2-Letter Words Starting with C

Feline shriek - cult aware (anagram)

Queens on wall heard thus (wordplay)

Tempting appeal from the Queen's Mews!

Saint Paul's, for one

Winchester, for one

St Patrick's in Dublin, say

Lets Alice refurbish? How divine!

How heavenly to have been so Chinese!

In grace, lest I allow heart's divine

Descriptive of a Watch-and-Warder.

CERCARIA a parasitic worm

Hazardous.

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

Dense brushwood of the southwestern US

Thicket of shrubs.

Thicket of dense tangled brushwood

Way to cook steak

Pertaining to the choroid coat.

CIRCUIT to move around

CISTERNA a fluid-containing sac

CLADODE a leaflike part of a stem

The hinged door of a cargo aircraft

Cape Cod ashtray

Sea creature's protection

Of recognized excellence, music perhaps

Genre of music

Adhering to traditional forms.

Cloistral.

""Of, pertaining to, or confined in, a cloister; recluse.""

""Of or pertaining to the coccyx; as, the coccygeal vertebr\'91. as, the coccygeal vertebr\'91.""

Scarlet dye - in a cloche (anagram)

Red food dye (from beetles)

Said to be a dying insect (wordplay)

Talking bird of Australia

Small crested Australian parrot

Australian parrot

Equally everlasting.

Olympian learnt about sharing immortality

It's characteristic of the Trinity to display tolerance

""COITION sexual intercourse, also COITUS""

Pertaining to, say, Eton

Among one's co-workers

Marked by sharing of authority

About a mixture

Like a gel jostling idol in refurbished local

COLLUVIA colluvium

""The thin yellowish fluid secreted by the mammary glands at the time of parturition that is rich in antibodies and minerals, and precedes the production of true milk. Also called foremilk .""

One who eats at the same table.

Burial of a corpse

Act of consigning someone to prison

The pledge of confinement

Honors ceremony

CONFORM to {comply=v}

A nice long break can be so pleasant!

Cosy conga (line dancing?)

Suited to one's taste

Of relationship between husband and wife

This bliss is of the married sort

Relating to marriage

Occurring again and again

On and on.

Active material in a vaccine

Jolly trick: small flask holding six

Sociable and lively

Cheerful and sociable

Bodily ingestion of drug by soldier

Substantial hole in reef's material

Bodily makeover for poor Clare

Belonging to a creature; having the qualities of a creature.

""Adapted to running or walking, and not to prehension; as, the limbs of the horse are cursorial. See Illust. of Aves. as, the limbs of the horse are cursorial. See Illust. of Aves.""

Pitch that fixes everything (wordplay)

It may cause a strike

Delivery that could lead to a strike

Of confinement - aids clout (anagram)

A sentence to be penned (wordplay)

Relating to a guard or guardian

""Pertaining to, or resembling, a cycloid; as, the cycloidal space is the space contained between a cycloid and its base. as, the cycloidal space is the space contained between a cycloid and its base.""

""One of the forms of vitamin D, a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets. It is an unsaturated alcohol, C28H43OH found in foods such as milk and fish liver oils. It is used as a dietary supplement in milk.vitamin D, a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets. It is an unsaturated alcohol, C28H43OH found in foods such as milk and fish liver oils. It is used as a dietary supplement in milk.""

Growing in level fields.

""A nonpsychoactive chemical constituent of cannabis, C 21 H 26 O 2 , from which THC forms.""

Dive done with the arms around the knees

Way to make a big splash

Civil War missile.

Adapted to eating flesh.

""Pertaining to the catamenia, or menstrual discharges.""

Colorado (with "state")

May 11, 2014, for "E" as a "D"

Anniversary of note

Divided into hundredths

Like dollars and euros

System of protocol.

For show only

Formal lie - Cameron after Labour

""A chain pulley, or sprocket wheel.""

""CHELICERA 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.""

Wild, like animals in a compound (wordplay)

Wild; fanciful

One strange miracle church originally put down as 'fanciful'

CHLAMYDIA a coccoid rickettsia which may infect birds and mammals; it causes infections of eyes and lungs and the genitourinary tract.

CITATION an official summons to appear

""A special branch, resembling a leaf, as in the apparent foliage of the broom (Ruscus) and of the common cultivated smilax (Myrsiphillum). Ruscus) and of the common cultivated smilax (Myrsiphillum).""

Of or pertaining to a cognomen; of the nature of a surname.

Confirmatory - recall a lot (anagram)

2004 Cruise/Foxx neo-noir crime thriller

Security changing to all-clear

Like ordinary talk

Used in everyday conversation

Informal, as speech.

Relating to or involving both the colon and the rectum: colorectal cancer.

Wine seller, for one

Show stopper (wordplay)

Plug for tv (wordplay)

Commonwealth.

Relating to abstract ideas

Couple can't be converted to the work of Gilbert and George, say

Having elevations or depressions in form like one half of a bivalve shell; applied principally to a surface produced by fracture.

