2-Letter Words Starting with C

Emergency-room action

Rebel acting riotously, living it up

Commemorating having binge with claret flowing

Clubs excite Beatle - Ringo's not old and is at party ...

Thinking

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

Using for the first time

Naming ceremony

Baptising

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

""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.""

Cloister

Coadmit

COAGULATE Coagulated.

Coassist

Coattend

Coattest

Coauthor

Cocktail

CULTURING culture

Codirect

Coextend

FEATURING feature

Cointer

Coinvent

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.""

COLLOCATE Set; placed.

""COMMINUTE 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.""

COMMUTATE

Complect

Complot

""COMPOSITE Made up of distinct parts or elements; compounded; as, a composite language. as, a composite language.""

Incompatible

Confront

Latin student's task

Knitting

Differing strikingly

Showing the difference in argument against police entrapment

Comparing

On top of

""CONVOLUTE Rolled or wound together, one part upon another; said of the leaves of plants in \'91stivation.""

Acting together

Copycat

Pre-publication job

Corresponding (with)

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

Flashing, sparkling

Coscript

Courtesy

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

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

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

""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.""

Being constructive, in a way

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

""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.""

CUSTOMISE

CUSTOMIZE to make to specifications.

CACHINNATE

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

CAMPHORATE To impregnate or treat with camphor.

CANTILLATE To chant; to recite with musical tones.

CAPACITATE To render capable; to enable; to qualify.

CAPITALISE

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

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

Carburet

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

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

Cartwheel

CATABOLIZE

CATEGORISE

CATEGORIZE To insert in a category or list; to class; to catalogue.

""The cry of cats; a harsh, disagreeable noise or cry like the cry of cats.""

CENTRALISE

Causing to concentrate at a center. Opposite of decentralizing.decentralizing.

""CENTRIFUGE an apparatus having containers for liquids arrayed around a central pivot and rotated at a high speed, thus generating centrifugal force on the liquid, and separating substances (such as particles of solid or globules of an immiscible liquid) mixed together in suspension within the liquid. Suspensions which would settle only very slowly or not at all under gravity can be made to separate quickly in such a device.centrifugal force on the liquid, and separating substances (such as particles of solid or globules of an immiscible liquid) mixed together in suspension within the liquid. Suspensions which would settle only very slowly or not at all under gravity can be made to separate quickly in such a device.""

Character

Shooting the breeze

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

CINEMATIZE

Cocaptain

Illicit blood sport involving birds

Cohostess

Video description, part 3

""COMPENSATE To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompence; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses. as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses.""

Making more involved

Concenter

One who attends a concert.

CONCERTIZE

CONCILIATE To win ower; to gain from a state of hostility; to gain the good will or favor of; to make friendly; to mollify; to propitiate; to appease.

CONCRETIZE

Improving (hair); training to respond

Training to behave in a certain way

CONFISCATE Seized and appropriated by the government to the public use; forfeited.

""CONGLOBATE Collected into, or forming, a rounded mass or ball; as, the conglobate""

CONGREGATE Collected; compact; close.

Guessing

Bringing into force

Against writing text for computer and compulsorily listing

CONSECRATE Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred.

CONSOCIATE An associate; an accomplice.

Causing constipation.

CONSTITUTE To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.

Forcing prisoners to take exercise

Restricting severely

What you might see in prisoners' exercise yard is compelling

Constrict

CONSTRINGE To dawn together; to contract; to force to contract itself; to constrict; to cause to shrink.

Building prisoner's training in to get released

Randomly counting carts leaving a building

Building

CONSUMMATE Carried to the utmost extent or degree; of the highest quality; complete; perfect.

Coming in conflict with meeting about beach in Ireland

""CONTRIBUTE To give or grant i common with others; to give to a common stock or for a common purpose; to furnish or suply in part; to give (money or other aid) for a specified object; as, to contribute food or fuel for the poor. as, to contribute food or fuel for the poor.""

Firm talking about loud noise leads to working in harmony

Matching sound of baby for research and development at home with unhappy giant

Blending in with some gentle mutterings over research and development in Austria

Copartner

Copresent

Copyright

COUNTERSUE

Crosscut

CRYSTALIZE

""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.""

