2-Letter Words Starting with C

CERTIFIABLE presenting symptoms of mental illness sufficient for legal commitment to a mental institution.

Exam pass document

Document verifying qualifications etc

Statement of qualifications

Certiorari

Cetologist

Any worm of the Chaetognatha; transparent marine worm with horizontal lateral and caudal fins and a row of movable curved spines at each side of the mouth.

Chalcocite

Chalybeate

A perennial plant that sets its dormant vegetative buds just at or above the surface of the ground.

Champerty

CHAMPER one that {champs=v}

Highest string of a violin.

Yellow mushroom favored in France

Yellow mushroom favored in France

Rooster in medieval tales.

Proper name for a bird.

Archetypal name for a rooster

In a chaotic manner.

Character

Cleaner and smarter - that's cold food!

Delicatessen or the meats sold in it

Cold cooked meats shop

Drivers making a commotion amid applause

Horse race - it involved old contestants

Being wild, I scare other drivers

Having compelling charm

Able to attract and inspire people

1999 2 out of 3 winner

Undue pretensions to skill; quackery; wheedling; empiricism.

The power or quality of pleasing or delighting; attractiveness: a breezy tropical setting of great charm.

Chartreuse

Ornamental key holders

'Evita' star has discussions about key situations

Chatoyance

Chautauqua

Jingoes

Economical way to travel (wordplay)

Discount hockey gear (wordplay)

NHL supplier's woe (wordplay)

""CHECKMATE The position in the game of chess when a king is in check and cannot be released, which ends the game.""

Border stops ... or a hint to four squares in this puzzle

Border stops... or a hint to four squares in this puzzle

Loosely woven material

Chef's natural strainer

Soup chef's herb-bundle holder

Chemisette

Chemistry

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

14 pounds of maraschinos (wordplay)

Pit that's sometimes spit

One more may make a soldier a sailor

A false statement that is considered to indicate timidity or fear.

""CHIEFTAIN A captain, leader, or commander; a chief; the head of a troop, army, or clan.""

Due processes (wordplay)

Chirality

Specialist in the treatment of feet

One treating the feet

One who treats feet

Same as chiropter.chiropter.

Did some social work (wordplay)

Made small talk

Shot the breeze

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

Chlorinate

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

""A plastid containing chlorophyll, developed only in cells exposed to the light. Chloroplasts are minute flattened granules, usually occurring in great numbers in the cytoplasm near the cell wall, and consist of a colorless ground substance saturated with chlorophyll pigments. Under light of varying intensity they exhibit phototactic movements. In animals chloroplasts occur only in certain low forms.""

Choanocyte

Sweet maker/seller

Specialist confectioner

Sweet maker

Man of music.

Church music leader

Lifter of voices

Plural or third person singular

Suppression of biliary flow.

Suppression of biliary flow.

""Pertaining to cholesterin, or obtained from it; as, cholesteric acid. as, cholesteric acid.""

Level many seek to lower

Compound believed to harden arteries

Statins lower it

A major constituient of cartilage

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

Using for the first time

Naming ceremony

Baptising

Name of Oslo from 1624 to 1877

Former name for Oslo

Ex-name of Oslo

CHROMATIN Tissue which is capable of being stained by dyes.

""A plastid that contains pigments other than chlorophyll, usually yellow or orange carotenoids.""

Metal casing on timer? No, I'm timer

Instrument measuring time

Watch to find the enemy's position

The art of measuring time; the measuring of time by periods or divisions.

Chrysolite

English word

Chrysotile

Churchly

""Relating to, or having the character of, a cicatrix.""

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

Cimetidine

CINEMATIZE

Cinematize

""The sixteenth century, when applied to Italian art or literature; as, the sculpture of the Cinquecento; Cinquecento style. as, the sculpture of the Cinquecento; Cinquecento style.""

Coded messages

Circinate

Circuitry

The quality or state of being circular; a circular form.

""Moving or flowing in a circuit and returning to the same point; as, steam circulating through the pipes; the circulating thyroid hormones.as, steam circulating through the pipes; the circulating thyroid hormones.""

Caloric unit (anagram)

Blood flow round body

Number representing total magazines sold

Promoting circulation; circulating.

Circulator

Going round and round

After crucial operation, politician's making the rounds

Cautious PC cuts crime drastically

Cautious, prudent

Cautious around religious group, taking first precautions in their midst

Circumvent

""A high-altitude, thin, hazy cloud, usually covering the sky and often producing a halo effect.""

Citizenry

Immigrant test taker's goal

Status of a national of a state

Status for being part of a country

CITRONELLA

Citronella

""A colorless liquid, C 10 H 20 O, with a roselike odor, derived from any of several essential oils or made synthetically and used extensively in perfumery.""

