2-Letter Words Starting with S

Herb for the discerning (wordplay)

Smart one in the spice rack (wordplay)

Nestor for one

Military address (wordplay)

Base person (wordplay)

One who knows the drill (wordplay)

Swamp thing (wordplay)

Umbrella plant for one

Papyrus for one

Speaking of which ..., for one

Anyhoo... or "As I was saying..."

Anyhoo or As I was saying

Stuff for sweep, say (wordplay)

Suit-able material (wordplay)

Material increase, say

Attack on a fort, maybe

Bruce Willis film (with "The")

Assault on Troy, for one

Take a little hair off maybe

Remove feathers, maybe

Take a little hair off, maybe

Actor's walk-on (wordplay)

Show place (wordplay)

Way out West (wordplay)

Swell material, we hear!

Rogues lose nothing? Swell!

Powerful rush (of emotion)

Metal-shaping tool

Metal shaping tool

Tool for shaping metal

Uncivilised football pundit (wordplay)

Fred of "The Princess Bride"

Doc of 30's pulps

Bad-smelling flower (wordplay)

Date breaks up over comedian, a stinker!

Waste comic picture frames (wordplay)

John Hancock, for one

John Hancock, in a notable role

Dotted line user

It's stored on a farm

I fall behind in Kent getting fodder

Partially fermented fodder

No return for one (wordplay)

Down a man, perhaps (wordplay)

Like a lonely bar maid, maybe (wordplay)

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

Medieval land tenure

Medieval land tenure.

Land tenure in old England.

Elegantly maintained or designed

Polished and well-groomed

Carefully groomed Fr.

Splash or sprinkle (anagram of GRAPES)

Bespatter

Sprinkle.

Live rent-free, say

Parasitic sort of 11 (wordplay)

Absorbing subject (wordplay)

Poinsettia, for one

Two eggs overlapping in plant (wordplay)

Plant in soil initially clean

Carbohydrate-rich food (informal)

Heavy food, say, Dorothy's sent back

Rubbery pudding (wordplay)

Cheap source of ash (wordplay)

Cheap cigar (Var.)

Cheap lighting option (wordplay)

Curly for one

Moe, for one

Fine character (wordplay)

How we sing to beat in an old-fashioned way

Hammer

Rescue (and recycle?)

Rescue (lost cargo)

Recover (cargo from wreck)

E.g. boerewors (wordplay)

Link in the food chain (wordplay)

Salami, for one

Allowance for shrinkage, in measuring

Deduction for shrinking

Tare weight's cousin

Attila, to God (wordplay)

A plague of scorpions (wordplay)

What a pest to be so firm in the swell!

Man who saw the Christmas light

One who's grouchy and miserly

One mean with money

To {crowd=v}

A tax exacted in lieu of military service

Leak from diocesan attendant (wordplay)

It's leaked out

Leak? Refer to hotel employee

Woven cloth edge

Fabric's edge.

Woven edge of material.

Condition of servitude

Servitude.

Helotry

Coarse gravel (on beach)

Hairstyle for the beach (wordplay)

Short cut from the beach (wordplay)

In the shape of a letter S or its Greek equivalent

Billboards, posters and placards

Political placards in your yard, e.g

Informative notices in general

One gentleman of Verona (wordplay)

Italian title of respect

Miss married to small man from Italy

Depression

Submergence

Depression.

Shirk duties (wordplay)

Run without being noticed (wordplay)

Avoid established customs (wordplay)

Go for eels

Fish for eels.

Fish for eels

Get close and cozy

Curl up comfortably

Settle into warm position

Sopped-up liquid

Absorbed liquid

Saturation process

""A form of feudal land tenure, also SOCAGE""

Seeing blurrily, keeping nothing neat

Elegant French female

Polished and well-groomed, as a lady

Green crops for fodder.

Grassy feed for cattle

Some fabrics resist it

'Do re mi' exercise

Do re mi exercise

Singing exercise

Adorn with sequins, say

Bedeck with small stars

Tiny, shiny disk

Leafy vegetable variable

Mark starts to save pounds on deposit

(odds on) Room for Mark

Spot, splash or smear

Spend, spend, spend!

