2-Letter Words Starting with C

English word

Deli menu (wordplay)

Add a second signature

Confirm in writing

Woodworking maneuver

Woodworking technique

A contrary method of procedure; opposite course of action.

COUNTERSUE

Countersue

Soda jerk's dress-up attire (wordplay)

Claim against a plaintiff

Business attire at Bloomingdale's (wordplay)

Chamfered at the top; said of a hole.

Kitchen surfaces

""To act against with equal force, power, or effect; to thwart or overcome by such action; to furnish an equivalent to or for; to counterbalance; to compensate.""

Posture in which two people face each other

Countless

Provincial company not put to the test about uncertainty

Backwoods

Rural

Same as countrified.countrified.

""A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city.""

Turned so icy (anagram)

The green and pleasant part of our land

Security Don arranged out of town

From sea to shining sea

Couplement

In a polite manner

In a polite and respectful manner

Courtesy

Courthouse

Good manners

What good tennis players aim for with first of services behaving well

Their dresses come tailored

""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.""

Covenantee

Covenanter

Women's group with social worker swigged gin, forging agreement

Covenantor

Parts of locomotives

Locomotive parts

Locomotive pilots.

Craftsman

A woman who practices a craft with great skill.

A man who practices a craft with great skill.

The art or act of measuring skulls.

Crankshaft

Crapshoot

Capable of withstanding the effects of a crash: crashworthy cars; crashworthy seats.

Crassitude

Creatinine

Belief denying evolution

Belief that God made the universe

Belief opposed to evolution

One believing in divine origin of earth

One believing God made everything

Evolution denier

Ambassador's letter of introduction

Documentary evidence of competence

Passport visa etc.

Talent for being convincing

Quality of being believable

Convincing quality

Credulity

Crematory

Building for the burning of bodies

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

Having battlements.

A minute crenation.

""CREPITATE To make a series of small, sharp, rapidly repeated explosions or sounds, as salt in fire; to crackle; to snap.""

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

Crackling.

No longer cocky (wordplay)

Dejected after a failure

Proud no longer.

Guilt - wickedness

Unlawfulness

""CRIMINATE To accuse of, or charge with, a crime.""

The act of accusing; accusation; charge; complaint.

Chain reaction state

A contemptible or vicious critic.

""CRITICISE To examine and judge as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment upon; as, to criticise an author; to criticise a picture. as, to criticise an author; to criticise a picture.""

Criticizer

Being constructive, in a way

Fibrous blue or green mineral also called blue asbestos

CROWSTEP a step on top of a wall

Certain sea creatures

Flying saucers can't supply shellfish

CrawDADS

""Pertaining to, or of the nature of, crust or shell; having a crustlike shell.""

The local or general use of low temperatures in medical therapy. Also called crymotherapy .

English word

In a vault I caught a friend in a mysterious fashion

English word

CRYPTOGAM A plant belonging to the Cryptogamia.

Of obscure or unknown origin. Used of diseases.

Cryptogram

'The Da Vinci Code', for instance

The study of cryptanalysis or cryptography.

See Japanese cedar .

A developmental defect marked by the failure of the testes to descend into the scrotum.

CRYSTALIZE

Crystalize

Like sparkly gems

Very clear

You look mah-velous, for example (wordplay)

Say Evert scores penultimate point to end set

Shout over delay over one's point for set

""A minute mineral form like those common in glassy volcanic rocks and some slags, not having a definite crystalline outline and not referable to any mineral species, but marking the first step in the crystallization process. According to their form crystallites are called trichites, belonites, globulites, etc. trichites, belonites, globulites, etc.""

""To cause to form crystals, or to assume the crystalline form.""

Crystallike; transparent like crystal.

""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 .""

Ctenophore

Cuckoopint

CULMINATE To reach its highest point of altitude; to come to the meridian; to be vertical or directly overhead.

Climactic point

Climax

Blameworthiness

CULTISH having the qualities of a cult

""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.""

Not taking effect

Cultivator

Cumulation

Cunctation

""The act or process of refining gold or silver, etc., in a cupel.""

Museum appointment

Museum function

Surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity (as the uterus) by scraping with a curette.

Cabinet contents, maybe

Novel objects

The quality of being current; currency; circulation; general reception.

