2-Letter Words Starting with S

An instrument for measuring the volume of air entering and leaving the lungs.

""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.""

""STALACTITE A pendent cone or cylinder of calcium carbonate resembling an icicle in form and mode of attachment. Stalactites are found depending from the roof or sides of caverns, and are produced by deposition from waters which have percolated through, and partially dissolved, the overlying limestone rocks.""

""STALAGMITE A deposit more or less resembling an inverted stalactite, formed by calcareous water dropping on the floors of caverns; hence, a similar deposit of other material.""

Of or pertaining to staurolite; resembling or containing staurolite.

""Body, Human""

STENOBATH

""A method in neurosurgery and neurological research for locating points within the brain using an external, three-dimensional frame of reference usually based on the Cartesian coordinate system.""

Like a stock image

Conventional

SPECIFIC a remedy intended for a particular disease

Obsequious City chap son sacked

Servile - like a crawler

Obsequious and silly chap isn't coy

Logically drawing a conclusion from premises

SYMBOLIST One who employs symbols.

Likeable; sensitively designed

Showing fellow-feeling

Kindly ear to lend

Indicative (of a disease?)

Indicative, typical

Indicating disease

""SYNECDOCHE A figure or trope by which a part of a thing is put for the whole (as, fifty sail for fifty ships), or the whole for a part (as, the smiling year for spring), the species for the genus (as, cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (as, a creature for a man), the name of the material for the thing made, etc. sail for fifty ships), or the whole for a part (as, the smiling year for spring), the species for the genus (as, cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (as, a creature for a <i>man</i>), the name of the material for the thing made, etc.""

Cooperative, in a way

Working together to greater effect

One who sees smells or hears colors

SYNTAGMA a syntactic element

""Pertaining to, or involving, sansculottism; radical; revolutionary; Jacobinical.""

SARCOPLASM

""Of, relating to, or characteristic of scenography: "Contemporary design has a strongly scenographic appeal, as if modern rooms were meant to be stage sets" (Los Angeles Times).""

""SECULARIST One who theoretically rejects every form of religious faith, and every kind of religious worship, and accepts only the facts and influences which are derived from the present life; also, one who believes that education and other matters of civil policy should be managed without the introduction of a religious element.""

""Of or pertaining to seismometry, or seismometer; as, seismometric instruments; seismometric measurements. as, seismometric instruments; seismometric measurements.""

Of or pertaining to a semimetal; possessing metallic properties in an inferior degree; resembling metal.

MONASTIC a {monk=n}

Sensual.

Of or pertaining to separatists; characterizing separatists; schismatical.

""Activated by or capable of liberating serotonin, especially in transmitting nerve impulses: serotonergic neurons; serotonergic drugs.""

SOLIDARIST

""SPECIALIST One who devotes himself to some specialty; as, a medical specialist, one who devotes himself to diseases of particular parts of the body, as the eye, the ear, the nerves, etc. as, a medical specialist, one who devotes himself to diseases of particular parts of the body, as the eye, the ear, the nerves, etc.""

Shorthander's notes unusually explicit

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

Combining separate sources of sound

(Of sound) multi-channel

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

Giving the impression of depth

Describing a three-dimensional effect.

""A method in neurosurgery and neurological research for locating points within the brain using an external, three-dimensional frame of reference usually based on the Cartesian coordinate system.""

""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.""

Drama ()

STROBOSCOPE An instrument for studying or observing the successive phases of a periodic or varying motion by means of light which is periodically interrupted.

""ANTARCTIC Opposite to the northern or arctic pole; relating to the southern pole or to the region near it, and applied especially to a circle, distant from the pole 23&deg; 28&min;. Thus we say the antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc. antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc.""

(Sociology) Sociol (no longer widely used) relating to those aspects of a culture that are conceived as being superior to the individual members of the society superorganicism &nbsp; n

""(Engineering / General Engineering) such a metal, alloy, etc. superplasticity &nbsp;""

Like Magritte, say

Like the art of Dali or Magritte

Bizarre pragmatist in endless cruise at sea

""Pertaining to, or characterized by, syncretism; as, a syncretistic mixture of the service of Jehovah and the worship of idols. as, a syncretistic mixture of the service of Jehovah and the worship of idols.""

