2-Letter Words Starting with S

Make systematic

A zeolitic mineral occuring in delicate radiating groups of white crystals. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia and lime. Called also lime mesotype. lime mesotype.

Noun (-age)

Adjective meaning resembling

Disorderly struggle (on sports field)

Game that's just for practice

Noisy brawl or struggle

Daily reading, for some

It may be quoted in church

Sacred writings as of Christians

Forwards get packing!

Brawl (at rugby union)

Formation that often collapses

Easy to get

Art, figuratively speaking (wordplay)

The sort of art that may give one relief

Art in three dimensions

Disposed to solitude

Tight-lipped, reticent

Tending to hide things

Close drip, stopping leak

Know about Channel 4? It's tempting!

Like Salome

Charming Spanish golfer interrupted by Channel 1

Choosy about who plays (wordplay)

Part of SSS

Type of service

Like to have this (wordplay)

Misleading outward appearance

Apparent form

Consciousness - ten nieces (anagram)

What Data had, but a toaster does not

Robot's lack

Dead end here, perhaps...

Where you may find dead end (wordplay)

Helps cure (anagram)

Last check, maybe

Cabbage for canning (wordplay)

Dismissal from employment

Sounds like a woolly jacket for 17 across for the night

Enclosure for farm animals or duck, almost Dickensian inside

Capable of being upset by sudden occurrences

Stuffed by white, black can suffer trauma

Sweet biscuit - rat chokes (anagram)

Diminutive dessert (wordplay)

Rate shock (anagram)

Prove knight maybe is a fine specimen

Exhibit western epic shot in Oxford, say

Example of excellence

Hearst Castle, for one

Beautifully furnished home

Lavishly furnished home

Hissing bird upset pike

Hissing quality

Mistress, in slang

Disrespected mistress, in slang

The other woman, in somewhat objectifying slang

Silicula

Archaic A simulacrum.

Like deli meats

Odious creatures dressed in black may well be cut

Cottage cheese, to some

Cottage cheese

Cottage cheese.

English word

Winter view

Christmas scene? Sons wrapping present, piece of clothing

""SOCIAL a friendly gathering, also SOCIABLE""

Park Avenue resident.

Claudia Cohen, for example

Prominent attendee at fashionable events

Mix at a party

Convert to public ownership, as industry

Here or there

At an unspecified location

In an unspecified location

Pat Eccles recovers sight

Select cap randomly from display

Visually striking performance

Gamble on investments

A gambler will do it to accumulate

Deliberate risk on the markets

A substance used to kill spores.

Type of desk tray

Steps up (wordplay)

Way down in a well (wordplay)

Connecting flight (wordplay)

""A long slender piece of wood, especially: a. A branch or stem cut from a tree or shrub.""

Reserve supply (of weapons)

Hoard standard carpeting material

Government reserve supply

Limitation or hostile criticism

Sternly critical remark

Restriction or stern criticism

Quality of being harsh or shrill.

Harsh quality

Shrillness

Arrangement of parts.

Building or organised arrangement

The Space Needle, for example.

Pay money regularly for, say, magazine

Apply (to receive an issue of shares)

Apply (for an issue of shares)

Drug found in property (wordplay)

Reserve opinion for matter

Advance point of view in matter

A salt of succinic acid.

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.

*Supplant

English word

English word

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

Put the accent on the weak beat

Play in jazz style.

Accent the off-beats

Group working to a common aim

Business group supplied by CIE dynast

Combine to make Disney cat twitchy

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 .""

China cares (anagram)

Sickly son fidgeting in each car

Overly sentimental

A salt of salicylic acid.

Adjective meaning resembling

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

Shock as canal sides crumble

Shock by impropriety

View Surrealist works by European producing shock

Shock.

Lawyer finds a way to fix Irish rascal

Good-for-nothing

Black sheep.

To form a scheme or schemes.

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

He's too calm, maybe, for a young peer

Bus-seat sharer, perhaps

Dolphin's friend (wordplay)

English word

Slightest bits

Slightest traces

SCREEN to provide with a concealing partition

The act or an instance of scrubbing.

Examine closely - runs cities (anagram)

Examine closely tailoring of nicer suits

Examine the tailoring of nicer suits

Look at critically or searchingly

SCUTELLA scutellum

Capable of being searched.

False clues crop up to sideline belief

Disengage from the faithful? Awful clues result

Make less ecclesiastical

Make worldly

SECURE to make safe or certain

Seecatch

SELECTA a disc jockey

Array of trucks (wordplay)

The result of making a CD (wordplay)

Half a ring (wordplay)

The physical process of ageing

Process of aging

Quality of the superannuated

An arch support inserted into the shank of a shoe.

Expressed concern about idiot's clue!

Concern of many in a lonely place

Care, concern

Dropping off lemon scone that's cooked

Sleepiness comes on Len unexpectedly

Drowsiness.

Train in a particular area requiring less pace, one twice derailed

Concentrate on expertise in unique island with endless sunshine finally

Work in a limited field.

Major in

Team swallowing one short, misguided empiric's contraceptive

""Any of various slender, spiral, motile bacteria of the order Spirochaetales, many of which are pathogenic, causing syphilis, relapsing fever, yaws, and other diseases.""

Overhead projection (wordplay)

A hanging for a caveman (wordplay)

Structure deposited on cave roof

A barometer for recording small variations in atmospheric pressure.

Southern European larkspur; at crevasse (anagram)

Essay penned by school square, a killer

Rat poison

Bitter poison

COLLEGE a school of higher learning

Somewhat cordate; somewhat like a heart in shape.

