2-Letter Words Starting with C

Protein in milk and cheese

Protein in milk

Water-base paint

Temporary lodging for troops

Barrack in a garrison town.

Soldier's billet.

Like a few (wordplay)

Selected - Japanese name for Korea

Put a sock in it selectively

Endorse for a loan, perhaps

Help to secure a loan, maybe

Back another's promissory note

Kissing sort (wordplay)

Child of a parent's sibling, say

Relative in Quantico (US Intelligence)

Tunnel worker's chamber

Cofferdam's cousin.

Structure for underwater construction

Turner's for drawing painter, perhaps

One used to reel on deck (wordplay)

Ship's cable drum.

A yielding, as of rights, to another

Yielding of territory.

Surrendering by treaty

Song from a new boy joining church

Song for Piaf

Song of Soissons

Subdue - a stench (anagram)

Have a restraining effect on (someone)

That will put Charles X in his place

Toilet tank ital (nonverbal)

Underground water tank

Hundred and one on back of water tank

A segment of DNA

Rough up (wordplay)

Make more crude

Opposite of smooth

Hand over (to the Post Office?)

Hand over (to)

Hand over with a thumbs down (wordplay)

Hide from the herd (wordplay)

Hide from the herd

Leather source

I'm held in scorn turning purplish!

Woman-inclusive shade of red (wordplay)

Colour of deep blushing (wordplay)

Make crunchy

Soften (an impact)

Soften (the effect of an impact)

Soft pad, of feathers say

A derivative of sugar

""An amino acid, also CYSTEINE, CYSTINE""

Leather (off young cow)

Type of leather

Fine, soft kind of leather

Glove leather from goats

South African leather

Soft leather

A liquid used as a flavoring

Special delivery (wordplay)

It may bring out the kid in you

The 'C' of C-section

""A method of child delivery, also CESAREAN""

Church manses converted for bishop, say

Rook, for one

Revolutionary guards work for king, say

Bishops and knights, say

Kings, queens, knights, for example

Bishops, pawns, etc.

A compound derived from chitin

A Christian monogram

Give a name to (baby)

Break a bottle on, maybe

Name (a baby)

{rennin=n}

William Wallace, for one

Kilt wearer, perhaps

Highland family member

The Campbells, for instance

Macgregors, Gordons, etc.

Highland group members

Jointly create

Stick-to-it-iveness (wordplay)

That will stick the coin around the shoe

With the firm he has got one on sticking

An antibiotic

Crockett's cap

One of the hats in the ring

Davy Crockett's cap material

First-aid giver

Certain soldier or sailor.

Army medic

Army medics

One over the eight (wordplay)

Crew's leader

Firm kiss by lover for keeper of course

Someone who climbs crags

Cragsman

Delivery for Julian (wordplay)

Surgical birth (Var.)

Like "Et tu, Brute?"

Relating to Brutus' victim (Var.)

Pertaining to Gaius Julius

Re some Roman emperors

Perhaps dressages for the horses

Read about a capital way to dress well

Rich cloth laid over a warhorse

""A colorless crystalline substance extracted from the Capsicum annuum, and giving off vapors of intense acridity. Capsicum annuum, and giving off vapors of intense acridity.""

A degeneration of animal tissue into a cheesy or curdy mass.

Governor of a fortress

Warden in a medieval stronghold.

For one running keep tin of beer (wordplay)

Any of various proteolytic enzymes found in animal tissue that catalyze the hydrolysis of proteins into polypeptides.

Reason why

Why one thing leads to another (wordplay)

Effect producer

Stopping canoeists capsizing

Process of ending

The ending or being brought to an end

""A platinum-containing chemotherapeutic drug, Cl 2 H 6 N 2 Pt, used in the treatment of metastatic ovarian or testicular cancers and advanced bladder cancer.""

Shut completely, perhaps a business

Near to getting depressed? Gets wind up!

Secretive and depressed, stop operating

Violent meeting of objects

Course drivers should avoid

Course to avoid

Secret or illegal conspiracy to deceive

Secret cooperation

Secret deception

Terseness

Averse to an alliance (wordplay)

Study nuclear process in chaos

What a blow to the head might cause

Hold back - non-racist (anagram)

Restrict scope of (an activity)

Prison conveyance (wordplay)

Blemish beneath skin of onions cut out

This brews, by the sound of it.

Discoloration of skin of onions cut in pieces

""The erosion of the bed of a stream by running water, principally by attrition of the detritus carried along by the stream, but also by the solvent action of the water.""

Something worn on a hood

Rust, for example

Chemical process of metal erosion

She's seduced no curates (wordplay)

No curates get mixed up with her!

No curates should take her out

... joker that breaks in (wordplay)

The burglar works out on the island

Burglar jokes with servant

CRACKS crack

Boatyard worker (wordplay)

Skilled sailor (wordplay)

Expert shipwright (wordplay)

Males with manual skills

Males with skill in the manual arts

Manual workers with great skill

Traversing Waltham, say

EastWest in Manhattan.

East-West in Manhattan.

