2-Letter Words Starting with S

Stomodeum

Cut off, in a way

Held up by weather.

Cut off by the elements.

Plot device (wordplay)

Director's device

Lie on table to make an outline

Fence sitters.

Standing on both sides of (something)

Noncommittal on an issue

Being noncommittal.

Straight

Distressed when pressed to accept a note

Like some circumstances

Characterized by poverty

""A shoreline, especially one marking an earlier and higher water level.""

Stranger

Strappado

Formed in layers

Arranged in layers

Stone cut, formally approved, and arranged in layers

Stravaig

Streambed

The land adjacent to a stream.

Stridence

In a loud, harsh way

In a shrill way

It's cunning to carry a weapon with a loud noise

Change a result - it'd sound like cricket (wordplay)

Filth in America is up - it's past the time to be chirpy

Make some noise as cricket result tad surprising, India's opener caught

""Making a shrill, creaking sound.""

Hastening time makes train stop at nothing

Defective grindstone gradually getting faster

One's racehorses finish with nothing; need order to go faster!

Keep firm grip

Defensive position taken by a wrestler

Fastness of dogs left North exhausted

Strouding

Built up

Made up

Organized

Studfish

Stallions kept for breeding

Breeders' assets

Soul's duty I interpreted with diligence

With hard work, i get a soul in the work-place

Thoughtfully, promises to pay for service gets to be cunning

Stultify

Amazing send-up, to us transforming

Adman's adjective

Staggering the imagination.

""STUPID a dull, foolish person""

Strength, solidity

Unyielding spirit.

Strength of support arranged inside unopened truss

Pl. stylopodia (-d - ) An enlargement at the base of the style of flowers in certain plants of the parsley family.

AUDIBLE able to be heard

Subclass

Somewhat cordate; somewhat like a heart in shape.

Low-ranking clergy officials

Regional tongue

Very particular language beats lucid translation

Being split into smaller pieces

DIVIDER one that {divides=v}

Subdivide

Subduct

The act of subducting or taking away.

Working on newspaper and fitting sleep in

Journalists plot to divide mates, potentially

Sonar datum (wordplay)

Subindex

Subindex

""SUBJUGATE To subdue, and bring under the yoke of power or dominion; to conquer by force, and compel to submit to the government or absolute control of another; to vanquish.""

""One of the several primary divisions of either the animal, or vegetable kingdom, as, in zo\'94logy, the Vertebrata, Tunicata, Mollusca, Articulata, Molluscoidea, Echinodermata, C\'d2lentera, and the Protozoa; in botany, the Phanerogamia, and the Cryptogamia.""

Purified

""SUBMARINE Being, acting, or growing, under water in the sea; as, submarine navigators; submarine plants. as, submarine navigators; submarine plants.""

""The sixth tone of the scale; the under mediant, or third below the keynote; the superdominant.""

Subperiod

Summoned as a witness

PRODUCT something produced by labour or effort

SUBROGATE To put in the place of another; to substitute.

SAMPLED sample

Gave money (to a project)

Contributed money

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

Contributory funds one put on daily account

Minor international journal chasing advance payments

Given a grant

Settled around island that's financially supported

Subsidise

""SUBSIDIZE To furnish with a subsidy; to purchase the assistance of by the payment of a subsidy; to aid or promote, as a private enterprise, with public money; as, to subsidize a steamship line. as, to subsidize a steamship line.""

""SUBSIDIZE To furnish with a subsidy; to purchase the assistance of by the payment of a subsidy; to aid or promote, as a private enterprise, with public money; as, to subsidize a steamship line. as, to subsidize a steamship line.""

Subsidize

Subtend

SUBTILIZE To make thin or fine; to make less gross or coarse.

Subtotal

Journalist's taken leaflet away

Paper is after loan before editor's removed

FARMED OUT WORK

It's taken away from rough brute's hand

Pl. succedanea (-n - ) A substitute.

Succeeder

Winning, or following (wordplay)

Sudatory

Spot for a Turkish bath

SUDDEN an occurrence without warning

Sudorific

SUFFOCATE Suffocated; choked.

SUICIDAL self-destructive

English word

SULFONATE

Sulfoxide

""SULFURET to treat with sulfur, also SULPHURET""

SULFURIZE

Put briefly, tot gets angry when about to get out of bed

Did a quick recap of

Digested

Wood that is produced during the latter part of the growing season and is harder and less porous than springwood.

Drinks now mixed in sections

Drifters, down under

August attire

Summer attire

Superadd

English word

SUPERCEDE

Supercede

Helium alone can be this; or Coca-Cola, according to some (wordplay)

Superfund

SUPERHYPE

Supermind

One charging high runway fees (wordplay)

Iman, for one

Queen of the catwalk (wordplay)

A group intermediate in importance between an order and a subclass.

See Peroxide. Peroxide.

""SUPERPOSE To lay upon, as one kind of rock on another.""

Superroad

Supplanted.

