2-Letter Words Starting with S

Scabbard

Metal framework used when 4 down

Temporary structure for building workers

Tubular structure erected round building

Scandal

""SCRIMMAGE Formerly, a skirmish; now, a general row or confused fight or struggle.""

SCRUMMAGE See Scrimmage. Scrimmage.

SEGREGATE Separate; select.

""SEMAPHORE A signal telegraph; an apparatus for giving signals by the disposition of lanterns, flags, oscillating arms, etc.""

SERIALISE

SERIALIZE

SEXUALIZE To attribute sex to.

Shanghai

Decisive defeat

Pasting

Shivaree

Showboat

SIGNALISE

SIGNALIZE To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish.

Making tracks

Clearing out desk when sacked, then going off

SLOGANIZE

Increasing, as world population

Increasing rapidly

Protest activity for ANWR drilling proponents against EPA officials (wordplay)

SOCIALISE

SOCIALIZE To render social.

Job for an oracle

Spancel

""SPECULATE To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize; as, to speculate on questions in religion; to speculate on political events. as, to speculate on questions in religion; to speculate on political events.""

Splatter

SPORULATE

Spurgall

Squadron

Wasting recklessly

Squatter

STABILIZE

Stablish

STALEMATE The position of the king when he can not move without being placed on check and there is no other piece which can be moved.

Present participle or gerund

Inspiring new enthusiasm

Animating, exciting

Imitative behaviour, over time, likely to provoke reaction

""STIPULATE Furnished with stipules; as, a stipulate leaf. as, a stipulate leaf.""

Retailer's task - shoplifting (wordplay)

Evaluation of unsold goods

Straight

Straiten

Stranger

Forming layers

Stravaig

Subclass

""SUBJUGATE To subdue, and bring under the yoke of power or dominion; to conquer by force, and compel to submit to the government or absolute control of another; to vanquish.""

""SUBLIMATE To bring by heat into the state of vapor, which, on cooling, returns again to the solid state; as, to sublimate sulphur or camphor. as, to sublimate sulphur or camphor.""

""SUBMARINE Being, acting, or growing, under water in the sea; as, submarine navigators; submarine plants. as, submarine navigators; submarine plants.""

Subpoena

SUBROGATE To put in the place of another; to substitute.

SAMPLING a small part selected for analysis

Inflected form of TOTALING Inflected form of TOTAL to amount to

Deducting

""From Suffocate, v. Suffocate, v.""

SULFONATE

SUMMARISE

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

Superadd

Supplant

""SUPPURATE To generate pus; as, a boil or abscess suppurates. as, a boil or abscess suppurates.""

Adding an extra fee to

SURROGATE A deputy; a delegate; a substitute.

""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."""

""SYNDICATE The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a council, or body of syndics.""

Succumbing to pressure after secure, criminal occupation

Protecting

Sea action in which Garibaldi and son may be involved

Process for cleaning or engraving

Pueblo Indian art

Native American art

Making smooth

SCANDALISE

""SCANDALIZE To offend the feelings of the conscience of (a person) by some action which is considered immoral or criminal; to bring shame, disgrace, or reproach upon.""

Scapegoat

SCHEMATIZE To form a scheme or schemes.

Scrimshaw

SECULARISE

""SECULARIZE To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to secularize a priest or a monk. as, to secularize a priest or a monk.""

""SENSUALIZE 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.""

How Hank Marvin etc warmed up (wordplay)

Sparring with oneself (wordplay)

Sparring with an imaginary opponent

Creating distraction, wrongly directs a monarch

Simulcast

Slaughter

Holding persons in slavery.

Somnambulance

Somnambulation.

Somnambulism

Sloganeer

Mini-farm, perhaps

Modest farming concern

Agricultural area, but less than a farm

Snapshot

Popular form of controlled sliding

Olympic event

Son currently joining coach, say, for winter sport

Going outside an orbiting craft

Spearfish

Leading (attack)

Taking the lead

Praised Hagen extravagantly for leading attack

SPECIALISE

SPECIALIZE To mention specialy; to particularize.

Speedball

Speedboat

Starboard

Steamroll

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

Delaying tactics? Nothing new in that!

Consistently blocking deliveries

Nothing new in holding things up or being obstructive

Using train when no seats available (wordplay)

STRATEGIZE

STREAMLINE

""STRIDULATE To make a shrill, creaking noise""

Subtotal

Making sweet love in windy act, ruing gas

Superheat

Supplicat

Surfboard

Syllabify

SYMPATHISE

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

Saccharify

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

Dazzling sign rehashed with lilac tint

Brilliant - dazzling

Brilliantly clever

SEQUESTRATE To sequester.

SHARECROP

Expert firing cheats, then laughing loudly

Irish instrument in ship mimicking owl could take the head off you from way out

Fleece cutting

What a call from Bo Peep depends on (wordplay)

Australian sport

Mean to be giving poor value

Cheating someone by not returning enough money

Brief film about execution for dishonest behaviour

SINGULARIZE To make singular or single; to distinguish.

Activity enjoyed on the street

Pastime on wheels

Part of an active lifestyle, for some

Reducing air resistance

Drag reduction technique

Going head over heels

Wild geraniums lost, rolling on the ground

SPARKPLUG

All the same, that's making it

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

Stepparent

The act of manoeuvring (the puck) deftly in ice hockey

Storyboard

De-kinking

Aligning

Throttling, twisting gag in last turn

""A prostitute, especially one who solicits in the streets.""

IRRIGATING irrigate

ORDINATING ordinate

URBANISING urbanise

URBANIZING urbanize

VOCALIZING vocalize

""SUPERCHARGE To charge (a bearing) upon another bearing; as, to supercharge a rose upon a fess. as, to supercharge a rose upon a fess.""

Full of bravado

Taking part in daring adventures

Describing heroes of costume novels.

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

SOMNAMBULATE To walk when <?/sleep.

""SOPHISTICATE To render worthless by admixture; to adulterate; to damage; to pervert; as, to sophisticate wine. as, to sophisticate wine.""

""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.""

STEAMROLLER steamroll

Style of horse racing

Stereograph

One who works or provides an employer with workers during a strike.

Subclassify

Letting out work on part of a project

SUBINFEUDATE

SUBSTANTIATE To make to exist; to make real.

Summersault

Superabound

Pensioning almost yearly breaks ruined US giant

SUPERELEVATE

Superharden

SUPEROVULATE

Sledgehammer

Straitjacket

STRUCTURALIZE

Inflected form of CATEGORIZING Inflected form of CATEGORIZE To insert in a category or list; to class; to catalogue.

Inflected form of SPECIALIZING 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.""

A strange pursuit involved getting soaked more than is normal (wordplay)