2-Letter Words Starting with S

Dazzling sign rehashed with lilac tint

Brilliant - dazzling

Brilliantly clever

Secretagogue

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

Segmentation

Earthquake measurer

Scientist whose work is on shaky ground (wordplay)

Of or pertaining to a seismograph; indicated by a seismograph.

Of or pertaining to seismology.

Certain earth scientists sit awkwardly in various slimes and goos

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

Selenologist

Semasiology

""EVERGREEN Remaining unwithered through the winter, or retaining unwithered leaves until the leaves of the next year are expanded, as pines cedars, hemlocks, and the like.""

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

""RELIGIOUS Of or pertaining to religion; concerned with religion; teaching, or setting forth, religion; set apart to religion; as, a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects, books, teachers, houses, wars. as, a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects, books, teachers, houses, wars.""

SEQUESTRATE To sequester.

Pl. serodiagnoses (-s z) See immunodiagnosis .

Pl. serodiagnoses (-s z) See immunodiagnosis .

Serological

Serpiginous

Some new retirees

People in their seventh decade

SHARECROP

Expert firing cheats, then laughing loudly

Irish instrument in ship mimicking owl could take the head off you from way out

Sheepherding

Fleece cutting

What a call from Bo Peep depends on (wordplay)

Australian sport

Shipbuilding

Shortchanger

Mean to be giving poor value

Cheating someone by not returning enough money

Brief film about execution for dishonest behaviour

Face getting divorced? Hilarious!

Very funny team breaking up

Extremely amusing team parting company

Sightless

Sightliness

SIGMOIDOSCOPE

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

Significance

In a significant manner.

Importance of indication providing one positive particle

Betokening or representing by an external sign.

Singularity

SINGULARIZE To make singular or single; to distinguish.

Activity enjoyed on the street

Pastime on wheels

Part of an active lifestyle, for some

SKELETONISE

""SKELETONIZE To prepare a skeleton of; also, to reduce, as a leaf, to its skeleton.""

Skulduggery

Slaveholding

They beat transport strikes

Heavy hitters

People pretending to hold large advantage as heavy hitters

Reducing air resistance

Drag reduction technique

Minor investors' allotments (wordplay)

Made sing behind tiny old fortress in little farms

Unprincipled politicians

SNOWBOARDING snowboard

Snowmobiling

(used with a sing. verb) The study of language and linguistic behavior as influenced by social and cultural factors.

SOLILOQUISE

SOLILOQUIZE To utter a soliloquy; to talk to one's self.

SOMATOLOGIC

Going head over heels

Wild geraniums lost, rolling on the ground

Songfulness

SONNETEERING sonneteer

Soteriology

Preventing transmission of noise

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

Sovereignty

Adjective meaning resembling

SPARKPLUG

Spectrograph

SPECTROGRAPH An apparatus for photographing or mapping a spectrum.

SPEEDBOATING speedboat

Caves

Speleologist

Formation and development of spermatozoa by meiosis and spermiogenesis.

Pl. spermatogonia (-n - ) Any of the cells of the gonads in male organisms that are the progenitors of spermatocytes.

Sphygmograph

Spiegeleisen

Sportfishing

Specialized reporting

Sprachgefuhl

Youthful agility

(Of an older person) energy, lively quality

Agility

Springiness

Staggerbush

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.""

Stegosaurus

They work for dictators

Working girls.

Stenography

Stepdaughter

Stepparent

Stereograph

""STEREOGRAPH Any picture, or pair of pictures, prepared for exhibition in the stereoscope. Stereographs are now commonly made by means of photography.""

The study of three-dimensional properties of objects or matter usually observed two-dimensionally.

English word

Production of steroids by living organisms.

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

Stigmasterol

""With a stigma, or mark of infamy or deformity.""

Stockbroking

Stockjobbing

Stonecutting

Storyboard

Storytelling

'97 Son Volt album about driving (wordplay)

Straightbred

Rulers

""STRAIGHTENER One who, or that which, straightens.""

