2-Letter Words Starting with C

One that {chelates=v}

One who {tricks=v}

Bright red mineral containing mercury

Mercury-bearing ore

Brian can make vermilion pigment

Is that how news gets around (wordplay)

Looking round for a letter (wordplay)

Global pamphlet (wordplay)

Within the moon's orbit.

On this side of the moon

More cold and damp

More humid

Vehemently protesting person

Loudly insistent fellow

Dissatisfied type

A racket dropped in error, say

Noise of a dropped brick (wordplay)

Continuous noise is a blunder, they say

""A member of a claque, also CLAQUER""

Of higher grade

More sophisticated or stylish

More ritzy

Comet, for one

Scan reel (anagram)

Detergent son used inside daily

To appear together at the same time

Pen pal (wordplay)

One who writes with another

Part of a literary team

Spiral-shaped ear cavity

Relating to a spiral-shaped ear cavity

To inflame with mutual love

Enzyme enabler

Enzyme stimulant

Contributing component

Old crane (anagram)

Strainer of sorts

What a strain for a fellow-countryman!

One who {coleads=v}

Lying in the same straight line

Card-matching machine

Assembler of pages

Machine arranging sheets

Like a pillar

Like spreadsheets, e.g

Lined up vertically

One who fights against

Careful shopper

One who deals in apples and oranges (wordplay)

Pertaining to {condyle=n}

Our clans (anagram)

Regarding foreign officials

Of a foreign service

One that shares the duties of a pastor

In the same flat surface

In the same 2-D surface

Lying in the same flat surface

John Wayne, in "The Quiet Man"

One living in a small house

Resort dweller, sometimes

Even more irritable

More like Oscar the Grouch

Less agreeable

More cunning.

Comparatively cunning

Comparatively arch

Craggy

More ill-tempered

Crappy

Crawly

More run-down

More well-blended

Gelato, vis-a-vis sherbert

Richer, as oatmeal

More wrinkled

One that {cremates=v}

Croaky

Horizontal piece, on a bicycle say

From pass and save, some goal (wordplay)

Part of goal to annoy lawyers

Campaigner - rude scar (anagram)

Medieval fighter for the Holy Land

A cross fighter

Plant variety that's been bred

Plant variety produced by selective breeding

Plant genetically modified on September the fourth in transport

The front part of a ship's prow

Small motor-driven vehicle

Light hybrid vehicle of the 1910's

Percussionist

A structure formed in a cell

One offering curbside pickup (wordplay)

Hailstone ring wearer (wordplay)

A meter reader

Videographer's buy

Portable video taker

Portable audio-video device

CANCEL to {annul=v}

""Pertaining to, or measured, by the rising of the Dog Star.""

""CANNIE prudent, also CANNY""

Battle assignment, once

One with the big guns

One with big arms

One soliciting votes

Petitioner who seeks sales or votes

Picture oddly smeary in viewfinder

Device used to store an electric charge

Energy-storage device

Charge-storing device

Member of church order or chapter

Member of a religious chapter.

Member of a chapter, as of the Masonic order.

Piton ring for fastening ropes

Mountaineer's ring

Tool on either side of a rock climber's quickdraw

CARAVAN to travel in a portable home

Live-in nurse, perhaps

Many an in-home helper

Conscientious building worker (wordplay)

Sexton, for one

Janitor, e.g

Soul-searching criminal (wordplay)

Motorist's menace

Vehicle thief

One of Salinger's artisans (wordplay)

Fish becomes woodworker (wordplay)

Craftsman/river sign (wordplay)

Morning pick-me-up (wordplay)

H.O.V. lane user

HOV lane user

A crossroads.

Carroty

It is what ferries do with what is left

Take on to a new page

Transfer to the next column, in math

CARTOP able to fit in top of a car

CASTRATO a singer castrated in boyhood

Librarian, at times

List maker

CATALYZE to act at a catalyst

Grabber of winks or a lynx (wordplay)

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

Central

Certain

One who chaffers; a bargainer.

