2-Letter Words Starting with C

Caracol

Exotic dancer in possession of a vehicle took touring holiday

Fizzy, as a soft drink

Like some beverages.

Fizzy element consumed by daughter

CARBONIZE To cover (an animal or vegatable substance) into a residue of carbon by the action of fire or some corrosive agent; to char.

Set with carbuncles.

Carburet

CARBURISE

CARBURIZE To combine wtih carbon or a carbon compound; said esp. of a process for conferring a higher degree of illuminating power on combustible gases by mingling them with a vapor of valatile hydrocarbons.

""CAROTENE a plant pigment, also CAROTIN, CARROTIN""

""CAROTIN a plant pigment, also CAROTENE, CARROTIN""

Verticillate ground cover

CARTELISE

CARTELIZE

Players I kept in school and told off

List of actors I shut up, reprimanded

Players I kept in and chastised

""CATALOGUE A list or enumeration of names, or articles arranged methodically, often in alphabetical order; as, a catalogue of the students of a college, or of books, or of the stars. as, a catalogue of the students of a college, or of books, or of the stars.""

Shot out when a cult taped broadcast

Launched at great speed

CATECHIZE See Catechise. Catechise.

Causeway

Like the Hydra's necks, post-decapitation

Cavalier

Known to be well like this (wordplay)

Noted Conservative bet leader changes

Observed (festival); famous

Mushroom ring, seedcase and seafood, potentially

Mushroom ring shining on group of whales - or squid, say (wordplay)

Thought

Chagrin

Chainsaw

CHAIRMAN to act as chairman of

It's often wiped clean

Didn't just accept

Took issue with tax date

Took issue with trial date

Supported

""CHANDELLE 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.""

Channel

Drove to prom, say

Performed a duenna's duties

Like many first dates

Charcoal

Supervisor gets help after assault

Pass under attack by group leader

Make worker pay - he's leader of a group

Keep an eye on the old woman and man in a doomed situation

European, we hear, got married and finished on board

Machine (not A1, note) tacked badly, totally frustrated

Where one may run into a mate (wordplay)

Bossed char (anagram)

Where to find a perfect mate (wordplay)

Burial ground (usually)

God's acre

Burial place

""CICATRIZE To heal or induce the formation of a cicatrix in, as in wounded or ulcerated flesh.""

Distributed about mid-July, admitted man

Conservative reform curtailed, it's reported

Mingled

Clangour

In the right form at school (wordplay)

Help wanted, for one

Secret, as files

Bach's instrument

Well-tempered item

Piano's early cousin

Clubhaul

Coadmit

Semisolid (of blood)

In odd order, catalogued set

Solidified.

Coanchor

Coappear

Coassist

Football player at the beach (wordplay)

The main service provider (wordplay)

CO at a drugs bust (wordplay)

Coattend

Coattest

Wrote with someone else

COCAINIZE To treat or an\'91sthetize with cocaine.

Cocktail

Coenamor

FEATURED feature

FINANCED finance

COLLIGATE To tie or bind together.

""COLLIMATE To render parallel to a certain line or direction; to bring into the same line, as the axes of telescopes, etc.; to render parallel, as rays of light.""

COLLOCATE Set; placed.

Having a series of columns arranged at regular intervals; furnished with a colonnade.

COMMUTATE

Didn't take lightly

(Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) a candidate for confirmation

(In grammar) inflected a verb systematically - do get Cajun (anagram)

Nicaraguan music makers (wordplay)

Nicaraguan music makers?

Opposed to pop group taking drugs, maybe

Formally agreed; shrank

Shrank from being engaged

Reduced in size

Run into experienced Tory in leading position, shown to be different

Calm and collected.

Good under pressure

Not easily excited

Turned state's witness, say

Was one of a team of surgeons (wordplay)

Turned state's evidence

Elemental serpent (wordplay)

Police officer's woe (wordplay)

Reptilian chief of police (wordplay)

Copycat

Dearer colt (anagram)

Established in orderly connection.

Dovetailing

Crumbs! Mat made date, brought wrinkly!

Cardboard type

CORUSCATE To glitter in flashes; to flash.

Covenant

COVERALL one-piece protective clothing

Was a crew leader

Crawfish

Having squared notches

Scalloped

This was crackling, by the sound of it

""CRIMINATE To accuse of, or charge with, a crime.""

Cold gent upset with penny lolly in cracker

Cooked spider-crab suitable for a low calorie diet (wordplay)

Crowbar

Reached a high point

Topped out

Farmed in a civilised way

Grew to become refined

Refined schoolboy having one butt in

CYBERNATE

CACHINNATE

""CALUMNIATE To accuse falsely and maliciously of a crime or offense, or of something disreputable; to slander; to libel.""

Escaping detection

Hidden

Oily and exaggerated husband held forth

A politician in church preached, becoming oily

CANNABIN a resin extracted from cannabis

CANTILLATE To chant; to recite with musical tones.

CAPACITATE To render capable; to enable; to qualify.

