2-Letter Words Starting with C

Beam for rails (2 words)

Part of a railroad track

Transverse railroad timber

Odd bits to unclip in box, like a cross

Shaped like a cross, as ligaments in the knee

Erica cut loose piece arranged like a cross

Forming a thin brittle crust

Sodium-aluminum fluoride

The earliest source of aluminium

Mineral extractable from Tyrol ice

""Cubical content, also CUBAGE""

Sharp edged and pointed

Heap up

Heaped up

Container-shaped

Well, that's the way to make one

Restoring to health

Restoring to health.

""To become coated with cutin, also CUTINIZE""

""To become coated with cutin, also CUTINISE""

Old pickpocket - true cups (anagram)

Pickpocket - set up cru (anagram)

Give new order to put inside evil thief

Able to be cut

""An amino acid, also CYSTEIN, CYSTINE""

A compound containing cytosine

Section prepared includes unknown constituent of DNA

Solve by mathematical procedure

Add or divide

Reckon copper in visit gets scoffed

Sunstroke, in medical parlance.

Adjust (gauge for accuracy)

Determine the capacity of

Mark a scale to use in taking readings

Ottoman office

Islamic state

Curly veg, if sound, consumed as religious rule

Having relaxing or pacifying properties; sedative.

One who says "Iran" (wordplay)

Potential MP maybe frank over high tea

Churchill's nominee

In a singing style (mus.)

In a smooth singing style

In a singing manner

Tell a riveting story, perhaps

Entrance the prisoner is put out at

Entrance prisoner's held at

CARBAMATE

Add bubbles to

To make soda water.

Add fizz to

A betaine commonly occurring in the liver and in skeletal muscle that functions in fatty acid transport across mitochondrial membranes.

An ore of uranium

CARTEL a business organization

CARTEL a business organization

Flexible connective tissue

Connective tissue of the human body

Kind of bone

Oblong in Egyptian hieroglyphs

Tablet in scroll form

Any scroll-shaped ornament.

Credit rag (anagram)

Sort of paper-round (wordplay)

Sort of paper round (wordplay)

CASEIN a milk protein

Criticise cold wine scandal (wordplay)

Chastise - tacit sage (anagram)

Reprimand, showing players one way out

Library-user's aid

Mail-order item

Librarian's concern

Ball that should be held

Like a "can-of-corn" fly

Possibly infectious message passed round at church

Sheriff's officer is to arrest East European

Ken, ex-Australian rugby captain who always caught the ball

Bailiff.

Question closely

Question thoroughly

Cathedra

Act or agency that produces an effect

Burn, as a wound

Burn with a hot iron

Sear with a corrosive

Have a party, say

Mark (a birthday)

Publicly praise (someone)

""Native strontium sulphate, a mineral so named from its occasional delicate blue color. It occurs crystallized, also in compact massive and fibrous forms.""

Gym-goer's target, maybe

Lumpy deposits of body fat

Certain fat deposit

""A hard brittle iron carbide, Fe 3 C, found in steel with more than 0.85 percent carbon.""

Many-legged invertebrates

Many-legged insect

Many-jointed myriapod.

""One of two small cylindrical cell organelles composes of nine triplet microtubules, which form the asters during mitosis.""

Have an idea

Think hard

Just think how to get the beer into the crate

A feeling of conviction, given rectitude

You can't predict the weather with this

Feeling of surety

""Native lead carbonate; a mineral occurring in colorless, white, or yellowish transparent crystals, with an adamantine, also massive and compact.""

Piaf, for one

Female singer, in a nightclub perhaps

Edith Piaf, for one

Did Bates report her quarrel (wordplay)

Queen of puddings (wordplay)

She's a tart - but deep!

Keep tabs on one's spouse?

Associate at a bank (wordplay)

Lioness in winter (wordplay)

Bar snack (wordplay)

Cause of many a breakout (wordplay)

Food available in bars (wordplay)

A meteoric stone characterized by the presence of chondrules.

Form a scar

& 9 Smoking accommodation (wordplay)

Not a patch on wanting one (wordplay)

Smoke under fire.

CINGULA cingulum

""Rolled together downward, the tip occupying the center; a term used in reference to foliation or leafing, as in ferns.""

