2-Letter Words Starting with C

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Genetics) Genetics a unit of chromosome length, used in genetic mapping, equal to the length of chromosome over which crossing over occurs with 1 per cent frequency [named after Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866-1945), US biologist]""

""Any of several four-footed herbivorous horned dinosaurs with enormous beaked skulls, of the late Cretaceous in North America and Mongolia.""

""Action of the brain, whether conscious or unconscious.""

President reformed prisoner after tea

Committee head, feminist style

*Board meeting VIP

Court official - former Prime Minister!

British Prime Minister, 1937.

PM's domestic officer

Same as chiropter.chiropter.

A major constituient of cartilage

""The act of applying the chrism, or consecrated oil.""

""A bitter, yellow substance forming the essential constituent of Goa powder, and yielding chrysophanic acid proper; hence formerly called also chrysphanic acid. chrysphanic acid.""

Female pastor, e.g

Female pastor, for example

A woman who is a cleric.

One of the microscopic particles of emulsified fat found in the blood and lymph and formed during the digestion of fats.

Caloric unit (anagram)

Blood flow round body

Number representing total magazines sold

A woman who is a member of the clergy.

Female priests

Confinement to a narrow space.

""DIRECTION The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o. as, the direction o.""

Pl. coelentera (-t r- ) The saclike cavity within the body of a coelenterate.

Insect having hard or horny forewings

Forced reduction in volume (of gas)

Process of being forcibly condensed

Act of forcing together

Member of US legislature

Representative REM songs can upset

John Quincy Adams' post-presidential job

Long and Short.

TRICKSTER'S FORTE

Isn't, for instance, to do with drawing

Process of size reduction

Don't, e.g

Device torn apart in explanatory text

Strange machine

Unnamed object #1

Extended built-up area

Agglomeration of towns

Sprawl of linked towns

Work done together

Group action

Common effort

""An extensive chain of mountains or mountain ranges, especially the principal mountain system of a continent.""

Mythology

Officer almost into rebuilding firm

Large company gathering in a root crop

City body; paunch

Interdependence or the degree of it

Mutual relationship of interdependence

Interdependence (of statistical variables)

The act corrugating; contraction into wrinkles or alternate ridges and grooves.

Flash of wit

Flashing or sparkling

Certain banks conceal atrocious blundering in show of brilliance

A plan intended to counter or oppose another plan.

Deli menu (wordplay)

Add a second signature

Confirm in writing

""VARIATION The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing; modification; alternation; mutation; diversity; deviation; as, a variation of color in different lights; a variation in size; variation of language. as, a variation of color in different lights; a variation in size; variation of language.""

A woman who practices a craft with great skill.

A man who practices a craft with great skill.

""The act of crenelating, or the state of being crenelated; an indentation or an embrasure.""

A minute crenation.

It's God's own work to keep mine from crackling

Crackling.

No longer cocky (wordplay)

Dejected after a failure

Proud no longer.

The act of accusing; accusation; charge; complaint.

""Like, or pertaining to, the crocodile; characteristic of the crocodile.""

Angry toxophilite (wordplay)

Irritated archer

An ill-natured musician, expert with the arbalest

CROSSBOW a weapon for shooting bolts

What Jesus suffered

Death on the cross

Biblical execution at Golgotha

""The selective exposure of tissues to extreme cold, often by applying a probe containing liquid nitrogen, to bring about the destruction or elimination of abnormal cells.""

""Any of various marine animals of the phylum Ctenophora, having transparent, gelatinous bodies bearing eight rows of comblike cilia used for swimming. Also called comb jelly .""

Any of several compounds that contain both the CN and OH radicals.

Computer control of machines

Film set worker

""The act or process of subjecting anything to the action of chlorine; especially, a process for the extraction of gold by exposure of the auriferous material to chlorine gas.""

""An aliphatic organic chemical compound that is both an alkyl chloride and an alcohol, frequently containing a single chlorine atom and a single hydroxyl group on adjacent carbon atoms.""

""An oily colorless liquid, CCl 3 NO 2 , that causes skin, lung, and mucous membrane irritation and is used in tear gas and in dyestuffs, disinfectants, insecticides, and soil fumigants. Also called nitrochloroform .""

