2-Letter Words Starting with S

Mineral lets delicate little person keep healthy

""A minute spherical crystalline body having a radiated structure, observed in some vitreous volcanic rocks, as obsidian and pearlstone.""

Inscrutable

Inscrutable

Enigmatic

Like a spider.

""Any of various slender, spiral, motile bacteria of the order Spirochaetales, many of which are pathogenic, causing syphilis, relapsing fever, yaws, and other diseases.""

""In certain Sporozoa, a small active, usually elongate, sickle-shaped or somewhat am\'d2boid spore, esp. one of those produced by division of the passive spores into which the zygote divides. The sporozoites reproduce asexually.""

Like some February days

Vernal

Dregs in pit (anagram)

Skip and diet perhaps early in the year

It occurs at new and full moon

Season well with herb, say

The highlight of a leap year (wordplay)

Name invoking fascism

Overhead projection (wordplay)

A hanging for a caveman (wordplay)

Structure deposited on cave roof

A prison-camp child that is growing up!

A certain point underground (wordplay)

Cave floor growth

""A mineral of a brown to black color occurring in prismatic crystals, often twinned so as to form groups resembling a cross. It is a silicate of aluminia and iron, and is generally found imbedded in mica schist. Called also granatite, and grenatite. granatite, and grenatite.""

Brand negatively

Malign

""A shoreline, especially one marking an earlier and higher water level.""

STRATEGIZE

Make more efficient, perhaps

Reshape to make lean mister (wordplay)

Make more efficient

The land adjacent to a stream.

Is setter, we fancy, wily (wordplay)

Well adapted to urban life

Smart in a worldly sense

Change a result - it'd sound like cricket (wordplay)

Filth in America is up - it's past the time to be chirpy

Make some noise as cricket result tad surprising, India's opener caught

STRIPE to mark with distinct bands

Floor show perhaps and drinks in bar

Act that's taking off (wordplay)

1996 Demi Moore movie

Essay penned by school square, a killer

Rat poison

Bitter poison

AUDIBLE able to be heard

Of or pertaining to a subject.

""LICENSE to issue or grant authoritative permission to, also LICENCE""

Capable of being sublimed or sublimated.

Meekly obedient

Writing 'Yours obediently' under a letter (wordplay)

Communication on warship that's prepared to surrender

""PRIMATE any of an advanced order of mammals, also PRIMATAL""

Programmer's reusable code

Part of a computer program

SCIENCE knowledge obtained by observation and experiment

""SEIZURE the act of seizing, also SEISURE""

Sinking of land, maybe due to mining

Settling loans, I get spoken of as thick

Settling down with advance team, getting directions to capture castle, initially

Fill in (for)

Go in (for)

Put in place of another

Seeking to undermine

Revolutionary

VISIBLE something that can be seen

Win I have running

Hit I have in a regular series

Following one another

Tending to imply

Implying something rude

hinting at something indecent

SULPHUR a non metallic element

Adjective meaning resembling

It's too hot!

Best season for adders (wordplay)

Adder having a stretch when it's warm

English word

See Peroxide. Peroxide.

SUPPLE to make {pliant=adj}

In earnest, praying for special pun to be concocted

Beg kitty to lie about with wild pups

Sue being agile, catching one pet (wordplay)

Pray humbly

Providing help

Playful, keeping up with helpful intentions

Frisky about being at university, maintaining a loyal interest

Mathematics A function that is onto.

SURVIVE to remain in existence

Noun (-ance)

Susceptible.

""Tending to suspend, or to keep in suspense; causing interruption or delay; uncertain; doubtful.""

SWITCH to beat with a flexible rod

Balance the proportions

Introduce regularity

Offer condolences to poor Amish types

Express fellow feeling

Show concern for leaders of Scotland Yard made to quickly touch on his point

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

SYNCRETISE

SYNCRETIZE

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

Combine into a complex whole.

Form by combining elements

Put together said evil article on weak glue

""SATIRIZE to subject to satire, also SATIRISE""

That may be satisfied.

Form a sect

""Any of several chiefly tropical trematode worms of the genus Schistosoma, many of which are parasitic in the blood of humans and other mammals. Also called bilharzia , blood fluke .""

