2-Letter Words Starting with C

Attired like Sherlock Holmes

Dressed for the opera.

Clothed in a fanon

Somehow dealt (with)

Struggled (with "with")

Got through difficulties

One who aims to hit singles (wordplay)

What a lovely little vessel I had!

Lover boy (wordplay)

Went wild (wordplay)

Went to a jamboree, maybe

Slept next to the trail, say

Imposed limits - or headgear (wordplay)

Placed a limit on

Like some teeth

The outer protein coat of a mature virus

Plant-feeding bug

Virus' protein shell

Complained like goldfish (wordplay)

Whined and worried about party leader

Raised petty objections like goldfish

Clepe

Gave a pass, slangily

Like big spenders at casinos, often

Let in for free

Confined (with "up")

Sent to the pen (wordplay)

Penned (up)

Cheated off a test, maybe

Cheated with one's neighbor, say

This is composed of Y as well as T

Agreed to, as a plea

Admitted (to)

Taken into custody, managed to grab pie that is being dropped

Coup

Made the hair curly

Covered with a fabric.

Like the sole of a Desert Boot

Frizzed.

Touching palms, perhaps

Made to hold water

Like beggars' hands

Pointed, as a crescent moon

Pointed, as teeth

Having a pointed end

Another term for a canine

Canine with a white coat

One of a human quartet

Jumped about, playfully

Skipped, bothered about exercise

Pranced playfully

A giant star

Work the jaws and teeth vigorously

Showed impatience

Bit impatiently

In need of balm, maybe

Rough and reddy (wordplay)

Roughened, as the skin.

Asked for food, maybe

Made little sounds

What the nestling did

Struck with small sharp cutting blows

Made a peep (wordplay)

Emulated a robin

Sounded like a bird

Munched (on)

Ate loudly

Bit hard

Cut corners for a start, and jumped

Cut church - choose soundly

Cut into pieces

Chump

Student bivouacked outside, being tight

Held in place, in a way

Got stricter, with "down"

Caught drunk and given a hand

Showed appreciation manually

Gave a round of applause

Laid hold of

Took one's hand

Held cap with sled out of control

Fastened; shorn

Cut short

What the barber did precisely - in a manner of speaking

Clomp

Hoofed it (wordplay)

Piled (together)

Walked heavily

Bunched up

""A fish of the herring family, also CLUPEOID""

Coapt

A brief summary

Compt

Took for oneself

Added (to committee)

Added, as a fellow member

A minute crustacean

Joined with a DD (wordplay)

2 joined to 500 (wordplay)

Like this puzzle's theme words

Uncomfortably small and restricted

Uncomfortably small, crowded

Having very limited space

Crap

Like pie crust borders, often

Made wavy

Pleated

Pan-fried, as pancetta

Added crunch to

Like rice in some cereal treats

Removed, as an ex from a picture

Trimmed, as a photo

Cut short, as hair

Crump

Cupel

Campus

Like some quaint beds

Like some outdoor wedding structures

Like some fancy beds

Overturned (in the water)

Overturned in water

(Of a boat) turned over

Capsule

Caught, seized after a chase

Got fit - healed outwardly

Fitting in better in the bag

Having a capuche

Lectured by Wilton (wordplay)

Covered with wool (wordplay)

Describing some floors.

Towards the head

A flowering plant

A multi-legged insect

In code

A subclass of marine Crustacea

""A fish of the herring family, also CLUPEID""

Coempt

Drop mace (anagram)

Came close (to)

Like rivals, often

Compere

Tried to keep up

Being in it, Con tested it

Joined the game

Assembled in a ring round politician

Bizarre polemic Democrat put together

Collected into a volume

Abided, by rules say

Acted in accordance with the law

Went along

Even agitato passage may be so written!

Put together a score, not 27

Wrote music that's calm

Enclosed area - not simple!

Add to company millions (sterling)

Add to enclosure

Make a mathematical calculation

Did some sums

Calculated.

Mended casks.

Made barrels

Copper

Coppice

A type of ownership of land

Check, as text

Proof obtained from carbon scan

Crimple

How a hundred waved but couldn't move

Lame Conservative leader ruffled

Like some shareware

Farm country resource

Farmer's acreage

Much of the Plains States

Made into a ball, as paper

Creased, wrinkled

Wrinkly

It fully inspires the love of children

Piece of furniture for storage

Piece of furniture used for storage

Cupel

Like many state capitols

Having a point

In code, to Brits

A small freshwater fish

Measured minutely.

Caponize

Capriole

Commanded, like Columbus

A pedantic sort was in charge

Go to Paris for a change to see them competing at the ice rink (wordplay)

With subtitles, say

Having a descriptive title.

