2-Letter Words Starting with S

Got out of hand

Got out of control

Expanded rapidly.

Successor to the shovel.

Winter road machine

Blizzard cleanup machine

Snowfield

Breakfast cereal for skiers (wordplay)

They come down to Earth

2001 Toni Braxton Christmas album

Vehicle with skilike runners

Vehicle with runners

Sleigh for today's grandma

Snowplow

Snowslide

Snuffly

SOCIALISE

Socialise

Socialism

Britain's political leaders.

Party for winner of last trials left politicians

Anyway, about this secretive government group's itemized documents... (wordplay)

Ones at debutante balls

Converted to public ownership

SOCIALIZE To render social.

Socialize

SOCIETAL pertaining to a {society=n}

""The study of human social behavior, especially the study of the origins, organization, institutions, and development of human society.""

Associations or brotherhoods

Orders from FA reduced international matches

SOFTBALL a type of ball

Softshell

Comfort to one in grief

Solarise

Solarize

Soldiery

Soldier

Solecise

Unschooled

Solecize

Dignified

Solemnize

Gravity

Soleness

Of a conductor

Flatiron parts

Solfatara

Solfeggio

One who solicits.

Touting for work (as a prostitute)

Lawyers, to Brits

Unwelcome doorbell ringers, often

Dodson and Fogg, in "Pickwick Papers."

Lobby around America showing concern

Showing concerned attention

Concerned over America, therefore allowed to go first

Expressed concern about idiot's clue!

Concern of many in a lonely place

Care, concern

SOLIDARE a small coin

SOLIDARE a small coin

Team spirit is adroitly created

Part one of a Labour anthem

Mutual support within a group

Went hard

Solidify

Solidity

Solipsism

Solipsist

Diamond settings

Some diamonds

Rings.

Thus illuminated sign for people living alone

Separately, singly

Solonchak

Solonets

Solonetz

""SOLONETZ a type of soil, also SOLONETS""

Of or pertaining to a solstice.

SOLUBILISE

""The quality, condition, or degree of being soluble or solvable; as, the solubility of a salt; the solubility of a problem or intricate difficulty. as, the solubility of a salt; the solubility of a problem or intricate difficulty.""

SOLUBILIZE

Solvation

Solvency

Plural or third person singular

A chemical reaction in which the solute and solvent react to form a new compound.

A chemical reaction in which the solute and solvent react to form a new compound.

The dictrine or the science of the general properties of material substances; somatics.

Turnover from two seasons, say

Gymnast's specialty, perhaps

Gymnast's specialty

Port authorities (wordplay)

Wine service managers

Wine stewards

Dropping off lemon scone that's cooked

Sleepiness comes on Len unexpectedly

Drowsiness.

SONGLESS without songs

In ringing fashion

In a soothing manner.

""A crisp, puffy, deep-fried pastry often served with honey or syrup.""

Sopapilla

Sortilege

In a soulless manner.

Musical impersonator at MoMA (wordplay)

What homonyms do

SOUNDING the action of determining depth of water

SOURCE to originate from

Southland

Souvlakia

Sowbelly

Certain tethered strolls

SPACIOUS ample in extent

SPALLE the shoulder

SPANCEL to bind with a rope

Spancel

Spangly

Sparkly

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V-8's octet

They fire the spirit of motorists

See Spatulate. Spatulate.

""SPATIAL pertaining to space, also SPACIAL""

Special

Train in a particular area requiring less pace, one twice derailed

Concentrate on expertise in unique island with endless sunshine finally

Strong subject

Circling island, misplaces cultivated field

Place-kicker, for example

Cracking pace is set by heel, an expert

Expert of a sort

Expert's skill or interest

Particular work to be done in a field

Person's particular skill

Work in a limited field.

Major in

""SPECIOUS plausible, but inaccurate""

Marked beast, much loved, taken round Britain on display

Sights for sore eyes (wordplay)

De Mille specialties

Eyewear for Grandpa

In the form or manner of a specter.

SPECULAR relating to a speculum

Put one's thinking cap on

Took risks

Considered options, then played the market

Theorises; takes financial risks

Conjectures

Guesses

Risky market trader, ponderous type

Second embezzler is better

Adirondack ski center.

