2-Letter Words Starting with C

Oily and exaggerated husband held forth

A politician in church preached, becoming oily

Old religious ornaments.

Menorah, for example

Holder for several lights

Source of light when lit

See Inclandescence. Inclandescence.

Candidacy

State of seeking election or nomination

A running for office.

Plural or third person singular

""An infection caused by fungi of the genera Monilia or Candida, especially Candida albicans.Monilia or Candida, especially Candida albicans.""

""Tree A shrub (the Myrica cerifera, or waxbearing myrtle), common in North America, the little nuts of which are covered with a greenish white wax, which was formerly, used for hardening candles; also called bayberry tree, bayberry, or candleberry. Myrica cerifera, or waxbearing myrtle), common in North America, the little nuts of which are covered with a greenish white wax, which was formerly, used for hardening candles; also called bayberry tree, bayberry, or candleberry.""

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Dim illumination from tapers, etc

Part of a romantic ambience

Measure of light emitted

CP, to a physicist

Measure of luminosity

Mustard go-with in the kitchen, maybe

Portable light holder

Jack Be Nimble obstacle

Candlewick

Candlewood

CANNABIN a resin extracted from cannabis

""CANNONADE The act of discharging cannon and throwing ball, shell, etc., for the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship, or fort; usually, an attack of some continuance.""

See cantharis. cantharis.

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

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

Carbonado

Carbonnade

Carburet

Cardholder

Character among a former group of clergy

High church office.

CARDINAL a bright red bird

Having origin in the heart.

Cardiogram

Woolly old drawing instrument

It produces ticker-tape

Diagnostic device

Heart

Adjective (-ic)

They have hands

They hold hands

Amusing person, not so sweet as a cheat

He often makes money from crooked deals

Cheater at the gaming table

Drew a grotesque picture of

Carillon

Carotenoid

Carotinoid

A swimmer dived in and performed certain crafty manoeuvres

Carpetweed

Did a gymnastic maneuver

Pl. caryopses (- p s z ) or caryopsides (- p s -d z ) See grain .

Having turrets and battlements

Having battlements

Like fortification Bill set up with girl and boy

CATABOLIZE

""Having the lowest inferior segment of a pinna nearer the rachis than the lowest superior one; said of a mode of branching in ferns, and opposed to anadromous. anadromous.""

Put into boxes in iced storage possibly

Placed in a category.

Meowed

The practice or system of rule by a caudillo.

Sailboat device.

Their stomachs may be stapled

Features of some magazines

Some magazine spreads

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.""

""CENTRIFUGE an apparatus having containers for liquids arrayed around a central pivot and rotated at a high speed, thus generating centrifugal force on the liquid, and separating substances (such as particles of solid or globules of an immiscible liquid) mixed together in suspension within the liquid. Suspensions which would settle only very slowly or not at all under gravity can be made to separate quickly in such a device.centrifugal force on the liquid, and separating substances (such as particles of solid or globules of an immiscible liquid) mixed together in suspension within the liquid. Suspensions which would settle only very slowly or not at all under gravity can be made to separate quickly in such a device.""

Cephalopod

""Any of various lipid compounds containing glucose or galactose and glucose, and found in the brain and other nerve tissue.""

Presided over

Of or pertaining to chalcedony.

Chalkboard

Servant combining charm with bed? I am!

Source of mints, at times

Making bed with charm, am I? Possibly

Of or pertaining to a chancroid.

Chandelier

""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.""

Chandlery

CHANNELIZE

Character

Grilled on a rack that leaves black stripes

Chardonnay

Work leaders may have gone out with hard cash but no love

Chauffeur

Checkmark

Split personality (wordplay)

During the game, she's no reserve!

Root for the frontrunner (wordplay)

Chemisorb

Things that have black squares

Chiffonade

Due processes (wordplay)

Chionodoxa

Chironomid

Chiropody

Specialist in the treatment of feet

One treating the feet

One who treats feet

Did some social work (wordplay)

Made small talk

Shot the breeze

CHLORALOSE

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

A major constituient of cartilage

Numskull.

Numbskull

Ignoramus

Chrysalid

Of or belonging to the family Chrysomelidae.

Dolt or rockfish

Black-bellied plover.

