2-Letter Words Starting with C

Violent meeting of objects

Course drivers should avoid

Course to avoid

""A solution of pyroxylin (soluble gun cotton) in ether containing a varying proportion of alcohol. It is strongly adhesive, and is used by surgeons as a containing for wounds; but its chief application is as a vehicle for the sensitive film in photography.""

Secret or illegal conspiracy to deceive

Secret cooperation

Secret deception

Public disorder

Disorderly outburst

Conservative proposal about honour causing uproar

Act of participating in the Eucharist

Sharing of spiritual feelings

Mass consumption that's common around university

Mate (maybe of honour!)

Person who lives or travels with you

One of the gang

Terseness

Provision for one's health

Part of an agreement

State one's requirement

Averse to an alliance (wordplay)

Study nuclear process in chaos

What a blow to the head might cause

Relationship: Brit. sp

A relationship: Eng. spelling.

Relationship Brit. sp.

Hold back - non-racist (anagram)

Restrict scope of (an activity)

Prison conveyance (wordplay)

Liquid coating on a virus maybe

It can go on spreading disease

Common epidemic factor

Blemish beneath skin of onions cut out

This brews, by the sound of it.

Discoloration of skin of onions cut in pieces

Banal piece by essayist? It's a gem

Dull red stone; lone cairn (anagram)

July birthstone

English word

CORNER to gain control of

""The erosion of the bed of a stream by running water, principally by attrition of the detritus carried along by the stream, but also by the solvent action of the water.""

Something worn on a hood

Rust, for example

Chemical process of metal erosion

Lively French social dance

Deb's ball

C eighteen dance

NCO old, yet turned over a new leaf

Missile launching procedure.

New Year's Eve tally

Stop at nothing

She's seduced no curates (wordplay)

No curates get mixed up with her!

No curates should take her out

Like many screenplays

Like Rodgers/Hart songs

Like Lennon/McCartney songs

Expert depressed by repressive measures

Repressive action taken

Newly appointed disciplinarian's measure

Burning (of a body)

Disposal of last atom in life (wordplay)

A burning romance somehow holds it back

A rounded tooth on the edge of a leaf.

Swimsuit competition for one

Swimsuit competition for one

Where to play Touchstone (wordplay)

Traversing Waltham, say

EastWest in Manhattan.

East-West in Manhattan.

Protector/guardian (of something)

He takes care to get a discount, perhaps

Keeper of keys

Vast empty city with no place to settle

Gigantic.

Massive

Physicist's accelerator

Particle-accelerating machine

Apparatus accelerating particles

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.""

A substance having a specific toxic effect on certain cells.

+Tangerinelike Philippine fruit

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

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

Payment per head

Memorable mention about a prince introducing poll-tax

Beginners' alphabet in wording under diagram could be taxing

Cause of cancer

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

Vehicle 101 has complete lack of data that produces growth

Actors taking part? It leads to voices being raised

Linkage

A remedy for all diseases; a panacea.

CAVITATE to form cavities

Enormous number

President's musical 21 mostly tinned

Committee honcho, sometimes

President has haircut up in prison

Certain committee leaders

Committee heads.

Advocate eats good northern mushroom

Small edible mushroom often found in a fairy-ring

A surgeon.

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

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

Of or belonging to the order Cladocera.

Line item (wordplay)

It's left hanging on the line

It may hold up your shorts

""The adaptation or adjustment of parts to each other, as of a broken bone or dislocated joint.""

Committee leadership sharer

CHAIRMEN chairman

CHAMPION to defend or support

FUNCTION to perform or act

Deep thought or meditation

Reflective thought.

Set cool client dancing

Gather one is charged for donations

Picked up during mass at bank

Character or tone (of something)

Speech by officer about arrangement of shades

Process of burning

Act of burning

It's often spontaneous

An officer's percentage (wordplay)

A cut above other ranks (wordplay)

A cut above the other ranks (wordplay)

""The act of making compact, or the state of being compact.""

French parallel (wordplay)

Assessment of differences

Act of examining resemblances

Way finder with an atom of sympathy

Feeling the needle a tiny bit

Common love and desire invoke pity

Final stage of property purchase

Describes closure for Finnish state

Finish last of all in contest, not exactly what is looked for

Skin's tone and texture

Albinos have a light one

Appearance of mental condition I will take on

Subjection to force.

Strong irrational impulse

It's usually irresistible

Idea (maybe leading to baby)

Fusion of gametes

What a type of pill can prevent? The idea!

