2-Letter Words Starting with C

Science of drawing maps

Title of the puzzle

Map-making

Pl. caryopses (- p s z ) or caryopsides (- p s -d z ) See grain .

Catalepsy

Cataleptic

Cataplexy

Hurling, as with a sling

Hurling as if with a sling

Tragedy a 'thesp' actor performing

Event causing great suffering

Final event in a drama.

Familiar words (of comedian)

Fielders' slogan (wordplay)

Gotcha, you rascal!

Larva with a pet in it (wordplay)

A future monarch (wordplay)

Provide post for leaf dweller

God of freshness (wordplay)

Certain wraps

Pl -species (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biology) a species related to another by the ability to interbreed dogs and wolves are cenospecies [from Greek koinos common + species ]

Censorship

Bouquet at a meal, maybe

Dining room decoration

Arrangement on the table

Force of nature (wordplay)

Inward-pulling (force)

Cephalexin

Cephalopod

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.""

President reformed prisoner after tea

Committee head, feminist style

*Board meeting VIP

A perennial plant that sets its dormant vegetative buds just at or above the surface of the ground.

Champerty

CHAMPER one that {champs=v}

Champignon

Champion

Kind of accompaniment

Escorting important individual not south after tea

Chaperon

Cheapness

Economical way to travel (wordplay)

Discount hockey gear (wordplay)

NHL supplier's woe (wordplay)

Border stops ... or a hint to four squares in this puzzle

Border stops... or a hint to four squares in this puzzle

J. Goodall subjects

Goodall subjects

Primates

Chinquapin

""The art of writing or engrossing; handwriting; as, skilled in chirography. as, skilled in chirography.""

Chiropody

Specialist in the treatment of feet

One treating the feet

One who treats feet

Same as chiropter.chiropter.

Pigment making plants green

Green pigment in plants

Green coloring matter of plants

""A plastid containing chlorophyll, developed only in cells exposed to the light. Chloroplasts are minute flattened granules, usually occurring in great numbers in the cytoplasm near the cell wall, and consist of a colorless ground substance saturated with chlorophyll pigments. Under light of varying intensity they exhibit phototactic movements. In animals chloroplasts occur only in certain low forms.""

""A colorless liquid, C 4 H 5 Cl, that polymerizes to neoprene.""

Devise movements for (ballet)

Compose moves (for a ballet)

Emulated Michael Kidd

The mapping or description of a region or district.

Not staining readily with dye. Used of a cell or cell structure.

Any chemical group or residue (as NO<?/; N<?/; or O<?/) which imparts some decided color to the compound of which it is an ingredient.

""A plastid that contains pigments other than chlorophyll, usually yellow or orange carotenoids.""

Accurate time-measuring device

English word

""An applegreen variety of chalcedony, colored by nickel. It has a dull flinty luster, and is sometimes used in jewelry.""

Coded messages

""About the pole; applied to stars that revolve around the pole without setting; as, circumpolar stars. as, circumpolar stars.""

Cautious PC cuts crime drastically

Cautious, prudent

Cautious around religious group, taking first precautions in their midst

Immigrant test taker's goal

Status of a national of a state

Status for being part of a country

Cladophyll

Clapboard

To fight and scratch.

Footwear of sorts.

Large, heavy shoes

Heavy shoes

Boorish; rude.

Clomiphene

Laundry room supply, for some

Laundry room supply

They leave things hanging

Cloudscape

Coappear

Coaptation

Cocaptain

Cochampion

Cocomposer

Relying heavily on a partner

Codevelop

Codevelop

Codswallop

Coemploy

Insect having hard or horny forewings

Coleoptile

Like an air-filled lifeboat

Like card tables

Able to be folded down

Colophony

Colorpoint

Colportage

Colporteur

Deserved rebuke Slang.

Deserved rebuke: Colloq.

Deserved rebuke Colloq.

Saw Tooting, maybe

Run-of-the-mill

Nothing special

That may be compacted.

Compaction

The state or quality of being compact; close union of parts; density.

Companion

COMPARE to scrutinise for similarities

Relative that may have more

Part of speech, 'for richer, for poorer'

It could be better or worse

Comparator

*Side-by-side evaluations (France)

Remark about role in section

Divide into separate sections

Something said about piece or section

Capable of being compassed or accomplished.

Compassion

Compatible

Is Mr Potato Head to cry around fellow citizens (wordplay)

Capable of being compelled or constrained.

Concisely comprehensive

Compendium

Receiving money for services rendered.

Remunerated

Reimburses (#7)

""One who, or that which, compensates; a name applied to various mechanical devices.""

Competence

Bridal bio word

With skill

Rival prize crossword (wordplay)

The life of trade.

