2-Letter Words Starting with C

No longer scheduled

No longer on the air

Revoked or terminated

CANCEL to {annul=v}

""Like a cancer; having the qualities or virulence of a cancer; affected with cancer; as, a cancerous growth.as, a cancerous growth.""

Cancroid

Hat in the ring

The seeking of election

One who says "Iran" (wordplay)

Potential MP maybe frank over high tea

Churchill's nominee

Candid

Fired up for romance (wordplay)

Like meal with lover that's wicked!

Dance till jiggered by romantic glow

Oil-yielding tree

Hawaiians call it "kukui"

Small-ball bowling target

Target for some keglers

*Boston bowler's target

Catty fund (anagram) - flower

Floral symbol of "indifference."

Bunch follows sweet flower

Thicket of a sort

Bamboo thicket

Southern thicket

Canephor

Growing white

Caneware

Canfield

""Pertaining to, or measured, by the rising of the Dog Star.""

Tea holders.

Kitchen containers

Things that hold spray paint or tennis balls

Canker

Noxious Beatnik, without a cent, wearing headphones

Cannabin

Cannelon

Sardine-packing plants, for example

Food processing plants.

Sardine-packing plants

They'll have you for dinner

Certain primitive savages.

Jungle film extras

Cannikin

Shrewd quality

Prudence that makes you buy food that won't perish (wordplay)

""CANNIE prudent, also CANNY""

Can no Dane make so much fire (wordplay)

Period of continuous heavy gunfire

Winner of 100th Kentucky Derby

Battle assignment, once

One with the big guns

One with big arms

Cannon

CANOE to paddle a small slender boat

Do they prefere flat water (wordplay)

Ian Wynne and Tim Brabants, for instance

So can ties go paddling

Required by secular law

Accepted as being authoritative

Like great works of art

Declared to be a saint

Bestowed sainthood, in Salisbury

Catholic soon is journalist and dubbed saintly

Canonise

Sanctions for experts in church law

Elevated to sainthood

Given sainthood

Treats as holy

Gives religious approval to

Canonry

Enjoyed some sexy time

The rotter embraced a foolish girl and made love

Grabbed by bounder, simpleton is kissed and cuddled

Pasta from the Golden State (wordplay)

May gets a great many cuddles

Shares hugs and kisses

Canopy

In a singing style (mus.)

In a smooth singing style

In a singing manner

Relative of honeydew.

Fruit dish Paul at once failed to finish

Musk-melon

Providing fast food around the North

Is 'e unable to phone at speed (wordplay)

Is 'e unable to phone in a hurry (wordplay)

""A beetle (Lytta, ∨ Cantharis, vesicatoria), having an elongated cylindrical body of a brilliant green color, and a nauseous odor; the blister fly or blister beetle, of the apothecary; also called Spanish fly. Many other species of Lytta, used for the same purpose, take the same name. See Blister beetle, under Blister. The plural form in usually applied to the dried insects used in medicine. Lytta, ∨ Cantharis, vesicatoria), having an elongated cylindrical body of a brilliant green color, and a nauseous odor; the blister fly or blister beetle, of the apothecary; also called Spanish fly. Many other species of Lytta, used for the same purpose, take the same name. See Blister beetle, under Blister. The plural form in usually applied to the dried insects used in medicine.""

Hymns of praise

Songs used in church

Hymns whose strange accent is Latin

Ballad ain't clean when broadcast

Simple melodic passage

Musical part carrying melody

Canton

CANTOR a religious singer

Cantraip

Canulate

Canulate

Canvaser

Canvas

Took a poll.

Did a survey

Found out people's feelings involving sand and caves

One soliciting votes

Petitioner who seeks sales or votes

Picture oddly smeary in viewfinder

Solicits votes for an artist's works

Goes out for votes

Solicits votes

Canzonet

Perhaps dressages for the horses

Read about a capital way to dress well

Rich cloth laid over a warhorse

Capeskin

Caponata

Caponier

Caponize

Caponize

""A colorless crystalline substance extracted from the Capsicum annuum, and giving off vapors of intense acridity. Capsicum annuum, and giving off vapors of intense acridity.""

