2-Letter Words Starting with C

University town in east central Illinois

Victor contrived gain in old country

Hospital used during manoeuvres in open country

Flamboyant deceiver, mountebank

Quack, fraud, a flamboyant deceiver

Cleaner's mostly slow, and an imposter

Tea-lady appears daily

Office building cleaner

Cleaner nation under fish wife

Some cleaners

Cleaning ladies

Cleaners.

The master of a castle; a castellan.

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

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

Hen Nicola chopped up for reptile

Emir or raja

Leading man's changing it, if he can

One newt in file is the leader

A chap on foot (wordplay)

Painful swelling brought on by cold

Painful swelling in winter

Chestnut tree Var.

Chestnut tree variable

Order discovered in laboratory animal in feature which contains DNA

Of the underworld

Ecclesiastic

CILIATE a class of protozoans

Of daily biological processes

""A platinum-containing chemotherapeutic drug, Cl 2 H 6 N 2 Pt, used in the treatment of metastatic ovarian or testicular cancers and advanced bladder cancer.""

Get a grip (wordplay)

Attempt at suppression

Attempt to suppress something

Is he in a service industry (wordplay)

My clanger about the vicar (wordplay)

Person of the cloth

Doctor treating patients

Doctor working directly with patients

Workshop giver

Box jellyfish or sea anemone, for example

Alliance to adopt fossil fuel, perhaps

The alliance of carbonisation, perhaps

Group of allies

See vitamin B .

Continental title

Relationship by blood; descent from the same original; kindred.

Irish cabbage, potato dish

Pass priest eating Northern Irish food

Cabbage mashed with potatoes

Making a meal of Lolita con (wordplay)

Fast food (wordplay)

Putting in sequence

Student pass many picked up

Fisk attendee, for example

Student makes Colorado member confront Scotsman

Mate (maybe of honour!)

Person who lives or travels with you

One of the gang

Hold back - non-racist (anagram)

Restrict scope of (an activity)

Prison conveyance (wordplay)

Liquid coating on a virus maybe

It can go on spreading disease

Common epidemic factor

Banal piece by essayist? It's a gem

Dull red stone; lone cairn (anagram)

July birthstone

English word

""The erosion of the bed of a stream by running water, principally by attrition of the detritus carried along by the stream, but also by the solvent action of the water.""

She's seduced no curates (wordplay)

No curates get mixed up with her!

No curates should take her out

Expert depressed by repressive measures

Repressive action taken

Newly appointed disciplinarian's measure

... joker that breaks in (wordplay)

The burglar works out on the island

Burglar jokes with servant

CRACKS crack

Boatyard worker (wordplay)

Skilled sailor (wordplay)

Expert shipwright (wordplay)

Males with manual skills

Males with skill in the manual arts

Manual workers with great skill

Burning (of a body)

Disposal of last atom in life (wordplay)

A burning romance somehow holds it back

A rounded tooth on the edge of a leaf.

Protector/guardian (of something)

He takes care to get a discount, perhaps

Keeper of keys

Vast empty city with no place to settle

Gigantic.

Massive

+Tangerinelike Philippine fruit

""A peptide hormone, produced by the thyroid gland in humans, that lowers plasma calcium and phosphate levels without augmenting calcium accretion. Also called thyrocalcitonin .""

""A calcium-binding protein found in all nucleated cells that affects the activity of many calcium-sensitive enzymes, including those involved in muscular contraction.""

Payment per head

Memorable mention about a prince introducing poll-tax

Beginners' alphabet in wording under diagram could be taxing

Cause of cancer

Wanting a cigar, one can perhaps be at risk from this

Vehicle 101 has complete lack of data that produces growth

Variant of carrageen .

Actors taking part? It leads to voices being raised

One preparing for confirmation.

Christian Union chaps outside a college making new convert (wordplay)

Neophyte

Linkage

A remedy for all diseases; a panacea.

Little Bighorn fighter

Mounted soldier

Horse soldier

Soldiers on horseback

All the world wondered at 600 of them

Old troops on horseback

CAVITATE to form cavities

""A semisynthetic analogue of cephalosporin, C 16 H 17 N 3 O 4 S, used especially in the treatment of respiratory and urinary tract infections.""

President's musical 21 mostly tinned

Committee honcho, sometimes

President has haircut up in prison

Certain committee leaders

Committee heads.

Advocate eats good northern mushroom

Small edible mushroom often found in a fairy-ring

Dejected fellow killed in battle

A man dropped will naturally be dejected

Weary to an extreme.

