2-Letter Words Starting with C

Fratricidal crime writer (wordplay)

First child (wordplay)

Initial offer (wordplay)

Half a toast (wordplay)

What to pull up to the bar (wordplay)

Pass the bar (wordplay)

Grafting twig (var.)

Descendant or heir (var.)

Bud of a plant

Say for the first time (wordplay)

Penny, say (wordplay)

Be the first to say (wordplay)

House in the woods, maybe

Where to find the skipper (wordplay)

Fever cause (wordplay)

Gormless mountain dog!

- terrier (Toto, for example)

Reading perhaps skirted by killer dog

Tea in group of hotels (wordplay)

IHOP for one

Costco, for one

of vantage good position for viewing

of vantage good position for action

of vantage favorable position

General Powell for one

General Powell, for one

Mochrie of "Whose Line Is It Anyway?"

Alkaloid from the poison hemlock.

Alkaloid from the poison hemlock

Poisonous alkaloid

Collusion: Law

31 to enter, if mispronounced (wordplay)

Aromatic seeds used in cooking

Curry powder ingredient

Replace a dancer, perhaps

Make an incisive move (wordplay)

Tap on the shoulder maybe

Relative of an alligator

Toothy reptile of South America

South American crocodilian

A gripping projection on a horseshoe

Dray or motor truck

Army truck.

Tramp filmed rejecting hospital fish

Speaker of the quote

George, the first "SNL" guest host

Former coin of Sicily.

Protein in milk and cheese

Protein in milk

Water-base paint

Na+, for one

Positively charged particle

Anion's attractant

Kit can (anagram)

Willow flower cluster

Spike of the willow

Painter of American Indians

American painter George

Noted painter of Native Americans

Put the phone down

Makeup of a crab's shell

Main component of a crab shell

Ancient Greek tunic

Garment of ancient Greece.

Bill's concerned with old tunic

Did he have meat in with sand (wordplay)

Karate blow, popular for one who scored

Sand man (wordplay)

A citric vitamin

Many an article by Ronnie on fruit

Large lemonlike fruit

It's like a lemon

""A narcotic, also COCAINE""

Firm to feature Indian port

Chinese fowl

Drug for pain

Sedative drug.

""An unripe apple, also CODLING, QUODLIN""

Last place (wordplay)

Bed in a haunted manor, perhaps

That's for the late

To join together

""A hormone, also CORTISOL""

Endorse for a loan, perhaps

Help to secure a loan, maybe

Back another's promissory note

Kissing sort (wordplay)

Child of a parent's sibling, say

Relative in Quantico (US Intelligence)

Mentally defective person

Hardly a brainiac

See about the can, like an idiot

Spice used in curry

Aromatic seeds

Aromatic spice

Pigment used by Nancy first

Plant pigment used as a dye

Dye used on photographic plates

""A variety of squash, also CYMBLING, CYMLING, SIMLIN""

Coffee ingredient (alt. spelling)

Stimulant found in coffee and tea.

Alkaloid in coffee

Tunnel worker's chamber

Cofferdam's cousin.

Structure for underwater construction

Jesuitic flower (wordplay)

Wild flower (red, white or bladder)

Writer Allingham's sleuth.

""A small can or cup, also CANNIKIN, CANIKIN""

""A small can or cup, also CANNIKIN, CANAKIN""

Northern sea fish

Smelt

Team leader, perhaps

Lead (a team)

Kangaroo's title (wordplay)

'Pontiac hit by 1 across', say

Photo ID (wordplay)

Photo copy (wordplay)

""A carbon compound, also CARABINE""

Source of vitamin A (var.)

Source of vitamin A

Tinned bread as source of vitamin A

Cor! Rain! (anagram)

Dead flesh (for for example crow)

Dead and decaying flesh

Care to get a police warning (wordplay)

Carefulness - yellow card (wordplay)

Word on tape (wordplay)

A fibrous protein

Nice art (anagram)

Skip Iran, etc., for sure

Positive and sure

A yielding, as of rights, to another

Yielding of territory.

Surrendering by treaty

Embarrassment - rich nag (anagram)

Feeling caused by failure

Feeling of annoyance and embarrassment

In check (anagram)

Cowardly bird (wordplay)

Bird, coward (colloq.)