De-kinking

Aligning

Done up in a prudish sort of way

Extremely proper

Puritanically corseted

Strangeness

They'll take your breath away

Throttling, twisting gag in last turn

The choking off of a flow

Choking from lungs' atria not working

Process of choking

According to plan

South pathetically clutching table's ends with finesse

""The study of rock strata, especially the distribution, deposition, and age of sedimentary rocks.""

""A prostitute, especially one who solicits in the streets.""

Energizing agents

That strengthens; giving or increasing strength.

Stringcourse

Stringiness

Stylography

Subcategory

CATEGORIZE To insert in a category or list; to class; to catalogue.

""COLLEGIATE Of or pertaining to a college; as, collegiate studies; a collegiate society. as, collegiate studies; a collegiate society.""

""GENERATION The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.""

""GOVERNMENT The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil, church, or family government. as, civil, church, or family government.""

IRRIGATING irrigate

""IRRIGATION The act or process of irrigating, or the state of being irrigated; especially, the operation of causing water to flow over lands, for nourishing plants.""

OPTIMIZING optimize

ORDINATING ordinate

Subparagraph

URBANISING urbanise

URBANIZING urbanize

VOCALIZING vocalize

Suffocating

Superagency

Shoppers with big tabs

Turbochargers' cousins

Turbochargers' mechanically-driven cousins

""SUPERCHARGE To charge (a bearing) upon another bearing; as, to supercharge a rose upon a fess. as, to supercharge a rose upon a fess.""

(used with a sing. or pl. verb) Brightly colored and simply designed graphic shapes of billboard proportions.

Types of rapid transit

""SUPERIMPOSE To lay or impose on something else; as, a stratum of earth superimposed on another stratum. as, a stratum of earth superimposed on another stratum.""

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

Piers Morgan: 'US run a highly organised community'

Adjective (-al)

""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.""

English word

Supersurgeon

Supplement

Surgeonfish

Full of bravado

Taking part in daring adventures

Describing heroes of costume novels.

Switchback

Switchgrass

SYLLABICATE To form or divide into syllables; to syllabify.

SYNCHRONISE

SYNCHRONIZE To agree in time; to be simultaneous.

SYNECOLOGIC

A chronic disease of the spinal cord characterized by the presence of fluid-filled cavities and leading to spasticity and sensory disturbances.

A chronic disease of the spinal cord characterized by the presence of fluid-filled cavities and leading to spasticity and sensory disturbances.

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.""

In a profane manner

Blasphemously

Salpiglossis

""A. The rescue of a ship, its crew, or its cargo from fire or shipwreck.""

Sanguineness

Sources of rumours corrupt Congressman is holding boy back

Scintigraphy

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

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

""SEGREGATION The act of segregating, or the state of being segregated; separation from others; a parting.""

SEISMOGRAPHER seismograph

Seismography

See semantics .

CONDUCTING conduct

Semiological

One aged 70 to 79

Disorder guarantees pain for elderly person

Being full of years guarantees pain unfortunately

Pl. serodiagnoses (-s z) See immunodiagnosis .

SERONEGATIVE

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

SEXTUPLICATE

Shadowgraphy

Sharpshooting

Sheepshearing

With limited vision, tragically, they'd shot girls

Shuttlecock

Signalization

Significancy

Signification

Silversmith

SKATEBOARDING skateboard

Skullduggery

Guess our health will suffer here!

'Shah's palace (wordplay)

Southern Comedy Store is a shambles

Slaughterous

Hit hard

Sluggardness

Sluggishness

Snaggletooth

Sociobiology

""The study of the biological determinants of social behavior, based on the theory that such behavior is often genetically transmitted and subject to evolutionary processes.""

Sociolinguist

Sociological

Involving social and religious factors.

SOMNAMBULATE To walk when <?/sleep.

Soothingness

""SOPHISTICATE To render worthless by admixture; to adulterate; to damage; to pervert; as, to sophisticate wine. as, to sophisticate wine.""

SOTERIOLOGIC

SPECTROGRAPH An apparatus for photographing or mapping a spectrum.

SPELLBINDING spellbind