2-Letter Words Starting with S

DIRECTOR one that {directs=v}

Smaller part of a larger zoned area

Subdivider

DIVIDING separation

Relief rupture unit

Suburban neighborhood, often

Smaller section

""The fourth tone above, or fifth below, the tonic; so called as being under the dominant.""

Subduction

EMPLOYED employ

Subheading

INDUSTRY a group of productive enterprises

Subkingdom

LICENSED license

Submediant

In a lesser role.

Lower in rank

Of less importance

Subproduct

Subsidence

SUBSIDISE

Subsidizer

""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.""

Not good enough!

Inferior underwater vehicle ideal

Falling short of some prescribed norm

Stood in

Subtotal

Subtrahend

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

Sudatorium

Sweetened (as a pill)

Made easier to swallow

Made more palatable

Sulfhydryl

Any of a group of organic sulfur compounds containing the radical SO 2 NH 2 and including the sulfa drugs.

Sulfuret

SULPHURISE

Summerwood

""To be very abundant or exuberant; to be more than sufficient; as, the country superabounds with corn. as, the country superabounds with corn.""

Superadd

Superboard

SUPERCEDE

Supercoil

Supercool

English word

Past tense or past participle

Superfluid

English word

With temperature raised to excess

Introduce in addition

Be responsible for the management of

Manage when turnips need cooking

Control, manage

Celebs on runways

English word

Superorder

Superoxide

""A writ of command to suspend the powers of an officer in certain cases, or to stay proceedings under another writ.""

Superseder

""SUPERSEDE To come, or be placed, in the room of; to replace.""

Replacement

Supplicat

Surfboard

Waves rider

Wave rider

Almost convinced, melted and yielded to temptation

Carriage mostly stopped, carried on, gave up

Gave in

Ruins ground thrown all about

Encircling

Suspender

Suspicion

In prolonged manner

Sweetbread

Egotistical

Conceited

Vain

Flick knife (US)

West Side Story prop

West Side Story weapon

Operator's post, once

Manual telephone exchange

Where telephones are connected

Switchyard

Swordfish

A fencer; a gladiator; one who exhibits his skill in the use of the sword.

SYLLABI syllabus

SYMMETRIZE To make proportional in its parts; to reduce to symmetry.

Shared an understanding with shyest maid, trembling, keeping quiet

Shared a sentiment

SYNCRETISE

SYNCRETIZE

Pl. syndesmoses (-s z) An articulation in which the bones are joined by a ligament.

An articulation formed by means of ligaments.

""The theory, plan, or practice of trade-union action (originally as advocated and practiced by the French Conf\'82d\'82ration G\'82n\'82rale du Travail) which aims to abolish the present political and social system by means of the general strike (as distinguished from the local or sectional strike) and direct action of whatever kind (as distinguished from action which takes effect only through the medium of political action) -- direct action including any kind of action that is directly effective, whether it be a simple strike, a peaceful public demonstration, sabotage, or revolutionary violence. By the general strike and direct action syndicalism aims to establish a social system in which the means and processes of production are in the control of local organizations of workers, who are manage them for the common good.direct action including any kind of action that is directly effective, whether it be a simple strike, a peaceful public demonstration, sabotage, or revolutionary violence. By the general strike and direct action syndicalism aims to establish a social system in which the means and processes of production are in the control of local organizations of workers, who are manage them for the common good.""

One advocating socialism via trade union action

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

Columnist's ambition

The supply of items to multiple newspapers

Selling to press material for simultaneous publishing

Syndicator

Synecdoche

""SYNECDOCHE A figure or trope by which a part of a thing is put for the whole (as, fifty sail for fifty ships), or the whole for a part (as, the smiling year for spring), the species for the genus (as, cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (as, a creature for a man), the name of the material for the thing made, etc. sail for fifty ships), or the whole for a part (as, the smiling year for spring), the species for the genus (as, cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (as, a creature for a <i>man</i>), the name of the material for the thing made, etc.""

SYNONYMIZE To express by a synonym or synonyms; to give the synonym or synonyms corresponding to.

Like some computer voices

Made from parts

Put together

""-fies , -fying , -fied (Chemistry) (tr) to convert (starch) into sugar saccharification &nbsp;, saccharization , saccharisation n""

""Resembling sugar, as in taste, appearance, consistency, or composition; as, saccharoidal limestone.as, saccharoidal limestone.""

In a sacerdotal manner.

Sacredness

Saddlecloth

SADISTIC pertaining to a {sadist=n}

Protecting

Sea action in which Garibaldi and son may be involved

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a salamander; enduring fire.""

