2-Letter Words Starting with S

SLAUGHTERER One who slaughters.

Slaughter

Destructive; murderous.

Slaveholder

Holding persons in slavery.

Unsuitable nutcracker (wordplay)

R&B/rap duo Percy & MC (wordplay)

Big hitter trimmed hedge in prison

English dogs with a keen sense of smell

Slightness

Inactivity

SLUGGISH slow-moving

Slushiness

SLUTTISH {slovenly=adj}

A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches. Breeches.

Landowners in arrangement to sell lord hams

Mini-farm, perhaps

Modest farming concern

Agricultural area, but less than a farm

Smithsonite

Smoothness

English word

Broken or projecting gnasher

SNAPPISH tending to behave in an impatient or irritable manner

Snapshooter

Snapshot

SNIFFISH {haughty=adj}

Vulgar affectation or ostentation; mean admiration of mean things; conduct or manners of a snob.

Softheaded

Soldiership

Sonography

SOOTHING the act of soothing

Soothsaying

An experienced and knowledgeable person

Who's disported at posh cities (wordplay)

Worldly-wise type making epic that is so disorganised

Kent is in this part of UK

In the bottom right corner of the country

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

Farthest south.

SOUTHERN a person living in the south

A shrub for the huntress

Call for silence around exit to cowboy film set in Kerry direction

""SOUTHWESTER A storm, gale, or strong wind from the southwest.""

Spaceflight

Spaghettini

Audio equipment - keep on phrase (anagram)

Park sheep ruined linked to single communications facility

Speakership

Spearfish

Leading (attack)

Taking the lead

Praised Hagen extravagantly for leading attack

An apparatus for photographing or mapping a spectrum.

The act of making a speech or speeches.

Speechless

Politician's alter ego (wordplay)

William Safire, once

They have no saving graces

""Pl. -cae (-s ) A receptacle in the reproductive tracts of certain female invertebrates, especially insects, in which spermatozoa are received and stored until needed to fertilize the ova.""

Spermophile

Sphericity

Spheroidal

Spherometer

Spheroplast

Sphingosine

""An instrument which, when applied over an artery, indicates graphically the movements or character of the pulse. See Sphygmogram. Sphygmogram.""

Being single could make person do this

Spirochaete

Splashboard

Sponsorship

The sport of catching fish using a rod and reel.

Spotlight

English word

Make the beds (wordplay)

Sprightful

""Sprightlier , sprightliest Full of spirit and vitality; lively; brisk.""

Springhouse

SQUARISH somewhat square

Squirarchy

Establishment.

Stadtholder

Travelling drama teachers (wordplay)

Carriers of strongboxes

Transport for drama teachers

New Labour's vampire hunters (wordplay)

Interested parties assume hospital mends girdles

Stallholder

Staphylinid

Ninja's speciality

Furtive behaviour

Steatorrhea

Competition for pastors (wordplay)

High Church breaking contract for event

Race with jumps

Copier of a dictator's words

One versed in shorthand

Court employee

Shorthander's notes unusually explicit

It's related to what I've asked you to write, in short

STENOTHERM

Herbert's post about marital relations

Issue to be brought up on remarriage

Former union issue - awful pest, the guard found

Stereograph

The art of delineating the forms of solid bodies on a plane; a branch of solid geometry which shows the construction of all solids which are regularly defined.

Combining separate sources of sound

(Of sound) multi-channel

With five kicked out, criminal evicts no-hoper from two places

Stethoscope

""STETHOSCOPE An instrument used in auscultation for examining the organs of the chest, as the heart and lungs, by conveying to the ear of the examiner the sounds produced in the thorax.""

Stewardship

Drama ()

Drama ()

Stickhandle

STICKHANDLE

Stickhandle

Barns and corrals (wordplay)

Annual meeting attendees

Merchandise owners on top of warehouses

Tolerate some pain (wordplay)

Reasons for sick days

Results of overeating

Unfeeling - like Olive (wordplay)

Devoid of feeling for others

Feeling callous? Then destroy a settlement

Upset due to threats, but resolute

Courageous, resolute

Courageous

Right now!

At once honest and distant

High speed race track section

STRAIGHT to make {straight=adj}

Hand tool used to draw lines (2 words)

Line-drawing tool

Tool for drawing a perfect line

Put in order

Way of presenting gender that is not kinky

Hair care item

Honesty is his strangest failing

Hulk Hogan's choker (wordplay)

Force that menaces freedom.

Complete power over a situation

Certain commuters.

Travellers with a long-standing grievance

Subwayites.

Using train when no seats available (wordplay)

That branch of geology which treats of the arrangement and succession of strata.

