2-Letter Words Starting with C

FINANCING finance

Coinfer

Cointer

Coinvent

Coldcock

COLLIGATE To tie or bind together.

""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.""

COLLOCATE Set; placed.

""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.""

COMMUNISE

COMMUNIZE

COMMUTATE

During Advent Frank is airing grievances

Expressing dissatisfaction

Complect

Complot

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

*"On the way!"

*'On the way!'

Method of figuring bank interest

Applying pressure

Approach taken about newspapers applying the squeeze

Squeezing

""CONFIGURE To arrange or dispose in a certain form, figure, or shape.""

Incompatible

Befuddling

Confront

Moving forward to vote (wordplay)

Latin student's task

CONSCRIBE To enroll; to enlist.

Against team circle, all in all

Anti/facet/circle

Judging criminal gang taking bank

Knitting

Differing strikingly

Showing the difference in argument against police entrapment

Comparing

On top of

""CONVOLUTE Rolled or wound together, one part upon another; said of the leaves of plants in \'91stivation.""

Acting together

PRODUCING produce

Copurify

Copycat

Pre-publication job

Copyread

Corduroy

Coredeem

CORNHUSK the husk covering an ear of corn

Corresponding (with)

CORRUGATE Wrinkled; crumpled; furrowed; contracted into ridges and furrows.

Flashing, sparkling

Coscript

Counsel

Courtesy

Women's group with social worker swigged gin, forging agreement

Coxswain

Crawfish

""CREPITATE To make a series of small, sharp, rapidly repeated explosions or sounds, as salt in fire; to crackle; to snap.""

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

""CRITICISE To examine and judge as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment upon; as, to criticise an author; to criticise a picture. as, to criticise an author; to criticise a picture.""

Being constructive, in a way

Crowbar

CULMINATE To reach its highest point of altitude; to come to the meridian; to be vertical or directly overhead.

""CULTIVATE To bestow attention, care, and labor upon, with a view to valuable returns; to till; to fertilize; as, to cultivate soil. as, to cultivate soil.""

CUSTOMISE

CUSTOMIZE to make to specifications.

Cylinder

CACHINNATE

""CALUMNIATE To accuse falsely and maliciously of a crime or offense, or of something disreputable; to slander; to libel.""

CAMOUFLAGE

CAMPHORATE To impregnate or treat with camphor.

CANTILLATE To chant; to recite with musical tones.

CAPACITATE To render capable; to enable; to qualify.

Caparison

CAPITALISE

""CAPITALIZE To convert into capital, or to use as capital.""

""CAPITULATE To settle or draw up the heads or terms of an agreement, as in chapters or articles; to agree.""

""CARAMELISE to to change into caramel, by the action of heat; as, The sugar caramelized quickly.as, The sugar caramelized quickly.""

CARAMELIZE to to convert

Carbonado

Carburet

""CARICATURE An exaggeration, or distortion by exaggeration, of parts or characteristics, as in a picture.""

Carillon

The occupation or work of a carpenter; the act of workingin timber; carpentry.

Cartwheel

CATABOLIZE

CATEGORISE

CATEGORIZE To insert in a category or list; to class; to catalogue.

""The cry of cats; a harsh, disagreeable noise or cry like the cry of cats.""

CENTRALISE

Causing to concentrate at a center. Opposite of decentralizing.decentralizing.

""CENTRIFUGE an apparatus having containers for liquids arrayed around a central pivot and rotated at a high speed, thus generating centrifugal force on the liquid, and separating substances (such as particles of solid or globules of an immiscible liquid) mixed together in suspension within the liquid. Suspensions which would settle only very slowly or not at all under gravity can be made to separate quickly in such a device.centrifugal force on the liquid, and separating substances (such as particles of solid or globules of an immiscible liquid) mixed together in suspension within the liquid. Suspensions which would settle only very slowly or not at all under gravity can be made to separate quickly in such a device.""

Chairman

CHANNELIZE

Character

Charbroil

Chauffeur

Checkmark

Cheerlead

Mean with money

Mean to be cutting down dairy produce

Cheap greens I order, being parsimonious

Chemisorb

Like comic Hilda's female act

Shooting the breeze

""CHLORINATE To treat, or cause to combine, with chlorine.""

Chugalug

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.""

CIRCUMFUSE To pour round; to spread round.

Clapboard

CLASSICIZE to make classic or classical.