Excellent material for furniture

Overrides

Replaces

Displaces

Like orders of magnitude (wordplay)

Larger than large

Enlarged, as an order of fries

Superstud

SUPERVENE To come as something additional or extraneous; to occur with reference or relation to something else; to happen upon or after something else; to be added; to take place; to happen.

""SUPERVISE To oversee for direction; to superintend; to inspect with authority; as, to supervise the construction of a steam engine, or the printing of a book. as, to supervise the construction of a steam engine, or the printing of a book.""

Supplant

As at least some people think

Assumer's adverb

Massive edition kept in stock, by all accounts

Didn't think about

Drink and jam gets journalist censored

Inhibited

""SUPPURATE To generate pus; as, a boil or abscess suppurates. as, a boil or abscess suppurates.""

""SURCHARGE To overload; to overburden; to overmatch; to overcharge; as, to surcharge a beast or a ship; to surcharge a cannon. as, to surcharge a beast or a ship; to surcharge a cannon.""

Like a mountain goat

Like mountain goats

Descriptive of certain walkers

Browse internet forums (wordplay)

Wavestorm products

Wave riders

Overcame (an obstacle)

Overcame

Surprint

Gives up with rerun, dress needing adjustment

Gives in

SURROGATE A deputy; a delegate; a substitute.

Dour nurse working for department is besieged by her enemies

Encircled

Surveil

Garters, to Brits

Larry King trademark

Uncle Sam's braces

Confused puss dying by being hanged, perhaps

Swinging time for shaggy cat before closing

Putting off carrying out capital punishment

Everglades, for example

Wet tracts

First to see exotic palm wands in marshes

Swansdown

""Having the back hollow or sagged, whether naturally or as the result of injury or weakness; said of horses and other animals.""

Outgrowths of a barked shin

They often fly out during an explosion

Don overwhelmed by weapons and oaths

Athlete's headpieces

Sugar-loaf (wordplay)

Pancreas (as food)

Baked thymus (wordplay)

Swellhead

Workers handling pigs

Pig tenders

Power-station area

Swordplay

Swordtail

SYLLOGIZE To reason by means of syllogisms.

Represented; idly emboss (anagram)

SYMBOLIZE To have a resemblance of qualities or properties; to correspond; to harmonize.

Offbeat (wordplay)

Cut short, as rhythm

Unusually stressed church council welcomes chapter and head (slightly later)

SYNDACTYL

Syndesis

Sold to several publications

Like a lot of crosswords? Cryptic, yes - addict tackles any number

They make rackets

Publicises in a number of papers for betting fraternities

""SYNDICATE The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a council, or body of syndics.""

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

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

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

SYNOPSIZE

SYSTEMIZE To reduce to system; to systematize.

Saccharide

Saddlebred

""A cloth under a saddle, and extending out behind; a housing.""

Saddletree

Protected

Small portable stoves.

Newts, for example

Newts and others

Quaint-sounding clerks

Heroines of the Christmas rush.

Salmagundi

Fragrant Asian trees.

Tropical trees.

Kin of slowplayers*

Ambushers

Part of being a pool shark

Cleaned, in a way

Cleaned but good

Paper tool (wordplay)

Surface-cleaning tool

High-pressure abrasive tool

Sanderling

Sandglass

Birds found in semideserts

Pigeonlike birds

Sandiness

Little Leaguers, once.

Smoothed, as a wooden surface

Got ready to put on a new coat

Smoothed, as wood

Sandwich

SARCOID a disease of horses

SARCOID a disease of horses

SARDONIC mocking

Scabbard

Metal framework used when 4 down

Temporary structure for building workers

Tubular structure erected round building

SCANDALISE

Scandalise

""SCANDALIZE To offend the feelings of the conscience of (a person) by some action which is considered immoral or criminal; to bring shame, disgrace, or reproach upon.""

Shocks

Scandal

Put the blame on

One who wastes; a spendthrift.

SCHEMATIZE To form a scheme or schemes.

Scherzando

Schnorkel

First grader, for example

First grader, e.g

""A disease of adults, characterized by a diffuse rigidity and hardness of the skin.""

SCLEROTIZE

A genus of venomous myriapods including the centipeds. See Centiped. Centiped.

They show runs

Point holders

Directors in twenties indicate the state of play

Scorpaenid

Scoundrel

Screenland

Cocktail (vodka and 4 down juice)

Carpenter's libation (wordplay)

Carpenter's favorite drink (wordplay)

Scrimshaw

SCRUTINISE

""SCRUTINIZE To examine closely; to inspect or observe with critical attention; to regard narrowly; as, to scrutinize the measures of administration; to scrutinize the conduct or motives of individuals. as, to scrutinize the measures of administration; to scrutinize the conduct or motives of individuals.""

""Formed like a plate or salver; composed of platelike surfaces; as, the scutellated bone of a sturgeon.as, the scutellated bone of a sturgeon.""

Football defense groups

Subordinate persons.

In a secondary manner or degree.

SECULARISE

""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.""

SECURITIZE

Describing a type of rock

(Of rock) laid down by deposition

Sediment