German folk dance (Scotch in German)

Dance similar to the polka

Polka-like, 19th century German dance

Sparkle - elastic lint (anagram)

Emit flashes of light

Show many flashes of light

""A thick, syrupy, colorless alkaloid, C 17 H 21 NO 4 , extracted from plants such as henbane and used primarily as a mydriatic and sedative, and to treat nausea and prevent motion sickness. Also called hyoscine .""

SEGREGATE Separate; select.

""Something claimed or taken by virtue of sovereign prerogative; specifically, a charge or toll deducted from bullion brought to a mint to be coined; the difference between the cost of a mass of bullion and the value as money of the pieces coined from it.""

Like some hospital service

Like two-bed hospital rooms

Old age.

Silkworm raising.

Silkworm breeding

In working order

Fit for use

Functional

English word

Kind of diplomacy

Tugged-on thing

An ace may be up it

Same as Fibrolite. Fibrolite.

To make singular or single; to distinguish.

SKELETON the supporting bone structure of a body

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

""A polished, striated rock surface caused by one rock mass sliding over another in a fault plane.""

Zinc ore

Suspect seen burying thief's knife

Large knife

Old knife

""(Military / Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) a telescope with crosshairs mounted on a sniper's rifle""

English word

Make solo stage speech

Air bed in square 10 is somehow losing air badly? Have words with oneself

Do a Shakespearean bit

Talk to oneself

Talk to oneself.

Adjective meaning resembling

Concrete, as complaints

Conjecturing - high-risk

Based on conjecture

Disagreement I have about iffy clue involving guesswork

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

""A red to brownish-red mineral of the garnet group, Mn 3 Al 2 (SiO 4 ) 3 .""

A manganesian variety of garnet.

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

Adjective meaning resembling

Diminutive form

Having or evidencing a refined mind and wit.

""(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 ]""

SPORULATE

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

Idea strand? (anagram)

Make uniform and a dress with it, possibly

'Get up, get up!', to welcome duke's regiment

Create norms for

Cause to conform to a norm

Make identical

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

To manoeuvre (the puck) deftly in ice hockey

Invigorating.

Stretch fabric for making bandages etc

Stretchy fabric

""A long piece of timber, forming a margin or edge of any piece of construction; esp.:""

CURATIVE something that cures

IRRIGATE to water by canals or watercourses

Mood of verbs

LITERATE one who can read and write

That can be immersed in or can remain under water: a submergible electric frying pan; a submergible research vehicle.

Small underwater craft

""A number or quality which is contained in another an exact number of times, or is an aliquot part of it; thus, 7 is the submultiple of 56, being contained in it eight times. submultiple of 56, being contained in it eight times.""

""OPTIMIZE to make as effective as possible, also OPTIMISE""

In a lesser role.

Lower in rank

Of less importance

Means of supporting life

Kind of farming

Means of survival

(Of rank) permanent

Having a firm basis in reality

Important, meaningful

""Tending, or having power, to subtract.""

""URBANISE to cause to take on urban characteristics, also URBANIZE""

Bishop and pope occupying hotel rooms? One has a trek to town centre

""URBANIZE to cause to take on urban characteristics, also URBANISE""

""VOCALIZE to produce with the voice, also VOCALISE""

Tending or able to choke or stifle.

Its blue eggs (anagram) - easily influenced

Any of a group of organic sulfur compounds containing the radical SO 2 NH 2 and including the sulfa drugs.

Place something over something else

Place one over another

Place over

Introduce in addition

Highest in quality

Of the highest degree or quality

Of the highest degree

English word

""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.""

English word

English word

News media first raised matter Nutmeg's aiming to cover up

Tending to stop drink with reporters I have cut short

Tending to suppurate; promoting suppuration.

Prone (to)

Easily swayed by feelings

Liable to fall victim

It's a bus lane (anagram)

Able to be kept going

Able to be maintained

""A whiffletree, or whippletree. See Singletree. Singletree.""

Flick knife (US)

West Side Story prop

West Side Story weapon

To form or divide into syllables; to syllabify.