Cocaptain

Illicit blood sport involving birds

Cockneyfy

Cocounsel

Codevelop

Cohostess

Video description, part 3

Commodify

Companion

""COMPENSATE To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompence; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses. as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses.""

Making more involved

Like some positions

Officer starts marching, hopeful of meeting someone halfway

Making concessions and undertaking to support firm measures initially

Concenter

One who attends a concert.

CONCERTIZE

CONCILIATE To win ower; to gain from a state of hostility; to gain the good will or favor of; to make friendly; to mollify; to propitiate; to appease.

CONCRETIZE

Improving (hair); training to respond

Training to behave in a certain way

CONFERENCE The act of comparing two or more things together; comparison.

CONFISCATE Seized and appropriated by the government to the public use; forfeited.

""CONGLOBATE Collected into, or forming, a rounded mass or ball; as, the conglobate""

CONGREGATE Collected; compact; close.

Guessing

Bringing into force

Against writing text for computer and compulsorily listing

CONSECRATE Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred.

CONSOCIATE An associate; an accomplice.

Causing constipation.

CONSTITUTE To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.

Forcing prisoners to take exercise

Restricting severely

What you might see in prisoners' exercise yard is compelling

Constrict

CONSTRINGE To dawn together; to contract; to force to contract itself; to constrict; to cause to shrink.

Building prisoner's training in to get released

Randomly counting carts leaving a building

Building

CONSUMMATE Carried to the utmost extent or degree; of the highest quality; complete; perfect.

Coming in conflict with meeting about beach in Ireland

""CONTRIBUTE To give or grant i common with others; to give to a common stock or for a common purpose; to furnish or suply in part; to give (money or other aid) for a specified object; as, to contribute food or fuel for the poor. as, to contribute food or fuel for the poor.""

Recuperating

""The business of a conveyancer; the act or business of drawing deeds, leases, or other writings, for transferring the title to property from one person to another.""

Firm talking about loud noise leads to working in harmony

Matching sound of baby for research and development at home with unhappy giant

Blending in with some gentle mutterings over research and development in Austria

Copartner

Copresent

PROCESSING process

Copublish

Copyright

Corkscrew

Cosponsor

COUNTERSUE

Crescendo

Crossband

Crossbar

Crosscut

Crossruff

CRYSTALIZE

Currycomb

Curveball

""CYCLOSTYLE A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred with an inked roller.""

Superior joinery - PM's job (wordplay)

Craft evident in one of the PM's tasks

CANNIBALISE

CANNIBALIZE

Cannonball

Cantilever

CARBOXYLATE to treat a chemical compound with carboxyl or carboxylic acid.

CARPETBAG A portable bag for travelers; so called because originally made of carpet.

CATHETERIZE To operate on with a catheter.

CATHOLICIZE To make or to become catholic or Roman Catholic.

""CERTIFICATE A written testimony to the truth of any fact; as, certificate of good behavior. as, certificate of good behavior.""

Chloroform

CIRCULARISE

CIRCULARIZE

Circumvent

CIVILIANIZE

CLOTHESLINE A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.

COUNSELLING counsel

""Inflected form of CULTIVATING Inflected form of CULTIVATE To bestow attention, care, and labor upon, with a view to valuable returns; to till; to fertilize; as, to cultivate soil. as, to cultivate soil.""

Codiscover

Jointly working

COLONIALIZE

Soldier does, perhaps, arriving outside and taking over

Of or pertaining to a commemoration; serving to commemorate.

Sympathising

Feeling pity for Scrooge having empty apartment in Advent (wordplay)

Appointing group of church workers during Advent

COMMUNALIZE

Sharing information

Complement

Complexify

Compliment

Comprehend

COMPUTERISE

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

""CONCATENATE To link together; to unite in a series or chain, as things depending on one another.""

Study coin classification, not allowing mind to wander

Snooty prisoner sent down (wordplay)

Patronising Tory on the way down

Disdainful prisoner being sent down

CONFABULATE To talk familiarly together; to chat; to prattle.

CONFEDERATE United in a league; allied by treaty; engaged in a confederacy; banded together; allied.

CONSOLIDATE Formed into a solid mass; made firm; consolidated.

""CONSTELLATE To join luster; to shine with united radiance, or one general light.""

CONSTERNATE to cause to be confused; confuse emotionally; to dismay.

Making toxic, say

Looking or just thinking about it