Protector/guardian (of something)

He takes care to get a discount, perhaps

Keeper of keys

""A substance, such as an antibody, capable of dissolving or destroying cells.""

Actors taking part? It leads to voices being raised

Line item (wordplay)

It's left hanging on the line

It may hold up your shorts

Process of burning

Act of burning

It's often spontaneous

An officer's percentage (wordplay)

A cut above other ranks (wordplay)

A cut above the other ranks (wordplay)

French parallel (wordplay)

Assessment of differences

Act of examining resemblances

Way finder with an atom of sympathy

Feeling the needle a tiny bit

Common love and desire invoke pity

Subjection to force.

Strong irrational impulse

It's usually irresistible

Hat checking, for one.

Opposite of a parade (wordplay)

Subject of a loser's postelection speech

Logical (wordplay)

Reasoned deduction

End; decision

Steve Young injury in '97

2015 Will Smith film

Possible result of cracking nut

Result of a grilling, maybe

Opposite of a line of work (wordplay)

Interrogator's goal

Leave? It's no option in the rush hour

Cold medicine target

Indication of a stuffy head

""A copper-nickel alloy composed of approximately 55 per cent copper and 45 per cent nickel, with high electrical resistance and a low temperature coefficient; it is used as resistance wire and in thermocouples.""

Inmate's side of the story?

One side of the debate (wordplay)

Inmate's side of the story (wordplay)

""An unnatural, violent, and unvoluntary contraction of the muscular parts of an animal body.""

Shrimp, for one

Lobster, for one

E.g. crab, lobster, woodlouse

""Greek Mythology A sea nymph who delayed Odysseus on her island, Ogygia, for seven years.""

Severe scolding

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

President reformed prisoner after tea

Committee head, feminist style

*Board meeting VIP

""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.""

Some notes for an essay

Character study, perhaps

Make-up - essay

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.

""A following, or sequel; actual or logical dependence.""

Comfort

Eating disorder

Wasting disease

Tuberculosis

Flash of wit

Flashing or sparkling

Certain banks conceal atrocious blundering in show of brilliance

A nice sitcom about worker in beauty salon

Deli menu (wordplay)

Add a second signature

Confirm in writing

A woman who practices a craft with great skill.

A man who practices a craft with great skill.

No longer cocky (wordplay)

Dejected after a failure

Proud no longer.

Angry toxophilite (wordplay)

Irritated archer

An ill-natured musician, expert with the arbalest

CROSSBOW a weapon for shooting bolts

""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.""

A decoration using cusps.

Film set worker

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.

Advanced human society (S, not Z)

Locations reviewed by one on settlement

Award for, eg, injury

Redress main cost with open payout

Minnesota cop rigged damages

Water collecting on a cold surface

Water forming on a cold surface

Lacking energy, new diets no one can digest

Seizure of property by an authority

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

""The act of consigning; the act of delivering or committing to another person, place, or state.""

Intimate union; fellowship; alliance; companionship; confederation; association; intimacy.

Agreement or concurrence for some end or purpose; conspiracy.

Difficulty going on after Ascot tip in racing

It's treated by gastroenterologists, strangely, not opticians

Health charter (wordplay)

State of health; composition

Fundamental U.S. principles

Turn out of building for one to make it tighter

Prisoners tense: row is building

Process of erecting buildings

Act of building

Old magistrate assigned place without sun for meeting

Discussion with a specialist involved coolant units

""The act of consummating, or the state of being consummated; completed; completion; perfection; termination; end (as of the world or of life).""

Short story on for example Radio 4 generates controversy

Something to talk about (wordplay)

Exchange broken cast-iron oven

End of quotation

Familiar with many cultures

Liberal and worldly, or a cocktail

Citizen of the world

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

A craftsman or a craftswoman.

English word

""An arrangement of microtubules, microfilaments, and larger filaments within a cell serving to provide structural support of components of the cell, and to transport components from one part of the cell to another; the filaments are composed of protein and form a latticelike arrangement which may change rapidly with time.""

""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

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

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.""

Joint pain relief (wordplay)

With a final twist, Reds apply quotas to fellow feeling

Sympathy

Capacity of under-standing

Grasp - knowledge

Perception

Graciousness as to an inferior

Disdain, haughtiness

Patronising graciousness

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

Act of combining into one

Increasing strength I had, surrounded by comfort

Leo, for one

Big Dipper, for one

Heavenly 1 acrosses, for instance

Dismay - cast-iron tenon (anagram)

Feelings of dismay

Anxiety, dismay

Double-reeded instrument

Low-pitched wind instrument

Low wind instrument

Cautious behaviour

Caution, prudence

""The act of forming into a class or classes; a distibution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or affinities.""

A member of a coast guard.

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

The act of commensurating; the state of being commensurate.

Maybe representative of sons, green crops supplied

A placing over against; opposite position.

Cotransducte

""Abbr. CCK A hormone produced principally by the small intestine in response to the presence of fats, causing contraction of the gallbladder, release of bile, and secretion of pancreatic digestive enzymes. Also called pancreozymin .""

An inscription written around anything.

Noun (-tion)

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.""

Difference brought out in comparison of two things

Official endorsement via an amendment, say