Citrulline

Rene, the prophet (wordplay)

Broken crayon vital for one who makes 3s

First-year law course

Wound isn't cleaned in private

Intend tailing tribe in secret

Almost doomed by family secret

Artie Shaw, for one

Woody Allen, for one

Woodwind player (US spelling)

Greek scholars

Clavierist

Botany Of or relating to a flower that does not open and is self-pollinated in the bud.

One devoted to matters of the clergy

Critical period or event

William -, Eng. politician, philanthropist

Atmosphere around college mostly productive? That's a crucial point

Study of long-term weather

Study of alarming changes, nowadays

Clingstone

Clinometer

Cliometric

Clofibrate

Cloister

Clonicity

Mean and prepared to fight

Stingy

Closestool

CLOSTRIDIA

Bacterium causing tetanus and botulism

Bacterium

Fashion designer's work (wordplay)

Air dryer (wordplay)

Washing up - and drying!

Laundry room supply, for some

Laundry room supply

They leave things hanging

Cloudburst

Coacervate

Coadmit

COAGULATE Coagulated.

Hardening (of blood)

Nautical goo could be forming a clot

Coaptation

Confinement to a narrow space.

Coassist

They keep strangers at bay

Because of these fellows' activities, a drug costs a mint

Coatdress

Coatimundi

Coattend

Coattest

Coauthor

Part of old road surface

Rounded irregular lump used in paving

Piece of road surfacing material

Cobwebby

Cocaptain

Cocatalyst

Cockatrice

Cocktail

""CULTIVATE To bestow attention, care, and labor upon, with a view to valuable returns; to till; to fertilize; as, to cultivate soil. as, to cultivate soil.""

CULTURING culture

Partner in crime, perhaps

Often danced around in front of the judge

Relying heavily on a partner

Codirect

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

Codirector

Codominant

""An educating together, as of persons of different sexes or races.""

Mathematical multiplier (in an equation)

Factor that measures some property (physics)

Numerical multiplier of an algebraic variable

Coelacanth

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

""Inflected form of ENZYMATIC Inflected form of ENZYME a complex protein, also ENZYM""

Coevality

""EVOLUTION The act of unfolding or unrolling; hence, in the process of growth; development; as, the evolution of a flower from a bud, or an animal from the egg. as, the evolution of a flower from a bud, or an animal from the egg.""

Coexecutor

Subject of current controversy.

Proposed substitute for cold war.

One alternative to an armed world.

Coextend

""Equally extensive; having as, consciousness and knowledge are coextensive. as, consciousness and knowledge are coextensive.""

Cofavorite

FEATURING feature

Cofunction

""GENERATOR One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.""

Cogitation

COGNITION The act of knowing; knowledge; perception.

Cognitive

Expert

Well-informed people

Very well-informed people

Those in the know since con got busted

Cohabitant

Cohostess

Cohostess

Abstract noun (-ity)

Cointer

Coinvent

Coinventor

Coinvestor

Colatitude

Unaffected by emotion

Like the cruel meteorologist

Lacking compassion

Colemanite

Insect having hard or horny forewings

Coleoptile

Inflected form of LINEARITY Inflected form of LINEAR resembling a straight line

Work together

Work jointly

Collateral

COLLECT to {gather=v}

""Passages selected from various authors, usually for purposes of instruction; miscellany; anthology.""

Composedly; coolly.

Capable of being collected.

Merit badge since 1991

Kibbutzim, for example

COLLIGATE To tie or bind together.

A binding together.

COLLIGATE To tie or bind together.

""COLLIMATE To render parallel to a certain line or direction; to bring into the same line, as the axes of telescopes, etc.; to render parallel, as rays of light.""

""The act of collimating; the adjustment of the line of the sights, as the axial line of the telescope of an instrument, into its proper position relative to the other parts of the instrument.""

Collimator

COLLOCATE Set; placed.

The placing of things together

Colloquist

""LOGARITHM One of a class of auxiliary numbers, devised by John Napier, of Merchiston, Scotland (15501617), to abridge arithmetical calculations, by the use of addition and subtraction in place of multiplication and division. The relation of logarithms to common numbers is that of numbers in an arithmetical series to corresponding numbers in a geometrical series, so that sums and differences of the former indicate respectively products and quotients of the latter; thus The relation of logarithms to common numbers is that of numbers in an arithmetical series to corresponding numbers in a geometrical series, so that sums and differences of the former indicate respectively products and quotients of the latter; thus""

Oscillation (anagram)

Oscillation (wordplay)

Advocate of a certain foreign policy.

Combinations of hues

Chromatic patterns.

Florid musical instruments.

Some lyric sopranos

Sills et al.

""An instrument for measuring the depth of the color of anything, especially of a liquid, by comparison with a standard liquid.""

The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance.

Colorpoint

Colostomy

Colportage

Colporteur

Playful nature

Frisky nature

""COLUMNIST a journalist who writes or edits a regularly scheduled column{8} in a periodical, usually in editorial style; a type of editorialist.editorialist.""

Combative