2-Letter Words Starting with S

Stringy

Stringing

Lingo almost unrecognisable in accent, unable to tie anything up (wordplay)

Youths multiplying within seconds

Fish cut into narrow pieces for youngsters

Heather undresses without seeing the youths

Keep firm grip

Defensive position taken by a wrestler

Fastness of dogs left North exhausted

Strongyle

Strouding

Struggler

Fighting

With knockout effect

Stupefy

S-speaking, tense inside (wordplay)

Talking, by the way, of bumbling!

Speaking with initial difficulty

AVERAGE to calculate the arithmetical mean value of

CEILING the overhead lining of a room

COLLEGE a school of higher learning

Subcool

Subduct

Working on newspaper and fitting sleep in

Suberise

Suberize

Subgenus

""Pertaining or belonging to the under side of a glacier; being beneath a glacier; as, subglacial streams. as, subglacial streams.""

Sonar datum (wordplay)

Subject

Subjoin

""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.""

Subjugate

One who subjugates; a conqueror.

""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.""

Sublease

Sublet

""Situated under the tongue; as, the sublingual gland. as, the sublingual gland.""

Deputy grabbed by Tuareg, an ambush backfired

Submerge

Submerse

Submit

Subpena

PROGRAM to arrange in a plan of proceedings

Subregion

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

Subrogate

SEGMENT to divide into sections

Subserve

Subsist

Subsoil

Subtend

Cunning plan(s)

Deception begs future involvement

Strategic trickery

Subtitle

Undermining

Overthrowing

Winning, or following (wordplay)

Succour

Succumb

Succuss

Suction

Ordeals of following lines in petition on phones

Sufflate

Suffragan

Woodhull or Pankhurst

Woman who wanted say, stiff sugar confection

See hackberry .

Sugarcane

Attire for candy makers (wordplay)

Seemingly makes more pleasant

Hides the unpleasantness of

A building in which sugar is made or refined; a sugar manufactory.

Images in a Clement Moore poem

Yuletide visions, a la Moore

S&P stock for kids on Christmas Eve (wordplay)

Suggester

Alluding to

Receptacle seen outside of HR offices

Guessing to uncover clue

Idea put forward for consideration

Tending to imply

Implying something rude

hinting at something indecent

Sulphate

Sulphur

Lasting three hot months

Summons

Cruise activity by the pool

Soaking up some rays

Using dishwashing liquid in the shower (wordplay)

Sunburn

Wildebeest put up with girls in shades!

They reduce glare

Aids to anonymity for celebrated girls

English word

Shipload of gold ingots (wordplay)

Shipload of gold ingots?

Procure gas at sea for crew member

Supergene

Very large star

Betelgeuse, for example

Heavenly monster

Superglue

Asia, for example

English word

English word

Present participle or gerund

English word

Supinate

Fair as player, holding up pro

and 26: Those apart from leads trip up with songs and act poorly

Surcease

""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.""

Surcharge

Surcingle

Surfacing

Surfeit

By means of surgery.

Being better than

""Surplus; excess; overplus; as, surplusage of grain or goods beyond what is wanted. as, surplusage of grain or goods beyond what is wanted.""

Mildly astonishing

Causing astonishment

Small rebellion keeps Republican staggering

Surprize

SURROGATE A deputy; a delegate; a substitute.

Surrogate

Surveying

Believing guilty without proof

Narrow passage of water

Confused puss dying by being hanged, perhaps

Swinging time for shaggy cat before closing

Putting off carrying out capital punishment

Continuing pollution includes America

Dyer's work around America is holding up

Strengthening, supporting

Swaggerer

Devil-MAY-care

Confident pipe will go round dog's tail (wordplay)

Walking arrogantly

To chant about glory is believing

Consent to hang about drinking

Gulping down

Wholesale or singly stocking pipe

One by one is full of blubber without exception

Adding sugar to

Give voice about small number adding sugar

Make less painful in Government by sugar-coating

Sing mass being imprisoned, very hot

Carol holds mixed-up mass for baking

Carol carries jumble and gets direly hot

Doing so well in water

With great ease

How Mark Spitz gets along

SWINGING the practise of swapping sex partners

SWIRLING swirl

SWISHING the act of swishing

Swither

A change of direction in this suggests one is blubbering doing this in the chair

SWOONING the act of swooning

Syllable

Examples of deductive reasoning

Syllogist

SYLLOGIZE To reason by means of syllogisms.