Hat checking, for one.

Opposite of a parade (wordplay)

Subject of a loser's postelection speech

Logical (wordplay)

Reasoned deduction

End; decision

Drink derived from TONIC (wordplay)

Mixture - elaborate lie

Mixture

""The process of concreting; the process of uniting or of becoming united, as particles of matter into a mass; solidification.""

Steve Young injury in '97

2015 Will Smith film

Possible result of cracking nut

Heat transfer, for example

Fellow replacing note in link? That's sweet

Bonbon

Result of a grilling, maybe

Opposite of a line of work (wordplay)

Interrogator's goal

""A blowing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or of many fires in a foundry.""

Leave? It's no option in the rush hour

Cold medicine target

Indication of a stuffy head

Thing in common

Relation between things

Telephone need

Fit of anger

Tantrum

""A copper-nickel alloy composed of approximately 55 per cent copper and 45 per cent nickel, with high electrical resistance and a low temperature coefficient; it is used as resistance wire and in thermocouples.""

Satisfied, I raise no argument

Satisfied, I return no argument

Judgment time to oust five in assembly

Human pretzel's act

Girl on wrong charge of 'twisting'

Gym twist

One who doesn't do what's expected

Person who doesn't jump on the bandwagon

Earnest repentance.

Regret that article for publication has two letters cut out

Remorse

The act or process of conveying or transmitting.

Gathering it's the custom

Occasion for the smoke-filled room.

What all candidates are pointing toward.

Inmate's side of the story?

One side of the debate (wordplay)

Inmate's side of the story (wordplay)

Firm belief in guilty verdict

Prisoner, one on view

Firm belief may lead to imprisonment

""An unnatural, violent, and unvoluntary contraction of the muscular parts of an animal body.""

Reproductive intercourse, how fun!

Coming event in London

Ceremony, for my people embracing love

Ceremony of installing a monarch

ROTATION an instance of rotating

Proofer's change

Embarrassing newspaper note

Proof entry

Focus of muckraker journalists

Dishonesty, altering prior count

Rotten nature

City legislator

City law makers

COUNTER to {oppose=v}

Cafeteria worker

Drugstore employe.

COUNTER to {oppose=v}

Rural dweller

Compatriot

Rustic individual offering to go, for instance, with worker

Rustic types who were asked to lend an ear (wordplay)

Mass with Latin and tuna oil substituted

Delay; procrastination.

Bad-tempered person

Miser, old style.

Cousin of a crosspatch.

""The act or process of disintegrating a substance, or rendering it friable by the action of heat, esp. by the expulsion of some volatile matter, as when carbonic and acid is expelled from carbonate of calcium in the burning of limestone in order to make lime.""

Mathematical process; assessment

9 politician to wear raincoat when going out

""Greek Mythology A sea nymph who delayed Odysseus on her island, Ogygia, for seven years.""

A woman who operates a movie or television camera.

Female shooters arrived with harsh warning

Variant of cancellation .

Enchantment

Process that makes water bubbly

Pasta-and-potato-loving country (wordplay)

Soda-making process that explains four transformations in this puzzle (wordplay)

CARBURET to combine chemically with carbon

Severe scolding

Star's allowance for party (wordplay)

Reception, for example

Famous person with share in a 10

The act or process of cementing.

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Genetics) Genetics a unit of chromosome length, used in genetic mapping, equal to the length of chromosome over which crossing over occurs with 1 per cent frequency [named after Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866-1945), US biologist]""

A semisynthetic analogue of cephalosporin having a broad spectrum of antibiotic activity that is administered parenterally and used especially to treat systemic infections caused by susceptible microorganisms.

""Any of several four-footed herbivorous horned dinosaurs with enormous beaked skulls, of the late Cretaceous in North America and Mongolia.""

""Action of the brain, whether conscious or unconscious.""

President reformed prisoner after tea

Committee head, feminist style

*Board meeting VIP

Same as chiropter.chiropter.

A major constituient of cartilage

""The act of applying the chrism, or consecrated oil.""

""A bitter, yellow substance forming the essential constituent of Goa powder, and yielding chrysophanic acid proper; hence formerly called also chrysphanic acid. chrysphanic acid.""

Female pastor, e.g

Female pastor, for example

A woman who is a cleric.

One of the microscopic particles of emulsified fat found in the blood and lymph and formed during the digestion of fats.

