2-Letter Words Starting with C

Chromize

Chromize

Vegetable coloring matter other than green; chromule.

""Pl. chronaxies The minimum interval of time necessary to electrically stimulate a muscle or nerve fiber, using twice the minimum current needed to elicit a threshold response.""

Account of important events

(Make a) historical record

Narrative description of past events

Pertaining to a chrysalis; resembling a chrysalis.

Make a pup a thing like this (wordplay)

Protection for future monarch (wordplay)

Pupa of an insect such as a butterfly

Of the underworld

Chubasco

Chubby

A pit or hole produced by wear or weathering especially in a road surface.

Chuckler

Little Charlie having a laugh

Charles and Heather are obviously amused

Throw the fish away with a laugh

Chuffy

Drinks in one gulp

Most familiar

Chumship

Chunky

Chunter

Churchy

Church

Ecclesiastic

CHURCH to bring to a building for Christian worship

Churning

Chutzpah

Chymosin

English word

Cinchona

Cipher

Ciphony

Plural or third person singular

Disease of the liver

Chronic liver disease

Chronic disease that kills liver cells

""Pertaining to, caused by, or affected with, cirrhosis; as, cirrhotic degeneration; a cirrhotic liver. as, cirrhotic degeneration; a cirrhotic liver.""

The hinged door of a cargo aircraft

Cape Cod ashtray

Sea creature's protection

Shaped like a lattice; cancellate.

Claught

Clencher

Being tight-fisted (wordplay)

Bentley's characterful lines

Verses clergyman shortened - he was heartless

E. C. Bentley / Evidently / Used such rhymes / To reflect our times

""State, quality, or business of a clerk.""

Fairly sharp metal bar is breaking chain

Clincher

Clinch

""A sheet of paper containing news items and other newspaper material, usually printed on only one side for convenience in clipping and reprinting.""

Clochard

They wish to suit you

Rich stole (anagram) - tailors

Haberdashers

Acts of pulling on threads (wordplay)

Clubhand

Clubhaul

Where golfers meet

Golf course building

Building for members

Hanging on for dear life

COACH to {tutor=v}

Creation of automobile bodies

Coalhole

Coalshed

Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb, e.g

Huntley and Brinkley, for example

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, once, on "S.N.L."

Coauthor

Cochair

Scarlet dye - in a cloche (anagram)

Red food dye (from beetles)

Said to be a dying insect (wordplay)

Contest between birds

Illegal contest of birds

Battle as between roosters

'Ride a ......... to Banbury Cross'

Ride it 2 across, by the sound of it (wordplay)

'Ride a . . . . . . . . . from Banbury Cross'

Archy, for one

Bird, fish, or insect

Household insect pest

Cockshy

Cockshut

Swimmers with system for paying for Ray and Goby

Pinions perhaps by firm force with parts of feet

Got together before a match perhaps

Just living to get her a dress in code

Was a POSSLQ

Cohead

She shares the wealth

Along with another lady she will succeed

Study secures present church agreement

Make what you mean clear with this

Sticking together once cheer erupted

A sticking or cleaving together; union of parts of the same body; cohesion.

Conditions of unity

Unitive acts

Adherings.

Cohobate

Cohobate

Coholder

HOSTESS to act as a woman who entertains socially

Police chap, or police trap

Sharing the stage, in a way

Working like Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan, say

Coinhere

Coinhere

Cokehead

Pass Greek character with Latin plant

A bacteriophage that infects the bacterium Escherichia coli.

""The light spongy pulp of the fruit of the bitter cucumber (Citrullus, ∨ Cucumis, colocynthis), an Asiatic plant allied to the watermelon; coloquintida. It comes in white balls, is intensely bitter, and a powerful cathartic. Called also bitter apple, bitter cucumber, bitter gourd. Citrullus, ∨ Cucumis, colocynthis), an Asiatic plant allied to the watermelon; coloquintida. It comes in white balls, is intensely bitter, and a powerful cathartic. Called also bitter apple, bitter cucumber, bitter gourd.""

Colophon

Rosin used for preparing bows used to play musical instruments

COLTISH like a colt

Comether

Conchoid

Military kitchen building

English word

Cookshop

Any of several breeds of hound developed for hunting raccoons.

Copperah

PUBLISH to print and issue to the public

Copyhold

Big cat, say, now drowned

Make a true facsimile?

Make a true facsimile (wordplay)

Farmyard leavings

Tamale wrappers

Corniche

Dirges played on bagpipes

Pl. coryphaei (-f ) The leader of a Greek chorus.

Coryphee

Cosher

Same as Cothurn. Cothurn.

Couching

Boat for judges (wordplay)

Suitor.s heyday

Bar in front of boat leads to affair

Couthie

Small dolphins

Cowhide

Cranch

English word

Gambling metaphor for a risky venture

Something determined entirely by chance

It's tough to predict

Craunch

Craunch

Creesh

Did some needlework

'He, Edward, followed the crocodile in a decorative manner (9)'

CROCHET to work wool or thread with a small hook

Cromlech

Telescopic sighting aid

Target-centering aid

Aiming aid

""A beam or bar across the head or end of a rod, etc., or a block attached to it and carrying a knuckle pin; as the solid crosspiece running between parallel slides, which receives motion from the piston of a steam engine and imparts it to the connecting rod, which is hinged to the crosshead.""