Ticked off child when I'd got home

Fine, near-transparent fabric

Sheer silk fabric

Light and frothy

Arrangement of coil of hair

Back-of-the-head hairstyle

Coil of hair

""A part of the small intestine of swine, also CHITLING""

Element used in purifying water

Bleaching agent.

Outermost embryonic membrane

Embryonic membrane.

A compound used in insecticides

Streaked Italian marble.

Italian marble.

Toilet tank ital (nonverbal)

Underground water tank

Hundred and one on back of water tank

A segment of DNA

""A pear-shaped guitar, also CITHER, CITHREN, CITOLA, CITOLE, CITTERN""

""A pear-shaped guitar, also CITHER, CITHERN, CITOLA, CITOLE, CITTERN""

Zinc tie (anagram)

Man about town (wordplay)

Arrest maker, maybe

Renaissance musical instrument

Old instrument gets bird changing key

Trumpet (now more likely a newspaper)

Clear and ringing

A loud, clear call.

Where a scuttle may dig in

Place for a potential energy source

Fuel storage vessel

""Sexual intercourse, also COITUS""

""An antibacterial substance, also COLICINE""

""The last prayer of the day, also COMPLINE""

Fitting (the crime)

Trick and get new fitting

Well-deserved

Stick together (wordplay)

Unite associate with a Tory

Bind together

Hand over (to the Post Office?)

Hand over (to)

Hand over with a thumbs down (wordplay)

Hold on - it can explode!

If it's wrong, I cannot check

Keep within limits or have within

A joint reign

Hide from the herd (wordplay)

Hide from the herd

Leather source

""A chemical found within vertebrate muscle, also CREATINE, KREATINE""

I'm held in scorn turning purplish!

Woman-inclusive shade of red (wordplay)

Colour of deep blushing (wordplay)

Make crunchy

""A red dye, also CROCEINE""

Carp of Europe

A vile fellow

Flavor extract like vanilla.

Is there a short A in hanging (wordplay)

A short A in what's drawn (wordplay)

Blind actors behind this (wordplay)

Soften (an impact)

Soften (the effect of an impact)

Soft pad, of feathers say

A derivative of sugar

Third-century martyred saint

Nicosia native

Wanton

""An amino acid, also CYSTEINE, CYSTINE""

Leather (off young cow)

Type of leather

Fine, soft kind of leather

Seek office, perhaps

Promotional operation, perhaps political

(E.g. military, political) project

Resin obtained from dried leaves and flowers of hemp

""A small can or cup, also CANAKIN, CANIKIN""

Glove leather from goats

South African leather

Soft leather

A liquid used as a flavoring

Franciscan friar - cha in cup (anagram)

Monk - monkey - china cup (anagram)

Friar; cloak and hood

Top horse I backed, Jack perhaps on it

It is worn in the bay (wordplay)

Sweater named for a general

Extra groups (wordplay)

Belly noises (wordplay)

Set of bells playing tunes

Food coloring agent

The nuclear material of a cell

A chemical used in dyeing

Having hollow horns

""A bodily chemical, also KEPHALIN""

""A method of child delivery, also CESAREAN""

Part of a surveying team

Survey party member

Surveyor.

Chainman

Mao, for one

Mesmerizing dog (wordplay)

He presides at meetings

Presidents honour service personnel

They sit at the top with church flyers

Swiss pilots get leadership roles

Support (a cause)

Back the winner (wordplay)

Cup holder? ("Macbeth")

Member of the clergy, in 24 ac say

For a clergyman providing tea is obvious

Tea taken with simple clergyman

""A tropical fish, also CHARACID""

The issue of marriage (wordplay)

Members of Longfellow's hour

The line of those in the playground

A compound derived from chitin

A Christian monogram

Give a name to (baby)

Break a bottle on, maybe

Name (a baby)

{rennin=n}

Sticks in a drink, perhaps

Aromatic bark used as a spice

Seasoning symbolizing stability

Five-line stanza

That's the ticket!

A quote (from reference)

Award of 1948 (wordplay)

An antibiotic

Citizen (non-military)

Layman found in a civil way

One without rank

Collaboration, for example

Jointly create

Codrive

Undue influence on Cicero? Wrong!

Interrogator's tactic

Firm getting poor reaction at lost force

Stick-to-it-iveness (wordplay)

That will stick the coin around the shoe

With the firm he has got one on sticking

An antibiotic

Equally average entertainer (wordplay)

Stand-up kind of guy (wordplay)

One who gives a hoot (wordplay)

Beef, grouse or carp (wordplay)

Beef (or grouse?)

