2-Letter Words Starting with S

SPIRITED spirit

Splashboard

The quality of being splendid.

In a sporadic manner.

Make the beds (wordplay)

Gymnast's platforms

Stadtholder

New Labour's vampire hunters (wordplay)

Interested parties assume hospital mends girdles

Stallholder

""Bred in conformity to a standard. Specif., applied to a registered trotting horse which comes up to the standard adopted by the National Association of Trottinghorse Breeders.""

STANDARDISE

Standardise

""STANDARDIZE To reduce to a normal standard; to calculate or adjust the strength of, by means of, and for uses in, analysis.""

Standardize

STANDARD an established measure of comparison

Persons opposed to change

STANDPAT resisting or opposing change

Pl. stapedectomies Surgical removal of the stapes.

Staphylinid

Starboard

Steadiness

Issue to be brought up on remarriage

Former union issue - awful pest, the guard found

Plural or third person singular

Virgin women (wordplay)

Stewardship

Stickhandle

STICKHANDLE

Stickhandle

The breeding and raising of livestock.

Barns and corrals (wordplay)

Annual meeting attendees

Merchandise owners on top of warehouses

Stodginess

Plural or third person singular

Unfeeling - like Olive (wordplay)

Devoid of feeling for others

Feeling callous? Then destroy a settlement

Storyboard

Upset due to threats, but resolute

Courageous, resolute

Courageous

STRAIGHT to make {straight=adj}

Hand tool used to draw lines (2 words)

Line-drawing tool

Tool for drawing a perfect line

Put in order

Way of presenting gender that is not kinky

STRANDED strand

Hulk Hogan's choker (wordplay)

Force that menaces freedom.

Complete power over a situation

""Having the circulation stopped by compression; attended with arrest or obstruction of circulation, caused by constriction or compression; as, a strangulated hernia. as, a strangulated hernia.""

Made more robust

Reinforced

""STRIDULATE To make a shrill, creaking noise""

The act of stridulating.

Stridulous; able to stridulate; used in stridulating; adapted for stridulation.

Stridulous

Stringhalt

Studentship

STUDIOUS given to study

In a marvelous way

Stupidness

Sturdiness

ARACHNOID Resembling a spider's web; cobweblike.

Subaudition

DEBUTANTE

Subdecision

Subdirector

Subdistrict

DIVIDABLE Capable of being divided; divisible.

Land parcels.

Subdominant

""EDITORIAL Of or pertaining to an editor; written or sanctioned by an editor; as, editorial labors; editorial remarks. as, editorial labors; editorial remarks.""

Situated immediately below the epidermis.

SUBINFEUD

IRRIGATED irrigate

OPTIMIZED optimize

ORDINATED ordinate

They could be under boss at head of institution

""SUBORDINATE Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position.""

SATURATED saturate

Companies controlled by a parent one

In a subsidiary manner; so as to assist.

""1. (Christianity / Roman Catholic Church) (in the Roman Catholic Church) a principle of social doctrine that all social bodies exist for the sake of the individual so that what individuals are able to do, society should not take over, and what small societies can do, larger societies should not take over""

""THRESHOLD The plank, stone, or piece of timber, which lies under a door, especially of a dwelling house, church, temple, or the like; the doorsill; hence, entrance; gate; door.""

URBANISED urbanise

URBANIZED urbanize

VOCALIZED vocalize

""Pertaining to, or acting as, a succedaneum; supplying the place of something else; being, or employed as, a substitute for another.""

Succedaneum

Suddenness

""Producing, or secreting, sweat; sudoriparous.""

""A sulfa drug, C 10 H 10 N 4 O 2 S, used in the treatment of toxoplasmosis and other infections.""

Sulfonamide

Superabound

Very quick, huge car sped round corner, finally

To offer no resistance is good behaviour

Demonstrate zero electrical resistance

Superharden

Placed on top

Set over? Fantastic, I'm ready for my close-up!

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

Superinduce

Has charge of.

Bosses supply new purse and means

Superpower

""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.""

Supersedure

Realm of A-list celebrity (wordplay)

Very great fame

Position of great fame

Supplement

(Going) unstumblingly

SURFBOARDER surfboard

Surfboard

The answer of a plaintiff to a defendant's rejoinder.

