2-Letter Words Starting with C

""Any of an extinct order (Cotylosauria) of massive primitive reptiles of the Carboniferous and Permian periods that included the ancestors of all of the reptiles. Also called root reptile , stem reptile .""

A device for determining the amount of a substance released during electrolysis by measuring the electrical charge.

17th century fighter for the Kirk

One wanting religious liberty? Witches aren't different

The party who makes a covenant.

Ranch hand (wordplay)

Lasso in front of train (wordplay)

Lasso part of train (wordplay)

""CRITICIZE same as criticise; as, The paper criticized the new movie.criticise; as, The paper criticized the new movie.""

Farmer

CUSTOMIZE to make to specifications.

""A contrivance for recording the revolutions of a wheel, as of a bicycle.""

Heat measuring device

Heat-measuring device

Apparatus to measure quantity of heat

One who calumniates.

CARBURET to combine chemically with carbon

Part of car engine

Part of internal combustion engine

Car's petrol/air-mixing device

Cartwheel

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Larva with a pet in it (wordplay)

A future monarch (wordplay)

Provide post for leaf dweller

""CENTRALIZE To draw or bring to a center point; to gather into or about a center; to bring into one system, or under one control.""

Rooster in medieval tales.

Proper name for a bird.

Archetypal name for a rooster

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

Sweet maker/seller

Specialist confectioner

Sweet maker

Man of music.

Church music leader

Lifter of voices

Metal casing on timer? No, I'm timer

Instrument measuring time

Watch to find the enemy's position

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

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

Sports match reporter

One who reports on sports event

Broadcaster describing sports events

""One who, or that which, compensates; a name applied to various mechanical devices.""

Financial official's title

(Generally) financial officer

New York office held by Fillmore when he was elected U.S. vice president

""One who bears testimony or swears to the veracity or innocence of another. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager. Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager.""

Eg, prommer

One in stalls possibly put Queen on to sure thing in African republic

Banker entering African country: I'm doubtful he likes live music

One who mediates

One acting as mediator

Hair improver

Hair application

Salon item

One who confiscates.

CONGREGATE Collected; compact; close.

One who hypothesizes

One who consecrates; one who performs the rites by which a person or thing is devoted or dedicated to sacred purposes.

One who preserves from injury or violation; a protector; a preserver.

Member of a cabal.

Planner in secret

Person who secretly plots with others

""That which constricts, draws together, or contracts.""

David Alfred Bywaters, as to this crossword

Builder

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

""One who, or that which, continues; esp., one who continues a series or a work; a continuer.""

One who contravenes.

One sending in articles for publication

One writing for, eg, magazine

Donor, giver

Harmonizer.

Shrub in bed with a single flower

Garden shrub related to the hawthorn

Seen in the garden bed, a single flower

Crapshoot

A contemptible or vicious critic.

Premier craftsman (wordplay)

Taoiseach perhaps builds up bureau

President's second career (wordplay)

Corrupt Northerner of 1865.

Scalawag's confederate

Non-local candidate

One making maps

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

Map-maker

One who manipulates the spine

Joint manipulator

Spine manipulator

Comparative adjective or agent noun

The center of a circle that circumscribes a triangle.

One working jointly

Fellow worker

Cream perhaps no longer in favour of Australian novelist

One who commemorates.

From banisher to bullhorn (wordplay)

Person (good at) imparting news etc

""An apparatus for the separation of dry comminuted ore, by exposing it to intermittent puffs of air.""

Conversationalist

Mars, for one

Sweet maker/seller

Seller of sweets

Spanish adventurer of the 16th century

Pizarro or Cortes

16th-century Spanish invader of Peru

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

""CONTAMINATE To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile.""

One who contemplates.

Gainsayer.

One who controverts; a controversial writer; a controversialist.

One who supports or frequents conventicles.

""PROPRIETOR One who has the legal right or exclusive title to anything, whether in possession or not; an owner; as, the proprietor of farm or of a mill. as, the proprietor of farm or of a mill.""

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

Fruit and veg seller

Fruit/veg seller

Barrow boy

""One who countenances, favors, or supports.""

I'll give you $100 for that buffet table, for example

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Singer getting note say, below bar

A singing bank teller (wordplay)

Singer with note heard at end of bar

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

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Microbiology) a rod-shaped bacterium that causes infections in cattle and man. Unpasteurized milk infected with campylobacter is a common cause of gastroenteritis [from Greek kampulos bent + bacter ( ium )]

Candlelight

""A sensory nerve cell or sense organ, as of smell or taste, that responds to chemical stimuli.""

Revolving around or surrounding a star.

Cabal member

Fellow plotter

The first violin in a symphony orchestra (2 words)

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

Well-wisher after the fact

CONVENTION The act of coming together; the state of being together; union; coalition.

You might say he works at the forge

Does one work at the forge (wordplay)

Moneymaker (wordplay)

Counterplay

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Intended to prevent or counteract terrorism: counterterror measures; counterterror weapons.

""One who writes in cipher, or secret characters.""

INVESTIGATOR One who searches diligently into a subject.

COMPLEMENT That which fills up or completes; the quantity or number required to fill a thing or make it complete.

""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.""

The head violinist or leader of the strings in an orchestra; the subleader of the orchestra; concert master.

English word

Counterpunch

Chromatograph

Film's camera-crew chief

Movie studio employe

James Wong Howe's occupation.

Drake, for one

Phileas Fogg, for one

One of the great all-rounders

One who fights back

One who fights fire with fire

Counterreform

One studying regular molecular structures