Of or relating to confederation or a specific confederation.

CONFRONTE

Clinton with age turning natural

Deformity in giant clone is innate

Native kind ringing Tory leader

Connected by nature; united in nature; inborn; inherent; natural.

By mutual consent, in law

Involving free agreement

Kind of sex that's caught on with nurses - uniformed, at least initially!

Relating to surrounding words

Of or pertaining to a convent; monastic.

Coastal area - good for early pumpkins

Bunny's follower (wordplay)

Cloth posterior (wordplay)

Hare ball (wordplay)

Involving a compact.

Beak of wader makes 12 wild

Wild geranium.

Geranium

Interlaced (anagram)

Item that gives confidence

Evidence of privilege

Like some museum jobs

Object found between California and Indonesia a lecturer previously carbon dated

CARICATURA

CARPOGONIA

""Of or pertaining to casuists or casuistry; as, casuistic thinking.as, casuistic thinking.""

CATACLYSM An extensive overflow or sweeping flood of water; a deluge.

""Of or pertaining to a catechism, having the form of questions and answers; catechical.""

Without exceptions or conditions

Unambiguously explicit

Unconditional

Moving out from a centre

Carrying outwards from the centre

Using force away from centre

Force of nature (wordplay)

Inward-pulling (force)

Of or pertaining to a chancroid.

CHROMOSOME One of the minute bodies into which the chromatin of the nucleus is resolved during mitotic cell division; the idant of Weismann. idant of Weismann.

""Relating to, or having the character of, a cicatrix.""

CITRONELLA

CLOSTRIDIA

COGNITION The act of knowing; knowledge; perception.

""COLLISION The act of striking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing.""

Of or pertaining to a commissure.

""CONDIMENT Something used to give relish to food, and to gratify the taste; a pungment and appetizing substance, as pepper or mustard; seasoning.""

Based on stipulations

With strings attached

Subject to provisos

CONFLICT to be in opposition

CONFUSION The state of being mixed or blended so as to produce indistinctness or error; indistinct combination; disorder; tumult.

Involving guesswork

Hypothetical, surmised

Like guesswork

"", <?/. Of the nature of a consonant; pertaining to consonants.""

Kind of cuisine.

Of mainland Europe

Kind of breakfast

Relating to a binding legal agreement

Relating to formal agreements

""PRINCIPAL Highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or degree; most considerable or important; chief; main; as, the principal officers of a Government; the principal men of a state; the principal productions of a country; the principal arguments in a case. as, the principal officers of a Government; the principal men of a state; the principal productions of a country; the principal arguments in a case.""

""To act against with equal force, power, or effect; to thwart or overcome by such action; to furnish an equivalent to or for; to counterbalance; to compensate.""

Befitting or indicating a coxcomb; like a coxcomb; foppish; conceited.

Like a rod

Shaped like a roller

Tube-shaped

CYTOLOGIC

""Relating to or consisting in, asking questions and receiving answers, according to the ancient manner of teaching.""

""CHARACTER A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol.""

Firm of less importance gets chance

Happening by chance

Apparently randomly concurrent

Of or pertaining to a commissary.

""Supplying, or tending to supply, a deficiency; fully completing.""

Of or pertaining to constitutional complexion.

""COMPONENT Serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent.""

Pertaining to conception.

""CONCESSION The act of conceding or yielding; usually implying a demand, claim, or request, and thus distinguished from giving, which is voluntary or spontaneous. giving, which is voluntary or spontaneous.""

""CONDUCTOR One who, or that which, conducts; a leader; a commander; a guide; a manager; a director.""

Relating to conference.

Nature of autobiography (especially Rousseau's)

Booth in church finances loos being renovated

In which Higgins supplies a place for admission

Private fled in action, distressed

Inflicted on a (anagram) - private

Like T.S. Eliot's clerk

Joining; connecting.

""CONNECTION The act of connecting, or the state of being connected; junction; union; alliance; relationship.""

Of or pertaining to a consistory.

Of music with more than one melody

Polyphonic

Singing voice wanting to hedge a bet with more than one melody

CONVECTION The act or process of conveying or transmitting.

Customary assembly with a learner

Customary; not 9 ac

The traditional way to gangster

""CONVERSION The act of turning or changing from one state or condition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation; change.""

""Tending to, or intended for, correction; used for correction; as, a correctional institution. as, a correctional institution.""

Belonging to cosmogony.

Of or pertaining to cosmology.

""Of or pertaining to the cranium and face; as, the craniofacial angle. as, the craniofacial angle.""

Of or associated with both the cranium and the sacrum.

""The selective exposure of tissues to extreme cold, often by applying a probe containing liquid nitrogen, to bring about the destruction or elimination of abnormal cells.""

A systemic infection caused by the fungus Cryptococcus neoformans that can affect any organ of the body but most often occurs in the central nervous system.