Medium

A card or a letter (wordplay)

Eccentric nature (wordplay)

Imaginary person in a work of fiction

Renter of bus or ship.

Tour operator, at times

That which subdues

Discipliner.

Smacker from singer drinking wines

One who severely reprimands

One strapping bear taken up by hunter

He won't shut up

One talking idly or rapidly

Ear-bender

Master of the Rolls (wordplay)

Driver for private car

One is paid to drive a car

'Thank Heaven for Little Girls' singer

Each viler than the strange knight

A horseman or mounted knight

He's on the way up

Awful career, not a person heading for the top

That which clarifies.

Klutz, perhaps

Cleanly

Assistant to a diocesan bishop

Stan Lee, for many superheroes

Jerry Siegel or Joe Shuster, for Superman

CURATOR a museum manager

In the same straight line

Lying in the same straight path

Sharing the same one-dimensional space

Supervision-sharing job

Rank below captain in the Navy

Captain's subordinate

One in authority

Leader in a red state (wordplay)

As Soviet official, I'm cross, am mad

Russian minister, before 1946

Compact

Trash-crushing appliance

Performer after free ticket? This can be crushing

A kind of steward or agent.

Skin-tone cosmetic

Color correction tool

Cover-up.

Of an assemblage

Chest perhaps, or ancient bust

Box? He must do this to get here!

Vessel on 10, perhaps

Associate can report disruption

Equal business associate

Associate with equal share in a business

Herb no good for dog and its owner!

An aromatic seed; carried on (anagram)

Spice-rack item

Crackly

Telescopic sighting aid

Target-centering aid

Aiming aid

Ganymede's saucer (wordplay)

Wine server, to a king

Certain servant in a royal palace

""(Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Hairdressing & Grooming) a strip of paper used to roll up and set a section of hair, usually wetted, into a curl""

One who curtails.

""Pertaining to the cuticle, or external coat of the skin; epidermal.""

Strutting dancer

Certain dancer

""Wood A valuable furniture wood from India and Ceylon, of a hazelbrown color, with black stripes, very hard in texture. It is a species of ebony, and is obtained from the Diospyros qusesita. Called also Coromandel wood. Diospyros qusesita. Called also Coromandel wood.""

A collar cut off for summer (wordplay)

The button counter (wordplay)

Arithmetician's gadget

CALENDER to smooth by pressing between rollers

Zodiacal adjustor (wordplay)

Person on a trail

Man running for office.

Party man in action.

Projecting beam fixed at one end only

Kind of arch or bridge

Beam fixed at one end

CAPTIVATE To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue.

A nicer bear mauled sharpshooter

Soldier calling about a container

Cavalry soldier

""CARABINE a carbon compound, also CARABIN""

He keeps moving house

Choke's locale

It mixes air with gasoline

Fuel-injector ancestor

Name on a Visa

Place to keep your 'plastic'

Place to keep your "plastic"

One who wants in on the deal

One holds hands during the game

World Series participant

Careful

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Laborer making watch covers (wordplay)

Investigator of family problems, say

Social agency investigator

Severe critic to have fresh go at racist

One who makes a listing or inventory

Lynx becomes list maker

He should make the list

CATECHIZE See Catechise. Catechise.

New Year's Eve figure.

Jubilant one

Dec. 31 figure

Made rebel clear off, being a bit brainy (wordplay)

Daring sportsman (wordplay)

U.S. space shuttle

Professor in Doyle novels.

Lucky rollover for 20 (wordplay)

Govt. finance minister

German head's luck with press spin

Lighting up (wordplay)

Is it involving candle hire (wordplay)

The light fantastic (wordplay)

When tennis players meet in transition

Shifting of position.

Workplace activity, sometimes

Her erotica (anagram)

Ben Hur, for one

Ben Hur (wordplay)

CHARMING charm

Film buff, say, could make one grimace

I see picture blur once image runs

One sees pictures to make one grimace

""One who, or that which, circulates.""

