2-Letter Words Starting with S

Having or showing the skill of a practical seaman.

Capable of being searched.

AB, perhaps, right for a time

Appropriate for the time of year

Like unsurprising temperatures

False clues crop up to sideline belief

Disengage from the faithful? Awful clues result

Make less ecclesiastical

Make worldly

Seecatch

""Revenue or a profit taken from the minting of coins, usually the difference between the value of the bullion used and the face value of the coin.""

SELECTA a disc jockey

Like some gemstones

Cloudy

""To make sensual; to subject to the love of sensual pleasure; to debase by carnal gratifications; to carnalize; as, sensualized by pleasure. as, sensualized by pleasure.""

Pl. sententiae (-sh - ) An adage or aphorism.

""Causing, or being to cause, separation.""

Like Western land, to the pioneers

Adjective meaning resembling

An edible inky cap mushroom (Coprinus comatus) having shaggy scales covering the cap. Also called shaggy cap .

An arch support inserted into the shank of a shoe.

SHRINK to contract or draw back

A drug or other agent that increases the flow of saliva.

Like a lady up but not over (wordplay)

One way to ride a horse.

Teams go off riding in unorthodox manner

Prizes for runners-up (wordplay)

Articles stashed by vacationers

This puzzle's theme

Assuming an appearance.

Final word of 1961: 'emerald-green'

Final word of 1961: "emerald-green"

""A green foliated kind of amphibole, observed in eclogite and some varietis of gabbro.""

""The structure or build of a person, especially to the extent to which it exhibits the characteristics of an ectomorph, an endomorph, or a mesomorph.""

Musical impersonator at MoMA (wordplay)

What homonyms do

Reliable platform (wordplay)

Solid way to travel (wordplay)

TV shooting set.

Marching-band instrument

March king's namesake, in a way

Relative of a helicon

See Spatulate. Spatulate.

Train in a particular area requiring less pace, one twice derailed

Concentrate on expertise in unique island with endless sunshine finally

Work in a limited field.

Major in

Mineral lets delicate little person keep healthy

Plane for shaping curved surfaces

Tool said to have succeeded getting in

Tool said to cut closely

English word

SPREAD to stretch over an area

Having little scales; squamellate; squamulate.

Squishy, as paper towels

Compressible object inviting a hug (wordplay)

Gray trout

One to horse around with (wordplay)

Reliable spouse (wordplay)

Level-headed groom?

Overhead projection (wordplay)

A hanging for a caveman (wordplay)

Structure deposited on cave roof

A prison-camp child that is growing up!

A certain point underground (wordplay)

Cave floor growth

Legislature's place

Where politicians aren't "fed"

Where some bills are created

A barometer for recording small variations in atmospheric pressure.

They knew the Power Of A Woman

Tall and well-proportioned

Striking what little Stewart equates to

""Made or introduced by statute; proceeding from an act of the legistature; as, a statutable provision or remedy. as, a statutable provision or remedy.""

""A mineral of a brown to black color occurring in prismatic crystals, often twinned so as to form groups resembling a cross. It is a silicate of aluminia and iron, and is generally found imbedded in mica schist. Called also granatite, and grenatite. granatite, and grenatite.""

Southern European larkspur; at crevasse (anagram)

Brand negatively

Malign

""A shoreline, especially one marking an earlier and higher water level.""

STRATEGIZE

Make more efficient, perhaps

Reshape to make lean mister (wordplay)

Make more efficient

The land adjacent to a stream.

Change a result - it'd sound like cricket (wordplay)

Filth in America is up - it's past the time to be chirpy

Make some noise as cricket result tad surprising, India's opener caught

STRIPE to mark with distinct bands

Floor show perhaps and drinks in bar

Act that's taking off (wordplay)

1996 Demi Moore movie

AUDIBLE able to be heard

AVERAGE to calculate the arithmetical mean value of

Somewhat cordate; somewhat like a heart in shape.

Capable of being sublimed or sublimated.

MUCOSAE mucosa

""PRIMATE any of an advanced order of mammals, also PRIMATAL""

Capable of being subsumed.

SURFACE to apply an outer layer to

Able to suffer or endure; patient.

Tacit permission.

Reluctant consent

Offer it up perhaps to put up with political party in Africa contacting Spain

A building in which sugar is made or refined; a sugar manufactory.

SUMMON to order to appear

English word

Starbursts (wordplay)

Star bursts

Exploding stars

English word

English word

Type of government.

