2-Letter Words Starting with C

Requiring low temperatures

Relating to very low temperatures

Slippery icy conger kept at low temperatures

Cryotron

Code name

A disguised identification, especially for military purposes or in espionage

A comblike anatomical structure

Cuckoo

CUDGEL to beat with a heavy club

Cuittle

Culicine

A strainer. See Colander. Colander.

""Being vertical, or at the highest point of altitude; hence, predominant.""

Come to a climax (in)

Reach a climax (in)

Reach a peak

Cultigen

Culture

Culverin

Cumber

Chips off the old block (wordplay)

Ancient writing system

Like Assyrian writing

Cuniform

Cunning

With guile

Artfully.

Cupel

Cupola

Curarine

Road block (wordplay)

Part of the street scene.

Part of the sidewalk scene.

Curette

State of being curly.

At the present time

Now spiralling payment is contained

At the moment

Shut off with a portiere.

Like some windows

Like living room, for instance, with new cedar unit

Bobbing in respectful greeting

Bowing daintily

CURVET to {prance=v}

Eased, as from shock.

Softened and served dish on cue

Ring in copper polished and protected

Protector/guardian (of something)

He takes care to get a discount, perhaps

Keeper of keys

Relating to the skin

Of skin

Cutinise

Cutinise

Cutinize

Cutinize

In a cutting manner.

""A caustic acidic crystalline compound, NHCNH, prepared by treating calcium cyanamide with sulfuric acid.""

Cyanamid

Cyanide

Cyanogen

Blade Runner film genre

Science fiction subgenre

Altered Carbon genre

Downward-bent flowers

Cyclize

Vast empty city with no place to settle

Gigantic.

Massive

Physicist's accelerator

Particle-accelerating machine

Apparatus accelerating particles

Printing press rollers

Lyrics end strangely in round containers

Piston chambers of an engine.

""Slndrk, Cylindrical Having the form of a cylinder, or of a section of its convex surface; partaking of the properties of the cylinder.""

Cymbling

Cymogene

See Chrysoberyl. Chrysoberyl.

In a cynical manner.

Cynicism

Things that strongly attract attention

They provide guidance

Very Big Apple written up in parish priest's objects of admiration

Cypher

Cyprinid

Cysteine

Cytidine

Cytokine

Any of a class of plant hormones that promote cell division and growth and delay the senescence of leaves.

""A substance, such as an antibody, capable of dissolving or destroying cells.""

Cytosine

A substance having a specific toxic effect on certain cells.

Czarevna

Roar with merriment

Laugh loudly

Reserve falling away finally, natural to be in stitches

Cacodemon

""A syrupy, colorless, fuming ptomaine, C 5 H 14 N 2 , formed by the carboxylation of lysine by bacteria in decaying animal flesh.""

Caecilian

Caesarean

Caesarian

Caginess

Scrambling on crag's rim - here (wordplay)

National park with Britain's only herd of reindeer

The act of cajoling; the state of being cajoled; cajolery.

""Wood A valuable furniture wood from India and Ceylon, of a hazelbrown color, with black stripes, very hard in texture. It is a species of ebony, and is obtained from the Diospyros qusesita. Called also Coromandel wood. Diospyros qusesita. Called also Coromandel wood.""

Calamine

+Tangerinelike Philippine fruit

Calcify

""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.""

Calcimine

CALCINE to reduce to a calx by heating

CALCINE to reduce to a calx by heating

""A peptide hormone, produced by the thyroid gland in humans, that lowers plasma calcium and phosphate levels without augmenting calcium accretion. Also called thyrocalcitonin .""

Slated

Calender

CALENDER to smooth by pressing between rollers

Calendula

Calenture

Affected with darkness or dimness; dark; obscure.

Measuring thicknesses

Callous

Bid one's spades over West, showing immaturity

Calmness

""A calcium-binding protein found in all nucleated cells that affects the activity of many calcium-sensitive enzymes, including those involved in muscular contraction.""

Calorize

Malice aunt spread to denigrate

Slander a hundred old students at start of event

Villify.

Restaged opera primarily unmusical? That's defamatory

Cardinal who is the papal treasurer

Lobbied for water charges during election, for instance? They did it!

Crusaded

Person on a trail

Man running for office.

Party man in action.

Belly buildings (wordplay)

Bell towers

Pitch your tent over a river's belly places

Campanula

Campesino

Place to erect a tent

Only common word in the English language with the consecutive letters MPG

""Pl. canaliculi (-l ) A small canal or duct in the body, such as the minute channels in compact bone.""

Canalise

Canalize

CANCEL to {annul=v}

Canceller

Getting rid of corporal punishment when holding group of terrorists

""Having a spongy or porous stracture; made up of cancelli; cancellated; as, the cancellous texture of parts of many bones. as, the cancellous texture of parts of many bones.""

