2-Letter Words Starting with S

Lush's drink, say - endless rum supplied

Full of juice

Cactus, e.g

Yielded (to pressure)

Succuss

Succuss

Sucker

Suckling

SUCTION to remove by sucking

Suction

""Adapted for sucking; living by sucking; as, the humming birds are suctorial birds. as, the humming birds are suctorial birds.""

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

Singular bubble with incomplete opening will make one sweat

Sufficer

Meeting needs

Being good enough, sung around Dev's party here in Paris

Cut off sea and cut off air

Kill rowing team from Ipswich, say (wordplay)

Kill by blocking the air passages

Plantation crop (2 words)

Grass suing when not in on secret

Source of a valuable commodity.

Confectioner's jacket (wordplay)

Sweeten, in a way

Make superficially attractive.

Suicide

Items of luggage

Salesman's luggage.

Legal actions taken by holiday-makers

Some Coppertone or Neutrogena products

Sunchoke

Sunscald

Lotion used by star on television

Protection at the beach

Liberal censures new protection

""Overcome by, or affected with, sunstroke; as, sunstruck soldiers. as, sunstruck soldiers.""

Supercar

*Supplant

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

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

English word

English word

(Chemistry) Chem to cool or be cooled without freezing or crystallization to a temperature below that at which freezing or crystallization should occur. Supercooled liquids are not in equilibrium

Supercop

English word

English word

English word

Billionaires' status

Price rush organised for millionaires' class

Tinpot despot's dream state (wordplay)

Empire state (wordplay)

Power to dominate

Came to an end

Drew to a close

Discontinued

Deaths coming about as curses start to eventuate

Discontinues

Extra payment daily in boom

Extra payment for toast in Rush

Extra fee, as for a special service

Belt proclaiming a Knight Bachelor

Saddle girth.

Strap for holding saddle on animal's back

Paving crew

Submarine maneuver.

""SURFIE one who surfs, also SURFER""

""Pl. surfperch or surfperches Any of various viviparous marine fishes of the family Embiotocidae, found in shallow waters along the North American Pacific coast. Also called surf fish .""

Suricate

White ecclesiastical vestments with wide sleeves

Marries outside Sumerian city, in religious garments

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

Doubted the truth of (something)

Imagined to be true

Thought son cut speed round the bend

Little doubt (wordplay)

Little reason for doubt

Dash off with cousins to collect gumshoe

Swastica

Swayback

The backward slant of the leading edge of an airfoil.

Those who swap

Making a change

Sing about the sorceress for a change

Changing over

Railway employee working on and off

SWITCH to beat with a flexible rod

Sensuous city bar is demolished

Affording, enjoying, luxury

Devoted to luxury

Sycamine

Sights on the Wabash.

Divine trees in the "Book of the Dead"

Divine trees in the 'Book of the Dead'

Sycomore

Copy hasn't disturbed yes-man

Chap Tyson hammered, a toady

Uriah Heep persona

Syllabic

""Pl. syllepses (-s z) A construction in which a word governs two or more other words but agrees in number, gender, or case with only one, or has a different meaning when applied to each of the words, as in He lost his coat and his temper.""

Mutually beneficial

Of different organisms, living together for mutual benefit

Equally balanced

Evenly proportioned.

Well proportioned

Ecology Occupying the same or overlapping geographic areas without interbreeding. Used of populations of closely related species.

Like some music? My, Chopin's fantastic!

My! Chopin's unusually melodic

Like a major classical music form

The concurrence of events in time; synchronism.

""Inclined downward from opposite directions, so as to meet in a common point or line.""

Syncline

Put the accent on the weak beat

Play in jazz style.

Accent the off-beats

""Uniting and blending together different systems, as of philosophy, morals, or religion.""

SYNCYTIA syncytium

A multinucleate cell

Group working to a common aim

Business group supplied by CIE dynast

Combine to make Disney cat twitchy

""Genetically identical or closely related, so as to allow tissue transplant; immunologically compatible: syngeneic grafts; syngeneic animals.""

""Of or pertaining to a synod; transacted in, or authorized by, a synod; as, synodical proceedings or forms.as, synodical proceedings or forms.""

Cynic heard about my refusal to come up with the same definition

Relating to language structure

Random choice of Smollett

Clerical doctor has a bit of a scheme concerned with aspect of language

Man-made (fibre)

Artificially-made compound

Dacron, for example

Contractile

Systemic

Leave of absence.

Period of leave for university teacher

John Barth's leave

English word

English word

See invertase .

""Any of a series of compounds of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen in which the atoms of the latter two elements are in the ratio of 2:1, especially those containing the group C 6 H 10 O 5 .""

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

China cares (anagram)

Sickly son fidgeting in each car

Overly sentimental

Saccharin

Furnished with little sacs.

Lead actors dressed for the priesthood (wordplay)

Unusual actors' deal concerning priesthood

Like a priest's attire, making a lot scared unfortunately

Sackcloth

Baptism, matrimony, etc.