Eurasia, in "Nineteen Eighty-Four"

In earnest, praying for special pun to be concocted

Beg kitty to lie about with wild pups

Sue being agile, catching one pet (wordplay)

Pray humbly

""Capable of being supposed, or imagined to exist; as, that is not a supposable case. as, that is not a supposable case.""

""Surplus; excess; overplus; as, surplusage of grain or goods beyond what is wanted. as, surplusage of grain or goods beyond what is wanted.""

SURVIVE to remain in existence

Noun (-ance)

Unseen cats desperate for nourishment

Food and drink

What one needs to get by

SWITCH to beat with a flexible rod

See Sweepstake. Sweepstake.

Offer condolences to poor Amish types

Express fellow feeling

Show concern for leaders of Scotland Yard made to quickly touch on his point

""To have a common feeling, as of bodily pleasure or pain.""

See ligase .

Buying guides (wordplay)

They're often in the field

Clerks.

""Pl. salmonellae (-n l ) or salmonellas or salmonella Any of various rod-shaped bacteria of the genus Salmonella, many of which are pathogenic, causing food poisoning, typhoid, and paratyphoid fever in humans and other infectious diseases in domestic animals.""

Like some sunken ships

""A fellow without breeches; a ragged fellow; a name of reproach given in the first French revolution to the extreme republican party, who rejected breeches as an emblem peculiar to the upper classes or aristocracy, and adopted pantaloons.""

""SATIRIZE to subject to satire, also SATIRISE""

That may be satisfied.

Boastful and cowardly character

Cowardly buffoon

Coward shows wound, having confronted a second superior rebel

Form a sect

Sparkle - elastic lint (anagram)

Emit flashes of light

Show many flashes of light

""A thick, syrupy, colorless alkaloid, C 17 H 21 NO 4 , extracted from plants such as henbane and used primarily as a mydriatic and sedative, and to treat nausea and prevent motion sickness. Also called hyoscine .""

SEGREGATE Separate; select.

""Something claimed or taken by virtue of sovereign prerogative; specifically, a charge or toll deducted from bullion brought to a mint to be coined; the difference between the cost of a mass of bullion and the value as money of the pieces coined from it.""

Like some hospital service

Like two-bed hospital rooms

Lock up, as a jury

Appropriate search before baddie comes into view

Take possession of (assets) pending settling of debt

In working order

Fit for use

Functional

English word

Give poor value

Cheat by returning insufficient money

Give insufficient recompense

Same as Fibrolite. Fibrolite.

To make singular or single; to distinguish.

Adjective meaning resembling

Concrete, as complaints

Conjecturing - high-risk

Based on conjecture

Disagreement I have about iffy clue involving guesswork

""A red to brownish-red mineral of the garnet group, Mn 3 Al 2 (SiO 4 ) 3 .""

A manganesian variety of garnet.

Adjective meaning resembling

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Microbiology) any of a group of spirally coiled rodlike bacteria that includes the causative agent of syphilis See treponema [from New Latin spīrochaeta; see spiro- 2 , chaeta ]""

SPORULATE

Idea strand? (anagram)

Make uniform and a dress with it, possibly

'Get up, get up!', to welcome duke's regiment

Create norms for

Cause to conform to a norm

Make identical

Limited to or able to live only within a narrow range of saltwater concentrations. Used of aquatic organisms.

To manoeuvre (the puck) deftly in ice hockey

Invigorating.

Serious whale ailment (wordplay)

Overeater's woe

Overeater's risk

Constrict blood flow to (a part)

Compress so as to stop circulation

Block the blood flow to (a part of the body)

An artistic representation of a street.

STRETCH to {extend=v}

CURATIVE something that cures

IRRIGATE to water by canals or watercourses

LANGUAGE to express in a body of words serving as communication

LITERATE one who can read and write

In a lesser role.

Lower in rank

Of less importance

(Of rank) permanent

Having a firm basis in reality

Important, meaningful

""Tending, or having power, to subtract.""

""URBANISE to cause to take on urban characteristics, also URBANIZE""

Bishop and pope occupying hotel rooms? One has a trek to town centre

""URBANIZE to cause to take on urban characteristics, also URBANISE""

""VOCALIZE to produce with the voice, also VOCALISE""

Tending or able to choke or stifle.

Woman protesting for the right to vote

Campaigner for voting rights for women

HOWE (wordplay)

Any of a group of organic sulfur compounds containing the radical SO 2 NH 2 and including the sulfa drugs.

Fill to excess at a splendid price!

