2-Letter Words Starting with C

Projecting beam fixed at one end only

Kind of arch or bridge

Beam fixed at one end

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

One who makes a listing or inventory

Lynx becomes list maker

He should make the list

CATECHIZE See Catechise. Catechise.

A photoelectric instrument for ascertaining cloud heights.

New Year's Eve figure.

Jubilant one

Dec. 31 figure

Small metric unit

Unit equal to 0.338 fluid ounce

.6102 cubic inch

Almost two-fifths of an inch

*Approximate width of a pencil

Unit, as a Salk vaccine.

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

Working hard with officer in Cabinet

Ornamental cabinet.

Setter keeps fine rosebowl initially in a cabinet

Account king gives to historian

One has The Times ordered

One who records important events

One who enters the services

Regular worshipper

A pious type, Winston, fit to move the queen

Churchly

Film buff, say, could make one grimace

I see picture blur once image runs

One sees pictures to make one grimace

One who classifies.

Full-dress coat, colloquially

Basic part of a tool kit

Puller or pounder

Tool in forestry to measure slope, vertical angles and tree heights

Convert mile - not v. tricky if you have surveyor's instrument

Hold copper (anagram)

Clumsy person (wearing heavy shoes?)

Ultralight balloon (wordplay)

Cobwebby

Large beetle

Large beetle destructive of vegetation - frock cache (anagram)

A worthless or despicable person; -- intended as disparaging and invariably offensive.

COMPOSER one who writes music

One who helps call the shots

""DISCOVER to find out, also DISCOURE, DISCURE""

A joint executor.

""INVENTOR one who invents, also INVENTER""

INVESTOR one who {invests=v}

Peddler of Bibles, tracts, etc.

Pedlar disconcerted poor cutler

Pedlar of religious works

""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

Rival clubs promote changes covering it

Sporting contest entrant

Entrant in race scheming to crop time

Member of the "cavil-ry"?

Member of the "cavil-ry" (wordplay)

Faultfinding type

""One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a compounder of medicines. as, a compounder of medicines.""

Impeller on a jet engine

Supercharger

Leading Romanian composer's work with a forceful air

Black-eyed Susan.

Prairie blossom

One who confounds.

Defiant one.

It's a game changer

One holding the reins

Officer who checks expenditures.

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.

PRISONER one that is imprisoned

PRODUCER one that {produces=v}

PROMOTER one who {promotes=v}

Keeps the paper united with impression of custodian

An editor who prepares text for publication.

Producer of text for ad

Public relations position

Author who wrote pricy composition

Catholic sect keeps wagon for shoemaker

Old shoemaker in business with change in drawer

Scented foot-growth (wordplay)

Scented foot-growth?

Hokey Bloomer (wordplay)

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

TRANSFER to move from one place to another

A device for determining the amount of a substance released during electrolysis by measuring the electrical charge.

Adviser; a senior diplomat

Breakdown specialist

Adviser

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)

Ranch worker to show fear taking blow

One who's at home on the range

Vaquero "Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves" (nonverbal)

""CRITICIZE same as criticise; as, The paper criticized the new movie.criticise; as, The paper criticized the new movie.""

""A person employed to scare off crows; hence, a scarecrow.""

A soldier armed with a cuirass.

CUSTOMIZE to make to specifications.

""A contrivance for recording the revolutions of a wheel, as of a bicycle.""

Heat measuring device

Heat-measuring device

Apparatus to measure quantity of heat

Measure of light emitted

CP, to a physicist

Measure of luminosity

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

Cheerful

Split personality (wordplay)

During the game, she's no reserve!

Root for the frontrunner (wordplay)

Palm reader

Sweet maker/seller

Specialist confectioner

Sweet maker

Man of music.

Church music leader

Lifter of voices

Same as Chronologist. Chronologist.

Metal casing on timer? No, I'm timer

Instrument measuring time

Watch to find the enemy's position

One who performs circumcision.

Codevelop

Percolator, machine for making hot drinks

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

""An instrument for measuring the depth of the color of anything, especially of a liquid, by comparison with a standard liquid.""

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 compromises.

Financial official's title

(Generally) financial officer

New York office held by Fillmore when he was elected U.S. vice president

Eg, prommer

One in stalls possibly put Queen on to sure thing in African republic

Banker entering African country: I'm doubtful he likes live music

Hair improver

Hair application

Salon item

CONGREGATE Collected; compact; close.

