2-Letter Words Starting with C

Third-century martyred saint

Nicosia native

Wanton

""An amino acid, also CYSTEINE, CYSTINE""

Gem that's been polished but not faceted

Gem without facets

Gem without facets.

Resembling a {caduceus=n}

Leather (off young cow)

Type of leather

Fine, soft kind of leather

A device used for separating isotopes

Seek office, perhaps

Promotional operation, perhaps political

(E.g. military, political) project

Resin obtained from dried leaves and flowers of hemp

A stuffed roll

""A small can or cup, also CANAKIN, CANIKIN""

Glove leather from goats

South African leather

Soft leather

A liquid used as a flavoring

Franciscan friar - cha in cup (anagram)

Monk - monkey - china cup (anagram)

Friar; cloak and hood

An edible seaweed

Naughty man (or 'cad') offers spice

Condiment plant.

Seedy type from Madagascar with joker having an awful moan

Top horse I backed, Jack perhaps on it

It is worn in the bay (wordplay)

Sweater named for a general

Oarsman overturned in vessel in distress

Fatigued by worry

Tired through worry

Extra groups (wordplay)

Belly noises (wordplay)

Set of bells playing tunes

Food coloring agent

The nuclear material of a cell

A chemical used in dyeing

A domestic potboiler (wordplay)

A potboiler (wordplay)

A cold urn boiling (wordplay)

Having hollow horns

""A bodily chemical, also KEPHALIN""

Sky-blue in literary way

Deep blue colour

Light shade of blue

Special delivery (wordplay)

It may bring out the kid in you

The 'C' of C-section

""A method of child delivery, also CESAREAN""

Whale, for one

Whale or dolphin

Eg, a whale

Part of a surveying team

Survey party member

Surveyor.

Chainman

Mao, for one

Mesmerizing dog (wordplay)

He presides at meetings

Presidents honour service personnel

They sit at the top with church flyers

Swiss pilots get leadership roles

A unit of dry measure

""Armour for a horse's head, also CHANFRON""

Support (a cause)

Back the winner (wordplay)

Cup holder? ("Macbeth")

""Armour for a horse's head, also CHAMFRON""

Car-phone (anagram)

Older prom attendee (var.)

Broken car phone in Escort

Member of the clergy, in 24 ac say

For a clergyman providing tea is obvious

Tea taken with simple clergyman

""A tropical fish, also CHARACID""

Church manses converted for bishop, say

Rook, for one

Revolutionary guards work for king, say

Bishops and knights, say

Kings, queens, knights, for example

Bishops, pawns, etc.

""A V-shaped pattern, also CHEVRON""

The issue of marriage (wordplay)

Members of Longfellow's hour

The line of those in the playground

A compound derived from chitin

A toxic compound of chlorine

A menial worker

Choreman

A Christian monogram

Give a name to (baby)

Break a bottle on, maybe

Name (a baby)

{rennin=n}

Sticks in a drink, perhaps

Aromatic bark used as a spice

Seasoning symbolizing stability

Five-line stanza

That's the ticket!

A quote (from reference)

Award of 1948 (wordplay)

An antibiotic

Citizen (non-military)

Layman found in a civil way

One without rank

William Wallace, for one

Kilt wearer, perhaps

Highland family member

The Campbells, for instance

Macgregors, Gordons, etc.

Highland group members

Train fellow to become a driver

Male carriage driver

Horse-drawn carriage driver

Cinderella's accompaniers to the ball

Drivers of the stage knock out Comanche

Whip carriers

Collaboration, for example

Jointly create

Codrive

Undue influence on Cicero? Wrong!

Interrogator's tactic

Firm getting poor reaction at lost force

Caesar, for one

Surname prisoner keeps saying

Caesar, for Gaius Julius Caesar

Stick-to-it-iveness (wordplay)

That will stick the coin around the shoe

With the firm he has got one on sticking

An antibiotic

Tough fibrous protein, in skin say

Fibrous protein, of skin say

Source of a fat lip (wordplay)

Publisher's imprint

Publisher's emblem

Publisher's distinguishing mark

Equally average entertainer (wordplay)

Stand-up kind of guy (wordplay)

One who gives a hoot (wordplay)

Decline to a lower status (2 words)

Get sick (with)

Most of farce has now gone into decline

Beef, grouse or carp (wordplay)

Beef (or grouse?)

Express a grievance

Striving

Relating to a conidium

""A card game, also COONCAN""

Crockett's cap

One of the hats in the ring

Davy Crockett's cap material

Introduction of someone new in shop, one into fashion

A fellow patron

Variety of leather

Chain around Virginia is soft leather

Fine-grain leather

""A fine leather, also CORDOVAN""

First-aid giver

Certain soldier or sailor.

