2-Letter Words Starting with C

Seaside railway (wordplay)

Where the sea meets the shore

It's shaped by current events

COAST to {glide=v}

""A rare silver-white to gray mineral, cobalt sulfarsenide, CoAsS, that is a cobalt ore and is used in ceramics.""

""A mineral of a nearly silver-white color, composed of arsenic, sulphur, and cobalt.""

To treat or an\'91sthetize with cocaine.

'Ride a ......... to Banbury Cross'

Ride it 2 across, by the sound of it (wordplay)

'Ride a . . . . . . . . . from Banbury Cross'

CULTURE to cultivate

""COELOME a body cavity in some animals, also COELOM, CELOM""

Member of The Abbey from company is one backing Sting

""A multinucleate cytoplasmic mass enclosed by a single cell wall, as in slime molds and certain fungi and algae.""

Not totally unyielding

FEATURE to present prominently

FINANCE to supply the money for

Dog has run out with programme? That's rarely conceivable!

Re: thinking (wordplay)

Of conscious intellectual activity

Involving the intellect

Study secures present church agreement

Make what you mean clear with this

Sticking together once cheer erupted

A woman hairdresser.

A bacteriophage that infects the bacterium Escherichia coli.

Pass to union workmate

Co-worker in company left union

Associate army officer left alliance

To tie or bind together.

Make parallel

Set; placed. [Obs.] [Obs.]

Printing process used in book illustration and advertising

Fraudulent

Pillars of the establishment (wordplay)

One surrounds the Parthenon

Architectural holder-upper

Specious; plausible; having an appearance of right or justice.

Like or related to snakes of the genus Coluber.

Flower for Harlequin (wordplay)

Flower display in emo club

Name of Gen. Eisenhower's plane.

""A mineral of a black color, submetallic luster, and high specific specific gravity. It is a niobate (or columbate) of iron and manganese, containing tantalate of iron; first found in New England.""

Comatula

With a CHIP on one's shoulder

Ornery, in a way

Eager to fight, aggressive

Mix, blend

""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.""

Group of people selected to run things

Group delegated to consider some matter

Panel set up for a purpose

Naval rank junior to rear-admiral

Star Trek bigwig

Perry's title

Joint use of anything

Joint use of a pasture

COMMUNE to converse intimately

COMMUNE to converse intimately

Reverse direction of an electric current

Something made of diverse elements

Combined to make notes about it

Made up of several distinct parts

Tranquillity of old city shown in design

State of calmness

Write about ancient city's tranquillity

Porter, caretaker (esp. Fr.)

Residential block porter

Doorkeeper, in France

Route to prison (wordplay)

Way to prison (wordplay)

Large area in, eg, railway station

Kept woman

Mistress has care of one whelp among nine

Mistress, caught at the right moment, carries bin

Likely to lead (to)

Favorable

Tending.

Conferva

Set up company with new person

Set up argument against human form

Assemble, as a computer system

Fruit preserves

Give different forms of (a verb)

Do a tense recitation (wordplay)

Give forms of (a verb)

One nominated in conjunction with another; a joint nominee.

Prison record keeper (wordplay)

Enlist new son, symbol of 8, into church

Recipient

Prisoners' surface for chow (wordplay)

Furniture in a prison (wordplay)

Hoax the firm with a painting (wordplay)

Place to get a passport

Seek advice about a European embassy

Residence of a Foreign Service officer.

Take on a twisted shape

Rolled together.

Twist

Military kitchen building

Kitchen equipment.

Piece of camping gear for exploring Newfoundland (wordplay)

There's a barrel of work for one in this

17 across after C comes from here

Where to buy kegs

Be one of a team of surgeons (wordplay)

How surgeons work together (wordplay)

Act jointly with others.

Crowning point on a building

Finishing stroke.

PRODUCE to bring into existence

A piece of petrified dung; a fossil excrement.

Like many reefs

Pinky knackered in the middle

Type of atoll composition.

A sculptured basket of flowers or fruits used as an architectural ornament.

Elusive grassland bird

Bird with rasping cry

Secretive grassland bird

""Krllt, Corollated Having a corolla or corollas; like a corolla.""

