2-Letter Words Starting with C

Celestite

A cabinet for storing bottles of wine or liquor.

Cellulite

Inflammation of subcutaneous tissue

Cute lips break up, it is subcutaneous inflammation

Cementite

Grave positions one may end up in

Settings of many horror film scenes

Graveyards

Centaurea

Centaury

Colorado (with "state")

May 11, 2014, for "E" as a "D"

Anniversary of note

Magazine opening (wordplay)

Magazine middle, maybe

Model position (wordplay)

CENTER to place at the middle point

Two-lane road feature

*Painted highway divider

Stripe that equally divides the road

Divided into hundredths

Like dollars and euros

Centesimo

Possibly cited range of temperature

Term replaced by Celsius

Coin I rank by scale

Centigram

Small metric unit

Unit equal to 0.338 fluid ounce

.6102 cubic inch

Enormous number

Almost two-fifths of an inch

*Approximate width of a pencil

Unit, as a Salk vaccine.

Bugs that technically are misnamed

Gives up about pet in trouble from bugs

Primarily nocturnal arthropods

Central

Take to heart (wordplay)

The state or condition of being central; the combination of several parts into one whole; centralization.

Advocate of stronger federal government

I concentrate power, as moderate protecting a Liberal

The state of being central; tendency towards a center.

Bring under a single control

Concentrate.

The state or quality of being centric; centricalness.

Chem-lab device

Dairy machine.

Rotating machine that separates particles

Cylindrical cell parts near the nuclei that divide during mitosis

A specialized condensed region of a chromosomes that appears during mitosis where the chromatids are held together to form an X shape.

A peculiar rounded body lying near the nucleus of a cell. It is regarded as the dynamic element by means of which the machinery of cell division is organized.

Centuple

Former officers dispersed in 10

Roman officers run section badly

Yank runs notice for old commanders

Potter about before armistice arranged

Pot thrower

Thought

Cerebrate

Cerecloth

Certain

Certifier

Certify

Petition to a higher court

Writ from a higher court

Writ from High Court to call up the records of a lower court

Sure, that's all they are

Is T sure cited so as to make them sure (wordplay)

Cerussite

Plural or third person singular

Inflammation of the cervix of the uterus.

Cessation

Cetology

One versed in cetology.

Slopes transport

Skiers' conveniences.

Skiers' conveyances

A lead-grey or black mineral, found as a copper ore or in veins

""Impregnated with salts of iron; having a taste like iron; as, chalybeate springs. as, chalybeate springs.""

Cabaret songbirds

Piaf emulaters

Cabaret contingent

Chapter

Book collection (wordplay)

Signs from eccentric people (wordplay)

Set in 10 like 11, say, after tea

The art or means of characterizing; a system of signs or characters; symbolism; distinctive mark.

Her erotica (anagram)

Ben Hur, for one

Ben Hur (wordplay)

Chariot

Spiritual powers

Personal magnetisms

Like gift of new chair by board

Kindly moving chair where food is served

Good daily fare protects his heart

Generously

Phonies burn and turn brown around Louisiana swamp, at first

Fakes a healthy looking colour to get hugged by boy leaving Spain

Fakes

Charlotte

Charterer

Charter

Stendhal's liqueur (wordplay)

Stendhal's Italian liqueur

Greenish-yellow colour of a liqueur

See Cartulary. Cartulary.

Chassepot

Chastener

A scent she's sprayed conveys purity

There's virtue having a gun in game

Dressing down

Teaching a lesson in front of class making rapid progress

Chastiser

Chastise

Chastity

Mistress of the household.

Mistress has to teach Liane composition

Mistress of a chateau.

Chatelain

Having a changeable luster.

Iridescent quality of some gems

Chatoyant

Talk of British beef? She never stops!

Gossip in phone kiosk (wordplay)

Harry H Corbett: a cross windbag

Chatterer

Chewing the fat, the cat's upset by call

Starlings' activity

Caught mad character in government, babbling

A fondness for talking

*Rural educational gathering

New York lake and colony

Cultural center in N.Y. State

Fanatical patriot

Superpatriot.

Staunchly patriotic companion gets gold, plus French wine first

Penny-pinching ray (wordplay)

Inexpensive fish (wordplay)

Ray that wont pay (wordplay)

They've got things to do

They're reminders of what's still to be done as European state lost to winners

Keep an eye on the old woman and man in a doomed situation

European, we hear, got married and finished on board

Machine (not A1, note) tacked badly, totally frustrated

Spouses with a joint account (wordplay)

Finishes game (chess)

Beat petty officers at chess (wordplay)

Charlie, for one

Tartan to indicate barrier on border

Place for passport inspections

CHELATE to combine a metal ion with a compound

Chelation

""An undergarment, worn by women, usually covering the neck, shoulders, and breast.""

Plural or third person singular

The characteristic movement or orientation of an organism or cell along a chemical concentration gradient either toward or away from the chemical stimulus.