Musical notes equal to two quavers

Quarters notes in music

They are whimsical notes

Out of sorts to a notable extent

Perhaps having a note of anger

Out of sorts, to a notable extent

Squatting

Crumhorn

U. S. Army "bulldozers."

Like Grape-Nuts vis-a-vis other cereals

CRUNCHIE derogatory name for an Afrikaaner

The act of crunching

Flimsy cord around basket material

The wool from a sheep's bottom

Snug place for young foxes (wordplay)

Snug enclosed space

Place for keeping bits and bobs

CULTISH having the qualities of a cult

CURRISH like a cur

Eased, as from shock.

Softened and served dish on cue

Ring in copper polished and protected

Fiercely competitive - type of razor

Court that misrepresented killer

Merciless fox to hurt cat

See Chrysoberyl. Chrysoberyl.

Cypher

A concretion of mineral matter within a leaf or other part of a plant.

Roar with merriment

Laugh loudly

Reserve falling away finally, natural to be in stitches

Bad handwriting or spelling, as any fule kno

Educational opportunity for trainees? CDs shape it, possibly

Fruits also known as bottle gourds

Bottle gourds

Gourds

Calipash

Dominions of some Islamic leaders

Boisterous parade

Treat with a type of insect-repellent

""A marine fish (Thaleichthys Pacificus), allied to the smelt, found on the north Pacific coast; called also eulachon. It is so oily that, when dried, it may be used as a candle, by drawing a wick through it Thaleichthys Pacificus), allied to the smelt, found on the north Pacific coast; called also eulachon. It is so oily that, when dried, it may be used as a candle, by drawing a wick through it""

Pure rubber.

Carbachol

Name on a Visa

Place to keep your 'plastic'

Place to keep your "plastic"

Bottom dealers, perhaps

Poker pros, say

They may change hands fraudulently

""A slender prolongation of the receptacle as an axis between the carpels, as in Geranium and many umbelliferous plants.""

Variant of carrageen .

Carritch

Not true to life, perhaps

Exaggerated

Nuances of automotive design (wordplay)

Decorative scrollwork details on limo

Auto loans

Things happy people do

Basic gymnastics moves

Sideways-rotation maneuvers

Dismissing a wrongdoer from the armed forces

Reach GIs in disarray, moving from military position

Cataphora

Used as a cataphor [adj] : CATAPHORICALLY

""One of the Catarrhina, a division of Quadrumana, including the Old World monkeys and apes which have the nostrils close together and turned downward. See Monkey. Catarrhina, a division of Quadrumana, including the Old World monkeys and apes which have the nostrils close together and turned downward. See Monkey.""

Yawn, in slang

Catchment

Arrest by copper with appeal of reduced charge

Nab lady providing worthless bit of goods

Extremely coy about unfortunate penchant for trumpery

Catchpole

Catchpoll

And here's the pitch (wordplay)

Hear angry talk, then cues for actors

Don't miss what are said to be slogans

Pl. catecheses (-s z) Oral instruction given to catechumens.

Pl. catecheses (-s z) Oral instruction given to catechumens.

After Catherine, the church is taking manuscript for religious books

Catechist

CATECHIZE See Catechise. Catechise.

CATECHIZE See Catechise. Catechise.

Catechize

One preparing for confirmation.

Christian Union chaps outside a college making new convert (wordplay)

Neophyte

Cathartic

Cathect

St. Patrick's et al.

Notre-Dame and St. Paul's, notably

They keep large flocks

Cathepsin

CATHODAL pertaining to a {cathode=n}

(Christianity / Roman Catholic Church) the patriarch of the Armenian Church [from Greek katholikos ; see catholic ]

A remedy for all diseases; a panacea.

""The spiritual head of the Armenian church, who resides at Etchmiadzin, Russia, and has ecclesiastical jurisdiction over, and consecrates the holy oil for, the Armenians of Russia, Turkey, and Persia, including the Patriarchs of Constantinople, Jerusalem, and Sis.""

Cavefish

Musical food wrapping (wordplay)

Musical food wrapping?

Film about packaged food (wordplay)

Bowdler's vessel (wordplay)

Will Hays's craft (wordplay)

Will Hays's craft?

""A semisynthetic analogue of cephalosporin, C 16 H 17 N 3 O 4 S, used especially in the treatment of respiratory and urinary tract infections.""

Mushroom ring, seedcase and seafood, potentially

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

Cerecloth

The bar gains come from them after a light start has blown away

Chaffer

CHAGRIN to humiliate

Chagrin

Chainsaw

""A chain pulley, or sprocket wheel.""

Slopes transport

Skiers' conveniences.

Skiers' conveyances

CHAIRMAN to act as chairman of

President's musical 21 mostly tinned

Committee honcho, sometimes

President has haircut up in prison

Certain committee leaders

Committee heads.

Chalazion

Cyclone had dislodged rocky stuff

Quartz coming from Ceylon and Chad

Cyclone had rolled stone