2-Letter Words Starting with S

SAMPLE to test a specimen of

Subscale

Subshell

Subskill

""SOCIAL a friendly gathering, also SOCIABLE""

Subsoil

SUBSOIL to plow the layer of earth below the surface

""SUBTILE insidious, also SUBTLE""

Subtil

Subtilin

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

With captions below

Like many foreign films

Low notes (wordplay)

Feature on some Blu-Rays

English words on foreign films.

Pretax sums, for example

Accountant's figures, sometimes

Sums of some figures

VASSAL a person holding land in return for homage and allegiance

VISUAL something that illustrates by pictures of diagrams

Subworld

Succinyl

Lush's drink, say - endless rum supplied

Full of juice

Cactus, e.g

Suckling

SUCTION to remove by sucking

""Adapted for sucking; living by sucking; as, the humming birds are suctorial birds. as, the humming birds are suctorial birds.""

Sufflate

Sufflate

Like most diet sodas

Soda descriptor

Mountain of Rio de Janeiro.

Conical sweetener of old

Rio's mountain

Tchaikovsky's sweetie (wordplay)

Nutcracker fairy type

Sweet or sweetener

Any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of sulfate esters and are found in animal tissues and bacteria.

Sulfate

Sulfinyl

""SULFONE a sulfur compound, also SULPHONE""

""A positive ion or univalent radical containing trivalent sulfur, such as H 3 S.""

Sulfonyl

Any of various organic compounds that contain a sulfinyl group.

Sulfuret

Sulfur

SULFUR a non metallic element

Like some pollutants

Sulfuryl

""The quality or state of being sulky; sullenness; moroseness; as, sulkiness of disposition. as, sulkiness of disposition.""

Filled with the most gloom

Most morose

Sulphate

Salts help us initially to assimilate sugars in a roundabout way

Sulphide

Sulphite

Sulphone

Stop man at newspaper being fumigated

Oman, for one

Brunei, for one

Eccentric late aunt's land

A sultana.

Most steamy

Superlatively sexy

In a summary manner.

Some Coppertone or Neutrogena products

Star bloomer (wordplay)

Symbol of Kansas

Symbol of Kansas.

Sunlight

Sunscald

Ultra-efficient but could be bettered

""SUPER to reinforce with a thin cotton mesh, as a book""

English word

English word

(Chemistry) Chem to cool or be cooled without freezing or crystallization to a temperature below that at which freezing or crystallization should occur. Supercooled liquids are not in equilibrium

Setter of the highest quality (wordplay)

What never lets go (wordplay)

Result of trying to invent a gun sight

Superlie

Superlie

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Genetics) a former name for metamale

""SUPER to reinforce with a thin cotton mesh, as a book""

English word

English word

Takes the place of

Takes the place of what bees do (wordplay)

One may have a vegetarian diet, but this takes the place of it

One who begs humbly

One making an appeal

One praying for a favour

Businessmen in trouble purse lips

Purveyors.

Supply

Supposal

In a supreme manner.

Belt proclaiming a Knight Bachelor

Saddle girth.

Strap for holding saddle on animal's back

""SURFIE one who surfs, also SURFER""

Biliousness, irritability

Sullen churlishness

Right routes to block South American's acerbity

White ecclesiastical vestments with wide sleeves

Marries outside Sumerian city, in religious garments

Public-budget rarities

Good things to run, for businesses

It's nice to run these

""The act of surprising, or state of being surprised; surprise.""

SURREAL having dreamlike qualities

Surroyal

Survival

In a sutural manner.

Snug wrap for a tot

Wrapping tightly

Perhaps swiftly got it down

Accepted without question: Colloq.

Accepted without question Colloq.

Performer with a sword

Waterlogged area

""Any plectognath fish that dilates itself, as the bur fish, puffer, or diodon.""

Terrific leader (wordplay)

Vain or conceited person.

Conceited sort

They're always on the boil

Sings about spring growths

Mumps symptoms

Suffered from great heat

Suffered from excessive heat

Felt the heat

Sweltry

Swiftlet

Like the English Channel, for some endurance athletes

Con artists

Cheaters, frauds

Defrauders, scammers

Taking for a ride

Depriving of by deceit

Shark's skill

Swingle

SWINISH resembling {swine=n}

Swirly

Turning

Turned (as if) on a pin or pivot

Turned and sniffed as son finally left for a week

Swizzler

Swizzle

Adjective meaning resembling

Foiling son by clever verbal repartee!

Fencing - 's my sport (wordplay)

One of D'Artagnan's fortes.

Saber fish (wordplay)

Fish used in genetic research

Popular aquarium fish

""A table of syllables; more especially, a table of the indivisible syllabic symbols used in certain languages, as the Japanese and Cherokee, instead of letters.""

Syllabic

To form or divide into syllables.