Capsicin

Fitting hats (wordplay)

Fitting hats?

Turning over headwear before measuring

Finishing blocks, in architecture.

Crowning events

Culminations

Capsule

Spinning responsibility!

As perfected by Mike Brearley

There is more to it than just spinning

Commanded, like Columbus

A pedantic sort was in charge

Go to Paris for a change to see them competing at the ice rink (wordplay)

With subtitles, say

Having a descriptive title.

Underwritten (wordplay)

Portraying very well

Captain, you get around to what's catching

Some monkeys and monks

China cups for friars or monkeys

A cup intricately carved: features monks

Piton ring for fastening ropes

Mountaineer's ring

Tool on either side of a rock climber's quickdraw

Carabine

Caragana

Carageen

Carangid

Caravan

CARAVAN to travel in a portable home

English word

An anion in which carbon carries a negative charge and an unshared pair of electrons.

Carbinol

(Cookery) a stew of beef and onions cooked in beer

Beef stew; black diamond

Type of pasta sauce

A sauce for pasta

Bacony pasta dish

Add bubbles to

To make soda water.

Add fizz to

To cover (an animal or vegatable substance) into a residue of carbon by the action of fire or some corrosive agent; to char.

Carbonyl

Large pimple on face or neck

Sort of boil; a gem

Stone from eruption

Carcanet

A small tumor (benign or malignant) arising from the mucosa of the gastrointestinal tract; it is usually associated with excessive secretion of serotonin.

A major type of cancer

Spices that he smuggles inside vehicles

They have pockets for cigars and change

Halves of twinsets

Sweaters with buttons

See people (wordplay)

High priests of baseball (wordplay)

Marty Marion's ball club.

They're out of control

Ship repairers.

Lurchers.

Tossing from side to side

This could become very upsetting, e'en in such a worrying way

Going full tilt

Calling over the gin, out of control

Rushing wildly

Treating with fondness.

Worries start 5 down with love

Treating with kindness

Caretake

Tunes represented in a scroll

Comedy films' sound made by campanologists

Not well enough to switch cars going around noisy lot in tower

""Shaped like the keel or prow of a ship; having a carina or keel; as, a carinate calyx or leaf; a carinate sternum (of a bird).as, a carinate calyx or leaf; a carinate sternum (of a bird).""

""The state of being carnal; fleshly lust, or the indulgence of lust; grossness of mind.""

America perhaps, after auto plant

What a blooming mechanical people!

Country estate perhaps first in bloom

Carnauba

Did Inca learn of this gem (wordplay)

Red cross member (wordplay)

Variety of quartz

Carnify

Carnify

A betaine commonly occurring in the liver and in skeletal muscle that functions in fatty acid transport across mitochondrial membranes.

Circuses

Carrion Virginia mixed for flesh-eaters

Wolves etc mostly fair when tackling men

Order soldiers to stop endless festivity

T. Rex, for one

Tip of rhubarb? No, I crave tripe!

Lion or tiger, for example

An ore of uranium

Soho seasonal singing

Singing Christmas hymns

Singing at 7 across

Carotene

Reveler's activity

Many awakening us with their 28 across

Heading for a hangover

One of Salinger's artisans (wordplay)

Fish becomes woodworker (wordplay)

Craftsman/river sign (wordplay)

Trade in a chippy (wordplay)

One of the trades

Woodwork at the fish gate

Covering darling in fond embrace

Concerned about sweetheart dressing down

End of the quip

CARPING the act of one who {carps=v}

Mini modified genera of seaweed

Purplish-red, edible seaweed

Purplish-red North Atlantic seaweed

Carrom

""A kind of short cannon, formerly in use, designed to throw a large projectile with small velocity, used for the purpose of breaking or smashing in, rather than piercing, the object aimed at, as the side of a ship. It has no trunnions, but is supported on its carriage by a bolt passing through a loop on its under side.""

