2-Letter Words Starting with C

CYTOTOXIC

Cacophonous

Calculating

(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 )]

Carbohydrase

Sugar, for one

Source of energy in food

CARBONYLATE CARBONYL a chemical compound

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

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

Carnivorous

CARPETBAGGER An adventurer; a term of contempt for a Northern man seeking private gain or political advancement in the southern part of the United States after the Civil War (1865)< used now for any politician moving to a new location to take advantage of more favorable chances for election>.

Carryforward

""CATABOLIC Of or pertaining to catabolism; as, catabolic processes, which give rise to substances (katastates) of decreasing complexity and increasing stability.as, catabolic processes, which give rise to substances (katastates) of decreasing complexity and increasing stability.""

Catalytical

CATATONIC of or pertaining to catatonia; suffering from catatonia.

In an unqualified manner

In an unambiguously explicit manner

Without reserve

Flying off from its circular path

Centripetal

In a ceremonious way.

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

Chalcopyrite

Challenging

The copper's expertise is compromised by The Amendments

""Classification of organisms based on differences at the biochemical level, especially in the amino acid sequences of common proteins. Also called chemosystematics .""

Room features

""A thick-walled, asexual fungal spore that is derived from a hyphal cell and can function as a resting spore.""

Chlorenchyma

Chlorohydrin

Plural or third person singular

CHOLECYST

In a chromatic manner.

Plural or third person singular

""The dissolution or disintegration of chromophil material, such as chromatin, within a cell.""

""The dissolution or disintegration of chromophil material, such as chromatin, within a cell.""

Chromosomal

The study of the effects of time and rhythmical phenomena on life processes.

See chronotherapeutics .

Common garden plant

Showy flower such as the ox-eye daisy

Bright garden flower

Chymotrypsin

CINEMATIC

In a cautious manner

CLADISTIC

Clairvoyance

Clairvoyant

Group to end taking railway on the sly

Sly cent in deal (anagram) - on the sly

In a secret manner

Privacy or secrecy.

Clearheaded

Climactical

The quality of being coagulable; capacity of being coagulated.

CARBOXYLASE

Abstract noun (-ity)

Coextensive

In a stony, unloving manner

In a callous manner

With no sympathy

""COLLATERAL Coming from, being on, or directed toward, the side; as, collateral pressure. as, collateral pressure.""

English word

Collisional

""COLLOQUIAL Pertaining to, or used in, conversation, esp. common and familiar conversation; conversational; hence, unstudied; informal; as, colloquial intercourse; colloquial phrases; a colloquial style. as, colloquial intercourse; colloquial phrases; a colloquial style.""

In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.

""COMMERCIAL Of or pertaining to commerce; carrying on or occupied with commerce or trade; mercantile; as, commercial advantages; commercial relations. as, commercial advantages; commercial relations.""

Imparting knowledge or information.

The property of a binary operation or operator such that the result of one term operating on a second is equal to the result of the second term operating on the first.

""COMPANION One who accompanies or is in company with another for a longer or shorter period, either from choice or casually; one who is much in the company of, or is associated with, another or others; an associate; a comrade; a consort; a partner.""

Such friendly fashions get one up on board

They're all for your ups and downs on board

Has someone with you got the manners to help you to get up on board (wordplay)

A similarity allowing comparison; an approximate equivalence.

Relatively

Mutual tolerance

In a compendious manner.

Competitive

Complaining

Complaisant

Like red and green

Kind of 2 down treatment - temple acronym (anagram)

Matching

Complexify

Complicated

Expressing approval - not to be paid for

Free (ticket); praising

Like an Annie Oakley

Compressive

Computation: amounts beyond compute.

Pond ripples

An elaborated concept.

Pertaining to preferential rates

CONCLUSION The last part of anything; close; termination; end.

In company with others; unitedly; concurrently.

""Pertaining to, or formed by, concretion or aggregation; producing or containing concretions.""

In a conditional manner; subject to a condition or conditions; not absolutely or positively.

CONDYLOMA

Of the nature of familiar talk; in the form of a dialogue.

A confectioner.

Certify on cone (anagram)

Sweets, chocolates etc

Abandoned, once forty, nice sweet things

Conflicting

Confounding

Stupidly try for ancient brotherhood

That which depends upon guess; guesswork.

In conjunction or union; together.

Participation of the same nature; natural union or connection.

In a connotative manner; expressing connotation.

""The relation of person by blood, is distinction from affinity or relation by marriage; blood relationship; as, lineal consanguinity; collateral consanguinity. affinity or relation by marriage; blood relationship; as, lineal consanguinity; collateral consanguinity.""

One after another

Back to back

In turn

Considerate

Conspicuous

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

Constituent

By constraint or compulsion; in a constrained manner.

In a way tending to or indication consumption.

Quarrelsomely

Continental

The quality or property by which bodies shrink or contract.

Contractual

Mutually inconsistent

Paradoxical

Inconsistent

Contrastive

Conveyancing

CONVEYORISE

CONVEYORIZE

Pertaining to convulsion; convulsive. "Convulsionary struggles." Convulsionary struggles."

