2-Letter Words Starting with C

Group of conspirators

Georgia was in it

League or alliance of states

Accomplice, fellow worker

US Civil War fighter

Joined by treaty

By confession; without denial.

Recipients of romantic secrets

Communications expected to be kept secret

In an assured manner

Confiding

Confirmand

With confirmation.

Seized (as a penalty)

Seized

Confounder

Befuddling

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

Gathered in a crowd

Hazarded an opinion

In a connected manner.

Conscript

Holy box in second reincarnation

Sanctified

Hallowed

Kind of desecration (wordplay)

Mindful of others' well-being

Thoughtful argument against team charge

Against team circle, all in all

Anti/facet/circle

Judging criminal gang taking bank

CONSOCIATE An associate; an accomplice.

Combine, make stronger

Strengthen Aldi: on Tesco struggles

Sit and canoodle, forming bond together

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

Composed

Jail-birds exercised under compulsion

Reticent prisoners studied

Reticent prisoner pushed to the limit

Forced to be narrower

Made narrower

CONSTRINGE To dawn together; to contract; to force to contract itself; to constrict; to cause to shrink.

Put up

Built

Consuetude

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

In a satisfied way

Contraband

Says otherwise

Goes against

Denies identity set up in legal documents

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

A variation of the quadrille.

Given change but no credit

Added to

Added

Rested for recovery

Matched, harmonised

Attractively harmonised

Harmonizes an effort

Harmonizes, as an effort

Harmonizes

Harmonizer.

Copartner

Civil War figures

Certain Civil War figures

Some snakes

Copresent

One head of a two-headed body

Coproducer

PRODUCING produce

Copublish

Pre-publication job

Copyholder

Publishing-house group

Some editors

Copyread

Protected, as a poem

Cordgrass

Cordiality.

Cordierite

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

Mountain system of Western U. S.

Corduroy

Company of superior snobs (wordplay)

""CORDWAINER A worker in cordwain, or cordovan leather; a shoemaker.""

Coredeem

Coresident

Corkscrew

Decorative lacquers on screens

Exchanges letters

Shabby person wearing trousers in matches

Matches.

Error to be fixed

Something requiring correction

Corydalis

Cosponsor

TRANSDUCE

Cottonseed

Cottonweed

Wyoming's state trees

English word

Counterbid

Revoke (an order)

Revoke an order

Reverse, as an order

English word

COUNTERSUE

Provincial company not put to the test about uncertainty

Backwoods

Rural

Same as countrified.countrified.

Turned so icy (anagram)

The green and pleasant part of our land

Security Don arranged out of town

From sea to shining sea

Cousinhood

CRABBED crab

Rock music (wordplay)

"Rock-A-Bye Baby" and others

Rock-A-Bye Baby and others

Crassitude

Ambassador's letter of introduction

Documentary evidence of competence

Passport visa etc.

Talent for being convincing

Quality of being believable

Convincing quality

Credulity

With credulity.

Having battlements.

Built up

Crescendo

Crispbread

Fibrous blue or green mineral also called blue asbestos

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

Crookback

""The condition or quality of being crooked; hence, deformity of body or of mind; deviation from moral rectitude; perverseness.""

""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

Schnoodles and others

Mules are leading boys into prickly tall grass

Crossruff

CROWDED crowd

CROWSTEP a step on top of a wall

Crudeness

A developmental defect marked by the failure of the testes to descend into the scrotum.

CRYSTALIZE

Crystallike; transparent like crystal.

Cuckoldry

Cumberbund

Cummerbund

Crusty old codgers

Irascible individuals

Did a groom's job

Curveball

A decoration using cusps.

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

English word

Cyclodiene

Books

Big books

""CYCLOSTYLE A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred with an inked roller.""

Cylinder

Like a rod

Shaped like a roller

Tube-shaped

A genus of orchidaceous plants including the lady's slipper.

Cadaverous

Calculated

Camaraderie

Candelabrum

Candescence

Candidature

Candidness

Candlefish

Support for burning light

MENORAH

Candlelight

Candlepower

Supporters of wicked things

They give light support, though quite powerless

Candyfloss

Cannabinoid

CANNIBALISE

CANNIBALIZE

Cannonball

Cantharidin

Cantilever

""Any of various enzymes, such as amylase, that catalyze the hydrolysis of a carbohydrate.""

Type of food

Botched array disrupted energy source

Component of food Deborah and Tracy munched

Carbonado

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

Cardinalate

""The condition, dignity, of office of a cardinal""

Cardiograph

Description of the heart.

Cardiology

Specialist in heart disease

Heart specialist

Doctor is one in suit I love to register with first

Cardiotonic

CARDSHARPER cardsharp

CARROTTOP

Girl we hear presuming to transfer figures

Of or relating to an optical system that uses both reflective and refractive optical devices.

CATHETERIZE To operate on with a catheter.

Cathodical

CATHOLICIZE To make or to become catholic or Roman Catholic.

Caudillismo

Plural or third person singular

Centerboard

CENTERED center

Cerebroside

Authorized

Plural or third person singular

Agates

English word

Violent mama's birched the servants

Cleaner male helps holding decoration for cleaners

Where members sit with girls who work in hotels (wordplay)

Chandelier

Surface of 64 squares

Design of alternating squares

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

Real "go-go" girls

Between-halves V.I.P.'s

Those rousing the crowd in support

Cheerlead

Sofa (with crooked spire?)

Type of sofa (in Derbyshire?)

Man of letters is well-upholstered

Like comic Hilda's female act

The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.

They each go to work on foot

They have to get to work on foot

Chloroform

""An aliphatic organic chemical compound that is both an alkyl chloride and an alcohol, frequently containing a single chlorine atom and a single hydroxyl group on adjacent carbon atoms.""

See mitochondrion .

Chondroitin

Chowderhead

Chrysomelid

Chucklehead

Parish officer - long-stemmed pipe

Long-stemmed clay pipe

Pipe officer

CIRCULARISE

CIRCULARIZE

Circumvent

CIVILIANIZE

Plural or third person singular

The evolutionary change and diversification resulting from the branching off of new taxa from common ancestral lineages.

The evolutionary change and diversification resulting from the branching off of new taxa from common ancestral lineages.

""Pertaining to, or characterized by, clairaudience.""

Clapboard

A halting or limping.

CLODDISH like a clod

Smooth clue set: hollow-eyed and tight-lipped

... M-U-T-E

Reticent

CLOTHESLINE A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.

Cloudberry