2-Letter Words Starting with S

Eric, give some to us!

One with a stake in a company

Ploughman as investor

Sharpness

Seabirds needing rare wash set out

Sheathbill

Job for one in a pasture

He keeps his bucks in a fold

Sailor's knots

Sheepshead

Sheerness

Decisive defeat

Pasting

Shellfish

A barrier of trees and shrubs that protects against the wind and reduces erosion.

Without protection (from weather)

Mischief; dishonest activity

Mischief Colloq.

MONKEY business

Bo Peep, perhaps

Little Bo-Peep perhaps

Crooked tender lady!

Shepherd

English word

Sheriffdom

Watchwords

Without ambition

""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

Shininess

""Formerly, a jocose term for a bank note greatly depreciated in value; also, for paper money of a denomination less than a dollar.""

Carl Lewis shuns them

Distance runners' woes

Track woes

Constructor of forty nine down perhaps

Shipfitter

Shipmaster

Stranded, in a way

Mainly ruined

Shipwright

Shirtfront

Shirtmaker

Kind of diplomacy

Tugged-on thing

An ace may be up it

Shirtwaist

The wood of the shittah tree.

Shivaree

Superlative adjective

Cramming

Small sums of money.

They get laced

Footwear laces

Buyers of stock

The English, according to Napoleon

Manipulators of a rising market

Do business like an agent for iron pumpers (wordplay)

Japanese-language winner of the Palme d'Or (May, 2018)

In-store stocktaking (wordplay)

Stealing from a store

Stealing from stores

Shopwindow

Shorefront

Shortbread

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

Like some cats

In need of stenographers

Not having enough staff

Without enough staff

Shortness

Shotgunner

Shotgun

Assuming sweetheart ought to call round

Shovelnose

Showboat

Showerhead

Showiness

Barnum's forte.

Talent for skilful display

Theatrical skill

Almost any Merman number.

Big Broadway number

Kind of act or song.

Wrinkling and contracting

Shrubbery

Shunpiking

Amateur photographers

Camera enthusiasts

Photogs

SHUTTER to provide with window covers

The 'ball' in badminton

Weaverbird (wordplay)

Object struck in badminton

SHUTTLE to move back and forth

SICKISH somewhat sick

Sightless

The state of being sightly; comeliness; conspicuousness.

Vacation-travel occupation

Playing the tourist

Sometime diplomatic activity.

Seen as a shape against a light background

Figures against the light

Outlines

Paul Revere, for one

Paul Revere profession

Fine metal worker

Women's auxiliaries.

Women's auxiliaries

Social groups

Artists' buys

In which to find an artist's early work (wordplay)

The quality or state of being sketchy; lack of finish; incompleteness.

Skirmisher

Breaking out into fights

Scrapping briefly, risk rough Russian fighter holding part of leg

""Slaphappier , slaphappiest Slang Dazed, silly, or incoherent from or as if from blows to the head; punch-drunk.""

Killed

One who slaughters.

One who holds slaves.

SLAVISH pertaining to a slave

Sleepyhead

Hammer or Spade

Sherlock, for instance.

Detective with a nose for crime fighting

Insulting and devious, to grab lamps so

""An awkward, drooping, excessively relaxed posture or gait.""

Farmer who's short-handed (wordplay)

Minor farmer

Briefcase for an agriculturalist (wordplay)

Smallmouth

Fragments for Howard K.

Small broken pieces looked at together

A gazillion pieces

Zinc ore

Smokehouse

Smoothbore

Smoothen

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Snapshot

Snowbrush

Snowshoe

SOCIOPATH

Too compassionate (wordplay)

A bunch of pseuds of the art editor kind

Daftest hero becomes compassionate

Military qualities or state; martial skill; behavior becoming a soldier.

To some indeterminate place; to some place or other.

Fortunetellers

People predicting hot years getting excited in cry for help

Roles in 'Julius Caesar' and 'Antony and Cleopatra'

Job for an oracle

Of or pertaining to a sophist; embodying sophistry; fallaciously subtile; not sound.

Beguiling but tricky methods of reasoning

SOTTISH resembling a sot

Bass tubas used in marching bands

Instruments named for The March King

Parade instruments

""A storm, strong wind, or gale coming from the southeast.""

