2-Letter Words Starting with C

Tricks, of sorts

Interviewer's or pitcher's surprises

Trick questions, for example

Abstract noun (-ity)

""The shell or bone of cuttlefishes, used for various purposes, as for making polishing powder, etc.""

Mollusc - leftish cut (anagram)

Squid-like mollusc

Source of sepia, artist's pigment.

Deposed champions of reducers

How the Tour de France comes round (wordplay)

English word

""A contrivance for recording the revolutions of a wheel, as of a bicycle.""

""Cyclop\'91dia The circle or compass of the arts and sciences (originally, of the seven socalled liberal arts and sciences); circle of human knowledge. Hence, a work containing, in alphabetical order, information in all departments of knowledge, or on a particular department or branch; as, a cyclopedia of the physical sciences, or of mechanics. See Encyclopedia. as, a cyclopedia of the physical sciences, or of mechanics. See Encyclopedia.""

Containing all branches of knowledge

Cyclorama

Representation

""Sklstm, Cyclostomous Pertaining to the Cyclostomi.""

Document copying device suitable for Tour de France (wordplay)

Adjective (-ic)

Apparatuses for bombarding atoms

Atom-smashing machines.

Spiral-shaped particle accelerators

Cylinder

Cymbalist

Cystolith

Cytology

""The branch of biology that deals with the formation, structure, and function of cells.""

Cytolysin

Having an affinity for cells.

Cell semifluids

Cacomistle

Cadastral

Cajolement

Cakewalker

Cakewalk

Calamander

Calamondin

CALCICOLE

Calciferol

""Bearing, producing, or containing calcite, or carbonate of lime.""

CALCIFUGE

""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.""

""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.""

Calcitonin

Of or pertaining to mathematical calculations; performing or able to perform mathematical calculations.

Mathematical process; assessment

Devices for solving sums

Desktop devices that do sums

Hand-held devices that divide and multiply [1967]

Making hot; producing or communicating heat.

Scheduling in Graceland tours

Paper mill workers who glaze paper by machine

Calender

Object found between California and Indonesia a lecturer previously carbon dated

""CALIBRATE To ascertain the caliber of, as of a thermometer tube; also, more generally, to determine or rectify the graduation of, as of the various standards or graduated instruments.""

9 politician to wear raincoat when going out

Calibrator

Radioactive element of atomic number 98

Element named for a US state

Radioactive element

Of or pertaining to calisthenics.

Script writer's study (wordplay)

Art of writing (wordplay)

Art of handwriting

Calliper

Having beautifully proportioned buttocks.

You'll cap GIs anyhow by having beautiful buttocks

Noisy demonstrations

Callosity

Insensitivity

Brutality

Calmodulin

CALORIC heat

Heat measuring device

Heat-measuring device

Apparatus to measure quantity of heat

Measuring of latent heat produced by Tory miracle

""CALUMNIATE To accuse falsely and maliciously of a crime or offense, or of something disreputable; to slander; to libel.""

Calumniate

One who calumniates.

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

Giraffes

Camerlengo

Escaping detection

Hidden

Camouflage

CAMOUFLAGE

The art of bellringing

Bell-ringing

Bellringing

Bellshaped.

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

A minute canal.

Variant of cancellation .

Adjective (-able)

Cancerous

Old religious ornaments.

Menorah, for example

Holder for several lights

Source of light when lit

""Tree A shrub (the Myrica cerifera, or waxbearing myrtle), common in North America, the little nuts of which are covered with a greenish white wax, which was formerly, used for hardening candles; also called bayberry tree, bayberry, or candleberry. Myrica cerifera, or waxbearing myrtle), common in North America, the little nuts of which are covered with a greenish white wax, which was formerly, used for hardening candles; also called bayberry tree, bayberry, or candleberry.""

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Dim illumination from tapers, etc

Part of a romantic ambience

Measure of light emitted

CP, to a physicist

Measure of luminosity

Mustard go-with in the kitchen, maybe

Portable light holder

Jack Be Nimble obstacle

Candlewick

Candlewood

Cannabinol

To salvage parts from wreck is in balance

Island's cutting three-quarters of shrewdest use for spare parts

Not very humanist practice (wordplay)

The eating of one's own species

Like eating like

Use parts of one thing to repair another thing

Passes from Boavista's Reggie (wordplay)

Splashy dives

Some dives

Following church law

In accordance with the Scriptures.

