2-Letter Words Starting with C

Crummy

Crumply

Get a grip, seizing backside and doubling up

Collapsing? Hold on - grabbing some steak...

U. S. Army "bulldozers."

Like Grape-Nuts vis-a-vis other cereals

CRUNCHIE derogatory name for an Afrikaaner

The act of crunching

Ivanhoe's allies

Holy Cross eleven.

Nader and others

Contending against evil.

Espousing aggressively

Crusado

Flimsy cord around basket material

Prawns and lobster perhaps act as cure

A class made up of hard cases (wordplay)

Shrimp, lobsters, etc.

Most peevish

CRUST to form a hardened outer surface

The wool from a sheep's bottom

Cruzado

Cruzeiro

A comblike anatomical structure

Pl. cuadrillas The group of assistants to the matador in a bullfight.

Cubature

Snug place for young foxes (wordplay)

Snug enclosed space

Place for keeping bits and bobs

In a cubical method.

A burial chamber

Betrayed at heart, wicked love caught in illicit cuddle

The state of being a cuckold; the practice of making cuckolds.

Cuckoo

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

Long green fruits

Cylindrical green fruits

Veggies on the salad bar

Cucurbit

Most huggable idle stud condemned by Conservative

Cudgeler

CUDGEL to beat with a heavy club

Beaten cow food thickened up

Bovine foodstuff, formed into a mass and battered

Clubbed together, perhaps, after something having been chewed over

Cuirass

Cuirass

Cuittle

Culicine

A strainer. See Colander. Colander.

""Being vertical, or at the highest point of altitude; hence, predominant.""

Come to a climax (in)

Reach a climax (in)

Reach a peak

Cultigen

CULTISH having the qualities of a cult

Cultivar

Four-couple sect (wordplay)

Grow (crops)

Encourage secretive group that is hiding tax

English word

Culture

Culverin

Cumberer

Cumber

Heaped together

Piles up

Chips off the old block (wordplay)

Ancient writing system

Like Assyrian writing

Cuniform

Cunning

With guile

Artfully.

Ganymede's saucer (wordplay)

Wine server, to a king

Certain servant in a royal palace

Pieces of furniture for storage

Places for storing trophies around table

Absurd cop hiding in furniture

Cupeller

Cupel

Cupola

Curarine

Curarize

Curarize

Curassow

Curative

Curbside

Road block (wordplay)

Part of the street scene.

Part of the sidewalk scene.

Curculio

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.

Curette

It killed the cat, in a saying

Something unusual (that killed the cat?)

What killed the cat, in a saying

More strange, to Alice

Maybe doctor takes in personal debts for stranger

Inquisitive types behave so strangely

Not straight about signs of debt, oddly

Oddly, peculiarly

Curlicue

Signatory's flourishes

Calligraphy flourishes

Script extras

State of being curly.

""(Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Hairdressing & Grooming) a strip of paper used to roll up and set a section of hair, usually wetted, into a curl""

Curlycue

At the present time

Now spiralling payment is contained

At the moment

Curricle

Programme of activities? Of course!

Courses of study.

CURRISH like a cur

Horse-grooming tool

Hostler's need

Grooming tool

Cursed

CURSIVE a type of flowing handwriting

""Adapted to running or walking, and not to prehension; as, the limbs of the horse are cursorial. See Illust. of Aves. as, the limbs of the horse are cursorial. See Illust. of Aves.""

In a running or hasty manner; carelessly.

Clipped two dogs (last two of breed)

Limited the last batsmen (wordplay)

In short, the dog has been docked

One who curtails.

Shut off with a portiere.

Like some windows

Like living room, for instance, with new cedar unit

Life tenures inherited from wives Law.

Life tenures inherited from wives: Law

Garden - short one, where gale is raging

Bobbed - bent the knee

Bobbing in respectful greeting

Bowing daintily

Degree of bending

The bending

Continual bending

Pitch that fixes everything (wordplay)

It may cause a strike

Delivery that could lead to a strike

CURVET to {prance=v}

Mean beast checked out and frisked

Frolicked.

Eased, as from shock.

Softened and served dish on cue

Ring in copper polished and protected

Spicated, you say, otherwise barbed

Pointed cap suited Lulu

Aim of many cowboys (wordplay)

Censor's concerns

Taboos around kids

Geezer's invectives

Of confinement - aids clout (anagram)

A sentence to be penned (wordplay)

Relating to a guard or guardian

Protector/guardian (of something)

He takes care to get a discount, perhaps

Keeper of keys

Custody

According to usual practice

See us to the girl in the usual way

Commonly used or practiced

Rituals welcoming the Queen's clients

They're always right, it's said

Shop's clients

Adapt for particular requirements

Heart of 5 replacing 5 in drunken Muscovite tailor

Chop, channel, slam, etc.

