2-Letter Words Starting with S

It glows at night in the city

It improves night vision

Nighttime illuminator

Makes more robust

Makes powerful.

Reinforces

Strictly, precisely

Stringhalt

Quality of being stringy.

""A long piece of timber, forming a margin or edge of any piece of construction; esp.:""

English word

Chests of a sort.

Places for valuables

Chests.

Keeps

Forts

STRUCTURE The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.

Stultify

In a stumbling manner.

A mode of writing or tracing lines by means of a style on cards or tablets.

Subagency

CATEGORY a division in any system of classification

Subceiling

Subclass

Plural or third person singular

DIVIDING separation

FREEZING the process of freezing

Subheading

IRRIGATE to water by canals or watercourses

""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.""

""The act of subjugating, or the state of being subjugated.""

Subjugator

Subkingdom

LANGUAGE to express in a body of words serving as communication

""SUBLIMATE To bring by heat into the state of vapor, which, on cooling, returns again to the solid state; as, to sublimate sulphur or camphor. as, to sublimate sulphur or camphor.""

Submanager

MARGINAL anything in or on a margin

""SUBMARINE Being, acting, or growing, under water in the sea; as, submarine navigators; submarine plants. as, submarine navigators; submarine plants.""

""The act of submerging, or the state of being submerged; submersion.""

That can be immersed in or can remain under water: a submergible electric frying pan; a submergible research vehicle.

Subpoena

Subprogram

REGIONAL something that serves as a region

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

The act of subrogating.

SAMPLING a small part selected for analysis

SCRIBING the act of scribing

Subsegment

SUBSIDISE

""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.""

Subterfuge

SUBTILIZE To make thin or fine; to make less gross or coarse.

Inflected form of TOTALING Inflected form of TOTAL to amount to

Deducting

""From Suffocate, v. Suffocate, v.""

Woman protesting for the right to vote

Campaigner for voting rights for women

HOWE (wordplay)

Voters' rights group of the early 20th century

Sweetened (as a pill)

Made easier to swallow

Made more palatable

Sugarhouse

Plural or third person singular

Its blue eggs (anagram) - easily influenced

Thinking outside the box may lead to these inside it!

Admitting defeat finally, so guessing cryptic clues

Proposals

SULFONATE

""SULFURET to treat with sulfur, also SULPHURET""

SULFURIZE

SUMMARISE

""SUMMARIZE To comprise in, or reduce to, a summary; to present briefly.""

Superadd

Pl. superagencies A large government agency composed of or coordinating a number of smaller agencies.

Superagent

English word

Supercargo

SUPERCEDE

Fill to excess at a splendid price!

Pep up, as an engine

Use a turbo

SUPEREGO a part of the psyche

Supergiant

Supergroup

English word

SUPERHYPE

English word

""SUPERPOSE To lay upon, as one kind of rock on another.""

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

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Physics A hypothetical particle consisting of a very short one-dimensional string existing in ten dimensions. It is the elementary particle in a theory of space-time incorporating supersymmetry.

English word

SUPERVENE To come as something additional or extraneous; to occur with reference or relation to something else; to happen upon or after something else; to be added; to take place; to happen.

Directing (workers)

Supplant

Banning (from publication)

Subduing

""SUPPURATE To generate pus; as, a boil or abscess suppurates. as, a boil or abscess suppurates.""

Adding an extra fee to

Oceanic operator (wordplay)

It has knifelike spines on its tail

It has scalpellike spines on its tail

Overcoming (obstacle)

Overcoming

Surplusage

Surprint

Surrogacy

SURROGATE A deputy; a delegate; a substitute.

Ruins ground thrown all about

Encircling

Surveil

Sweetening

Spirited; up-to-date.

""A whiffletree, or whippletree. See Singletree. Singletree.""

A panic grass (Panicum virgatum) native to North America and used as rangeland forage and hay.

Logically drawing a conclusion from premises

SYLLOGIZE To reason by means of syllogisms.

SYMBOLISE

SYMBOLIZE To have a resemblance of qualities or properties; to correspond; to harmonize.

Symbology

""SYNCOPATE To contract, as a word, by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; as, "Gloster" is a syncopated form of "Gloucester." as, "Gloster" is a syncopated form of "Gloucester."""

