2-Letter Words Starting with C

Lobbied for water charges during election, for instance? They did it!

Crusaded

It may be burned for light

Connecticut lake resort.

It's burned for light

""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.""

""Inclosed in a capsule, or as in a chest or box;""

Like a news brief

Fixed cat - vet paid and delighted

Enchanted

Caracol

Exotic dancer in possession of a vehicle took touring holiday

Fizzy, as a soft drink

Like some beverages.

Fizzy element consumed by daughter

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

Set with carbuncles.

Carburet

CARBURISE

CARBURIZE 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.

""CAROTENE a plant pigment, also CAROTIN, CARROTIN""

Verticillate ground cover

CARTELISE

CARTELIZE

Players I kept in school and told off

List of actors I shut up, reprimanded

Players I kept in and chastised

""CATALOGUE A list or enumeration of names, or articles arranged methodically, often in alphabetical order; as, a catalogue of the students of a college, or of books, or of the stars. as, a catalogue of the students of a college, or of books, or of the stars.""

Shot out when a cult taped broadcast

Launched at great speed

CATECHIZE See Catechise. Catechise.

Causeway

Like the Hydra's necks, post-decapitation

Cavalier

Known to be well like this (wordplay)

Noted Conservative bet leader changes

Observed (festival); famous

Magazine opening (wordplay)

Magazine middle, maybe

Model position (wordplay)

Mushroom ring, seedcase and seafood, potentially

Mushroom ring shining on group of whales - or squid, say (wordplay)

Thought

Chagrin

Chainsaw

CHAIRMAN to act as chairman of

Didn't just accept

Took issue with tax date

Took issue with trial date

Supported

""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.""

Channel

Drove to prom, say

Performed a duenna's duties

Like many first dates

Charcoal

Supervisor gets help after assault

Pass under attack by group leader

Make worker pay - he's leader of a group

Keep an eye on the old woman and man in a doomed situation

European, we hear, got married and finished on board

Machine (not A1, note) tacked badly, totally frustrated

Checkrow

Where one may run into a mate (wordplay)

Bossed char (anagram)

Where to find a perfect mate (wordplay)

Named

Baptized

Recorded that condition of illness was first

""CICATRIZE To heal or induce the formation of a cicatrix in, as in wounded or ulcerated flesh.""

Distributed about mid-July, admitted man

Conservative reform curtailed, it's reported

Mingled

Clangour

In the right form at school (wordplay)

Help wanted, for one

Secret, as files

Secluded tree is cold like this

Like some nuns

Sheltered from outside society

Having a clubfoot.

Clubhaul

Coadmit

Semisolid (of blood)

In odd order, catalogued set

Solidified.

Coanchor

Coappear

Coassist

Coattend

Coattest

Wrote with someone else

COCAINIZE To treat or an\'91sthetize with cocaine.

Cockbill

Cocktail

CULTURED culture

Codesign

Codirect

Coembody

Coemploy

Coenamor

Having the same scope.

FEATURED feature

FINANCED finance

Coinfer

Cointer

Coinvent

Coldcock

COLLIGATE To tie or bind together.

""COLLIMATE To render parallel to a certain line or direction; to bring into the same line, as the axes of telescopes, etc.; to render parallel, as rays of light.""

COLLOCATE Set; placed.

Having a series of columns arranged at regular intervals; furnished with a colonnade.

""COMMINGLE To mingle together; to mix in one mass, or intimately; to blend.""

""COMMINUTE To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth. as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth.""

COMMUNISE

COMMUNIZE

COMMUTATE

Didn't take lightly

Complect

Complot

""COMPOSITE Made up of distinct parts or elements; compounded; as, a composite language. as, a composite language.""

Like some interest

Exacerbated

Mixed.

Gather hempen cord in knots

See compositor about layer to delete

Divine or demon perch all at sea

Condensed or reduced in volume

Flattened by pressure

Squeezed The Media into Medoc complex

Do something below one's dignity

Patronise dive after study

Show that one feels superior

Set up as prisoner and judged

Of two minds

Clashed.

