2-Letter Words Starting with S

Strickle

Stunned with astonishment

Dulled the wits or senses

Rendered speechless

Subedit

Suberise

Suberize

Added at the end

Journalist became a member and was added afterwards

Yielded (to a superior force)

Presented, as evidence

Gave in and proposed

PERIOD to put an end to

Got by (on)

Made ends meet

Lived (on), as food

Subsoil

With captions below

Like many foreign films

Suction

English word

Supinate

Overfed fruit seed, possibly

Hear master had a seizure, having overindulged

Refused it anyway, having had more than enough

Is that what you expected (wordplay)

One thing one doesn't expect to be

Shocked by teacher valued in hearing

Surprize

Long drawn-out

Kept going, supported

Supported; kept going

Pig's head (wordplay)

Gurth, in "Ivanhoe"

Tender of pigs

Swither

Turned (as if) on a pin or pivot

Turned and sniffed as son finally left for a week

Given up for the greater good

Acted unselfishly

Gave up

SAILPLANE

Consecrated

Being converted, dies in fact as a saint (wordplay)

Holy.

Permitted or penalized

Imposed punishment of a kind that's permitted

Permissible

Inserted between.

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

Converted (a fat) into soap

SCIENTIZE

""Of or belonging to the suborder Scorpaenoidei, which includes the scorpion fishes and rockfishes.""

""SCRIMMAGE Formerly, a skirmish; now, a general row or confused fight or struggle.""

Deposited into a bank

FITTED fit

Half liquid; semifluid.

SACRED consecrated or holy

SENSITISE

Made more aware

Sentinel

Top player pocketing Arab cash is in parts

SERIALIZE

Spoke from the pulpit

Preached

Turned blue (wordplay)

Like many pop culture images

Impressed a sailor without his knowing!

Eastern city editor may be impressed

Coerced into crewmanship

Stole

I have two lines in small part as an old man (wordplay)

Past tense or past participle

Went door to door (wordplay)

Struck a glancing blow

SIGNALISE

SIGNALIZE To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish.

Marked with roadside pointers

Silicify

A perennial rosaceous herb (Potentilla Anserina) having the leaves silvery white beneath. Potentilla Anserina) having the leaves silvery white beneath.

Made plain.

Made easier

Made easy

Women with similar habits (wordplay)

Kinship between women

Community of nuns

Engaged in a minor conflict

SKYLIGHT a window in the ceiling

Slipform

SLOGANIZE

Staid

SOCIALISE

Converted to public ownership

Dignified

Went hard

SOVIETIZE

English word

Cracked lips, tender perhaps

Broke into small, sharp pieces

Fragmented

A fountain or source.

""Young, usually soft wood that lies directly beneath the bark and develops in early spring.""

Stored up for future use Colloq.

Stored up for future use: Colloq.

Stashed (away).

STABILIZE

Stablish

Stellify

Written using a cut out mask

Depicted horse carrying knight about poorly

""STERILIZE To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility.""

Stiletto

Let us admit becoming excited

Provoked the senses

Psyched up

Required platitudes to be inventive!

Details put out as specified

Specified as a condition

STOCKING a covering for the foot and leg

Put away in reserve

Put away for a rainy day

Spoilt deck shuffled and put in store

Straight

Distressed when pressed to accept a note

Like some circumstances

Characterized by poverty

Formed in layers

Arranged in layers

Stone cut, formally approved, and arranged in layers

Stravaig

Stultify

Being split into smaller pieces

Purified

""SUBMARINE Being, acting, or growing, under water in the sea; as, submarine navigators; submarine plants. as, submarine navigators; submarine plants.""

Gave money (to a project)

Contributed money

Given a grant

Settled around island that's financially supported

""SUBSIDIZE To furnish with a subsidy; to purchase the assistance of by the payment of a subsidy; to aid or promote, as a private enterprise, with public money; as, to subsidize a steamship line. as, to subsidize a steamship line.""

SUBTILIZE To make thin or fine; to make less gross or coarse.

SULFURIZE

Put briefly, tot gets angry when about to get out of bed

Did a quick recap of

Digested

Helium alone can be this; or Coca-Cola, according to some (wordplay)

Like orders of magnitude (wordplay)

Larger than large

Enlarged, as an order of fries

""SUPERVISE To oversee for direction; to superintend; to inspect with authority; as, to supervise the construction of a steam engine, or the printing of a book. as, to supervise the construction of a steam engine, or the printing of a book.""

Surprint

Surveil

Power-station area

SYLLOGIZE To reason by means of syllogisms.

Represented; idly emboss (anagram)

SYMBOLIZE To have a resemblance of qualities or properties; to correspond; to harmonize.

Sold to several publications

Like a lot of crosswords? Cryptic, yes - addict tackles any number

SYNOPSIZE

SYSTEMIZE To reduce to system; to systematize.

SCANDALISE

""SCANDALIZE To offend the feelings of the conscience of (a person) by some action which is considered immoral or criminal; to bring shame, disgrace, or reproach upon.""