One who classifies.

Of or pertaining to the clavicle.

Full-dress coat, colloquially

Basic part of a tool kit

Puller or pounder

Large beetle

Large beetle destructive of vegetation - frock cache (anagram)

Allot micro-switch to subsidiary telescope

""Pl. columellae (-m l ) Any small columnlike structure in various plants and animals, often forming the central axis of development for the organism or an anatomical structure.""

Take by force

Take by force.

Forcibly take mad McEnroe away

Makes changes to AC/DC perhaps for bad actor entertaining old Mike with dog

Device for reversing current short journey on a rocky height

An instrument or machine for comparing anything to be measured with a standard measure; applied especially to a machine for comparing standards of length.

Member of the "cavil-ry"?

Member of the "cavil-ry" (wordplay)

Faultfinding type

Did he get the building bug (wordplay)

Party to an agreement

His work is constructive

One working with another

Man of the day, a high point for team member (wordplay)

One working together with old film star and another caught out

One who has an equal portion with others of an inheritance.

An editor who prepares text for publication.

Catholic sect keeps wagon for shoemaker

Old shoemaker in business with change in drawer

""A member of a corporation, esp. one of the original members.""

CORRELATE To have reciprocal or mutual relations; to be mutually related.

TRANSFER to move from one place to another

""Any of an extinct order (Cotylosauria) of massive primitive reptiles of the Carboniferous and Permian periods that included the ancestors of all of the reptiles. Also called root reptile , stem reptile .""

17th century fighter for the Kirk

One wanting religious liberty? Witches aren't different

The party who makes a covenant.

Ranch hand (wordplay)

Lasso in front of train (wordplay)

Lasso part of train (wordplay)

A soldier armed with a cuirass.

Farmer

Pl. curricula (-l ) or curriculums All the courses of study offered by an educational institution.

Heat measuring device

Heat-measuring device

Apparatus to measure quantity of heat

One who calumniates.

""Pl. canaliculi (-l ) A small canal or duct in the body, such as the minute channels in compact bone.""

Measure of light emitted

CP, to a physicist

Measure of luminosity

Belonging to a carbuncle; resembling a carbuncle; red; inflamed.

CARBURET to combine chemically with carbon

Part of car engine

Part of internal combustion engine

Car's petrol/air-mixing device

Amusing person, not so sweet as a cheat

He often makes money from crooked deals

Cheater at the gaming table

Cartwheel

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Larva with a pet in it (wordplay)

A future monarch (wordplay)

Provide post for leaf dweller

Variety of cabbage

It has an Orange Bouquet variety

It has a big head

""CENTRALIZE To draw or bring to a center point; to gather into or about a center; to bring into one system, or under one control.""

CHANSON a {song=n}

Rooster in medieval tales.

Proper name for a bird.

Archetypal name for a rooster

Charbroil

Split personality (wordplay)

During the game, she's no reserve!

Root for the frontrunner (wordplay)

Palm reader

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

Sweet maker/seller

Specialist confectioner

Sweet maker

Man of music.

Church music leader

Lifter of voices

Revolving about or surrounding the moon.

""About the pole; applied to stars that revolve around the pole without setting; as, circumpolar stars. as, circumpolar stars.""

Percolator, machine for making hot drinks

""GENERATOR One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.""

Sports match reporter

One who reports on sports event

Broadcaster describing sports events

""One who, or that which, compensates; a name applied to various mechanical devices.""

""One who bears testimony or swears to the veracity or innocence of another. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager. Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager.""

One who mediates

One acting as mediator

One who confiscates.

CONGREGATE Collected; compact; close.

One who consecrates; one who performs the rites by which a person or thing is devoted or dedicated to sacred purposes.

One who preserves from injury or violation; a protector; a preserver.

Member of a cabal.

Planner in secret

Person who secretly plots with others

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

""One who, or that which, continues; esp., one who continues a series or a work; a continuer.""

One who contravenes.

Person who prepares deeds for transference of property

Harmonizer.