Uttered: poet

Two of seven (wordplay)

Two of diamonds (wordplay)

Unit of spoken language

Frothy desserts

Course for which one must bring in black dishes

Semi-set puddings made from cream, eggs and spices

""Grammar the use of a word with the same syntactic relation to two adjacent words, in a literal sense with one and a metaphorical sense with the other, as in “the ships collided, and the sailors and many dreams were drowned.” ; sylleptic,""

Figure of speech; zeugma

""Pl. syllepses (-s z) A construction in which a word governs two or more other words but agrees in number, gender, or case with only one, or has a different meaning when applied to each of the words, as in He lost his coat and his temper.""

Golly, miss out in specious argument

Deductive reasoning

It contains a major and minor premise, and a conclusion

SYLLOGISE

To reason by means of syllogisms.

Graceful and slender

Graceful, shy elk with lip trembling

""A mineral, a telluride of gold and silver, of a steelgray, silverwhite, or brassyellow color. It often occurs in implanted crystals resembling written characters, and hence is called graphic tellurium. graphic tellurium.""

""SYMBOLE a percussion instrument, also CYMBAL""

Represent, stand for

Represent or be a sign of

Represent

Sign language (wordplay)

Use of metaphors

Mystical artistic and poetic movement

Baudelaire, for example

Person who says one thing and means another

Writer who uses imagery to evoke ideas an orchestra member articulated

Uncle Sam's retinae (wordplay)

Represent by a marking, for example

Stand for

Symbol

'The Da Vinci Code' field

Having united petals; gamopetalous.

""Composed of superposed branches in such a way as to imitate a simple axis; as, a sympodial stem. as, a sympodial stem.""

Pertaining to Jewish religion

Associated with a shul

""A contraction of syllables by suppressing some vowel or diphthong at the end of a word, before another vowel or diphthong; as, th' army, for the army. as, th' army, for the army.""

""Inclined downward from opposite directions, so as to meet in a common point or line.""

Syncline

SYNCYTIA syncytium

""Of or pertaining to a synod; transacted in, or authorized by, a synod; as, synodical proceedings or forms.as, synodical proceedings or forms.""

Contractile

Mexican plants.

Leave of absence.

Period of leave for university teacher

John Barth's leave

Furnished with little sacs.

Lead actors dressed for the priesthood (wordplay)

Unusual actors' deal concerning priesthood

Like a priest's attire, making a lot scared unfortunately

Sackcloth

Sacrilege

Joint at the base of the spine

A joint in the lower back

Strong pelvic joint

They hold a biker's stuff

Horseman's gear.

Pony-express pouches

Saddlebow

SADDLE to put a leather seat for a rider on a horse

SADDLE to put a leather seat for a rider on a horse

Saddlery

It's backing horse to muddle through most of the way

Safelight

Safflower

SAGITTAL resembling an arrow

Sailboard

SAILBOAT a boat with sails

Sailcloth

Sailfish

SAILPLANE

SAILPLANE

Sailplane

Saintly

The quality or condition of being salable; salableness.

Salacity

Tailed amphibian related to the newt

Lizard-like amphibian

Mythical fire lizard

One being counter-productive (wordplay)

Cash register operator

Store employee

Some clerks

Merchandise display areas

Pitching staff work areas

Where pitchers are often placed

Like Loman, but no Willy!

Lingerie clerk, perhaps

She flogs males now, as ordered

Avon peddlers, traditionally

Some clerks

Business personnel

A salt of salicylic acid.

Saliency

Salinity

Salinize

Showing anticipation, in a way

Licking one's chops

Anticipatory reaction

Mouth-watering mixture of oils in a vat

Mouth-watering violins at a jig

Pavlovian response

Salivator

The quality or condition of being sallow.

Mixed salad prepared in island (Guam)

Amusing lad playing medley

Grand mixed salad

Your food inspector (wordplay)

A cause of food poisoning

Bacteria associated with food poisoning

Salmonoid

Salometer

Lively Italian dance with a hop step

Around devotional feature promote love for dance

Advancements by leaps and bounds

Saltbush

Small table dish

Diner's sprinkler

Part of a table setting

Saltness

Niters

Condiment holder on the table (2 words)

It's turned upside down when used

Half a dinner table duo

Conducive to health.

Health-giving; (of a place) not run-down

Wholesome, healthy

SALUTE to greet with a sign of respect

Start of a formal letter

It may be strange to us, a Latin greeting

Victoria, say, welcoming almost everyone with posh greeting

Opening address

Salvarsan

Salvation

""Of or relating to a gamopetalous corolla having a slender tube and an abruptly expanded limb, as in phlox.""

Sandal

Clog material (wordplay)

Huarache material (wordplay)

Tree used for making footwear (wordplay)

Removes paint, in a way

Scours Sweden and Belgium to meet foot models

Rubber plant found by the shore

Defamation gets student sent down for flier

Kid who plays neighborhood baseball

SANGUINE to stain with blood