Carrotin

Carton

Worked on a panel (wordplay)

Worked for Mad, maybe

Worked on a strip

Caruncle

Caryotin

Descending in steps

Flowing like a waterfall over rocks

Emulating a waterfall

Caseate

A degeneration of animal tissue into a cheesy or curdy mass.

Casefy

CASEIN a milk protein

Roger for one may be seen through

Windows with vertical hinges

One may see through such as Sir Roger

Casket

Flamenco clappers (wordplay)

They may click at dances

Spanish dancer's clickers

Governor of a fortress

Warden in a medieval stronghold.

For one running keep tin of beer (wordplay)

Mostly relaxed, artist captures popular tree

Boat for felines (wordplay)

America's Cup winner, perhaps

Feline boat (wordplay)

The monthly courses of women; menstrual discharges; menses.

Diet portion for Tabby (wordplay)

Diet portion for Tabby?

How much feline is a lynx, for instance

Band once fronted by Cerys Matthews

State of rigidity and stupor

State of muscular rigidity and stupor

In a rigid trance.

... still giving pussy a drink

In an immobile stupor

Area from which river derives its flow

Area from which school's pupils are drawn

Water collection difficulty: pieces start to tear

Catechin

Linked in a series

Links

Catenoid

CATFACE a deformity of fruit

Any of various proteolytic enzymes found in animal tissue that catalyze the hydrolysis of proteins into polypeptides.

Catnaper

Had a short sleep during the day

Took forty winks.

Beaten about at noon, took a brief rest

Grabber of winks or a lynx (wordplay)

Capable parent's not fit to flop around one dropping off

CATTIE an Asian unit of weight

Neat fellow on the ranch (wordplay)

Ben Cartwright, for one

Shepherd's nemesis, in many oaters

Characters in "Old Arizona."

The sound of their work may be heard

Prime factors in the meat situation.

Caucus

Very large pots used for boiling

Vessels for boiling

Potion props

Caulking

Reason why

Why one thing leads to another (wordplay)

Effect producer

War, Ned, as well (wordplay)

Education (anagram)

Given a warning about education

Cavatina

Caveat

Cavern

Vast and hollow

Huge, in a way

Like Carlsbad

Cavil

Larking about in underground activity? Nothing right in that

Gamboling

Shrub with blue flowers

Unsteady diligence having an upper limit

Ceinture

Flowering plant - decennial (anagram)

Flower found in parcel, and in envelope

Plant of buttercup family

Mass Observation director

Someone to get mad with priest

Toaster, for example

Cellar

A pure form of pyroxylin in which specimens for microscopic examination are embedded.

Workers with mortar.

Bricklayers

What C might be doing on Crete (wordplay)

Making secure

That's got C on Crete, just to make it hard

""A hard brittle iron carbide, Fe 3 C, found in steel with more than 0.85 percent carbon.""

Cenobite

CENOBITE a member of a religious order

Specially chosen guards make use of monuments

Descriptive of a Watch-and-Warder.

Having a vet remove something

Hays office job

Denying free speech

Severe critics

Reprimanding, rebuking formally

Blaming a number before making sure

Reprimanding, rebuking

Census

Fabulous creature presses on each star thistle, for example

A 100th anniversary

One hundredth anniversary

That's for a hundred gone in time

Adjusting an axis to normal position

Moving away from the sides

Copper coins of Italy.

One-hundredth of a balboa

Fraction of a lira, once

Hundredth of an Italian lira

Centiare

Metric-system unit

That grate of mine carries little weight

Approximate weight of a grain of sand

Many-legged invertebrates

Many-legged insect

Many-jointed myriapod.

Central

How a middleman works (wordplay)

At the middle

Not put on side in this way

Very little money distresses utterly Dome's supporters

""One of two small cylindrical cell organelles composes of nine triplet microtubules, which form the asters during mitosis.""