2-Letter Words Starting with C

To arrive without pigments is awkward

Hard to handle Brown's blocking approach

Seeing off rum, becomes awkward

Like a running total

Increasing by successive additions

Increasing by addition

Slow; tardy; dilatory; causing delay.

""The shell or bone of cuttlefishes, used for various purposes, as for making polishing powder, etc.""

Creepy scab (anagram)

The online world

Worldwide computer network

English word

""Sklstm, Cyclostomous Pertaining to the Cyclostomi.""

Document copying device suitable for Tour de France (wordplay)

English word

A tubular instrument equipped with a light and used to examine the interior of the urinary bladder and ureter.

Any of a class of iron-containing proteins important in cell respiration as catalysts of oxidation-reduction reactions.

Spirit of friendliness and trust

Esprit de corps

Closeness from dear America's uncertain

Bellshaped.

Adjective (-able)

See Inclandescence. Inclandescence.

State of seeking election or nomination

A running for office.

To salvage parts from wreck is in balance

Island's cutting three-quarters of shrewdest use for spare parts

Use parts of one thing to repair another thing

Ability to store electric charge

""Pl. carabinieri (-b n-yâr , -b -ny r ) A member of the Italian police force.""

An enzyme that catalyzes a carboxylation or decarboxylation reaction.

To treat a chemical compound with carboxyl or carboxylic acid.

Character among a former group of clergy

High church office.

Drug relieving flatulence; vitamin care (anagram)

Rather caricatured

""Native tin dioxide; tin stone; a mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals of reddish brown color, and brilliant adamantine luster; also massive, sometimes in compact forms with concentric fibrous structure resembling wood (wood tin), also in rolled fragments or pebbly (Stream tin). It is the chief source of metallic tin. See Black tin, under Black. wood tin), also in rolled fragments or pebbly (Stream tin). It is the chief source of metallic tin. See Black tin, under Black.""

Tragedy a 'thesp' actor performing

Event causing great suffering

Final event in a drama.

Familiar words (of comedian)

Fielders' slogan (wordplay)

Gotcha, you rascal!

To operate on with a catheter.

CATHOLIC a member of the early Christian church

To make or to become catholic or Roman Catholic.

Bouquet at a meal, maybe

Dining room decoration

Arrangement on the table

""Any of various lipid compounds containing glucose or galactose and glucose, and found in the brain and other nerve tissue.""

Presenting symptoms of mental illness sufficient for legal commitment to a mental institution.

Exam pass document

Document verifying qualifications etc

Statement of qualifications

A perennial plant that sets its dormant vegetative buds just at or above the surface of the ground.

Highest string of a violin.

Yellow mushroom favored in France

Yellow mushroom favored in France

Kind of accompaniment

Escorting important individual not south after tea

Cleaner and smarter - that's cold food!

Delicatessen or the meats sold in it

Cold cooked meats shop

CHERISH to hold dear

14 pounds of maraschinos (wordplay)

Pit that's sometimes spit

One more may make a soldier a sailor

Adjective meaning resembling

Style of art inspired by the East

""A colorless liquid, C 4 H 5 Cl, that polymerizes to neoprene.""

Lupus medication in the news

The difference between one color and a reference color of the same brightness and chromaticity.

Not staining readily with dye. Used of a cell or cell structure.

Any chemical group or residue (as NO<?/; N<?/; or O<?/) which imparts some decided color to the compound of which it is an ingredient.

English word

""An applegreen variety of chalcedony, colored by nickel. It has a dull flinty luster, and is sometimes used in jewelry.""

A quiet laugh of mild amusement or satisfaction.

""Pertaining to, or resembling, cinnabar; consisting of cinnabar, or containing it; as, cinnabarine sand. as, cinnabarine sand.""

CIRCULAR a leaflet

CIRCULAR a leaflet

Promoting circulation; circulating.

CIVILIAN a nonmilitary person

Wound isn't cleaned in private

Intend tailing tribe in secret

Almost doomed by family secret

Fashion designer's work (wordplay)

Air dryer (wordplay)

Washing up - and drying!