Pep up, as an engine

Use a turbo

Highest in quality

Of the highest degree or quality

Of the highest degree

Noun (-ure)

""Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable.""

Tending to suppurate; promoting suppuration.

That may be surpassed.

It's a bus lane (anagram)

Able to be kept going

Able to be maintained

SWALLOW to take into the stomach through the mouth and gullet

Emulate Errol Flynn

Do some dueling

Make like Errol Flynn

Flick knife (US)

West Side Story prop

West Side Story weapon

To form or divide into syllables; to syllabify.

A saclike structure formed by nerve endings at a synapse that remains intact after homogenization of nerve tissue.

""SYNCOPATE To contract, as a word, by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; as, "Gloster" is a syncopated form of "Gloucester." as, "Gloster" is a syncopated form of "Gloucester."""

SYSTEMATISE

""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.""

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a salamander; enduring fire.""

SANCTION to authorize

""Capable of conversion into soap; as, a saponifiable substance. as, a saponifiable substance.""

""Pl. scyphistomae (-m ) or scyphistomas A larva of a scyphozoan, consisting of an elongated and deeply constricted polyp that successively splits off minute, free-swimming medusas.""

A hormone or another agent that causes or stimulates secretion.

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

SEDIMENT to settle in the bottom of a liquid

Fruits (spelled backward) + Repeat = (wordplay)

Elite stream inappropriate - one is coming in barely able to read and write

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

(In blood test) showing no virus present

SEXTUPLE to make six times as great

Importance; meaning

Importance, meaning

Notice I intended to limit chapter's importance

""The outer, or parietal, one of the two lamell\'91 into which the vertebrate blastoderm divides on either side of the notochord, and from which the walls of the body and the amnion are developed. See Splanchopleure. Splanchopleure.""

To walk when <?/sleep.

An experienced and knowledgeable person

Who's disported at posh cities (wordplay)

Worldly-wise type making epic that is so disorganised

Audio equipment - keep on phrase (anagram)

Park sheep ruined linked to single communications facility

""Pl. -cae (-s ) A receptacle in the reproductive tracts of certain female invertebrates, especially insects, in which spermatozoa are received and stored until needed to fertilize the ova.""

Same as Spermoblast. Spermoblast.

""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.""

Competition for pastors (wordplay)

High Church breaking contract for event

Race with jumps

Hand tool used to draw lines (2 words)

Line-drawing tool

Tool for drawing a perfect line

Layer of high air around the earth

Ozone layer's locale*

An atmospheric layer

Very old fossil in sedimentary rocks

Mineral Sr C O 3; attention, sir (anagram)

DEBUTANTE

DIVIDABLE Capable of being divided; divisible.

SUBINFEUD

Of greatly reduced size

""SATELLITE An attendant attached to a prince or other powerful person; hence, an obsequious dependent.""

Prove truth of (charge)

Prove to be true

Prove the truth of

""TEMPERATE Moderate; not excessive; as, temperate heat; a temperate climate. as, temperate heat; a temperate climate.""

""A sulfa drug, C 10 H 10 N 4 O 2 S, used in the treatment of toxoplasmosis and other infections.""

""SUMMARIZE To comprise in, or reduce to, a summary; to present briefly.""

Pension off

English word

SUPERELEVATE

Adjective (-ive)

SUPEROVULATE

""Capable of being superposed, as one figure upon another.""

Beat first victim? Heard it can be done!

Burn-out male's battling can be overcome

Like something that may be overcome

All eyes perhaps insure evil clan mutate

Watch kept on potential nuclear evils (wordplay)

Covert observation

""Adapted to sustain, strengthen, or corroborate; as, sustentative citations or quotations. as, sustentative citations or quotations.""

Guilty pleasure (wordplay)

Delight in another's misfortune

19 in another's 10

""SCHOLASTIC Pertaining to, or suiting, a scholar, a school, or schools; scholarlike; as, scholastic manners or pride; scholastic learning. as, scholastic manners or pride; scholastic learning.""

These kind of membranes I peel off when less new

Betokening or representing by an external sign.

Adjective meaning resembling

Same as Spermospore. Spermospore.

Seed-bearing plant

Like a fair player

Playing the game fairly

Has a fair crack at The Greens and, of course, bows out gracefully

Politically skilled and experienced

What diplomats should be.

Politically wise and far-seeing

""A proteolytic enzyme that is produced by hemolytic streptococci, is capable of converting plasminogen to plasmin, and is used medically to dissolve blood clots.""