2-Letter Words Starting with C

""The agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect.""

Reason why

Why one thing leads to another (wordplay)

Effect producer

Act or agency that produces an effect

Without principles to stand for

Chartered accountant no good without provocation

Wingers for Chelsea ineffectual, lacking goals

Short informal essays

Cozy chats

Chats

Over-water roads

Roads over water

Raised roads over water

Cautery

Burn, as a wound

Burn with a hot iron

Sear with a corrosive

War, Ned, as well (wordplay)

Education (anagram)

Given a warning about education

Ceremonial procession, of horses say

Cowardly display (wordplay)

Murray, bounder, in hollow parade

Cavalero

English word

Royalists in vehicles could be alive

University of Virginia athletes

Royalists in the English Civil Wars

Cavally

Horseback troop groups

Cavatina

Caveat

Caveator

Cavern

Vast and hollow

Huge, in a way

Like Carlsbad

Those who nitpick

Cavil

Cavitate

Cavitate

Cavorter

Larking about in underground activity? Nothing right in that

Gamboling

Shrub with blue flowers

Constant, and lacking relief (wordplay)

Going on continually, incessant

Constant and unending

See cedar waxwing .

Raced round copse for timber

Hard, sweet-smelling timber

Durable fragrant timber

Flowering plant - decennial (anagram)

Flower found in parcel, and in envelope

Plant of buttercup family

Mass Observation director

Someone to get mad with priest

Toaster, for example

Have a party, say

Mark (a birthday)

Publicly praise (someone)

Celeriac

Lets Alice refurbish? How divine!

How heavenly to have been so Chinese!

In grace, lest I allow heart's divine

Nuns, by vow

Some priests

Holy types church sets free without hesitation

Charge for storing (wine?)

Certain storage charge

Cost of storing wine

Monks for the commissary

Cabinets for wine.

Sideboards

Cellar

Folks who share a joint (wordplay)

Pen pals (wordplay)

Partners in crime, so to speak.

""Any of several enzymes produced chiefly by fungi, bacteria, and protozoans that catalyze the hydrolysis of cellulose.""

Specially chosen guards make use of monuments

Descriptive of a Watch-and-Warder.

Fabulous creature presses on each star thistle, for example

A 100th anniversary

One hundredth anniversary

That's for a hundred gone in time

Centiare

Metric-system unit

That grate of mine carries little weight

Approximate weight of a grain of sand

Central

How a middleman works (wordplay)

At the middle

Not put on side in this way

Cephalin

Some potters

Fictile craftsmen

Fictile craftsmen.

Cercaria

CERCARIA a parasitic worm

Cercaria

Parts of brains

Lower posterior parts of the brain

Occupiers of the skull's posterior fossa

Cerebral

Have an idea

Think hard

Just think how to get the beer into the crate

Certain

Art nicely represented? Yes!

Some left? Yes, of course

Definitely or positively

Cattery in trouble? No doubt about it!

Unusually tiny trace, no doubt

State of being sure

Sky blues

Cervelat

Cesarean

Cesarian

Stopping canoeists capsizing

Process of ending

The ending or being brought to an end

Whales and dolphins

Of or pertaining to the Cetacea.

Old Spanish dances

Chaffer

One who chaffers; a bargainer.

Chaffy

Refuse unit of column in flier

Measure husks first for the bird

Small European bird with a cheerful song

Feeling humiliation, dispersed in charge by Duke

Put out

Upset

Power-driven cutting tools

Lumberjack's devices

Noisy horror weapons

Skier's aid

Skier's need

Way up the slope

Chairman

""A tumour of the eyelid, pl CHALAZIONS or CHALAZIA""

""(Chemistry / Elements & Compounds) any of the elements oxygen, sulphur, selenium, tellurium, or polonium, of group 6A of the periodic table [from chalco ( pyrite ) + -gen ]""

Dry measures of old England.

Dry measures of old England

Chalky

Dispute (a statement)

Question truth of - dare

Dare to raise an objection

Challis

Chalutz

Like a nautilus

Chambray

Lizard hard for animal to eat (wild one)

Quick change artist (wordplay)

Lizard able to change its skin colour

Chamfer

Chamfron

Chammy

Chamois

Rubs with a leathery cloth

Herb for tea

Herb in herbal tea

Aromatic plant of the daisy family

It's the wine talking - fake anguish!

Holiday sparkler (wordplay)

Symbol of luxurious living.

University town in east central Illinois

Victor contrived gain in old country

Hospital used during manoeuvres in open country

Title holder burst tyre, which is illegal

Bubbly unfinished before getting extremely tipsy, which is illegal

The Braves in 1995

The Yankees often in the 20's

They win first place in competitions

Propose as a different recent art form

Enamel work almost on a par with title holder

Hazardous.

Chancy

""A venereal sore, resembling a chancre in its seat and some external characters, but differing from it in being the starting point of a purely local process and never of a systemic disease; called also soft chancre. soft chancre.""

Of the nature of a chancre; having chancre.

""An abrupt climbing turn made by an airplane, in which the plane's momentum is used to achieve a higher than normal rate of climb, without stalling the aircraft.""