Dwarf chestnut tree found in eastern USA

A number supporting feature as tree

Dwarf chestnut tree of eastern USA with edible nuts

""Having the lower chop or jaw depressed; hence, crestfallen; dejected; dispirited;downcast. See Chapfallen. Chapfallen.""

Readily stained with chromium salts: chromaffin cells of the adrenal medulla.

Of or belonging to the order Cladocera.

""The adaptation or adjustment of parts to each other, as of a broken bone or dislocated joint.""

Committee leadership sharer

CHAIRMEN chairman

CHAMPION to defend or support

Deep thought or meditation

Reflective thought.

Character or tone (of something)

Speech by officer about arrangement of shades

""The act of making compact, or the state of being compact.""

French parallel (wordplay)

Assessment of differences

Act of examining resemblances

Way finder with an atom of sympathy

Feeling the needle a tiny bit

Common love and desire invoke pity

""A blowing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or of many fires in a foundry.""

""A copper-nickel alloy composed of approximately 55 per cent copper and 45 per cent nickel, with high electrical resistance and a low temperature coefficient; it is used as resistance wire and in thermocouples.""

One who doesn't do what's expected

Person who doesn't jump on the bandwagon

Reproductive intercourse, how fun!

Coming event in London

Ceremony, for my people embracing love

Ceremony of installing a monarch

ROTATION an instance of rotating

City legislator

Cafeteria worker

Drugstore employe.

Rural dweller

Compatriot

Rustic individual offering to go, for instance, with worker

A foolish or eccentric person.

Shrimp, for one

Lobster, for one

E.g. crab, lobster, woodlouse

English word

Mass with Latin and tuna oil substituted

Delay; procrastination.

""The act or process of disintegrating a substance, or rendering it friable by the action of heat, esp. by the expulsion of some volatile matter, as when carbonic and acid is expelled from carbonate of calcium in the burning of limestone in order to make lime.""

Mathematical process; assessment

9 politician to wear raincoat when going out

Having beautifully proportioned buttocks.

""Greek Mythology A sea nymph who delayed Odysseus on her island, Ogygia, for seven years.""

A woman who operates a movie or television camera.

Female shooters arrived with harsh warning

Variant of cancellation .

""The active principe of the cantharis, or Spanish fly, a volatile, acrid, bitter solid, crystallizing in foursided prisms.""

Enchantment

Process that makes water bubbly

Pasta-and-potato-loving country (wordplay)

Soda-making process that explains four transformations in this puzzle (wordplay)

CARBURET to combine chemically with carbon

""Any of a group of closely related colloids derived from Irish moss and several other red algae, widely used as a thickening, stabilizing, emulsifying, or suspending agent in industrial, pharmaceutical, and food products.""

""Any of a group of closely related colloids derived from Irish moss and several other red algae, widely used as a thickening, stabilizing, emulsifying, or suspending agent in industrial, pharmaceutical, and food products.""

Severe scolding

Star's allowance for party (wordplay)

Reception, for example

Famous person with share in a 10

The act or process of cementing.

Squashing nectarine, an old person

Person of a great age

Person over a hundred

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Genetics) Genetics a unit of chromosome length, used in genetic mapping, equal to the length of chromosome over which crossing over occurs with 1 per cent frequency [named after Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866-1945), US biologist]""

A semisynthetic analogue of cephalosporin having a broad spectrum of antibiotic activity that is administered parenterally and used especially to treat systemic infections caused by susceptible microorganisms.

""Any of several four-footed herbivorous horned dinosaurs with enormous beaked skulls, of the late Cretaceous in North America and Mongolia.""

""Action of the brain, whether conscious or unconscious.""

President reformed prisoner after tea

Committee head, feminist style

*Board meeting VIP

Court official - former Prime Minister!

British Prime Minister, 1937.

PM's domestic officer

Same as chiropter.chiropter.

""The act of applying the chrism, or consecrated oil.""

""A bitter, yellow substance forming the essential constituent of Goa powder, and yielding chrysophanic acid proper; hence formerly called also chrysphanic acid. chrysphanic acid.""

Female pastor, e.g

Female pastor, for example

Caloric unit (anagram)

Blood flow round body

Number representing total magazines sold

A woman who is a member of the clergy.

""A semisynthetic antibiotic of the penicillin group that is used primarily to treat infections caused by staphylococci, streptococci, or pneumococci.""

Hardening (of blood)

Nautical goo could be forming a clot

Confinement to a narrow space.

""An educating together, as of persons of different sexes or races.""