Final part of the chance card

""Of or pertaining to competition; producing competition; competitory; as, a competitive examination. as, a competitive examination.""

Group being played against

Rivals

Players

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

Anthology

Contented self-satisfaction.

Smug feeling

Do what you're told about champion network computer, but admit to it!

Smugness

One who makes complaint.

Complainer

During Advent Frank is airing grievances

Expressing dissatisfaction

Cooperating while in turn stopping grievance

Complect

Complement

Aaron Rodgers stat

Elway had 4,123 of these in his career

Considerations for foundations

The state of being complex; complexity.

Compliance

In a compliant manner.

Confused tabby's followed around

Not simple

Comic lad playing with pet becoming confused

Makes more confusing

Unexpectedly spot hydrogen escaping chemical compounds

Speaks well of

Seasonal good wishes, remarks inspiring leaders in pretty lacklustre institution

Complot

Opinion about left's behaviour

Left cutting remark in a personal manner

Behaviour of left in debate

Composite

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

Some notes for an essay

Character study, perhaps

Make-up - essay

Typesetters

Compounder

*"On the way!"

*'On the way!'

Method of figuring bank interest

Compradore

Comprehend

Applying pressure

Approach taken about newspapers applying the squeeze

Squeezing

Forced reduction in volume (of gas)

Process of being forcibly condensed

Act of forcing together

""Compressing, or having power or tendency to compress; as, a compressive force. as, a compressive force.""

Certain muscles.

Endangered through recklessness

Split the difference.

Made concessions when jeopardised by scandal

One who compromises.

Marxist takes pledges to make mutual concessions

Company member initially gives hope of settlements

Firm undertakes to make room for a thousand concessions

Financial official's title

(Generally) financial officer

New York office held by Fillmore when he was elected U.S. vice president

Compulsion

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

""One who bears testimony or swears to the veracity or innocence of another. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager. Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager.""

The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning.

COMPUTER a machine that computes automatically

Code talking (wordplay)

COMPUTER a machine that computes automatically

COMPUTERISE COMPUTER a machine that computes automatically

Make an office modern, in a way

High-tech whiz

Russian craft (wordplay)

What's shared by close companions

Fellow-feeling

That in which anything is contained; a vessel; a receiver or receptacle.

Conception

Conceptus

Meltdowns

Conscript

Of the same species.

The state or quality of being clear or bright; brightness; conspicuosness.

Spending to demonstrate wealth

Clearly visible

Noteworthy.

Member of a cabal.

Planner in secret

Person who secretly plots with others

Having difficult or incomplete or infrequent evacuation of the bowels; costive.

Constipate

Consulship

Eating disorder

Wasting disease

Tuberculosis

""Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting.""

Intend to deceive a model

Look at and study working pattern

Entertain model after do

Device torn apart in explanatory text

Strange machine

Unnamed object #1

Prescott? Men fall out and clash

Argument over cement ports

Awkward occurrence or situation

Acting together

Work done together

Group action

Common effort

Involving mutual assistance

Willing to be of assistance

Like a good police witness

Cooperator

Partnership in inheritance; joint heirship; joint right of sucession to an inheritance.

Joint heirs

Copartner

English word

""The state or quality of being copious; abudance; plenty; also, diffuseness in style.""

Inflected form of PLANARITY Inflected form of PLANAR {flat=adj}

""POLYMERIC Having the same percentage composition (that is, having the same elements united in the same proportion by weight), but different molecular weights; often used with with; thus, cyanic acid (CNOH), fulminic acid (C2N2O2H2), and cyanuric acid (C3N3O3H3), are polymeric with each other. with; thus, cyanic acid (CNOH), fulminic acid (C2N2O2H2), and cyanuric acid (C3N3O3H3), are polymeric with each other.""

Civil War figures

Certain Civil War figures

Some snakes

Police officer quietly delayed writing

Small change to portion of handwriting

Engraver's surface

One whose occupation is to manufacture copper utensils; a worker in copper.

Copresent

One head of a two-headed body

""PRINCIPAL Highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or degree; most considerable or important; chief; main; as, the principal officers of a Government; the principal men of a state; the principal productions of a country; the principal arguments in a case. as, the principal officers of a Government; the principal men of a state; the principal productions of a country; the principal arguments in a case.""

Coprisoner

Inflected form of PROCESSOR Inflected form of PROCESS to treat or prepare by a special method

Coproducer

PRODUCING produce

Copromoter

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

Copublish

Copublish

Copublish

Copulation

Copulative

Copurify

Copycat

Pre-publication job

Copyholder

Publishing-house group

Some editors

Copyread

Protected, as a poem