2-Letter Words Starting with S

Of or relating to health or the protection of health.

Santolina

Sapodilla

Saprolite

It contains abundant sodium channels

The cytoplasm of a striated muscle fiber.

SARCOSOME

All that a bag can hold

All a bag can hold

Hungary and Bulgaria to the U.S.S.R.

Moon and Telstar

Cold war propaganda weapons.

Period of revelry

Exotic Australian festival

Ancient Roman December festival

Adjective meaning resembling

Growing on rocks.

""SCABROUS roughened with small projections, also SCABRID""

(Of a building) encased for repairs in a temporary framework

Scagliola

Scalloper

Scallop

One way to serve veal

Italian dish consisting of breaded and fried meat in light sauce

Excursion transporting a hundred female partners to watch men? Rascals!

Scalogram

""Small, thinly sliced pieces of meat, especially veal, dredged in flour, sautéed, and served in a sauce.""

SCANDAL to {defame=v}

Shock as canal sides crumble

Shock by impropriety

View Surrealist works by European producing shock

Shock.

Scandal

Shocking Prince "Batman" song (wordplay)

Describing a school at play (wordplay)

Shocking and offensive

Certain timbers.

Throws around axe, starting to topple small beams

Scapolite

Mark on tongue seen before a fever

Injure tongue with a complaint

Disease is to disfigure Roman Adonis, initially

SCATHE to criticize severely

In a bitterly severe way

Alligator or snake? (Hint: Read letters 4-8 last!)

Rough, entertaining article using bitter remarks

SCENICAL {scenic=adj}

Scheduler

Schedule

Scheelite

Old money useless ultimately, horrifying society

Inept ones: Slang

Inept ones Slang

Yiddish chumps

Schlep

Schlump

Schmaltz

Schmalzy

Some breaded cutlets

Veal cutlets

Head's unwelcome visitors after school: without enthusiasm, one leaves cutlets

Schnorkel

Schnozzle

Relating to education

Pedant and stoic clash violently

Clash with stoic could be academic

Commentators, muddled as Holst (sic)

Medieval glossographers lash stoics indiscriminately

Schoolbag

Volume of students (wordplay)

Student's text

Teaching aid

All Eton students

They have a lot of ties to their classes

Train ophthalmologist, initially, to cut next to small pupils

In form miss (wordplay)

Metaphorically giddy one

She may learn a thing or two

Schooling

REVILED

Old-style word for a teacher

Teacher, old style.

Any prude or pedant

He's too calm, maybe, for a young peer

Bus-seat sharer, perhaps

Dolphin's friend (wordplay)

Classy place (wordplay)

Teaching space (wordplay)

This has class

English word

Student's chore.

Taking notes, studying, etc

Taking notes, studying, etc.

Slightest bits

Slightest traces

Minute particles

Flashes.

Traces

Showing only surface knowledge.

Scleroma

Sclerose

SCLEROTIA

Sclerotic

Sclerotin

""A hardened body formed by certain fungi, as by the Claviceps purpurea, which produced ergot. Claviceps purpurea, which produced ergot.""

Scolecite

Scollop

SCORNFUL expressing contempt

Consummate cads

Heels

In a disapproving manner

Scrabbler

Scrabbly

Desperately trying to get a handhold

Scraggly

Scrambler

Break-up gift (wordplay)

Get out jewellery for outdoor pursuit

Off-road racing that is circuitous

SCRATCHIE

Scrawly

SCREEN to provide with a concealing partition

The movie industry; Hollywood.

Work on project for film

Script of film with directions

Work that may win an Oscar

What snooker players do, mad folk!

Eccentric fellows Slang.

Eccentric fellows: Slang.

Junk drawers (wordplay)

Scribble

From the law and the prophets, say

From the Bible

Second vault addressed Russia's range of writing

Diseased flour cooked and eaten by Liverpudlian missing drug

Ornamental designs

Ornamentation.

The act or an instance of scrubbing.

Wild expanse

Bushfire locales

Conscientious to a carpenter (wordplay)

Honest or careful

*Guided by strict principles

Rooms for cleaning pots and pans

She could find work a relief

Fates ring the Navy, stretching from pole to pole

Female artist's anxiety about line in cup

Of Praxiteles's art

With fine and regular features, son grew to assume power

Carved

Chiseled

Some Bernini creations

Carver's masterpieces

Define statutes

Scungilli

""The quality or state of being scurrile or scurrilous; mean, vile, or obscene jocularity.""