Light workout - land a brace!

Kind of 1 across (correctly 1 acrosses)

Menorahs, for example

White-hot vessel sinking

Glowing tin going down

Glowing beer container beside slope

Election Day hopefuls

Ones under consideration

Relatives of dark horses.

Honesty.

""A marine fish (Thaleichthys Pacificus), allied to the smelt, found on the north Pacific coast; called also eulachon. It is so oily that, when dried, it may be used as a candle, by drawing a wick through it Thaleichthys Pacificus), allied to the smelt, found on the north Pacific coast; called also eulachon. It is so oily that, when dried, it may be used as a candle, by drawing a wick through it""

Candlenut

Game for skinny-legged keglers?

Kind of bowling

New England style bowling.

Inflammable material (wordplay)

Light fabric (wordplay)

It's often lit in near-darkness

It may be burned for light

Connecticut lake resort.

It's burned for light

Given spin, fair stuff (wordplay)

Light, fluffy confection of spun sugar

Fairground's pink confection

Candytuft

Reedy expanses

Caninity

""The larva of two species of geometrid moths which are very injurious to fruit and shade trees by eating, and often entirely destroying, the foliage. Other similar larv\'91 are also called cankerworms.""

""A nonpsychoactive chemical constituent of cannabis, C 21 H 26 O 2 , from which THC forms.""

Cannabis

Literally, "large reeds"

Cylindrical stuffed pasta

Nine on call, cooking Italian food

Cannister

""CANNONADE The act of discharging cannon and throwing ball, shell, etc., for the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship, or fort; usually, an attack of some continuance.""

Reportedly, churchman assists shelling

Noises to greet the Fourth.

Sound of repetitive music boosts artillery attacks

Dive done with the arms around the knees

Way to make a big splash

Civil War missile.

Cannoneer

Cannonry

Canoness

""The dress prescribed by canon to be worn by a clergyman when oficiating. Sometimes, any distinctive professional dress.""

The state or quality of being canonical; agreement with the canon.

Canonise

Putting on a pedestal

Kissing and cuddling

CANOROUS {melodic=adj}

Hasn't a way to run away?

Hasn't a way to run away (wordplay)

Fruit worker gangster forced into car

Cantaloup

Songstress in a Paris musical

Tebaldi, for example

Concert singer.

English word

Cantilena

Projecting beam fixed at one end only

Kind of arch or bridge

Beam fixed at one end

Intone

Chinese citizens last in boot camp

Military quarters.

Soldiers from city on Pearl River served time in military camp

Canulate

Duck perched on a sail?

Duck perched on a sail (wordplay)

North American diving duck

Adjective meaning resembling

They conduct polls

Soliciting to make the painting squeal!

Caparison

Payment per head

Memorable mention about a prince introducing poll-tax

Beginners' alphabet in wording under diagram could be taxing

Caponize

Sounds like Al's hat (wordplay)

Frothy coffee drink

Type of coffee

Capriole

Capsaicin

Captain

Caption

A nicer bear mauled sharpshooter

Soldier calling about a container

Cavalry soldier

Foreign policeman in vehicle with a large but not good emperor

A Spanish or South American frontier guard or customs official

Mountaineer's rope fasteners

""CARABINE a carbon compound, also CARABIN""

Caracole

Caravaner

CARAVAN to travel in a portable home

Exotic dancer in possession of a vehicle took touring holiday

He keeps moving house

Carbanion

Carbonade

Carbonado

Carbonara

Fizzy, as a soft drink

Like some beverages.

Fizzy element consumed by daughter

Carbonate

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

Carbonize

CARBON a nonmetallic element

English word

CARBONYL a chemical compound

Set with carbuncles.

Run into vehicle with relatives' jewels

Rubies of old.

Cause of cancer

Wanting a cigar, one can perhaps be at risk from this

Vehicle 101 has complete lack of data that produces growth

Carcinoid

Carcinoma

CARDINAL a bright red bird

""An individual, such as a physician, nurse, or social worker, who assists in the identification, prevention, or treatment of an illness or disability.""

Mark on script by a man in charge looking after things

""(Medicine / Pathology) (of a substance) producing caries, esp in the teeth""

Tending to a flat (wordplay)

Vehicle stealing

Song and dance of the French Revolution

""A hydrous chloride of potassium and magnesium, sometimes found associated with deposits of rock salt.""

Adapted to eating flesh.

Acorns ain't nuts; they're flowers

Florist's stock

Ohio state flowers

Red varieties of quartz

Carnify

Carnitine

Cats and dogs, for example

Lions and tigers and bears

Dangerous dinosaurs

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