Malady that passes fast (wordplay)

Terminal cut (anagram) - downsizing

Abridgement, shortening

""Not provided with curtains; as, blank, curtainless windows stared back at her. Opposite of curtained.as, blank, curtainless windows stared back at her. Opposite of curtained.""

A decoration using cusps.

In a customary manner; habitually.

""The building where customs and duties are paid, and where vessels are entered or cleared.""

CUSTOMISE

Customizer

CUSTOMIZE to make to specifications.

Cutaneous

Cuttlebone

Computer control of machines

Ersatz-brain study

Science comparing computers with man's nervous system

Scientific study here in Switzerland by heartless company jerks

English word

CYCLICAL stock whose earnings fluctuate with the economy

Cyclicity

""CYCLIZE to form one or more rings in a chemical compound, also CYCLISE""

Cyclometer

Cyclostome

""CYCLOSTYLE A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred with an inked roller.""

Cyclostyle

A mild bipolar disorder.

Of or pertaining to cyclothymia.

A synthetic steroid that inhibits the secretion of androgens.

Cysteamine

""The larval form of a tapeworm, having the head and neck of a tapeworm attached to a saclike body filled with fluid; -- called also bladder worm, hydatid, and measle (as, pork measle).bladder worm, hydatid, and measle (as, pork measle).""

Cystinuria

Cystoscope

CYSTOSCOPE

Cytochrome

Of or pertaining to cytogenesis or cell development.cytogenesis or cell development.

Cytokines

CYTOKINES cytokine

CYTOKINE a protein chemical messenger

CYTOLOGIC

Cytologist

""Of, relating to, or characterized by greatly enlarged cells.""

""CYTOPLASM The substance of the body of a cell, as distinguished from the karyoplasma, or substance of the nucleus. karyoplasma, or substance of the nucleus.""

Cytostatic

Premier craftsman (wordplay)

Taoiseach perhaps builds up bureau

President's second career (wordplay)

Cabinetwork

CACHINNATE

Clubs can have people in stitches almost laughing out loud

Calamitous

Calcination

Calculated

Estimates

Calibration

Type of fitness training

Exercise class I organized around shy group featuring Keith Emerson

Calorimeter

Of or pertaining to process of using the calorimeter.

""CALUMNIATE To accuse falsely and maliciously of a crime or offense, or of something disreputable; to slander; to libel.""

""False accusation of crime or offense, or a malicious and false representation of the words or actions of another, with a view to injure his good name.""

Calumniator

CAMPHORATE To impregnate or treat with camphor.

""Construction of, or furnishing with, a canal or canals.""

Cancelation

Abandonment

Annulment

Candidature

Candlelight

Supporters of wicked things

They give light support, though quite powerless

Canonicity

It would take a miracle to happen

Ratty makes sure a knot can be undone

Wrongful Korean acts - UN peevish

Contrary and quarrelsome

Cantharidin

Cantilever

CANTILLATE To chant; to recite with musical tones.

A chanting; recitation or reading with musical modulations.

Talents

Capacitance

CAPACITATE To render capable; to enable; to qualify.

CAPACITATE To render capable; to enable; to qualify.

Capacitive

CAPITALISE

Competitive, in a way

Like some investors

Excellent criticism, mostly about one motivated by profit

""CAPITALIZE To convert into capital, or to use as capital.""

Capitulary

""CAPITULATE To settle or draw up the heads or terms of an agreement, as in chapters or articles; to agree.""

Natural environment

Surrender

Caprolactam

Captainship

Captious disposition or manner.

Captivation

Type of food

Botched array disrupted energy source

Component of food Deborah and Tracy munched

Carbonation

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

Carboxylate

Carburetion

Carburetter

Carburet

Carburettor

Cardinalate

Specialist in heart disease

Heart specialist

Doctor is one in suit I love to register with first

Cardiotonic

""CARICATURE An exaggeration, or distortion by exaggeration, of parts or characteristics, as in a picture.""

USA art critic (anagram)

A curt satiric version from Cruikshank

Artist producing comic portraits

Carminative

The occupation or work of a carpenter; the act of workingin timber; carpentry.

Corrupt Northerner of 1865.

Scalawag's confederate

Non-local candidate

CARROTTOP

One making maps

Occupation that the bad chef might be better at (wordplay)

Map-maker

Pertaining to map-making

Chap tragic or silly in respect of maps

Relating to the drawing of maps

Cartoonish