2-Letter Words Starting with C

Something worn on a hood

Rust, for example

Chemical process of metal erosion

Lively French social dance

Deb's ball

C eighteen dance

Like many screenplays

Like Rodgers/Hart songs

Like Lennon/McCartney songs

Burning (of a body)

Disposal of last atom in life (wordplay)

A burning romance somehow holds it back

A rounded tooth on the edge of a leaf.

Swimsuit competition for one

Swimsuit competition for one

Where to play Touchstone (wordplay)

Protector/guardian (of something)

He takes care to get a discount, perhaps

Keeper of keys

Any of a class of plant hormones that promote cell division and growth and delay the senescence of leaves.

""A substance, such as an antibody, capable of dissolving or destroying cells.""

A substance having a specific toxic effect on certain cells.

+Tangerinelike Philippine fruit

""A peptide hormone, produced by the thyroid gland in humans, that lowers plasma calcium and phosphate levels without augmenting calcium accretion. Also called thyrocalcitonin .""

""A calcium-binding protein found in all nucleated cells that affects the activity of many calcium-sensitive enzymes, including those involved in muscular contraction.""

Payment per head

Memorable mention about a prince introducing poll-tax

Beginners' alphabet in wording under diagram could be taxing

Cause of cancer

Wanting a cigar, one can perhaps be at risk from this

Vehicle 101 has complete lack of data that produces growth

Actors taking part? It leads to voices being raised

Linkage

A remedy for all diseases; a panacea.

CAVITATE to form cavities

Enormous number

""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.""

President's musical 21 mostly tinned

Committee honcho, sometimes

President has haircut up in prison

Certain committee leaders

Committee heads.

Advocate eats good northern mushroom

Small edible mushroom often found in a fairy-ring

Dwarf chestnut tree found in eastern USA

A number supporting feature as tree

Dwarf chestnut tree of eastern USA with edible nuts

A surgeon.

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

Line item (wordplay)

It's left hanging on the line

It may hold up your shorts

""The adaptation or adjustment of parts to each other, as of a broken bone or dislocated joint.""

Committee leadership sharer

CHAIRMEN chairman

CHAMPION to defend or support

FUNCTION to perform or act

Deep thought or meditation

Reflective thought.

Set cool client dancing

Gather one is charged for donations

Picked up during mass at bank

Character or tone (of something)

Speech by officer about arrangement of shades

Process of burning

Act of burning

It's often spontaneous

An officer's percentage (wordplay)

A cut above other ranks (wordplay)

A cut above the other ranks (wordplay)

""The act of making compact, or the state of being compact.""

French parallel (wordplay)

Assessment of differences

Act of examining resemblances

Way finder with an atom of sympathy

Feeling the needle a tiny bit

Common love and desire invoke pity

Final stage of property purchase

Describes closure for Finnish state

Finish last of all in contest, not exactly what is looked for

Skin's tone and texture

Albinos have a light one

Appearance of mental condition I will take on

Subjection to force.

Strong irrational impulse

It's usually irresistible

Idea (maybe leading to baby)

Fusion of gametes

What a type of pill can prevent? The idea!

Hat checking, for one.

Opposite of a parade (wordplay)

Subject of a loser's postelection speech

Logical (wordplay)

Reasoned deduction

End; decision

Drink derived from TONIC (wordplay)

Mixture - elaborate lie

Mixture

""The process of concreting; the process of uniting or of becoming united, as particles of matter into a mass; solidification.""

Steve Young injury in '97

2015 Will Smith film

Possible result of cracking nut

Heat transfer, for example

Fellow replacing note in link? That's sweet

Bonbon

Result of a grilling, maybe

Opposite of a line of work (wordplay)

Interrogator's goal

""A blowing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or of many fires in a foundry.""

Leave? It's no option in the rush hour

Cold medicine target

Indication of a stuffy head

Thing in common

Relation between things

Telephone need

Fit of anger

Tantrum

Satisfied, I raise no argument

Satisfied, I return no argument

Judgment time to oust five in assembly

Human pretzel's act

Girl on wrong charge of 'twisting'

Gym twist

One who doesn't do what's expected

Person who doesn't jump on the bandwagon

Earnest repentance.

Regret that article for publication has two letters cut out

Remorse

The act or process of conveying or transmitting.

Gathering it's the custom

Occasion for the smoke-filled room.

What all candidates are pointing toward.

