2-Letter Words Starting with S

Killed

Noctambulated

Sloganeer

Choice meal (wordplay)

Swedish-style hors d'oeuvres

Scandinavian-style buffet

Snapshot

Too compassionate (wordplay)

A bunch of pseuds of the art editor kind

Daftest hero becomes compassionate

Spacewalk

Spearfish

Initiated, as an undertaking

Took the lead, as in a campaign.

Pioneered, as a movement

Concentrating on one subject

Blend of spices ideal for a particular purpose

SPECIALIZE To mention specialy; to particularize.

Speedball

""A guard in the front part of vehicle, to prevent splashing by a mud or water from the horse's heels; in the United States commonly called dashboard. dashboard.""

Splayfoot

Flexible point of departure (wordplay)

Jumping-off place (wordplay)

If you're here, you'll take a dive

Stanchion

Any rove beetle.

Starboard

Defeated and then some

Whupped and then some

""STIGMATIZE To mark with a stigma, or brand; as, the ancients stigmatized their slaves and soldiers. as, the ancients stigmatized their slaves and soldiers.""

Used delaying tactics

Held things up

Hindered big-time

Like once-popular jeans

Like a bluenose.

Having strict morals

Prudish and appallingly clad artiste

STRATEGIZE

Up-to-date

Efficient when dealing with derailments

Efficient way to sort out derailments

Made a shrill sound, as katydids, crickets, etc.

Not good enough!

Inferior underwater vehicle ideal

Falling short of some prescribed norm

Subtotal

Sweetened (as a pill)

Made easier to swallow

Made more palatable

""To be very abundant or exuberant; to be more than sufficient; as, the country superabounds with corn. as, the country superabounds with corn.""

Past tense or past participle

With temperature raised to excess

Supplicat

Surfboard

Egotistical

Conceited

Vain

Operator's post, once

Manual telephone exchange

Where telephones are connected

SYLLABI syllabus

Shared an understanding with shyest maid, trembling, keeping quiet

Shared a sentiment

""-fies , -fying , -fied (Chemistry) (tr) to convert (starch) into sugar saccharification  , saccharization , saccharisation n""

SCHISMATIZE To make part in schism; to make a breach of communion in the church.

Scintillate

A drawing board coated with white clay and a surface layer of black ink that is scratched or scraped away to produce an effect similar to engraving. Also called scraperboard .

(Of houses) joined in pairs

Decide Thames could do for a house

Type of house

""Having the anterior toes joined only part way down with a web; half-webbed; as, a semipalmate bird or foot. See Illust. k under Aves.as, a semipalmate bird or foot. See Illust. k under Aves.""

SEQUESTRATE To sequester.

SHARECROP

Cheated (by cashier?)

Done - with spirit transformed!

Didn't get full return for your money

How to get broad (wordplay)

Prepare to deal and get on with the game

Cruise-ship pastime

SINGULARIZE To make singular or single; to distinguish.

Slipstream

Flipped

SPARKPLUG

""The male germ cell in animals and plants, the essential element in fertilization; a microscopic animalculelike particle, usually provided with one or more cilia by which it is capable of active motion. In animals, the familiar type is that of a small, more or less ovoid head, with a delicate threadlike cilium, or tail. Called also spermatozo\'94n. In plants the more usual term is antherozoid. spermatozo\'94n. In plants the more usual term is antherozoid.""

""Bred in conformity to a standard. Specif., applied to a registered trotting horse which comes up to the standard adopted by the National Association of Trottinghorse Breeders.""

STANDARDISE

""STANDARDIZE To reduce to a normal standard; to calculate or adjust the strength of, by means of, and for uses in, analysis.""

Stickhandle

Unfeeling - like Olive (wordplay)

Devoid of feeling for others

Feeling callous? Then destroy a settlement

Storyboard

Upset due to threats, but resolute

Courageous, resolute

Courageous

STRAIGHT to make {straight=adj}

Put in order

Way of presenting gender that is not kinky

Hulk Hogan's choker (wordplay)

Force that menaces freedom.

Complete power over a situation

""Having the circulation stopped by compression; attended with arrest or obstruction of circulation, caused by constriction or compression; as, a strangulated hernia. as, a strangulated hernia.""

Stringhalt

ARACHNOID Resembling a spider's web; cobweblike.

IRRIGATED irrigate

ORDINATED ordinate

SATURATED saturate

URBANISED urbanise

URBANIZED urbanize

VOCALIZED vocalize

Very quick, huge car sped round corner, finally

SWASHBUCKLE

Switchback

SYLLABICATE To form or divide into syllables; to syllabify.

SYSTEMATISE

""SYSTEMATIZE To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas. as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas.""

SECTARIANIZE To imbue with sectarian feelings; to subject to the control of a sect.

SEXTUPLICATE

As guilty woman dramatically did, walked out

Advanced cash? Deposit it, perhaps

Possessed of culture, refinement and 24

Ditches patois, turning suave

""A southeastward direction, point, or region.""

""A southwestward direction, point, or region.""

""SPIRITUALIZE To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize soul. as, to spiritualize soul.""

Solderer worked with metal forced through

Crushed or pushed through with overpowering force

Folly, in essence, with intricately remastered edging, overwhelmed

Stereograph

Done up in a prudish sort of way

Extremely proper

Puritanically corseted

CLASSIFIED classify

Player on bench that's got diminished is farmed out elsewhere

SUBINFEUDATE

Confirmed

Summersault

Superabound

Past it - pensioned off

A1 to the south, Aunt Edna rambles past it

Great girl, you hear, with a boy that's passe

SUPERELEVATE

Superharden

SUPEROVULATE

Disorganised spread knocked on the head

Incapable of concentration

Disorganised and unable to concentrate

Hit hard

Snaggletooth

Straitjacket

STRUCTURALIZE

CATEGORIZED placed in a category.

Inflected form of SPECIALIZED Inflected form of SPECIALIZE To mention specialy; to particularize.

""SUBSTANTIVIZE To convert into a substantive; as, to substantivize an adjective. as, to substantivize an adjective.""

Past tense or past participle

""SUPERSATURATE To add to beyond saturation; as, to supersaturate a solution. as, to supersaturate a solution.""

SENSATIONALISE sensational

SENSATIONALIZE

SENTIMENTALISE sentimental

""SENTIMENTALIZE To regard in a sentimental manner; as, to sentimentalize a subject. as, to sentimentalize a subject.""

Upright basketball player (wordplay)

Honest direction (wordplay)

Undemanding, unlike a hooker!

Supercalender

SUPERSTIMULATE