2-Letter Words Starting with S

A lamp having one or more color filters allowing moderate darkroom illumination without affecting photosensitive film or paper.

Savory

Scabby

Word for some bikinis

Most revealing form of cattiness

Like an ecdysiast's attire

Scarry

Most mindless

Scriptwriter moving actress in

Certain screenwriter

Movie plotter

Schizy

A maker of scholia; a commentator or annotator.

Van Allen, for one

Labour in lab for one

There was a new ton for one

Maximally wacky

Most absurd

Group on board beset by rest finally dismissed as extremely eccentric

Like the greenest pond

Scurfy

Scurvy

Scuzzy

Most fitting

Like the posture of prehistoric man

Not standing tall

Like early hominid posture

MOIST to wet slightly

Like some chocolate chips

Like some chocolate

Like chocolate chips used for baking

Male's subconscious feeling (wordplay)

Test men in, say, emotion

Living without Mike? There's a thought!

Dickens was one

Schoenberg or Berg, musically

Writer for a TV drama, for example

Shabby

Most in need of a haircut

Believer in good and evil spirits

Sheeny

Shelly

Shelvy

Shifty

Shirty

Shoaly

Most likely to collapse

Most carelessly done

Least workmanlike

List of final candidates

Place for a select group

Applicants selected from a larger group

Often sexist superlative

Sickly

Small illumination (on car)

Not light in the head in the car

Incidental information in window by door

Silent

Program on radio and TV at same time.

It's carried by radio and TV

Concurrent program airing

Most deeply felt

Least affected after sleep

...because support's most honest

Skiddy

Providing the least coverage

Shortest dance embracing maiden that's missing date

Cheeseparer to remove outside of stone

Means one's mean and stony

Mean man to hide stone

Skinny

Clingy, in a way (wordplay)

Very close-fitting

(Of garment) very close-fitting

Slaggy

Most addicted to jive.

Least formal

Most flimsy.

Most lowbrow

Sleeky

Most ready for a nap

Most soporific

Most drowsy

Descriptive of some winter weather.

Most hazardously icy

Most wintry.

Tiniest moan about large cricket match

Least tight, less loose

Very trifling but cunning-sounding exam

Slimsy

The Y in "Angry Birds" (wordplay)

No slights (anagram) - catapult (US)

Catapult - thin gloss (anagram)

Most stealthy

Slippy

Slobby

Most abhorrent to Felix Unger

Like a perfect sandwich of a sort (wordplay)

Most messy

Most splashy.

Sludgy

Slummy

Slushy

Slutty

Least sincere

Most unctuous

Most ingratiating

Most messy, as makeup

Least waterproof, as mascara

Most bedaubed.

Most likely to cause wrinkling

Most like some cheeses

Most noisome

Smirky

Smoggy

Smudgy

Most dirty, kinky sex sandwiches topless model

Snaggy

Making inept pass, gets most irascible

Most like Dorothy Parker's comebacks

Like the one speaking most irritably

Snarky

Snarly

Maximally chi-chi

Flashier than all others

Least trustworthy

Most indirect

Sneezy

Sniffy

Rude and terse to the max

Most curt

Bent boss I found corrupt and most haughty

New leisure pursuits in East End disrupting road, with most affected

Most meddlesome

Most stuck-up

Maximally pompous

Most snobbish

Snoozy

Snotty

Snouty

Winter storm consequence

Bunch of flakes

Road blocker after a winter storm

Snubby

Snuffy

Nickname - Boers quit (anagram)

Byname - Boers quit (anagram)

Person's nickname

Marx, for one

Politician of the left

Thomas or Bevan.

One who knows his own mind (wordplay)

First person singular (wordplay)

One egoistically self-absorbed

Sparky

Sparry

Arms factory (wordplay)

Chewing-gum flavor

Man with priest relaxed chewing gum

Least time-wasting.