Caloric unit (anagram)

Blood flow round body

Number representing total magazines sold

A woman who is a member of the clergy.

Female priests

""A semisynthetic antibiotic of the penicillin group that is used primarily to treat infections caused by staphylococci, streptococci, or pneumococci.""

Hardening (of blood)

Nautical goo could be forming a clot

Confinement to a narrow space.

""DIRECTION The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o. as, the direction o.""

""An educating together, as of persons of different sexes or races.""

Pl. coelentera (-t r- ) The saclike cavity within the body of a coelenterate.

""EVOLUTION The act of unfolding or unrolling; hence, in the process of growth; development; as, the evolution of a flower from a bud, or an animal from the egg. as, the evolution of a flower from a bud, or an animal from the egg.""

Insect having hard or horny forewings

See springtail .

A binding together.

""The act of collimating; the adjustment of the line of the sights, as the axial line of the telescope of an instrument, into its proper position relative to the other parts of the instrument.""

The placing of things together

Items joined together

Student's lock opener

Marriage state? Tease one at first

A threat or threatening; a denunciation of punishment or vengeance.

The act of reducing to a fine powder or to small particles; pulverization; the state of being comminuted.

A passing from one state to another; change; alteration; mutation.

Rival prize crossword (wordplay)

The life of trade.

Final part of the chance card

At the Close of a Century, for Stevie Wonder, for example

Anthology

Some notes for an essay

Character study, perhaps

Make-up - essay

Forced reduction in volume (of gas)

Process of being forcibly condensed

Act of forcing together

I'm feeling sorry for wordplay in cryptic not comic setting

The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning.

The act of condoning or pardoning.

CONFLICT to be in opposition

The act or process of confuting; refutation.

""The act or process of passing, or causing to pass, from a fluid to a solid state, as by the abstraction of heat; the act or process of freezing.""

Member of US legislature

Representative REM songs can upset

John Quincy Adams' post-presidential job

Long and Short.

All inflected forms of verb

But, for one

'And' is one

State of being joined together

TRICKSTER'S FORTE

Implied idea

Associated idea

Associated meaning

""A following, or sequel; actual or logical dependence.""

Comfort

Eating disorder

Wasting disease

Tuberculosis

Isn't, for instance, to do with drawing

Process of size reduction

Don't, e.g

Device torn apart in explanatory text

Strange machine

Unnamed object #1

Extended built-up area

Agglomeration of towns

Sprawl of linked towns

Criminal career (wordplay)

Formal gathering

Formal assembly

""The act of rolling anything upon itself, or one thing upon another; a winding motion.""

Work done together

Group action

Common effort

""An extensive chain of mountains or mountain ranges, especially the principal mountain system of a continent.""

Mythology

Officer almost into rebuilding firm

Large company gathering in a root crop

City body; paunch

Interdependence or the degree of it

Mutual relationship of interdependence

Interdependence (of statistical variables)

The act corrugating; contraction into wrinkles or alternate ridges and grooves.

Flash of wit

Flashing or sparkling

Certain banks conceal atrocious blundering in show of brilliance

A nice sitcom about worker in beauty salon

A plan intended to counter or oppose another plan.

Deli menu (wordplay)

Add a second signature

Confirm in writing

""VARIATION The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing; modification; alternation; mutation; diversity; deviation; as, a variation of color in different lights; a variation in size; variation of language. as, a variation of color in different lights; a variation in size; variation of language.""

A woman who practices a craft with great skill.

A man who practices a craft with great skill.

""The act of crenelating, or the state of being crenelated; an indentation or an embrasure.""

A minute crenation.

It's God's own work to keep mine from crackling

Crackling.

The act of accusing; accusation; charge; complaint.

""Like, or pertaining to, the crocodile; characteristic of the crocodile.""

Angry toxophilite (wordplay)

Irritated archer

An ill-natured musician, expert with the arbalest

CROSSBOW a weapon for shooting bolts

What Jesus suffered

Death on the cross

Biblical execution at Golgotha

""The selective exposure of tissues to extreme cold, often by applying a probe containing liquid nitrogen, to bring about the destruction or elimination of abnormal cells.""

""Any of various marine animals of the phylum Ctenophora, having transparent, gelatinous bodies bearing eight rows of comblike cilia used for swimming. Also called comb jelly .""

Climactic point

Climax

Not taking effect

""The act or process of refining gold or silver, etc., in a cupel.""