2-Letter Words Starting with C

Func. that's undefined at 0

Righttriangle ratio for short

Trig function Abbr

Replace a dancer, perhaps

Make an incisive move (wordplay)

Tap on the shoulder maybe

The body of a nerve cell

Long belted male tunic

Wide-sleeved, collarless robe

Ankle-length garment

Uri, for one

Pro Football Hall of Fame setting

Large port in southeastern China.

A fungicide

Sydney - (A Tale of Two Cities)

Camel group (wordplay)

Keep transporting box (wordplay)

Na+, for one

Positively charged particle

Anion's attractant

Kit can (anagram)

Willow flower cluster

Spike of the willow

Painter of American Indians

American painter George

Noted painter of Native Americans

Put the phone down

Makeup of a crab's shell

Main component of a crab shell

Ancient Greek tunic

Garment of ancient Greece.

Bill's concerned with old tunic

A citric vitamin

Many an article by Ronnie on fruit

Large lemonlike fruit

It's like a lemon

""A hormone, also CORTISOL""

Stuff to gin up (wordplay)

It's on twig (wordplay)

Pima, for one

A part of the earth's crust

Mentally defective person

Hardly a brainiac

See about the can, like an idiot

N. Y. aqueduct

Reservoir on east shore of Hudson

Tropical plant of the spurge family

General store (wordplay)

Young northern neighbor (wordplay)

Is youth able to dine here (wordplay)

Turner's for drawing painter, perhaps

One used to reel on deck (wordplay)

Ship's cable drum.

Team leader, perhaps

Lead (a team)

Kangaroo's title (wordplay)

'Pontiac hit by 1 across', say

Photo ID (wordplay)

Photo copy (wordplay)

Source of vitamin A (var.)

Source of vitamin A

Tinned bread as source of vitamin A

Peanuts, for one

Peanuts, for one.

Drawing, maybe satirical

Ascot horse thief (wordplay)

Prepare food for an Highland marauder

Scottish freebooter

Care to get a police warning (wordplay)

Carefulness - yellow card (wordplay)

Word on tape (wordplay)

A fibrous protein

Nice art (anagram)

Skip Iran, etc., for sure

Positive and sure

Subdue - a stench (anagram)

Have a restraining effect on (someone)

That will put Charles X in his place

""A part of the small intestine of swine, also CHITLING""

Toilet tank ital (nonverbal)

Underground water tank

Hundred and one on back of water tank

A segment of DNA

""A pear-shaped guitar, also CITHER, CITHREN, CITOLA, CITOLE, CITTERN""

""A pear-shaped guitar, also CITHER, CITHERN, CITOLA, CITOLE, CITTERN""

Zinc tie (anagram)

Man about town (wordplay)

Arrest maker, maybe

Renaissance musical instrument

Old instrument gets bird changing key

""Sexual intercourse, also COITUS""

Hold on - it can explode!

If it's wrong, I cannot check

Keep within limits or have within

Scorn.

Despise

A buskin worn by Roman actors

""A chemical found within vertebrate muscle, also CREATINE, KREATINE""

Bread with salad (wordplay)

Small piece of toasted bread.

Small cube of fried bread

Is there a short A in hanging (wordplay)

A short A in what's drawn (wordplay)

Blind actors behind this (wordplay)

Fell (a tree)

Butcher's attempt to get slimmer

Share drink and consume less

""An amino acid, also CYSTEINE, CYSTINE""

A device used for separating isotopes

Food coloring agent

The nuclear material of a cell

A chemical used in dyeing

Whale, for one

Whale or dolphin

Eg, a whale

A compound derived from chitin

Give a name to (baby)

Break a bottle on, maybe

Name (a baby)

That's the ticket!

A quote (from reference)

Award of 1948 (wordplay)

An antibiotic

Collaboration, for example

An antibiotic

Striving

Introduction of someone new in shop, one into fashion

A fellow patron

Formal ball

A vulgar woman

A resident of a county

Could this be made from 16 (wordplay)

May King start things going (wordplay)

First act (wordplay)

Supercooled switch; corny rot (anagram)

""A variety of plant originating under cultivation, also CULTIVAR""

Caretake

America perhaps, after auto plant

What a blooming mechanical people!

Country estate perhaps first in bloom

A degeneration of animal tissue into a cheesy or curdy mass.

Governor of a fortress

Warden in a medieval stronghold.

