2-Letter Words Starting with S

In a scalable manner

A climbing plant

In a meager manner.

In a skimpy fashion

Skimpy way to be clad

Hardly at all

Only just or hardly even

Only just, not quite

Make your mark on the town? Not much!

Leave one's mark of the town? Not much!

Lack vehicle in south London, say

""Characterized by schmaltz, also SHMALTZY""

{raspy=adj}

Like a three-day beard, maybe

Like unkempt hair

Add up

Like an old record, perhaps

Like neglected records

Ragged or irritating

In a seaman's manner

In an intersecting manner

As if in a haze of Ativan

Staidly or with dignity

In a serene way

That's half never a one for 17 down

Priest-to-be's place

Religious training college

Perhaps grainy by instalments

In regular installments

At regular intervals

In a sexual manner

With disrespect

Learner's inside changing his baby in worn-out mode

In a shaggy manner

""Characterized by schmaltz, also SCHMALZY""

To a remarkable extent sallying about

Recruit partner in notable way

Notably or unmistakenly

In a sizeable manner

{slobbery=adj}

In street language

With a decided lack of character

A route along which something slides

In a natty way

Without dawdling

Stylishly

In a devious manner

Like a thief in the night

In a furtive manner

One way to be disposed

In a genial manner

Gregariously

Clay silo (anagram)

In an interpersonal way

How some people may drink

Religious group organised day's toil

Roman Catholic confraternity

Brotherhood

United

Confinement of a sort for royalist!

Prisoner's digs, perhaps

Being the only one

Predict

Foretell

Prophesy

In a sortable manner

Supremely

A {monarchy=n}

In a lively manner

In small numbers

How Nevada is populated

How farmland is populated

Thinness of occurrence

Thinly scattered state

Thinly-scattered state

Indy, for one

Fast-track form of sport (wordplay)

Indy track, for example

An organ in which sperm is formed

Tablet in power for overflow passage

Reservoir's outlet

Surplus-water passage

Bites uppish friend in the back

Along the backbone

How some analgesics are administered

How some hams are cut

In a straightforward manner

Without equivocation

Right on

Unsteady

Steps up (wordplay)

Emergency route, maybe

Heavenly approach (wordplay)

In a stalky manner

In a stanch manner

Laurel never a feature of Cornwall

Good girl with a line that's mine

Tin-mining district, especially one in Cornwall

As an established practice

As expressly said

As explicitly said

Full of electrical interference

Like out-of-range stations

Like clothes fresh out of the dryer, sometimes

Bodybuilder's output (wordplay)

Marble collection (wordplay)

Collection of sculptures

Daily set (anagram)

Bit by bit, perhaps

In unfaltering manner

That's Ely (anagram)

Trying to go unnoticed, perhaps

Sneaky to rip off your former following

How some "Melrose Place" stories proceed

How some 'Melrose Place' stories proceed

With passion

Movement of a ship backward.

Backward movement of a ship.

Ship's backward movement

Artist preserved by mean fish!

Can poet follow small fish (wordplay)

Venomous fish; it's angry (anagram)

Small cat in pain, having a paunch

Paunchy

Fare beater, maybe

One getting a free ride (wordplay)

One who goes free (wordplay)

Spreading out in different directions

Irregularly untidy

In pen, tabloid girl with no heart is rambling

In a narrow manner

A poisonous weed

Long-term plan to get lost sheep caught

Plan of attack

Skill in planning.

Form in layers

Form into layers

Divide into castes

A hot-air bath for inducing sweating

In a fitting manner

In apt fashion

With fitness

Bright and sun lit

Superlie

In a swanky manner

Place to put pens etc (wordplay)

Place for breeding waterfowl

Place where large birds are kept or bred

In a laborious manner

'Tea and ' (1956 movie)

Compassion (coming with tea)

'Tea and ' (1956 film)

The state of occupying an area without loss of identity from interbreeding

The state of being a syncarp

Important worker Colloq.

Important worker: Colloq.

Department store worker.

Sticking out by way of a projection

Most importantly

Making leaps and bounds.

Specialised for jumping

Proceeding by leaps

Healthiness.

As was Spartacus; arch anti (anagram)

Holy place - asylum

Place of protection

With insight and wisdom

Wisely

Excessive interest in obscene things

Insincerely or effusively sentimental

Effusively or insincerely emotional

Old-fashioned and sentimental

Likewise, cars with holly (wordplay)

Likewise (wordplay)

Erudite student has left over a year

In a scrappy manner; in scraps.

So hot as to burn

Reliable, in the main (wordplay)

Fit to be untied (wordplay)

In a fit state for ocean voyage

Of lesser importance

Not of principal importance

Minor in importance

Desk organizer (wordplay)

Person of note (wordplay)

Della Street, for instance

In a way not related to religion

Tender, say - moving or not!

One's 'not standing' for this!

Yes, red ant could be sitting

In like manner.

In an innovative and memorable way

From the very beginning

Seems that half the North is on your side in such a seedy way

SENSATE to {sense=v}

In a self-indulgent way.

How some massages are done

In a seductive way

Quality or state of being sequacious; sequaciousness.

The office of a sergeant; sergeantship.

""Tenure of lands of the crown by an honorary kind of service not due to any lord, but to the king only.""

SERIATE to put in a series

""SERJEANT a noncommissioned military officer, also SERGEANT""

Cut and then join together one by one

One at a time

Not all together

""A state of separation from the rest, or from all others; a holding by individual right.""

