2-Letter Words Starting with S

""POLITICAL Having, or conforming to, a settled system of administration.""

PORCELAIN Purslain.

Inflected form of SYNTHETIC Inflected form of SYNTH a synthesizer

Inflected form of TONICALLY Inflected form of TONIC something that refreshes

Photography

He raises silkworms

Serological

Sexdecillion

SEXTUPLICATE

Sextuplicate

Sharecropper

SHARECROP

Shellcracker

Shortchanger

Mean to be giving poor value

Cheating someone by not returning enough money

Brief film about execution for dishonest behaviour

Shuttlecock

Sickishness

SIGMOIDOSCOPE

Significance

In a significant manner.

Importance of indication providing one positive particle

Betokening or representing by an external sign.

SILVICULTURE See Sylviculture. Sylviculture.

Silviculture

Sincereness

Sketchiness

Slouchiness

Sociability

SOCIALIZE To render social.

Of or involving both social and cultural factors.

Describing the interactions of communities and money

(used with a sing. verb) The study of language and linguistic behavior as influenced by social and cultural factors.

Some robocalls

English word

Solifluction

SOMATOLOGIC

Somnifacient

Sophistical

Advanced cash? Deposit it, perhaps

Possessed of culture, refinement and 24

Ditches patois, turning suave

Noel and Cole, for example

In irregular bursts

In fits and starts

Specialness

Detailed description of requirements

Detailed design description

Detailed requirement of work to be done

Specificity

In a strikingly dramatic manner

In an ostentatious way

In impressive style

The office or quality of a spectator.

""A broad-spectrum antibiotic, C 14 H 24 N 2 O 7 , obtained from a species of gram-negative bacteria (Streptomyces spectabilis) or produced synthetically and used especially in the treatment of penicillin-resistant gonorrhea.""

Spectrograph

SPECTROGRAPH An apparatus for photographing or mapping a spectrum.

Spectrometer

A spectroscope equipped with scales for measuring wavelengths or indexes of refraction.

Spectroscope

""SPECTROSCOPE An optical instrument for forming and examining spectra (as that of solar light, or those produced by flames in which different substances are volatilized), so as to determine, from the position of the spectral lines, the composition of the substance.""

Specularity

Speculative

Speechwriter

Caves

Spermatocyte

Formation and development of spermatozoa by meiosis and spermiogenesis.

SPIROCHETE

SPIROCHETE

Splenectomy

SPLENECTOMIZE

In a splenetical manner.

They may say, "Going, going, gone!"

Commentators without much to do these days

Sprachgefuhl

Attendant with historical records (five lost) for certain governments

Pathogenic bacteria

Starchiness

In the way of statistics.

Do they figure things out (wordplay)

Number-crunchers assist Titanic at sea

Figureheads (wordplay)

Staunchness

Horse in an obstacle race

Horse that jumps

Horse for jump races

They present hurdles

Some horse races

Horse races

""Of or pertaining to dung; partaking of the nature of, or containing, dung.""

""STEREOGRAPH Any picture, or pair of pictures, prepared for exhibition in the stereoscope. Stereographs are now commonly made by means of photography.""

The study of three-dimensional properties of objects or matter usually observed two-dimensionally.

Stereopticon

Stereoscopy

Conventionalised novel operatic style

Operatic style devised in keeping with stock character

Hackneyed

Production of steroids by living organisms.

Stichomythia

Stichomythy

Stickhandler

The act of manoeuvring (the puck) deftly in ice hockey

""With a stigma, or mark of infamy or deformity.""

Stockbreeder

Stockbroking

Stockjobbing

""The art or process of calculating the atomic proportions, combining weights, and other numerical relations of chemical elements and their compounds.""

Stonecutting

Done up in a prudish sort of way

Extremely proper

Puritanically corseted

Coats worn on waterways (wordplay)

Perhaps no army movement in them in asylums

Small quality potato skins for violent prisoners

How Victorians acted

According to plan

South pathetically clutching table's ends with finesse

""The study of rock strata, especially the distribution, deposition, and age of sedimentary rocks.""

Stratocracy

""Large balls or rolls of dark cloud which frequently cover the whole sky, esp. in winter, and give it at times an undulated appearance.""

