2-Letter Words Starting with C

Cointer

Coinvent

Coldcock

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.

Having a series of columns arranged at regular intervals; furnished with a colonnade.

""COMMINGLE To mingle together; to mix in one mass, or intimately; to blend.""

""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.""

COMMUNISE

COMMUNIZE

COMMUTATE

Didn't take lightly

Complect

Complot

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

Like some interest

Exacerbated

Mixed.

Gather hempen cord in knots

See compositor about layer to delete

Divine or demon perch all at sea

Condensed or reduced in volume

Flattened by pressure

Squeezed The Media into Medoc complex

Do something below one's dignity

Patronise dive after study

Show that one feels superior

Set up as prisoner and judged

(Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) a candidate for confirmation

Of two minds

Clashed.

Really annoying (nuisance)

Cursed swindle set up

Brought to confusion

Challenged Catholic leader on 'Father Ted' carries on

Congress

(In grammar) inflected a verb systematically - do get Cajun (anagram)

CONSCRIBE To enroll; to enlist.

Believed to be

Thought carefully about

Took into account

Nicaraguan music makers (wordplay)

Nicaraguan music makers?

Opposed to pop group taking drugs, maybe

Formally agreed; shrank

Shrank from being engaged

Reduced in size

Run into experienced Tory in leading position, shown to be different

Kept within bounds.

Like some explosions and substances

Jailbird was a pest online, under supervision

Intricately twisted

Intricate - tortuous

Company time invested in developing unloved complex

Calm and collected.

Good under pressure

Not easily excited

Turned state's witness, say

Was one of a team of surgeons (wordplay)

Turned state's evidence

Elemental serpent (wordplay)

Police officer's woe (wordplay)

Reptilian chief of police (wordplay)

PRODUCED produce

Copurify

Copycat

Copyedit

Corduroy

Coredeem

Dearer colt (anagram)

Established in orderly connection.

Dovetailing

Agree to write (wordplay)

Keep in touch by letter

'Just the same, write the letter (10)'

Crumbs! Mat made date, brought wrinkly!

Cardboard type

CORUSCATE To glitter in flashes; to flash.

Coscript

Kind of oil

Pip's soft substance first, it yields a valuable oil

See Cudweed. Cudweed.

Cloth golf equipment (wordplay)

Tree housing Preminger (wordplay)

Aspen's shady cousin

Barrister went ahead and gave advice

Advised

English word

Courtesy

""The state or condition of a cousin; also, the collective body of cousins; kinsfolk.""

Covenant

COVERALL one-piece protective clothing

Was a crew leader

Crawfish

Having squared notches

Scalloped

This was crackling, by the sound of it

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

Verse in Nordic translation in dated dress

Cold gent upset with penny lolly in cracker

Cooked spider-crab suitable for a low calorie diet (wordplay)

""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.""

Found fault with

Took to task.

Evaluated

Ill-humored species (wordplay)

Mate (two different species)

Mix, as dogs

Crowbar

Reached a high point

Topped out

Farmed in a civilised way

Grew to become refined

Refined schoolboy having one butt in

English word

Worn at 29D

Tux go-with

One tours the Centre with the DJ

CUSTOMISE

CUSTOMIZE to make to specifications.

CYBERNATE

Cylinder

CACHINNATE

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

Escaping detection

Hidden

Oily and exaggerated husband held forth

A politician in church preached, becoming oily

CANNABIN a resin extracted from cannabis

CANTILLATE To chant; to recite with musical tones.

CAPACITATE To render capable; to enable; to qualify.

Floating naiad corpse richly arrayed

Wearing ornamental coverings, as circus horses

CAPITALISE

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

Gave in

Surrendered

""CARAMELISE to to change into caramel, by the action of heat; as, The sugar caramelized quickly.as, The sugar caramelized quickly.""