Blow the budget

Shoot the works

Noose to catch an animal.

A gin to catch small game

Snare for small game

A {colt=n}

Cloud coverage (wordplay)

Basement's purpose, maybe

Boxing outcome (wordplay)

Price paid for storing goods

Cargo area on board

Direction to carry on packing

Set out and called in - odd!

Road rage grips Pole? That's awkward!

Road rage grips Pole? That's unusual!

Waste matter

Flax implement

Clean out (ears)

Drawer at a doctor's office (wordplay)

Shot glass (wordplay)

"Mission: Impossible" assignment, maybe

Mission: Impossible assignment, maybe

Spy assignment, maybe

Theodore Roosevelt's home (with "Hill")

Samoset was one.

Sachem's aide.

Done in whose favor salvage has been effected

Iced, spiced wine drink

Wine-and-nutmeg drink

1953 3-D film starring Fernando Lamas

Ruddy confident (wordplay)

Confidently optimistic and cheerful

Ruddy or confident

Take part in a hunt, perhaps

Hunt for food, perhaps

Search small grotto and say name echoing

Dumpster-dive, say

Forage for food, say

Obtain by begging

Differently finished edging of cloth

Side on woven fabric

Finished border on cloth

It's wasteful to Ed Norton (wordplay)

Provision of drainage

Ed Norton's field of work

Her goats (anagram)

Horse tag (anagram)

Need little time (wordplay)

Resembling a sigh

Tour in a double-decker bus, perhaps

Go touring, maybe

Visit interesting places

Without too many high notes (wordplay)

Like a simple tune? Wrong actor

Fit for the choir

Lag pipes (anagram)

Lag in production.

Failure to meet target

Wild form of celery

Finding wild celery takes little time

Wild celery is produced in little time

""An emerald, also SMARAGD""

Resembling a snag

Melodious piece of English used in Peterborough, formerly

Ariose

Medicine taken by wise man with slops

Loss of output gets head of section sack

Result of a kitchen accident

Waste damaged material

Process of going bad

Process of decay, especially fruit

Film attacker (wordplay)

Rubber-edged tool for cleaning windows

Windshield cleaner's tool

Line drawn that curls and loops

Tilde, for example

Curly looping line

""To wipe with a type of mop, also SQUEEGEE""

Do nothing, say, about a gun unloaded

Become inactive (and malodorous)

Do nothing, say, to protect a good name

Daydream on the red carpet (wordplay)

Wander around Hollywood, maybe

Use a telescope, maybe

{theft=n}

How old a bovine is (wordplay)

How old and stern the beast is on board!

Low class (wordplay)

Prevent attendant going on strike

Sit-down, for example

Cessation of activity

Wander off course

String out new alerts about horse

Wander from line of march.

Suppress (an impulse)

Stifle learner in alien environment

Suppress line in novel

""To stroll, also STRAVAIG""

Marked with grooves

Covered with bristles

Not 2, no (wordplay)

Jockey and horse perhaps in fixed result

Labour contest (wordplay)

Uncut marketable timber

Literary style within a larger category

Space opera, for example

Division of a style of art or literature

A surface on which a pavement is placed

Follow Nemo, perhaps

Dive like a U-boat

Go down under and integrate

A part of a microscope for supporting accessories

College friend of Lucy Snowe

Right to vote in political elections

The right to vote, as won by women

Theft from a temple, say

Misuse of something sacred

Violation of a holy thing

Shaped like an arrowhead

Strawberry geranium, for one

Rosette-shaped flower

Plant such as London pride

Noun (-age)

Disorderly struggle (on sports field)

Game that's just for practice

Noisy brawl or struggle

Forwards get packing!

Brawl (at rugby union)

Formation that often collapses

Easter-egg (anagram)

Separate by race or religion

Part is for Easter egg production

Shigella

Former Japanese government

Process of becoming less

A gherkin's pickled, getting smaller

Asking her out is withering experience

Mark, notably a single, is desperate

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

Is over Midge Ure's autograph!