Graffiti removers

Process for cleaning or engraving

Pueblo Indian art

Native American art

Making smooth

Sardonical

Sardonicism

Scaffolding

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.""

In a manner to give offense; shamefully.

Scattergood

SCHISMATIZE To make part in schism; to make a breach of communion in the church.

Scintillate

Scleroderma

Scolopendra

A drawing board coated with white clay and a surface layer of black ink that is scratched or scraped away to produce an effect similar to engraving. Also called scraperboard .

Drinks for assembly workers (wordplay)

Vodka drinks

Sounds like Philip's orange juice and vodka drinks

One who carves scrimshaw.

SECLUDED seclude

Sedateness

SEDIMENT to settle in the bottom of a liquid

Femmes fatales

SEDULOUS {diligent=adj}

Dusky state

Semideify

(Of houses) joined in pairs

Decide Thames could do for a house

Type of house

""Half of a diameter; a right line, or the length of a right line, drawn from the center of a circle, a sphere, or other curved figure, to its circumference or periphery; a radius.""

DOMINANT a controlling genetic character

FINISHED finish

Seminudity

""Having the anterior toes joined only part way down with a web; half-webbed; as, a semipalmate bird or foot. See Illust. k under Aves.as, a semipalmate bird or foot. See Illust. k under Aves.""

Senectitude

SEQUESTRATE To sequester.

Servanthood

The cardinal number equal to 10 51 .

Sextodecimo

How Hank Marvin etc warmed up (wordplay)

Sparring with oneself (wordplay)

Sparring with an imaginary opponent

Shadowgraph

SHADOWGRAPH

Shamefaced

SHARECROP

Old ploughmen as investors in company (wordplay)

Cattlemen's adversaries.

Workers in Ireland's pastures

""A person who herds sheep, especially on an open range; a shepherd.""

Vital war workers

Despatch something from site to Noah's family

They make models of Jeanie Johnston perhaps for Harland and Wolff

Type of construction at, eg, Govan, Barrow

Shirtdress

SHIRTSLEEVE

Shittimwood

Shoddiness

Cheated (by cashier?)

Done - with spirit transformed!

Didn't get full return for your money

Heedless of the future.

Like the grasshopper of fable

Limited in one's outlook

Shrewdness

How to get broad (wordplay)

Prepare to deal and get on with the game

Cruise-ship pastime

Sideslip

Sidestepper

Evading, in a way

Desist moving forest as evasive action

Avoidance behaviour that is seen in South Essex town

Creating distraction, wrongly directs a monarch

A herb no longer tended? That's foolish

Type of interest objected to, being foolish

SINGULARIZE To make singular or single; to distinguish.

Sinusoidal

A berserk toad (anagram)

Someone on a short plank with wheels

Ray the lodger's a sportsman

SKELETONISE

""SKELETONIZE To prepare a skeleton of; also, to reduce, as a leaf, to its skeleton.""

Underhand behaviour (mainly US)

Underhand trickery

In a defamatory way

Slaveholder

Holding persons in slavery.

Unsuitable nutcracker (wordplay)

R&B/rap duo Percy & MC (wordplay)

Big hitter trimmed hedge in prison

Dieter's aim.

English dogs with a keen sense of smell

""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.""

Slipstream

SLUGGARD a habitually lazy person

Landowners in arrangement to sell lord hams

Mini-farm, perhaps

Modest farming concern

Agricultural area, but less than a farm

Bork bork borks, to the Swedish Chef

Scandinavian buffets

Smudginess

Sportsmen currently accommodated between son and lodgers

Popular form of controlled sliding

Olympic event

Son currently joining coach, say, for winter sport

Sockdolager

Sockdologer

Soddenness

Softheaded

Soldiership

SOLIDARIST

Solidarity

SOLILOQUISE

SOLILOQUIZE To utter a soliloquy; to talk to one's self.

Somatomedin

Flipped

Sordidness

Soundproof

A shrub for the huntress

SPARKPLUG

Spatterdock

Leading (attack)

Taking the lead

Praised Hagen extravagantly for leading attack

Speedball

Speedboat

Speediness

Vehicle-velocity indicators

Often-ignored dash displays

Indicators of velocity

Powerful speakers

Sure to fascinate

Fascinating session covering books

Holding one's interest

They have no saving graces

""The male germ cell in animals and plants, the essential element in fertilization; a microscopic animalculelike particle, usually provided with one or more cilia by which it is capable of active motion. In animals, the familiar type is that of a small, more or less ovoid head, with a delicate threadlike cilium, or tail. Called also spermatozo\'94n. In plants the more usual term is antherozoid. spermatozo\'94n. In plants the more usual term is antherozoid.""

Spheroidal

Being single could make person do this