Raymond's candle makers

Playback man's are dealers in corn

Ship provisioners

Marine supply business

Place where candles are kept

Place selling things for boats

Chanfron

Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain.

Nailed an impersonation of, say

Did a great job impersonating, say

Spoke exactly like

Medium

Chantage

Piaf, for one

Female singer, in a nightclub perhaps

Edith Piaf, for one

Chantry

Dense brushwood of the southwestern US

Thicket of shrubs.

Thicket of dense tangled brushwood

Chapatti

Mrs Ewing wrote to it, from six

Parent at the prom, say

Teacher at a dance, say

Guardian could be no cheaper

Parents at school parties.

Overseers of a sort

Parents at school parties

Chapiter

Service leaders in the service

Members of clergy ministering to institutions

Fellows hanging around US city with trendy clergy

Fellow given sanction, man in special headgear

Chappati

Chapter

Chaqueta

Old tourist coach

Old tourist vehicle

British bus for sightseers

Characid

Characin

A card or a letter (wordplay)

Eccentric nature (wordplay)

Imaginary person in a work of fiction

Way to cook steak

Charcoal

Caginess. wariness

Caution needed if there's a rainfall during the game

Wariness

Chariot

I stir each (anagram)

Acts of aid to the needy

Donor's beneficiaries

Wedding music of sorts.

Vicar with hairstyle that's burlesque

Hawthorne tales, thus related

Flamboyant deceiver, mountebank

Quack, fraud, a flamboyant deceiver

Cleaner's mostly slow, and an imposter

Charlock

Did Bates report her quarrel (wordplay)

Queen of puddings (wordplay)

She's a tart - but deep!

A satin-finished silk fabric.

Conservative safe, but lacking allure

Cold and safe, lacking appeal

Offensive wing left in game

Charry

Hired, as a bus

Professionally qualified - not scheduled

Like some flights

Renter of bus or ship.

Tour operator, at times

Table is for Eliot with reformers

Reformers sit around surrounded by maps

Reformers in England, 1837-48.

Tea-lady appears daily

Office building cleaner

Cleaner nation under fish wife

Some cleaners

Cleaning ladies

Cleaners.

Chasse

Breech-loading rifle of Franco-Prussian war.

Dave's mate gets thirty days, having concealed old rifle

Chasseur

Many raced, getting beaten (wordplay)

Took to task

Humiliated, Charlie stepped on the gas

That which subdues

Discipliner.

Sad ethics (anagram)

Called on the carpet

Beaten at chess, I'd messed up

Smacker from singer drinking wines

One who severely reprimands

One strapping bear taken up by hunter

Takes to task

Dresses down

Criticizes severely

Such sable woven into vestments

Togetherness of Mitford girl

Chatchka

Chatchke

The master of a castle; a castellan.

""Having a changeable, varying luster, or color, like that of a changeable silk, or oa a cat's eye in the dark.""

Talked on and on

Talked quickly about trivia - like magpie (wordplay)

During December back there the mad one had a lot in a manner of speaking

He won't shut up

One talking idly or rapidly

Ear-bender

They talk most when the static is sorted

Most gossipy woman's appearing in court

Most talkative

Chauffer

Master of the Rolls (wordplay)

Driver for private car

One is paid to drive a car

Chaunter

Chaunt

A foot covering of any kind.

'Half a dozen grinning -s watching him (Richard Jefferies, Green Ferne Farm)

English word

English word

Lowered in general esteem.

Lost value

Discredited journalist chasing each poor writer

Inferior inexpensive card

Seller of inferior goods

Seller of shoddy goods

Scan sheep (anagram)

Jack Benny trait

Parsimony

Chechako

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*Symbol for 'O.K.'

*Symbol for "O.K."

Approval indicator

Keep tabs on one's spouse?

Associate at a bank (wordplay)

Lioness in winter (wordplay)

English word

Root on

Chelate

The process of removing a heavy metal from a solution by means of a chelate;

Chelator

""One of the anterior pair of mouth organs, terminated by a pincherlike claw, in scorpions and allied Arachnida. They are homologous with the falcers of spiders, and probably with the mandibles of insects.""

Hen Nicola chopped up for reptile

Fertilizers and weed killer, say

Revolutionary claims about agents in lab

Lab compounds

Dress requiring cash - men go wild

Chinese dress with split skirt

Oriental dress hems can go crooked

Luscious fruit of tropical America.

Chevalet

'Thank Heaven for Little Girls' singer

Each viler than the strange knight

A horseman or mounted knight

Chiasma

Chicaner

Yearn for change after smart deception

Smart one from Peebles tracks fraud

Trickery used to gain an advantage

Sophisticated article on gin cocktail leads to old form of cheating

Small gray-and-black songbird

Word in a W.C. Fields film title

Titmouse's cousin

Red squirrel named for the sound it makes

Baby bird vegetables (wordplay)

Garbanzo beans' alias

What the hatchery owner brought

Emir or raja

Leading man's changing it, if he can

One newt in file is the leader

Chigetai

A chap on foot (wordplay)

Painful swelling brought on by cold

Painful swelling in winter

Chiliasm

Believers in the millenium

She-monsters variable