SCHEMATIZE To form a scheme or schemes.

First grader, for example

First grader, e.g

SCLEROTIZE

Scrimshaw

SCRUTINISE

""SCRUTINIZE To examine closely; to inspect or observe with critical attention; to regard narrowly; as, to scrutinize the measures of administration; to scrutinize the conduct or motives of individuals. as, to scrutinize the measures of administration; to scrutinize the conduct or motives of individuals.""

SECULARISE

""SECULARIZE To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to secularize a priest or a monk. as, to secularize a priest or a monk.""

SECURITIZE

DEIFIED deify

Not quite out to pasture

Like many senior part-timers

Like some seniors in the workplace

(Of worker) needing partial training

Such a worker houses journalist following murder

""SENSUALIZE To make sensual; to subject to the love of sensual pleasure; to debase by carnal gratifications; to carnalize; as, sensualized by pleasure. as, sensualized by pleasure.""

Sentinel

Stranded, in a way

Mainly ruined

The wood of the shittah tree.

Like some cats

Skidded

Avoided the issue

Circumvented

Avoided

Diverted from the main issue.

Thrown off course

Shunted (wordplay)

Seen as a shape against a light background

SILICONE a silicon compound

Simulcast

SLENDERIZE

Past tense or past participle

SOLUBILISE

SOLUBILIZE

Spearfish

Concentrating on one subject

Blend of spices ideal for a particular purpose

SPECIALIZE To mention specialy; to particularize.

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

With all eyes watching

Flexible point of departure (wordplay)

Jumping-off place (wordplay)

If you're here, you'll take a dive

Protected from fire by a water system.

Protected from fire by a water system

Squirrel

Stanchion

Any rove beetle.

""STIGMATIZE To mark with a stigma, or brand; as, the ancients stigmatized their slaves and soldiers. as, the ancients stigmatized their slaves and soldiers.""

Like a bluenose.

Having strict morals

Prudish and appallingly clad artiste

STRATEGIZE

Up-to-date

Efficient when dealing with derailments

Efficient way to sort out derailments

Made a shrill sound, as katydids, crickets, etc.

Paralysed by industrial action

Affected by industrial action

LICENSED license

Stood in

SULPHURISE

Supercoil

Be responsible for the management of

Manage when turnips need cooking

Control, manage

Supplicat

Suspicion

Operator's post, once

Manual telephone exchange

Where telephones are connected

SYLLABI syllabus

SYMMETRIZE To make proportional in its parts; to reduce to symmetry.

Shared an understanding with shyest maid, trembling, keeping quiet

Shared a sentiment

SYNCRETISE

SYNCRETIZE

SYNONYMIZE To express by a synonym or synonyms; to give the synonym or synonyms corresponding to.

Like some computer voices

Made from parts

Put together

""-fies , -fying , -fied (Chemistry) (tr) to convert (starch) into sugar saccharification  , saccharization , saccharisation n""

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

Scintillate

(Of houses) joined in pairs

Decide Thames could do for a house

Type of house

FINISHED finish

""Having the anterior toes joined only part way down with a web; half-webbed; as, a semipalmate bird or foot. See Illust. k under Aves.as, a semipalmate bird or foot. See Illust. k under Aves.""

SHIRTSLEEVE

Heedless of the future.

Like the grasshopper of fable

Limited in one's outlook

A herb no longer tended? That's foolish

Type of interest objected to, being foolish

SINGULARIZE To make singular or single; to distinguish.

SKELETONISE

""SKELETONIZE To prepare a skeleton of; also, to reduce, as a leaf, to its skeleton.""

Slipstream

SOLILOQUISE

SOLILOQUIZE To utter a soliloquy; to talk to one's self.

""The male germ cell in animals and plants, the essential element in fertilization; a microscopic animalculelike particle, usually provided with one or more cilia by which it is capable of active motion. In animals, the familiar type is that of a small, more or less ovoid head, with a delicate threadlike cilium, or tail. Called also spermatozo\'94n. In plants the more usual term is antherozoid. spermatozo\'94n. In plants the more usual term is antherozoid.""

Being single could make person do this

STANDARDISE

""STANDARDIZE To reduce to a normal standard; to calculate or adjust the strength of, by means of, and for uses in, analysis.""

Stickhandle

STRAIGHT to make {straight=adj}

Put in order

Way of presenting gender that is not kinky

Stringhalt

ARACHNOID Resembling a spider's web; cobweblike.

IRRIGATED irrigate

OPTIMIZED optimize

ORDINATED ordinate

URBANISED urbanise

URBANIZED urbanize

VOCALIZED vocalize

Placed on top

Set over? Fantastic, I'm ready for my close-up!

""SUPERINDUCE To bring in, or upon, as an addition to something.""

""SUPERSCRIBE To write or engrave (a name, address, inscription, or the like) on the top or surface; to write a name, address, or the like, on the outside or cover of (anything); as, to superscribe a letter. as, to superscribe a letter.""

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