Are such scars meant to make for a graceful state (wordplay)

Holiness

Given up for the greater good

Acted unselfishly

Gave up

One who sacrifices.

Sells at a loss

Face crisis showing off gifts

Things given up

Sacrilege

Sacristan

Church storage areas

Joint at the base of the spine

A joint in the lower back

Strong pelvic joint

Co-stars can (anagram)

Fresh carcass not inviolable

Across solution can't possibly be immune

Sagacity

Sailcloth

Salacity

One being counter-productive (wordplay)

Cash register operator

Store employee

A salt of salicylic acid.

Saliency

Small table dish

Diner's sprinkler

Part of a table setting

Consecrated

Being converted, dies in fact as a saint (wordplay)

Holy.

""One who sanctifies, or makes holy; specifically, the Holy Spirit.""

Sanctify

Affected holiness my canonist corrected

Pretended piety.

Pious hypocrisy

Permitted or penalized

Imposed punishment of a kind that's permitted

Permissible

Sanctity

Inserted between.

Was hidden plastic, encasing canine opening, like a filling (wordplay)

Some culinary heroes (wordplay)

Lunch-counter orders

Heroes, for example

Sapiency

""Of, producing, or resulting from putrefaction.""

Fool fools American birds

It contains abundant sodium channels

Sarcomere

A cargo ship transported old boxes

Stone tombs

Ancient caskets in wreckage of a cargo ship

The cytoplasm of a striated muscle fiber.

SARCOSOME

Sarcosome

A genus of American perrenial herbs growing in bogs; the American pitcher plant.

All that a bag can hold

All a bag can hold

Sauceboat

Saucebox

Adjective meaning resembling

Growing on rocks.

""SAXOPHONE A wind instrument of brass, containing a reed, and partaking of the qualities both of a brass instrument and of a clarinet.""

Scabbard

Scabious

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

(Of a building) encased for repairs in a temporary framework

Scagliola

Scalloper

Scallop

One way to serve veal

Italian dish consisting of breaded and fried meat in light sauce

Excursion transporting a hundred female partners to watch men? Rascals!

Scalogram

""Small, thinly sliced pieces of meat, especially veal, dredged in flour, sautéed, and served in a sauce.""

Scammony

Running or skipping about briskly

Carol goes round van, scurrying

Like kids in a playground

SCANDAL to {defame=v}

Shock as canal sides crumble

Shock by impropriety

View Surrealist works by European producing shock

Shock.

Scandal

Shocking Prince "Batman" song (wordplay)

Describing a school at play (wordplay)

Shocking and offensive

Quality condition of being scanty.

Certain timbers.

Throws around axe, starting to topple small beams

Fall guys for scandals

Relatives of fall guys.

Cousins of fall guys.

Lawyer finds a way to fix Irish rascal

Good-for-nothing

Black sheep.

Scapolite

Egyptian symbol.

Rascal, from Italian farce

Boastful coward in drama

Stock character in Italian farce

State that's rarely encountered scenes with cars crashing

Lack

Shortages damage urban areas

Shortages briefly alarm conurbations

Wound reminder + urban areas

Stuffed shirts (wordplay)

Field agents (wordplay)

They keep birds away from crops

Words in 48-point type

Front page phenomena.

Sensational front-page items.

Scarfskin

Soil breakers, one passing through common, cutting marks

Scarify

Mark on tongue seen before a fever

Injure tongue with a complaint

Disease is to disfigure Roman Adonis, initially

Scarper

SCATHE to criticize severely

In a bitterly severe way

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

Rough, entertaining article using bitter remarks

Strewers

With which to shoot gnu (wordplay)

Firearm with an unfocused shot

Distribute piece that's a bit haphazard

Throwing in various directions

Tedder's chore

Small number

Collectors of a sort

Those who delight in filth, namely TV characters

Is counsel after justice or just bits of it (wordplay)

Screenwriters from Tehran (wordplay)

Writers in Hollywood.

Screenplay writers

SCENICAL {scenic=adj}

Scepter

A certain reluctance to give credit

State one's in before one knows it

Doubt whether philosopher is Frenchman

Scheduler

Schedule

Scheelite

Plans for circulating catechisms

Plans redraft of catechisms

Circuit diagrams

Combination of the aspects of heavenly bodies.

To form a scheme or schemes.

Playfully, on a music score

Jokingly, in musical terminology

Playfully, in music

Old money useless ultimately, horrifying society

Dog for lively king in Kent

Small, black watchdog from Belgium

Small black tailless dog of a breed with a ruff of fur round its neck

Causing division in the RC Church

Favouring separation from a church

Singular elegance about theory volunteers rejected being fractious (wordplay)

Dry fruit that splits into several one-seeded portions

""SCHIZO a person affected with a type of psychotic disorder, also SCHIZOID""

Schizzy

Inept ones: Slang

Inept ones Slang

Yiddish chumps

Schlep

Schlump

Schmaltz

Schmalzy

Schmeer

Schmoos

Schmooze