Parish officer - long-stemmed pipe

Long-stemmed clay pipe

Pipe officer

A pancreatic digestive enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of certain proteins in the small intestine into polypeptides and amino acids.

""The act of cutting off the prepuce or foreskin of males, or the internal labia of females.""

The act of pouring or spreading round; the state of being spread round.

A heaping together.

""CARCINOGEN Any substance that produces cancer; as, to test for carcinogens in the drinking water.as, to test for carcinogens in the drinking water.""

""CHAIRWOMAN a female officer who presides at the meetings of a committee, meeting, or organization; a female chairperson.""

CHAIRWOMEN

""GENERATION The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.""

""COLORIZE to give color to black and white film, also COLORISE""

""The act or practice of justifying or confirming a man's veracity by the oath of others; called also wager of law. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager. wager of law. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager.""

Making sure of ecclesiastical rite

Proof; a religious ceremony

Company people must accept solid proof

Rip off by Genesis - is that the shape of things to come (wordplay)

A dogsbody provides trick questionnaire at a charge

Worshipful company (wordplay)

Churchgoers go on catering course

Churchgoers study going rate amendment

He's impressed by this (wordplay)

Compulsory enlistment

Service requirement to study text no one recalled

Act of rendering holy

Dedication to a concern is unusual

Careful use (of a resource)

Preservation (of wildlife)

Change conversation from ecology

Agreement or concurrence for some end or purpose; conspiracy.

Turn out of building for one to make it tighter

Prisoners tense: row is building

Process of erecting buildings

Act of building

In regret, almost buy gift

Something given towards a common purpose

Gift of half buck bestowed in sorrow

Something to talk about (wordplay)

Exchange broken cast-iron oven

End of quotation

Working together on Ontario CID reform

Ordered action together

Balanced movement

Coproduct

A stain of a contrasting color used to color the components in a microscopic specimen that are not made visible by the principal stain.

She lives in a rural district

A person from one's own country; a compatriot.

A craftsman or a craftswoman.

King's mistress engaged in making battlement

Battlement

Pretty, witty mistress, famously involved in making a 2 in the 22 (wordplay)

""CREOLIZE to cause a language to become creole, also CREOLISE""

""CURARIZE to poison with curare, also CURARISE""

English word

""The practice of hanging, upon the cultivated fig tree, branches of the wild fig infested with minute hymenopterous insects.""

The act or process of carbonizing.

CARBONYLATE CARBONYL a chemical compound

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

""The act, process, or result of carburizing.""

CARTELIZE CARTEL a business organization

""The act of searing some morbid part by the application of a cautery or caustic; also, the effect of such application.""

""Any of a class of chemical substances, some of which have therapeutically useful antibacterial activity, whose structure contains a beta-lactam ring fused to a six-membered ring containing a sulfur and a nitrogen atom. The first of the series, cephalosporin C, was discovered by G. Brotzu in 1955 in the culture broth of a Cephalosporium species found off the coast of Sardinia. Other cephalosporins have been found to be produced by species of soil bacteria (actinomycetes). Many semisynthetic analogs have been tested for antibacterial effect, and several of them have found use as important clinically useful antibacterial agents, some of which may be taken orally for treatment of bacterial infections. The cephalosporins are the second class of beta-lactam antibiotic to be discovered, the first being the penicillins and more recent classes being the thienamycins and sulfazecins. The cephamycins are a variant of cephalosporins with a methoxyl group on the beta-lactam ring, rendering them more resistant to penicillinases. Among the cephalosporins which have been found clinically useful are cephalexin, cephaloridine, and cephalothin.cephalosporin C, was discovered by G. Brotzu in 1955 in the culture broth of a Cephalosporium species found off the coast of Sardinia. Other cephalosporins have been found to be produced by species of soil bacteria (actinomycetes). Many semisynthetic analogs have been tested for antibacterial effect, and several of them have found use as important clinically useful antiba

Process of allocating film ratings

Confirmation through documentation

A blood glycoprotein to which copper is bound during transport and storage.

(Chemistry) an adsorption process in which an adsorbate is held on the surface of an adsorbent by chemical bonds

""A conjugated protein, such as hemoglobin, that contains a pigmented prosthetic group, such as heme.""

