2-Letter Words Starting with C

Compilation

Complacence

In a complacent manner.

Complainant

Maybe open acclaim's what's expected of a yes-man

Obliging nature accompanies first of lawyers, dubiously

""Supplying, or tending to supply, a deficiency; fully completing.""

Complement

The state of being complete.

A. Consisting of interconnected or interwoven parts; composite.

Past tense or past participle

Complexify

Of or pertaining to constitutional complexion.

""Having (such) a complexion; used in composition; as, a darkcomplexioned or a ruddycomplexioned person. as, a darkcomplexioned or a ruddycomplexioned person.""

Knotty problems.

Compliancy

Complicacy

Making more involved

Difficulty produced by aggravation of illness

Difficulty

Complicity

COMPLICIT

Paid tribute to writer behind one version of Congratulations

""COMPONENT Serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent.""

Comportment

COMPOSED compose

Musical creations

That may be compounded.

Understood

Compressed

""Capable of being pressed together or forced into a narrower compass, as an elastic or spongy substance.""

Compression

Compromiser

Like some positions

Officer starts marching, hopeful of meeting someone halfway

Making concessions and undertaking to support firm measures initially

Company member takes on fishermen and financial officers

By compulsion; by force.

COMPULSIVE Having power to compel; exercising or applying compulsion.

; by force or constraint. by force or constraint.

Compunction

""Of the nature of compunction; caused by conscience; attended with, or causing, compunction.""

""The act or practice of justifying or confirming a man's veracity by the oath of others; called also wager of law. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager. wager of law. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager.""

Compurgator

Computation

Computerdom

Computerese

Posh tea (unfinished) included sandwiches produced by machines (wordplay)

Computerise

Computerist

""Stored, processed, or analyzed by computer.""

Computerize

COMPUTER a machine that computes automatically

Adjective meaning resembling

Computernik

Comradeship

Conceptacle

Pertaining to conception.

Conceptual

Tory getting prize money is above being lecherous

Lustful jailbird has item from women's underwear, I discern

""Folded lengthwise along the midrib, the upper face being within; said of leaves or petals in vernation or \'91stivation.""

A specialized fungal hypha (a branch of the fungal mycelium) that produces conidia.

Bringing into force

Against writing text for computer and compulsorily listing

He's impressed by this (wordplay)

Compulsory enlistment

Service requirement to study text no one recalled

Conspecific

Conspectus

Plots against Press? CIA, I fancy

Unlawful secret agreements

Plots extremely pathetic and scenario is ludicrous

Agreement or concurrence for some end or purpose; conspiracy.

Swindles by eg Hook mostly, or Smee initially - they plot together!

Tricks foreign airports and those in a number of schemes

Ring

Causing constipation.

Difficulty going on after Ascot tip in racing

It's treated by gastroenterologists, strangely, not opticians

""One that consumes, especially one that acquires goods or services for direct use or ownership rather than for resale or use in production and manufacturing.""

Consumption

Consumptive

Thought about

Did deliberate swindle with blueprint to get diamonds

The Parisian should be held in scorn, journalist considered

Muses.

One who contemplates.

With passing of the same age

Marlowe was Shakespeare's

Peer's perverse, penning funny poem

To happen at the same time.

Revolting beyond The Pale

Despicable company gets half-hearted bite after introducing lure

Vile

In a contemptible manner.

Put on costume, turning arrogant

Scornful of fashionable costume put on

Disdainful

Against various points of gismos

Of music with more than one melody

Polyphonic

Singing voice wanting to hedge a bet with more than one melody

United group actions

Cooperative

Copartner

Copingstone

""POLYMERIZE To cause polymerization of; to produce polymers from; to increase the molecular weight of, without changing the atomic proportions; thus, certain acids polymerize aldehyde. polymerize aldehyde.""

Copperplate

Policeman gets a lead on forgers - metalworkers!

Copresent

Copresident

Coprincipal

PROCESSING process

Coprocessor

Coproduct

Coprophagy

""Feeding upon dung, as certain insects.""

""An abnormal, often obsessive interest in excrement, especially the use of feces for sexual excitement.""

Coprophilia

""Living or growing on excrement, as certain fungi.""

""PROPRIETOR One who has the legal right or exclusive title to anything, whether in possession or not; an owner; as, the proprietor of farm or of a mill. as, the proprietor of farm or of a mill.""