Inmate's side of the story?

One side of the debate (wordplay)

Inmate's side of the story (wordplay)

Firm belief in guilty verdict

Prisoner, one on view

Firm belief may lead to imprisonment

""An unnatural, violent, and unvoluntary contraction of the muscular parts of an animal body.""

Reproductive intercourse, how fun!

Coming event in London

Ceremony, for my people embracing love

Ceremony of installing a monarch

ROTATION an instance of rotating

Proofer's change

Embarrassing newspaper note

Proof entry

Focus of muckraker journalists

Dishonesty, altering prior count

Rotten nature

City legislator

City law makers

COUNTER to {oppose=v}

A foolish or eccentric person.

English word

Mass with Latin and tuna oil substituted

Delay; procrastination.

""The act or process of disintegrating a substance, or rendering it friable by the action of heat, esp. by the expulsion of some volatile matter, as when carbonic and acid is expelled from carbonate of calcium in the burning of limestone in order to make lime.""

Mathematical process; assessment

9 politician to wear raincoat when going out

Having beautifully proportioned buttocks.

""Greek Mythology A sea nymph who delayed Odysseus on her island, Ogygia, for seven years.""

Variant of cancellation .

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

Enchantment

Process that makes water bubbly

Pasta-and-potato-loving country (wordplay)

Soda-making process that explains four transformations in this puzzle (wordplay)

CARBURET to combine chemically with carbon

""Any of a group of closely related colloids derived from Irish moss and several other red algae, widely used as a thickening, stabilizing, emulsifying, or suspending agent in industrial, pharmaceutical, and food products.""

Severe scolding

Star's allowance for party (wordplay)

Reception, for example

Famous person with share in a 10

The act or process of cementing.

Squashing nectarine, an old person

Person of a great age

Person over a hundred

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Genetics) Genetics a unit of chromosome length, used in genetic mapping, equal to the length of chromosome over which crossing over occurs with 1 per cent frequency [named after Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866-1945), US biologist]""

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 of several four-footed herbivorous horned dinosaurs with enormous beaked skulls, of the late Cretaceous in North America and Mongolia.""

""Action of the brain, whether conscious or unconscious.""

President reformed prisoner after tea

Committee head, feminist style

*Board meeting VIP

Court official - former Prime Minister!

British Prime Minister, 1937.

PM's domestic officer

Same as chiropter.chiropter.

A major constituient of cartilage

""The act of applying the chrism, or consecrated oil.""

""A bitter, yellow substance forming the essential constituent of Goa powder, and yielding chrysophanic acid proper; hence formerly called also chrysphanic acid. chrysphanic acid.""

One of the microscopic particles of emulsified fat found in the blood and lymph and formed during the digestion of fats.

Caloric unit (anagram)

Blood flow round body

Number representing total magazines sold

""A semisynthetic antibiotic of the penicillin group that is used primarily to treat infections caused by staphylococci, streptococci, or pneumococci.""

Hardening (of blood)

Nautical goo could be forming a clot

Confinement to a narrow space.

""DIRECTION The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o. as, the direction o.""

""An educating together, as of persons of different sexes or races.""

""EVOLUTION The act of unfolding or unrolling; hence, in the process of growth; development; as, the evolution of a flower from a bud, or an animal from the egg. as, the evolution of a flower from a bud, or an animal from the egg.""

A binding together.

""The act of collimating; the adjustment of the line of the sights, as the axial line of the telescope of an instrument, into its proper position relative to the other parts of the instrument.""

The placing of things together

Items joined together

Student's lock opener

Marriage state? Tease one at first

A threat or threatening; a denunciation of punishment or vengeance.

The act of reducing to a fine powder or to small particles; pulverization; the state of being comminuted.

A passing from one state to another; change; alteration; mutation.

Rival prize crossword (wordplay)

The life of trade.

Final part of the chance card

At the Close of a Century, for Stevie Wonder, for example

Anthology

Some notes for an essay

Character study, perhaps

Make-up - essay

Forced reduction in volume (of gas)

Process of being forcibly condensed

Act of forcing together

I'm feeling sorry for wordplay in cryptic not comic setting

The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning.

The act of condoning or pardoning.

CONFLICT to be in opposition

The act or process of confuting; refutation.

""The act or process of passing, or causing to pass, from a fluid to a solid state, as by the abstraction of heat; the act or process of freezing.""

