2-Letter Words Starting with S

""SECULARIST One who theoretically rejects every form of religious faith, and every kind of religious worship, and accepts only the facts and influences which are derived from the present life; also, one who believes that education and other matters of civil policy should be managed without the introduction of a religious element.""

Secularity

Secularizer

""SECULARIZE To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to secularize a priest or a monk. as, to secularize a priest or a monk.""

Secureness

SECURITIZE

Femmes fatales

Seismicity

""Of or pertaining to seismometry, or seismometer; as, seismometric instruments; seismometric measurements. as, seismometric instruments; seismometric measurements.""

""SELECTION The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference.""

Selectness

Semantical

Semanticist

ABSTRACT to draw away

Junk mail a trucker might get (wordplay)

Form of estate agent's brochure (wordplay)

Advertising flier at a truck stop (wordplay)

Semiclassic

COLONIAL a citizen of a colony

Semicolony

(Of houses) joined in pairs

Decide Thames could do for a house

Type of house

Of or pertaining to a semimetal; possessing metallic properties in an inferior degree; resembling metal.

MONASTIC a {monk=n}

MYSTICAL spiritually significant

""Half official; having some official authority or importance; as, a semiofficial statement. as, a semiofficial statement.""

""Same as Semeiography, Semeiology, Semeiological.Semeiography, Semeiology, Semeiological.""

Semiotician

Semioticist

Of value but less than a gemstone

Like some gems

Not like a girl's best friend

Warm, as a climate

Senectitude

Sensual.

Of or pertaining to separatists; characterizing separatists; schismatical.

Sepulcher

Sepulchral

Sequacious

Real, physical? Different, in the style of an angel

SERICULTURE The raising of silkworms.

Sericulture

""Activated by or capable of liberating serotonin, especially in transmitting nerve impulses: serotonergic neurons; serotonergic drugs.""

The shadbush or one of its fruit.

Female minister? She's a fighter

Female in the forces

Wasp

A man who is a member of the armed forces.

The cardinal number equal to 10 51 .

Sextodecimo

SEXTUPLE to make six times as great

Shacklebone

Shamefaced

SHARECROP

Small-time farmer (2 words)

Type of tenant farmer in the USA

Landworker's allotment failure

Shellacking

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Crew's excited, gathering in monarch's smashing boat

Cheated (by cashier?)

Done - with spirit transformed!

Didn't get full return for your money

SHORTCHANGE

Does alteration in pants

Defects (eg of character)

Defects turning up in trousers

Limitations of concise US poet, it's said

Shortcut

Shuttlecock

Sickliness

Creating distraction, wrongly directs a monarch

Importance; meaning

Importance, meaning

Notice I intended to limit chapter's importance

The quality or state of being significant.

See Sylviculture. Sylviculture.

Simoniacal

Simplicial

Simplicity

Simulcast

Singlestick

Shooting up, in a way

Fast-rising TV company playing loud music, and French being gripped

Slavocracy

""The smooth, striated, or partially polished surfaces of a fissure or seam, supposed to have been produced by the sliding of one surface on another.""

A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches. Breeches.

Snickersnee

Sniperscope

The quality of being sociable.

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

Sociologese

""Of or pertaining to sociology, or social science.""

Sociologist

Sociometry

Sockdolager

Sockdologer

Earnest request

Solicitous

SOLIDARIST

""The slow, downhill movement of soil or other material in areas typically underlain by frozen ground.""

Tending to produce sleep; hypnotic.

An experienced and knowledgeable person

Who's disported at posh cities (wordplay)

Worldly-wise type making epic that is so disorganised

Spaceflight

SPACEWALKER spacewalk

Going outside an orbiting craft

SPACIOUS ample in extent

Spasmolytic

Spasticity

Spatterdock

SPECIALISE

""SPECIALIST One who devotes himself to some specialty; as, a medical specialist, one who devotes himself to diseases of particular parts of the body, as the eye, the ear, the nerves, etc. as, a medical specialist, one who devotes himself to diseases of particular parts of the body, as the eye, the ear, the nerves, etc.""