Southerly

Blow one's top in it (wordplay)

Walk by fellow in subtle NASA mission (wordplay)

Spadefish

Pasta in long fine strands.

""The office of speaker; as, the speakership of the House of Representatives. as, the speakership of the House of Representatives.""

Spearfish

Spearfish

Initiated, as an undertaking

Took the lead, as in a campaign.

Pioneered, as a movement

""-fies , -fying , -fied (intr) to make a speech or speeches""

Speechify

Not one to buy with prudence

Extravagantly spending person

Irresponsible user of money

""A small sac connected with the female reproductive organs of insects and many other invertebrates, serving to receive and retain the spermatozoa.""

Any ground squirrel of the genus Spermophilus; gopher. See Illust. under Gopher. Spermophilus; gopher. See Illust. under Gopher.

Sphalerite

Sphenopsid

Spherical

""An instrument for measuring the curvature of spherical surface, as of lenses for telescope, etc.""

""A bacterial cell whose cell wall is absent or deficient, causing it to have a spherical form.""

Spherulite

Of or pertaining to a spherulite; characterized by the presence of spherulites.

""SPHINCTER A muscle which surrounds, and by its contraction tends to close, a natural opening; as, the sphincter of the bladder. as, the sphincter of the bladder.""

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

Spicebush

Adjective meaning resembling

SPINSTER an older unmarried woman

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Microbiology) any of a group of spirally coiled rodlike bacteria that includes the causative agent of syphilis See treponema [from New Latin spīrochaeta; see spiro- 2 , chaeta ]""

SPIROCHETE

Spirochete

""A guard in the front part of vehicle, to prevent splashing by a mud or water from the horse's heels; in the United States commonly called dashboard. dashboard.""

Splashdown

""Splashier , splashiest Making or likely to make splashes.""

Splotchy

Spokeshave

Money given to support an activity

Backing prison's posh refurbishment

The pledging of money to a fund-raiser

Sporophore

Sporophyll

Sporophyte

""SPOROPHYTE In plants exhibiting alternation of generations, the generation which bears asexual spores; -- opposed to gametophyte. It is not clearly differentiated in the life cycle of the lower plants.gametophyte. It is not clearly differentiated in the life cycle of the lower plants.""

With all eyes watching

Program to start making bed (wordplay)

Partly make a bed as a table (wordplay)

Cell block (wordplay)

More animated.

Southern prude, dictatorial type, demoting one relatively active

Perils at sea crossing starboard make you more nimble

Springhead

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

""The quality or state of being squashy, or soft.""

Squawfish

Squeamish

Squelchy

Empty Sunday penning paper on bridge rule

Abstract noun (-ness)

Squooshy

Stablish

""Formerly, the chief magistrate of the United Provinces of Holland; also, the governor or lieutenant governor of a province.""

""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.""

One with an interest in (say) society

One with an interest (in something)

Part-owner, say

Tradesman may be a theatre-goer

Stanchion

Like the cold seafood seller (wordplay)

Aloof, with pets in it (wordplay)

Piscine kiosk (wordplay)

Any rove beetle.

Stiffness of manner

Formality

Structures at Albany, Trenton, etc.

Capitols

""STAUNCH to stop the flow of blood, also STANCH""

Stealthy

Overaction of the sebaceous glands.

See hardhack .

STENOBATH

Tool for the working girl.

Secretary's forte

Shorthand writing

Limited to or able to live only within a narrow range of saltwater concentrations. Used of aquatic organisms.

Stenotherm

Relative by marriage

Relative to walk with hassle round river

Upset Herbert's top relative

New additions to the family, sometimes

Ones joining the family

Tropical climbing plant

Fairy tale characters.

Some remarried women

A flat representation of a 3-D original

Three-D picture

3-D picture.

Twin-channel sound

It can pick the beat up (wordplay)

Medical instrument that scoops teeth out

It will find a broken heart

Management or care (of something)

Administration of property, finance etc

Management employing waitress with PhD

Drama ()

To manoeuvre (the puck) deftly in ice hockey

Sticktight

Stillbirth

Stitchery

Stitchwort

Stockfish

Ranch owner (wordplay)

Reader of "quotations."

Owner of funds in a company

Serious whale ailment (wordplay)

Overeater's woe

Overeater's risk

Stonefish

Like once-popular jeans

They have seconds

Many timers

They've got the goods

Depositories

Repositories