Sky-high (informal)

Unusually, orchestra pit's very high

Belonging to the upper air

Pl. stratovolcanos A volcano composed of alternating layers of lava and ash.

""Of, relating to, or caused by a streptococcus.""

STREPTOCOCCI

Bacterium causing sore throat etc

Genus of bacteria

Bacterium often causing infection

English word

Streptomycin

Stringcourse

STROMATOLITE

Technique for literary criticism

One studying patterns of thought, behaviour, etc

""STRUCTURAL Of or pertaining to structure; affecting structure; as, a structural error. as, a structural error.""

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

""Without a definite structure, or arrangement of parts; without organization; devoid of cells; homogeneous; as, a structureless membrane. as, a structureless membrane.""

Stupefaction

STYLISTIC Of or pertaining to style in language.

Subacidness

ADOLESCENT Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity.

ALLOCATION The act of putting one thing to another; a placing; disposition; arrangement.

Subcategory

CATEGORIZE To insert in a category or list; to class; to catalogue.

CLASSIFIED classify

Subclassify

Subclinical

""COLLECTION The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens. as, the collection of specimens.""

""COLLEGIATE Of or pertaining to a college; as, collegiate studies; a collegiate society. as, collegiate studies; a collegiate society.""

""COMMISSION The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating.""

Where many testimonials are given

Subcomponent

Subcontinent

Player on bench that's got diminished is farmed out elsewhere

Construction project bidder

Firm undertaking part of another's agreement

Subcontrary

""CORIACEOUS Consisting of or resembling, leather; leatherlike; tough.""

Subcultural

""DISCIPLINE The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, mental, or moral.""

Past tense or past participle

SUBJECTIVISE

Subjectivise

Subjectivism

Subjectivist

SUBJECTIVIZE

Subjectivize

Subliteracy

Subprincipal

Numbers of magazines

Subservience

""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.""

SPECIALIZE To mention specialy; to particularize.

Having no substance; unsubstantial.

""STRUCTURAL Of or pertaining to structure; affecting structure; as, a structural error. as, a structural error.""

Substructure

VOCALIZING vocalize

Sufficiency

Suffocating

Comparative adjective or agent noun

SUPERACTIVE

Superagency

Supercabinet

A calender with a number of rollers for giving a high finish or gloss to paper.

Supercarrier

Adjective (-ous)

Shoppers with big tabs

Turbochargers' cousins

Turbochargers' mechanically-driven cousins

""SUPERCHARGE To charge (a bearing) upon another bearing; as, to supercharge a rose upon a fess. as, to supercharge a rose upon a fess.""

Superchurch

Supercluster

Powerful particle accelerator

Adjective (-al)

Powerful mainframe hardware

Very powerful calculator

Powerful data processor

Superconduct

Adjective (-al)

""1. (Physics / General Physics) Physics (of a fluid) brought to a temperature and pressure higher than its critical temperature and pressure, so that its physical and chemical properties change""

Supercurrent

Noteworthiness above others

In just a cursory way

(used with a sing. or pl. verb) Brightly colored and simply designed graphic shapes of billboard proportions.

""SUPERINDUCE To bring in, or upon, as an addition to something.""

Superinfect

Above or beyond physics; not explainable by physical laws.

Adjective (-ic)

""SUPERSCRIBE 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.""

Superspecial

Adjective (-ic)

""SUPPLICATION The act of supplicating; humble and earnest prayer, as in worship.""

Surveillance

Swashbuckler

Full of bravado

Taking part in daring adventures

Describing heroes of costume novels.

Switchback

Switchgrass

Sybaritical

Sycophantism

SYLLABICATE To form or divide into syllables; to syllabify.

""The act of forming syllables; the act or method of dividing words into syllables. See Guide to Pron., §275. Guide to Pron., §275.""

Syllabicity

Sylviculture

Symbiotical

Symmetrical

Pl. sympathectomies Surgical removal of a part of the sympathetic nervous system.

Opposing the physiological effects caused by stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system: a sympatholytic treatment.

SYMPATRIC

SYMPHONIC Symphonious.

Synchromesh