2-Letter Words Starting with S

Billionaires' status

Price rush organised for millionaires' class

English word

English word

Extra payment daily in boom

Extra payment for toast in Rush

Extra fee, as for a special service

""Pl. surfperch or surfperches Any of various viviparous marine fishes of the family Embiotocidae, found in shallow waters along the North American Pacific coast. Also called surf fish .""

Swanherd

Darker of complexion

Second husband's outwardly more blemished, darker

The Triangle Shirtwaist Company, for one

Abused sew hats and work here (wordplay)

We sat around quietly to work? Not here

Caramel center (wordplay)

A source of bullseyes

Brit's candy store

""Any plectognath fish that dilates itself, as the bur fish, puffer, or diodon.""

Terrific leader (wordplay)

Vain or conceited person.

Conceited sort

Pig's head (wordplay)

Gurth, in "Ivanhoe"

Tender of pigs

SWINISH resembling {swine=n}

Swishy

Those who swap

Making a change

Sing about the sorceress for a change

Changing over

Railway employee working on and off

SWITCH to beat with a flexible rod

Swither

Swoosh

Fencer's favorite entree (wordplay)

Catch of the day, perhaps

Steak from the sea

Copy hasn't disturbed yes-man

Chap Tyson hammered, a toady

Uriah Heep persona

Graceful and slender

Graceful, shy elk with lip trembling

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biochemistry) a substance released at certain sympathetic nerve endings: thought to be identical with adrenaline [from sympath ( etic ) + -in ]

Like some music? My, Chopin's fantastic!

My! Chopin's unusually melodic

Like a major classical music form

Bones

""An articulation formed by intervening cartilage; as, the pubic symphysis. as, the pubic symphysis.""

""A contraction of syllables by suppressing some vowel or diphthong at the end of a word, before another vowel or diphthong; as, th' army, for the army. as, th' army, for the army.""

The concurrence of events in time; synchronism.

Composites of various elements

Deductive reasonings

Compound combinations

In shy sets (anagram)

Artificial copy of nature

Sissy then moved building up

Man-made (fibre)

Artificially-made compound

Dacron, for example

Sypher

Syphon

Syrphian

English word

English word

See invertase .

""Any of a series of compounds of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen in which the atoms of the latter two elements are in the ratio of 2:1, especially those containing the group C 6 H 10 O 5 .""

""Toconvert into, or to impregnate with, sugar.""

China cares (anagram)

Sickly son fidgeting in each car

Overly sentimental

Saccharin

Sackcloth

Safelight

Saganash

Sailcloth

Sailfish

Sainthood

Saintship

Saltbush

Condiment holder on the table (2 words)

It's turned upside down when used

Half a dinner table duo

Sandfish

Inserted between.

Was hidden plastic, encasing canine opening, like a filling (wordplay)

Some culinary heroes (wordplay)

Lunch-counter orders

Heroes, for example

""Resembling sapphire; made of sapphire; having the color, or any quality of sapphire.""

""Any plant growing on dacayed animal or vegetable matter, as most fungi and some flowering plants with no green color, as the Indian pipe.""

A cargo ship transported old boxes

Stone tombs

Ancient caskets in wreckage of a cargo ship

All that a bag can hold

All a bag can hold

Passive resistance, to Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi's policy of passive resistance to British rule

Norwegian group supports gay star active in non-violent resistance

Big-band section

Instruments for Getz and Parker

Some reeds

""SAXOPHONE A wind instrument of brass, containing a reed, and partaking of the qualities both of a brass instrument and of a clarinet.""

Rascal, from Italian farce

Boastful coward in drama

Stock character in Italian farce

Words in 48-point type

Front page phenomena.

Sensational front-page items.

SCATHE to criticize severely

In a bitterly severe way

Alligator or snake? (Hint: Read letters 4-8 last!)

Rough, entertaining article using bitter remarks

Scheduler

Schedule

Scheelite

Plans for circulating catechisms

Plans redraft of catechisms

Circuit diagrams

Combination of the aspects of heavenly bodies.

To form a scheme or schemes.

Playfully, on a music score

Jokingly, in musical terminology

Playfully, in music

Old money useless ultimately, horrifying society

Dog for lively king in Kent

Small, black watchdog from Belgium

Small black tailless dog of a breed with a ruff of fur round its neck

Causing division in the RC Church

Favouring separation from a church

Singular elegance about theory volunteers rejected being fractious (wordplay)

Dry fruit that splits into several one-seeded portions

""SCHIZO a person affected with a type of psychotic disorder, also SCHIZOID""

Schizzy

Inept ones: Slang

Inept ones Slang

Yiddish chumps

Schlep

Schlump

Schmaltz

Schmalzy

Schmeer

Schmoos

Schmooze

* Some hypoallergenic hirsute hounds

Some breaded cutlets

Veal cutlets

Head's unwelcome visitors after school: without enthusiasm, one leaves cutlets

Schnorkel

Schnorrer

Schnozzle

Relating to education

Pedant and stoic clash violently

Clash with stoic could be academic

Commentators, muddled as Holst (sic)

Medieval glossographers lash stoics indiscriminately

Schoolbag

Volume of students (wordplay)

Student's text

Teaching aid

All Eton students

They have a lot of ties to their classes

Train ophthalmologist, initially, to cut next to small pupils

In form miss (wordplay)

Metaphorically giddy one

She may learn a thing or two

Schooling

REVILED

Old-style word for a teacher

Teacher, old style.