Really annoying (nuisance)

Cursed swindle set up

Brought to confusion

Challenged Catholic leader on 'Father Ted' carries on

Congress

(In grammar) inflected a verb systematically - do get Cajun (anagram)

CONSCRIBE To enroll; to enlist.

Believed to be

Thought carefully about

Took into account

Formally agreed; shrank

Shrank from being engaged

Reduced in size

Run into experienced Tory in leading position, shown to be different

Kept within bounds.

Like some explosions and substances

Jailbird was a pest online, under supervision

Intricately twisted

Intricate - tortuous

Company time invested in developing unloved complex

Calm and collected.

Good under pressure

Not easily excited

Turned state's witness, say

Was one of a team of surgeons (wordplay)

Turned state's evidence

Elemental serpent (wordplay)

Police officer's woe (wordplay)

Reptilian chief of police (wordplay)

PRODUCED produce

Copurify

Copycat

Copyedit

Corduroy

Coredeem

Dearer colt (anagram)

Established in orderly connection.

Dovetailing

Agree to write (wordplay)

Keep in touch by letter

'Just the same, write the letter (10)'

Crumbs! Mat made date, brought wrinkly!

Cardboard type

CORUSCATE To glitter in flashes; to flash.

Coscript

Kind of oil

Pip's soft substance first, it yields a valuable oil

See Cudweed. Cudweed.

Barrister went ahead and gave advice

Advised

English word

Courtesy

Covenant

COVERALL one-piece protective clothing

Was a crew leader

Crawfish

Having squared notches

Scalloped

This was crackling, by the sound of it

""CRIMINATE To accuse of, or charge with, a crime.""

Verse in Nordic translation in dated dress

Cold gent upset with penny lolly in cracker

Cooked spider-crab suitable for a low calorie diet (wordplay)

""CRITICISE To examine and judge as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment upon; as, to criticise an author; to criticise a picture. as, to criticise an author; to criticise a picture.""

Found fault with

Took to task.

Evaluated

Ill-humored species (wordplay)

Mate (two different species)

Mix, as dogs

Crowbar

Reached a high point

Topped out

Farmed in a civilised way

Grew to become refined

Refined schoolboy having one butt in

English word

Worn at 29D

Tux go-with

One tours the Centre with the DJ

CUSTOMISE

CUSTOMIZE to make to specifications.

CYBERNATE

Cylinder

CACHINNATE

""CALUMNIATE To accuse falsely and maliciously of a crime or offense, or of something disreputable; to slander; to libel.""

Escaping detection

Hidden

Oily and exaggerated husband held forth

A politician in church preached, becoming oily

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

Carburet

Drew a grotesque picture of

Carillon

A swimmer dived in and performed certain crafty manoeuvres

Did a gymnastic maneuver

Having turrets and battlements

Having battlements

Like fortification Bill set up with girl and boy

CATABOLIZE

Put into boxes in iced storage possibly

Placed in a category.

Meowed

Sailboat device.

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.""

Presided over

Servant combining charm with bed? I am!

Source of mints, at times

Making bed with charm, am I? Possibly

CHANNELIZE

Character

Grilled on a rack that leaves black stripes

Chauffeur

Checkmark

Chemisorb

Did some social work (wordplay)

Made small talk

Shot the breeze

CHLORALOSE

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

Numskull.

Numbskull

Ignoramus

Of or belonging to the family Chrysomelidae.

Dolt or rockfish

Black-bellied plover.

Not so smart with a little laughter (wordplay)

Chugalug

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.

Clapboard

CLASSICIZE to make classic or classical.

Past tense or past participle

Mentally alert

Alert; logical

Perceptive

Mean and prepared to fight

Stingy

Cocaptain

COCKNEY a resident of London's East End

Cocounsel

Codevelop

Cohostess