CYBERNETIC

Cells ()

""Of or pertaining to the cytoskeleton; as, cytoskeletal microtubules.as, cytoskeletal microtubules.""

""CACOGRAPHIC Pertaining to, or characterized by, cacography; badly written or spelled.""

""CALCULATION The act or process, or the result, of calculating; computation; reckoning, estimate.""

""The medical study of the structure, function, and disorders of the heart.""

Of or pertaining to the central nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.

""Selective destruction of tissue by use of chemicals, as for removing malignant skin lesions.""

Arranged on order of occurrence

Arranged in order of occurrence

In time order

Manuscripts ()

Like mixed schools

Certainly not of the class of Eton, for instance

Instructing boys and girls, commander wrongly cautioned a learner

""HOMOLOGICAL Pertaining to homology; having a structural affinity proceeding from, or base upon, that kind of relation termed homology. homology.""

COLLOCATION The act of placing; the state of being placed with something else; disposition in place; arrangement.

Of or relating to combinations.

COMBINATE United; joined; betrothed.

Divided into sections

Commander, somewhat mad, is sectioned

Commander, a bit crazy, is sectioned

Relating to creation of a musical work

""COMPRESSION The act of compressing, or state of being compressed.""

Of or pertaining to computation (definition 3).

Of the Senate and House of Representatives

___ Record

Relating to conjugation.

Relating to a conjunction.

Having the power of implying or suggesting something in addition to what is explicit. Contrasted with denotative.denotative.

Following as a result

Important; following on

Of importance

""CONTRACTION The act or process of contracting, shortening, or shrinking; the state of being contracted; as, contraction of the heart, of the pupil of the eye, or of a tendion; the contraction produced by cold. as, contraction of the heart, of the pupil of the eye, or of a tendion; the contraction produced by cold.""

Taking place or originating in a corresponding part on an opposite side.

Causing heated debate

Likely to cause disagreement

Is Rev. a control freak? It's debatable

Of or pertaining to a convocation.

""RESIDENTIAL Of or pertaining to a residence or residents; as, residential trade. as, residential trade.""

""CORRELATION Reciprocal relation; corresponding similarity or parallelism of relation or law; capacity of being converted into, or of giving place to, one another, under certain conditions; as, the correlation of forces, or of zymotic diseases. as, the correlation of forces, or of zymotic diseases.""

The science of the chemical composition of the universe.

Like much GCHQ work

Code-based

CRYSTALLOID Crystallike; transparent like crystal.

CYTOGENETIC Of or pertaining to cytogenesis or cell development.cytogenesis or cell development.

Of or pertaining to cartography.

""Belonging to, or in the manner of, a catachresis; constituting, characterized by or given to catachresis; wrested from its natural sense or form; forced; far-fetched.""

Of or pertaining to chirography.

Pertaining to a chronometer; measured by a chronometer.

(Of evidence) indirect

Tantric musical may be incidental

""CIVILIZATION The act of civilizing, or the state of being civilized; national culture; refinement.""

Of or pertaining to climatology.

Showing sound judgement

House redesigned in scale that's not silly

Down-to-earth sons men upset? Funny about that

COMPENSATION The act or principle of compensating.

CONDENSATION The act or process of condensing or of being condensed; the state of being condensed.

""CONFIRMATION The act of confirming or strengthening; the act of establishing, ratifying, or sanctioning; as, the confirmation of an appointment. as, the confirmation of an appointment.""

CONFORMATION The act of conforming; the act of producing conformity.

""Of or pertaining to a congregation; conducted, or participated in, by a congregation; as, congregational singing. as, congregational singing.""

Relating to preservation or restoration

CONSERVATORIA

Of or pertaining to a consociation.

CONSPIRATION Agreement or concurrence for some end or purpose; conspiracy.

Scheming corsair in a plot that's gone wrong

Criminal is in patrol car, admitting love for plotting

Stroll through law offices (wordplay)

Walk like our monarchy

Walk through the law

""Pertaining to, or deduced from, construction or interpretation.""

Of the same kind or nature; having the same substance or essence; coessential.

A novelist can or might produce another word for 'relaxed'

Like chatting in company with citizen about poetry, mostly

Of or pertaining to cosmography.

Relating to what is not the case

Of or relating to both the cranium and the cerebrum.

Of or pertaining to criminology.

The study of the effects of very low temperatures on living organisms.

""An antibiotic, C 11 H 12 Cl 2 N 2 O 5 , derived from the soil bacterium Streptomyces venezuelae or produced synthetically and effective against a broad spectrum of microorganisms.""

See vitamin D .

Miracle cure, if time allows, around a point of the compass

""Used in communication; as, he had few communicational grooves available for use.as, he had few communicational grooves available for use.""

""CONFIGURATION Form, as depending on the relative disposition of the parts of a thing' shape; figure.""

In an in-your-face way

Dealing hostilely with others

Aggressively hostile