Unable to say anything

Dumbfounded, say

Dumbfounded (wordplay)

Speedball

Plants make water to live on board

Hurry to small city to see flowering plants

Science of cave exploring

Study of caves

Scientific study of caves

Entrances

B..O..U..N..D (wordplay)

Give the letters a leap - how enchanted!

Absorbed by B-O-U-N-D, perhaps

Cave men, of sorts

Cave men of today.

Underground hobby (wordplay)

Tell about gym bumbler exploring caves

Exploration of caves as a hobby

SPERMATIA

""An arsenide of platinum occuring in grains and minute isometric crystals of tinwhite color. It is found near Sudbury, Ontario Canada, and is the only known compound of platinum occuring in nature.""

Mineral lets delicate little person keep healthy

Sphenoid.

Nearly globe-shaped

Resembling a globe.

Fashion from Dior's a help with a round figure

""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.

Game, also called jackstraws

Game without kids (in bed?) is engaging relations

Rejected fielders admit enjoyin' the game

They slop out of buckets

Most long, thin and frail-looking

Tell tales about duke on starter of tempura being least fat

Unsteadily slips with entry - like an old maid (wordplay)

Of or pertaining to a spiracle.

Spiral

In a lively manner

The universe of Blackmore and Vidal

Not at all lively without fire-water

'Medium' hopefully not so droopy

'Go Down, Moses' and others

Mahalia Jackson forte

Songs of a sort.

With malice aforethought

That's with Ma, lice

With malice

""Any of various leaping, homopterous insects of the family Cercopidae, the nymphs of which form frothy masses of liquid on plant stems. Also called froghopper , spittle insect .""

Of or pertaining to the viscera; visceral.

A drop in the ocean

Flight ending for some

Certain Apollo landing

Like the greatest show on earth (wordplay)

Made a mess, maybe

Splashed (all over the place)

Sloshed water on.

Spleeny

Small fern once used medicinally

Small fern that grows in rosettes on rocks and walls

Splendid

Magnificently

Having no children, bestow identity on couple from Lyon with much magnificence

At sea, so plunders magnificent stuff

Fork out about fifty on excursions with no time for such wonders

Great light or luster; brilliance.

Splenetic

Spleuchan

Cracked lips, tender perhaps

Broke into small, sharp pieces

Fragmented

Splotchy

Splotch

Splurgy

Records spinning, said remarks thus indistinct (wordplay)

Struggled to get words out when rushed to grasp line, say

One who splutters.

One who won't play (wordplay)

Rewards of victory, plus drink? Misery!

Troops slip over wet blanket

Spoliate

Plundering

If one ails, this potion may be the ruination of one

Spoliator

Failing prison also for godparents

Pertaining to a patron.

Pet notes for fliers

Ibis relatives

Kiss-and-cuddle accounts are for the birds

SPORANGIA

SPORICIDE

A leaf or leaflike organ that bears spores.

SPORTFUL {playful=adj}

In sport; sportively.

In fun

SPORULATE

Sporulate

SPOTLESS {clean=adj}

Focuses on insults about belly

Stage illuminators

Strong beams

Spraddle

Sprattle

Sprawly

SPREAD to stretch over an area

Full of spirit or of life; earnest; vivacious; lively; brisk; nimble; gay.

Springald

Like some February days

Vernal

Primitive jumping insect

Tiny, jumpy insect

Small 18 ac

High level fire fighters (wordplay)

Kids might run through them

Lawn gear.

Occasionally super idea shows dash

Cast about to dress up and dash

A little shy around groom

Spritsail

Spurgall

SPURIOUS not genuine

*Hand-held telescopes

Crow's-nest instruments

Crow's-nest telescopes

They're given to spats

Contentious ones

Pigeon's adornment (wordplay)

Young bird, showy and argumentative

Bickering

Squalid

Squally

Squamosal

Having little scales; squamellate; squamulate.

SQUARISH somewhat square

Squishy, as paper towels

Compressible object inviting a hug (wordplay)

Squelcher

Squelchy

Squelch

More wavy and twisting

Squiggle

Stored up for future use Colloq.

Stored up for future use: Colloq.

Stashed (away).

Eccentric

STABILIZE

STABILIZE

Stabilize