Floating naiad corpse richly arrayed

Wearing ornamental coverings, as circus horses

CAPITALISE

""CAPITALIZE To convert into capital, or to use as capital.""

Gave in

Surrendered

""CARAMELISE to to change into caramel, by the action of heat; as, The sugar caramelized quickly.as, The sugar caramelized quickly.""

Like sugar that's been heated until it turns brown

Carbonado

Carburet

Drew a grotesque picture of

Carillon

A swimmer dived in and performed certain crafty manoeuvres

Did a gymnastic maneuver

Having turrets and battlements

Having battlements

Like fortification Bill set up with girl and boy

CATABOLIZE

Put into boxes in iced storage possibly

Placed in a category.

Meowed

Sailboat device.

CENTRALISE

""Drawn toward a center or brought under the control of a central authority; as, centralized control of emergency relief efforts; centralized government. Opposite of decentralized.as, centralized control of emergency relief efforts; centralized government. Opposite of decentralized.""

Presided over

Servant combining charm with bed? I am!

Source of mints, at times

Making bed with charm, am I? Possibly

CHANNELIZE

Character

Grilled on a rack that leaves black stripes

Chauffeur

Checkmark

Did some social work (wordplay)

Made small talk

Shot the breeze

CHLORALOSE

""CHLORINATE To treat, or cause to combine, with chlorine.""

Numskull.

Numbskull

Ignoramus

Dolt or rockfish

Black-bellied plover.

Not so smart with a little laughter (wordplay)

Chugalug

CINEMATIZE

Clapboard

CLASSICIZE to make classic or classical.

Past tense or past participle

Mentally alert

Alert; logical

Perceptive

Cocaptain

Unaffected by emotion

Like the cruel meteorologist

Lacking compassion

COMMENTATE To write comments or notes upon; to make comments.

Companion

Remunerated

Confused tabby's followed around

Not simple

Comic lad playing with pet becoming confused

CONCILIATE To win ower; to gain from a state of hostility; to gain the good will or favor of; to make friendly; to mollify; to propitiate; to appease.

Seized (as a penalty)

Seized

""CONGLOBATE Collected into, or forming, a rounded mass or ball; as, the conglobate""

Gathered in a crowd

Holy box in second reincarnation

Sanctified

Hallowed

CONSOCIATE An associate; an accomplice.

Having difficult or incomplete or infrequent evacuation of the bowels; costive.

Jail-birds exercised under compulsion

Reticent prisoners studied

Reticent prisoner pushed to the limit

CONSUMMATE Carried to the utmost extent or degree; of the highest quality; complete; perfect.

CONTRAVENE To meet in the way of opposition; to come into conflict with; to oppose; to contradict; to obstruct the operation of; to defeat.

Rested for recovery

Matched, harmonised

Attractively harmonised

Copartner

Revoke (an order)

Revoke an order

Reverse, as an order

English word

Having battlements.

Crookback

""A term used when a narrow ribbon of veneer is inserted into the surfase of any piece of furniture, wainscoting, etc., so that the grain of it is contrary to the general surface.""

Crossbar

CRYSTALIZE

Crystallike; transparent like crystal.

Curveball

CANNIBALISE

CANNIBALIZE

Cannonball

Cantilever

CARBOXYLATE to treat a chemical compound with carboxyl or carboxylic acid.

CARROTTOP

Girl we hear presuming to transfer figures

CATHETERIZE To operate on with a catheter.

CATHOLICIZE To make or to become catholic or Roman Catholic.

Authorized

Chandelier

Surface of 64 squares

Design of alternating squares

Examine hesitation for committee looking for kings in America (wordplay)

CIRCULARISE

CIRCULARIZE

CIVILIANIZE

""CULTIVATED marked by refinement in taste and manners; as, cultivated tastes in art.as, cultivated tastes in art.""

Joined forces with strangely adorable clot

COLONIALIZE

Seized arbitrarily

Called to remembrance

Remembered, celebrated

""COMMISERATE To feel sorrow, pain, or regret for; to pity.""

COMMUNALIZE

COMMUNICATE To share in common; to participate in.

""CONCATENATE To link together; to unite in a series or chain, as things depending on one another.""

Deep Thought (wordplay)

Focused - made denser

Focus on The Last Word is reduced

Fabricated past experiences

Need for cadet to be trained in civil war group (wordplay)

Combined into a single unit

Made firm adapt to island code

Odd sectional parts merged

""CONSTELLATE To join luster; to shine with united radiance, or one general light.""

CONSTERNATE to cause to be confused; confuse emotionally; to dismay.

Polluted - anatomic dent (anagram)

No longer pure

Polluted, 'no admittance' order required

Thought about

Did deliberate swindle with blueprint to get diamonds

The Parisian should be held in scorn, journalist considered

Gainsaid.

Gainsaid

Affirmed

Inflected form of TRANSDUCED Inflected form of TRANSDUCE

Admitted as possible

Counteract

Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy.

English word