Custumal

Relating to the skin

Of skin

Cutesy

Cuticula

""Pertaining to the cuticle, or external coat of the skin; epidermal.""

Cutinise

Cutinise

Cutinize

Cutinize

Points in nautical history (wordplay)

Ignore the girls with weapons

Count oddly misses weapons

Cutlery

Pickpockets

Fiercely competitive - type of razor

Court that misrepresented killer

Merciless fox to hurt cat

In a cutting manner.

Cutwater

Blade Runner film genre

Science fiction subgenre

Altered Carbon genre

A tropical orchid

Things that strongly attract attention

They provide guidance

Very Big Apple written up in parish priest's objects of admiration

Caciquism

Resembling a corpse

Haggard rogue has to swear nothing to us

Thin and bony like a corpse

Caducity

Dual-purpose room in a school

The DI's aster is blooming awful

Dreadful alternative to a musical

Catastrophic changes to a musical

""Partaking of the nature ofcalcite or calcium carbonate; consisting of, or containg, calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime.""

Calcifuge

Able to be assessed

Figured it out? The accountant did it!

Reckoned it's deliberate

Worked out

Calculate

A collar cut off for summer (wordplay)

The button counter (wordplay)

Arithmetician's gadget

Calculus

Calendula

Calenture

Affected with darkness or dimness; dark; obscure.

Boisterous parade

Callous

""A calcium-binding protein found in all nucleated cells that affects the activity of many calcium-sensitive enzymes, including those involved in muscular contraction.""

Malice aunt spread to denigrate

Slander a hundred old students at start of event

Villify.

Restaged opera primarily unmusical? That's defamatory

Disguise (from enemy)

Hide male in a foul cage after beating

Means of disguise

Campanula

Place to erect a tent

Only common word in the English language with the consecutive letters MPG

""Pl. canaliculi (-l ) A small canal or duct in the body, such as the minute channels in compact bone.""

""Having a spongy or porous stracture; made up of cancelli; cancellated; as, the cancellous texture of parts of many bones. as, the cancellous texture of parts of many bones.""

Candlenut

Candytuft

CANOROUS {melodic=adj}

Hasn't a way to run away?

Hasn't a way to run away (wordplay)

Fruit worker gangster forced into car

Cantaloup

Canulate

Pure rubber.

English word

Surrender on terms

Yield a title and a cup when beaten

Not about to sum up but give up

Sounds like Al's hat (wordplay)

Frothy coffee drink

Type of coffee

Island with many debts is undependable

Arbitrary and inconsistent

Island with many debts is unstable

""Inclosed in a capsule, or as in a chest or box;""

Like a news brief

Capsulize

In a faultfinding way

Set with carbuncles.

Run into vehicle with relatives' jewels

Rubies of old.

Carburet

Choke's locale

It mixes air with gasoline

Fuel-injector ancestor

CARBURISE

Carburise

CARBURIZE To combine wtih carbon or a carbon compound; said esp. of a process for conferring a higher degree of illuminating power on combustible gases by mingling them with a vapor of valatile hydrocarbons.

Carburize

Careful

Exaggerated depiction (of someone)

Travesty of a sort

Obama with extra-large ears, e.g

Carrefour

Vikki sings a round and a round (wordplay)

Nuances of automotive design (wordplay)

Decorative scrollwork details on limo

Auto loans

Adjustments made to last scouse dishes

Dishes of scouse prepared with salt mixed in

Castoreum

Nonchalance

Victims of leisurewear (wordplay)

Informal neckwear (wordplay)

People hurt in promiscuous relationships

Casuarina

Decorated bier

Bier

""CATALOGUE A list or enumeration of names, or articles arranged methodically, often in alphabetical order; as, a catalogue of the students of a college, or of books, or of the stars. as, a catalogue of the students of a college, or of books, or of the stars.""

One who makes a listing or inventory

Lynx becomes list maker

He should make the list

Conversations with one's kitty (wordplay)

All the items there make up the E. coast of Gaul

Lists

Catamount

Shot out when a cult taped broadcast

Launched at great speed

One preparing for confirmation.

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

Neophyte

Night alley sounds

Backyard sounds.

Shrill cries

Caucus

Causalgia

Causation

Causative

Causeway

Corrosiveness

Like the Hydra's necks, post-decapitation