2-Letter Words Starting with S

Wheelwright's representative (wordplay)

Official voice of the cyclist (wordplay)

Representative at press conference

""Any of numerous parasitic protozoans of the class Sporozoa, most of which reproduce sexually and asexually in alternate generations by means of spores. They are frequently transmitted by bloodsucking insects to different hosts, where they cause many serious diseases, such as malaria and coccidiosis.""

Rower perhaps left in ship by crew

He is active

He engages in physical games

Groom, for example

Ostler, groom etc

'Blast, mane needs grooming!' is what he often thinks

Chaps looking after beasts in detestable menagerie

Country workers in firm facing threat, not half

Country workers seen as steady and reliable chaps (wordplay)

Upright bar or beam

Vertical support post

Chain's not unhooked from post

Top politico? Says he!

Politician says piece

Lincoln, for one

'They're from the USA, says they (9)'

Famous politicians of the USA (wordplay)

Abraham Lincoln, for one of them

Cowboy on board (wordplay)

Is the cowboy at the helm (wordplay)

One at ship's helm

Marking with streaks

Markedly like a zebra

Arrangement of parallel bands

Samson or Hercules

Sam's on to be one of them

Mr. Universe, for example

Officer ordering vessel to change course

Army officer below captain

Officer below captain

Junior minister abused working party

Bacon used rashly by minister

Expectant father in boat with daughter beside broken canoe

The act of taking or carrying away; removal.

""A cartilaginous fish with a mouth adapted for suction, as the lampery.""

""Assisting; assistant; as, a suffragan bishop. as, a suffragan bishop.""

Attorney's last words

Concluding remarks

Adding process

Superlie

Thick cotton fabric with a heavy nap

Soft feathers from noble white bird

Fabric used in baby clothes

Railway employee working on and off

Cyrano de Bergerac, for one

Athos, for one

For the fence one ends like Crosaire

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biochemistry) a substance released at certain sympathetic nerve endings: thought to be identical with adrenaline [from sympath ( etic ) + -in ]

The nucleus of a fertilized egg

Like Loman, but no Willy!

Lingerie clerk, perhaps

She flogs males now, as ordered

Avon peddlers, traditionally

Some clerks

Business personnel

Mouth-watering mixture of oils in a vat

Mouth-watering violins at a jig

Pavlovian response

Start of a formal letter

It may be strange to us, a Latin greeting

Victoria, say, welcoming almost everyone with posh greeting

""Of or pertaining to health, or the laws of health; sanitary.""

Sewers, say, an island put in place

The plumbing degenerates into a stain

Drainage and sewage disposal

State of total dampness

Capacity limit

Full state (first 5 + last 1; also, a literal outer planet!)

With which to shoot gnu (wordplay)

Firearm with an unfocused shot

Distribute piece that's a bit haphazard

A woman hired to clean.

Of or belonging to the class Scyphozoa.

Minister-to-be

Future pastor

Embryo cleric

Senatorial.

One is apart (anagram)

Freedom from marital break-up (wordplay)

With apt reason I arranged for divorce

Maybe a private priest (wordplay)

Chaplain, perhaps one in Army (wordplay)

Bishop perhaps fixes the washing machine

Run-down urban area

Area with crude dwellings

Deprived area of very poor housing

High jink (wordplay)

Bit of mischief

Dishonest activity

Sssweet are the usess of adverssity.

"Sssweet are the usess of adverssity."

Diving, say, until I am so shattered

Incitement with no time for pretence

Kind of clone

Break to stretch out - such a bloomer!

St. George's bloomer (wordplay)

Photograph a monitor lizard (wordplay)

SONICATE to disrupt with sound waves

SPALLE the shoulder

Evolutionary process

A drop in the ocean

Flight ending for some

Certain Apollo landing

Plundering

If one ails, this potion may be the ruination of one

SQUAMATE covered with scales

Race to support investor's inactivity!

Result of standing too long, maybe

Deer country (wordplay)

Cost of zero fare (wordplay)

Hunger for a bible in the depot

To save, I grant, was difficult with these

Like the Herald in wartime

Booming and resonant, it exploded

(Of voice) loud and powerful

Foundation builder, perhaps

Block manager (wordplay)

Oliver and Marsha's builder (wordplay)

Eliminate all crooks!

Remove bends from (something)

Tidy up after shattering into pieces

Superhero who flips out (wordplay)

Bonsai gardener's other job (wordplay)

She's a daredevil in movies

""Situated under the clavicle, or collar bone; as, the subclavian arteries. as, the subclavian arteries.""

Branch office, perhaps

Post office branch, perhaps

Delicatessen (wordplay)

English word

Beyond a normal person's power

One with powers over the rest of us

He has power over the rest of us

Extremely able female

Alter ego of Kristin Wells

Gifted female.

""The act of turning the hand palm upward; also, position of the hand with the palm upward.""

""SACCULATE SACCULE a small sac, also SACCULUS""

One helping with wild salon sprees

Small drinks for each young man's agent

Staff member

Riotously merry

Riotously merry.

