2-Letter Words Starting with C

Cuckold

Cudgel

Cuirass

Cumulate

Cunning

Curarize

Curettage

Curlicue

Bad-tempered person

Miser, old style.

Cousin of a crosspatch.

Stopping short, being off colour

Vets no longer like making short work of this

Is the brute following this and making short work of it (wordplay)

Curtain

Curtilage

Curtsey

Horse's activity in dressage

Cushion

Cutgrass

Cutinise

Cutinize

CYANOGEN a compound of carbon and nitrogen

Cytogeny

Cytology

""The branch of biology that deals with the formation, structure, and function of cells.""

Caterpillar that is a pest of certain green vegetables

Cageyness

Cakewalk

CALCIFUGE

""CALCIMINE A white or colored wash for the ceiling or other plastering of a room, consisting of a mixture of clear glue, Paris white or zinc white, and water.""

Of or pertaining to mathematical calculations; performing or able to perform mathematical calculations.

Scheduling in Graceland tours

Calender

""CALIBRATE To ascertain the caliber of, as of a thermometer tube; also, more generally, to determine or rectify the graduation of, as of the various standards or graduated instruments.""

Script writer's study (wordplay)

Art of writing (wordplay)

Art of handwriting

Calliper

Having beautifully proportioned buttocks.

You'll cap GIs anyhow by having beautiful buttocks

Camerlengo

Escaping detection

Hidden

Camouflage

CAMOUFLAGE

Activists making gain excitedly embraced by people in tents

Trying to win the support of voters

Electioneering

The art of bellringing

Bell-ringing

Bellringing

Outdoor accommodations

End of quote

Dim illumination from tapers, etc

Part of a romantic ambience

""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.""

CAPSULIZE

Beguiling

Caracol

Caravan

""CARBONATE A salt or carbonic acid, as in limestone, some forms of lead ore, etc.""

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

CARBURET to combine chemically with carbon

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.

Carcinogen

Having origin in the heart.

Cardiogram

Woolly old drawing instrument

It produces ticker-tape

Diagnostic device

Caregiving

"We call our convertible Christine"

We call our convertible Christine

Caretaking

Grand Theft Auto goings-on

Carmagnole

CARPOGONIA

""Pl -nia [-nɪə] (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biology) the female sex organ of red algae, consisting of a swollen base containing the ovum and a long neck down which the male gametes pass carpogonial   adj CATCHPHRASE (= slogan ) → slogan m ; [ comedian, famous person ] → formule f hc_En_Fr() CENOSPECIES pl -species (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biology) a species related to another by the ability to interbreed dogs and wolves are cenospecies [from Greek koinos common + species ]""

""Any of a group of closely related colloids derived from Irish moss and several other red algae, widely used as a thickening, stabilizing, emulsifying, or suspending agent in industrial, pharmaceutical, and food products.""

""Any of a group of closely related colloids derived from Irish moss and several other red algae, widely used as a thickening, stabilizing, emulsifying, or suspending agent in industrial, pharmaceutical, and food products.""

Carragheen

Coach route perhaps

Part of road for vehicles

Bearing to consider reportedly in road

CARTELISE

CARTELIZE

Science of drawing maps

Title of the puzzle

Map-making

Cartooning

""CASTIGATE To punish by stripes; to chastise by blows; to chasten; also, to chastise verbally; to reprove; to criticise severely.""

Severe scolding

Those doling out the reprimands

Cataloguer

Systematically listing

Hurling, as with a sling

Hurling as if with a sling

CATECHIZE See Catechise. Catechise.

Without exceptions or conditions

Unambiguously explicit

Unconditional

Put into boxes in iced storage possibly

Beast with personality is going with the upwardly mobile classes

Placed in a category.

Categorize

Causeway

Emergency-room action

Cavalier

Rebel acting riotously, living it up

Commemorating having binge with claret flowing

Clubs excite Beatle - Ringo's not old and is at party ...