""CHIASMA a connection formed during meiosis, also CHIASM""

Heads

Magazine's initial issue (wordplay)

Labor day highlight

Not entirely cool, getting bowled in third awkward delivery

Childly

Millenarian.

Chinchy

Most cheap

Chitter

Chloasma

Treat pool water, maybe

""CHLORINE a gaseous element, also CHLORIN""

Any of the flagellated cells in sponges having a collar of cytoplasm around base of the flagellum; they maintain a flow of water through the body.

Now's the time for . . .

These are sometimes nutty

17 across might give or get them today

""CHOCOLATE A paste or cake composed of the roasted seeds of the Theobroma Cacao ground and mixed with other ingredients, usually sugar, and cinnamon or vanilla. Theobroma Cacao ground and mixed with other ingredients, usually sugar, and cinnamon or vanilla.""

Chondrite

""Granular; pertaining to, or having the granular structure characteristic of, the class of meteorites called chondrites.""

Prepare kindling (wordplay)

Cuts up little bloodsuckers (wordplay)

But you can't cut celery with them!

'Christ rose transfigured', they sing

Sunday singers

Singing group

Named

Baptized

Scientific study of colors

Chromatid

Chromatin

CHRONIC one who suffers from a long-lasting disease

Mineral used in making refractories

Stone makes loser itchy

Yellowish gemstone

Fibrous variety of serpentine, a form of asbestos

Chunter

Churchy

Scars.

Scars

Cicatrix

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

Cicatrize

Tobacconist's commodity.

Broken grate included in quotes smokes

Oasis linked them with alcohol

Ciguatera

Ciliation

""A drug, C 10 H 16 N 6 S, that inhibits acid secretion in the stomach and is used to treat gastrointestinal disorders, such as peptic ulcers.""

Cincture

CINEMA a motion-picture theatre

Lines to be cracked

XPINPU LPXXOJP, for example

Circuity

Circuit

(Of a route) roundabout

Roundabout

Distributed about mid-July, admitted man

Conservative reform curtailed, it's reported

Mingled

Table-hops

""One who, or that which, circulates.""

Find a way around

Steer clear of shifting much nicer TV hotel's dropped in

Bypass

Cirrhotic

Cisplatin

CITATION an official summons to appear

A female citizen.

Summer-theater circuit

Additive in some bug repellents

Insect repellent sprayed into cellar

An amino acid that is an intermediate in the conversion of ornithine to arginine.

View of Delft, etc.

Civility

Cladistic

Latin lover, perhaps (wordplay)

Latin lover, probably

Latin or Greek scholar

Certain contemporary collegians

Group on a yearbook page

Eisenhower, Bradley, Van Fleet.

Clathrate

Clatterer

Making a hubbub

Claught

""CLAVIER an early keyboard instrument, also KLAVIER""

Cleanly

High area of a cathedral Var.

High area of a cathedral variable

One of Kipling's Plain Tales from the Hills as feature of church

Some flowering vines

Virgin's-bowers, for example

Endless sex with model? A Spice Girl pulled up bloomers

High-window section of a structure

Upper row of windows

Upper part of church with its own row of windows

Clerkly

Clientage

Groups of customers

CLIENT a {customer=n}

Variety of peach

It's a real peach

Variety of peach.

Tool in forestry to measure slope, vertical angles and tree heights

Convert mile - not v. tricky if you have surveyor's instrument

Clinquant

Clintonia

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

Clipsheet

Clitoris

Clitoris

CLOFIBRATE

Secluded tree is cold like this

Like some nuns

Sheltered from outside society

A nun.

""A utensil to hold a chamber vessel, for the use of the sick and infirm. It is usually in the form of a box, with a seat and tight cover.""

Closetful

""Pl. clostridia (- - ) Any of various rod-shaped, spore-forming, chiefly anaerobic bacteria of the genus Clostridium, such as the nitrogen-fixing bacteria found in soil and those causing botulism and tetanus.""

""Having rigid front and back covers, covered with cloth; -- of books. Contrasted to softcover.softcover.""

Line item (wordplay)

It's left hanging on the line

It may hold up your shorts

Downpour (cf. spurt)

Sudden, heavy downpour

No drizzle, this.

Having a clubfoot.

Cluster

Clutter

Raised into a pile; collected into a crowd; heaped.

Coadjutor

A female coadjutor or assistant.

Coadmit

Coagulant

Semisolid (of blood)

In odd order, catalogued set

Solidified.

Coagulate

Merging into a single group.

Coming together

Growing together.

Not social, I ruined alliances

Allies and Axis

Temporary alliances

""The adaptation or adjustment of parts to each other, as of a broken bone or dislocated joint.""

Coassist

Football player at the beach (wordplay)

The main service provider (wordplay)

CO at a drugs bust (wordplay)

Coastland

Seaboard contours

Certain borders

Shores.

Coastward

Pl. coatimundi or coatimundis also coatimondi or coatimondis A coati.

Coattend