2-Letter Words Starting with S

Marquis name (wordplay)

1985 Grammy winner (Best New Artist)

Nigerian-born pop singer

White, in chess, say

Start to kick (wordplay)

Onion rings, perhaps

Hebrew letter (same as tsadi)

th Hebrew letter

Hebrew letter same as tsadi

Swamp thing (wordplay)

Umbrella plant for one

Papyrus for one

Cool place perhaps

Cool place maybe

Cobalt blue, for one.

Approach (with "up to")

Act like a crab (wordplay)

Be crabby (wordplay)

Get home safely (wordplay)

Head for home (wordplay)

It's electric (wordplay)

Damning with faint praise, perhaps

Said with shade, say

Like a snicker perhaps

Device, in meteorology.

Balloon-carried probe

Meteorological testing device.

Gardening tool (maybe so called)

Groundbreaking invention (wordplay)

Black suit component (wordplay)

China from Stokeon-Trent

Fine-china name

Fine English porcelain

Geological time period

Old Greek measure of length

Geological period of time

Leather that swayed Elvis (wordplay)

Material for blue shoes (wordplay)

Leather that swayed Elvis?

Volvo factory worker, perhaps

Wilander, for one

Jenny Lind, for one

Back seat (wordplay)

Silver seat (wordplay)

Piece of Silver wear (wordplay)

Lute of India

Indian lute

Withdraw (from union)

Anti-unionist's stance (wordplay)

Formally withdraw (from federal union)

Do a number on, maybe (wordplay)

Make out (wordplay)

Give anesthesia to, say

V.I.P.'s church seat

Seat near altar for clergy.

Clergyman's seat

Get into bed, perhaps

Notice short fascist's allure

Play the temptress

Hammer attachment (wordplay)

Hammer found on the snow (wordplay)

Hammer head (wordplay)

New sea ice.

Duels fought about gallon of messy goo

Engine-additive target

Mascara mark, maybe

Blur or rubbed blot

Lipstick mark, e.g

Carbohydrate-rich food (informal)

Heavy food, say, Dorothy's sent back

Rubbery pudding (wordplay)

What some things are taken in (wordplay)

Walk in street / take bus (wordplay)

What some losses are taken in (wordplay)

Stretched one's legs (wordplay)

Took serious steps (wordplay)

Took major steps (wordplay)

Pin in a ring, perhaps

Pin in a ring, say

Moderate membership fee payable

Dessert order, perhaps

Weekend confection (wordplay)

Vermonster, for one

Quick rein pull

Quick pull on reins.

A violent check of the reins.

Fish (often tinned)

One in a tight spot (wordplay)

Packed lunch item (wordplay)

Old form of attack by climbing ladders

Coast excluding southeast (wordplay)

Holiday spot visited by Shute (wordplay)

Shore - disease (anagram)

Place in solitary

Shut off from view

Withdraw into solitude

Parrying position: Fencing.

Number 2 fencing position.

Fencing position

Execute a high jump (wordplay)

Make a dramatic exit (wordplay)

Jump from a plane

Skydive

Musician's mute

Turning-point (wordplay)

Revolutionary centre (wordplay)

Nip back in broken sled for a pin

Mark starts to save pounds on deposit

(odds on) Room for Mark

Spot, splash or smear

A foot of two long syllables

Two-syllable foot, in poetry

See about a mere foot

Support for a stack of hay

Straphanger, for one

Last-minute ticket acquirer, maybe

Opera lover, perhaps.

An anvil

A subdivision of a code

To take away

Sink warship north of port, perhaps

Drop reserve on team

Become less violent

Ruins of one's own interests

Othello's final curtain

Felo de se

Pyrite, for one

A corrosive salt

Chemical compound.

Wrap (a baby)

Bandage - wrap (baby) tightly

Wrap in a blankie

Cheat (out of money)

Diddle, sting, twist

The gas in Les is just a cheat

Like sand

Tot's play area

Where play's the thing

Construction site sight

Pencil in, perhaps (last 2 +...)

Some say 'Scrap Christmas programming'

Timetable (of events)

Floating airport.

Floating airport

Valium, for one

Downer's Home Counties case (wordplay)

Number perhaps deviates oddly

Able to seduce

Gardener's gateau (wordplay)

Crunchy bird food

Dessert with caraways

Pea pod, for one

Pea pod, for example

Carrier bag in which there may be peas

Like a seed

When oats are sown.

Spring, for example

When to sow

A compound of selenium

Differently finished edging of cloth

Side on woven fabric

Finished border on cloth

Curved roof of some churches

Feature of some apses

Not entirely in the buff

Clad like Venus de Milo

Wearing next to nothing

Fit to be faxed

Like e-mail attachments

Wooer's number (wordplay)

Play to the balcony (wordplay)

Play in attempt to win a hand (wordplay)

Able to be cast off

Transport left in port perhaps

Along the Plimsoil line.

Pier, during loading or unloading

A shrewd person

Border in the court (wordplay)

Understudies for the Rockettes?

Football field marking

Valuable iron ore

Valuable ore of iron

Valuable ore of iron.

As a crab darts.