Express a grievance

Striving

Relating to a conidium

""A card game, also COONCAN""

Crockett's cap

One of the hats in the ring

Davy Crockett's cap material

Introduction of someone new in shop, one into fashion

""A fine leather, also CORDOVAN""

Formal ball

""A chemical compound, also CUMARIN""

A resident of a county

One over the eight (wordplay)

Crew's leader

Firm kiss by lover for keeper of course

Journal on which connecting rod rides (5,3)

Could this be made from 16 (wordplay)

May King start things going (wordplay)

First act (wordplay)

""A variety of plant originating under cultivation, also CULTIVAR""

Did the vine curl for firing (wordplay)

Run, Clive, from the old canon, by the sound of it

Sounds as if the old canon has a nil curve in

""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

Small-ball bowling target

Target for some keglers

*Boston bowler's target

Perhaps dressages for the horses

Read about a capital way to dress well

Rich cloth laid over a warhorse

""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.""

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

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

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

Any of various proteolytic enzymes found in animal tissue that catalyze the hydrolysis of proteins into polypeptides.

Reason why

Why one thing leads to another (wordplay)

Effect producer

A pure form of pyroxylin in which specimens for microscopic examination are embedded.

Man of 18 (wordplay)

Roman army commander

Roman army officer

Stopping canoeists capsizing

Process of ending

The ending or being brought to an end

""A tumour of the eyelid, pl CHALAZIONS or CHALAZIA""

University town in east central Illinois

Victor contrived gain in old country

Hospital used during manoeuvres in open country

The master of a castle; a castellan.

A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; called also a bearing rein. bearing rein.

The process of removing a heavy metal from a solution by means of a chelate;

Hen Nicola chopped up for reptile

Emir or raja

Leading man's changing it, if he can

One newt in file is the leader

A chap on foot (wordplay)

Painful swelling brought on by cold

Painful swelling in winter

Chestnut tree Var.

Chestnut tree variable

Order discovered in laboratory animal in feature which contains DNA

Of the underworld

CILIATE a class of protozoans

Of daily biological processes

""A platinum-containing chemotherapeutic drug, Cl 2 H 6 N 2 Pt, used in the treatment of metastatic ovarian or testicular cancers and advanced bladder cancer.""

Doctor treating patients

Doctor working directly with patients

Workshop giver

Box jellyfish or sea anemone, for example

Alliance to adopt fossil fuel, perhaps

The alliance of carbonisation, perhaps

Group of allies

See vitamin B .

Continental title

Relationship by blood; descent from the same original; kindred.

Knowledge - incognito (anagram)

Knowledge - no to icing (anagram)

Faculty of knowing while incognito

Making a meal of Lolita con (wordplay)

Fast food (wordplay)

Putting in sequence

Student pass many picked up

Fisk attendee, for example

Student makes Colorado member confront Scotsman

Violent meeting of objects

Course drivers should avoid

Course to avoid

""A solution of pyroxylin (soluble gun cotton) in ether containing a varying proportion of alcohol. It is strongly adhesive, and is used by surgeons as a containing for wounds; but its chief application is as a vehicle for the sensitive film in photography.""

Secret or illegal conspiracy to deceive

Secret cooperation

Secret deception

Public disorder

Disorderly outburst

Conservative proposal about honour causing uproar

Act of participating in the Eucharist

Sharing of spiritual feelings

Mass consumption that's common around university

Mate (maybe of honour!)

Person who lives or travels with you

One of the gang

Terseness

Provision for one's health

Part of an agreement

State one's requirement

Averse to an alliance (wordplay)

Study nuclear process in chaos

What a blow to the head might cause

Relationship: Brit. sp

A relationship: Eng. spelling.

Relationship Brit. sp.

Hold back - non-racist (anagram)

Restrict scope of (an activity)

Prison conveyance (wordplay)

Liquid coating on a virus maybe

It can go on spreading disease

Common epidemic factor

Blemish beneath skin of onions cut out

This brews, by the sound of it.

Discoloration of skin of onions cut in pieces

Banal piece by essayist? It's a gem

Dull red stone; lone cairn (anagram)

July birthstone

""The erosion of the bed of a stream by running water, principally by attrition of the detritus carried along by the stream, but also by the solvent action of the water.""