All inflected forms of verb

But, for one

'And' is one

State of being joined together

TRICKSTER'S FORTE

Implied idea

Associated idea

Associated meaning

""A following, or sequel; actual or logical dependence.""

Comfort

Eating disorder

Wasting disease

Tuberculosis

Isn't, for instance, to do with drawing

Process of size reduction

Don't, e.g

Device torn apart in explanatory text

Strange machine

Unnamed object #1

Extended built-up area

Agglomeration of towns

Sprawl of linked towns

Criminal career (wordplay)

Formal gathering

Formal assembly

""The act of rolling anything upon itself, or one thing upon another; a winding motion.""

Work done together

Group action

Common effort

""An extensive chain of mountains or mountain ranges, especially the principal mountain system of a continent.""

Mythology

Officer almost into rebuilding firm

Large company gathering in a root crop

City body; paunch

Interdependence or the degree of it

Mutual relationship of interdependence

Interdependence (of statistical variables)

The act corrugating; contraction into wrinkles or alternate ridges and grooves.

Flash of wit

Flashing or sparkling

Certain banks conceal atrocious blundering in show of brilliance

A nice sitcom about worker in beauty salon

Deli menu (wordplay)

Add a second signature

Confirm in writing

""VARIATION The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing; modification; alternation; mutation; diversity; deviation; as, a variation of color in different lights; a variation in size; variation of language. as, a variation of color in different lights; a variation in size; variation of language.""

""The act of crenelating, or the state of being crenelated; an indentation or an embrasure.""

A minute crenation.

It's God's own work to keep mine from crackling

Crackling.

The act of accusing; accusation; charge; complaint.

""Like, or pertaining to, the crocodile; characteristic of the crocodile.""

What Jesus suffered

Death on the cross

Biblical execution at Golgotha

Climactic point

Climax

Not taking effect

""The act or process of refining gold or silver, etc., in a cupel.""

A decoration using cusps.

Any of several compounds that contain both the CN and OH radicals.

Computer control of machines

""CYCLIZE to form one or more rings in a chemical compound, also CYCLISE""

English word

Clubs can have people in stitches almost laughing out loud

""False accusation of crime or offense, or a malicious and false representation of the words or actions of another, with a view to injure his good name.""

""Construction of, or furnishing with, a canal or canals.""

Abandonment

Annulment

It would take a miracle to happen

A chanting; recitation or reading with musical modulations.

CAPACITATE To render capable; to enable; to qualify.

Natural environment

Surrender

""The act or process of subjecting anything to the action of chlorine; especially, a process for the extraction of gold by exposure of the auriferous material to chlorine gas.""

""An aliphatic organic chemical compound that is both an alkyl chloride and an alcohol, frequently containing a single chlorine atom and a single hydroxyl group on adjacent carbon atoms.""

""An oily colorless liquid, CCl 3 NO 2 , that causes skin, lung, and mucous membrane irritation and is used in tear gas and in dyestuffs, disinfectants, insecticides, and soil fumigants. Also called nitrochloroform .""

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

""The act of cutting off the prepuce or foreskin of males, or the internal labia of females.""

The act of pouring or spreading round; the state of being spread round.

""-fies , -fying , -fied (tr) to cause to conform to or adopt the customs, habits, or dress of city people""

Advanced human society (S, not Z)

""The act of civilizing, or the state of being civilized; national culture; refinement.""

A halting or limping.

A heaping together.

Mutual adaption.

""CARCINOGEN Any substance that produces cancer; as, to test for carcinogens in the drinking water.as, to test for carcinogens in the drinking water.""

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

CHAIRWOMEN

The act or process of codifying or reducing laws to a code.

""GENERATION The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.""

Living together

Living together in love abode I read about

Getting together before a possible match (wordplay)

Locations reviewed by one on settlement

""Tha act of colonizing, or the state of being colonized; the formation of a colony or colonies.""

""COLORIZE to give color to black and white film, also COLORISE""

The employment or arrangement of columns in a structure.

I'd comment on a poor endorsement

Formal praise

Official praise

A member of a committee.

""COMMITTEE One or more persons elected or appointed, to whom any matter or bussiness is referred, either by a legislative body, or by a court, or by any collective body of men acting together.""

Style of address or salutation; an appellation.

Award for, eg, injury

Redress main cost with open payout

Minnesota cop rigged damages

A. Consisting of interconnected or interwoven parts; composite.