Speciality

SPECIALIZE To mention specialy; to particularize.

SPECIATION

Precisely, clearly

Distinctly

Precisely

Speciosity

""SPECIOUS plausible, but inaccurate""

Types of shows.

Of or pertaining to a spectator.

Spectrogram

An apparatus for photographing or mapping a spectrum.

Apparatus measuring wavelengths

Scientific instrument

Instrument for measuring refractive indices

The measurement of light's properties

Scientific device for splitting light

Optical instrument.

Instrument for observing light of different wavelengths

The use of the spectroscope; investigations made with the spectroscope.

Speculation

The act of making a speech or speeches.

Speechless

Politician's alter ego (wordplay)

William Safire, once

""Pl. -cae (-s ) A receptacle in the reproductive tracts of certain female invertebrates, especially insects, in which spermatozoa are received and stored until needed to fertilize the ova.""

Same as Spermoblast. Spermoblast.

Sphericity

Spiculation

Spirochaete

In a sporadic manner.

Schenkel, for one

Masters consultant, say

One who knows the score

English word

Spruceness

Squirarchy

Travelling drama teachers (wordplay)

Carriers of strongboxes

Transport for drama teachers

Pl. stapedectomies Surgical removal of the stapes.

Numerical data analyst

One analysing data

One analysing numerical facts

Competition for pastors (wordplay)

High Church breaking contract for event

Race with jumps

Workers in high places.

High climbers.

Shorthander's notes unusually explicit

It's related to what I've asked you to write, in short

Issue to be brought up on remarriage

Combining separate sources of sound

(Of sound) multi-channel

With five kicked out, criminal evicts no-hoper from two places

""An instrument, consisting essentially of a magic lantern in which photographic pictures are used, by which the image of a landscape, or any object, may be thrown upon a screen in such a manner as to seem to stand out in relief, so as to form a striking and accurate representation of the object itself; also, a pair of magic lanterns for producing the effect of dissolving views.""

3-D picture devices.

They provide outstanding images

Giving the impression of depth

Describing a three-dimensional effect.

""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.""

""Of or pertaining to the sternum and the ribs; as, the sternocostal cartilages. as, the sternocostal cartilages.""

Stethoscope

""STETHOSCOPE An instrument used in auscultation for examining the organs of the chest, as the heart and lungs, by conveying to the ear of the examiner the sounds produced in the thorax.""

Drama ()

Drama ()

Stickhandle

STICKHANDLE

Stickhandle

Stickiness

Small spiny fish

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

Barns and corrals (wordplay)

Annual meeting attendees

Merchandise owners on top of warehouses

Stockiness

Stockinette

Stockjobber

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

Stockkeeper

Stocktaking

Tolerate some pain (wordplay)

Reasons for sick days

Results of overeating

Sharon's tools (wordplay)

Hewing or dressing stone.

A case for arms limitation (wordplay)

Something that restricts.

No sane person is likely to assume it

Pl. stratocumuli (-l ) A low-lying cloud formation occurring in extensive horizontal layers with rounded summits.

Streetscape

Pathogenic bacteria

Bacteria that can cause scarlet fever, pneumonia etc.

""Pl. streptomyces Any of various actinomycetes of the genus Streptomyces, including several strains that produce antibiotics.""

New "wonder drug" from fungi

One of the "wonder" drugs.

Strictness

""A horizontal band in a building, forming a part of the design, whether molded, projecting, or carved, or in any way distinguished from the rest of the work.""

Stringency

Stringpiece

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.

Structural

Total astonishment and shock

Shocked astonishment

Extreme astonishment

""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° 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.

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

Subdecision

Subdirector

Subdistrict

Subeconomy

Subglacial

Subjacency

Subjective

SUBJECTIVE Of or pertaining to a subject.

""Any philosophical doctrine which refers all knowledge to, and founds it upon, any subjective states; egoism.""

One who holds to subjectivism; an egoist.

The quality or state of being subjective; character of the subject.

SUBJECTIVE Of or pertaining to a subject.

Subjunction

In a manner of speaking, moods imagined or wished

LICENSING license