Move around (at a function)

Move around (at a party)

Make to go round, in a curve perhaps

Cisterna

Photo featuring a skyline

Eg London space possibly in view

What a skyline is part of

With whom one shares history, say

Inform a friend (wordplay)

Lab partner, for one

Shaped like a lattice; cancellate.

State of being client.

Customers (of a shop)

A shop's customers

Lawyer's concern

Thicken or clot, like blood

(Of blood) solidify

Clot in catalogue

Seaside railway (wordplay)

Where the sea meets the shore

It's shaped by current events

COAST to {glide=v}

""A rare silver-white to gray mineral, cobalt sulfarsenide, CoAsS, that is a cobalt ore and is used in ceramics.""

""A mineral of a nearly silver-white color, composed of arsenic, sulphur, and cobalt.""

CULTURE to cultivate

""COELOME a body cavity in some animals, also COELOM, CELOM""

Member of The Abbey from company is one backing Sting

""A multinucleate cytoplasmic mass enclosed by a single cell wall, as in slime molds and certain fungi and algae.""

FEATURE to present prominently

Dog has run out with programme? That's rarely conceivable!

Re: thinking (wordplay)

Of conscious intellectual activity

Involving the intellect

To tie or bind together.

Make parallel

Set; placed. [Obs.] [Obs.]

Printing process used in book illustration and advertising

""A mineral of a black color, submetallic luster, and high specific specific gravity. It is a niobate (or columbate) of iron and manganese, containing tantalate of iron; first found in New England.""

Comatula

With a CHIP on one's shoulder

Ornery, in a way

Eager to fight, aggressive

""To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth. as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth.""

Group of people selected to run things

Group delegated to consider some matter

Panel set up for a purpose

Reverse direction of an electric current

Something made of diverse elements

Combined to make notes about it

Made up of several distinct parts

Fruit preserves

Give different forms of (a verb)

Do a tense recitation (wordplay)

Give forms of (a verb)

Prisoners' surface for chow (wordplay)

Furniture in a prison (wordplay)

Hoax the firm with a painting (wordplay)

Place to get a passport

Seek advice about a European embassy

Residence of a Foreign Service officer.

Take on a twisted shape

Rolled together.

Twist

Kitchen equipment.

Piece of camping gear for exploring Newfoundland (wordplay)

Be one of a team of surgeons (wordplay)

How surgeons work together (wordplay)

Act jointly with others.

Crowning point on a building

Finishing stroke.

A piece of petrified dung; a fossil excrement.

""Krllt, Corollated Having a corolla or corollas; like a corolla.""

Like Bonds in business (wordplay)

Kind of takeover

Relating to a large group; united

Make a connection between (things)

Do a statistician's job

One of a pair

Wrinkled; crumpled; furrowed; contracted into ridges and furrows.

New drug for arthritis.

Steroid developed nice torso

Miraculous new remedy for arthritis.

Gleam in flashes

Sparkle as American chap in central part

Glance confusing to accuser

A joint trustee.

Measureable by numbers

Subject to enumeration

Measurable by numbers

Variety of marrow

Zucchini is its American equivalent

Small green vegetable

""The area immediately bordering the official court of play, as in tennis or basketball.""

""A native sulphide of copper, occuring in masses of a dark blue color; -- hence called indigo copper.indigo copper.""

Shelter.

Shelter

That may be coveted; desirable.

""Krnlt, Crenulated Minutely crenate.""

Make a crackling noise.

Rattle stone that's found outside

What it swallowed at last could be crackling

Charge with an offense

Find fault with

Point out problems or mistakes

Is it Circe who turned to find fault (wordplay)

Dress down

Carp

Deep-fried dish

A fried roll of potato

Dish fried in breadcrumbs

""Bread baked in a mold, and scooped out, to serve minces upon.""

""Kkllt ∨ kkllt, Cucullated Hooded; cowled; covered, as with a hood.""

Come to a climax (in)

Reach a climax (in)

Reach a peak

Four-couple sect (wordplay)

Grow (crops)

Encourage secretive group that is hiding tax

Road block (wordplay)

Part of the street scene.

Part of the sidewalk scene.

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

Garden - short one, where gale is raging

Degree of bending

The bending

Continual bending

Spicated, you say, otherwise barbed

Pointed cap suited Lulu

Adapt for particular requirements

Heart of 5 replacing 5 in drunken Muscovite tailor

Chop, channel, slam, etc.