""PROSPERITY The state of being prosperous; advance or gain in anything good or desirable; successful progress in any business or enterprise; attainment of the object desired; good fortune; success; as, commercial prosperity; national prosperity. as, commercial prosperity; national prosperity.""

PUBLISHERS publisher

Copublish

Copyright

Corecipient

Corepressor

Adulterer agreeing to lose one of two rights

Pressman's only one right person in divorce case

Coronagraph

Coronograph

Corporation

Corporatism

The state of being corporeal; corporeal existence.

Corporeity

Corpulency

Seconder with drop-out conformed

Wrote and agreed

Kept in touch.

Corruptive

""One who describes the world or universe, including the heavens and the earth.""

""Kzmgrfk, Cosmographical Of or pertaining to cosmography.""

Cosmopolis

Familiar with many cultures

Liberal and worldly, or a cocktail

Citizen of the world

Cosmopolite

Cosponsor

Cotransport

Countercoup

Bedspreads

Counterpart

Counterplan

Counterplay

Counterplea

Counterplot

Counterploy

Melody added to another

Combination of melodies

Feature of much of Bach's music

Weight balancing another

Balance of one picture, so uneven

Balance cost in Europe being reorganised

COUNTERPOSE

Counterpose

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Knock back drink by bar

Retaliation from buffoon hiding under work surface

Boxer might take this drink, sitting next to bar

English word

Counterspy

Counterstep

English word

A craftsman or a craftswoman.

Some casino patrons

Creepiness

Crepitation

Crispiness

Peevish people

English word

GCHQ worker

Code breaker

Codebreaker

Cryptarithm

A systemic infection caused by the fungus Cryptococcus neoformans that can affect any organ of the body but most often occurs in the central nervous system.

""Any of various yeastlike fungi of the genus Cryptococcus, commonly occurring in the soil and including certain pathogenic species, such as the causative agent of cryptococcosis.""

""Of or pertaining to the series Cryptogamia, or to plants of that series.""

Cryptograph

A cracking job!

Study of final resting places (wordplay)

Study of writing and deciphering codes

Cryptology

Redford, in "Three Days of the Condor"

Code expert

Cryptomeria

Cryptorchid

A developmental defect marked by the failure of the testes to descend into the scrotum.

Ctenophoran

CULPABLE blameworthy

Cupellation

Cupronickel

Curatorship

Cuspidation

Cycadophyte

Cyclopaedia

""A colorless flammable gas (C3H6) with a three-carbon ring, sometimes used as an anesthetic.C3H6) with a three-carbon ring, sometimes used as an anesthetic.""

""An immunosuppressive drug obtained from certain soil fungi, used mainly to prevent the rejection of transplanted organs.""

Cypripedium

Cyproterone

Cystoscopy

""CACOGRAPHIC Pertaining to, or characterized by, cacography; badly written or spelled.""

Cacophonous

Calligrapher

Calligraphy

Decorative writer

Does he practise strokes in particular waves (wordplay)

Producer of decorative writing a spiral glitch ruined

Like a loud brass band that's out of practice

They film the concert footage

Campanology

A belly boy (wordplay)

Belle (wordplay)

One skilled in bell ringing

Of the nature of camphor; containing camphor.

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Microbiology) a rod-shaped bacterium that causes infections in cattle and man. Unpasteurized milk infected with campylobacter is a common cause of gastroenteritis [from Greek kampulos bent + bacter ( ium )]

Capableness

Roomy quality

Capacitation

Capercaillie

Capercailzie

Capillarity

Capitulation

""The practice of hanging, upon the cultivated fig tree, branches of the wild fig infested with minute hymenopterous insects.""

Cardinalship

""Of or pertaining to, or produced by, a cardiograph.""

Cardiopathy

Outsiders in the political arena

Opportunists, possibly, those grasping Persians

Opportunists

CARPETBAGGER An adventurer; a term of contempt for a Northern man seeking private gain or political advancement in the southern part of the United States after the Civil War (1865)< used now for any politician moving to a new location to take advantage of more favorable chances for election>.

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

Map makers

They may need to get the political landscape mapped out afresh

Cartography

The doctrine that the geological changes in the earth's crust have been caused by the sudden action of violent physical causes; opposed to the doctrine of uniformism. uniformism.