A coming together

The growing together of parts

Growing together

Part of old road surface

Rounded irregular lump used in paving

Piece of road surfacing material

""CULTIVATE To bestow attention, care, and labor upon, with a view to valuable returns; to till; to fertilize; as, to cultivate soil. as, to cultivate soil.""

Subject of current controversy.

Proposed substitute for cold war.

One alternative to an armed world.

""Equally extensive; having as, consciousness and knowledge are coextensive. as, consciousness and knowledge are coextensive.""

Home of a hot drink (wordplay)

18th-century meeting place

Place where people work for beans (wordplay)

Expert

Capable of being known.

Simultaneous or connected occurrence

Believe It or Not! item, often

Correspondence, result of an accident (wordplay)

""Insurance jointly with another or others; specif., that system of fire insurance in which the insurer is treated as insuring himself to the extent of that part of the risk not covered by his policy, so that any loss is apportioned between him and the insurance company on the principle of average, as in marine insurance or between other insurers.""

Pl. coleorhizae (-z ) A protective sheath enclosing the embryonic root of grasses.

Work together

Work jointly

Any of various enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of collagen and gelatin.

Like an air-filled lifeboat

Like card tables

Able to be folded down

COLLECT to {gather=v}

Capable of being collected.

COLLIGATE To tie or bind together.

COLONIAL a citizen of a colony

Produced by a combinatorial process.

Capable of igniting and burning

Easily excited with clue, it bombs miserably

Inflammable

Deserved rebuke Slang.

Deserved rebuke: Colloq.

Deserved rebuke Colloq.

At ease in body or mind

Like a broken-in easy chair

Cosy; free from money worries

Capable of being commanded.

Mark (an earlier event)

Serve as a reminder of

Celebrate, remember

Worthy of praise

Deserving praise

Empathise (with)

Express sympathy

Sympathize with.

Mad, but it can be done

Saw Tooting, maybe

Run-of-the-mill

Nothing special

Thomas Paine work.

Paine pamphlet of 1776

Tom Paine's treatise, 1776.

COMMUNAL belonging to the community

Pass on (ideas)

Get a message across

Get one's idea across

Relative to exchange; interchangeable; reciprocal.

That may be compacted.

Relative that may have more

Part of speech, 'for richer, for poorer'

It could be better or worse

Capable of being compassed or accomplished.

Capable of being compelled or constrained.

Receiving money for services rendered.

""Of or pertaining to competition; producing competition; competitory; as, a competitive examination. as, a competitive examination.""

Contented self-satisfaction.

""Compressing, or having power or tendency to compress; as, a compressive force. as, a compressive force.""

Code talking (wordplay)

COMPUTER a machine that computes automatically

Make an office modern, in a way

Linked, as in a chain.

(To) link in a chain

Link together in a chain

Capable of being concealed.

""Capable of being conceived, imagined, or understood.""

Increase the strength of (a solution)

Advice to a scatterbrain

Swindle + penny + assess

That in which anything is contained; a vessel; a receiver or receptacle.

Agreement; list of words

Agreement

Cohabitation of Tory with young pup when old

They power cells?

They power cells (wordplay)

Meeting of minds

Worthy of condemnation; blamable; culpable.

""Capable of being condensed; as, vapor is condensable. as, vapor is condensable.""

""Capable of being condensed; as, a gas condensible to a liquid by cold. as, a gas condensible to a liquid by cold.""

Italian mercenary leader (historical)

""Conducting power; -- the reciprocal of resistance. A suggested unit is the mho, the reciprocal of the ohm.resistance. A suggested unit is the mho, the reciprocal of the ohm.""

Capable of being conducted.

Chat

Accomplice, fellow worker

US Civil War fighter

Joined by treaty

Capable of being conferred.

Noun (-ence)

CONFESS to admit or disclose

That may be confirmed.

Capable of being confiscated; liable to forfeiture.

Tending to conflict; conflicting.

""Corresponding in form, character, opinions, etc.; similar; like; consistent; proper or suitable; -- usually followed by to.to.""

Agreement

Adapted or designed to confute.

Serving to unite; connecting together.

