2-Letter Words Starting with S

""(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 ]""

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

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

It can pick the beat up (wordplay)

Medical instrument that scoops teeth out

It will find a broken heart

To manoeuvre (the puck) deftly in ice hockey

Serious whale ailment (wordplay)

Overeater's woe

Overeater's risk

STRETCH to {extend=v}

Second place, say

Seasonal vacation place

Garden pavilion for shade or recreation

Fill to excess at a splendid price!

Pep up, as an engine

Use a turbo

Emulate Errol Flynn

Do some dueling

Make like Errol Flynn

Flick knife (US)

West Side Story prop

West Side Story weapon

Cause to happen at the same time

Shy censor in scramble to concur in time

Occur at the same time

Cause to mesh

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""Pl. scyphistomae (-m ) or scyphistomas A larva of a scyphozoan, consisting of an elongated and deeply constricted polyp that successively splits off minute, free-swimming medusas.""

One of the Siphonophora.

""Botany A type of stele in which the vascular cylinder surrounds a pith, as in the stem of the sunflower.""

An experienced and knowledgeable person

Who's disported at posh cities (wordplay)

Worldly-wise type making epic that is so disorganised

Audio equipment - keep on phrase (anagram)

Park sheep ruined linked to single communications facility

""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.""

Competition for pastors (wordplay)

High Church breaking contract for event

Race with jumps

Hand tool used to draw lines (2 words)

Line-drawing tool

Tool for drawing a perfect line

Layer of high air around the earth

Ozone layer's locale*

An atmospheric layer

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

Guilty pleasure (wordplay)

Delight in another's misfortune

19 in another's 10

""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.""

Adjective meaning resembling

Same as Spermospore. Spermospore.

Seed-bearing plant

Guess our health will suffer here!

'Shah's palace (wordplay)

Southern Comedy Store is a shambles

A small instrument containing a minute particle of a radium compound mounted in front of a fluorescent screen and viewed with magnifying lenses. The tiny flashes produced by the continual bombardment of the screen by the <alpha/ rays are thus rendered visible.

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

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

An acid phosphate.

""A crystalline compound, C 14 H 30 N 2 O 4 , formed by esterification of succinic acid with choline and used medically to produce brief but complete muscular relaxation.""

""Of, relating to, or being a form of radio reception in which the frequency of an incoming radio signal is mixed with a locally generated signal and converted to an intermediate frequency in order to facilitate amplification and the rejection of unwanted signals.""