2-Letter Words Starting with C

Did Inca learn of this gem (wordplay)

Red cross member (wordplay)

Variety of quartz

Carnify

Carnify

A betaine commonly occurring in the liver and in skeletal muscle that functions in fatty acid transport across mitochondrial membranes.

Circuses

Carrion Virginia mixed for flesh-eaters

Wolves etc mostly fair when tackling men

Order soldiers to stop endless festivity

T. Rex, for one

Tip of rhubarb? No, I crave tripe!

Lion or tiger, for example

An ore of uranium

Caroach

Holiday entertainers

Soho seasonal singing

Singing Christmas hymns

Singing at 7 across

Carolus

Carotene

Noisy revels

Wild times.

Where you may find the pretty horses

Ornate amusement park rides

Kids hold their horses on them

Merrymakers

Reveler's activity

Many awakening us with their 28 across

Heading for a hangover

Thinly-sliced raw beef

Dish of thinly sliced raw meat

Italian hors d'oeuvre

One of Salinger's artisans (wordplay)

Fish becomes woodworker (wordplay)

Craftsman/river sign (wordplay)

Trade in a chippy (wordplay)

One of the trades

Woodwork at the fish gate

Mid-1800s luggage

Luggage of the 1800s

Piece of luggage

Covering darling in fond embrace

Concerned about sweetheart dressing down

End of the quip

CARPING the act of one who {carps=v}

Got to work greenly

Used the HOV lane

Rode with colleagues and complained about John's return

Morning pick-me-up (wordplay)

H.O.V. lane user

HOV lane user

Mini modified genera of seaweed

Purplish-red, edible seaweed

Purplish-red North Atlantic seaweed

A crossroads.

Gigs and cabriolets

Victoria and clarence.

Coaches affected airs and graces endlessly

Carriole

Carroch

Carrom

""A kind of short cannon, formerly in use, designed to throw a large projectile with small velocity, used for the purpose of breaking or smashing in, rather than piercing, the object aimed at, as the side of a ship. It has no trunnions, but is supported on its carriage by a bolt passing through a loop on its under side.""

Carroty

Carrotin

Lucille Ball for one

Nicole Kidman, for one

Lucille Ball for one

Merry-go-round

Renovated roundabout for Central Park.

Give someone a shout locally after vehicle takes left by roundabout

One-horse carriages.

Beach bags.

Tax return credit.

Tax law provision affecting prior years

Famous racehorse.

Carryout

It is what ferries do with what is left

Take on to a new page

Transfer to the next column, in math

CARTEL a business organization

CARTEL a business organization

Flexible connective tissue

Connective tissue of the human body

Kind of bone

Wagons full

Crafty type follows college lads around inside for large amounts

Carton

Worked on a panel (wordplay)

Worked for Mad, maybe

Worked on a strip

CARTOP able to fit in top of a car

Oblong in Egyptian hieroglyphs

Tablet in scroll form

Any scroll-shaped ornament.

Credit rag (anagram)

Sort of paper-round (wordplay)

Sort of paper round (wordplay)

""A register, or record, as of a monastery or church.""

Is it your turn to do this (wordplay)

Handspring's kin

Part of a gymnastic routine

Caruncle

""A thick oily liquid, C10H13.OH, of a strong taste and disagreeable odor, obtained from oil of caraway (Carum carui). C10H13.OH, of a strong taste and disagreeable odor, obtained from oil of caraway (Carum carui).""

Auto-cleaning services

Some school fundraisers

Drive-thru cleanings

Women carrying building materials

Greek women relied on for support

Pillars in the form of female figures

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

""A onecelled, dry, indehiscent fruit, with a thin membranous pericarp, adhering closely to the seed, so that fruit and seed are incorporated in one body, forming a single grain, as of wheat, barley, etc.""

Caryotin

Casework

Caseworm

Fired, as a salesclerk (wordplay)

Scanned the goods, say

Dismissed from one's job

Some scarves, coats or sweaters

Some Donna Karan products

Some scarves

Casimere

Casimire

Dish (served in a dish of the same name)

Dish for bad loser in lawsuit (wordplay)

Church-supper dish

""A thin, twilled, woolen cloth, used for men's garments.""

Bird so cautious under the bag up there

Bird that's scary was wild about nothing

So a cry was changed of the running bird

The oil secreted from the beaver that is used as bait by trappers

Actors awarded stars? Done!

Players given value - done

Like a gelding thrown a painter by boy

Loses membership (wordplay)

... knackers pitch and charges

CASTRATO a singer castrated in boyhood

Mostly relaxed, artist captures popular tree

The use of clever but false reasoning

Clever but false reasoning

Logic-chopping

Librarian, at times

List maker

CATALYZE to act at a catalyst

Boat for felines (wordplay)

America's Cup winner, perhaps

Feline boat (wordplay)

""The use of a linguistic unit, such as a pronoun, to refer ahead to another unit, for example, the use of him to refer to John in the sentence Near him, John saw a snake.""

Waterfalls - in the eye (wordplay)

Waterfalls in the eyes (wordplay)

What Niagara Falls consists of.

""Pertaining to, produced by, or attending, catarrh; of the nature of catarrh.""

Catbrier

Doh! for one

"Doh!" for one

A favorite saying

Positive cat is to go in Eric's custody

Without exception included in a class

Unambiguously direct

Feline shriek - cult aware (anagram)

Queens on wall heard thus (wordplay)

Tempting appeal from the Queen's Mews!

