2-Letter Words Starting with C

Shrewd quality

Prudence that makes you buy food that won't perish (wordplay)

""CANNIE prudent, also CANNY""

Can no Dane make so much fire (wordplay)

Period of continuous heavy gunfire

Winner of 100th Kentucky Derby

Battle assignment, once

One with the big guns

One with big arms

CANOE to paddle a small slender boat

Do they prefere flat water (wordplay)

Ian Wynne and Tim Brabants, for instance

So can ties go paddling

Declared to be a saint

Bestowed sainthood, in Salisbury

Catholic soon is journalist and dubbed saintly

Canonise

Elevated to sainthood

Given sainthood

Treats as holy

Gives religious approval to

Canonry

Enjoyed some sexy time

The rotter embraced a foolish girl and made love

Grabbed by bounder, simpleton is kissed and cuddled

Pasta from the Golden State (wordplay)

May gets a great many cuddles

Shares hugs and kisses

In a singing style (mus.)

In a smooth singing style

In a singing manner

Providing fast food around the North

Is 'e unable to phone at speed (wordplay)

Is 'e unable to phone in a hurry (wordplay)

Hymns of praise

Songs used in church

Hymns whose strange accent is Latin

Ballad ain't clean when broadcast

Simple melodic passage

Musical part carrying melody

Canulate

Canulate

Canvaser

Took a poll.

Did a survey

Found out people's feelings involving sand and caves

One soliciting votes

Petitioner who seeks sales or votes

Picture oddly smeary in viewfinder

Solicits votes for an artist's works

Goes out for votes

Solicits votes

Canzonet

Capable

Capeskin

Capework

Capmaker

Caponier

Caponize

Caponize

Capouch

Capriole

Capers, in dancing.

Playful leaps

Capsomer

Finishing blocks, in architecture.

Crowning events

Culminations

Condense

Commanded, like Columbus

A pedantic sort was in charge

Go to Paris for a change to see them competing at the ice rink (wordplay)

With subtitles, say

Having a descriptive title.

Underwritten (wordplay)

Tell a riveting story, perhaps

Entrance the prisoner is put out at

Entrance prisoner's held at

Successful hunters

Piton ring for fastening ropes

Mountaineer's ring

Tool on either side of a rock climber's quickdraw

Carabine

Caracole

Horses' wheeling movements.

Carageen

Hard shells

Crab shells

Turtles' shells.

Carapax

Caravan

CARAVAN to travel in a portable home

CARBAMATE

The technical name for urea.

""(Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Dyeing) a colourless insoluble solid obtained from coal tar and used in the production of some dyes. Formula: C 12 H 9 N Also called diphenylenimine [daɪˌfiːnaɪˈlɛnɪmiːn] CARBONADE (Cookery) a stew of beef and onions cooked in beer""

(Cookery) a stew of beef and onions cooked in beer

Add bubbles to

To make soda water.

Add fizz to

To cover (an animal or vegatable substance) into a residue of carbon by the action of fire or some corrosive agent; to char.

Large pimple on face or neck

Sort of boil; a gem

Stone from eruption

Carburet

CARBURISE

To combine wtih carbon or a carbon compound; said esp. of a process for conferring a higher degree of illuminating power on combustible gases by mingling them with a vapor of valatile hydrocarbons.

Carcanet

Props in some desert scenes

Bodies found in Langue d'Oc city, on number leaving the South

Businessmen's accessories

Wallets' smaller cousins

They're out of control

Ship repairers.

Lurchers.

Tossing from side to side

This could become very upsetting, e'en in such a worrying way

Careerer

Going full tilt

Calling over the gin, out of control

Rushing wildly

Concern for personal advancement

Advancement at any cost

One on the way up

Ladder climber

Worry at first about one wanting to get on

With caution or prudence

With caution

Mate entertaining a judge without taking risks

Live-in nurse, perhaps

Many an in-home helper

Caresser

Treating with fondness.

Worries start 5 down with love

Treating with kindness

CARESS to touch lovingly

Caretake

Conscientious building worker (wordplay)

Sexton, for one

Janitor, e.g

Caretake

""Shaped like the keel or prow of a ship; having a carina or keel; as, a carinate calyx or leaf; a carinate sternum (of a bird).as, a carinate calyx or leaf; a carinate sternum (of a bird).""

Caritas

Soul-searching criminal (wordplay)

Motorist's menace

Vehicle thief

Honda and Hyundai

Some Detroiters

Did Inca learn of this gem (wordplay)

Red cross member (wordplay)

Variety of quartz

Carnify

Carnify

A betaine commonly occurring in the liver and in skeletal muscle that functions in fatty acid transport across mitochondrial membranes.

T. Rex, for one

Tip of rhubarb? No, I crave tripe!

Lion or tiger, for example

An ore of uranium

Caroach

Holiday entertainers

Carolus

Carotene

Where you may find the pretty horses

Ornate amusement park rides

Kids hold their horses on them

Merrymakers

One of Salinger's artisans (wordplay)

Fish becomes woodworker (wordplay)

Craftsman/river sign (wordplay)

Trade in a chippy (wordplay)

One of the trades

Woodwork at the fish gate

Mid-1800s luggage

Luggage of the 1800s

Piece of luggage

Covering darling in fond embrace

Concerned about sweetheart dressing down

End of the quip

Got to work greenly

Used the HOV lane

Rode with colleagues and complained about John's return

Morning pick-me-up (wordplay)

H.O.V. lane user

HOV lane user

Mini modified genera of seaweed

Purplish-red, edible seaweed

Purplish-red North Atlantic seaweed

A crossroads.