Button Gwinnett's claim to fame.

Is over Midge Ure's autograph

""Pl. signorine (-n , -n ) or signorinas Used as a courtesy title for an unmarried woman in an Italian-speaking area, equivalent to Miss.""

He knows China

Shoptalk, for example

Hybrid term for colorful vocabulary

Colorful vocabulary

SLOGAN a motto adopted by a group

Divination by drawing lots

Fortune-telling

Divine drawing of lots of egrets smeared with oil

STAGE to produce for public viewing

Adjective meaning resembling

Ray having a whiplike tail.

Whip-tailed ray.

Fish with whiplike tail.

Parasitic threadworm

Bring under the yoke.

Two vessels put away for master

Bring under domination

To put in the place of another; to substitute.

Plantation crop (2 words)

Grass suing when not in on secret

Source of a valuable commodity.

A group of closely linked genes occupying a large chromosomal segment and frequently functioning as a genetic unit.

Setter of the highest quality (wordplay)

What never lets go (wordplay)

Result of trying to invent a gun sight

Extra payment daily in boom

Extra payment for toast in Rush

Extra fee, as for a special service

Belt proclaiming a Knight Bachelor

Saddle girth.

Strap for holding saddle on animal's back

Substitute grouse with rat in a stew

One acting for another

Replacement rug a store ordered

To reason by means of syllogisms.

A guy's gone off to house of worship

House of the Lord

Place of worship

Bird soared and guns fired

Lawyer finds a way to fix Irish rascal

Good-for-nothing

Black sheep.

""Revenue or a profit taken from the minting of coins, usually the difference between the value of the bullion used and the face value of the coin.""

An edible inky cap mushroom (Coprinus comatus) having shaggy scales covering the cap. Also called shaggy cap .

A drug or other agent that increases the flow of saliva.

Bar to which traces are fastened.

Bar on a wagon

Lone family chart found with harness

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.""

Reliable platform (wordplay)

Solid way to travel (wordplay)

TV shooting set.

English word

Like some February days

Vernal

Dregs in pit (anagram)

Skip and diet perhaps early in the year

It occurs at new and full moon

Season well with herb, say

The highlight of a leap year (wordplay)

Name invoking fascism

Gray trout

A prison-camp child that is growing up!

A certain point underground (wordplay)

Cave floor growth

Brand negatively

Malign

STRATEGIZE

AVERAGE to calculate the arithmetical mean value of

COLLEGE a school of higher learning

Cunning plan(s)

Deception begs future involvement

Strategic trickery

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

Tending to imply

Implying something rude

hinting at something indecent

English word

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

Like some sunken ships

SEGREGATE Separate; select.

""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.""

English word

Give poor value

Cheat by returning insufficient money

Give insufficient recompense

To make singular or single; to distinguish.

English word

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

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

Constrict blood flow to (a part)

Compress so as to stop circulation

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

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

IRRIGATE to water by canals or watercourses

LANGUAGE to express in a body of words serving as communication

""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.

Woman protesting for the right to vote

Campaigner for voting rights for women

HOWE (wordplay)

Its blue eggs (anagram) - easily influenced

Fill to excess at a splendid price!

Pep up, as an engine

Use a turbo

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

A hormone or another agent that causes or stimulates secretion.

(In blood test) showing no virus present

Importance; meaning

Importance, meaning

Notice I intended to limit chapter's importance

Hand tool used to draw lines (2 words)

Line-drawing tool

Tool for drawing a perfect line

""A horizontal band in a building, forming a part of the design, whether molded, projecting, or carved, or in any way distinguished from the rest of the work.""

Betokening or representing by an external sign.

Adjective meaning resembling

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.""

Guess our health will suffer here!

'Shah's palace (wordplay)

Southern Comedy Store is a shambles

""The axis or receptacle in certain ferns (as Trichomanes), which bears the sporangia. Trichomanes), which bears the sporangia.""

Big business.