Cooperative

""Inflected form of POLYMERIZED Inflected form of POLYMERIZE To cause polymerization of; to produce polymers from; to increase the molecular weight of, without changing the atomic proportions; thus, certain acids polymerize aldehyde. polymerize aldehyde.""

Copolymerize

(Of a work) such as may be legally protected

In a correlative relation.

Quality of being corrigible; capability of being corrected; corrigibleness.

""Tending to strengthen; corroborative; as, corroboratory facts. as, corroboratory facts.""

Coterminous

English word

Counterplay

Counterstyle

Deserving of often limited praise or commendation: The student made a creditable effort on the essay.

Crestfallen

Cryobiology

The study of the effects of very low temperatures on living organisms.

CRYOGENIC

CRYOPRESERVE

Cryopreserve

Cryosurgery

Cryotherapy

Plural or third person singular

Process of deciphering codes

Code-busting

Code breaking

Turing's team at Bletchley Park, for example

The analysis and deciphering of cryptographic writings or systems.

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

""Krptgrfk, Cryptographical Relating to cryptography; written in secret characters or in cipher, or with sympathetic ink.""

Like much GCHQ work

Code-based

Cryptologist

Cryptorchism

Study of creatures whose existence has not been scientifically proved

""CRYSTALLINE Consisting, or made, of crystal.""

CRYSTALLISE

Crystallizer

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

CRYSTALLOID Crystallike; transparent like crystal.

Capable of undergoing cultivation: cultivable land.

CYANOACRYLATE

""Pl. cyanobacteria (-tîr - ) A photosynthetic bacterium of the class Coccogoneae or Hormogoneae, generally blue-green in color and in some species capable of nitrogen fixation. Cyanobacteria were once thought to be algae. Also called blue-green alga .""

CYANOETHYLATE

""Automation the comparative study of complex electronic devices and the nervous system in an attempt to understand better the nature of the human brain. ; cyberneticist , ; cybernetic ,""

CYBERNETIC

Cyclicality

Noun (-tion)

Cyclodextrin

(Chemistry) a colourless liquid used as a solvent for cellulose lacquers. Formula: C 6 H 10 O

""A colorless crystalline compound, C 15 H 23 NO 4 , that is used as an agricultural fungicide.""

CYCLOOLEFIN

See cycloalkane .

Cyclopropane

Cyclosporine

In the manner or shape of a cylinder; so as to be cylindrical.

Cysticercoid

Plural or third person singular

The condition of being infested with cysticerci.

Cytochalasin

Cells ()

CYTOGENETIC Of or pertaining to cytogenesis or cell development.cytogenesis or cell development.

Cytological

Cytomembrane

Cytoskeleton

""The classification of organisms based on cellular structure and function, especially on the structure and number of chromosomes.""

Campylobacter

""Having the ovules and seeds so curved, or bent down upon themselves, that the ends of the embryo are brought close together.""

Prison ship: lousy, revolting in a bad-tempered way

Carbonylation

Carboxylation

""Pl. cardiomyopathies A disease or disorder of the heart muscle, especially of unknown or obscure cause.""

""CATALEPTIC Pertaining to, or resembling, catalepsy; affected with catalepsy; as, a cataleptic fit. as, a cataleptic fit.""

Plural or third person singular

""Synthesis of organic compounds by energy derived from chemical changes or reactions. Chemosynthesis of carbohydrates occurs in the nitrite bacteria through the oxidation of ammonia to nitrous acid, and in the nitrate bacteria through the conversion of nitrous into nitric acid.Chemosynthesis of carbohydrates occurs in the nitrite bacteria through the oxidation of ammonia to nitrous acid, and in the nitrate bacteria through the conversion of nitrous into nitric acid.""

Synthesis of carbohydrate from carbon dioxide and water using energy obtained from the chemical oxidation of simple inorganic compounds. This form of synthesis is limited to certain bacteria and fungi.

Chlamydospore

""CHLOROPHYLL Literally, leaf green; a green granular matter formed in the cells of the leaves (and other parts exposed to light) of plants, to which they owe their green color, and through which all ordinary assimilation of plant food takes place. Similar chlorophyll granules have been found in the tissues of the lower animals.""

A drug used to lower serum cholesterol levels and treat itching associated with jaundice through its ability to bind intestinal bile acids and promote their excretion.

A treatise on colors

""(used with a sing. verb) The physics of the relationship between color-carrying quarks, especially the nature of their strong interaction, which is characterized by the exchange of gluons.""

Chrysanthemum

Art of film-making

Caught three times, your turmoil is shown in diversion for roundabout

Clairaudient

Fellow I needed in great work with a politician sorting things

Pl. clitoridectomies also clitorectomies Surgical removal of the clitoris.

Cocarboxylase

Cockeyedness

""EVOLUTIONARY Relating to evolution; as, evolutionary discussions. as, evolutionary discussions.""

Coincidental

""The act of falling down or inward, as from loss of supports.""

COLORISTIC