Any prude or pedant

He's too calm, maybe, for a young peer

Bus-seat sharer, perhaps

Dolphin's friend (wordplay)

Classy place (wordplay)

Teaching space (wordplay)

This has class

English word

Student's chore.

Taking notes, studying, etc

Taking notes, studying, etc.

Scirrhus

Scouther

Scraich

Scraigh

DJs, at times

Scratchy

SCRATCHIE

Companion of beat juggling

Tearing with the nails

Purpose of a pet post

""The picarian birds, as distinguished from the singing birds.""

Screechy

Noise from boobooks

Ivory carvings

Scrooch

Scrootch

Scrootch

Squeezing (together)

Scutcheon

Of or belonging to the class Scyphozoa.

Seabeach

Quality shown by good ratings (wordplay)

Mariner's skill.

Skill of a sailor

Capable of being searched.

Impossible to be searched; inscrutable; impenetrable.

Seborrhea

""A disease of the sebaceous glands characterized by excessive secretion of sebum or an alteration in its quality, resulting in an oily coating, crusts, or scales on the skin.""

Not new - part of watch!

Watch! It goes around (wordplay)

Used to be found on watch (wordplay)

Seecatch

Selachian

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

Signals at sea

Sends signals.

HOBOES hobo

LETHAL something designed to cause death

Seneschal

Senhorita

Sepulcher

Purcell has developed melancholy

Hollow and deep

Purcell has composed, despite being gloomy

""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.""

Sepulchre

Serigraph

SERIGRAPH An autographic device to test the strength of raw silk.

Here the event is by no means the first

Ordinal number

Bumbling thieves net a small fraction of whole

Babs shines (anagram)

Shadbush

Shadchan

Most mysterious

In full light.

Legendary sword: may yours never grow so!

Adjective meaning resembling

It's not so neat having minced haggis by the loch!

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

Thug's threats

Extortions through blackmail

Extortions

Shallow

Losing depth

Shamanism

Shamanist

Very modest, bashful

Showing guilty embarrassment

Red, perhaps

In a despicable manner

Shammes

Head of salon put rollers in baskets for the juniors

Cleaning mess - what's humiliating about that (wordplay)

Using bathroom product, soap on him foaming and popping at last

Ginger ale and beer

Mixture of beverages.

Pub order

Impressed a sailor without his knowing!

Eastern city editor may be impressed

Coerced into crewmanship

Impresser of seamen

An arch support inserted into the shank of a shoe.

Run-down urban area

Area with crude dwellings

Deprived area of very poor housing

Most curve-laden

Most curvaceous

Sharecrop

Shareware

Smooth fabrics

Office equipment.

Office equipment

They'll give an edge for writer accommodated by flatmates

Sharpen

Shashlick

Revised 'the ratings' (wordplay)

Revised "the ratings" (wordplay)

Breaking up the ratings going berserk

Shaveling

Rookie officers, in slang

Second looeys.

Second looies

Shearling

Petrel's cousin

Cropper takes Tyler for a seabird

Long-winged bird that skims the ocean

""Either one of two species of birds composing the genus Chionis, and family Chionid\'91, native of the islands of the Antarctic.seas. Chionis, and family Chionid\'91, native of the islands of the Antarctic.seas.""

Sheathing

Honeysuckle's kin

Sheepcote

Sheepfold

Woman begins episcopate, nothing less than perfect, as if unsure of her welcome

Conformist's tee shot (wordplay)

What a stringy leg of mutton!

Knot used to shorten a rope temporarily

""A large and valuable sparoid food fish (Archosargus, ∨ Diplodus, probatocephalus) found on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It often weighs from ten to twelve pounds. Archosargus, ∨ Diplodus, probatocephalus) found on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It often weighs from ten to twelve pounds.""

Grad's grants

College goals

Diplomas, informally

Sheikhdom

Sheldrake

Finished, in a way

High-speed option on the East Coast

Defeated soundly

Shellback

Capable of resisting bombs or other shells; bombproof.

Shellwork

Shelterer

Giving refuge to.

Giving protection to

Protecting

High jink (wordplay)

Bit of mischief

Dishonest activity

Emulated Bo-Peep

Tended sheep

Escorted

""SHERIFF a law-enforcement officer of a county, also SHIREMAN, SHIRRA""

Shewbread