Like sugar that's been heated until it turns brown

Carbonado

Carburet

Drew a grotesque picture of

Carillon

A swimmer dived in and performed certain crafty manoeuvres

Did a gymnastic maneuver

Having turrets and battlements

Having battlements

Like fortification Bill set up with girl and boy

CATABOLIZE

Put into boxes in iced storage possibly

Placed in a category.

Meowed

Sailboat device.

CENTRALISE

""Drawn toward a center or brought under the control of a central authority; as, centralized control of emergency relief efforts; centralized government. Opposite of decentralized.as, centralized control of emergency relief efforts; centralized government. Opposite of decentralized.""

""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.""

Presided over

Servant combining charm with bed? I am!

Source of mints, at times

Making bed with charm, am I? Possibly

CHANNELIZE

Character

Grilled on a rack that leaves black stripes

Chauffeur

Checkmark

Chemisorb

Did some social work (wordplay)

Made small talk

Shot the breeze

CHLORALOSE

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

Numskull.

Numbskull

Ignoramus

Of or belonging to the family Chrysomelidae.

Dolt or rockfish

Black-bellied plover.

Not so smart with a little laughter (wordplay)

Chugalug

CINEMATIZE

""CIRCUMCISE To cut off the prepuce of foreskin of, in the case of males, and the internal labia of, in the case of females.""

CIRCUMFUSE To pour round; to spread round.

Clapboard

CLASSICIZE to make classic or classical.

Past tense or past participle

Mentally alert

Alert; logical

Perceptive

Mean and prepared to fight

Stingy

Cocaptain

COCKNEY a resident of London's East End

Cocounsel

Codevelop

Cohostess

Unaffected by emotion

Like the cruel meteorologist

Lacking compassion

COMMENTATE To write comments or notes upon; to make comments.

COMMODE a {cabinet=n}

Companion

Remunerated

Confused tabby's followed around

Not simple

Comic lad playing with pet becoming confused

Endangered through recklessness

Split the difference.

Made concessions when jeopardised by scandal

Concenter

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

Like an oily mitt

Seized (as a penalty)

Seized

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

Gathered in a crowd

Hazarded an opinion

Conscript

Holy box in second reincarnation

Sanctified

Hallowed

CONSOCIATE An associate; an accomplice.

Having difficult or incomplete or infrequent evacuation of the bowels; costive.

Composed

Jail-birds exercised under compulsion

Reticent prisoners studied

Reticent prisoner pushed to the limit

Forced to be narrower

Made narrower

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

Put up

Built

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

CONTRAVENE To meet in the way of opposition; to come into conflict with; to oppose; to contradict; to obstruct the operation of; to defeat.

Given change but no credit

Added to

Added

Rested for recovery

Matched, harmonised

Attractively harmonised

Copartner

Copresent

Copublish

Protected, as a poem

Corkscrew

Cosponsor

Revoke (an order)

Revoke an order

Reverse, as an order

English word

COUNTERSUE

Provincial company not put to the test about uncertainty

Backwoods

Rural

Same as countrified.countrified.

Having battlements.

Built up

Crookback

""A term used when a narrow ribbon of veneer is inserted into the surfase of any piece of furniture, wainscoting, etc., so that the grain of it is contrary to the general surface.""

Crossbar

Crossruff

CROWSTEP a step on top of a wall

A developmental defect marked by the failure of the testes to descend into the scrotum.

CRYSTALIZE

Crystallike; transparent like crystal.

Did a groom's job

Curveball

""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.""

CANNIBALISE

CANNIBALIZE

Cannonball

Cantilever

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

CARROTTOP

Girl we hear presuming to transfer figures

CATHETERIZE To operate on with a catheter.

CATHOLICIZE To make or to become catholic or Roman Catholic.

Authorized

Chandelier

Surface of 64 squares

Design of alternating squares

Examine hesitation for committee looking for kings in America (wordplay)

Sofa (with crooked spire?)

Type of sofa (in Derbyshire?)

Man of letters is well-upholstered