To the left or right; we die, sis (anagram)

On the edge of being smart is lateral way

Stupid arrogance heard in compound

Like many porch doors

Like some doors

Made like trundle beds

""An emerald, also SMARAGD""

Translucent mineral resembling marble

Mineral in rock strangely isolated

Transparent mineral

A chemical compound

Lot, for example

""To engage in sodomy with, also SODOMISE""

Vacationer's quest, perhaps

Isolated state - slide out (anagram)

The absence of company

A device used to muffle the tone of a musical instrument

'She sits all night at cards, and ogles at -' (Goldsmith)

Move with legs spread out

Precipitate stock issue (wordplay)

Panicked rush (of cattle)

Steer out of control (wordplay)

Second mother, of old

Standard drink in ranch area (wordplay)

Cod steak (anagram)

Defensive or confining enclosure

Not pick sides (wordplay)

Favor both sides of (an issue)

Sit heartlessly on fence (wordplay)

A surface on which a pavement is placed

An oxide containing little oxygen

Chemical broken down by Sue, DPhil

Awning, for one

Parasol, for one

Tabloid's had European cover

Empty nest, for one

Broken heart, for one

"Empty nest," for one

The hard sound of S with S (wordplay)

The way one supports smooth rock!

Sound quality for George (wordplay)

Old-time Spanish dance.

Stately Spanish dance

Spanish dance variable

Know about Channel 4? It's tempting!

Like Salome

Charming Spanish golfer interrupted by Channel 1

That's legal slavery

State of slavery

I've rudest torment in slavery

Bird that female navigator found on lake

Duck captured by dissolute rakes

Diving duck with serrated bill

The area near the shore

Mistress, in slang

Disrespected mistress, in slang

The other woman, in somewhat objectifying slang

Dating app for adulterers (wordplay)

Facelift after cut and blow (wordplay)

Passing critical remark

Kelvin, journalist in charge? Run away!

Run off hurriedly (colloq.)

See instructions (nonverbal)

An avalanche of snow.

Capable of being sounded.

Like notes ready to be blown (wordplay)

Kind of income

Like money, there for using - hang staying in the black!

""A mineral of a white to yellowish, purplish, or emeraldgreen color, occuring in prismatic crystals, often of great size. It is a silicate of aluminia and lithia. See Hiddenite. Hiddenite.""

A substance used to kill spores.

Fire hose hookup

Temporary water outlet

Tall water tank

Team, say, leading in America

Hawaiian's destination, perhaps

Desist, Tea Party, in America!

Like many lotteries

Throughout one of the Forty-eight.

Across all counties

Allen's scale notes (wordplay)

He likes to put on a performance

Dock-worker loads and unloads ships

Like some sales

Word for some sales.

Kind of sale

Quality of being harsh or shrill.

Harsh quality

Shrillness

Stable father figure (wordplay)

Stallion, taking its head thus, rode off

Former Derby winner, often

Make pieces of pieces (wordplay)

Break into smaller units

Break into smaller sections

Support through grants

Pay a grant towards

Give a grant towards

Back with bucks

Any of various organic compounds that contain a sulfinyl group.

*Supplant

Take the place of, override

Take the place of, supplant

Succeed to the position of.

English word

Adjective meaning resembling

Group working to a common aim

Business group supplied by CIE dynast

Combine to make Disney cat twitchy

""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 .""

It's backing horse to muddle through most of the way

Bird soared and guns fired

Shock as canal sides crumble

Shock by impropriety

View Surrealist works by European producing shock

Shock.

Somewhat angelic

Adjective meaning resembling

A kind of meteorite. See under Meteorite. Meteorite.

Like a lady up but not over (wordplay)

One way to ride a horse.

Teams go off riding in unorthodox manner

Swimmer's skill.

Relative of the crawl

Style of swimming

Joint team coming second (wordplay)

Meat for Olympic runners-up (wordplay)

Joint Argentine XI

Nearly identical quality

Resemblance or semblance

Lack of distinction limited us, I recollected

Remove excess fat

Reduce in size

Final word of 1961: 'emerald-green'

Final word of 1961: "emerald-green"

""A green foliated kind of amphibole, observed in eclogite and some varietis of gabbro.""

Expressed concern about idiot's clue!

Concern of many in a lonely place

Care, concern

Musical impersonator at MoMA (wordplay)

What homonyms do

Reliable platform (wordplay)

Solid way to travel (wordplay)

TV shooting set.

Team swallowing one short, misguided empiric's contraceptive

Like a spider.

SPREAD to stretch over an area

Dregs in pit (anagram)

Skip and diet perhaps early in the year

It occurs at new and full moon

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

The land adjacent to a stream.

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

AUDIBLE able to be heard

Somewhat cordate; somewhat like a heart in shape.

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

See Peroxide. Peroxide.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

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

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

Old age.

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

Idea strand? (anagram)

Make uniform and a dress with it, possibly

'Get up, get up!', to welcome duke's regiment

Create norms for

Cause to conform to a norm

Make identical

To manoeuvre (the puck) deftly in ice hockey

In a lesser role.

Lower in rank

Of less importance

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

English word

Introduce in addition

Replacement

Flick knife (US)

West Side Story prop

West Side Story weapon

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

SEDIMENT to settle in the bottom of a liquid

Hand tool used to draw lines (2 words)

Line-drawing tool

Tool for drawing a perfect line

DEBUTANTE

DIVIDABLE Capable of being divided; divisible.

SUBINFEUD

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

Guilty pleasure (wordplay)

Delight in another's misfortune

19 in another's 10

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

""Tending to subordinate; expressing subordination; used to introduce a subordinate sentence; as, a subordinative conjunction. as, a subordinative conjunction.""

Wonder drug

SUPERORDINATE

""STADTHOLDER Formerly, the chief magistrate of the United Provinces of Holland; also, the governor or lieutenant governor of a province.""

More than needed.

Excess of cooking burned saucepan

Excess supply

Superconduct

""Of, relating to, or being a form of radio reception in which the frequency of an incoming radio signal is mixed with a locally generated signal and converted to an intermediate frequency in order to facilitate amplification and the rejection of unwanted signals.""

Management by overseeing

Overseeing

Management