Unjustifiably defamatory

Grossly insulting

Obscenely slanderous

SCUTELLA scutellum

Having or showing the skill of a practical seaman.

Smoothly made as a one-piece (wordplay)

In an unbroken, flowing way

Capable of being searched.

Impossible to be searched; inscrutable; impenetrable.

AB, perhaps, right for a time

Appropriate for the time of year

Like unsurprising temperatures

SEASON to improve flavour

Get the sailor boy on your side from time to time

For the time there's a sailor on your side

Boy and friend going under water at a certain time of the year

Without succession of the seasons.

SECLUDED seclude

Seclusion

Modular parlor pieces

False clues crop up to sideline belief

Disengage from the faithful? Awful clues result

Doctrine bothering aimless cur

Profane belief in Lear's music melody

A religious school of thought in Church's place

""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.""

Supreme attention to the things of the present life; worldliness.

Make less ecclesiastical

Make worldly

Sedulity

Diligently, painstakingly

Appears to accept poetry generating good taste

What's suitable punishment for schoolboy breaking in is apparent

Propriety

Aria from "Carmen."

Fast Spanish dance

Adjective (-al)

The science of earthquakes.

Selachian

SELECTA a disc jockey

Concert program listing

Sommelier's stock

Results of voting

Discrimination

Moon science

SELFLESS unselfish

Selfness

SEMANTIC pertaining to {meaning=n}

Semblable

Outward appearances

Aspects

Variant of semiology .

Adjective (-al)

Occurring in March and September, say

Like some sales

Occurring every six months

Array of trucks (wordplay)

The result of making a CD (wordplay)

Half a ring (wordplay)

; ;

COLONY a settlement of emigrants in a new land

FEUDAL pertaining to an ancient political and economic system

Round for a foursome (wordplay)

Round of four

Penultimate March Madness round

Semifluid

Not-too-dressy wedding attire

More than casual

Like attire for some weddings

LETHAL something designed to cause death

Half liquid; semifluid.

Semimetal

Stamp sold at a premium

PUBLIC people as a whole

Semisolid

Semivowel

""Coming, or made, or done, once every half week; as, a semiweekly newspaper; a semiweekly trip. as, a semiweekly newspaper; a semiweekly trip.""

YEARLY a once a year publication

Of a Washington group.

Like US upper assembly members

Like some biennial elections

Seneschal

Senility

That which can be sensed

Sensible

The condition or character of one who is sensual; subjection to sensual feelings and appetite; sensuality.

Libertine

Pleasurable indulgence - sexed up element of Jane Austen work (wordplay)

""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.""

SENSUOUS derived from the senses

""Comprising sentences; as, a sentential translation. as, a sentential translation.""

With feeling thrilled, one books into cathedral city

Sentinel

Please try a new version, one at a time

Late payers settle one by one

Individually

Sepiolite

Like the seven-year itch (wordplay)

Like a seven year itch

Recurring every seven years

Dividing the partitions; said of a method of dehiscence in which a pod splits through the partitions and is divided into its component carpels.

One followed by 24 zeros

25-figure figure

Septuple

Sepulcher

Purcell has developed melancholy

Hollow and deep

Purcell has composed, despite being gloomy

""SEPULCHRE The place in which the dead body of a human being is interred, or a place set apart for that purpose; a grave; a tomb.""

Sepulchre

Sepulture

Following in a logical sequence

In consecutive order

Describing 2, 4, 6, 8, etc.

Top player pocketing Arab cash is in parts

Twelve-tone music does, in common with the publishers of Dickens

Serialism

Serialist

SERIALIZE

Serialize

Serology

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

Like Western land, to the pioneers

Community tax payment (wordplay)

Liquidation of village (wordplay)

Sinking fund (wordplay)

Abstract noun (-ity)

Sexology

Masters or Johnson

Masters, say

One followed by 21 zeros

One thousand raised to the seventh power

1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Sextuplet

Sextuple

Turned blue (wordplay)

Like many pop culture images

Sexualize

In full light.

Legendary sword: may yours never grow so!

Adjective meaning resembling

Shallow

Losing depth

In a despicable manner

Most curve-laden

Most curvaceous