2-Letter Words Starting with S

SOCIOPATH

Adjective (-al)

Knockout blow: Slang

Knockout blow Slang.

Slang A conclusive blow or remark.

""Pertaining to, or of the nature of, sodomy.""

Solacement

""Of or pertaining to plants of the natural order Solanace\'91, of which the nightshade (Solanum) is the type. The order includes also the tobacco, ground cherry, tomato, eggplant, red pepper, and many more. Solanace\'91, of which the nightshade (Solanum) is the type. The order includes also the tobacco, ground cherry, tomato, eggplant, red pepper, and many more.""

Solicitant

Solicitude

SOLIPSIST

SOMATIC pertaining to a {soma=n}

Somnolence

Sonication

Of or pertaining to a sophist; embodying sophistry; fallaciously subtile; not sound.

Dish dictated letters for Warlocks

Witches

Sibyls

Sourcebook

Spacecraft

Walk by fellow in subtle NASA mission (wordplay)

Spacewalk

Spacewalk

Spancel

See antispasmodic .

Spasmodically.

The common yellow water lily (Nuphar advena). Nuphar advena).

Concentrating on one subject

Blend of spices ideal for a particular purpose

Specialise

Specialism

Specialist

SPECIALIZE To mention specialy; to particularize.

Narrows the field.

SPECIAL a special person or thing

Neurology, oncology, cardiology, etc.

Speciation

Speciesism

Concrete, as complaints

SPECIFIC a remedy intended for a particular disease

Like an elaborate display, perhaps

Show clears up act for broadcasting

One kind of TV show

Heavenly photo

SPECULAR relating to a speculum

""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.""

One of Hulme's conjectures (wordplay)

Wall Street motivation

Son's embezzlement's a matter of conjecture

Conjecturing - high-risk

Based on conjecture

Disagreement I have about iffy clue involving guesswork

Market manipulators

""-fies , -fying , -fied (intr) to make a speech or speeches""

Speechify

Spermaceti

""A small sac connected with the female reproductive organs of insects and many other invertebrates, serving to receive and retain the spermatozoa.""

SPERMICIDE

Spermicide

Spherical

Of or pertaining to a spherulite; characterized by the presence of spherulites.

""SPHINCTER A muscle which surrounds, and by its contraction tends to close, a natural opening; as, the sphincter of the bladder. as, the sphincter of the bladder.""

Spicebush

Spiciness

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

Adjective meaning resembling

Concerning the occult.

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Microbiology) any of a group of spirally coiled rodlike bacteria that includes the causative agent of syphilis See treponema [from New Latin spīrochaeta; see spiro- 2 , chaeta ]""

SPIROCHETE

Spirochete

An instrument for measuring the volume of air entering and leaving the lungs.

Pl. splenectomies Surgical removal of the spleen.

Splotchy

""SPOROPHYTE In plants exhibiting alternation of generations, the generation which bears asexual spores; -- opposed to gametophyte. It is not clearly differentiated in the life cycle of the lower plants.gametophyte. It is not clearly differentiated in the life cycle of the lower plants.""

Game shows (wordplay)

TV fare

Squelchy

Empty Sunday penning paper on bridge rule

Stagecraft

Longing to take part (wordplay)

Obsessed with the theater

Longing to act when lorry hounds coaches

Stagnancy

Mammoth hangings (wordplay)

Downers (wordplay)

Certain roof hangings

""STALACTITE A pendent cone or cylinder of calcium carbonate resembling an icicle in form and mode of attachment. Stalactites are found depending from the roof or sides of caverns, and are produced by deposition from waters which have percolated through, and partially dissolved, the overlying limestone rocks.""

""STALAGMITE A deposit more or less resembling an inverted stalactite, formed by calcareous water dropping on the floors of caverns; hence, a similar deposit of other material.""

Stanchion

Stiffness of manner

Formality

Statecraft

Word with analysis or significance

Relating to the analysis of data

Relating to data analysis

Statoscope

""STAUNCH to stop the flow of blood, also STANCH""

Of or pertaining to staurolite; resembling or containing staurolite.