Like Bonds in business (wordplay)

Kind of takeover

Relating to a large group; united

White or red

Cruel cops sabotaged cell

Component of blood

Corrosive.

Make a connection between (things)

Do a statistician's job

One of a pair

Caustic about Ivor's broken heart

Caustic and destructive

Destroying by chemical action

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

New drug for arthritis.

Steroid developed nice torso

Miraculous new remedy for arthritis.

Gleam in flashes

Sparkle as American chap in central part

Glance confusing to accuser

""Consisting of corymbs, or resembling them in form.""

A joint trustee.

English word

Measureable by numbers

Subject to enumeration

Measurable by numbers

Variety of marrow

Zucchini is its American equivalent

Small green vegetable

""The area immediately bordering the official court of play, as in tennis or basketball.""

Relationship; kinship.

""VALENCE a chemical bond, also VALENCY""

""Kvlln, Covellite A native sulphide of copper, occuring in masses of a dark blue color; hence called indigo copper. indigo copper.""

""A native sulphide of copper, occuring in masses of a dark blue color; -- hence called indigo copper.indigo copper.""

COVER to spread something over

Shelter.

Shelter

That may be coveted; desirable.

Lack of courage

Severe lack of courage

Timidity - lack of courage

Cramoisy Crimson.

Councillor in old cord skirt (wordplay)

Does my bum look big in this (wordplay)

Does her bum look big in this (wordplay)

Alarm clock swallower in "Peter Pan"

Captain Hook's nemesis

Large aquatic reptile

Deep-fried dish

A fried roll of potato

Dish fried in breadcrumbs

What the Delaware was, Christmas, 1776.

Transversely

Transversely.

Contrarily

""Bread baked in a mold, and scooped out, to serve minces upon.""

A surgical instrument used to apply extreme cold to tissues during cryosurgery.

An instrument for measuring freezing and melting points.

Snug place for young foxes (wordplay)

Snug enclosed space

Place for keeping bits and bobs

Road block (wordplay)

Part of the street scene.

Part of the sidewalk scene.

Adapt for particular requirements

Heart of 5 replacing 5 in drunken Muscovite tailor

Chop, channel, slam, etc.

See Chrysoberyl. Chrysoberyl.

Italian cooking style

Prepared with tomatoes, mushrooms and herbs

Account on agency model in essence is prepared Italian-style

Ring-tailed cat

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) Botany growing in dense tufts [from New Latin caespitōsus, from caespitem turf]""

Disguise (from enemy)

Hide male in a foul cage after beating

Means of disguise

Treat with a type of insect-repellent

Hasn't a way to run away?

Hasn't a way to run away (wordplay)

Fruit worker gangster forced into car

English word

Song and dance of the French Revolution

""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.

A substance produced by the process of catabolism.

CATABOLIZE

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

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

Musical food wrapping (wordplay)

Musical food wrapping?

Film about packaged food (wordplay)

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.

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

Having a changeable luster.

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

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

English word

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

Treat pool water, maybe

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.

One of the serially aligned beadlike granules of concentrated chromatin that constitutes a chromosome during the early phases of cell division.

Thread of life (wordplay)

Y for men only (wordplay)

Gene-carrying body Biol.

Mineral used in making refractories

Stone makes loser itchy

Yellowish gemstone

Fibrous variety of serpentine, a form of asbestos

One of the quinine group of alkaloids isomeric with and resembling cinchonidine; called also cinchonia. cinchonia.

Variety of peach

It's a real peach

Variety of peach.

CLOFIBRATE

""A synthetic drug, C 26 H 28 CINO, that is used in its citrate form to stimulate ovulation.""

Heavenly painting (wordplay)

Many a desktop background

Heavenly image could upset Catholic primate after Sunday

Raised into a pile; collected into a crowd; heaped.

Capable of being coagulated.

Turn up repeatedly before noon? That's ridiculous

Ridiculous

Harebrained

Bird needs a moment, being fabulous

Monster in heap of straw getting at food

One monster bird followed by a second

FAVORITE a person or thing preferred

Thoughtful

""Capable of being known or apprehended; as, cognizable causes. as, cognizable causes.""

Notice

""The complement of the latitude, or the difference between any latitude and ninety degrees.""