'Oh yeah ... uh-huh'

Exceeding all in expedition

Sphery

Most polished

Fine snow driven by the wind

Spray blown along surface of sea

Spray blown from the crests of waves

Science fiction novel by Timothy Zahn

Web-making part of a spider

Spider's organ

Seance medium, for example

Most moist and soft

Most hair-raising

Most eerie

Spoony

Most dapper

Superlatively stylish

It brightens up a performance

Stage actor may be in it

Flimsy blouse held up in public eye

Most uneven, as a performance

Most erratic

Sprucy

Most spirited

Squint

Staggy

Stalky

Juicy treat from Southeast Asia

Edible Malaysian export

Sweet treat from Southeast Asia

Planetarium re-creation

Sailor bitten by little rays

Dim night-time illumination

Most brilliant small time lags inside

Like the clearest nights

Describing Old Glory.

Still the most (wordplay)

Best-balanced - it's sedate (anagram)

Best on the balance beam, maybe

Most like a sauna

Setting me a test is very sexy

Most vaporous

With the most nerve

Most like Superman

Most hard and cold

Stemmy

A sterilizing agent.

Most awkwardly difficult

Most viscous

Stilly

Viagra perhaps, man with lust it excited

Pick-me-up

Most likely an illegal influence

Most tight

Most closefisted

Most Scroogelike

Maximally malodorous

Most mephitic

Most foul

""A dish formed of oatmeal boiled in water to a certain consistency and frequently stirred, or of oatmeal and dripping mixed together and stirred about in a pan; a hasty pudding.""

Stocky

Elastic knitted fabric

Store at home with film material

Material traditional in film

Stodgy

Terribly stilted, so most uninspiring

Doctor so stilted and most unemotional

Don't go there!

Part of the street scene.

Device on rear of motor vehicle.

Tries most (anagram)

Sort items out, most foul

Sort items out, as most rough

Strait

Strawy

Schoolmarmish to the extreme

Most unwavering

Maximally inflexible

Delete in the ball park (wordplay)

Erase the baseball batter!

Go down swinging

Severe, rigorous, attention to rules say

Of rule, say strict and precise

As a rule there's cord over the net

No more tigerish priests in dispute with it

Stubby

Studly

Stuffy

Stumpy

Least likely Mensa candidate

Most moronic

Superlatively dense

Most strongly built

Most robust

Best built

Sublime

It's written below the line

Underlines (wordplay)

Like the 2 in B2

Subtil

Most cloying

Most sweet

Most steamy

Superlatively sexy

One who begs humbly

One making an appeal

One praying for a favour

Most mucky

Most imposingly fashionable

Most elegant

Fighting a judge is, in a way, opposing imperialism

Most in need of a shower, perhaps

Sweepy

""One of a series of flat, fringed, and usually bilobed, appendages, of which several pairs occur on the abdominal somites of many crustaceans. They are used as fins in swimming.""

Swimmy

Swingy

Swirly

Swishy

SYLLOGISE

Baudelaire, for example

Person who says one thing and means another

Writer who uses imagery to evoke ideas an orchestra member articulated

Doctor syringes patient finally to deliver drug

Saintly

Savoury

Schizzy

Most rough, as cliffs

Roughest

Most argumentative

Most quarrelsome

Rubbish heaps left out in street that's extremely messy

Scrawly

Most waif-like, as a runway model

Most undernourished, unprepared to bite into dodgy insects

Scrimpy

Scroggy

Scrubby

Most unkempt

""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.""

Rather arid region

Area of limited growth

Habitat for some scorpions

""A member of, or one educated in, a seminary; specifically, an ecclesiastic educated for the priesthood in a seminary.""

SECRET something that is kept from the knowledge of others

Sensible

Libertine

One who advocates secession

One who would break up a union

One advocating political autonomy

""Pl. serologies The science that deals with the properties and reactions of serums, especially blood serum.""

Masters or Johnson

Masters, say

Most mysterious

Most curve-laden

Most curvaceous

Skilled craftsman (wordplay)

A worker who knows his craft (wordplay)

Craftsman cracking whip's not mistaken

English word

American word for a woman's blouse

Shrieky

Shrimpy

Shrubby

Tops in lovely views

""The act of signaling, or of signalizing; hence, description by peculiar, appropriate, or characteristic marks.""

Expert on China

Student of China

Least helpful, as a description

Most scanty? Stick with these pants

Slimpsy

Slouchy

Sloughy

Smutchy

Snatchy

Snuffly

One who solicits.

SOLIDARE a small coin