2-Letter Words Starting with C

""CAROTIN a plant pigment, also CAROTENE, CARROTIN""

Verticillate ground cover

CARTELISE

CARTELIZE

Like the Hydra's necks, post-decapitation

Cavalier

Known to be well like this (wordplay)

Noted Conservative bet leader changes

Observed (festival); famous

Magazine opening (wordplay)

Magazine middle, maybe

Model position (wordplay)

Thought

Chagrin

CHAIRMAN to act as chairman of

It's often wiped clean

Drove to prom, say

Performed a duenna's duties

Like many first dates

Charcoal

Supervisor gets help after assault

Pass under attack by group leader

Make worker pay - he's leader of a group

Checkrow

Where one may run into a mate (wordplay)

Bossed char (anagram)

Where to find a perfect mate (wordplay)

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a member of the Chironomidae, a family of nonbiting midges""

Named

Baptized

Recorded that condition of illness was first

Burial ground (usually)

God's acre

Burial place

""CICATRIZE To heal or induce the formation of a cicatrix in, as in wounded or ulcerated flesh.""

Distributed about mid-July, admitted man

Conservative reform curtailed, it's reported

Mingled

Clangour

Bach's instrument

Well-tempered item

Piano's early cousin

Secluded tree is cold like this

Like some nuns

Sheltered from outside society

Coanchor

Coappear

Football player at the beach (wordplay)

The main service provider (wordplay)

CO at a drugs bust (wordplay)

Wrote with someone else

CULTURED culture

Codirect

Coenamor

FEATURED feature

Coinfer

Cointer

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

Set up as prisoner and judged

(Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) a candidate for confirmation

Challenged Catholic leader on 'Father Ted' carries on

Congress

CONSCRIBE To enroll; to enlist.

Believed to be

Thought carefully about

Took into account

Nicaraguan music makers (wordplay)

Nicaraguan music makers?

Opposed to pop group taking drugs, maybe

Formally agreed; shrank

Shrank from being engaged

Reduced in size

Run into experienced Tory in leading position, shown to be different

Kept within bounds.

Like some explosions and substances

Jailbird was a pest online, under supervision

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

Corduroy

Coredeem

Dearer colt (anagram)

Established in orderly connection.

Dovetailing

Agree to write (wordplay)

Keep in touch by letter

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

Crumbs! Mat made date, brought wrinkly!

Cardboard type

CORUSCATE To glitter in flashes; to flash.

Coscript

English word

Courtesy

COVERALL one-piece protective clothing

Crawfish

Having squared notches

Scalloped

This was crackling, by the sound of it

""CRIMINATE To accuse of, or charge with, a crime.""

Verse in Nordic translation in dated dress

Cold gent upset with penny lolly in cracker

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

""CRITICISE To examine and judge as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment upon; as, to criticise an author; to criticise a picture. as, to criticise an author; to criticise a picture.""

Found fault with

Took to task.

Evaluated

Ill-humored species (wordplay)

Mate (two different species)

Mix, as dogs

Crowbar

English word

Worn at 29D

Tux go-with

One tours the Centre with the DJ

CYBERNATE

Cylinder

Oily and exaggerated husband held forth

A politician in church preached, becoming oily

Floating naiad corpse richly arrayed

Wearing ornamental coverings, as circus horses

""CARAMELISE to to change into caramel, by the action of heat; as, The sugar caramelized quickly.as, The sugar caramelized quickly.""

Like sugar that's been heated until it turns brown

Carbonado

Carburet

Drew a grotesque picture of

Carillon

A swimmer dived in and performed certain crafty manoeuvres

Did a gymnastic maneuver

Put into boxes in iced storage possibly

Placed in a category.

Meowed

Sailboat device.

CENTRALISE

""Drawn toward a center or brought under the control of a central authority; as, centralized control of emergency relief efforts; centralized government. Opposite of decentralized.as, centralized control of emergency relief efforts; centralized government. Opposite of decentralized.""

""CENTRIFUGE an apparatus having containers for liquids arrayed around a central pivot and rotated at a high speed, thus generating centrifugal force on the liquid, and separating substances (such as particles of solid or globules of an immiscible liquid) mixed together in suspension within the liquid. Suspensions which would settle only very slowly or not at all under gravity can be made to separate quickly in such a device.centrifugal force on the liquid, and separating substances (such as particles of solid or globules of an immiscible liquid) mixed together in suspension within the liquid. Suspensions which would settle only very slowly or not at all under gravity can be made to separate quickly in such a device.""

