2-Letter Words Starting with C

""CENTRALIZE To draw or bring to a center point; to gather into or about a center; to bring into one system, or under one control.""

Centralize

Centrical

Moving out from a centre

Carrying outwards from the centre

Using force away from centre

Force of nature (wordplay)

Inward-pulling (force)

Cephalexin

Cephalopod

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.

They help maintain balance

Formalities.

Presenting symptoms of mental illness sufficient for legal commitment to a mental institution.

CERTIFIABLE presenting symptoms of mental illness sufficient for legal commitment to a mental institution.

Cetologist

Chainwheel

Of or pertaining to chalcedony.

Chalcocite

Chalkboard

Opponents

Demanding one's best efforts

Provoking

Chalybeate

Court official - former Prime Minister!

British Prime Minister, 1937.

PM's domestic officer

""CHAMELEON A lizardlike reptile of the genus Cham\'91leo, of several species, found in Africa, Asia, and Europe. The skin is covered with fine granmulations; the tail is prehensile, and the body is much compressed laterally, giving it a high back. Cham\'91leo, of several species, found in Africa, Asia, and Europe. The skin is covered with fine granmulations; the tail is prehensile, and the body is much compressed laterally, giving it a high back.""

Office attached to embassy

Office of a chief minister or judge

Chancellor

""CHANCELLOR A judicial court of chancery, which in England and in the United States is distinctively a court with equity jurisdiction.""

Of or pertaining to a chancroid.

Chandelier

""CHANDELLE an abrupt climbing turn made by an airplane, in which the plane's momentum is used to achieve a higher than normal rate of climb, without stalling the aircraft.""

Chandlery

Changeful

Changeling

CHANNELIZE

Channelize

Channel

Highest string of a violin.

Yellow mushroom favored in France

Yellow mushroom favored in France

Rooster in medieval tales.

Proper name for a bird.

Archetypal name for a rooster

In a chaotic manner.

Grilled on a rack that leaves black stripes

Charbroil

Sketching, in a certain way.

Undue pretensions to skill; quackery; wheedling; empiricism.

Ornamental key holders

'Evita' star has discussions about key situations

""Any of several tropical Asian trees of the genus Hydnocarpus, whose seeds contain an oil formerly used to treat skin lesions caused by leprosy and other diseases.""

Cheerful

Split personality (wordplay)

During the game, she's no reserve!

Root for the frontrunner (wordplay)

Cheerless

Loosely woven material

Chef's natural strainer

Soup chef's herb-bundle holder

CHERISH to hold dear

Due processes (wordplay)

Chillness

Adjective meaning resembling

Chinchilla

Chirality

CHLORALOSE

Chloralose

Chloramine

""CHLORINATE To treat, or cause to combine, with chlorine.""

Chlorinate

""CHLORINATE To treat, or cause to combine, with chlorine.""

Chloroform

Pigment making plants green

Green pigment in plants

Green coloring matter of plants

""A plastid containing chlorophyll, developed only in cells exposed to the light. Chloroplasts are minute flattened granules, usually occurring in great numbers in the cytoplasm near the cell wall, and consist of a colorless ground substance saturated with chlorophyll pigments. Under light of varying intensity they exhibit phototactic movements. In animals chloroplasts occur only in certain low forms.""

""A colorless liquid, C 4 H 5 Cl, that polymerizes to neoprene.""

Lupus medication in the news

Jam-packed timer filled with wine notes

Crammed to capacity

Filled to capacity

Chocoholic

Sweet maker/seller

Specialist confectioner

Sweet maker

Plural or third person singular

Suppression of biliary flow.

Suppression of biliary flow.

""Pertaining to cholesterin, or obtained from it; as, cholesteric acid. as, cholesteric acid.""

Level many seek to lower

Compound believed to harden arteries

Statins lower it

CHOLINE an alcohol found bile

""A plastid that contains pigments other than chlorophyll, usually yellow or orange carotenoids.""

CHROMOSOME One of the minute bodies into which the chromatin of the nucleus is resolved during mitotic cell division; the idant of Weismann. idant of Weismann.

Chronical

Chronicler

CHRONICLE An historical register or account of facts or events disposed in the order of time.

Same as Chronologist. Chronologist.

Arranged in order of time of occurrence.

Chrysalid

Chrysalis

""A mineral, found in crystals, of a yellow to green or brown color, and consisting of aluminia and glucina. It is very hard, and is often used as a gem.""

Chrysolite

Of or belonging to the family Chrysomelidae.