""A powerful vegetable alkaloid, C17H19NO5, extracted from the Colchicum autumnale, or meadow saffron, as a white or yellowish amorphous powder, with a harsh, bitter taste; called also colchicia. C17H19NO5, extracted from the Colchicum autumnale, or meadow saffron, as a white or yellowish amorphous powder, with a harsh, bitter taste; called also colchicia.""

""A hydrous borate of lime occurring in transparent colorless or white crystals, also massive, in Southern California.""

A protective sheath enclosing the shoot tip and embryonic leaves of grasses.

Catch be on removable part of skeleton!

It links scapula and sternum

Shoulder-blade neighbor

Gathered in one mass

Prayer I have viewed as a whole

Innovative clue: 'Lot in coven?'

NCAA member (wordplay)

Of higher education

Attending Yale for example

Book distribution gets pass on carriage

""Pl. columellae (-m l ) Any small columnlike structure in various plants and animals, often forming the central axis of development for the organism or an anatomical structure.""

Capable of combinding; consistent with.

Capable of igniting committee shattered by massive service cut

Funny female performer

Bea Lillie, for example

Lucille Ball, for instance.

Thing to eat.

Something to eat

Arrives with bare head, putting on hat to eat

Talk over the movie

Audience of public gallery make observations

""A joint, seam, or closure; the place where two bodies, or parts of a body, meet and unite; an interstice, cleft, or juncture.""

The act or process of mixing; the state of being mingled; the blending of ingredients in one mass or compound.

Message from MacArthur.

Official announcement

Official bulletin.

Reachable from home on a daily basis

Not too far away

Dot's sequel to bible story, like

Related short comedy story

Nearly come to Bible story which is similar

Lamb with poetic bent in tune

Able to work with

What TV color is.

Spacemen to arrange to make amends

Writer settled in advance to make amends

Make financial amends to

... skill and experience

The ability to contend with North Clare

State of ability

Making complete.

Obedience, as with the law

Acquiescence.

Policeman is worried by initially cautious cooperation

Make less simple

Make more involved

Make involved

An intermediary; a go-between.

Meet halfway ("The Merchant of Venice")

Meet half-way

Company millions guarantee settlement

Dreadful slump in voice production that can't be helped (wordplay)

""Capable of being computed, numbered, or reckoned.""

Capable of conceiving.

Execute a rock blast

Sing onstage, for example

""Implying concession; as, a concessive conjunction. as, a concessive conjunction.""

Mollify, win over

Act as mediator

Win over

Convincing vice-consul is complicated

Final move for vice-consul

Vice-consul managed to be emphatic

Having the power of digesting or ripening; digestive.

CONCRETE to {solidify=v}

Having the power or quality of shaking or agitating.

Study studies consumed by dew, say

One decants mucky liquid

Do canteens serve up liquid produced from a vapour (wordplay)

Expression of sympathy

CONDONE to {overlook=v}

""Having the quality or power of conducting; as, the conductive tissue of a pistil. as, the conductive tissue of a pistil.""

Session of party officials.

Meeting for consultation

Assembly for discussion

Close friend, perhaps.

Study poem returned by poet's girlfriend

Female one entrusts with secrets

Secret communication engendering trust

Private communication of faith

Kind of man or game

Take away (property)

See circled letters (nonverbal)

Seize and study its face change

Meeting of rivers

Where things flow together

Study effect of power when not in the Union

""Pertaining to, indicating, or attended with, congestion in some part of the body; as, a congestive fever. as, a congestive fever.""

""Collected into, or forming, a rounded mass or ball; as, the conglobate [lymphatic] glands; conglobate flowers. as, the conglobate [lymphatic] glands; conglobate flowers.""

Solid flanks good in huge rally

Hoodwink man in opening rally

Gather in a crowd

Agreement, harmony

Unproven opinion or conclusion

Opinion formed without proof

Conclude by presumption

Preposition, for one.

Tendons, cartilage, ligaments, etc

Passive co-operation

Act of conspiracy

Illegal cooperation

Morality against biology (wordplay)

Eminem might have a "Guilty" one

Moral sense of right or wrong

Rewrote scene or act? Bless!

Vow to re-write scene or act

Bless strange ancestor buried in church