Group customs in U-boats (wordplay)

Hip-hop, for example

Division of society

Of or pertaining to a subject.

""LICENSE to issue or grant authoritative permission to, also LICENCE""

MUCOSAE mucosa

SCIENCE knowledge obtained by observation and experiment

Sinking of land, maybe due to mining

Settling loans, I get spoken of as thick

Settling down with advance team, getting directions to capture castle, initially

SURFACE to apply an outer layer to

Win I have running

Hit I have in a regular series

Following one another

Tasty juiciness

Juiciness

Tacit permission.

Reluctant consent

Offer it up perhaps to put up with political party in Africa contacting Spain

English word

In earnest, praying for special pun to be concocted

Beg kitty to lie about with wild pups

Sue being agile, catching one pet (wordplay)

Pray humbly

Mathematics A function that is onto.

Noun (-ance)

Susceptible.

Unseen cats desperate for nourishment

Food and drink

What one needs to get by

SWITCH to beat with a flexible rod

SYNCRETISE

SYNCRETIZE

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

Oh! Decency's different with eg 'New faces'

Use of 'Midas' for 'wealthy person,' for example

""A fellow without breeches; a ragged fellow; a name of reproach given in the first French revolution to the extreme republican party, who rejected breeches as an emblem peculiar to the upper classes or aristocracy, and adopted pantaloons.""

Boastful and cowardly character

Cowardly buffoon

Coward shows wound, having confronted a second superior rebel

Form a sect

""Any of several chiefly tropical trematode worms of the genus Schistosoma, many of which are parasitic in the blood of humans and other mammals. Also called bilharzia , blood fluke .""

Building for teaching

Place of learning

Building used for teaching

German folk dance (Scotch in German)

Dance similar to the polka

Polka-like, 19th century German dance

Sparkle - elastic lint (anagram)

Emit flashes of light

Show many flashes of light

""A thick, syrupy, colorless alkaloid, C 17 H 21 NO 4 , extracted from plants such as henbane and used primarily as a mydriatic and sedative, and to treat nausea and prevent motion sickness. Also called hyoscine .""

Old age.

Silkworm raising.

Silkworm breeding

In working order

Fit for use

Functional

English word

Give poor value

Cheat by returning insufficient money

Give insufficient recompense

""A polished, striated rock surface caused by one rock mass sliding over another in a fault plane.""

Suspect seen burying thief's knife

Large knife

Old knife

""(Military / Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) a telescope with crosshairs mounted on a sniper's rifle""

English word

Concrete, as complaints

Conjecturing - high-risk

Based on conjecture

Disagreement I have about iffy clue involving guesswork

Adjective meaning resembling

""(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 ]""

Device offering 3-D viewing

It provides outstanding images

Three-D viewer

It can pick the beat up (wordplay)

Medical instrument that scoops teeth out

It will find a broken heart

To manoeuvre (the puck) deftly in ice hockey

Stretch fabric for making bandages etc

Stretchy fabric

Serious whale ailment (wordplay)

Overeater's woe

Overeater's risk

An artistic representation of a street.

STRETCH to {extend=v}

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

Flashing lamp effectively freezing motion

CURATIVE something that cures

Mood of verbs

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

SENTENCE to declare judicially the punishment

SEQUENCE to arrange in order

Means of supporting life

Kind of farming

Means of survival

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

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

Tending or able to choke or stifle.

Fill to excess at a splendid price!

Pep up, as an engine

Use a turbo

Introduce in addition

""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.""

Prone (to)

Easily swayed by feelings

Liable to fall victim

Emulate Errol Flynn

Do some dueling

Make like Errol Flynn

Flick knife (US)

West Side Story prop

West Side Story weapon

To form or divide into syllables; to syllabify.

Cause to happen at the same time

Shy censor in scramble to concur in time

Occur at the same time

Cause to mesh

""SYNCOPATE To contract, as a word, by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; as, "Gloster" is a syncopated form of "Gloucester." as, "Gloster" is a syncopated form of "Gloucester."""

SANCTION to authorize

English word

""Pl. scyphistomae (-m ) or scyphistomas A larva of a scyphozoan, consisting of an elongated and deeply constricted polyp that successively splits off minute, free-swimming medusas.""

A hormone or another agent that causes or stimulates secretion.

To imbue with sectarian feelings; to subject to the control of a sect.

SEXTUPLE to make six times as great

Importance; meaning

Importance, meaning

Notice I intended to limit chapter's importance

See Sylviculture. Sylviculture.

An experienced and knowledgeable person

Who's disported at posh cities (wordplay)

Worldly-wise type making epic that is so disorganised

Scientific device for splitting light

Optical instrument.

Instrument for observing light of different wavelengths

""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.

Competition for pastors (wordplay)

High Church breaking contract for event

Race with jumps

""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.""

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

SUBJECTIVE Of or pertaining to a subject.

SUBJECTIVE Of or pertaining to a subject.

Subordinate in capacity or function.

Underlying framework

All eyes perhaps insure evil clan mutate

Watch kept on potential nuclear evils (wordplay)

Covert observation

The cultivation of forest trees for timber or other purposes; forestry; arboriculture.

(Physics / General Physics) an instrument used to indicate whether two periodic quantities or motions are synchronous

Guilty pleasure (wordplay)

Delight in another's misfortune

19 in another's 10

""SCHOLASTIC Pertaining to, or suiting, a scholar, a school, or schools; scholarlike; as, scholastic manners or pride; scholastic learning. as, scholastic manners or pride; scholastic learning.""

Like carved figures

Betokening or representing by an external sign.

SPLENECTOMIZE

English word

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

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

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

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

SPECIALIZE To mention specialy; to particularize.