2-Letter Words Starting with C

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

""Of or pertaining to the carboxyl group; having a carboxyl group (written -COOH, -CO2H or -CO.OH); as, carboxylic acids are weakly acidic.carboxyl group; having a carboxyl group (written -COOH, -CO2H or -CO.OH); as, carboxylic acids are weakly acidic.""

Choke's locale

It mixes air with gasoline

Fuel-injector ancestor

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

Cardboard

Name on a Visa

Place to keep your 'plastic'

Place to keep your "plastic"

Chaotic drama with corgi and ticker tape

Diagnostic aid

Beat record

Study of poker (wordplay)

Study of the heart

Heart doctor's field

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

Song and dance of the French Revolution

Acorns ain't nuts; they're flowers

Florist's stock

Ohio state flowers

Cats and dogs, for example

Lions and tigers and bears

Dangerous dinosaurs

Carnotite

""CAROTENE a plant pigment, also CAROTIN, CARROTIN""

""CAROTIN a plant pigment, also CAROTENE, CARROTIN""

Carpaccio

English word

Group that picks each other up

HOV LANE users

Riding in the far-left lane, perhaps

Fuel-saving strategy

Gas-saving plan

""A slender prolongation of the receptacle as an axis between the carpels, as in Geranium and many umbelliferous plants.""

A kind of spore formed in the conceptacles of red alg\'91.

Carrefour

Carronade

Carroty

Vegetarian's toys (wordplay)

Arnez and Sills

Lucille Ball and Conan O'Brian, slangily

Vikki sings a round and a round (wordplay)

Carryover

Pulitzer Prize category

Not true to life, perhaps

Exaggerated

Strip artist (wordplay)

Eg, Peter Brookes

Arno or Nast, for example

Cartopper

Nuances of automotive design (wordplay)

Decorative scrollwork details on limo

Auto loans

Carvacrol

Caseation

Laborer making watch covers (wordplay)

Investigator of family problems, say

Social agency investigator

So careless, breaking the dishes

Church supper dishes

Picnic array

Adjustments made to last scouse dishes

Dishes of scouse prepared with salt mixed in

Severe critic to have fresh go at racist

Castoreum

Actors taking part? It leads to voices being raised

Castrator

CASTRATOR

""The breakdown of more complex substances into simpler ones with release of energy, in living organisms; destructive or downward metabolism; -- a form of metabolism, opposed to anabolism. See also Disassimilation.metabolism, opposed to anabolism. See also Disassimilation.""

A substance produced by the process of catabolism.

CATABOLIZE

They process album listings reference

Catalog

""CATALOGUE A list or enumeration of names, or articles arranged methodically, often in alphabetical order; as, a catalogue of the students of a college, or of books, or of the stars. as, a catalogue of the students of a college, or of books, or of the stars.""

One who makes a listing or inventory

Lynx becomes list maker

He should make the list

Conversations with one's kitty (wordplay)

All the items there make up the E. coast of Gaul

Lists

Catamount

Cataphora

Used as a cataphor [adj] : CATAPHORICALLY

Catatonia

Catatonic

Catchpole

Catchpoll

And here's the pitch (wordplay)

Hear angry talk, then cues for actors

Don't miss what are said to be slogans

Tories cage working classes

Game of lists

Word game

I agree cost is incorporated in order

Tie cargoes roughly and put into boxes

Type 'A secret I foolishly try to hide'

Arrange in groups

Label

Classify

Linkage

CATHODAL pertaining to a {cathode=n}

(Christianity / Roman Catholic Church) the patriarch of the Armenian Church [from Greek katholikos ; see catholic ]

A remedy for all diseases; a panacea.

""The spiritual head of the Armenian church, who resides at Etchmiadzin, Russia, and has ecclesiastical jurisdiction over, and consecrates the holy oil for, the Armenians of Russia, Turkey, and Persia, including the Patriarchs of Constantinople, Jerusalem, and Sis.""

Causation

Shout about gold turning into a warning

Sort of Belloc stories which were new

Intended to warn one out working in bright yellow

Caution

In St Lucia you are travelling with care

How label signs hard-partying rocker (wordplay)

Warily

CAVITATE to form cavities

Cedarwood

A photoelectric instrument for ascertaining cloud heights.

New Year's Eve figure.

Jubilant one

Dec. 31 figure

A disaccharide that is produced from the partial hydrolysis of cellulose.

Celloidin

Musical food wrapping (wordplay)

Musical food wrapping?

Film about packaged food (wordplay)

Celluloid

Cellulose

""CELLULOSE Consisting of, or containing, cells.""

Severely critical

Severely critical, but course is on anyhow

Disapproving

Bowdler's vessel (wordplay)

Will Hays's craft (wordplay)

Will Hays's craft?

Magazine opening (wordplay)

Magazine middle, maybe

Model position (wordplay)

Centesimo

Enormous number

Cylindrical cell parts near the nuclei that divide during mitosis

A specialized condensed region of a chromosomes that appears during mitosis where the chromatids are held together to form an X shape.

A peculiar rounded body lying near the nucleus of a cell. It is regarded as the dynamic element by means of which the machinery of cell division is organized.