Superior joinery - PM's job (wordplay)

Craft evident in one of the PM's tasks

Cantilever

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

CARPETBAG A portable bag for travelers; so called because originally made of carpet.

CATHETERIZE To operate on with a catheter.

CATHOLICIZE To make or to become catholic or Roman Catholic.

""CERTIFICATE A written testimony to the truth of any fact; as, certificate of good behavior. as, certificate of good behavior.""

Circumvent

CLOTHESLINE A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.

""Inflected form of CULTIVATING Inflected form of 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.""

Jointly working

Of or pertaining to a commemoration; serving to commemorate.

Sympathising

Feeling pity for Scrooge having empty apartment in Advent (wordplay)

Sharing information

Complement

Compliment

COMPUTERISE

""COMPUTERIZE to provide with computers; as, Our office is fully computerized now.as, Our office is fully computerized now.""

""CONCATENATE To link together; to unite in a series or chain, as things depending on one another.""

Study coin classification, not allowing mind to wander

CONFABULATE To talk familiarly together; to chat; to prattle.

CONFEDERATE United in a league; allied by treaty; engaged in a confederacy; banded together; allied.

CONSOLIDATE Formed into a solid mass; made firm; consolidated.

""CONSTELLATE To join luster; to shine with united radiance, or one general light.""

CONSTERNATE to cause to be confused; confuse emotionally; to dismay.

Making toxic, say

Looking or just thinking about it

Disagreeing with

Controvert

""CORROBORATE To make strong, or to give additional strength to; to strengthen.""

COSMETICIZE

Inflected form of TRANSDUCING Inflected form of TRANSDUCE

Facing (wordplay)

On the face of it, one is tolerating this

Sanctioning

Working against bar, giving performance

Present participle or gerund

COUNTERMOVE To move in a contrary direction to.

COUNTERPOSE

Credential

It provides shade for access door in Ford

2 down will not get pure bred birds from this, it seems

CRYSTALLISE

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

CHARACTERIZE To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features.

COLLECTIVISE to bring under collective control; to organize for operation by the principles of collectivism; -- especially of farms and industrial enterprises. Same as collectivize.collectivize.

COLLECTIVIZE to bring under collective control; to organize for operation by the principles of collectivism; -- especially of farms and industrial enterprises.

Compartment

CONCELEBRATE To celebrate together.

""CONGLOMERATE Gathered into a ball or a mass; collected together; concentrated; as, conglomerate rays of light. as, conglomerate rays of light.""

""CONGLUTINATE Glued together; united, as by some adhesive substance.""

CONGRATULATE To address with expressions of sympathetic pleasure on account of some happy event affecting the person addressed; to wish joy to.

CONSERVATIZE

CONTAINERISE container

CONTAINERIZE

CONTEMPORIZE to happen at the same time.

Present participle or gerund

Cotransport

COUNTERARGUE

Present participle or gerund

Counterfeit

Countermand

COUNTERPOISE To act against with equal weight; to equal in weght; to balance the weight of; to counterbalance.

Present participle or gerund

""Protective coloration in an animal or insect, characterized by darker coloring of areas exposed to light and lighter coloring of areas that are normally shaded.""

Countersign

Countersink

COUNTERSTATE

Countervail

CREDENTIAL Giving a title or claim to credit or confidence; accrediting.

CIRCUMVALLATE To surround with a rampart or wall.

COLLATERALIZE

COMPASSIONATE Having a temper or disposition to pity; sympathetic; merciful.

CONCEPTUALISE conceptual

""CONCEPTUALIZE to to form a concept of; as, He could not conceptualize a robot that would help paralyzed patients.as, He could not conceptualize a robot that would help paralyzed patients.""

CONTEXTUALIZE

COUNTERCHANGE To give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange.

COUNTERCHARGE An opposing charge.

Countercheck

Counterclaim

Countermarch

Counterorder

""COUNTERPLOT To oppose, as another plot, by plotting; to attempt to frustrate, as a stratagem, by stratagem.""

Counterpoint

Counterpunch

Counterrally

Counterstain

Present participle or gerund

CYANOETHYLATE