2-Letter Words Starting with C

Contemporary

CONTEMPORIZE to happen at the same time.

With scorn I leave police: you mustn't worry

Conterminous

Contumacious

'No music', you tell the mess with haughty scorn

""Inflected form of POLYMERIZING Inflected form of POLYMERIZE To cause polymerization of; to produce polymers from; to increase the molecular weight of, without changing the atomic proportions; thus, certain acids polymerize aldehyde. polymerize aldehyde.""

Corporativism

Cosmetologist

COSMOCHEMIST

Of or pertaining to cosmography.

Cosmological

Cosmopolitism

Counterclaim

Counterdemand

Exception to a general rule

Countermand

Countermarch

Countermarch

Bar tape perhaps provides antidote

Action taken to offset another

Retaliatory move

Counterreform

Counterstream

Craftsmanship

Credentialism

CRIMINALIST One versed in criminal law.

Of or pertaining to criminology.

Experts helping police to sort minor logistics out

CRYPTORCHID

Cumbersome

Cumbrousness

Cumulative

Cumulonimbus

""Pl. cyanobacteria (-tîr - ) A photosynthetic bacterium of the class Coccogoneae or Hormogoneae, generally blue-green in color and in some species capable of nitrogen fixation. Cyanobacteria were once thought to be algae. Also called blue-green alga .""

See vitamin B .

Cycloheximide

The study of cells and chemical compounds within cells by means of a cytophotometer.

Cytotaxonomy

Carcinosarcoma

Pertaining to the heart and lungs

CATACLYSMIC Of or pertaining to a cataclysm.

Adjective (-ic)

Attention to formal procedures

Formality of style that could make connoisseur seem silly

CHEMOAUTOTROPH

Chemoreception

CHEMOTACTIC

Chemotaxonomy

""Classification of organisms based on differences at the biochemical level, especially in the amino acid sequences of common proteins. Also called chemosystematics .""

Chemotherapist

""An antibiotic, C 11 H 12 Cl 2 N 2 O 5 , derived from the soil bacterium Streptomyces venezuelae or produced synthetically and effective against a broad spectrum of microorganisms.""

Chlorpromazine

Chlorpropamide

Pl. cholecystectomies Surgical removal of the gallbladder.

Cholestyramine

Chondrocranium

Chordamesoderm

Pl. choriocarcinomas or choriocarcinomata (-m -t ) A malignant tumor that develops from trophoblast cells and usually occurs in the uterus.

Chromatograph

Chromatograph

CHROMATOGRAPH a piece of equipment used to perform chromatography{2}.

Film's camera-crew chief

Movie studio employe

James Wong Howe's occupation.

""CINEMATOGRAPH an older name for a movie projector, a machine, combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features, for projecting on a screen a series of pictures, moved rapidly (25 to 50 frames per second) and intermittently before an objective lens, and producing by persistence of vision the illusion of continuous motion; a moving-picture projector; also, any of several other machines or devices producing moving pictorial effects. Other older names for the movie projector are animatograph, biograph, bioscope, electrograph, electroscope, kinematograph, kinetoscope, veriscope, vitagraph, vitascope, zo\'94gyroscope, zo\'94praxiscope, etc.movie projector, a machine, combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features, for projecting on a screen a series of pictures, moved rapidly (25 to 50 frames per second) and intermittently before an objective lens, and producing by persistence of vision the illusion of continuous motion; a moving-picture projector; also, any of several other machines or devices producing moving pictorial effects. Other older names for the <altname>movie projector</altname> are <altname>animatograph</altname>, <altname>biograph</altname>, <altname>bioscope</altname>, <altname>electrograph</altname>, <altname>electroscope</altname>, <altname>kinematograph</altname>, <altname>kinetoscope</altname>, <altname>veriscope</altname>, <altname>vitagraph</altname>,

Circumambient

CIRCUMAMBULATE To walk round about.

Circumambulate

Miracle cure, if time allows, around a point of the compass

Rhetorical evasions

Ways of talking round Milton? C-c-curious work

'... put a girdle round the earth ...'

Went Magellan one farther

Went completely around

Circumnavigate

Drake, for one

Phileas Fogg, for one

One of the great all-rounders

An inscription written around anything.

CIRCUMSPECTION Attention to all the facts and circumstances of a case; caution; watchfulness.

Describe in full detail

CIRCUMVALLATE To surround with a rampart or wall.

