2-Letter Words Starting with C

Cachexy

""CACIQUE a tropical oriole, also CAZIQUE""

Cacomixl

""Pertaining to the top of the palate; cerebral; applied to certain consonants; as, cacuminal (or cerebral) letters. as, cacuminal (or cerebral) letters.""

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a corpse, or the changes produced by death; cadaverous; as, cadaveric rigidity. as, cadaveric rigidity.""

CADDISH resembling a {cad=n}

Intonations.

Cadence

CADENT having rhythm

Student's term in military school

Academy student's stint

Doctor I despatch for military training

""Any of various legless, burrowing, wormlike amphibians of the order Gymnophiona, of tropical regions.""

Relating to Brutus' victim (Var.)

Pertaining to Gaius Julius

Re some Roman emperors

Care if tea spilled here (wordplay)

The only waiting here is at the counter!

Eatery where there's no waiting!

Caffeine

Holds to an opinion about duration of life for birds in aviary

Quartz variety

Caladium

Calamari

Calamine

Powders used in skin lotions

Calamint

Calamite

A plant that thrives in soil rich in lime.

Calcify

Calcify

A plant that does not grow well in lime-rich soil.

Whitewash

Calcine

""Pl -daria [-ˈdɛərɪə] (Historical Terms) (in ancient Rome) a room for taking hot baths [from Latin, from calidus warm, from calēre to be warm]""

""Of, relating to, or used in a calendar.""

Calfskin

Adjust (gauge for accuracy)

Determine the capacity of

Mark a scale to use in taking readings

Califate

Measured minutely.

Ottoman office

Islamic state

Curly veg, if sound, consumed as religious rule

Calisaya

Flowers with colorful organs (wordplay)

Circus music-makers

Musical instruments.

Callipee

Ring is confining short person in leg-irons

""A hard or thickened spot or protuberance; a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of continued pressure or friction.""

Callus

Having relaxing or pacifying properties; sedative.

Like some dietary values

Like fattening foods

Relating to heat

Calorize

Calorize

Masculine minced pork pies

Masculine sort of defamations

Flowers that lie all over the place (wordplay)

CALVARIA calvarium

Calvary

The dome of the skull

A queen protected by duchess and coterie

Secret advisers

Intriguing group around the old lady artist, grabbing improperly

Camber

Cambogia

Alabama's state flowers

Delicate blossoms

Waxy roselike flowers, named after a missionary.

Camisade

Camisado

Lisa comes around in night attire

Women's garments.

The bodices that finish on the feet

Camomile

Presses the flesh

Takes the stump

Political moments of semi-truth

Belly sounds from there (wordplay)

A belly building (wordplay)

Pitch your bell tent next to a river

Towers of indigo in foreign fields

Tall detached bell-towers

Bell towers

Latin-American laborer is changing companies

Gathering places for certain scouts

Places for storytelling

S'mores are often cooked over them

Camphine

Camphire

CAMPI campo

RVers' rest stops

Places to stay

Locations for tents

Campus

Canaille

Canalise

Canalise

Channeled

Canalize

Canal

CANCEL to {annul=v}

Cancroid

Hat in the ring

The seeking of election

One who says "Iran" (wordplay)

Potential MP maybe frank over high tea

Churchill's nominee

Candid

Fired up for romance (wordplay)

Like meal with lover that's wicked!

Dance till jiggered by romantic glow

Small-ball bowling target

Target for some keglers

*Boston bowler's target

Canfield

""Pertaining to, or measured, by the rising of the Dog Star.""

Tea holders.

Kitchen containers

Things that hold spray paint or tennis balls

Canker

Cannabin

Sardine-packing plants, for example

Food processing plants.

Sardine-packing plants

They'll have you for dinner

Certain primitive savages.

Jungle film extras

Cannikin

Shrewd quality

Prudence that makes you buy food that won't perish (wordplay)

""CANNIE prudent, also CANNY""

Cannon

Do they prefere flat water (wordplay)

Ian Wynne and Tim Brabants, for instance

So can ties go paddling

Required by secular law

Accepted as being authoritative

Like great works of art

Declared to be a saint

Bestowed sainthood, in Salisbury

Catholic soon is journalist and dubbed saintly

Canonise

Sanctions for experts in church law

Elevated to sainthood

Given sainthood

Treats as holy

Gives religious approval to

Canonry

Canopy

In a singing style (mus.)

In a smooth singing style

In a singing manner

Providing fast food around the North

Is 'e unable to phone at speed (wordplay)

Is 'e unable to phone in a hurry (wordplay)

""A beetle (Lytta, ∨ Cantharis, vesicatoria), having an elongated cylindrical body of a brilliant green color, and a nauseous odor; the blister fly or blister beetle, of the apothecary; also called Spanish fly. Many other species of Lytta, used for the same purpose, take the same name. See Blister beetle, under Blister. The plural form in usually applied to the dried insects used in medicine. Lytta, ∨ Cantharis, vesicatoria), having an elongated cylindrical body of a brilliant green color, and a nauseous odor; the blister fly or blister beetle, of the apothecary; also called Spanish fly. Many other species of Lytta, used for the same purpose, take the same name. See Blister beetle, under Blister. The plural form in usually applied to the dried insects used in medicine.""

