2-Letter Words Starting with C

Copolymer

PROMOTER one who {promotes=v}

Coredeem

Diving birds

Coastal area - good for early pumpkins

Having the shape of a corynebacterium.

""With the sun at rising or setting; as, a star is said to rise or set cosmically when it rises or sets with the sun. as, a star is said to rise or set cosmically when it rises or sets with the sun.""

Produced by cosmic rays.

Pl. cosmogonies The astrophysical study of the origin and evolution of the universe.

Some Mir inhabitants

Russian spacemen

Space travellers

New York or Hong Kong

Limo scoops strange view of city by DeLillo

Land at Bourget to reach international city

Costmary

Costumier

A device for determining the amount of a substance released during electrolysis by measuring the electrical charge.

An analytical method for determining the amount of a substance released during electrolysis in which the number of coulombs used is measured.

City legislator

City law makers

Cafeteria worker

Drugstore employe.

COUNTER to {oppose=v}

Rural dweller

Compatriot

Rustic individual offering to go, for instance, with worker

Rustic types who were asked to lend an ear (wordplay)

Union; combination; a coupling; a pair.

They can be a bit of a trial in whodunits

Do they prove a case for royal residences (wordplay)

Cramoisy

""The operation of opening the fetal head, in order to effect delivery.""

Churning concerns

Dairies

Quality of thick liquid in a pit absorbed by plant

Creamware

Cremation

Venues for funeral ceremonies

Would they issue stardust in Hollywood (wordplay)

Cretinism

""Resembling, or having the form of, a sieve; pierced with hokes; as, the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone; a cribriform compress. as, the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone; a cribriform compress.""

In violation of law; wickedly.

""CRIMINATE To accuse of, or charge with, a crime.""

Criminate

Becoming flushed

Criterium

Certain remarks

Judge is getting manuscript with a number of commentaries

Cruciform

Like the most fragile of cookies

Crumbling

CRUMMIE a cow with a crooked horn

Crumply

Cryptogam

Something written in cipher

It's hard to read

Piece of coded writing

Cryptonym

Cold model used to be otherwise - nicely plump

Huggable

Reached a high point

Topped out

Culminate

English word

To arrive without pigments is awkward

Hard to handle Brown's blocking approach

Seeing off rum, becomes awkward

CUMBROUS {unwieldy=adj}

Worn at 29D

Tux go-with

One tours the Centre with the DJ

Cumulate

Mass with Latin and tuna oil substituted

Like a running total

Increasing by successive additions

Increasing by addition

Puffy; cloud-shaped

Cuneiform

Bad-tempered person

Miser, old style.

Cousin of a crosspatch.

Subjects of a study course

Course of study

Course of academic studies

Currycomb

CUSTOMISE

Customise

CUSTOMIZE to make to specifications.

CUSTOMIZE to make to specifications.

Customize

Cyanamide

Deposed champions of reducers

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

Cyclorama

Representation

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

Adjective (-ic)

Cymbalist

Cymbidium

Cymophane

English word

Any of a class of iron-containing proteins important in cell respiration as catalysts of oxidation-reduction reactions.

Cell semifluids

Caterpillar that is a pest of certain green vegetables

CACODEMON An evil spirit; a devil or demon.

Cacomistle

Caddisworm

Double-duty schoolrooms

Cajolement

Calamander

Calamondin

""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.""

Radioactive element of atomic number 98

Element named for a US state

Radioactive element

Noisy demonstrations

Calmodulin

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.

Spirit of friendliness and trust

Esprit de corps

Closeness from dear America's uncertain

Giraffes

A woman who operates a movie or television camera.

Female shooters arrived with harsh warning

Camerlengo

Escaping detection

Hidden

Camouflage

CAMOUFLAGE

Activists making gain excitedly embraced by people in tents

Trying to win the support of voters

Electioneering

The art of bellringing

Bell-ringing

Bellringing

Bellshaped.

Outdoor accommodations

Oily and exaggerated husband held forth

A politician in church preached, becoming oily

Camphorate

Campiness

Menorah, for example

Holder for several lights

Source of light when lit

Cankerworm

Not very humanist practice (wordplay)

The eating of one's own species

Like eating like

Cantonment

Capitalism

(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 ]

""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

Cancer

Cardiogram

Carmagnole

Drug relieving flatulence; vitamin care (anagram)

""Pl -nia [-nɪə] (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biology) the female sex organ of red algae, consisting of a swollen base containing the ovum and a long neck down which the male gametes pass carpogonial   adj CATCHPHRASE (= slogan ) → slogan m ; [ comedian, famous person ] → formule f hc_En_Fr() CENOSPECIES pl -species (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biology) a species related to another by the ability to interbreed dogs and wolves are cenospecies [from Greek koinos common + species ]""

Catabolism

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

Like a violent upheaval

With violent upheaval

Relating to violent upheaval

""Having the lowest inferior segment of a pinna nearer the rachis than the lowest superior one; said of a mode of branching in ferns, and opposed to anadromous. anadromous.""

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

Catechumen

The practice or system of rule by a caudillo.

The practice or principles of cavaliers.

Ceilometer

The act or process of cementing.

An inch equals 2.54 of these

A ruler may have them

""(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]""

Centralism

Centromere

""Pertaining to the centromere, the dense specialized portion of a chromosome to which the spindle attaches during mitosis.""

Centrosome

Ceramicist

They help maintain balance

Formalities.

Appropriate to grand formal occasions

Like a solemn observance

Elaborately polite

CHAIRMAN to act as chairman of

Presided over

A perennial plant that sets its dormant vegetative buds just at or above the surface of the ground.

Court official - former Prime Minister!

British Prime Minister, 1937.

PM's domestic officer

Servant combining charm with bed? I am!

Source of mints, at times

Making bed with charm, am I? Possibly

""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.""

Champerty

CHAMPER one that {champs=v}

Champignon

Champion

Having compelling charm

Able to attract and inspire people

1999 2 out of 3 winner

The power or quality of pleasing or delighting; attractiveness: a breezy tropical setting of great charm.

""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.""

Chauvinism

Checkmark

""CHECKMATE The position in the game of chess when a king is in check and cannot be released, which ends the game.""

Chemisette

Chemisorb

Chemistry

The characteristic movement or orientation of an organism or cell along a chemical concentration gradient either toward or away from the chemical stimulus.

CHERNOZEM

Chimaerism

A type of deep-fried burrito

Tortilla appetizer

Adjective meaning resembling

J. Goodall subjects

Goodall subjects

Primates

Palm reader

Chironomid

Chloramine

Chloroform

Man of music.

Church music leader

Lifter of voices

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

CHROMATIN Tissue which is capable of being stained by dyes.

The difference between one color and a reference color of the same brightness and chromaticity.

""Containing, or capable of forming, chromogen; as, chromogenic bacteria. as, chromogenic bacteria.""

Chromomere

CHROMOMERE

Not staining readily with dye. Used of a cell or cell structure.

Any chemical group or residue (as NO<?/; N<?/; or O<?/) which imparts some decided color to the compound of which it is an ingredient.

""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.

Genetic bundles

Threadlike bodies that carry genes in a linear order

Chronogram

Metal casing on timer? No, I'm timer

Instrument measuring time

Watch to find the enemy's position

The art of measuring time; the measuring of time by periods or divisions.

Of or belonging to the family Chrysomelidae.

A quiet laugh of mild amusement or satisfaction.

Female pastor, e.g

Female pastor, for example

A woman who is a cleric.

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

Cicisbeism

Cimetidine

Cinchonism

Cinemagoer