2-Letter Words Starting with C

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

*"On the way!"

*'On the way!'

Method of figuring bank interest

Applying pressure

Approach taken about newspapers applying the squeeze

Squeezing

""One who bears testimony or swears to the veracity or innocence of another. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager. Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager.""

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

Cohabitation of Tory with young pup when old

Confiding

""CONFIGURE To arrange or dispose in a certain form, figure, or shape.""

Burning together in a common flame.

Incompatible

Befuddling

Confront

Confusing

The act or the process of congealing; congeliation.

""The act or process of passing, or causing to pass, from a fluid to a solid state, as by the abstraction of heat; the act or process of freezing.""

""Allied in origin or cause; congeneric; as, congenerous diseases.as, congenerous diseases.""

In an agreeable way

Sociably and agreeably.

Crowded conditions.

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

Conglobate

Congregant

Gathered in a crowd

Congregate

CONGREGATE Collected; compact; close.

Moving forward to vote (wordplay)

Member of US legislature

Representative REM songs can upset

John Quincy Adams' post-presidential job

Long and Short.

Agreements

Congruent

Congruity

In a congruous manner.

Married state

Conjugate

Latin student's task

All inflected forms of verb

Of the same origin.

CONSCRIBE To enroll; to enlist.

Against team circle, all in all

Anti/facet/circle

Judging criminal gang taking bank

A member of a Mafia family who serves as an adviser or aide to the leader or to other members

""Pl. consiglieri (-r ) An adviser or counselor, especially to a capo or leader of an organized crime syndicate.""

CONSIGN to give over to another's care

Batch (of sent goods)

Batch (of goods)

Batch of goods

Consoling

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

Constringe

See Contingency. Contingency.

Possible, but less likely, happening

Chance happening.

Eventuality

Contingent

Knitting

Differing strikingly

Showing the difference in argument against police entrapment

Comparing

On top of

Process of coming together

Condition of coming closer together

Process of coming closer together

A coming together

""CONVOLUTE Rolled or wound together, one part upon another; said of the leaves of plants in \'91stivation.""

Acting together

English word

PRODUCING produce

Copurify

Copycat

Pre-publication job

Copyread

Protected, as a poem

Cordgrass

Corduroy

Coredeem

CORNHUSK the husk covering an ear of corn

""A telescope or an attachment for a telescope equipped with a disk that blacks out most of the sun, used to photograph the sun's corona.""

Variant of coronagraph .

Corresponding (with)

Error to be fixed

Something requiring correction

CORRUGATE Wrinkled; crumpled; furrowed; contracted into ridges and furrows.

The act corrugating; contraction into wrinkles or alternate ridges and grooves.

Flashing, sparkling

Coscript

Roommate, on a lease

Beauty

Cosmogony

One who treats of the origin of the universe; one versed in cosmogony.

""A description of the world or of the universe; or the science which teaches the constitution of the whole system of worlds, or the figure, disposition, and relation of all its parts.""

Cosmology

Stephen Hawking, for example

One studying the universe

Stoic gloom's possibly evident in one studying something big

Counseling

Counsel

Deli menu (wordplay)

Add a second signature

Confirm in writing

Courtesy

Women's group with social worker swigged gin, forging agreement

Coxswain

Some pesky weeds

Rock music (wordplay)

"Rock-A-Bye Baby" and others

Rock-A-Bye Baby and others

Crawfish

""CREPITATE To make a series of small, sharp, rapidly repeated explosions or sounds, as salt in fire; to crackle; to snap.""

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

Analysis of tea leaves (wordplay)

Looking into the tea leaves (wordplay)

Study of tea leaves (wordplay)

Crippling

""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.""

Being constructive, in a way

English word

Crowbar

The study of the effects of very low temperatures on living organisms.

""The selective exposure of tissues to extreme cold, often by applying a probe containing liquid nitrogen, to bring about the destruction or elimination of abnormal cells.""

Medical boon of '53

CRYPTOGAM A plant belonging to the Cryptogamia.