The act of surrounding with a wall or rampart.

Circumvolution

CLAMOROUSNESS clamorous

Cleistogamous

""DETERMINATION The act of determining, or the state of being determined.""

Inflected form of ENZYMATICALLY Inflected form of ENZYMATIC

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

COMBATIVENESS The quality of being combative; propensity to contend or to quarrel.

Combinatorial

State of being comfortable or comforting manner.

Commemorative

Commensuration

COMMERCIALISE commercial

COMMERCIALIST

Commerciality

""COMMERCIALIZE to make something commercial in character, either by placing it for sale on the open market, or by emphasizing its profit-making aspects; as, the Olympics have been excessively commercialized.as, the Olympics have been excessively commercialized.""

Commiserating

Percentage rise ordered to cover area hotel employees

DOORKEEPERS

""The inappropriate treatment of something as if it can be acquired or marketed like other commodities the commodification of human life CYCLOPENTADIENE (Chemistry / Elements & Compounds) a colourless liquid unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon obtained in the cracking of petroleum hydrocarbons and the distillation of coal tar: used in the manufacture of plastics and insecticides. Formula: C 5 H 6 DIAPHOTOTROPISM (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) growth of a plant or plant part in a direction transverse to that of the light [from Greek, from dia- + phototropic ]""

The quality of being commonplace; commonness.

The quality of being communicable; capability of being imparted.

""Used in communication; as, he had few communicational grooves available for use.as, he had few communicational grooves available for use.""

Communicative

""COMMUNISTIC Of or pertaining to communism or communists; as, communistic theories. as, communistic theories.""

Commutativity

Comparability

Comparative

Olympic season at variance with feeling

With humane feeling.

With sympathy

COMPASSIONATE Having a temper or disposition to pity; sympathetic; merciful.

Compatibility

The state or quality of being compendious.

Competitive

Complementary

Complementary

The state or quality of being complementary: "This is where the complementarity of the masculine and the feminine so acutely emerges. They are the necessary poles of a dialectic process" (Therese Namenek).

The grammatical relation of a word or phrase to a predicate.

Complementizer

Complicated

At no cost

Compositional

How Ph.D. aspirants are tested

So as to contain everything

Including everything

""The quality of being compressible of being compressible; as, the compressibility of elastic fluids. as, the compressibility of elastic fluids.""

English word

Computability

Computational

""COMPUTERIZE to provide with computers; as, Our office is fully computerized now.as, Our office is fully computerized now.""

Computerphobia

Comradeliness

Concertmeister

An exaggerated estimate of the importance of giving full assent to any particular formula of the Christian faith.

CONFIRMEDNESS A fixed state.

Conglomerateur

Mixed coherent masses.

Left to invade African country with armies, not revolutionary masses

Mixtures

Constructivism

Thoughtfully.

The state of being contemporaneous.

Like Shakespeare and Bacon

Arising at the same time.

Occurring at the same time

The quality of being contemptible; contemptibleness.

""That which is received or established by convention or arbitrary agreement; that which is in accordance with the fashion, tradition, or usage.""

""Any member of the genus Corynebacterium, consisting of gram-positive usually nonmotile irregularly rod-shaped bacteria, some of which are pathogenic or parasitic in humans and domestic animals, such as Corynebacterium diphtheriae, which causes diphtheria.Corynebacterium, consisting of gram-positive usually nonmotile irregularly rod-shaped bacteria, some of which are pathogenic or parasitic in humans and domestic animals, such as Corynebacterium diphtheriae, which causes diphtheria.""

Being a citizen of the world

State of world citizenship

Plot with a commission to destroy the global view

COULOMETRIC

Part of a debate

Dialogue between diner waitresses (wordplay)

Debate side

English word

Counterclaim

Counterexample

Countermarch

Perhaps 1 evaluates retaliations (wordplay)

Haberdasher uses these precautions

Retaliatory actions

Countermelody

A movement in opposition to another.

Counterreform

Act of making illegal

Outlawing

Cryptorchidism

Customariness

English word

Cyanocobalamin

English word

Cytochemistry

Abbr. CMV Any of a group of herpes viruses that attack and enlarge epithelial cells. Such viruses also cause a disease of infants characterized by circulatory dysfunction and microcephaly.

The study of cells and chemical compounds within cells by means of a cytophotometer.

CYTOPLASMIC

Act of sailing right round

Sailing voyage around the world

A voyage all the way round