SCHIZOPHRENE

A device for producing a scintigram; a scintiscanner.

Of or pertaining to a seismograph; indicated by a seismograph.

As seen or estimated from the center of the moon; with the moon central.

Like some firearms

Firearm came out with its aim suspect

Inflected form of PARASITIC Inflected form of PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

Inflected form of SYNTHETIC Inflected form of SYNTH a synthesizer

Photography

Describing the interactions of communities and money

A spectroscope equipped with scales for measuring wavelengths or indexes of refraction.

""SPECTROSCOPE An optical instrument for forming and examining spectra (as that of solar light, or those produced by flames in which different substances are volatilized), so as to determine, from the position of the spectral lines, the composition of the substance.""

Formation and development of spermatozoa by meiosis and spermiogenesis.

""STEREOGRAPH Any picture, or pair of pictures, prepared for exhibition in the stereoscope. Stereographs are now commonly made by means of photography.""

Production of steroids by living organisms.

""The study of rock strata, especially the distribution, deposition, and age of sedimentary rocks.""

Sky-high (informal)

Unusually, orchestra pit's very high

Belonging to the upper air

STREPTOCOCCI

STROMATOLITE

Adjective (-ic)

Adjective (-ic)

Opposing the physiological effects caused by stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system: a sympatholytic treatment.

""Of or pertaining to synchronism; arranged according to correspondence in time; as, synchronistic tables. as, synchronistic tables.""

A chronic disease of the spinal cord characterized by the presence of fluid-filled cavities and leading to spasticity and sensory disturbances.

""The science that deals with the description, classification, and origin of sedimentary rock.""

Pl. serodiagnoses (-s z) See immunodiagnosis .

""Activated by or capable of liberating serotonin, especially in transmitting nerve impulses: serotonergic neurons; serotonergic drugs.""

Of or pertaining to a somnambulist or somnambulism; affected by somnambulism; appropriate to the state of a somnambulist.

SPECTROGRAPH An apparatus for photographing or mapping a spectrum.

SPERMATOPHYTE Any plant of the phylum Spermatophyta.

Believing in mediums communicating with the dead

STAPHYLOCOCCI

STEREOISOMER

""(Chemistry) Chem relating to or having fixed position in space, as in the spatial arrangements of atoms in certain polymers""

Calculation of the quantities of reactants and products in a chemical reaction.

""Inflected form of ATMOSPHERIC Inflected form of ATMOSPHERE The whole mass of a\'89riform fluid surrounding the earth; applied also to the gaseous envelope of any celestial orb, or other body; as, the atmosphere of Mars. as, the atmosphere of Mars.""

SUBJECTIVIST One who holds to subjectivism; an egoist.

""Inflected form of METACENTRIC Inflected form of METACENTRE The point of intersection of a vertical line through the center of gravity of the fluid displaced by a floating body which is tipped through a small angle from its position of equilibrium, and the inclined line which was vertical through the center of gravity of the body when in equilibrium.""

""Inflected form of MICROSCOPIC Inflected form of MICROSCOPE An optical instrument, consisting of a lens, or combination of lenses, for making an enlarged image of an object which is too minute to be viewed by the naked eye.""

THERAPEUTIC One of the Therapeut\'91.

SUPERPATRIOT

A grand unified field theory that attempts to unify the fundamental forces by postulating a symmetry relating the known fermions to hypothetical bosons and the know bosons to hypothetical fermions.

Deviant, in a way

Perversely pleased to do as one is done by (wordplay)

Characterized by a cycle of dominance and submission

""Inflected form of LOGARITHMIC Inflected form of LOGARITHM One of a class of auxiliary numbers, devised by John Napier, of Merchiston, Scotland (15501617), to abridge arithmetical calculations, by the use of addition and subtraction in place of multiplication and division. The relation of logarithms to common numbers is that of numbers in an arithmetical series to corresponding numbers in a geometrical series, so that sums and differences of the former indicate respectively products and quotients of the latter; thus The relation of logarithms to common numbers is that of numbers in an arithmetical series to corresponding numbers in a geometrical series, so that sums and differences of the former indicate respectively products and quotients of the latter; thus""

SOCIOLINGUIST

Producing physiological effects resembling those caused by the activity or stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system: a sympathomimetic hormone.

Adjective (-ic)