For one running keep tin of beer (wordplay)

Boat for felines (wordplay)

America's Cup winner, perhaps

Feline boat (wordplay)

Any of various proteolytic enzymes found in animal tissue that catalyze the hydrolysis of proteins into polypeptides.

Neat fellow on the ranch (wordplay)

Ben Cartwright, for one

Shepherd's nemesis, in many oaters

Characters in "Old Arizona."

The sound of their work may be heard

Prime factors in the meat situation.

Reason why

Why one thing leads to another (wordplay)

Effect producer

Man of 18 (wordplay)

Roman army commander

Roman army officer

Stopping canoeists capsizing

Process of ending

The ending or being brought to an end

Flamboyant deceiver, mountebank

Quack, fraud, a flamboyant deceiver

Cleaner's mostly slow, and an imposter

The master of a castle; a castellan.

The process of removing a heavy metal from a solution by means of a chelate;

Emir or raja

Leading man's changing it, if he can

One newt in file is the leader

Order discovered in laboratory animal in feature which contains DNA

Of the underworld

CILIATE a class of protozoans

""A platinum-containing chemotherapeutic drug, Cl 2 H 6 N 2 Pt, used in the treatment of metastatic ovarian or testicular cancers and advanced bladder cancer.""

Alliance to adopt fossil fuel, perhaps

The alliance of carbonisation, perhaps

Group of allies

Continental title

Relationship by blood; descent from the same original; kindred.

Knowledge - incognito (anagram)

Knowledge - no to icing (anagram)

Faculty of knowing while incognito

Making a meal of Lolita con (wordplay)

Fast food (wordplay)

Putting in sequence

Public disorder

Disorderly outburst

Conservative proposal about honour causing uproar

Provision for one's health

Part of an agreement

State one's requirement

Hold back - non-racist (anagram)

Restrict scope of (an activity)

Prison conveyance (wordplay)

Liquid coating on a virus maybe

It can go on spreading disease

Common epidemic factor

Blemish beneath skin of onions cut out

This brews, by the sound of it.

Discoloration of skin of onions cut in pieces

Lively French social dance

Deb's ball

C eighteen dance

NCO old, yet turned over a new leaf

Missile launching procedure.

New Year's Eve tally

Stop at nothing

She's seduced no curates (wordplay)

No curates get mixed up with her!

No curates should take her out

Like many screenplays

Like Rodgers/Hart songs

Like Lennon/McCartney songs

Boatyard worker (wordplay)

Skilled sailor (wordplay)

Expert shipwright (wordplay)

Males with manual skills

Males with skill in the manual arts

Manual workers with great skill

Burning (of a body)

Disposal of last atom in life (wordplay)

A burning romance somehow holds it back

A rounded tooth on the edge of a leaf.

Swimsuit competition for one

Swimsuit competition for one

Where to play Touchstone (wordplay)

Traversing Waltham, say

EastWest in Manhattan.

East-West in Manhattan.

Protector/guardian (of something)

He takes care to get a discount, perhaps

Keeper of keys

Physicist's accelerator

Particle-accelerating machine

Apparatus accelerating particles

Any of a class of plant hormones that promote cell division and growth and delay the senescence of leaves.

""A substance, such as an antibody, capable of dissolving or destroying cells.""

A substance having a specific toxic effect on certain cells.

""A peptide hormone, produced by the thyroid gland in humans, that lowers plasma calcium and phosphate levels without augmenting calcium accretion. Also called thyrocalcitonin .""

Payment per head

Memorable mention about a prince introducing poll-tax

Beginners' alphabet in wording under diagram could be taxing

Actors taking part? It leads to voices being raised

One preparing for confirmation.

Christian Union chaps outside a college making new convert (wordplay)

Neophyte

Linkage

A remedy for all diseases; a panacea.

CAVITATE to form cavities

Enormous number

Line item (wordplay)

It's left hanging on the line

It may hold up your shorts

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

FUNCTION to perform or act

Deep thought or meditation

Reflective thought.

Set cool client dancing

Gather one is charged for donations

Picked up during mass at bank

Character or tone (of something)

Speech by officer about arrangement of shades

Process of burning

Act of burning

It's often spontaneous

""The act of making compact, or the state of being compact.""

Final stage of property purchase

Describes closure for Finnish state

Finish last of all in contest, not exactly what is looked for

Idea (maybe leading to baby)

Fusion of gametes

What a type of pill can prevent? The idea!