Former officers dispersed in 10

Roman officers run section badly

Yank runs notice for old commanders

Mushroom ring, seedcase and seafood, potentially

Mushroom ring shining on group of whales - or squid, say (wordplay)

Cerecloth

System of protocol.

For show only

Formal lie - Cameron after Labour

Their master orders the programme

Formal events

Religious rituals

Petition to a higher court

Writ from a higher court

Writ from High Court to call up the records of a lower court

""Pertaining to, or secreting, cerumen; as, the ceruminous glands. as, the ceruminous glands.""

Cessation

Cetology

One versed in cetology.

President's musical 21 mostly tinned

Committee honcho, sometimes

President has haircut up in prison

Certain committee leaders

Committee heads.

Chalazion

Cyclone had dislodged rocky stuff

Quartz coming from Ceylon and Chad

Cyclone had rolled stone

A lead-grey or black mineral, found as a copper ore or in veins

Chalcogen

It's often wiped clean

Lizards notable for changing colors

Camouflage experts' chosen meal - hash

They blend right in

Chamois

Chamomile

Advocate eats good northern mushroom

Small edible mushroom often found in a fairy-ring

Supported

Lucky rollover for 20 (wordplay)

Govt. finance minister

German head's luck with press spin

Chancroid

When tennis players meet in transition

Shifting of position.

Workplace activity, sometimes

Ranchero's garb.

Plural noun or verb form

Drove to prom, say

Performed a duenna's duties

Like many first dates

Protectors of sorts

Charbroil

Charcoal

Cautious about girl getting a drink

White wine grape

Variety of white wine

Her erotica (anagram)

Ben Hur, for one

Ben Hur (wordplay)

Chariot

Charlotte

Chassepot

Having a changeable luster.

Iridescent quality of some gems

Chatoyant

Talk of British beef? She never stops!

Gossip in phone kiosk (wordplay)

Harry H Corbett: a cross windbag

Chawbacon

Do accounting work (wordplay)

Banks issue them

Pay-as-you-go with these

Charlie, for one

Tartan to indicate barrier on border

Place for passport inspections

They're called left-luggage offices in Britain

Checkrow

Cheechako

Model's assets

Model's "high" features

Chelation

Chelonian

Chemisorb

Plural or third person singular

The characteristic movement or orientation of an organism or cell along a chemical concentration gradient either toward or away from the chemical stimulus.

Cheongsam

Cherimoya

Chernozem

Where one may run into a mate (wordplay)

Bossed char (anagram)

Where to find a perfect mate (wordplay)

Chibouque

Chiccory

Chickory

Finely shredded leaf vegetables used as a base for a dish or as a garnish

Working hard with officer in Cabinet

Ornamental cabinet.

Setter keeps fine rosebowl initially in a cabinet

Chiefly Southern U.S. A tall piece of furniture typically having drawers on one side and space for hanging clothes on the other.

Subjects for novelists.

Like some medicine bottles

Safe for youngsters

Description of some rear door locks (5,5)

Glory-of-the-snow

Chipboard

Chirimoya

One Gypsy man getting into risky fortunetelling

Greek character and gypsy outside front of circus fortune-telling

Palmistry

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a member of the Chironomidae, a family of nonbiting midges""

A surgeon.

Courteous and gallant

Gentlemanly

Bold challenger's lead evaporated during shambolic chorus

Chloasma

Chloracne

English word

""Any of several compounds containing nitrogen and chlorine, especially an unstable colorless liquid, NH 2 Cl, used to make hydrazine.""

Chlordane

Chlorella

Treat pool water, maybe

""CHLORINE a gaseous element, also CHLORIN""

General anaesthetic, of old

Sweet-smelling anaesthetic

Old anaesthetic

Any of the flagellated cells in sponges having a collar of cytoplasm around base of the flagellum; they maintain a flow of water through the body.

An addict always at the bar (wordplay)

One needing kisses, say

One who can't resist Hershey's, say

Now's the time for . . .

These are sometimes nutty

17 across might give or get them today

""CHOCOLATE A paste or cake composed of the roasted seeds of the Theobroma Cacao ground and mixed with other ingredients, usually sugar, and cinnamon or vanilla. Theobroma Cacao ground and mixed with other ingredients, usually sugar, and cinnamon or vanilla.""

The quality of being of particular value or worth; nicely; excellence.

""The small appleshaped or pearshaped fruit of an American shrub (Pyrus arbutifolia) growing in damp thickets; also, the shrub. Pyrus arbutifolia) growing in damp thickets; also, the shrub.""

Chondrite

""Granular; pertaining to, or having the granular structure characteristic of, the class of meteorites called chondrites.""

Chondrule

""Having the lower chop or jaw depressed; hence, crestfallen; dejected; dispirited;downcast. See Chapfallen. Chapfallen.""

Steak eaters' places

Restaurants in clubs supported by families after dance

Choplogic

Chopper

""Choppier , choppiest Having many small waves; rough: choppy seas.""

Prepare kindling (wordplay)

Cuts up little bloodsuckers (wordplay)

But you can't cut celery with them!

Choragus

Choregus

English word

'Christ rose transfigured', they sing

Sunday singers

Singing group

Chorus

Chowder

Big eaters

Gluttons Slang

Gluttons: Slang

Readily stained with chromium salts: chromaffin cells of the adrenal medulla.

Scientific study of colors

Chromatid

Chromatin