2-Letter Words Starting with C

CINEMATIZE

Cinematize

""CIRCUMCISE To cut off the prepuce of foreskin of, in the case of males, and the internal labia of, in the case of females.""

One who performs circumcision.

Circumcise

CIRCUMFUSE To pour round; to spread round.

Circumfuse

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.""

Cautious PC cuts crime drastically

Cautious, prudent

Cautious around religious group, taking first precautions in their midst

Circumvent

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

In a vociferous fashion

Classicism

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.

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

Clinometer

Cliometric

Clomiphene

Bacterium causing tetanus and botulism

Bacterium

Coadmit

Coatimundi

Cochampion

Little men with big ideas.

Cockneyism

Cocomposer

Codominant

Coembody

Coemploy

Coenamor

""Inflected form of ENZYMATIC Inflected form of ENZYME a complex protein, also ENZYM""

Percolator, machine for making hot drinks

Colemanite

See springtail .

A tissue of vegetable cells which are thickend at the angles and (usually) elongated.

""COLLIMATE To render parallel to a certain line or direction; to bring into the same line, as the axes of telescopes, etc.; to render parallel, as rays of light.""

""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.""

Collimator

Colloquium

""LOGARITHM One of a class of auxiliary numbers, devised by John Napier, of Merchiston, Scotland (15501617), to abridge arithmetical calculations, by the use of addition and subtraction in place of multiplication and division. The relation of logarithms to common numbers is that of numbers in an arithmetical series to corresponding numbers in a geometrical series, so that sums and differences of the former indicate respectively products and quotients of the latter; thus The relation of logarithms to common numbers is that of numbers in an arithmetical series to corresponding numbers in a geometrical series, so that sums and differences of the former indicate respectively products and quotients of the latter; thus""

Policy that forms empires

Ethnocentric foreign policy

""An instrument for measuring the depth of the color of anything, especially of a liquid, by comparison with a standard liquid.""

The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance.

Colostomy

A dovecote or pigeon house.

""COLUMNIST a journalist who writes or edits a regularly scheduled column{8} in a periodical, usually in editorial style; a type of editorialist.editorialist.""

Combative

Items joined together

Student's lock opener

Marriage state? Tease one at first

Produced by a combinatorial process.

COMBINATE United; joined; betrothed.

Capable of igniting and burning

Easily excited with clue, it bombs miserably

Inflammable

COMBUST to {burn=v}

Combustion

""MEDICALLY In a medical manner; with reference to healing, or to the principles of the healing art.""

Stand-up kind of gals (wordplay)

Coca, May, Raye, etc.

Funny femmes

Articles of food

Timeless cob (anagram) - food

Deserved rebuke Slang.

Deserved rebuke: Colloq.

Deserved rebuke Colloq.

At ease in body or mind

Like a broken-in easy chair

Cosy; free from money worries

COMFORT to {console=v}

Offering no consolation

Lacking consolation

Capable of being commanded.

Commandant

Takes possession of.

'Borrows' peremptorily

Borrows peremptorily

Order (one of ten)

A divine rule

Any of the Decalogue

Mark (an earlier event)

Serve as a reminder of

Celebrate, remember

Worthy of praise

Deserving praise

COMMEND to {praise=v}

Commensal

COMMENTATE To write comments or notes upon; to make comments.

Commentate

Sports match reporter

One who reports on sports event

Broadcaster describing sports events

Programmus interrupti

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

""Threatening or denouncing punishment; as, comminatory terms. as, comminatory terms.""

""COMMINGLE To mingle together; to mix in one mass, or intimately; to blend.""

""COMMINUTE To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth. as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth.""

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

Empathise (with)

Express sympathy

Sympathize with.

Post-disaster appointments

Of or pertaining to a commissure.

Commissure

Commitment

Mad, but it can be done

Commixture

COMMODE a {cabinet=n}

Commodify

Pork-barrel contents (wordplay)

Pork-barrel contents?

Staples in the market slump.

The sharing of common attributes.

Saw Tooting, maybe

Run-of-the-mill

Nothing special

Thomas Paine work.

Paine pamphlet of 1776

Tom Paine's treatise, 1776.

Welfares of the public.

""A French theory of government which holds that commune should be a kind of independent state, and the national government a confederation of such states, having only limited powers. It is advocated by advanced French republicans; but it should not be confounded with communism.""