Not so smart with a little laughter (wordplay)

Chugalug

Cathedral-length units (wordplay)

Cimetidine

CINEMATIZE

""CIRCUMCISE To cut off the prepuce of foreskin of, in the case of males, and the internal labia of, in the case of females.""

CIRCUMFUSE To pour round; to spread round.

Cladoceran

Cladophyll

Wound isn't cleaned in private

Intend tailing tribe in secret

Almost doomed by family secret

Clapboard

CLASSICIZE to make classic or classical.

Clavichord

Past tense or past participle

Mentally alert

Alert; logical

Perceptive

Footwear of sorts.

Large, heavy shoes

Heavy shoes

Boorish; rude.

Mean and prepared to fight

Stingy

CLOSTRIDIA

Bacterium causing tetanus and botulism

Bacterium

Cloudburst

Cloudless

Cloudscape

Coadmit

They keep strangers at bay

Because of these fellows' activities, a drug costs a mint

Coatdress

Coatimundi

Coattend

Cocaptain

Plural or third person singular

""Any of a group of infectious diseases caused by protozoan parasites (coccidia) of the order Coccidia, which infect the intestines of birds, dogs, and other vertebrates.Coccidia, which infect the intestines of birds, dogs, and other vertebrates.""

COCKNEY a resident of London's East End

Cocounsel

Partner in crime, perhaps

Often danced around in front of the judge

Relying heavily on a partner

Codesign

Codevelop

Codevelop

Of the nature of a codicil.

Codirect

""DIRECTION The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o. as, the direction o.""

Codirector

Codiscover

Codominant

Codswallop

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

Coembody

Coextend

Cohostess

Simultaneous or connected occurrence

Believe It or Not! item, often

Correspondence, result of an accident (wordplay)

Colatitude

Coldcock

Unaffected by emotion

Like the cruel meteorologist

Lacking compassion

Composedly; coolly.

Colloidal

""MEDICALLY In a medical manner; with reference to healing, or to the principles of the healing art.""

Stand-up kind of gals (wordplay)

Coca, May, Raye, etc.

Funny femmes

Capable of being commanded.

Commandant

Takes possession of.

'Borrows' peremptorily

Borrows peremptorily

Order (one of ten)

A divine rule

Any of the Decalogue

Worthy of praise

Deserving praise

COMMEND to {praise=v}

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

COMMODE a {cabinet=n}

Commodify

Pork-barrel contents (wordplay)

Pork-barrel contents?

Staples in the market slump.

Companion

Concisely comprehensive

Compendium

Remunerated

Confused tabby's followed around

Not simple

Comic lad playing with pet becoming confused

Compounder

*"On the way!"

*'On the way!'

Method of figuring bank interest

Compradore

Comprehend

Endangered through recklessness

Split the difference.

Made concessions when jeopardised by scandal

COMPUTER a machine that computes automatically

Comradery

Russian craft (wordplay)

What's shared by close companions

Fellow-feeling

In an egotistical manner.

Concenter

Concerted

CONCERTIZE

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.

Agreement; list of words

Agreement

CONCRETIZE

Worthy of condemnation; blamable; culpable.

""Capable of being condensed; as, vapor is condensable. as, vapor is condensable.""

Condensate

""Capable of being condensed; as, a gas condensible to a liquid by cold. as, a gas condensible to a liquid by cold.""

Prisoner uses tied bedsheets (wordplay)

Lowers oneself

Vouchsafes.

""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

Like an oily mitt

Hair improver

Hair application

Salon item

Expressing condolence.

Expressions of sympathy

Timeshare unit, often

Type of apartment

Type of apartment in USA

The act of condoning or pardoning.

Italian mercenary leader (historical)

Pl. condottieri (-tyâr ) A leader of mercenary soldiers between the 14th and 16th centuries.

""Conducting power; -- the reciprocal of resistance. A suggested unit is the mho, the reciprocal of the ohm.resistance. A suggested unit is the mho, the reciprocal of the ohm.""

Capable of being conducted.

Acts of conveying.

She leads against Custer's 500, perhaps

""Pl. condylomas or condylomata (-m -t ) A wartlike growth on the skin or mucous membrane, usually in the area of the anus or the external genital organs.""