Syllogize

Symbol

Places of worship.

The study of the ecological interrelationships among communities of organisms.

Working together

Cooperative.

Synergism

Synergist

Syntagma

Killing an offering to a deity

Ritually slaughtering

Bunting.

Protected

Protection from harm

Protection.

Protection

With good judgment

In a shrewd manner

Woody plants that herb likes (wordplay)

Paige tangles the hair while ...

Paige tangles the hair while...

SAILBOAT a boat with sails

SAILPLANE

Salmagundi

Plural or third person singular

Inflammation of the salpinx.

Like some sunken ships

Sanctify

Making binding

Kin of slowplayers*

Ambushers

Part of being a pool shark

Sanderling

Sandglass

Birds found in semideserts

Pigeonlike birds

Sandwich

""A tube of vitrified sand, produced by a stroke of lightning; a fulgurite""

Abounding with blood; sanguine.

Saponify

Stone coffin with carvings

Sculpted coffin

Pyramid box

Satyagraha

Scabbard

Metal framework used when 4 down

Temporary structure for building workers

Tubular structure erected round building

Scandal

Put the blame on

Rapscallions.

Rascals

An alarming person

One spreading worrying rumours

Spreader of frightening rumours

Scatology

One who wastes; a spendthrift.

English word

Scattergun

Things dispersed haphazardly

""The art or act of representing a body on a perspective plane; also, a representation or description of a body, in all its dimensions, as it appears to the eye.""

Adjective (-ic)

Some Little Women taught at St Trinian's

SCIENTIZE

Scorching

Scouther

Scraggly

Screaming

Scrimmager

""SCRIMMAGE Formerly, a skirmish; now, a general row or confused fight or struggle.""

Scrootch

Scroungy

SCRUMMAGE See Scrimmage. Scrimmage.

""SCULPTURE The art of carving, cutting, or hewing wood, stone, metal, etc., into statues, ornaments, etc., or into figures, as of men, or other things; hence, the art of producing figures and groups, whether in plastic or hard materials.""

""An American grape, a form of Vitis vulpina, found in the Southern Atlantic States, and often cultivated. Vitis vulpina, found in the Southern Atlantic States, and often cultivated.""

Seaborgium

Racy English drunk, looking here, there and everywhere (wordplay)

20th Century Fox picture (wordplay)

It illuminates land under damaged arches

*'Slumdog Millionaire' studio [37]

Sediment

Segmental

SEGREGATE Separate; select.

Apartheid, say, upset Saint George

Saint George's unexpected detachment

A keeping apart

SEGREGATE Separate; select.

Seguidilla

Of or pertaining to the lord of a manor; manorial.

Seigneurie

""Something claimed or taken by virtue of sovereign prerogative; specifically, a charge or toll deducted from bullion brought to a mint to be coined; the difference between the cost of a mass of bullion and the value as money of the pieces coined from it.""

Seigniory

Seignorage

Seismogram

Earthquake measuring instrument

Instrument for registering earthquakes

Instrument registering earthquakes

""A genus of cryptogamous plants resembling Lycopodia, but producing two kinds of spores; also, any plant of this genus. Many species are cultivated in conservatories.""

""SEMAPHORE A signal telegraph; an apparatus for giving signals by the disposition of lanterns, flags, oscillating arms, etc.""

The science of meanings or sense development (of words); the explanation of the development and changes of the meanings of words; -- more commonly referred to as semantics.semantics.

Semiology

Student of signs/symbols

SENSITISE