Discharges of pent-up emotions

Ah! elicitors

Releases

Purification - is rash act (anagram)

Oddly, chap to head riskiest release

Purification for suspect archaists

Cleansing - arctic hat (anagram)

Medicine found by little girl on a lorry

Releasing pent-up emotions

Cathedra

Saint Paul's, for one

Winchester, for one

St Patrick's in Dublin, say

Cathedra

Medical devices

Catnaper

Grabber of winks or a lynx (wordplay)

Capable parent's not fit to flop around one dropping off

Of or relating to mirrors and reflected images.

Cattery

Very large pots used for boiling

Vessels for boiling

Potion props

Short informal essays

Cozy chats

Chats

Cautery

Burn, as a wound

Burn with a hot iron

Sear with a corrosive

Cavalero

Royalists in vehicles could be alive

University of Virginia athletes

Royalists in the English Civil Wars

Horseback troop groups

Caveator

Cavern

Vast and hollow

Huge, in a way

Like Carlsbad

Those who nitpick

Cavorter

Larking about in underground activity? Nothing right in that

Gamboling

See cedar waxwing .

Raced round copse for timber

Hard, sweet-smelling timber

Durable fragrant timber

Ceinture

Mass Observation director

Someone to get mad with priest

Toaster, for example

Have a party, say

Mark (a birthday)

Publicly praise (someone)

Star born during expedition

Well-known or famous person

Quick movement, penning boy's first name

Celeriac

Charge for storing (wine?)

Certain storage charge

Cost of storing wine

Monks for the commissary

Cabinets for wine.

Sideboards

Cellar

Workers with mortar.

Bricklayers

Descriptive of a Watch-and-Warder.

Having a vet remove something

Hays office job

Denying free speech

Severe critics

Reprimanding, rebuking formally

Blaming a number before making sure

Reprimanding, rebuking

Fabulous creature presses on each star thistle, for example

A 100th anniversary

One hundredth anniversary

That's for a hundred gone in time

Adjusting an axis to normal position

Moving away from the sides

Centiare

Metric-system unit

That grate of mine carries little weight

Approximate weight of a grain of sand

Central

How a middleman works (wordplay)

At the middle

Not put on side in this way

Very little money distresses utterly Dome's supporters

""One of two small cylindrical cell organelles composes of nine triplet microtubules, which form the asters during mitosis.""

Centrism

People in the political center

CNN's metaphorical "Elephonkey" and others

Voters who remain undecided as the electon nears, often

Centroid

Millennial breakdowns (wordplay)

Periods of 100 years

Hundreds of years

Man of 18 (wordplay)

Roman army commander

Roman army officer

Some potters

Fictile craftsmen

Fictile craftsmen.

Cercaria

CERCARIA a parasitic worm

Cercaria

Parts of brains

Lower posterior parts of the brain

Occupiers of the skull's posterior fossa

Cerebral

Have an idea

Think hard

Just think how to get the beer into the crate

Cerebrum

That's the stuff for grave occasions

They're worn of late

The correct wear for grave occasions

It's wearing for those that are late

Cerotype

Certain

Art nicely represented? Yes!

Some left? Yes, of course

Definitely or positively

Cattery in trouble? No doubt about it!

Unusually tiny trace, no doubt

State of being sure

Like some important letters

Part of CPA

Mad that one had authenticated it

One giving formal confirmation

Guarantor

Certify

A feeling of conviction, given rectitude

You can't predict the weather with this

Feeling of surety

Sky blues

Cerusite

""Native lead carbonate; a mineral occurring in colorless, white, or yellowish transparent crystals, with an adamantine, also massive and compact.""

Cervelat

Cesarean

Cesarian

Chaffer

One who chaffers; a bargainer.

Feeling humiliation, dispersed in charge by Duke

Put out

Upset

Skier's aid

Skier's need

Way up the slope

Chairman

Dry measures of old England.

Dry measures of old England

Like a nautilus

Chambray

Chamfer

Chamfron

Title holder burst tyre, which is illegal

Bubbly unfinished before getting extremely tipsy, which is illegal

""A venereal sore, resembling a chancre in its seat and some external characters, but differing from it in being the starting point of a purely local process and never of a systemic disease; called also soft chancre. soft chancre.""

Of the nature of a chancre; having chancre.

Raymond's candle makers

Playback man's are dealers in corn

Ship provisioners

Marine supply business

Place where candles are kept

Place selling things for boats

Chanfron

Medium

Chantry

Dense brushwood of the southwestern US

Thicket of shrubs.

Thicket of dense tangled brushwood

Parent at the prom, say

Teacher at a dance, say

Guardian could be no cheaper

Parents at school parties.

Overseers of a sort

Parents at school parties

Chapiter

Chapter

Old tourist coach

Old tourist vehicle

British bus for sightseers

Characid

Characin

A card or a letter (wordplay)

Eccentric nature (wordplay)

Imaginary person in a work of fiction

Way to cook steak

Charcoal

Caginess. wariness

Caution needed if there's a rainfall during the game

Wariness

Chariot

I stir each (anagram)

Acts of aid to the needy

Donor's beneficiaries

Wedding music of sorts.

Vicar with hairstyle that's burlesque

Hawthorne tales, thus related

Flamboyant deceiver, mountebank

Quack, fraud, a flamboyant deceiver

Cleaner's mostly slow, and an imposter

Charlock

Did Bates report her quarrel (wordplay)

Queen of puddings (wordplay)

She's a tart - but deep!

A satin-finished silk fabric.

Conservative safe, but lacking allure

Cold and safe, lacking appeal

Offensive wing left in game

Charry