2-Letter Words Starting with S

""SENSITIZE To render sensitive, or susceptible of being easily acted on by the actinic rays of the sun; as, sensitized paper or plate. as, sensitized paper or plate.""

SENTINEL to stand guard

""SEPULCHRE The place in which the dead body of a human being is interred, or a place set apart for that purpose; a grave; a tomb.""

Sergeancy

Sergeanty

SERIALISE

SERIALIZE

Serigraph

Preaching the Word

SEROLOGIC

Serologist

Creeping; said of lesions which heal over one portion while continuing to advance at another.

""Pertaining to, or founded on, the number sixty.""

Sexologist

SEXUALIZE To attribute sex to.

An image produced by casting a shadow on a screen.

Shaggymane

Shandygaff

Shanghaier

Shanghai

Decisive defeat

Pasting

Mischief; dishonest activity

Mischief Colloq.

MONKEY business

Shepherd

English word

""Pl. shigelloses (-s z) Dysentery caused by any of various species of shigellae, occurring most frequently in areas where poor sanitation and malnutrition are prevalent and commonly affecting children and infants.""

""Pl. shigelloses (-s z) Dysentery caused by any of various species of shigellae, occurring most frequently in areas where poor sanitation and malnutrition are prevalent and commonly affecting children and infants.""

Clubs in Dublin

Irish clubs

Cudgels

Shipwright

Shivaree

Cramming

Small sums of money.

They get laced

Footwear laces

In-store stocktaking (wordplay)

Stealing from a store

Stealing from stores

Give poor value

Cheat by returning insufficient money

Give insufficient recompense

Character flaw, say

Defect in aspirin (wordplay)

A fault not long showing up

Shortening

Shotgunner

Shotgun

Assuming sweetheart ought to call round

Showboat

Wrinkling and contracting

Shunpiking

Amateur photographers

Camera enthusiasts

Photogs

Sialagogue

Sickening

Driving recklessly, in a way

Sightless

The state of being sightly; comeliness; conspicuousness.

Vacation-travel occupation

Playing the tourist

Sometime diplomatic activity.

In a sigmoidal manner.

SIGNALISE

SIGNALIZE To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish.

Signalment

Mostly communicate to Conservative witnesses

Indicative of something

Important enough to merit attention

Having meaning

Signifying

Signpost

Silicify

Simplify

""In England and Scotland, a cudgel used in fencing or fighting; a backsword.""

Lonesome pines

Uniqueness

To make singular or single; to distinguish.

Relating to the Chinese language or literature.

Sinologist

Making tracks

Clearing out desk when sacked, then going off

Skibobbing

Breaking out into fights

Scrapping briefly, risk rough Russian fighter holding part of leg

Villain's occupation.

John Silver's forte

Underhand trickery

Skyjacking

Skywriting

Killed

One who slaughters.

Insulting and devious, to grab lamps so

Slipform

Sloganeer

SLOGANIZE

Meat stew

Hobo stew

Stew

Smaragdite

Smattering

Smoothen

Choice meal (wordplay)

Swedish-style hors d'oeuvres

Scandinavian-style buffet

Slowly burning

Having repressed emotions? That gives Sigmund role for sorting out

Testy bloomers (wordplay)

Testy garden flowers (wordplay)

What a monstrous photographer can do

Increasing, as world population

Increasing rapidly

Protest activity for ANWR drilling proponents against EPA officials (wordplay)

Snowplow

Snowshoe

SOCIALISE

SOCIALIZE To render social.

English word

Sociology

Studier of human communities

Knockout blow: Slang

Knockout blow Slang.

Slang A conclusive blow or remark.

Sogginess

Soldiering

""SOLEMNIZE To perform with solemn or ritual ceremonies, or according to legal forms.""

Solidify

""SOMERSET to somersault, to roll the body in a circle, head over heels""

SONGFUL melodious

Berlin and others

Theme of this puzzle

Bruce Springsteen and Chuck Berry, e.g

""One who writes lyrics or tunes, or both, for songs. Also called songsmith , songster .""

Job for an oracle

""A discourse on health, or the science of promoting and preserving health.""

Soundstage

How independent nations function

Governs, yet somehow holds one dominion

It's signified by a crown

Pre-eminence

SOVIETIZE

Walk by fellow in subtle NASA mission (wordplay)

Pasta in long fine strands.