Hymns of praise

Songs used in church

Hymns whose strange accent is Latin

Ballad ain't clean when broadcast

Simple melodic passage

Musical part carrying melody

Canton

CANTOR a religious singer

Cantraip

Canvas

Of large volume

Ample limit on account debts

Holding a lot

Device used to store an electric charge

Energy-storage device

Charge-storing device

Perhaps dressages for the horses

Read about a capital way to dress well

Rich cloth laid over a warhorse

Capeskin

Vessel from small island carrying post

Vessel revolutionising all piracy

Post collected by small island vessel

Round off, I agree, in excellent style

Very well, put the top on it, friend

Very well

Member of church order or chapter

Member of a religious chapter.

Member of a chapter, as of the Masonic order.

A flower cluster as in a daisy

Caponier

Caponize

Caponize

Richard Strauss's last opera

Lively piece of music

Kind of free composition

Caprifig

Capriole

Capers, in dancing.

Playful leaps

""A colorless crystalline substance extracted from the Capsicum annuum, and giving off vapors of intense acridity. Capsicum annuum, and giving off vapors of intense acridity.""

Capsicin

Capsicum

Fitting hats (wordplay)

Fitting hats?

Turning over headwear before measuring

Capsule

Condense

Spinning responsibility!

As perfected by Mike Brearley

There is more to it than just spinning

Commanded, like Columbus

A pedantic sort was in charge

Go to Paris for a change to see them competing at the ice rink (wordplay)

With subtitles, say

Having a descriptive title.

Underwritten (wordplay)

Tell a riveting story, perhaps

Entrance the prisoner is put out at

Entrance prisoner's held at

State of being held prisoner

Hole, inside which pretty terrified inmate starts detention

Detention

""A drug used in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, such as hypertension and congestive heart failure, that functions by inhibiting the enzymes that activate angiotensin.""

Portraying very well

Captain, you get around to what's catching

Some monkeys and monks

China cups for friars or monkeys

A cup intricately carved: features monks

Piton ring for fastening ropes

Mountaineer's ring

Tool on either side of a rock climber's quickdraw

Carabine

Carangid

The technical name for urea.

English word

An anion in which carbon carries a negative charge and an unshared pair of electrons.

Carbinol

Carbolic

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

CARBURISE

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.

A small tumor (benign or malignant) arising from the mucosa of the gastrointestinal tract; it is usually associated with excessive secretion of serotonin.

A major type of cancer

They have pockets for cigars and change

Halves of twinsets

Sweaters with buttons

See people (wordplay)

High priests of baseball (wordplay)

Marty Marion's ball club.

Cardioid

Tossing from side to side

This could become very upsetting, e'en in such a worrying way

Going full tilt

Calling over the gin, out of control

Rushing wildly

Concern for personal advancement

Advancement at any cost

One on the way up

Ladder climber

Worry at first about one wanting to get on

Live-in nurse, perhaps

Many an in-home helper

Treating with fondness.

Worries start 5 down with love

Treating with kindness

CARESS to touch lovingly

Tunes represented in a scroll

Comedy films' sound made by campanologists

Not well enough to switch cars going around noisy lot in tower

""Shaped like the keel or prow of a ship; having a carina or keel; as, a carinate calyx or leaf; a carinate sternum (of a bird).as, a carinate calyx or leaf; a carinate sternum (of a bird).""

Caritas

""The state of being carnal; fleshly lust, or the indulgence of lust; grossness of mind.""

America perhaps, after auto plant

What a blooming mechanical people!

Country estate perhaps first in bloom

Did Inca learn of this gem (wordplay)

Red cross member (wordplay)

Variety of quartz

Carnify

Carnify

A betaine commonly occurring in the liver and in skeletal muscle that functions in fatty acid transport across mitochondrial membranes.

Circuses

Carrion Virginia mixed for flesh-eaters

Wolves etc mostly fair when tackling men

Order soldiers to stop endless festivity

T. Rex, for one

Tip of rhubarb? No, I crave tripe!

Lion or tiger, for example

An ore of uranium

Soho seasonal singing

Singing Christmas hymns

Singing at 7 across

Reveler's activity

Many awakening us with their 28 across

Heading for a hangover

Thinly-sliced raw beef

Dish of thinly sliced raw meat

Italian hors d'oeuvre

Covering darling in fond embrace

Concerned about sweetheart dressing down

End of the quip

CARPING the act of one who {carps=v}

Gigs and cabriolets

Victoria and clarence.

Coaches affected airs and graces endlessly

Carriole

Carrom

Carroty

Carrotin

CARTEL a business organization

CARTEL a business organization

Flexible connective tissue

Connective tissue of the human body

Kind of bone

Carton

Credit rag (anagram)

Sort of paper-round (wordplay)

Sort of paper round (wordplay)

Women carrying building materials

Greek women relied on for support

Pillars in the form of female figures

""A onecelled, dry, indehiscent fruit, with a thin membranous pericarp, adhering closely to the seed, so that fruit and seed are incorporated in one body, forming a single grain, as of wheat, barley, etc.""

Caryotin

Descending in steps

Flowing like a waterfall over rocks

Emulating a waterfall

Caseate

A degeneration of animal tissue into a cheesy or curdy mass.

Casefy

CASEIN a milk protein

Fired, as a salesclerk (wordplay)

Scanned the goods, say

Dismissed from one's job

Casimere

Casimire