Army medic

Army medics

Formal ball

A vulgar woman

""A chemical compound, also CUMARIN""

A resident of a county

One over the eight (wordplay)

Crew's leader

Firm kiss by lover for keeper of course

Someone who climbs crags

Cragsman

""A device for raising heavy objects, also CRAMPET""

Journal on which connecting rod rides (5,3)

Could this be made from 16 (wordplay)

May King start things going (wordplay)

First act (wordplay)

Renaissance woodwind

Instrument for putting spirit, hot, into excrescence

Renaissance period wind instrument with an upward curving end

Supercooled switch; corny rot (anagram)

""A variety of plant originating under cultivation, also CULTIVAR""

Did the vine curl for firing (wordplay)

Run, Clive, from the old canon, by the sound of it

Sounds as if the old canon has a nil curve in

Nancy takes ego trip, which is lethal

Compound of carbon and nitrogen forming an essential ingredient of Prussian blue

Reddish-purple (flower from corm)

Cancel my odd flower

Cancel my orders for plant

Shakespearean nightmare

Come and dance, keeping company with the devil

Running water stifles means of communication concerning evil spirit

""Any of various legless, burrowing, wormlike amphibians of the order Gymnophiona, of tropical regions.""

Delivery for Julian (wordplay)

Surgical birth (Var.)

Like "Et tu, Brute?"

Relating to Brutus' victim (Var.)

Pertaining to Gaius Julius

Re some Roman emperors

Snappy judge (wordplay)

TV station employee

Hollywood V. I. P.

Movie shooters (wordplay)

Photographers arrived with noodles

They ride the dolly.

Small-ball bowling target

Target for some keglers

*Boston bowler's target

Perhaps dressages for the horses

Read about a capital way to dress well

Rich cloth laid over a warhorse

""A colorless crystalline substance extracted from the Capsicum annuum, and giving off vapors of intense acridity. Capsicum annuum, and giving off vapors of intense acridity.""

An anion in which carbon carries a negative charge and an unshared pair of electrons.

Caretake

America perhaps, after auto plant

What a blooming mechanical people!

Country estate perhaps first in bloom

Did Inca learn of this gem (wordplay)

Red cross member (wordplay)

Variety of quartz

Mini modified genera of seaweed

Purplish-red, edible seaweed

Purplish-red North Atlantic seaweed

A degeneration of animal tissue into a cheesy or curdy mass.

Governor of a fortress

Warden in a medieval stronghold.

For one running keep tin of beer (wordplay)

Boat for felines (wordplay)

America's Cup winner, perhaps

Feline boat (wordplay)

Any of various proteolytic enzymes found in animal tissue that catalyze the hydrolysis of proteins into polypeptides.

Neat fellow on the ranch (wordplay)

Ben Cartwright, for one

Shepherd's nemesis, in many oaters

Characters in "Old Arizona."

The sound of their work may be heard

Prime factors in the meat situation.

Reason why

Why one thing leads to another (wordplay)

Effect producer

A pure form of pyroxylin in which specimens for microscopic examination are embedded.

Man of 18 (wordplay)

Roman army commander

Roman army officer

Stopping canoeists capsizing

Process of ending

The ending or being brought to an end

""A tumour of the eyelid, pl CHALAZIONS or CHALAZIA""

""(Chemistry / Elements & Compounds) any of the elements oxygen, sulphur, selenium, tellurium, or polonium, of group 6A of the periodic table [from chalco ( pyrite ) + -gen ]""

Lizard hard for animal to eat (wild one)

Quick change artist (wordplay)

Lizard able to change its skin colour

University town in east central Illinois

Victor contrived gain in old country

Hospital used during manoeuvres in open country

Flamboyant deceiver, mountebank

Quack, fraud, a flamboyant deceiver

Cleaner's mostly slow, and an imposter

Tea-lady appears daily

Office building cleaner

Cleaner nation under fish wife

Some cleaners

Cleaning ladies

Cleaners.

The master of a castle; a castellan.

'Half a dozen grinning -s watching him (Richard Jefferies, Green Ferne Farm)

A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; called also a bearing rein. bearing rein.

The process of removing a heavy metal from a solution by means of a chelate;

Hen Nicola chopped up for reptile

Emir or raja

Leading man's changing it, if he can

One newt in file is the leader

A chap on foot (wordplay)

Painful swelling brought on by cold

Painful swelling in winter

Chestnut tree Var.

Chestnut tree variable

Order discovered in laboratory animal in feature which contains DNA

Vegetable coloring matter other than green; chromule.