Chrysotile

English word

Dolt or rockfish

Black-bellied plover.

Not so smart with a little laughter (wordplay)

A quiet laugh of mild amusement or satisfaction.

Chuckling

Chuckwalla

Chugalug

Churchly

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

""Relating to, or having the character of, a cicatrix.""

Cinquefoil

Circinate

CIRCULAR a leaflet

The quality or state of being circular; a circular form.

CIRCULAR a leaflet

""Moving or flowing in a circuit and returning to the same point; as, steam circulating through the pipes; the circulating thyroid hormones.as, steam circulating through the pipes; the circulating thyroid hormones.""

Caloric unit (anagram)

Blood flow round body

Number representing total magazines sold

Promoting circulation; circulating.

Circulator

Going round and round

After crucial operation, politician's making the rounds

Revolving about or surrounding the moon.

""About the pole; applied to stars that revolve around the pole without setting; as, circumpolar stars. as, circumpolar stars.""

""A high-altitude cloud composed of a series of small, regularly arranged cloudlets in the form of ripples or grains.""

CITRONELLA

Citronella

""A colorless liquid, C 10 H 20 O, with a roselike odor, derived from any of several essential oils or made synthetically and used extensively in perfumery.""

Citrulline

CIVILIAN a nonmilitary person

Cladoceran

Cladophyll

Rene, the prophet (wordplay)

Broken crayon vital for one who makes 3s

First-year law course

In a vociferous fashion

Wound isn't cleaned in private

Intend tailing tribe in secret

Almost doomed by family secret

Clangour

Clapboard

To fight and scratch.

Artie Shaw, for one

Woody Allen, for one

Woodwind player (US spelling)

In a classical manner; according to the manner of classical authors.

Classicism

Greek scholars

CLASSICIZE to make classic or classical.

Classicize

Newspaper ad handlers

Putting things into categories

Taxonomist's job

Clavichord

Clavierist

Past tense or past participle

Concern of the fastidious

Proverbially, almost as good as piety

Student leaves Nell, nice lass taking trouble in keeping pure

Cleanness

Mentally alert

Alert; logical

Perceptive

Clearness

Botany Of or relating to a flower that does not open and is self-pollinated in the bud.

A woman who is a member of the clergy.

Female priests

An excessive devotion to the interests of the sacerdotal order; undue influence of the clergy; sacerdotalism.

One devoted to matters of the clergy

Critical period or event

William -, Eng. politician, philanthropist

Atmosphere around college mostly productive? That's a crucial point

Study of long-term weather

Study of alarming changes, nowadays

Clinching

Clingstone

Clinometer

Cliometric

Footwear of sorts.

Large, heavy shoes

Heavy shoes

Boorish; rude.

Clofibrate

Cloister

Clomiphene

Clonicity

Mean and prepared to fight

Stingy

Closeness

Closestool

CLOSTRIDIA

Bacterium causing tetanus and botulism

Bacterium

Fashion designer's work (wordplay)

Air dryer (wordplay)

Washing up - and drying!

Laundry room supply, for some

Laundry room supply

They leave things hanging

Cloudburst

Cloudless

Cloudscape

Impressive highway formations

Highway interchanges

Interstate interchanges

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

Clubhaul

COAGULATE Coagulated.

Hardening (of blood)

Nautical goo could be forming a clot

A coming together

The growing together of parts

Growing together

Part of old road surface

Rounded irregular lump used in paving

Piece of road surfacing material

Cocatalyst

Little men with big ideas.

Cockbill

Protection for mollusc - flimsy boat

Small, light, flimsy boat

Small shallow boat

Cocktail

Cocounsel

""CULTIVATE To bestow attention, care, and labor upon, with a view to valuable returns; to till; to fertilize; as, to cultivate soil. as, to cultivate soil.""

CULTURING culture

Codevelop

Codevelop

Of the nature of a codicil.

Codswallop

Coelacanth

Pl. coelentera (-t r- ) The saclike cavity within the body of a coelenterate.

Coemploy

Coevality

""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.""

COGNITION The act of knowing; knowledge; perception.

Cognitive

Capable of being known.

Abstract noun (-ity)

Colatitude

Colchicine

Coldcock

Unaffected by emotion

Like the cruel meteorologist

Lacking compassion

Colemanite

Insect having hard or horny forewings

Coleoptile

Pl. coleorhizae (-z ) A protective sheath enclosing the embryonic root of grasses.

Inflected form of LINEARITY Inflected form of LINEAR resembling a straight line