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Genetics) Genetics a unit of chromosome length, used in genetic mapping, equal to the length of chromosome over which crossing over occurs with 1 per cent frequency [named after Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866-1945), US biologist]""

Moving out from a centre

Carrying outwards from the centre

Using force away from centre

""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.""

Centrifuge

Thinking

Cetologist

Any worm of the Chaetognatha; transparent marine worm with horizontal lateral and caudal fins and a row of movable curved spines at each side of the mouth.

Chagrin

Chainsaw

CHAIRMAN to act as chairman of

Opponents

Demanding one's best efforts

Provoking

Champignon

Champion

""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.""

Changeful

Changeling

Swaps

Channel

Kind of accompaniment

Escorting important individual not south after tea

Chaperon

Sketching, in a certain way.

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

The power or quality of pleasing or delighting; attractiveness: a breezy tropical setting of great charm.

""Any of several tropical Asian trees of the genus Hydnocarpus, whose seeds contain an oil formerly used to treat skin lesions caused by leprosy and other diseases.""

""CHECKMATE The position in the game of chess when a king is in check and cannot be released, which ends the game.""

Checkrow

A type of deep-fried burrito

Tortilla appetizer

""The art of writing or engrossing; handwriting; as, skilled in chirography. as, skilled in chirography.""

Chirurgeon

Chivaree

CHOLINE an alcohol found bile

Devise movements for (ballet)

Compose moves (for a ballet)

Emulated Michael Kidd

The mapping or description of a region or district.

Using for the first time

Naming ceremony

Baptising

""Containing, or capable of forming, chromogen; as, chromogenic bacteria. as, chromogenic bacteria.""

CHRONICLE An historical register or account of facts or events disposed in the order of time.

Chronogram

Accurate time-measuring device

Same as Chronologist. Chronologist.

Arranged in order of time of occurrence.

Chuckling

Chugalug

Churchgoer

Regularly going to worship

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

Cinemagoer

""Moving or flowing in a circuit and returning to the same point; as, steam circulating through the pipes; the circulating thyroid hormones.as, steam circulating through the pipes; the circulating thyroid hormones.""

Clangour

Putting things into categories

Taxonomist's job

Botany Of or relating to a flower that does not open and is self-pollinated in the bud.

A woman who is a member of the clergy.

Female priests

Study of long-term weather

Study of alarming changes, nowadays

Clinching

Clingstone

Boorish; rude.

Cloister

Clubhaul

Coadmit

COAGULATE Coagulated.

Hardening (of blood)

Nautical goo could be forming a clot

Coanchor

Coappear

Coassist

They keep strangers at bay

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

Coattend

Coattest

Coauthor

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

Cockbill

Cocktail

CULTURING culture

Codesign

Codirect

Coembody

Coemploy

Coenamor

Coextend

FEATURING feature

FINANCING finance

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

Cogitation

COGNITION The act of knowing; knowledge; perception.

Cognitive

Cognizance

Expert

Well-informed people

Very well-informed people

Those in the know since con got busted

Capable of being known.

Coinfer

Cointer

Coinvent

Coldcock

Any of various enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of collagen and gelatin.

Containing or resembling collagen.

Collegial

COLLIGATE To tie or bind together.

A binding together.

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.

""LOGARITHM One of a class of auxiliary numbers, devised by John Napier, of Merchiston, Scotland (15501617), to abridge arithmetical calculations, by the use of addition and subtraction in place of multiplication and division. The relation of logarithms to common numbers is that of numbers in an arithmetical series to corresponding numbers in a geometrical series, so that sums and differences of the former indicate respectively products and quotients of the latter; thus The relation of logarithms to common numbers is that of numbers in an arithmetical series to corresponding numbers in a geometrical series, so that sums and differences of the former indicate respectively products and quotients of the latter; thus""

Colportage

""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

During Advent Frank is airing grievances

Expressing dissatisfaction

Complect

Complot