Cause to happen at the same time

Shy censor in scramble to concur in time

Occur at the same time

Cause to mesh

""SYNCOPATE To contract, as a word, by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; as, "Gloster" is a syncopated form of "Gloucester." as, "Gloster" is a syncopated form of "Gloucester."""

SYSTEMATISE

""To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas. as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas.""

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a salamander; enduring fire.""

SANCTION to authorize

""Capable of conversion into soap; as, a saponifiable substance. as, a saponifiable substance.""

English word

""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.""

To imbue with sectarian feelings; to subject to the control of a sect.

SEDIMENT to settle in the bottom of a liquid

FLEXIBLE able to be bent

Fruits (spelled backward) + Repeat = (wordplay)

Elite stream inappropriate - one is coming in barely able to read and write

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

(In blood test) showing no virus present

Showing a positive reaction to a test on blood serum for a disease; exhibiting seroconversion.

SEXTUPLE to make six times as great

Importance; meaning

Importance, meaning

Notice I intended to limit chapter's importance

See Sylviculture. Sylviculture.

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

""To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize soul. as, to spiritualize soul.""

Hand tool used to draw lines (2 words)

Line-drawing tool

Tool for drawing a perfect line

""A horizontal band in a building, forming a part of the design, whether molded, projecting, or carved, or in any way distinguished from the rest of the work.""

Very old fossil in sedimentary rocks

Mineral Sr C O 3; attention, sir (anagram)

Group reporting to a larger one

Group responsible for water-based craft has a job answering to others

Underground organisation possibly returns transport to council

DIVIDABLE Capable of being divided; divisible.

SUBINFEUD

SUBJECTIVE Of or pertaining to a subject.

SUBJECTIVE Of or pertaining to a subject.

Of greatly reduced size

""SATELLITE An attendant attached to a prince or other powerful person; hence, an obsequious dependent.""

Subordinate in capacity or function.

Prove truth of (charge)

Prove to be true

Prove the truth of

Tending to afford or furnish a substitute; making substitution; capable of being substituted.

""A sulfa drug, C 10 H 10 N 4 O 2 S, used in the treatment of toxoplasmosis and other infections.""

""SUMMARIZE To comprise in, or reduce to, a summary; to present briefly.""

English word

Adjective (-ive)

That may be suppressed.

All eyes perhaps insure evil clan mutate

Watch kept on potential nuclear evils (wordplay)

Covert observation

""Adapted to sustain, strengthen, or corroborate; as, sustentative citations or quotations. as, sustentative citations or quotations.""

The cultivation of forest trees for timber or other purposes; forestry; arboriculture.

""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.""

These kind of membranes I peel off when less new

""(Chemistry / Elements & Compounds) any of certain terpenes whose molecules contain one and a half times as many atoms as a normal terpene. Formula: C 15 H 24 SPELEOTHERAPY (Medicine) a form of treatment for asthma sufferers that takes place in clinics in disused mines, in which the air is free of pollen, dust mites, and the other irritants that provoke an allergic reaction; used to reduce the risk of heart disease""

Betokening or representing by an external sign.

Adjective meaning resembling

SPLENECTOMIZE

Like a fair player

Playing the game fairly

Has a fair crack at The Greens and, of course, bows out gracefully

Politically skilled and experienced

What diplomats should be.

Politically wise and far-seeing

""A proteolytic enzyme that is produced by hemolytic streptococci, is capable of converting plasminogen to plasmin, and is used medically to dissolve blood clots.""

""STRUCTURAL Of or pertaining to structure; affecting structure; as, a structural error. as, a structural error.""

CATEGORIZE To insert in a category or list; to class; to catalogue.

""COLLEGIATE Of or pertaining to a college; as, collegiate studies; a collegiate society. as, collegiate studies; a collegiate society.""

""DISCIPLINE The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, mental, or moral.""

LITERATURE Learning; acquaintance with letters or books.

""Tending to subordinate; expressing subordination; used to introduce a subordinate sentence; as, a subordinative conjunction. as, a subordinative conjunction.""

SPECIALIZE To mention specialy; to particularize.