2-Letter Words Starting with S

Subproblem

Subproduct

Subprogram

Subproject

RATIONAL a number that can be expressed as a quotient of integers

REGIONAL something that serves as a region

Subreption

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

The act of subrogating.

Steps within a computer program

SAMPLING a small part selected for analysis

Subscience

What a YouTube celebrity wants

SCRIBING the act of scribing

Contract elements

Subsegment

Subseizure

SENTENCE to declare judicially the punishment

SEQUENCE to arrange in order

Subsequent

Ben's virtues misconstrued as slavish

Prepared to obey others unquestioningly

Obsequious.

Subsidence

SUBSIDISE

Subsidizer

""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.""

Means of supporting life

Kind of farming

Means of survival

SPECIFIC a remedy intended for a particular disease

Not good enough!

Inferior underwater vehicle ideal

Falling short of some prescribed norm

Of considerable importance

Of considerable size

Wealthy firm

(Of rank) permanent

Having a firm basis in reality

Important, meaningful

Sandwich shops (wordplay)

Advance payments surrounding HQ depots which convert electricity

""Any atom, group, or radical substituted for another, or entering a molecule in place of some other part which is removed.""

Stood in

Fill-ins

Benchwarmers

""The act of subsuming, or of including under another.""

Subsurface

Subterfuge

TERMINAL an end

""SUBTILE insidious, also SUBTLE""

Subtilisin

SUBTILIZE To make thin or fine; to make less gross or coarse.

Inflected form of TOTALING Inflected form of TOTAL to amount to

Subtotal

Subtracter

Deducting

Taking off vessel's pulling power

End of the advice

Deduction

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

Subtrahend

""A subordinate treasury, or place of deposit; as, the United States subtreasury at New York. as, the United States subtreasury at New York.""

Like zones that support many deserts

Of a particular climate zone

Like a region whose climate is between temperate and torrid

""The integument of the under surface of the bell, or diskshaped body, of a jellyfish.""

""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""

Subvention

Subversion

Subversive

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

Its blue eggs (anagram) - easily influenced

Appropriateness

Abstract noun (-ity)

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

Superblock

Superboard

Superbomb

English word

Superjumbo

""To write or engrave (a name, address, inscription, or the like) on the top or surface; to write a name, address, or the like, on the outside or cover of (anything); as, to superscribe a letter. as, to superscribe a letter.""

To subtle.

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

Surfboard

Waves rider

Wave rider

That may be surpassed.

SURREBUT to reply to a rebutter

Prone (to)

Easily swayed by feelings

Liable to fall victim

""SUSCEPTIBLE Capable of admitting anything additional, or any change, affection, or influence; readily acted upon; as, a body susceptible of color or of alteration. as, a body susceptible of color or of alteration.""

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

Sweetbread

Sweetbriar

Sweetbrier

Zigzag roads on steep grades

Mountain railways reorganise defence

Flick knife (US)

West Side Story prop

West Side Story weapon

Operator's post, once

Manual telephone exchange

Where telephones are connected

Sybaritism

Syllabary

To form or divide into syllables; to syllabify.

SYLLABIC a speech sound of high sonority

SYLLABI syllabus

Syllabify

SYMBOLISE

SYMBOLIST One who employs symbols.

Symbolizer

SYMBOLIZE To have a resemblance of qualities or properties; to correspond; to harmonize.

Symbology

Baseball E-stats study

Sea action in which Garibaldi and son may be involved

Sailboating

Salability

Saltimbocca

Salubrious

SANCTION to authorize

Graffiti removers

Process for cleaning or engraving

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

Sauerbraten

The quality of being scabrous.

Scarabaeus

Person incapable of concentration

Person unable to think clearly

One who cannot concentrate

""SCHOOLBOY A boy belonging to, or attending, a school.""

Comparative adjective or agent noun

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 .

Scuttlebutt

""A white odorless barbiturate, C 12 H 18 N 2 O 3 , used in the form of its sodium salt as a sedative and hypnotic.""

SEDIMENT to settle in the bottom of a liquid

ABSTRACT to draw away

ARBOREAL tree-dwelling

FLEXIBLE able to be bent

The quality or state of being sensible; sensibility; appreciation; capacity of perception; susceptibility.

Quality of being separable or divisible; divisibility; separableness.

The shadbush or one of its fruit.

""Capable of being severed or separated; separable into legally distinct rights or obligations, as a contract.""

Sewability

Shabbiness

Shacklebone

How Hank Marvin etc warmed up (wordplay)

Sparring with oneself (wordplay)

Sparring with an imaginary opponent

Abstract noun (-ity)

Sheepberry

Shelterbelt

Vital war workers

Despatch something from site to Noah's family

They make models of Jeanie Johnston perhaps for Harland and Wolff

Type of construction at, eg, Govan, Barrow

How to get broad (wordplay)

Prepare to deal and get on with the game

Cruise-ship pastime

A berserk toad (anagram)

Someone on a short plank with wheels

Ray the lodger's a sportsman

Bork bork borks, to the Swedish Chef

Scandinavian buffets

Vulgar affectation or ostentation; mean admiration of mean things; conduct or manners of a snob.

Sportsmen currently accommodated between son and lodgers

Popular form of controlled sliding

Olympic event

Son currently joining coach, say, for winter sport

Snowmobiler

SNOWMOBILE

SNOWMOBILE

Snubbiness

The quality of being sociable.

Boy is loco and I go off, which assumes adaptive behaviour

SOLUBILISE

Solubility

SOLUBILIZE

Somberness

Sleep

To walk when <?/sleep.

Sleepwalking

Not a consciously progressive type

One who is out and about

Peripatetic sleeper

Speedball

Speedboat

Powerful speakers

Sure to fascinate

Fascinating session covering books

Holding one's interest

Splashboard

Gymnast's platforms

Stableness

Establishment.

Abstract noun (-ity)

""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.""

Starboard

Herbert's post about marital relations

Small spiny fish

Stilbestrol

The breeding and raising of livestock.

City traders

Revised cost to king's agents. those dealing in securities

Standard royalty brother divides, managing shares, say

Stockjobber

The act or art of dealing in stocks; the business of a stockjobber.

Storyboard

Strabismus

STRAIGHT to make {straight=adj}

Wimbledon favourite (wordplay)

Sweet, fleshy red fruit

Brewer's art is transforming fruit

Stringybark

""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.""

Stroboscope

STROBOSCOPE An instrument for studying or observing the successive phases of a periodic or varying motion by means of light which is periodically interrupted.

STUBBORN to be unyielding

""ANTARCTIC Opposite to the northern or arctic pole; relating to the southern pole or to the region near it, and applied especially to a circle, distant from the pole 23&deg; 28&min;. Thus we say the antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc. antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc.""

ARACHNOID Resembling a spider's web; cobweblike.

Subaudition

Subbasement

Subcentral

Group reporting to a larger one

Group responsible for water-based craft has a job answering to others

Underground organisation possibly returns transport to council

Hyman Rickover's alma mater (wordplay)

""COMPONENT Serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent.""

Hidden part of the mind

Of the deeper part of the mind

Layer of the mind

Man on bench goes to Europe from India perhaps

Mounting bus, happy to be getting around in India (wordplay)

One of those on the bench approaches America for the Indians

Public transportation is overturned, gets smaller and delegates work

CULTURING culture

Plural or third person singular

Under the skin

Just under the skin

Terribly cute, on a bus, American gets under skin

DEBUTANTE

Subdecision

Subdirector

Subdistrict

DIVIDABLE Capable of being divided; divisible.

Land parcels.