2-Letter Words Starting with C

Disasters cause a hit in cities

Change of a climate is bringing disasters

Disasters

The DI's aster is blooming awful

Dreadful alternative to a musical

Catastrophic changes to a musical

+Tangerinelike Philippine fruit

""Partaking of the nature ofcalcite or calcium carbonate; consisting of, or containg, calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime.""

Calcicole

""One of the forms of vitamin D, a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets. It is an unsaturated alcohol, C28H43OH found in foods such as milk and fish liver oils. It is used as a dietary supplement in milk.vitamin D, a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets. It is an unsaturated alcohol, C28H43OH found in foods such as milk and fish liver oils. It is used as a dietary supplement in milk.""

Calcifuge

Calcify

""CALCIMINE A white or colored wash for the ceiling or other plastering of a room, consisting of a mixture of clear glue, Paris white or zinc white, and water.""

Calcimine

CALCINE to reduce to a calx by heating

CALCINE to reduce to a calx by heating

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

Able to be assessed

Figured it out? The accountant did it!

Reckoned it's deliberate

Worked out

Calculate

A collar cut off for summer (wordplay)

The button counter (wordplay)

Arithmetician's gadget

Calculus

Slated

Calender

CALENDER to smooth by pressing between rollers

Calendula

Calenture

Fine-tuned

Blair acted, in trouble, having graduated

Adjusts a measuring instrument

Zodiacal adjustor (wordplay)

Affected with darkness or dimness; dark; obscure.

Calipash

Measuring thicknesses

Dominions of some Islamic leaders

Calliper

Boisterous parade

Callous

Bid one's spades over West, showing immaturity

Calmative

Calmness

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

Calorize

Malice aunt spread to denigrate

Slander a hundred old students at start of event

Villify.

Restaged opera primarily unmusical? That's defamatory

Calvados

Camarilla

Certain houses

Old name for the giraffe

Old mammal arrived with another short of energy

Obsolete word for a giraffe

Cardinal who is the papal treasurer

Disguise (from enemy)

Hide male in a foul cage after beating

Means of disguise

Belly buildings (wordplay)

Bell towers

Pitch your tent over a river's belly places

Campanula

Growing in level fields.

""Pl. canaliculi (-l ) A small canal or duct in the body, such as the minute channels in compact bone.""

Canalise

Canalize

CANCEL to {annul=v}

Canceller

Getting rid of corporal punishment when holding group of terrorists

""Having a spongy or porous stracture; made up of cancelli; cancellated; as, the cancellous texture of parts of many bones. as, the cancellous texture of parts of many bones.""

Light workout - land a brace!

Kind of 1 across (correctly 1 acrosses)

Menorahs, for example

""A marine fish (Thaleichthys Pacificus), allied to the smelt, found on the north Pacific coast; called also eulachon. It is so oily that, when dried, it may be used as a candle, by drawing a wick through it Thaleichthys Pacificus), allied to the smelt, found on the north Pacific coast; called also eulachon. It is so oily that, when dried, it may be used as a candle, by drawing a wick through it""

Candlenut

Game for skinny-legged keglers?

Kind of bowling

New England style bowling.

Inflammable material (wordplay)

Light fabric (wordplay)

It's often lit in near-darkness

It may be burned for light

Connecticut lake resort.

It's burned for light

Given spin, fair stuff (wordplay)

Light, fluffy confection of spun sugar

Fairground's pink confection

""A nonpsychoactive chemical constituent of cannabis, C 21 H 26 O 2 , from which THC forms.""

Literally, "large reeds"

Cylindrical stuffed pasta

Nine on call, cooking Italian food

Dive done with the arms around the knees

Way to make a big splash

Civil War missile.

""The dress prescribed by canon to be worn by a clergyman when oficiating. Sometimes, any distinctive professional dress.""

Kissing and cuddling

CANOROUS {melodic=adj}

Hasn't a way to run away?

Hasn't a way to run away (wordplay)

Fruit worker gangster forced into car

Cantaloup

Cantilena

Projecting beam fixed at one end only

Kind of arch or bridge

Beam fixed at one end

Intone

Canulate

Adjective meaning resembling

Gardener's skill (wordplay)

Faculty garden designer (wordplay)

Power (to do something)

Cash in London, say, is preferable, ultimately

What one should do to names making profit

Make the most of IIIIIII, by the sound of it

Politico-economic system

America's economic system

U.S. economic system, for example

The Ist one not a communist (wordplay)

Deep-dyed villain, a la Moscow.

Astor, for example

Teacher's fiat re spelling proper nouns

Profit by

English word

Surrender on terms

Yield a title and a cup when beaten

Not about to sum up but give up

Capriole

""Inclosed in a capsule, or as in a chest or box;""

Like a news brief

Capsulize

In a faultfinding way

Captopril

Caracole

Caracol

Carambola

""To to change into caramel, by the action of heat; as, The sugar caramelized quickly.as, The sugar caramelized quickly.""

Turn sugar brown

Cook sugar for apples

Carbachol

Carbazole

CARBON a nonmetallic element

CARBONYL a chemical compound

""Of or pertaining to the carboxyl group; having a carboxyl group (written -COOH, -CO2H or -CO.OH); as, carboxylic acids are weakly acidic.carboxyl group; having a carboxyl group (written -COOH, -CO2H or -CO.OH); as, carboxylic acids are weakly acidic.""

Set with carbuncles.

Run into vehicle with relatives' jewels

Rubies of old.