One who hypothesizes

He goes to galleries.

Knowledgeable art-lover

Expert judge of taste

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.

One who contravenes.

Person who prepares deeds for transference of property

Inflected form of PROCESSOR Inflected form of PROCESS to treat or prepare by a special method

Copublish

REPRESSOR

Shrub in bed with a single flower

Garden shrub related to the hawthorn

Seen in the garden bed, a single flower

Crapshoot

Like twilight

Of twilight.

A contemptible or vicious critic.

One who carries a Christian symbol

Religious procession VIP

Like letters in SOS and COUSCOUS

Premier craftsman (wordplay)

Taoiseach perhaps builds up bureau

President's second career (wordplay)

A craftsperson of excellent character

He's a fine script writer

Support for burning light

MENORAH

'Ringer' vehicle ailing on climbing trip round head of Eskdale

Corrupt Northerner of 1865.

Scalawag's confederate

Non-local candidate

One making maps

Occupation that the bad chef might be better at (wordplay)

Map-maker

Fast food - begs cure here (anagram)

Lunch-counter specialty.

Fast food product

One who practice the art or business of writing or engrossing.

One who describes or makes a map of a district or region.

Comparative adjective or agent noun

The center of a circle that circumscribes a triangle.

Codiscover

One who commemorates.

Head of police organisation

Government official.

Senior policeman

""An apparatus for the separation of dry comminuted ore, by exposing it to intermittent puffs of air.""

Concession

Mars, for one

Sweet maker/seller

Seller of sweets

One who contemplates.

One who controverts; a controversial writer; a controversialist.

One who supports or frequents conventicles.

""PROPRIETOR One who has the legal right or exclusive title to anything, whether in possession or not; an owner; as, the proprietor of farm or of a mill. as, the proprietor of farm or of a mill.""

RESEARCHER One who researches.

""One who describes the world or universe, including the heavens and the earth.""

Fruit and veg seller

Fruit/veg seller

Barrow boy

""One who countenances, favors, or supports.""

I'll give you $100 for that buffet table, for example

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Singer getting note say, below bar

A singing bank teller (wordplay)

Singer with note heard at end of bar

""CRYSTALLIZE To cause to form crystals, or to assume the crystalline form.""

""A species of Cardamine (C. pratensis), or lady's smock. Its leaves are used in salads. Also, the ragged robin (Lychnis Floscuculi). Cardamine (C. pratensis), or lady's smock. Its leaves are used in salads. Also, the ragged robin (Lychnis Floscuculi).""

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Microbiology) a rod-shaped bacterium that causes infections in cattle and man. Unpasteurized milk infected with campylobacter is a common cause of gastroenteritis [from Greek kampulos bent + bacter ( ium )]

Candlelight

""An implement with a bell-shaped cup and often a long slender handle, used to extinguish the flame of a candle.""

""A sensory nerve cell or sense organ, as of smell or taste, that responds to chemical stimuli.""

I arrange steps (wordplay)

Robbins, for one

One skilled in arranging dances

Revolving around or surrounding a star.

The first violin in a symphony orchestra (2 words)

""CONGLOMERATE Gathered into a ball or a mass; collected together; concentrated; as, conglomerate rays of light. as, conglomerate rays of light.""

CONVENTION The act of coming together; the state of being together; union; coalition.

You might say he works at the forge

Does one work at the forge (wordplay)

Moneymaker (wordplay)

Counterplay

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Intended to prevent or counteract terrorism: counterterror measures; counterterror weapons.

""One who writes in cipher, or secret characters.""

INVESTIGATOR One who searches diligently into a subject.

COMPLEMENT That which fills up or completes; the quantity or number required to fill a thing or make it complete.

""CONCEPTUALIZE to to form a concept of; as, He could not conceptualize a robot that would help paralyzed patients.as, He could not conceptualize a robot that would help paralyzed patients.""

The head violinist or leader of the strings in an orchestra; the subleader of the orchestra; concert master.

English word

Counterpunch

Of or relating to the blood vessels that supply the brain.

Chromatograph

Film's camera-crew chief

Movie studio employe

James Wong Howe's occupation.

One who fights back

One who fights fire with fire

Counterreform

One studying regular molecular structures