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

Cooperative, in a way

Working together to greater effect

SYNOPSIZE

SYNTAGMA a syntactic element

SYSTEMIZE To reduce to system; to systematize.

Profaning holy things

Sinful, naughty girls use 'Ciao'

Profane

Succumbing to pressure after secure, criminal occupation

Protecting

Safekeeping

Sea action in which Garibaldi and son may be involved

Sailboating

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any solanaceous plant of the Chilean genus Salpiglossis, some species of which are cultivated for their bright funnel-shaped flowers [New Latin, from Greek salpinx trumpet + glōssa tongue]""

Process for cleaning or engraving

Pueblo Indian art

Native American art

Making smooth

Sanguinaria

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

Tin containing a beer full of energy and cheer

Of sound mind, ultimately buffered by stout optimism

Sanguinity

Feeding on carrion.

So as to satisfy; satisfactorily.

Savageness

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.""

Scapegoat

""SCAPEGOAT A goat upon whose head were symbolically placed the sins of the people, after which he was suffered to escape into the wilderness.""

People who cause fear or fright

Alarmists seeing Germans score in a frenzy

Scarifying

Preoccupied with excrement

Scattergood

Scattergram

In a scattering manner; dispersedly.

""The art of representing objects in perspective, especially as applied in the design and painting of theatrical scenery.""

""Of, relating to, or characteristic of scenography: "Contemporary design has a strongly scenographic appeal, as if modern rooms were meant to be stage sets" (Los Angeles Times).""

SCHEMATIZE To form a scheme or schemes.

Schizogony

""Reproduction by multiple asexual fission, characteristic of many sporozoans.""

Schnorkel

A device for producing a scintigram; a scintiscanner.

Scrimshaw

SCRUTINISE

""SCRUTINIZE To examine closely; to inspect or observe with critical attention; to regard narrowly; as, to scrutinize the measures of administration; to scrutinize the conduct or motives of individuals. as, to scrutinize the measures of administration; to scrutinize the conduct or motives of individuals.""

Scuppernong

Sweeping beams

The rich glass contrived for high-powered lamps

A hormone or another agent that causes or stimulates secretion.

SECULARISE

""SECULARIZE To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to secularize a priest or a monk. as, to secularize a priest or a monk.""

SECURITIZE

Division into parts

Segregation

Seigniorage

They record earth-shaking events

""A writing about, or a description of, earthquakes.""

Seismology

An expert at assessing faults (wordplay)

One who studies earthquakes

Earthquake scientist

Selaginella

Selenology

""Astronomy the branch of astronomy that studies the physical characteristics of the moon. ; selenologist , ; selenological ,""

Semeiology

Semideify

""Same as Semeiography, Semeiology, Semeiological.Semeiography, Semeiology, Semeiological.""

Semiologist

""SENSUALIZE To make sensual; to subject to the love of sensual pleasure; to debase by carnal gratifications; to carnalize; as, sensualized by pleasure. as, sensualized by pleasure.""

Sentinel

Sepulcher

Confiscating band of gold after search in bishop's domain

SERIGRAPHER serigraph

Serigraphy

(In blood test) showing no virus present

""Activated by or capable of liberating serotonin, especially in transmitting nerve impulses: serotonergic neurons; serotonergic drugs.""

Person in seventh decade

Person in their sixties

Arrived between 1943-1952 for one from the sixties

Sexagesimal

How Hank Marvin etc warmed up (wordplay)

Sparring with oneself (wordplay)

Sparring with an imaginary opponent

Shadowgraph

SHADOWGRAPH

Shagginess

Shattering

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

Shellacking

Shergottite

Type of construction at, eg, Govan, Barrow

Crew's excited, gathering in monarch's smashing boat

Cheated (by cashier?)

Done - with spirit transformed!

Didn't get full return for your money

SHORTCHANGE

Does alteration in pants

Defects (eg of character)

Defects turning up in trousers

Limitations of concise US poet, it's said

Shortcut

Heedless of the future.

Like the grasshopper of fable

Limited in one's outlook

Informal A performance or performer that evokes so much applause from the audience that the show is temporarily interrupted.

Sideslip

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

Importance; meaning

Importance, meaning

Notice I intended to limit chapter's importance

The quality or state of being significant.

""SILHOUETTE A representation of the outlines of an object filled in with a black color; a profile portrait in black, such as a shadow appears to be.""

Simulcast

Singleness