Layer of high air around the earth

Ozone layer's locale*

An atmospheric layer

Courses about Pale provides illumination

By the way, they're needed to see the cat's eyes

They show the way trees changed, though at first a slight change

Made more robust

Reinforced

Something making less weak

Power changed Rene into a strong supporter

Stringhalt

""A toxic glycoside or mixture of glycosides obtained from the seeds of certain plants of the genus Strophanthus, especially S. kombé, used medicinally as a cardiac stimulant.""

Studentship

ARACHNOID Resembling a spider's web; cobweblike.

""PARAGRAPH Originally, a marginal mark or note, set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, e. g., a change of subject; now, the character g., a change of subject; now, the character <?/, commonly used in the text as a reference mark to a footnote, or to indicate the place of a division into sections.""

""THRESHOLD The plank, stone, or piece of timber, which lies under a door, especially of a dwelling house, church, temple, or the like; the doorsill; hence, entrance; gate; door.""

SULPHURISE

Belvedere's type of school diets

English word

Superbitch

Very quick, huge car sped round corner, finally

Feature of many a dragster (NFL)

Power booster on '98 Buick Regal 3.8 V6

Mall goer, to the extreme

Supercharge

Supergrowth

Superharden

SUPERHEATER An apparatus for superheating steam.

Superheat

Superheavy

""Pl. superhelixes or superhelices (h l -s z , h l -) A molecular structure in which a helix is itself coiled into a helix, as of overwound circular DNA.""

""Pl. superhelixes or superhelices (h l -s z , h l -) A molecular structure in which a helix is itself coiled into a helix, as of overwound circular DNA.""

Superhelix

English word

Major road (US)

Modern means of travel.

Superhuman

Superschool

Supersleuth

The state of being a survivor.

SWAINISH somewhat swain

SWASHBUCKLE

Errol Flynn kind of role

Dare-devil takes second to clean shield

One given to derring-do

Swashbuckle

Switchback

Switchblade

The operator used them to rotate stage

Small and enchanting woman has meals for centres of communication

Move to another directorship where you can make connections

Sycophancy

Like a sycophant; obsequiously flattering.

Sycophancy.

Sympathetic

SYMPATHISE

Sympathizer

""SYMPATHIZE To have a common feeling, as of bodily pleasure or pain.""

Symposiarch

Plural or third person singular

Sensation crossing over between different senses

Plural noun or verb form

Pl. synarthroses (-s z) Anatomy A form of articulation in which the bones are rigidly joined by fibrous tissue. Also called synarthrodia .

""Immovable articulation by close union, as in sutures. It sometimes includes symphysial articulations also. See the Note under Articulation, n., 1. Articulation, n., 1.""

Abstract noun (-ity)

Happening at the same time; synchronous.

Drenching my own missis, ridiculous sport

Synchronise

Synchronism

SYNCHRONIZE To agree in time; to be simultaneous.

Camera device.

Synchronize

(Physics / General Physics) an instrument used to indicate whether two periodic quantities or motions are synchronous

Synchrotron

Synesthesia

Synthesizer

SYNTHESIZE To combine by synthesis; to unite.

Saccharify

""An instrument for ascertain the quantity of saccharine matter in any solution, as the juice of a plant, or brewers' and distillers' worts.""

A saccharimeter.

""A genus of budding fungi, the various species of which have the power, to a greater or less extent, or splitting up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid. They are the active agents in producing fermentation of wine, beer, etc. Saccharomyces cerevisi\'91 is the yeast of sedimentary beer. Also called Torula. Saccharomyces cerevisi\'91 is the yeast of sedimentary beer. Also called Torula.""

Enjoyment of a painful relationship (wordplay)

Person in a painful relationship!

Painstaking (and giving) type might crack his cat as moods vary

Salesmanship

""SANSCULOTTE A fellow without breeches; a ragged fellow; a name of reproach given in the first French revolution to the extreme republican party, who rejected breeches as an emblem peculiar to the upper classes or aristocracy, and adopted pantaloons.""

Sarcophagus

Stage workers

Scenographer

Scenography

Guilty pleasure (wordplay)

Delight in another's misfortune

19 in another's 10

Schematical

SCHISMATIZE To make part in schism; to make a breach of communion in the church.

Schistosity

Schizophrene

A severe mental illness

Mental disorder, split mind in Greek

Disorder of Chopin's hazier works

SCHIZOPHRENE

""SCHOLASTIC Pertaining to, or suiting, a scholar, a school, or schools; scholarlike; as, scholastic manners or pride; scholastic learning. as, scholastic manners or pride; scholastic learning.""

Abelard's thing

New Catholics miss medieval sort of philosophy

Schoolfellow

Primly pedantic

People who teach fish experts (wordplay)

By whom one gets informed in form

Who may be in the classrooms, working (wordplay)

In-form professional (wordplay)

Her chocolates embarrassed young tutor

The young director

Schussboomer

A device for producing a scintigram; a scintiscanner.