""The process of forming a cicatrix, or the state of being cicatrized.""

Process of getting round something

Something making more comprehensible

Process of making more comprehensible

Making more comprehensible

(used with a sing. verb) The study of history using economic models and advanced mathematical methods of data processing and analysis.

English word

COASTGUARD

""CHAIRPERSON the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization; -- same as chair{3} or chairman{1}, but used to achieve a sex-neutral register.chair{3} or chairman{1}, but used to achieve a sex-neutral register.""

Concert party in an arrangement of hues

Cooperative work

Joint working

Remembrance (of things past)

Act of remembrance

Ceremony to mark a particular event/person

Joint pain relief (wordplay)

With a final twist, Reds apply quotas to fellow feeling

Sympathy

A member or supporter of a small cooperative or a collectivist community.

Capacity of under-standing

Grasp - knowledge

Perception

Long-popular game show

Puzzle-solving asset

Long-running show featuring match-makers

Union (of states)

In league with firm new union

Ancient doer of wrong in alliance

Arrangement (of parts)

Shape or form

Arrangement for auctioning rubbish

Against Jack helping holocaust

Firefighter stops two prisoners helping

Large destructive fire

Face to face meeting

Hostile disagreement

Showdown

Moscow's anger disturbed new politician in Washington? Not he

Lawmaker.

The Squad in 2019, for example

Thinking of recompense (wordplay)

Careful thought given to something

Reward of mature reflection

Dismay - cast-iron tenon (anagram)

Feelings of dismay

Anxiety, dismay

Double-reeded instrument

Low-pitched wind instrument

Low wind instrument

Mechanism blocked by church (wordplay)

Gubbins the church brought in for limiting population

Accent once heard in Managua (wordplay)

Accord not in it (wordplay)

Statement opposing one already made

Infringement (of a law)

Infringement Arthur raised in assembly

Breach agreement about returning paintings

""Conversion into, or formation of, horn; a becoming like horn.""

Confirmation

Gosh, talk about cheat! There's confirmation from evidence

See ACTH .

Something done to offset ringing up a sale, maybe

Opposition; neutralisation

Active response

English word

""Automation the comparative study of complex electronic devices and the nervous system in an attempt to understand better the nature of the human brain. ; cyberneticist , ; cybernetic ,""

See cycloalkane .

CATEGORIZE To insert in a category or list; to class; to catalogue.

""The act or process of centralizing, or the state of being centralized; the act or process of combining or reducing several parts into a whole; as, the centralization of power in the general government; the centralization of commerce in a city. as, the centralization of power in the general government; the centralization of commerce in a city.""

The process of separating substances by the use of a centrifuge.

The physiological response of a sense organ to a chemical stimulus.

The periphrasis 'abstaining from skating' was invented by 1 down

Cautious behaviour

Caution, prudence

The act of rolling round; the state of being rolled.

A member of a coast guard.

Screams on a tug'd send us scurrying (wordplay)

The act of commensurating; the state of being commensurate.

CONCELEBRATE To celebrate together.

CONCRETIZE CONCRETE to {solidify=v}

Assortment of sorts

Mixed, coherent mass

Large group of merged companies

The act of praising

The act of felicitating

Maybe representative of sons, green crops supplied

A placing over against; opposite position.

See ACTH .

Cotransducte

The operation of introducing a catheter.

CIRCULARIZE CIRCULAR a leaflet

An inscription written around anything.

The act of surrounding with a wall or rampart.

""DETERMINATION The act of determining, or the state of being determined.""

""COMPUTERIZE to provide with computers; as, Our office is fully computerized now.as, Our office is fully computerized now.""

""CONVEYORIZE CONVEYOR one that conveys, also CONVEYER""

English word

Noun (-tion)

Noun (-tion)

Noun (-tion)

Act of making illegal

Outlawing

Of or pertaining to the Crossopterygii.

""The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and sructure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized.""

Act of sailing right round

Sailing voyage around the world

A voyage all the way round

politician to practise speech, receiving a reason not to? (16)

Difference brought out in comparison of two things

bar round is an opportunity to get some change back (7,10)

CFC in full

religious movement energising a rector — unfit no more! (7,11)