Drink derived from TONIC (wordplay)

Mixture - elaborate lie

Mixture

""The process of concreting; the process of uniting or of becoming united, as particles of matter into a mass; solidification.""

Heat transfer, for example

Fellow replacing note in link? That's sweet

Bonbon

""A blowing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or of many fires in a foundry.""

Leave? It's no option in the rush hour

Cold medicine target

Indication of a stuffy head

Thing in common

Relation between things

Telephone need

Fit of anger

Tantrum

""A copper-nickel alloy composed of approximately 55 per cent copper and 45 per cent nickel, with high electrical resistance and a low temperature coefficient; it is used as resistance wire and in thermocouples.""

Satisfied, I raise no argument

Satisfied, I return no argument

Judgment time to oust five in assembly

Human pretzel's act

Girl on wrong charge of 'twisting'

Gym twist

One who doesn't do what's expected

Person who doesn't jump on the bandwagon

Earnest repentance.

Regret that article for publication has two letters cut out

Remorse

The act or process of conveying or transmitting.

Gathering it's the custom

Occasion for the smoke-filled room.

What all candidates are pointing toward.

Firm belief in guilty verdict

Prisoner, one on view

Firm belief may lead to imprisonment

Reproductive intercourse, how fun!

Coming event in London

Ceremony, for my people embracing love

Ceremony of installing a monarch

ROTATION an instance of rotating

Proofer's change

Embarrassing newspaper note

Proof entry

Focus of muckraker journalists

Dishonesty, altering prior count

Rotten nature

COUNTER to {oppose=v}

Cafeteria worker

Drugstore employe.

COUNTER to {oppose=v}

Rural dweller

Compatriot

Rustic individual offering to go, for instance, with worker

Rustic types who were asked to lend an ear (wordplay)

Shrimp, for one

Lobster, for one

E.g. crab, lobster, woodlouse

Mass with Latin and tuna oil substituted

Delay; procrastination.

""The act or process of disintegrating a substance, or rendering it friable by the action of heat, esp. by the expulsion of some volatile matter, as when carbonic and acid is expelled from carbonate of calcium in the burning of limestone in order to make lime.""

Mathematical process; assessment

9 politician to wear raincoat when going out

Variant of cancellation .

""The active principe of the cantharis, or Spanish fly, a volatile, acrid, bitter solid, crystallizing in foursided prisms.""

Enchantment

Process that makes water bubbly

Pasta-and-potato-loving country (wordplay)

Soda-making process that explains four transformations in this puzzle (wordplay)

CARBURET to combine chemically with carbon

Severe scolding

Star's allowance for party (wordplay)

Reception, for example

Famous person with share in a 10

The act or process of cementing.

Squashing nectarine, an old person

Person of a great age

Person over a hundred

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Genetics) Genetics a unit of chromosome length, used in genetic mapping, equal to the length of chromosome over which crossing over occurs with 1 per cent frequency [named after Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866-1945), US biologist]""

A semisynthetic analogue of cephalosporin having a broad spectrum of antibiotic activity that is administered parenterally and used especially to treat systemic infections caused by susceptible microorganisms.

""Any of several four-footed herbivorous horned dinosaurs with enormous beaked skulls, of the late Cretaceous in North America and Mongolia.""

""Action of the brain, whether conscious or unconscious.""

Same as chiropter.chiropter.

A major constituient of cartilage

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

Caloric unit (anagram)

Blood flow round body

Number representing total magazines sold

Hardening (of blood)

Nautical goo could be forming a clot

Confinement to a narrow space.

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

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

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

""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.""

Insect having hard or horny forewings

A binding together.

""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.""

The placing of things together

Items joined together

Student's lock opener

Marriage state? Tease one at first

A threat or threatening; a denunciation of punishment or vengeance.

The act of reducing to a fine powder or to small particles; pulverization; the state of being comminuted.

A passing from one state to another; change; alteration; mutation.

Rival prize crossword (wordplay)

The life of trade.

Final part of the chance card

At the Close of a Century, for Stevie Wonder, for example

Anthology

Some notes for an essay

Character study, perhaps

Make-up - essay

I'm feeling sorry for wordplay in cryptic not comic setting

The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning.

The act of condoning or pardoning.

CONFLICT to be in opposition

The act or process of confuting; refutation.