. . . on a battlefield

Climbing down to give up gin cocktail

... on a battlefield

High on drugs, ruins the environment

Badly ruins ground on small habitat

Environment

SWASHBUCKLE

English word

Switchback

Switchblade

The operator used them to rotate stage

Small and enchanting woman has meals for centres of communication

Move to another directorship where you can make connections

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

SYLLABICATE To form or divide into syllables; to syllabify.

Drenching my own missis, ridiculous sport

SYNCHRONIZE To agree in time; to be simultaneous.

Syndactyly

SYNDACTYL

Syndetical

Syndicalism

Syndicalist

Syndication

SYSTEMATISE

""SYSTEMATIZE To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas. as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas.""

A mild Socrates (anagram); priestcraft

Priestly devotion admits oracles must be reinterpreted

One with exaggerated respect for priests could become so strait-laced

Enjoyment of a painful relationship (wordplay)

Person in a painful relationship!

Painstaking (and giving) type might crack his cat as moods vary

SAILBOARDING sailboard

Plural or third person singular

Sandpainting

Destroyer of reputation

Purveyor of dirt about others

Person spreading malicious gossip

Guilty pleasure (wordplay)

Delight in another's misfortune

19 in another's 10

The stony corals; the Madreporaria.

Scratchboard

Scrimshander

The state of being secondary.

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

Deposit that's tied into means testing

Little woman in new maisonnette settling down

Process of depositing tainted monies corruptly

""The science that deals with the description, classification, and origin of sedimentary rock.""

Seditious

Alluring quality

Semiaridity

CIVILIZED civilize

No CID customer (anagram)

Rattle cut in half by silicon (wordplay)

Apprentice in an orchestra (wordplay)

Semidiameter

LEGENDARY Of or pertaining to a legend or to legends; consisting of legends; like a legend; fabulous.

""SEDENTARY Accustomed to sit much or long; as, a sedentary man. as, a sedentary man.""

Serendipity

Occurring by happy chance

Able to make lucky discoveries

Chance used to inspire anagrams

Pl. serodiagnoses (-s z) See immunodiagnosis .

Pl. serodiagnoses (-s z) See immunodiagnosis .

Serriedness

Sexdecillion

SEXTUPLICATE

Shadowiness

Sheepherding

She twice pressed around women like Chloe

Mary was one of them - she repeatedly pressed for change

Shipbuilding

Sporting attractions on cruise liners

Shuttlecock

Face getting divorced? Hilarious!

Very funny team breaking up

Extremely amusing team parting company

SIGMOIDOSCOPE

SKATEBOARDER skateboard

Activity enjoyed on the street

Pastime on wheels

Part of an active lifestyle, for some

Skulduggery

Slaveholding

They beat transport strikes

Heavy hitters

People pretending to hold large advantage as heavy hitters

Slenderness

Minor investors' allotments (wordplay)

Made sing behind tiny old fortress in little farms

SNOWBOARDING snowboard

Softhearted

Abstract noun (-ity)

As guilty woman dramatically did, walked out

Advanced cash? Deposit it, perhaps

Possessed of culture, refinement and 24

Ditches patois, turning suave

Preventing transmission of noise

That'll keep things quiet all over the house at last

""A southeastward direction, point, or region.""

Southernwood

""A southwestward direction, point, or region.""

In irregular bursts

In fits and starts

SPEEDBOATING speedboat

Spermatozoid

Spinsterhood

""SPIRITUALIZE To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize soul. as, to spiritualize soul.""

Magnificent, impressive

Rather wonderful

Brilliant spies flounder after ill-treatment

Plural or third person singular

Spondylitis

A. The act of spreading.

Squalidness

Standardbred

All the same, that's making it

""STANDARDIZE To reduce to a normal standard; to calculate or adjust the strength of, by means of, and for uses in, analysis.""

By way of being reserved

Standpattism

Firm unwavering quality

Stability of farm on wild headland

Resolute attitude

Solderer worked with metal forced through

Crushed or pushed through with overpowering force

Folly, in essence, with intricately remastered edging, overwhelmed

Stepdaughter

Stereograph

Production of steroids by living organisms.

Stickhandler

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

Stiltedness

They are paid to sit about and write records

Magistrates getting gratuity in money on the records

Stockbreeder