Orgiastic

Oktoberfest entree

German entree

Of or relating to the order Saurischia.

Apartheid, say, upset Saint George

Saint George's unexpected detachment

A keeping apart

""(used with a sing. verb) The theory and study of signs and symbols, especially as elements of language or other systems of communication, and comprising semantics, syntactics, and pragmatics.""

Subjected to venomous attacks (wordplay)

The act of solfaing.

Any of a group of peptides produced by the liver upon stimulation by growth hormone that act directly on many cell types to stimulate growth.

One of Hulme's conjectures (wordplay)

Wall Street motivation

Son's embezzlement's a matter of conjecture

""SPICULATE Covered with, or having, spicules.""

A woman who speaks on behalf of another or others. See Usage Note at man .

Female athlete or player

Female athlete

""The act or process of forming spores; spore formation. See Illust. of Bacillus, b. Illust. of Bacillus, b.""

Worrisome economic period

Bad economic situation

Challenge for economists

Process of arousal or goading

Model welcomes tip for tantric arousal

Nerve impulse cause

Condition of an agreement

Condition to an agreement

Condition attached to an agreement

""STYLIZE to make conventional, also STYLISE""

""The act of understanding, or supplying, something not expressed; also, that which is so understood or supplied.""

""The act of subjugating, or the state of being subjugated.""

Bulimia's not unusually a diversion of sexual energy

An incomplete or partial dislocation.

The act of suborning; the crime of procuring a person to take such a false oath as constitutes perjury.

The act of subrogating.

Taking off vessel's pulling power

End of the advice

Deduction

""An affix added to the end of a word or stem, serving to form a new word or functioning as an inflectional ending, such as -ness in gentleness, -ing in walking, or -s in sits.""

Death through lack of twenty seven across

""SULFONATE SULFONE a sulfur compound, also SULPHONE""

English word

English word

""SUPERNATE SUPER to reinforce with a thin cotton mesh, as a book""

English word

The act or process of suppurating.

Sigh

A whispering or rustling

Musical rhythm accentuating a weak beat

Playing notes off the beat

Displacement of beats in music

Columnist's ambition

The supply of items to multiple newspapers

Selling to press material for simultaneous publishing

""SALINIZE to treat with salt, also SALINISE""

""The student who pronounces the salutatory oration at the annual Commencement or like exercises of a college, an honor commonly assigned to that member of the graduating class who ranks second in scholarship.""

""SANITIZE to clean and sterilize, also SANITISE, SANITATE""

I can't get no - (Rolling Stones)

The Stones couldn't get it

Fulfillment ... and #2 on the list

Noun (-tion)

Person incapable of concentration

Person unable to think clearly

One who cannot concentrate

Division into parts

Female minister? She's a fighter

Female in the forces

Wasp

Person in seventh decade

Person in their sixties

Arrived between 1943-1952 for one from the sixties

(Economics) a situation in which economic depression is combined with increasing inflation [blend of slump + inflation ]

Injury of a photographic picture caused by exposing it for too long a time to the sun's light in the camera; burning; excessive insolation.

Earnest request

""A polypeptide hormone produced chiefly by the hypothalamus that inhibits the secretion of various other hormones, such as somatotropin, glucagon, insulin, thyrotropin, and gastrin.""

See growth hormone .

Kent is in this part of UK

In the bottom right corner of the country

""Pl. spermatozoa (-z ) The mature fertilizing gamete of a male organism, usually consisting of a round or cylindrical nucleated cell, a short neck, and a thin motile tail. Also called sperm cell , zoosperm .""

""Pl. spermatozoa (-z ) The mature fertilizing gamete of a male organism, usually consisting of a round or cylindrical nucleated cell, a short neck, and a thin motile tail. Also called sperm cell , zoosperm .""

Numerical data analyst

One analysing data

One analysing numerical facts

A tennis tutor (anagram) - sneezing

The act of stridulating.

""The act or phenomenon of spontaneously dividing transversely, as do certain species of annelids and helminths; transverse fission. See Illust. under Syllidian. Illust. under Syllidian.""

""A toxic glycoside or mixture of glycosides obtained from the seeds of certain plants of the genus Strophanthus, especially S. kombé, used medicinally as a cardiac stimulant.""

Total astonishment and shock

Shocked astonishment

Extreme astonishment

""Conversion of the cell walls into cork tissue by development of suberin; -- commonly taking place in exposed tissues, as when a callus forms over a wound. Suberized cell walls are impervious to water.""

An under or assistant librarian.

Of the nether world.

Train near Eastburn for The Underground

Underground; secret

SUPERSTATE SUPERS super

""The act of supplicating; humble and earnest prayer, as in worship.""

""The act of sustaining, or the state of being sustained; preservation from falling; support; sustenance; maintenance.""

The act of scarifying.