Presided over

Servant combining charm with bed? I am!

Source of mints, at times

Making bed with charm, am I? Possibly

Character

Grilled on a rack that leaves black stripes

Chauffeur

Checkmark

Chemisorb

CHLORALOSE

""CHLORINATE To treat, or cause to combine, with chlorine.""

Numskull.

Numbskull

Ignoramus

Of or belonging to the family Chrysomelidae.

""CIRCUMCISE To cut off the prepuce of foreskin of, in the case of males, and the internal labia of, in the case of females.""

CIRCUMFUSE To pour round; to spread round.

Clapboard

Mentally alert

Alert; logical

Perceptive

Unaffected by emotion

Like the cruel meteorologist

Lacking compassion

Endangered through recklessness

Split the difference.

Made concessions when jeopardised by scandal

Concenter

CONCERTIZE

CONCRETIZE

Gathered in a crowd

Hazarded an opinion

Conscript

Holy box in second reincarnation

Sanctified

Hallowed

Jail-birds exercised under compulsion

Reticent prisoners studied

Reticent prisoner pushed to the limit

Forced to be narrower

Made narrower

CONSTRINGE To dawn together; to contract; to force to contract itself; to constrict; to cause to shrink.

Put up

Built

CONTRAVENE To meet in the way of opposition; to come into conflict with; to oppose; to contradict; to obstruct the operation of; to defeat.

Given change but no credit

Added to

Added

Matched, harmonised

Attractively harmonised

Copartner

Copresent

Protected, as a poem

Corkscrew

Cosponsor

Revoke (an order)

Revoke an order

Reverse, as an order

English word

COUNTERSUE

Provincial company not put to the test about uncertainty

Backwoods

Rural

Same as countrified.countrified.

Having battlements.

Built up

Crookback

""A term used when a narrow ribbon of veneer is inserted into the surfase of any piece of furniture, wainscoting, etc., so that the grain of it is contrary to the general surface.""

Crossbar

Crossruff

CROWSTEP a step on top of a wall

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

CRYSTALIZE

Crystallike; transparent like crystal.

Did a groom's job

Curveball

Cantilever

CARBOXYLATE to treat a chemical compound with carboxyl or carboxylic acid.

CARROTTOP

Girl we hear presuming to transfer figures

CATHETERIZE To operate on with a catheter.

Authorized

Chandelier

Surface of 64 squares

Design of alternating squares

Examine hesitation for committee looking for kings in America (wordplay)

Sofa (with crooked spire?)

Type of sofa (in Derbyshire?)

Man of letters is well-upholstered

Chloroform

CIRCULARISE

CIRCULARIZE

Circumvent

Codiscover

Joined forces with strangely adorable clot

Seized arbitrarily

Called to remembrance

Remembered, celebrated

""COMMISERATE To feel sorrow, pain, or regret for; to pity.""

Understood

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

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

Deep Thought (wordplay)

Focused - made denser

Focus on The Last Word is reduced

Need for cadet to be trained in civil war group (wordplay)

CONSTERNATE to cause to be confused; confuse emotionally; to dismay.

Gainsaid.

Gainsaid

Controvert

CONVEYORISE

CONVEYORIZE

Seconder with drop-out conformed

Wrote and agreed

Kept in touch.

Affirmed

Inflected form of TRANSDUCED Inflected form of TRANSDUCE

Counteract

Past tense or past participle

COUNTERMOVE To move in a contrary direction to.

COUNTERPOSE

English word

English word

Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy.

English word

Credential

CRIMINALIZE to declare (an act) to be illegal.

Repeatedly moved back and forth around (a place)

Shaded with lines

CRYSTALLISE

Smoothly coated with crystals of sugar; -- used especially of fruits.

""The larval stage of certain tapeworms, resembling a cysticercus but having the scolex completely filling the enclosing cyst.""

Diagonal.

Stated precisely; -- of the meaning of words or concepts.

Home cook's entree (wordplay)

Contemporary of Lamartine.

Thick beef steak fillet

Choreograph

Chowderhead

Restricted, CID curbs crime in a riot

Limited

Placed in a particular position or condition; situated.