2-Letter Words Starting with C

""CONTRACTION The act or process of contracting, shortening, or shrinking; the state of being contracted; as, contraction of the heart, of the pupil of the eye, or of a tendion; the contraction produced by cold. as, contraction of the heart, of the pupil of the eye, or of a tendion; the contraction produced by cold.""

Taking place or originating in a corresponding part on an opposite side.

Causing heated debate

Likely to cause disagreement

Is Rev. a control freak? It's debatable

""RESIDENTIAL Of or pertaining to a residence or residents; as, residential trade. as, residential trade.""

""CORRELATION Reciprocal relation; corresponding similarity or parallelism of relation or law; capacity of being converted into, or of giving place to, one another, under certain conditions; as, the correlation of forces, or of zymotic diseases. as, the correlation of forces, or of zymotic diseases.""

Like much GCHQ work

Code-based

CRYSTALLOID Crystallike; transparent like crystal.

Of or pertaining to cartography.

""Belonging to, or in the manner of, a catachresis; constituting, characterized by or given to catachresis; wrested from its natural sense or form; forced; far-fetched.""

Of or pertaining to chirography.

Pertaining to a chronometer; measured by a chronometer.

(Of evidence) indirect

Tantric musical may be incidental

""CONFIRMATION The act of confirming or strengthening; the act of establishing, ratifying, or sanctioning; as, the confirmation of an appointment. as, the confirmation of an appointment.""

CONFORMATION The act of conforming; the act of producing conformity.

""Of or pertaining to a congregation; conducted, or participated in, by a congregation; as, congregational singing. as, congregational singing.""

Relating to preservation or restoration

CONSERVATORIA

CONSPIRATION Agreement or concurrence for some end or purpose; conspiracy.

Scheming corsair in a plot that's gone wrong

Criminal is in patrol car, admitting love for plotting

""Pertaining to, or deduced from, construction or interpretation.""

A novelist can or might produce another word for 'relaxed'

Like chatting in company with citizen about poetry, mostly

Of or pertaining to cosmography.

Relating to what is not the case

Of or relating to both the cranium and the cerebrum.

Of or pertaining to criminology.

The study of the effects of very low temperatures on living organisms.

""An antibiotic, C 11 H 12 Cl 2 N 2 O 5 , derived from the soil bacterium Streptomyces venezuelae or produced synthetically and effective against a broad spectrum of microorganisms.""

See vitamin D .

Miracle cure, if time allows, around a point of the compass

""CONFIGURATION Form, as depending on the relative disposition of the parts of a thing' shape; figure.""

In an in-your-face way

Dealing hostilely with others

Aggressively hostile

CORYNEBACTERIA

COUNTERCULTURE

Intended to compensate for immoderate developments in a business cycle: a countercyclical federal aid program.

An offer of marriage in store (wordplay)

Response to unsatis- factory plan

Negotiator's offering

CRYPTANALYTIC