2-Letter Words Starting with C

Anthology of writings

Mencken's book, a selection of passages, with notes.

Chrismation

Christening

Christiania

""CHROMATIC Relating to color, or to colors.""

The quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength.

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

Chrominance

Comparative adjective or agent noun

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

Chromophore

CHROMOPHORE Any chemical group or residue (as NO<?/; N<?/; or O<?/) which imparts some decided color to the compound of which it is an ingredient.

Chromoplast

""An atmosphere of rare matter, composed principally of incandescent hydrogen gas, surrounding the sun and enveloping the photosphere. Portions of the chromosphere are here and there thrown up into enormous tongues of flame.""

Chronicity

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

Chronometer

An exceptionally precise timepiece.

Chrysarobin

Chrysoberyl

Chrysomelid

Chrysophyte

Chrysoprase

Chubbiness

Chuckawalla

Chucklehead

Chugalug

Chumminess

Churchgoing

Abstract noun (-ity)

Regard for the church.

Parish officer - long-stemmed pipe

Long-stemmed clay pipe

Pipe officer

Rudeness of manners or temper; lack of kindness or courtesy.

Chylomicron

A pancreatic digestive enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of certain proteins in the small intestine into polypeptides and amino acids.

A pancreatic digestive enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of certain proteins in the small intestine into polypeptides and amino acids.

It may showcase art films

Citizenship

A tendency to associate with only a select group.

CLIQUISH {cliquey=adj}

CLODDISH like a clod

Smooth clue set: hollow-eyed and tight-lipped

... M-U-T-E

Reticent

Model for fashionable wear (inf.)

One with a big closet, perhaps

Spirit animal of a couturier (wordplay)

CLOTHESLINE A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.

Designers' wares (wordplay)

Where washing dries

Changes of gear may depend on them

Garment wrinkle remover

Where you find the shirts and trousers in Vogue for one (wordplay)

Where you find the shirts and trousers in Vogue for one

The manners of a clown; coarseness or rudeness of behavior.

AUTHORSHIP The quality or state of being an author; function or dignity of an author.

""CHAIRWOMAN a female officer who presides at the meetings of a committee, meeting, or organization; a female chairperson.""

CHAIRWOMEN

Illicit blood sport involving birds

Flimsy boats for crewmen

Coffeehouse

Living together

Living together in love abode I read about

Getting together before a possible match (wordplay)

COHESION the act of sticking together

Tendency to stick together

Sticking together I chose seven mates in the end to travel around

Cohomology

Cohostess

Collenchyma

Cologarithm

Pennsylvania, for one.

Joint account (wordplay)

Mutual fund (wordplay)

Understood

Comradeship

Conchoidal

Conchology

""One who studies, or is versed in, conchology.""

A specialized fungal hypha (a branch of the fungal mycelium) that produces conidia.

""One that consumes, especially one that acquires goods or services for direct use or ownership rather than for resale or use in production and manufacturing.""

Policeman gets a lead on forgers - metalworkers!

Coprophagy

""Feeding upon dung, as certain insects.""

""An abnormal, often obsessive interest in excrement, especially the use of feces for sexual excitement.""

Coprophilia

""Living or growing on excrement, as certain fungi.""

PUBLISHERS publisher

Copublish

Copyright

In a coquettish manner.

RESEARCHER One who researches.

Cornhusking

Cornstarch

Coronagraph

Coronograph

The science of the chemical composition of the universe.

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

""Kzmgrfk, Cosmographical Of or pertaining to cosmography.""

Cottonmouth

Restraint on a restraint

""To march back, or to march in reversed order.""

Countermyth

Knock back drink by bar

Retaliation from buffoon hiding under work surface

Boxer might take this drink, sitting next to bar

Countershot

Some casino patrons

English word

Having an acceptable credit rating.

Shaded with lines

Crosshatch

Peevish people

Cryptarithm

Cryptograph

A cracking job!

Study of final resting places (wordplay)

Study of writing and deciphering codes

Cryptorchid

A developmental defect marked by the failure of the testes to descend into the scrotum.

Ctenophoran

Curatorship

Customhouse

Variant of customhouse .

Cuttlefish

Cyanohydrin

Cycadophyte

Cyclohexane

Cyclothymia

English word

Cells ()

Czarevitch

Cachinnation

""CACOGRAPHIC Pertaining to, or characterized by, cacography; badly written or spelled.""

Cacophonous

Caddishness

Calligrapher

Calligraphy

Decorative writer

Does he practise strokes in particular waves (wordplay)

Producer of decorative writing a spiral glitch ruined

Like a loud brass band that's out of practice

Of the nature of camphor; containing camphor.