An advocate of communalism.

COMMUNAL belonging to the community

COMMUNAL belonging to the community

Eucharist partaker

Pass on (ideas)

Get a message across

Get one's idea across

Communique

COMMUNISE

Of the Left

Groups of people

Neighbourhoods

COMMUNIZE

COMMUTATE

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

Relative to exchange; interchangeable; reciprocal.

Commutator

That may be compacted.

Compaction

The state or quality of being compact; close union of parts; density.

Companion

COMPARE to scrutinise for similarities

Relative that may have more

Part of speech, 'for richer, for poorer'

It could be better or worse

Comparator

*Side-by-side evaluations (France)

Remark about role in section

Divide into separate sections

Something said about piece or section

Capable of being compassed or accomplished.

Compassion

Compatible

Is Mr Potato Head to cry around fellow citizens (wordplay)

Capable of being compelled or constrained.

Concisely comprehensive

Compendium

Receiving money for services rendered.

Remunerated

Reimburses (#7)

""One who, or that which, compensates; a name applied to various mechanical devices.""

Competence

Bridal bio word

With skill

Rival prize crossword (wordplay)

The life of trade.

Final part of the chance card

""Of or pertaining to competition; producing competition; competitory; as, a competitive examination. as, a competitive examination.""

Group being played against

Rivals

Players

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

Anthology

Contented self-satisfaction.

Smug feeling

Do what you're told about champion network computer, but admit to it!

Smugness

One who makes complaint.

Complainer

During Advent Frank is airing grievances

Expressing dissatisfaction

Cooperating while in turn stopping grievance

Complect

Complement

Aaron Rodgers stat

Elway had 4,123 of these in his career

Considerations for foundations

The state of being complex; complexity.

Compliance

In a compliant manner.

Confused tabby's followed around

Not simple

Comic lad playing with pet becoming confused

Makes more confusing

Unexpectedly spot hydrogen escaping chemical compounds

Speaks well of

Seasonal good wishes, remarks inspiring leaders in pretty lacklustre institution

Complot

Opinion about left's behaviour

Left cutting remark in a personal manner

Behaviour of left in debate

Composite

""COMPOSITE Made up of distinct parts or elements; compounded; as, a composite language. as, a composite language.""

Some notes for an essay

Character study, perhaps

Make-up - essay

Typesetters

Compounder

*"On the way!"

*'On the way!'

Method of figuring bank interest

Compradore

Comprehend

Applying pressure

Approach taken about newspapers applying the squeeze

Squeezing

Forced reduction in volume (of gas)

Process of being forcibly condensed

Act of forcing together

""Compressing, or having power or tendency to compress; as, a compressive force. as, a compressive force.""

Certain muscles.

Endangered through recklessness

Split the difference.

Made concessions when jeopardised by scandal

One who compromises.

Marxist takes pledges to make mutual concessions

Company member initially gives hope of settlements

Firm undertakes to make room for a thousand concessions

Financial official's title

(Generally) financial officer

New York office held by Fillmore when he was elected U.S. vice president

Compulsion

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

""One who bears testimony or swears to the veracity or innocence of another. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager. Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager.""

The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning.

COMPUTER a machine that computes automatically

Code talking (wordplay)

COMPUTER a machine that computes automatically

COMPUTERISE COMPUTER a machine that computes automatically

Make an office modern, in a way

High-tech whiz

Comradery

Russian craft (wordplay)

What's shared by close companions

Fellow-feeling

Process of hiding

Place of hiding.

Act of hiding

A matter that is of concern.

Naturally associated

Concretism

Worthy of condemnation; blamable; culpable.

""CONDIMENT Something used to give relish to food, and to gratify the taste; a pungment and appetizing substance, as pepper or mustard; seasoning.""

Timeshare unit, often

Type of apartment

Type of apartment in USA

""Pl. condylomas or condylomata (-m -t ) A wartlike growth on the skin or mucous membrane, usually in the area of the anus or the external genital organs.""

Conferment

Action of enclosure

State of enclosure

Incarceration

That may be confirmed.

Confirmand

With confirmation.

""Corresponding in form, character, opinions, etc.; similar; like; consistent; proper or suitable; -- usually followed by to.to.""

CONFORM to {comply=v}

Agreement

Conformism

Conformist