2-Letter Words Starting with C

Chondrule

""Having the lower chop or jaw depressed; hence, crestfallen; dejected; dispirited;downcast. See Chapfallen. Chapfallen.""

Steak eaters' places

Restaurants in clubs supported by families after dance

Choplogic

Chopper

""Choppier , choppiest Having many small waves; rough: choppy seas.""

Prepare kindling (wordplay)

Cuts up little bloodsuckers (wordplay)

But you can't cut celery with them!

Choragus

Choregus

English word

'Christ rose transfigured', they sing

Sunday singers

Singing group

Chorus

Chowder

Big eaters

Gluttons Slang

Gluttons: Slang

Named

Baptized

Readily stained with chromium salts: chromaffin cells of the adrenal medulla.

Scientific study of colors

Chromatid

Chromatin

Chromize

Chromogen

One of the serially aligned beadlike granules of concentrated chromatin that constitutes a chromosome during the early phases of cell division.

Pl. chromonemata (-m -t ) The spirally coiled central filament of a chromatid along which the chromomeres are aligned.

Also chromophilic (-f l k) Readily stained with dyes. Used of a cell or cell structure.

Thread of life (wordplay)

Y for men only (wordplay)

Gene-carrying body Biol.

Chronaxy

CHRONIC one who suffers from a long-lasting disease

Recorded that condition of illness was first

Account king gives to historian

One has The Times ordered

One who records important events

Books of the Bible.

Records found before Ezra

Name of two Old Testament books

""An inscription in which certain numeral letters, made to appear specially conspicuous, on being added together, express a particular date or epoch, <as>as in the motto of a medal struck by Gustavus Adolphus in 1632:""

Science of time arrangement

Sequence of events

Order of events

Chrysalid

Mineral used in making refractories

Stone makes loser itchy

Yellowish gemstone

Fibrous variety of serpentine, a form of asbestos

""Chubbier , chubbiest Rounded and plump. See Synonyms at fat .""

Chuckhole

Type of iguana

Large dark-bodied lizard living in Mexico and the southern USA

Grayish lizard once used as food by Native Americans

Being friendly, mum turns trendy, when captivated by game

Chunter

One who enters the services

Regular worshipper

A pious type, Winston, fit to move the queen

Churchy

Churching

Without a church.

Churchly

Burial ground (usually)

God's acre

Burial place

In a churlish manner.

One of the quinine group of alkaloids isomeric with and resembling cinchonidine; called also cinchonia. cinchonia.

""A condition produced by the excessive or longcontinued use of quinine, and marked by deafness, roaring in the ears, vertigo, etc.""

Lines to be cracked

XPINPU LPXXOJP, for example

Cirrhotic

""A special branch, resembling a leaf, as in the apparent foliage of the broom (Ruscus) and of the common cultivated smilax (Myrsiphillum). Ruscus) and of the common cultivated smilax (Myrsiphillum).""

Beach decor.

CLANNISH like a clan

Clathrate

Claught

Bach's instrument

Well-tempered item

Piano's early cousin

Full-dress coat, colloquially

Basic part of a tool kit

Puller or pounder

Clerkship

Clipsheet

CLIQUISH {cliquey=adj}

Hold copper (anagram)

Clumsy person (wearing heavy shoes?)

Ultralight balloon (wordplay)

""A synthetic drug, C 26 H 28 CINO, that is used in its citrate form to stimulate ovulation.""

""Having rigid front and back covers, covered with cloth; -- of books. Contrasted to softcover.softcover.""

Line item (wordplay)

It's left hanging on the line

It may hold up your shorts

CLOWNISH resembling a clown

Clubhaul

19th-hole locations

Social centers.

Coachwork

Coalfish

Coanchor

Wrote with someone else

Cochair

Committee leadership sharer

CHAIRMEN chairman

CHAMPION to defend or support

Cochineal

Large beetle

Large beetle destructive of vegetation - frock cache (anagram)

Cockfight

Cockhorse

""Characteristic of, or resembling, cockneys.""

In the coal this can be decidedly fishy

Primitive fish

Fish rediscovered off the coast of Africa in 1938

One sharing living space

Consort making name in Co-Conran creation

Person sharing address that's surprising slightly in odd talk

Living together

Coherence

Only cheer leader of team excitedly in an orderly way

Logically

In a unified manner

Cohobate

HOMOLOGY similarity in structure and origin

Coinhere

""A powerful vegetable alkaloid, C17H19NO5, extracted from the Colchicum autumnale, or meadow saffron, as a white or yellowish amorphous powder, with a harsh, bitter taste; called also colchicia. C17H19NO5, extracted from the Colchicum autumnale, or meadow saffron, as a white or yellowish amorphous powder, with a harsh, bitter taste; called also colchicia.""