A flash of light

Deposit that's tied into means testing

Little woman in new maisonnette settling down

Process of depositing tainted monies corruptly

PORCELAIN Purslain.

""SENSITISE SENSI a teacher of Japanese martial arts, also SENSEI""

""SENSITIZE To render sensitive, or susceptible of being easily acted on by the actinic rays of the sun; as, sensitized paper or plate. as, sensitized paper or plate.""

Rendering a person bankrupt

Legal seizure

SERIALIZE SERIAL a publication presented in instalments

Informal Exploitative use of explicit sexual material in movies and the media.

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

Importance of indication providing one positive particle

SOCIALIZE To render social.

""The act of solemnizing; celebration; as, the solemnization of a marriage. as, the solemnization of a marriage.""

Variant of somatotropin .

SOVIETIZE SOVIET a legislative body in a Communist country

Detailed description of requirements

Detailed design description

Detailed requirement of work to be done

STABILIZE STABILE a stationary abstract sculpture

""The act or process of sterilizing, or rendering sterile; also, the state of being sterile.""

The choking off of a flow

Choking from lungs' atria not working

Process of choking

STRUCTURE The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.

ALLOCATION The act of putting one thing to another; a placing; disposition; arrangement.

""GENERATION The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.""

""IRRIGATION The act or process of irrigating, or the state of being irrigated; especially, the operation of causing water to flow over lands, for nourishing plants.""

Inferiority of position or rank

Bending to authority, playing on tour is a bind

POPULATION The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants.

""SATURATION The act of saturating, or the state of being saturating; complete penetration or impregnation.""

""SUBSIDIZE To furnish with a subsidy; to purchase the assistance of by the payment of a subsidy; to aid or promote, as a private enterprise, with public money; as, to subsidize a steamship line. as, to subsidize a steamship line.""

The act of making subtile.

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

""The act of adding something in excess or something extraneous; also, something which is added in excess or extraneously.""

""The formation of a fetus at the result of an impregnation occurring after another impregnation but before the birth of the offspring produced by it. This is possible only when there is a double uterus, or where menstruation persists up to the time of the second impregnation.""

English word

SUPERSALES supersale

The act of supplanting or displacing.

""The act of forming syllables; the act or method of dividing words into syllables. See Guide to Pron., §275. Guide to Pron., §275.""

The act of symbolizing; symbolical representation.

The act or process of systematizing; systematization.

English word

""The act of sanctifying or making holy; the being sanctified or made holy; esp. (Theol.), the act of God's grace by which the affections of men are purified, or alienated from sin and the world, and exalted to, a supreme love to God; also, the state of being thus purified or sanctified. (Theol.), the act of God's grace by which the affections of men are purified, or alienated from sin and the world, and exalted to, a supreme love to God; also, the state of being thus purified or sanctified.""

""The act, process, or result, of soap making; conversion into soap; specifically (Chem.), the decomposition of fats and other ethereal salts by alkalies; as, the saponification of ethyl acetate. (Chem.), the decomposition of fats and other ethereal salts by alkalies; as, the saponification of ethyl acetate.""

SCHEMATIZE To form a scheme or schemes.

SCLEROTIZE SCLERE a sponge spicule

""The act of rendering secular, or the state of being rendered secular; conversion from regular or monastic to secular; conversion from religious to lay or secular possession and uses; as, the secularization of church property. as, the secularization of church property.""

SECURITIZE SECURE to make safe or certain

""The act of sensualizing, or the state of being sensualized.""

One aged 70 to 79

Disorder guarantees pain for elderly person

Being full of years guarantees pain unfortunately

Long word for a long word

Polysyllabic, tending to use long words

Long, as words.

""Thae act or process of combining or impregnating with silicon or silica; the state of being so combined or impregnated; as, the silicification of wood. as, the silicification of wood.""

Second hint to include, if making it easy

Process of making (something) more easily understood

""Act of solidifying, or state of being solidified.""

One leading a solitary or secluded life.

SOLUBILIZE

Performance by Lady Macbeth

Walking out of it

Computer word

Fashionable refinement

Blur in Country House, initially Oasis top it for urbanity

Focusing on one effect of noise is capital

""The act of specializing, or the state of being spezialized.""

A motorboat designed for sportfishing.

The act of stigmatizing.

Creating classes in summer term, initially, with formal consent

""The act of stultifying, or the state of being stultified.""

""The granting of lands by inferior lords to their dependents, to be held by themselves by feudal tenure.""

The act of substantiating or proving; evidence; proof.

Regular pension payment

Great! A country that includes most of NUT pension

... bank up to eleven - air's rocking

The act of supererogating; performance of more than duty or necessity requires.

SUPEROVULATE

SYMMETRIZE To make proportional in its parts; to reduce to symmetry.

Jackson Pollock's "Bird," for example

Highly stylized sculpting style

Norm's establishment

OPTIMIZATION

""ORGANIZATION The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body. as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body.""

URBANIZATION

""VOCALIZATION The act of vocalizing, or the state of being vocalized.""