Of the underworld

Ecclesiastic

CHURCH to bring to a building for Christian worship

CILIATE a class of protozoans

Of daily biological processes

""A platinum-containing chemotherapeutic drug, Cl 2 H 6 N 2 Pt, used in the treatment of metastatic ovarian or testicular cancers and advanced bladder cancer.""

Get a grip (wordplay)

Attempt at suppression

Attempt to suppress something

Is he in a service industry (wordplay)

My clanger about the vicar (wordplay)

Person of the cloth

Cloth workers (wordplay)

Revs may have them in masses 99)

Spiritual leaders of a Christian Church

Doctor treating patients

Doctor working directly with patients

Workshop giver

Shut completely, perhaps a business

Near to getting depressed? Gets wind up!

Secretive and depressed, stop operating

Box jellyfish or sea anemone, for example

Alliance to adopt fossil fuel, perhaps

The alliance of carbonisation, perhaps

Group of allies

See vitamin B .

Continental title

Relationship by blood; descent from the same original; kindred.

Knowledge - incognito (anagram)

Knowledge - no to icing (anagram)

Faculty of knowing while incognito

Irish cabbage, potato dish

Pass priest eating Northern Irish food

Cabbage mashed with potatoes

Making a meal of Lolita con (wordplay)

Fast food (wordplay)

Putting in sequence

Student pass many picked up

Fisk attendee, for example

Student makes Colorado member confront Scotsman

Violent meeting of objects

Course drivers should avoid

Course to avoid

""A solution of pyroxylin (soluble gun cotton) in ether containing a varying proportion of alcohol. It is strongly adhesive, and is used by surgeons as a containing for wounds; but its chief application is as a vehicle for the sensitive film in photography.""

Secret or illegal conspiracy to deceive

Secret cooperation

Secret deception

Public disorder

Disorderly outburst

Conservative proposal about honour causing uproar

Act of participating in the Eucharist

Sharing of spiritual feelings

Mass consumption that's common around university

Mate (maybe of honour!)

Person who lives or travels with you

One of the gang

Terseness

Provision for one's health

Part of an agreement

State one's requirement

Averse to an alliance (wordplay)

Study nuclear process in chaos

What a blow to the head might cause

Relationship: Brit. sp

A relationship: Eng. spelling.

Relationship Brit. sp.

Hold back - non-racist (anagram)

Restrict scope of (an activity)

Prison conveyance (wordplay)

Liquid coating on a virus maybe

It can go on spreading disease

Common epidemic factor

Blemish beneath skin of onions cut out

This brews, by the sound of it.

Discoloration of skin of onions cut in pieces

Banal piece by essayist? It's a gem

Dull red stone; lone cairn (anagram)

July birthstone

English word

CORNER to gain control of

""The erosion of the bed of a stream by running water, principally by attrition of the detritus carried along by the stream, but also by the solvent action of the water.""

Something worn on a hood

Rust, for example

Chemical process of metal erosion

Lively French social dance

Deb's ball

C eighteen dance

NCO old, yet turned over a new leaf

Missile launching procedure.

New Year's Eve tally

Stop at nothing

She's seduced no curates (wordplay)

No curates get mixed up with her!

No curates should take her out

Like many screenplays

Like Rodgers/Hart songs

Like Lennon/McCartney songs

Expert depressed by repressive measures

Repressive action taken

Newly appointed disciplinarian's measure

... joker that breaks in (wordplay)

The burglar works out on the island

Burglar jokes with servant

CRACKS crack

Boatyard worker (wordplay)

Skilled sailor (wordplay)

Expert shipwright (wordplay)

Males with manual skills

Males with skill in the manual arts

Manual workers with great skill

Burning (of a body)

Disposal of last atom in life (wordplay)

A burning romance somehow holds it back

A rounded tooth on the edge of a leaf.

Swimsuit competition for one

Swimsuit competition for one

Where to play Touchstone (wordplay)

Traversing Waltham, say

EastWest in Manhattan.

East-West in Manhattan.

Protector/guardian (of something)

He takes care to get a discount, perhaps

Keeper of keys

Vast empty city with no place to settle

Gigantic.

Massive

Physicist's accelerator

Particle-accelerating machine

Apparatus accelerating particles

Any of a class of plant hormones that promote cell division and growth and delay the senescence of leaves.

""A substance, such as an antibody, capable of dissolving or destroying cells.""

A substance having a specific toxic effect on certain cells.

+Tangerinelike Philippine fruit

""A peptide hormone, produced by the thyroid gland in humans, that lowers plasma calcium and phosphate levels without augmenting calcium accretion. Also called thyrocalcitonin .""

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

Payment per head

Memorable mention about a prince introducing poll-tax

Beginners' alphabet in wording under diagram could be taxing