Candleholder

Candlelight

Candlelight

English word

Carbohydrase

Sugar, for one

Source of energy in food

Cardinalship

""Of or pertaining to, or produced by, a cardiograph.""

Cardiopathy

Map makers

They may need to get the political landscape mapped out afresh

Cartography

The doctrine that the geological changes in the earth's crust have been caused by the sudden action of violent physical causes; opposed to the doctrine of uniformism. uniformism.

One who holds the theory or catastrophism.

CATECHIZE See Catechise. Catechise.

""Any of a group of chemicals including epinephrine and norepinephrine that are produced in the medulla of the adrenal gland. They function as nerotransmitters in the sympathetic nervous system. Also, any structurally related chemical substance, whether natural or synthetic.""

CATHETERIZE To operate on with a catheter.

Catholicity

CATHOLICIZE To make or to become catholic or Roman Catholic.

""Domination of the head in animal life as expressed in the physical structure; localization of important organs or parts in or near the head, in animal development.""

Head

English word

""Any of a class of chemical substances, some of which have therapeutically useful antibacterial activity, whose structure contains a beta-lactam ring fused to a six-membered ring containing a sulfur and a nitrogen atom. The first of the series, cephalosporin C, was discovered by G. Brotzu in 1955 in the culture broth of a Cephalosporium species found off the coast of Sardinia. Other cephalosporins have been found to be produced by species of soil bacteria (actinomycetes). Many semisynthetic analogs have been tested for antibacterial effect, and several of them have found use as important clinically useful antibacterial agents, some of which may be taken orally for treatment of bacterial infections. The cephalosporins are the second class of beta-lactam antibiotic to be discovered, the first being the penicillins and more recent classes being the thienamycins and sulfazecins. The cephamycins are a variant of cephalosporins with a methoxyl group on the beta-lactam ring, rendering them more resistant to penicillinases. Among the cephalosporins which have been found clinically useful are cephalexin, cephaloridine, and cephalothin.cephalosporin C, was discovered by G. Brotzu in 1955 in the culture broth of a Cephalosporium species found off the coast of Sardinia. Other cephalosporins have been found to be produced by species of soil bacteria (actinomycetes). Many semisynthetic analogs have been tested for antibacterial effect, and several of them have found use as important clinically useful antiba

""The anterior portion of any one of the Arachnida and higher Crustacea, consisting of the united head and thorax.""

Chairmanship

Chalcogenide

Chalcopyrite

Challenging

Adjective meaning resembling

The three in a "threepeat"

Posh mini crashed in men's competition

Where to find a winner's belt

Chancellery

Chancellory

The copper's expertise is compromised by The Amendments

Changeful

Stated precisely; -- of the meaning of words or concepts.

Characterize

Lacking a distinctive nature

Lacking distinctive qualities

Dull, like a blank sheet of paper (wordplay)

Charlatanism

Charlatanry

Chastisement

Home cook's entree (wordplay)

Contemporary of Lamartine.

Thick beef steak fillet

These have 64 squares

Reduce applause to head, causing gloom

Norah (wordplay)

Gloomy quality

Equipment for #3

Snappy remark about second egg on starters of rump steak in fast food

Cheeseparing

(Chemistry) an adsorption process in which an adsorbate is held on the surface of an adsorbent by chemical bonds

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

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

""Classification of organisms based on differences at the biochemical level, especially in the amino acid sequences of common proteins. Also called chemosystematics .""

Chemotropism

Lester bats while...

Lester bats while ...

Sweet-sounding land of Cheshire

1998's word: Artist like Rembrandt

Chieftaincy

""The leader or head of a group, especially of a clan or tribe.""

Childbearing

Lack of progeny

Childlike

Room features

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

Chirography

Chiropractic

Professionals who might get your back up (wordplay)

""A thick-walled, asexual fungal spore that is derived from a hyphal cell and can function as a resting spore.""

Chlorenchyma

Chlorination

""A colorless, volatile flammable liquid, C 6 H 5 Cl, used to prepare phenol, DDT, and aniline and as a general solvent.""

Chloroform

Chlorohydrin

Chloropicrin

""CHLOROPLAST A plastid containing chlorophyll, developed only in cells exposed to the light. Chloroplasts are minute flattened granules, usually occurring in great numbers in the cytoplasm near the cell wall, and consist of a colorless ground substance saturated with chlorophyll pigments. Under light of varying intensity they exhibit phototactic movements. In animals chloroplasts occur only in certain low forms.""

What a fruit squeezer can do

X-ray examination of the bile ducts following administration of a radiopaque contrast medium.

Plural or third person singular