Cuticula

Salt a runner used in run (wordplay)

Artificial sweetener could hurt my cat, Alec!

Sweetener

Italian cooking style

Prepared with tomatoes, mushrooms and herbs

Account on agency model in essence is prepared Italian-style

Roar with merriment

Laugh loudly

Reserve falling away finally, natural to be in stitches

Ring-tailed cat

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) Botany growing in dense tufts [from New Latin caespitōsus, from caespitem turf]""

Malice aunt spread to denigrate

Slander a hundred old students at start of event

Villify.

Treat with a type of insect-repellent

Hasn't a way to run away?

Hasn't a way to run away (wordplay)

Fruit worker gangster forced into car

Songstress in a Paris musical

Tebaldi, for example

Concert singer.

Intone

Make legally competent

Enable

Of or pertaining to capacitance.

Cash in London, say, is preferable, ultimately

What one should do to names making profit

Make the most of IIIIIII, by the sound of it

Teacher's fiat re spelling proper nouns

Profit by

Surrender on terms

Yield a title and a cup when beaten

Not about to sum up but give up

Exaggerated depiction (of someone)

Travesty of a sort

Obama with extra-large ears, e.g

""A hydrous chloride of potassium and magnesium, sometimes found associated with deposits of rock salt.""

Bearing or consisting of carpels. Opposite of acarpelous.acarpelous.

A substance produced by the process of catabolism.

CATABOLIZE

Decorated bier

Bier

""One of the Catarrhina, a division of Quadrumana, including the Old World monkeys and apes which have the nostrils close together and turned downward. See Monkey. Catarrhina, a division of Quadrumana, including the Old World monkeys and apes which have the nostrils close together and turned downward. See Monkey.""

I agree cost is incorporated in order

Tie cargoes roughly and put into boxes

Type 'A secret I foolishly try to hide'

Arrange in groups

Label

Classify

A cabinet for storing bottles of wine or liquor.

Two-lane road feature

*Painted highway divider

Stripe that equally divides the road

Possibly cited range of temperature

Term replaced by Celsius

Coin I rank by scale

Take to heart (wordplay)

Bring under a single control

Concentrate.

Chem-lab device

Dairy machine.

Rotating machine that separates particles

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.

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.""

Like gift of new chair by board

Kindly moving chair where food is served

Good daily fare protects his heart

Stendhal's liqueur (wordplay)

Stendhal's Italian liqueur

Greenish-yellow colour of a liqueur

Mistress of the household.

Mistress has to teach Liane composition

Mistress of a chateau.

Having a changeable luster.

Penny-pinching ray (wordplay)

Inexpensive fish (wordplay)

Ray that wont pay (wordplay)

CHELATE to combine a metal ion with a compound

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

Treat pool water, maybe

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.

Mineral used in making refractories

Stone makes loser itchy

Yellowish gemstone

Fibrous variety of serpentine, a form of asbestos

""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.""

CINEMA a motion-picture theatre

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

Variety of peach

It's a real peach

Variety of peach.

CLOFIBRATE

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

Bird needs a moment, being fabulous

Monster in heap of straw getting at food

One monster bird followed by a second

FAVORITE a person or thing preferred

Thoughtful

""The complement of the latitude, or the difference between any latitude and ninety degrees.""

""A hydrous borate of lime occurring in transparent colorless or white crystals, also massive, in Southern California.""

A protective sheath enclosing the shoot tip and embryonic leaves of grasses.

Gathered in one mass

Prayer I have viewed as a whole

Innovative clue: 'Lot in coven?'

NCAA member (wordplay)

Of higher education

Attending Yale for example

Book distribution gets pass on carriage

Capable of igniting committee shattered by massive service cut

Thing to eat.

Something to eat

Arrives with bare head, putting on hat to eat

Talk over the movie

Audience of public gallery make observations

The act or process of mixing; the state of being mingled; the blending of ingredients in one mass or compound.

Reachable from home on a daily basis

Not too far away

Lamb with poetic bent in tune

Able to work with

What TV color is.

Spacemen to arrange to make amends

Writer settled in advance to make amends

Make financial amends to

... skill and experience

The ability to contend with North Clare

State of ability

Making complete.

Make less simple

Make more involved

Make involved