Stavesacre

""Body, Human""

TV presenter Fred Dibnah's day job

Tall chimney repairer

Worker on tall chimneys etc

Stenciller

Art form

STENOBATH

Device offering 3-D viewing

It provides outstanding images

Three-D viewer

Viewing in 3-D

""A method in neurosurgery and neurological research for locating points within the brain using an external, three-dimensional frame of reference usually based on the Cartesian coordinate system.""

Like a stock image

Conventional

It can pick the beat up (wordplay)

Medical instrument that scoops teeth out

It will find a broken heart

Drama ()

To manoeuvre (the puck) deftly in ice hockey

Fish taking seconds to amuse, returned

Small spiny fish

Loot's bound to excite British swimmer

Sticktight

Stitchery

Stitchwort

Wholesale plant grower or cattleman?

Dealer with bulls and bears.

Cher (wordplay)

Stockfish

Ranch owner (wordplay)

Reader of "quotations."

Owner of funds in a company

Stretch fabric for making bandages etc

Stretchy fabric

Former finance worker

Warehouse worker

Stockpiler

Storing up

Retailer's task - shoplifting (wordplay)

Evaluation of unsold goods

Serious whale ailment (wordplay)

Overeater's woe

Overeater's risk

Secret society member in an episode of "The Simpsons"

Secret society member in an episode of 'The Simpsons'

They have seconds

Many timers

Like a bluenose.

Having strict morals

Prudish and appallingly clad artiste

STRATEGIC

Government headed by military chiefs

An artistic representation of a street.

STRETCH to {extend=v}

Stretchy

Stridency

""A long piece of timber, forming a margin or edge of any piece of construction; esp.:""

Flashing lamp effectively freezing motion

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

Strychnine

Stuccowork

ACIDNESS {acidity=n}

Subagency

Subbranch

CAPSULAR enclosed and compact

CATEGORY a division in any system of classification

Subceiling

CELLULAR pertaining to a cell

Subchapter

CLASSIFY to arrange in categories

Subclass

Subclavian

Subclimax

CLINICAL pertaining to a {clinic=n}

Subcluster

Plural or third person singular

Subcolony

Subcompact

Outsource, as part of a job

Farm work out

Get extra help, as a builder

Contrary in an inferior degree.

Below a part of the brain

Subcounty

CRITICAL {crucial=adj}

CULTURAL relating to culture

CULTURED culture

Subculture

CURATIVE something that cures

DECISION to win a boxing decision

Subdialect

DIRECTOR one that {directs=v}

Smaller part of a larger zoned area

Subduction

In an underlying way

Subjection

Subjective

Having no case for being objective perhaps (wordplay)

""Act of subjoining, or state of being subjoined.""

Mood of verbs

LICENSED license

Sublicense

LITERACY the ability to read and write

""The act of submerging, or the state of being submerged; submersion.""

Subproduct

Subproject

Subscience

What a YouTube celebrity wants

SCRIBING the act of scribing

Contract elements

SENTENCE to declare judicially the punishment

SEQUENCE to arrange in order

Subsidence

Means of supporting life

Kind of farming

Means of survival

SPECIFIC a remedy intended for a particular disease

Subsurface

Subtracter

Deducting

Taking off vessel's pulling power

End of the advice

Deduction

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

Like zones that support many deserts

Of a particular climate zone

Like a region whose climate is between temperate and torrid

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

""One who, or that which, succeeds to the place of another; that which is used for something else; a substitute""

Succession

Succinct

Succotash

Succulence

In a succulent manner.

Sufferance

""The quality or state of being sufficient, or adequate to the end proposed; adequacy.""

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

Death through lack of twenty seven across

Tending or able to choke or stifle.

Sweetened (as a pill)

Made easier to swallow

Made more palatable

Pl. superagencies A large government agency composed of or coordinating a number of smaller agencies.

Superblock

Supercargo

SUPERCEDE

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Fill to excess at a splendid price!

Pep up, as an engine

Use a turbo

English word

Supercity