Underwritten (wordplay)

Got to work greenly

Used the HOV lane

Rode with colleagues and complained about John's return

Had a short sleep during the day

Took forty winks.

Beaten about at noon, took a brief rest

Centuple

Fellow given sanction, man in special headgear

Chapter

Lowered in general esteem.

Lost value

Discredited journalist chasing each poor writer

Pieces of wood bound together in sheets

Pressed, recycled paper used for notepad backing

Panel of people in charge of potato fries (wordplay)

Chipper

Chirrup

Chopper

Applaud committee for proving cladding

Old word for wood for barrel staves

Slate used to ID film shots

Paper carrier (wordplay)

Cut directors in sign of officialdom

Driving test prop

""Adapted one to another; as, coadapted pulp and tooth. as, coadapted pulp and tooth.""

Newly sold place fell down

Cracked up - gave way

Fell apart when pass ran out

Processed for the landfill

Like some trash

Packed together

Company

Subdivided

Encircled

Compeer

Forced//Constrained

Made love with one from model police force

Obliged school to enrol representative English learners

Finished, say task

Come and pled and done

How one's been done

Complex

Behaved

Treated to form into fertilizer.

Put into a heap to decay

Conservative's naughty romp - is journalist included (wordplay)

Made up

Comprize

Partnered in crime

Prisoners, with pride shattered, plotted

Plotted together

Coplot

Copulate

Was a bad influence on

Made venal

Containing errors

Crispen

Calliper

Old name for the giraffe

Old mammal arrived with another short of energy

Obsolete word for a giraffe

Lobbied for water charges during election, for instance? They did it!

Crusaded

Place to erect a tent

Only common word in the English language with the consecutive letters MPG

""Inclosed in a capsule, or as in a chest or box;""

Like a news brief

Fixed cat - vet paid and delighted

Enchanted

Verticillate ground cover

Shot out when a cult taped broadcast

Launched at great speed

Mushroom ring, seedcase and seafood, potentially

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

Supported

Drove to prom, say

Performed a duenna's duties

Like many first dates

Coappear

Coemploy

Didn't take lightly

Complect

Complot

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

Like some interest

Exacerbated

Mixed.

Gather hempen cord in knots

See compositor about layer to delete

Divine or demon perch all at sea

Condensed or reduced in volume

Flattened by pressure

Squeezed The Media into Medoc complex

Turned state's witness, say

Was one of a team of surgeons (wordplay)

Turned state's evidence

Elemental serpent (wordplay)

Police officer's woe (wordplay)

Reptilian chief of police (wordplay)

PRODUCED produce

Copurify

Copycat

Copyedit

Agree to write (wordplay)

Keep in touch by letter

'Just the same, write the letter (10)'

Coscript

This was crackling, by the sound of it

Cold gent upset with penny lolly in cracker

Cooked spider-crab suitable for a low calorie diet (wordplay)

Oily and exaggerated husband held forth

A politician in church preached, becoming oily

CAPACITATE To render capable; to enable; to qualify.

Floating naiad corpse richly arrayed

Wearing ornamental coverings, as circus horses

CAPITALISE

""CAPITALIZE To convert into capital, or to use as capital.""

Gave in

Surrendered

A swimmer dived in and performed certain crafty manoeuvres

Clapboard

Cocaptain

Codevelop

Companion

Remunerated

Confused tabby's followed around

Not simple

Comic lad playing with pet becoming confused

Endangered through recklessness

Split the difference.

Made concessions when jeopardised by scandal

Conscript

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

Copartner

Copresent

Copublish

Protected, as a poem

Cosponsor

CROWSTEP a step on top of a wall

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

CARROTTOP

Complement

Past tense or past participle

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

Paid tribute to writer behind one version of Congratulations

Understood

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

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

Thought about

Did deliberate swindle with blueprint to get diamonds

The Parisian should be held in scorn, journalist considered

Seconder with drop-out conformed

Wrote and agreed

Kept in touch.

COUNTERPOSE

Choreograph

Clapperclaw

Compartment

CONTEMPORIZE to happen at the same time.

""Inflected form of POLYMERIZED Inflected form of 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.""

Cotransport

COUNTERPOISE To act against with equal weight; to equal in weght; to balance the weight of; to counterbalance.

CRYOPRESERVE

COMPASSIONATE Having a temper or disposition to pity; sympathetic; merciful.

CONCEPTUALISE conceptual

""CONCEPTUALIZE to to form a concept of; as, He could not conceptualize a robot that would help paralyzed patients.as, He could not conceptualize a robot that would help paralyzed patients.""

""COUNTERPLOT To oppose, as another plot, by plotting; to attempt to frustrate, as a stratagem, by stratagem.""

Counterpoint