Of obscure or unknown origin. Used of diseases.

Cryptogram

'The Da Vinci Code', for instance

The study of cryptanalysis or cryptography.

CULMINATE To reach its highest point of altitude; to come to the meridian; to be vertical or directly overhead.

""CULTIVATE To bestow attention, care, and labor upon, with a view to valuable returns; to till; to fertilize; as, to cultivate soil. as, to cultivate soil.""

""Stimulation of the vulva or clitoris of one person by the tongue of another, for the purpose of giving sexual gratification.""

Clever craftiness

Crusty old codgers

Irascible individuals

CUSTOMISE

CUSTOMIZE to make to specifications.

Cylinder

Of or pertaining to cytogenesis or cell development.cytogenesis or cell development.

CYTOLOGIC

Cytologist

""Of, relating to, or characterized by greatly enlarged cells.""

Cabbageworm

CACHINNATE

Cacography

A craftsperson of excellent character

He's a fine script writer

A. The art of fine handwriting.

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

CAMOUFLAGE

CAMPHORATE To impregnate or treat with camphor.

Candlelight

CANTILLATE To chant; to recite with musical tones.

CAPACITATE To render capable; to enable; to qualify.

Caparison

CAPITALISE

""CAPITALIZE To convert into capital, or to use as capital.""

""CAPITULATE To settle or draw up the heads or terms of an agreement, as in chapters or articles; to agree.""

""CARAMELISE to to change into caramel, by the action of heat; as, The sugar caramelized quickly.as, The sugar caramelized quickly.""

CARAMELIZE to to convert

Carbonado

Carburet

Producing cancer

Causing cancer

Cardiograph

Description of the heart.

Cardiology

Specialist in heart disease

Heart specialist

Doctor is one in suit I love to register with first

""CARICATURE An exaggeration, or distortion by exaggeration, of parts or characteristics, as in a picture.""

Carillon

The occupation or work of a carpenter; the act of workingin timber; carpentry.

Corrupt Northerner of 1865.

Scalawag's confederate

Non-local candidate

Carrageenan

Carrageenin

Carriageway

One making maps

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

Map-maker

Pertaining to map-making

Chap tragic or silly in respect of maps

Relating to the drawing of maps

Cartwheel

Castigation

CATABOLIZE

CATEGORISE

CATEGORIZE To insert in a category or list; to class; to catalogue.

""The cry of cats; a harsh, disagreeable noise or cry like the cry of cats.""

Centimorgan

CENTRALISE

Causing to concentrate at a center. Opposite of decentralizing.decentralizing.

Centrifugal

""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.""

Chaetognath

Chairman

English word

Changeless

CHANNELIZE

Chaperonage

Character

Charbroil

Chauffeur

Chaulmoogra

Checkmark

Cheerlead

Fast food - begs cure here (anagram)

Lunch-counter specialty.

Fast food product

Mean with money

Mean to be cutting down dairy produce

Cheap greens I order, being parsimonious

Chemisorb

""Selective destruction of tissue by use of chemicals, as for removing malignant skin lesions.""

Like comic Hilda's female act

Chimichanga

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

""CHIROGRAPH A writing which, reguiring a counterpart, was engrossed twice on the same piece of parchment, with a space between, in which was written the word chirographum, through which the parchment was cut, and one part given to each party. It answered to what is now called a charter party. chirographum, through which the parchment was cut, and one part given to each party. It answered to what is now called a charter party.""

Shooting the breeze

In vacant chippies one batters fish guts

Edible intestines of hogs

Holds on catching batsman, showing guts

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

Choreograph

Steps on a stage

The designing of ballet steps

Routine arrangements for trippers

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

Maps ()

Christening

""The paper strip, column, gel, or TLC plate on which subsances have been separated by a process of chromatography{2}.""

Chronograph

A description or record of past time; history.

Chronologer

Time after time they should get the order right

One has placed an order for The Times

Chugalug

Churchgoing

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.""