Spancel

Heavenly photo

""SPECULATE To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize; as, to speculate on questions in religion; to speculate on political events. as, to speculate on questions in religion; to speculate on political events.""

Spelunking

Pl. spermagonia also spermogonia (-n - ) A cup-shaped cavity or receptacle in which the spermatia of certain lichens and fungi are produced.

""A basic, long-chain, unsaturated amino alcohol, C 18 H 37 NO 2 , found combined with lipids in the brain and in nerve tissue.""

Spittlebug

Splatter

When breaking up, maybe slept in before call

Fragmenting

Spitting explosively

Spongeware

Production or formation of spores.

Sporogony

""Pl -nia [-nɪə] (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) the sporophyte of mosses and liverworts, consisting of a spore-bearing capsule on a short stalk that arises from the parent plant (the gametophyte) sporogonial   adj STADIOMETER (Mathematics & Measurements / Surveying) an instrument that measures the length of curves, dashes, etc., by running a toothed wheel along them [from stadio- , from stadium + -meter ]""

SPORULATE

With all eyes watching

More animated.

Southern prude, dictatorial type, demoting one relatively active

Perils at sea crossing starboard make you more nimble

Flexible point of departure (wordplay)

Jumping-off place (wordplay)

If you're here, you'll take a dive

Springhead

A small storehouse constructed over a spring and used to keep food cool.

Light, bouncy feeling

Springtail

The high seas

Periods of seedings and plantings

Vernal occasions

Clear quaff

Cooler drink

Perrier product

Springwood

Sprinkling

Spurgall

Squadron

Wasting recklessly

Squatter

Squeegee

Squiggly

Squilgee

Squinting

SQUIRREL to store up for future use

STABILIZE

Stablish

Stagecraft

Longing to take part (wordplay)

Obsessed with the theater

Longing to act when lorry hounds coaches

Worrisome economic period

Bad economic situation

Challenge for economists

""An American shrub (Andromeda Mariana) having clusters of nodding white flowers. It grows in low, sandy places, and is said to poison lambs and calves. Andromeda Mariana) having clusters of nodding white flowers. It grows in low, sandy places, and is said to poison lambs and calves.""

Staginess

Stagnancy

Stagnation

Nuisance at a POW camp (wordplay)

Uppers (wordplay)

Features of some caves

""STALAGMITE A deposit more or less resembling an inverted stalactite, formed by calcareous water dropping on the floors of caverns; hence, a similar deposit of other material.""

STALEMATE The position of the king when he can not move without being placed on check and there is no other piece which can be moved.

Stargazing

In a startling manner.

Starveling

""Body, Human""

""Body, Human""

Present participle or gerund

Pilot's concern

Sort of dinosaur

Dinosaur with bony plates along the back

Godzilla, in part

Stellify

Art form

Tool for the working girl.

Secretary's forte

Shorthand writing

STENOTYPE

3-D pictures.

A flat representation of a 3-D original

Three-D picture

3-D picture.

""STERILIZE To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility.""

STEVEDORE One whose occupation is to load and unload vessels in port; one who stows a cargo in a hold.

Sticktight

Stigmatist

""STIGMATIZE To mark with a stigma, or brand; as, the ancients stigmatized their slaves and soldiers. as, the ancients stigmatized their slaves and soldiers.""

Puts a bad rap on

Stiletto

Inspiring new enthusiasm

Animating, exciting

Imitative behaviour, over time, likely to provoke reaction

""STIPULATE Furnished with stipules; as, a stipulate leaf. as, a stipulate leaf.""

Storing up

Retailer's task - shoplifting (wordplay)

Evaluation of unsold goods

Straggly

Makes correct

Taking a night's rest diminishes wrinkles!

Sniper originally hits target, sprawling, most horizontal

Straight

STRAIGHT to make {straight=adj}

Immediately using normal system

Straiten

One of the six quark flavours

The oddity of Essen's grant application

Quark flavour; odd state

Stranger

Constrict blood flow to (a part)

Compress so as to stop circulation

Block the blood flow to (a part of the body)

Strangury

Foot-weary citizen.

Type of passenger.

Subway rider without a seat

STRATEGIC

Strategist

STRATEGIZE

Strategize

Forming layers

Stravaig