Colchicum

""A sheath in the embryo of grasses, inclosing the caulicle.""

Coliphage

Colocynth

Gather hempen cord in knots

See compositor about layer to delete

Divine or demon perch all at sea

Having elevations or depressions in form like one half of a bivalve shell; applied principally to a surface produced by fracture.

Study of mollusks and shells

Power lunch is so drunken at overseas office

Mostly seek advice from transport office in Rome

Cookhouse

Cookshack

Calm and collected.

Good under pressure

Not easily excited

Hunting dogs

Elemental serpent (wordplay)

Police officer's woe (wordplay)

Reptilian chief of police (wordplay)

Feeding on excrement: coprophagous beetles.

Keeps the paper united with impression of custodian

Intellectual property protection

Claims to exclusive authority over literary, musical or artistic work

Playing not very hard-to-get

Flirty question to alien returning it in club

Flirtatious

Argo is a brand of this

Cook's thickener

Ingredient in confectioners' sugar

CORYPHE the {chief=n}

COUNTRY the territory of a nation

Place for trials (2 words)

Place to get hitched, perhaps

Place of many trials

Love nests afloat, perhaps, for royalty

""The state or condition of a cousin; also, the collective body of cousins; kinsfolk.""

The relationship of cousins; state of being cousins; cousinhood.

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)

Rotating part of engine

Auto-engine part

Rotating engine part

Cranreuch

Crapshoot

CRASHING crash

Craunch

Crawfish

Crawfish

Crayfish

Crocheter

Crochet

Optical instrument parts.

Part of a sight.

Marksman's view

Ford's access door providing shade

Transverse cover provides shading

Shade partly across hatchway

Crosshead

Place for Ben (wordplay)

Ill-tempered person

Ill-natured person

""CRUNCH to chew with a crackling sound, also CRANCH, CRAUNCH""

Crunchy

CRUSHING crush

Like some industrial-strength containers

Having an affinity for or thriving at low temperatures.

(Zo\'94l.) One of the Ctenophora.

Small, snug spaces

Snug spots

Snug places.

Cushion

Cutchery

Cutthroat

Mollusc - leftish cut (anagram)

Squid-like mollusc

Source of sepia, artist's pigment.

Cymophane

Cystolith

Any of a class of iron-containing proteins important in cell respiration as catalysts of oxidation-reduction reactions.

Of or relating to degeneration or disease of cells.

Having an affinity for cells.

Alternative name for the son of a tsar

Royal Russian

CACHINNATE

Cachinnate

Dins

Harshly discordant

(Man's) dishonourable behaviour

Theologian, one in the money, on the point of displaying ungentlemanly behaviour

Of or pertaining to calisthenics.

Script writer's study (wordplay)

Art of writing (wordplay)

Art of handwriting

Noisy demonstrations

Oily and exaggerated husband held forth

A politician in church preached, becoming oily

Camphorate

End of quote

Dim illumination from tapers, etc

Part of a romantic ambience

See cantharis. cantharis.

""The active principe of the cantharis, or Spanish fly, a volatile, acrid, bitter solid, crystallizing in foursided prisms.""

Caoutchouc

""The condition, rank, post, or authority of a captain or chief commander.""

Cardholder

Woolly old drawing instrument

It produces ticker-tape

Diagnostic device

Heart

Amusing person, not so sweet as a cheat

He often makes money from crooked deals

Cheater at the gaming table

Carpophore

Carragheen

Science of drawing maps

Title of the puzzle

Map-making

Did a gymnastic maneuver

Cartwheel

""Pl. catachreses (-s z) The misapplication of a word or phrase, as the use of blatant to mean "flagrant."""

Term for a mixed metaphor.

To take arms against a sea of troubles.

"To take arms against a sea of troubles."

Catarrhal

Catarrhine

Tragedy a 'thesp' actor performing

Event causing great suffering

Final event in a drama.

Familiar words (of comedian)

Fielders' slogan (wordplay)

Gotcha, you rascal!

""Of or pertaining to a catechism, having the form of questions and answers; catechical.""

""CATECHIST One who instructs by question and answer, especially in religions matters.""

Catechizer

CATECHIZE See Catechise. Catechise.

Catechumen

To operate on with a catheter.

CATHOLIC a member of the early Christian church

The state or quality of being catholic; universality.

To make or to become catholic or Roman Catholic.

Catholicon

Ceanothus

God of freshness (wordplay)

Certain wraps

Censorship

Cephalexin

Cephalopod

A semisynthetic analogue of cephalosporin having a broad spectrum of antibiotic activity that is administered parenterally and used especially to treat systemic infections caused by susceptible microorganisms.

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.

Birds

Chagrin

Chainsaw

Chainwheel

CHAIRMAN to act as chairman of