*Sweet melons

Projecting beams on a bridge

Structural supports

CANTILLATE To chant; to recite with musical tones.

Cantillate

The quality or state of being capable; capability; adequateness; competency.

Capacious

Tiny blood vessels

Minute vessels

Blood vessels

The quality or condition of being capillary.

CAPITALISE

Capitalise

Capitalism

Advocates of free enterprise

Men of property.

America's economic monarchs.

""CAPITALIZE To convert into capital, or to use as capital.""

Capitalize

Gave in

Surrendered

Capitulate

""(Cookery) small squares of pasta containing a savoury mixture of meat, cheese, or vegetables [Italian, plural of cappelletto , literally: little hat]""

(Chemistry / Elements & Compounds) a white crystalline cyclic imine used in the manufacture of nylon. Formula: C 5 H 10 NHCO [from capro ( ic acid ) + lactam ]

CAPSULIZE

CAPTION to provide with a title

Caracol

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

Caramelise

Like sugar that's been heated until it turns brown

Browns, as onions

""Having a ring composed exclusively of carbon atoms, as benzene.""

An enzyme that catalyzes a carboxylation or decarboxylation reaction.

To treat a chemical compound with carboxyl or carboxylic acid.

Belonging to a carbuncle; resembling a carbuncle; red; inflamed.

Cardholder

Character among a former group of clergy

High church office.

CARDINAL a bright red bird

They have hands

They hold hands

Careful

Caution

Prudence

"We call our convertible Christine"

We call our convertible Christine

Caressive

CARICATURA

Carillon

Carmagnole

Carnality

Carnallite

Carnassial

CARPOGONIA

CARTELISE

CARTELIZE

Rather caricatured

Cartulary

Did a gymnastic maneuver

Cartwheel

Cascarilla

Abstract noun (-ity)

Having turrets and battlements

Having battlements

Like fortification Bill set up with girl and boy

""Of or pertaining to casuists or casuistry; as, casuistic thinking.as, casuistic thinking.""

Catabolism

Catabolite

CATABOLIZE

Catabolize

CATACLYSM An extensive overflow or sweeping flood of water; a deluge.

Like a violent upheaval

With violent upheaval

Relating to violent upheaval

Catafalque

Catalectic

Catalepsy

Cataleptic

Cataloguer

Systematically listing

Cataplexy

Hurling, as with a sling

Hurling as if with a sling

Catarrhal

""Of or pertaining to a catechism, having the form of questions and answers; catechical.""

Without exceptions or conditions

Unambiguously explicit

Unconditional

Larva with a pet in it (wordplay)

A future monarch (wordplay)

Provide post for leaf dweller

Meowed

CATHOLIC a member of the early Christian church

The state or quality of being catholic; universality.

To make or to become catholic or Roman Catholic.

Catholicon

The practice or system of rule by a caudillo.

Variety of cabbage

It has an Orange Bouquet variety

It has a big head

Causality

In a causative manner.

Emulating Mencken

Cavalier

The practice or principles of cavaliers.

Cavernous

Interminably

Ceilometer

Rebel acting riotously, living it up

Commemorating having binge with claret flowing

Clubs excite Beatle - Ringo's not old and is at party ...

Star's allowance for party (wordplay)

Reception, for example

Famous person with share in a 10

They praise able rector's broadcast

Revelers

Festive

People fodder (wordplay)

Big names in disarray: I cite rebels

Famous people

In a celestial manner.

Cabinets for decanters.

Cellobiose

God of freshness (wordplay)

Certain wraps

The state of having cells.

Cellulosic

Important jubilees.

Some anniversaries

Their stomachs may be stapled

Features of some magazines

Some magazine spreads

Road features

Highway dividers

Court dividers

Centiliter

Centillion

CENTRALISE

Centralise

Centralism

Centralist

""Drawn toward a center or brought under the control of a central authority; as, centralized control of emergency relief efforts; centralized government. Opposite of decentralized.as, centralized control of emergency relief efforts; centralized government. Opposite of decentralized.""