""The act of joining, or state of being joined; union; connection; combination.""

CONNECT to join together

To link or be linked together; join; fasten

Implying something additional; illative.

Of the same origin.

In sequence

Result of trick on train

Result or effect

Result of some previous action

Kind of desecration (wordplay)

Mindful of others' well-being

Thoughtful argument against team charge

A member of a Mafia family who serves as an adviser or aide to the leader or to other members

CONSIGN to give over to another's care

Agreement, harmony or compatibility

Combine, make stronger

Strengthen Aldi: on Tesco struggles

Sit and canoodle, forming bond together

Group of lags report a deficient meal

Unruly local teens gathered round end of street in cluster

Fill with anxiety or dread

Fill with anxiety

CONSTRUE to interpret

""Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting.""

Able to be constrained

Possible to control

Add impurity to (something)

Make (something) impure

Add impurities to

Intend to deceive a model

Look at and study working pattern

Entertain model after do

Capable of being contested; debatable.

See Contingency. Contingency.

Sequel

""Tending to contract; having the power or property of contracting, or of shrinking into shorter or smaller dimensions; as, the contractile tissues. as, the contractile tissues.""

Tending to contract; having the property or power or power of contracting.

""A state of permanent rigidity or contraction of the muscles, generally of the flexor muscles.""

CONTRAST to place in opposition to display differences

A variation of the quadrille.

Gadget

Useful device; freedom from effort

Freedom from difficulty

Helpful device; toilet

""A small assembly or gathering; esp., a secret assembly.""

Process of coming together

Condition of coming closer together

Process of coming closer together

Qualified for conversation; disposed to converse; sociable; free in discourse.

Familiarity (with something)

Car not fixed (wordplay)

Car to suit missionary (wordplay)

Type of car

""CONVEYOR one that conveys, also CONVEYER""

""CONVEYOR one that conveys, also CONVEYER""

Involving mutual assistance

Willing to be of assistance

Like a good police witness

English word

Police officer quietly delayed writing

Small change to portion of handwriting

Engraver's surface

""REQUISITE That which is required, or is necessary; something indispensable.""

Part of a foundation.

Strong supporter set pieces with style

Place for a date, frequently

""CORPORATE Formed into a body by legal enactment; united in an association, and endowed by law with the rights and liabilities of an individual; incorporated; as, a corporate town. as, a corporate town.""

Capable of being corrected.

Having or indicating a reciprocal relation.

Confirm Conservative talk about 12, say

Back up (a statement)

Confirm (a statement)

Open to bribery

COSMETIC a beauty preparation

Citizen of the world.

Worldly sophisticate

TRANSDUCE

Approve of - human face

Put up with appearance

Accept as possible; face

English word

English word

An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy.

To move in a contrary direction to.

Use an analgesic

Token piece of glass that's put on bed

Attire (someone)

English word

Turned so icy (anagram)

The green and pleasant part of our land

Security Don arranged out of town

From sea to shining sea

Some glazed pottery

Type of glazed pottery

Glazed pottery with fine lines

To declare (an act) to be illegal.

Fibrous blue or green mineral also called blue asbestos

English word

Like sparkly gems

Very clear

You look mah-velous, for example (wordplay)

Say Evert scores penultimate point to end set

Shout over delay over one's point for set

""A minute mineral form like those common in glassy volcanic rocks and some slags, not having a definite crystalline outline and not referable to any mineral species, but marking the first step in the crystallization process. According to their form crystallites are called trichites, belonites, globulites, etc. trichites, belonites, globulites, etc.""

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

""The building where customs and duties are paid, and where vessels are entered or cleared.""

English word

English word

""An extremely flammable, colorless, mobile liquid, C 6 H 12 , obtained from petroleum and benzene and used in the manufacture of nylon and as a solvent, a paint, and a varnish remover.""

""An antibiotic effective against a wide range of bacteria, used especially in the treatment of tuberculosis and infections of the urinary tract.""

A synthetic steroid that inhibits the secretion of androgens.

Large grouse; a paler icicle (anagram)

Grouse to jump about - one left to rest

Type of northern grouse