Insect having hard or horny forewings

See springtail .

A binding together.

""The act of collimating; the adjustment of the line of the sights, as the axial line of the telescope of an instrument, into its proper position relative to the other parts of the instrument.""

The placing of things together

Items joined together

Student's lock opener

Marriage state? Tease one at first

A threat or threatening; a denunciation of punishment or vengeance.

A passing from one state to another; change; alteration; mutation.

At the Close of a Century, for Stevie Wonder, for example

Anthology

The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning.

The act of condoning or pardoning.

The act or process of confuting; refutation.

""The act or process of passing, or causing to pass, from a fluid to a solid state, as by the abstraction of heat; the act or process of freezing.""

Member of US legislature

Representative REM songs can upset

John Quincy Adams' post-presidential job

All inflected forms of verb

TRICKSTER'S FORTE

Implied idea

Associated idea

Associated meaning

Comfort

Isn't, for instance, to do with drawing

Process of size reduction

Don't, e.g

Device torn apart in explanatory text

Strange machine

Unnamed object #1

Extended built-up area

Agglomeration of towns

Sprawl of linked towns

Criminal career (wordplay)

Formal gathering

Formal assembly

Work done together

Group action

Common effort

""An extensive chain of mountains or mountain ranges, especially the principal mountain system of a continent.""

Mythology

Officer almost into rebuilding firm

Large company gathering in a root crop

City body; paunch

Interdependence or the degree of it

Mutual relationship of interdependence

Interdependence (of statistical variables)

The act corrugating; contraction into wrinkles or alternate ridges and grooves.

Flash of wit

Flashing or sparkling

Certain banks conceal atrocious blundering in show of brilliance

A nice sitcom about worker in beauty salon

A plan intended to counter or oppose another plan.

""VARIATION The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing; modification; alternation; mutation; diversity; deviation; as, a variation of color in different lights; a variation in size; variation of language. as, a variation of color in different lights; a variation in size; variation of language.""

A woman who practices a craft with great skill.

A man who practices a craft with great skill.

""The act of crenelating, or the state of being crenelated; an indentation or an embrasure.""

A minute crenation.

It's God's own work to keep mine from crackling

Crackling.

No longer cocky (wordplay)

Dejected after a failure

Proud no longer.

The act of accusing; accusation; charge; complaint.

""Like, or pertaining to, the crocodile; characteristic of the crocodile.""

Angry toxophilite (wordplay)

Irritated archer

An ill-natured musician, expert with the arbalest

""Any of various marine animals of the phylum Ctenophora, having transparent, gelatinous bodies bearing eight rows of comblike cilia used for swimming. Also called comb jelly .""

Climactic point

Climax

Not taking effect

""The act or process of refining gold or silver, etc., in a cupel.""

A decoration using cusps.

Any of several compounds that contain both the CN and OH radicals.

Computer control of machines

""CYCLIZE to form one or more rings in a chemical compound, also CYCLISE""

Clubs can have people in stitches almost laughing out loud

""False accusation of crime or offense, or a malicious and false representation of the words or actions of another, with a view to injure his good name.""

Film set worker

""Construction of, or furnishing with, a canal or canals.""

Abandonment

Annulment

It would take a miracle to happen

A chanting; recitation or reading with musical modulations.

CAPACITATE To render capable; to enable; to qualify.

Natural environment

Surrender

""The act or process of subjecting anything to the action of chlorine; especially, a process for the extraction of gold by exposure of the auriferous material to chlorine gas.""

Parish officer - long-stemmed pipe

Long-stemmed clay pipe

Pipe officer

""-fies , -fying , -fied (tr) to cause to conform to or adopt the customs, habits, or dress of city people""

Advanced human society (S, not Z)

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

A halting or limping.

A heaping together.

Mutual adaption.

""CARCINOGEN Any substance that produces cancer; as, to test for carcinogens in the drinking water.as, to test for carcinogens in the drinking water.""

""CHAIRWOMAN a female officer who presides at the meetings of a committee, meeting, or organization; a female chairperson.""

CHAIRWOMEN

The act or process of codifying or reducing laws to a code.

""GENERATION The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.""

Living together

Living together in love abode I read about

Getting together before a possible match (wordplay)

Locations reviewed by one on settlement

""Tha act of colonizing, or the state of being colonized; the formation of a colony or colonies.""

""COLORIZE to give color to black and white film, also COLORISE""

The employment or arrangement of columns in a structure.

I'd comment on a poor endorsement

Formal praise

Official praise