Name on a Visa

Place to keep your 'plastic'

Place to keep your "plastic"

CARDINAL a bright red bird

Study of poker (wordplay)

Study of the heart

Heart doctor's field

One who wants in on the deal

One holds hands during the game

World Series participant

Careful

By way of a rasher (wordplay)

In a lax way

Yell scares criminal in an offhand way

Song and dance of the French Revolution

""A hydrous chloride of potassium and magnesium, sometimes found associated with deposits of rock salt.""

Adapted to eating flesh.

Red varieties of quartz

""Belonging to, forming, or containing carpels.""

Bearing or consisting of carpels. Opposite of acarpelous.acarpelous.

Group that picks each other up

HOV LANE users

Riding in the far-left lane, perhaps

Fuel-saving strategy

Gas-saving plan

Vikki sings a round and a round (wordplay)

CARTELISE

Cartelise

CARTELIZE

Cartelize

Cartilage

Things happy people do

Basic gymnastics moves

Sideways-rotation maneuvers

Carvacrol

""A euphorbiaceous West Indian shrub (Croton Eleutheria); also, its aromatic bark. Croton Eleutheria); also, its aromatic bark.""

So careless, breaking the dishes

Church supper dishes

Picnic array

Adjustments made to last scouse dishes

Dishes of scouse prepared with salt mixed in

Castellan

Nonchalance

Victims of leisurewear (wordplay)

Informal neckwear (wordplay)

People hurt in promiscuous relationships

""The breakdown of more complex substances into simpler ones with release of energy, in living organisms; destructive or downward metabolism; -- a form of metabolism, opposed to anabolism. See also Disassimilation.metabolism, opposed to anabolism. See also Disassimilation.""

A substance produced by the process of catabolism.

CATABOLIZE

Natural disasters

Decorated bier

Bier

""Wanting a syllable at the end, or terminating in an imperfect foot; as, a catalectic verse. as, a catalectic verse.""

Maybe schizophrenic spasm after pet gets dreadfully pale

They process album listings reference

Catalog

""CATALOGUE A list or enumeration of names, or articles arranged methodically, often in alphabetical order; as, a catalogue of the students of a college, or of books, or of the stars. as, a catalogue of the students of a college, or of books, or of the stars.""

One who makes a listing or inventory

Lynx becomes list maker

He should make the list

Conversations with one's kitty (wordplay)

All the items there make up the E. coast of Gaul

Lists

Catalyzer

Catalyze

""Pertaining to the catamenia, or menstrual discharges.""

Cataplasm

Shot out when a cult taped broadcast

Launched at great speed

Alternative to booing or hissing

Evacuating hotel, pick up everyone in grand display of disapproval

Yawn, in slang

Catchpole

Catchpoll

Night alley sounds

Backyard sounds.

Shrill cries

St. Patrick's et al.

Notre-Dame and St. Paul's, notably

They keep large flocks

CATHODAL pertaining to a {cathode=n}

(Christianity / Roman Catholic Church) the patriarch of the Armenian Church [from Greek katholikos ; see catholic ]

A remedy for all diseases; a panacea.

""The spiritual head of the Armenian church, who resides at Etchmiadzin, Russia, and has ecclesiastical jurisdiction over, and consecrates the holy oil for, the Armenians of Russia, Turkey, and Persia, including the Patriarchs of Constantinople, Jerusalem, and Sis.""

Causalgia

In St Lucia you are travelling with care

How label signs hard-partying rocker (wordplay)

Warily

Marches as gangster leading another baddy into grottoes (wordplay)

Cavalier

""In a supercilious, disdainful, or haughty manner; arroganty.""

English word

Little Bighorn fighter

Mounted soldier

Horse soldier

Soldiers on horseback

All the world wondered at 600 of them

Old troops on horseback

A photoelectric instrument for ascertaining cloud heights.

Flowers and antelope in these French surroundings

Star harangues people officiating

People who rejoice seeing tirades by B-lister (wordplay)

Known to be well like this (wordplay)

Noted Conservative bet leader changes

Observed (festival); famous

Sings the praises of, makes famous

Takes the car, beetles off and whoops it up

Bar elects rogue taking Ecstasy and has a party

New Year's Eve figure.

Jubilant one

Dec. 31 figure

Celerity

Celestial

Celestite

Celibacy

Cellarage

A cabinet for storing bottles of wine or liquor.

A disaccharide that is produced from the partial hydrolysis of cellulose.

Celloidin

Musical food wrapping (wordplay)

Musical food wrapping?

Film about packaged food (wordplay)

Cellulase

Cellulite

Inflammation of subcutaneous tissue

Cute lips break up, it is subcutaneous inflammation

Celluloid

Cellulose

""CELLULOSE Consisting of, or containing, cells.""

""Deserving of censure; blamable; culpable; reprehensible; as, a censurable person, or censurable conduct. as, a censurable person, or censurable conduct.""

Colorado (with "state")

May 11, 2014, for "E" as a "D"

Anniversary of note

Magazine opening (wordplay)

Magazine middle, maybe

Model position (wordplay)

CENTER to place at the middle point

Two-lane road feature

*Painted highway divider

Stripe that equally divides the road

Divided into hundredths

Like dollars and euros

Small metric unit

Unit equal to 0.338 fluid ounce

.6102 cubic inch

Enormous number

Central

Take to heart (wordplay)

The state or condition of being central; the combination of several parts into one whole; centralization.

Advocate of stronger federal government

I concentrate power, as moderate protecting a Liberal

The state of being central; tendency towards a center.

Bring under a single control

Concentrate.

Cylindrical cell parts near the nuclei that divide during mitosis