Gigs and cabriolets

Victoria and clarence.

Coaches affected airs and graces endlessly

Carriole

Carroch

""A kind of short cannon, formerly in use, designed to throw a large projectile with small velocity, used for the purpose of breaking or smashing in, rather than piercing, the object aimed at, as the side of a ship. It has no trunnions, but is supported on its carriage by a bolt passing through a loop on its under side.""

Carroty

Merry-go-round

Renovated roundabout for Central Park.

Give someone a shout locally after vehicle takes left by roundabout

It is what ferries do with what is left

Take on to a new page

Transfer to the next column, in math

CARTEL a business organization

CARTEL a business organization

Flexible connective tissue

Connective tissue of the human body

Kind of bone

Worked on a panel (wordplay)

Worked for Mad, maybe

Worked on a strip

CARTOP able to fit in top of a car

Oblong in Egyptian hieroglyphs

Tablet in scroll form

Any scroll-shaped ornament.

Credit rag (anagram)

Sort of paper-round (wordplay)

Sort of paper round (wordplay)

Is it your turn to do this (wordplay)

Handspring's kin

Part of a gymnastic routine

Caruncle

Auto-cleaning services

Some school fundraisers

Drive-thru cleanings

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

Cascabel

Cascable

Caseate

A degeneration of animal tissue into a cheesy or curdy mass.

Law library items

Records about broken oboes having keys with centres missing

Medical records, one of which describes work of consultant assisted by doctor

Casefy

CASEIN a milk protein

Legal woes (wordplay)

Social workers' work

Lawyers' burdens

Warship gun enclosures.

Comrades of the box for security

Roger for one may be seen through

Windows with vertical hinges

One may see through such as Sir Roger

Casework

Caseworm

How Johnny recharges offstage (wordplay)

Bread holders

Dough containers

Fired, as a salesclerk (wordplay)

Scanned the goods, say

Dismissed from one's job

Some scarves, coats or sweaters

Some Donna Karan products

Some scarves

Casimere

Casimire

Casket

Dish (served in a dish of the same name)

Dish for bad loser in lawsuit (wordplay)

Church-supper dish

Compact cases for recordings

Walkman owner's supply

Containers for magnetic tapes

""A thin, twilled, woolen cloth, used for men's garments.""

Dish thrown out as lost cause (wordplay)

Stew with beans

Stew of scouse, late, endlessly stewed

Flamenco clappers (wordplay)

They may click at dances

Spanish dancer's clickers

Casteism

Governor of a fortress

Warden in a medieval stronghold.

For one running keep tin of beer (wordplay)

Criticise cold wine scandal (wordplay)

Chastise - tacit sage (anagram)

Reprimand, showing players one way out

The oil secreted from the beaver that is used as bait by trappers

Actors awarded stars? Done!

Players given value - done

Like a gelding thrown a painter by boy

Loses membership (wordplay)

... knackers pitch and charges

Catalase

Fit for a cat - a jumpy one, perhaps

Rigid state of seizure

Silas Marner ailment

Verse

Verse

Listed

Librarian, at times

List maker

Library-user's aid

Mail-order item

Librarian's concern

Catalyse

Catalyze

CATALYZE to act at a catalyst

Catalyze

The monthly courses of women; menstrual discharges; menses.

Catamite

A morbid condition caused by an overwhelming shock or extreme fear and marked by rigidity of the muscles.

Catbrier

Catcall

Ball that should be held

Like a "can-of-corn" fly

Possibly infectious message passed round at church

Most memorable

Area from which river derives its flow

Area from which school's pupils are drawn

Water collection difficulty: pieces start to tear

Sheriff's officer is to arrest East European

Ken, ex-Australian rugby captain who always caught the ball

Bailiff.

Catechin

Series of questions

Set of questions for religious teaching

Religious instructions

""One who instructs by question and answer, especially in religions matters.""

Question closely

Question thoroughly

Catechol

Positive cat is to go in Eric's custody

Without exception included in a class

Unambiguously direct

Linked in a series

Links

Catenoid

Feline shriek - cult aware (anagram)

Queens on wall heard thus (wordplay)

Tempting appeal from the Queen's Mews!

Types of "whiskered" swimmers

Misleads, online

Misrepresents oneself to on the internet, in a way

Discharges of pent-up emotions

Ah! elicitors

Releases

Cathect

Of or pertaining to cathexis; invested with mental or emotional energy.

Cathedra

Saint Paul's, for one

Winchester, for one

St Patrick's in Dublin, say

Cathedra

Any of various proteolytic enzymes found in animal tissue that catalyze the hydrolysis of proteins into polypeptides.

Medical devices

Brothels (slang) - hot sauces (anagram)

Catnaper

Had a short sleep during the day

Took forty winks.

Beaten about at noon, took a brief rest

Grabber of winks or a lynx (wordplay)

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

Cattalo

Cattery

CATTIE an Asian unit of weight

Neat fellow on the ranch (wordplay)

Ben Cartwright, for one

Shepherd's nemesis, in many oaters

Characters in "Old Arizona."

The sound of their work may be heard

Prime factors in the meat situation.

Dune a drug? Possibly, to the vulnerable

Caucus

Caucus

Caulicle