State that may be fluid (wordplay)

Wrongly say I exult in carnal desires

Gender preference

SHADE to screen from light or heat

SHADOW to make dark or gloomy

In a superficial manner

Secretive about worship, in a way that lacks depth

John Hancock, famously

Indicate a politician's one in agreement

Hire a conservative for proclamation party

In like manner

In the same vein

Likewise.

Whack a dwarf (wordplay)

Insult Mrs. Rockefeller?

Insult Mrs. Rockefeller (wordplay)

Foxy Liberal secured for Strictly

In the manner of a servant that's wasteful, cloaked in cunning

Artificial channel for water

""Tree Any tree of the genus Sapindus, esp. Sapindus saponaria, the fleshy part of whose fruit is used instead of soap in washing linen; also called soap tree. Sapindus, esp. Sapindus saponaria, the fleshy part of whose fruit is used instead of soap in washing linen; also called soap tree.""

Fellowship.

SONIC pertaining to sound

Very little cutting, calculating nicks

Mean to be doing it this way

In a frugal manner.

How orbits are arranged

Illicit drinking club (US)

Talk with a low-key bartender (wordplay)

Password requirer, maybe

For a particular purpose

In particular

Particularly small diamonds quietly picked up by friend

Special subject of study

Pediatrics, for example

Strong suit

SPLASH to scatter liquid about

In a squalid manner.

Wily chap is about to reverse current, so I make my way through marshland

By a list it gets impaired (wordplay)

What a gyroscope may provide

Monetary policy goal

Only for blokes, girl shows sluggishness

Lack of flow

Given one buck, she is still bad

Keep clear of one of 11 across

STARCH to stiffen a fabric

Of written law as to a trusty

Authorised by law

Try-outs at being required by law

In a loyal way

Without ambivalence

By way of resignation

With a poker face

With fortitude

Play golf the Curtis way (wordplay)

In an odd manner

In a weird way...

Gurn stupidly, probing vagrant's waterworks problem

Liability to be sued; the state of being subjected by law to civil process.

SUASIVE persuasive

ACIDLY {sourly=adv}

A subordinate agency.

""One of the subdivisions, of more importance than genus, into which certain families are divided.""

Any worldly thing.

In a summary manner.

A matter of expenditure on the old oil in there to start with

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

Tinpot despot's dream state (wordplay)

Empire state (wordplay)

Power to dominate

SURREAL having dreamlike qualities

""Pl. surrogacies The condition of being a surrogate, especially a surrogate mother.""

In a sutural manner.

Foiling son by clever verbal repartee!

Fencing - 's my sport (wordplay)

One of D'Artagnan's fortes.

""A table of syllables; more especially, a table of the indivisible syllabic symbols used in certain languages, as the Japanese and Cherokee, instead of letters.""

To form or divide into syllables.

Having united petals; gamopetalous.

""Toconvert into, or to impregnate with, sugar.""

SAGITTAL resembling an arrow

The quality or condition of being salable; salableness.

SALUTE to greet with a sign of respect

Opening address

Affected holiness my canonist corrected

Pretended piety.

Pious hypocrisy

""SANDPAPER A tube of vitrified sand, produced by a stroke of lightning; a fulgurite""

Attended by bloodshed.

SANGUINE to stain with blood

The quality of being sanguine; sanguineness.

Of or relating to health or the protection of health.

""SCABROUS roughened with small projections, also SCABRID""

In a bitterly severe way

Alligator or snake? (Hint: Read letters 4-8 last!)

Rough, entertaining article using bitter remarks

SCENICAL {scenic=adj}

SCRATCHIE

Work on project for film

Script of film with directions

Work that may win an Oscar

Smoothly made as a one-piece (wordplay)

In an unbroken, flowing way

SEASON to improve flavour

Get the sailor boy on your side from time to time

For the time there's a sailor on your side

Boy and friend going under water at a certain time of the year

Supreme attention to the things of the present life; worldliness.

One coming from East Germany strangely in pieces

YEARLY a once a year publication

Pleasurable indulgence - sexed up element of Jane Austen work (wordplay)

Please try a new version, one at a time

Late payers settle one by one

Individually

SERIGRAPH An autographic device to test the strength of raw silk.

Abstract noun (-ity)

In a despicable manner

Office of a sheriff

SIBILANT a hissing speech sound

Movie disclaimer word

It looks like the military is involved

Resemblance

In unusual fashion.

SKELETAL pertaining to a {skeleton=n}

SLANTING slant

SLASHING the act of one that {slashes=v}

(Of a woman) dirty and untidy

""The persons or interest formerly representing slavery politically, or wielding political power for the preservation or advancement of slavery.""

SLUGGARD a habitually lazy person

Very, very well

SNAPPISH tending to behave in an impatient or irritable manner

SNEAKING sneak

SOCIETAL pertaining to a {society=n}

Team spirit is adroitly created

Part one of a Labour anthem

Mutual support within a group

Separately, singly

The dictrine or the science of the general properties of material substances; somatics.

SONOGRAPH

SPACIOUS ample in extent

A state of spasm.

""SPATIAL pertaining to space, also SPACIAL""

Expert's skill or interest

Particular work to be done in a field

Person's particular skill

In the form or manner of a specter.

SPECULAR relating to a speculum

SQUARISH somewhat square

""The gentlemen, or gentry, of a country, collectively.""