

Catnaper

Had a short sleep during the day

Took forty winks.

Beaten about at noon, took a brief rest

Grabber of winks or a lynx (wordplay)

Capable parent's not fit to flop around one dropping off

Of or relating to mirrors and reflected images.

Cattalo

Cattery

CATTIE an Asian unit of weight

Neat fellow on the ranch (wordplay)

Ben Cartwright, for one

Shepherd's nemesis, in many oaters

Characters in "Old Arizona."

The sound of their work may be heard

Prime factors in the meat situation.

Dune a drug? Possibly, to the vulnerable

Caucus

Caucus

Caucus

Caudillo

Very large pots used for boiling

Vessels for boiling

Potion props

Caulicle

Caulking

""(Medicine / Pathology) Pathol a burning sensation along the course of a peripheral nerve together with local changes in the appearance of the skin [from New Latin, from Greek kausos fever + -algia ]""

CAUSAL a word expressing cause or reason