2-Letter Words Starting with S

""Pertaining to the sibyls; uttered, written, or composed by sibyls; like the productions of sibyls.""

Mark, notably a single, is desperate

To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish.

Silicula

""(Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Textiles) a fine smooth cotton fabric used for linings, etc. [from silk + -aline, from -oline as in crinoline ]""

English word

Certain sedimentary rock

Type of sedimentary rock

Archaic A simulacrum.

He knows China

Kelvin, journalist in charge? Run away!

Run off hurriedly (colloq.)

See instructions (nonverbal)

Mountain patrol vehicle

Winter transport

""A leaping or jumping movement, especially a gait in which hops and steps alternate.""

Shoptalk, for example

Hybrid term for colorful vocabulary

Colorful vocabulary

Obliquely.

Discontented social worker knowing one's inclined to appear thus

Oblique

Adjective meaning resembling

Resembling hypnosis

Like deli meats

Odious creatures dressed in black may well be cut

SLOGAN a motto adopted by a group

SMOKE to emit a gas or vapour due to burning

Adjective meaning resembling

Very slow, as a pace

Very slow

Sluggish

Twisting

Ophidian

Canadian crystal (wordplay)

It can't be cloned

Hexagonal sign of winter

An avalanche of snow.

""SOCIAL a friendly gathering, also SOCIABLE""

Park Avenue resident.

Claudia Cohen, for example

Prominent attendee at fashionable events

Mix at a party

Convert to public ownership, as industry

English word

Observe with dignity

Bottom of a flatiron

Iron's base

Game for one

Diamond; game for one

*Diamond in an engagement ring, perhaps*

Here or there

At an unspecified location

In an unspecified location

Divination by drawing lots

Fortune-telling

Divine drawing of lots of egrets smeared with oil

Capable of being sounded.

SPALLE the shoulder

Like surplus resources

Spoon-shaped

Was spitting at you of late? That's a bit thick

Expectorated before you get dead and thickened

Capable of being spoken; fit to be spoken.

Pat Eccles recovers sight

Select cap randomly from display

Visually striking performance

Gamble on investments

A gambler will do it to accumulate

Deliberate risk on the markets

Like notes ready to be blown (wordplay)

Kind of income

Like money, there for using - hang staying in the black!

Adjective meaning resembling

SPILL to overflow from a container

Adjective meaning resembling

Having spinules; minutely spiny.

Likely to decay.

Lotus and pear used to produce seeds

""Made, paid, or delivered immediately: a spot sale.""

Get under control

Eliminate fluctuations in

Thwart political unrest abroad, in hegemonic parlance

Type of desk tray

STAGE to produce for public viewing

Adjective meaning resembling

Like white dresses and unfinished wood

Reason for marital breakup (wordplay)

Old fellow's tie (wordplay)

Reason for marital breakup?

That can be asserted Var.

That can be asserted variable

STEALE a handle

Can the beast answer the helm (wordplay)

Equipped with a rudder and wheel, say

Capable of turning

Pass through fire, perhaps

Make safe for use, in a way

Boil, perhaps

""A long slender piece of wood, especially: a. A branch or stem cut from a tree or shrub.""

Fan fire (wordplay)

Stir up trouble? I must after hours!

Opposite of "bore."

Specify as a condition or requirement

Specify, as in a contract

Specify as an essential part

Reserve supply (of weapons)

Hoard standard carpeting material

Government reserve supply

Unlike a juggernaut

Strobila

Parasitic threadworm

""The uninterrupted and continuous flat band, coping, or pavement upon which the bases of a row of columns are supported. See Subbase. Subbase.""

Beyond the foothills

Just below the treeline

Below the treeline

Redirect (feelings) into safer channels

Purify, in a way

Transform into a purer form

SAMPLE to test a specimen of

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

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

""SULFONE a sulfur compound, also SULPHONE""

Any of various organic compounds that contain a sulfinyl group.

SULFUR a non metallic element

Oman, for one

Brunei, for one

Eccentric late aunt's land

Ultra-efficient but could be bettered

Setter of the highest quality (wordplay)

What never lets go (wordplay)

Result of trying to invent a gun sight

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

English word

Belt proclaiming a Knight Bachelor

Saddle girth.

Strap for holding saddle on animal's back

Like the English Channel, for some endurance athletes

Adjective meaning resembling

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.""

Represent, stand for

Represent or be a sign of

Represent

Uncle Sam's retinae (wordplay)

Represent by a marking, for example

Stand for

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

A salt of salicylic acid.

Adjective meaning resembling

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

Shock as canal sides crumble

Shock by impropriety

View Surrealist works by European producing shock

Shock.

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

Bus-seat sharer, perhaps

Dolphin's friend (wordplay)

English word

Slightest bits

Slightest traces

SCREEN to provide with a concealing partition

The act or an instance of scrubbing.

SCUTELLA scutellum

Having or showing the skill of a practical seaman.

Capable of being searched.

AB, perhaps, right for a time

Appropriate for the time of year

Like unsurprising temperatures

False clues crop up to sideline belief

Disengage from the faithful? Awful clues result

Make less ecclesiastical

Make worldly

SELECTA a disc jockey

Array of trucks (wordplay)

The result of making a CD (wordplay)

Half a ring (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.""

Like Western land, to the pioneers

Adjective meaning resembling

Fish with a useful proboscis (wordplay)

Fish with a useful proboscis?

Adjective meaning resembling

SHRINK to contract or draw back

A drug or other agent that increases the flow of saliva.

A kind of meteorite. See under Meteorite. Meteorite.

Like a lady up but not over (wordplay)

One way to ride a horse.

Teams go off riding in unorthodox manner

Side line for the artist (wordplay)

Dark art (wordplay)

It can be a relief

Joint team coming second (wordplay)

Meat for Olympic runners-up (wordplay)

Joint Argentine XI

Prizes for runners-up (wordplay)

Articles stashed by vacationers

This puzzle's theme

Nearly identical quality

Resemblance or semblance

Lack of distinction limited us, I recollected

Assuming an appearance.

Bar to which traces are fastened.

Bar on a wagon

Lone family chart found with harness

Remove excess fat

Reduce in size

Vehicle with skilike runners

Vehicle with runners

Sleigh for today's grandma

Expressed concern about idiot's clue!

Concern of many in a lonely place

Care, concern

SOLUBILISE

SOLUBILIZE

Dropping off lemon scone that's cooked

Sleepiness comes on Len unexpectedly

Drowsiness.

Musical impersonator at MoMA (wordplay)

What homonyms do

See Spatulate. Spatulate.

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

Concentrate on expertise in unique island with endless sunshine finally

Work in a limited field.

Major in

""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

""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.

SPREAD to stretch over an area

Like some February days

Vernal

Having little scales; squamellate; squamulate.

Squishy, as paper towels

Compressible object inviting a hug (wordplay)

One to horse around with (wordplay)

Reliable spouse (wordplay)

Level-headed groom?

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

""Made or introduced by statute; proceeding from an act of the legistature; as, a statutable provision or remedy. as, a statutable provision or remedy.""

""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.""

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

Make more efficient, perhaps

Reshape to make lean mister (wordplay)

Make more efficient

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

AUDIBLE able to be heard

COLLEGE a school of higher learning

Group customs in U-boats (wordplay)

Hip-hop, for example

Division of society

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

Capable of being sublimed or sublimated.

Capable of being subsumed.

VISIBLE something that can be seen

Tasty juiciness

Juiciness

Able to suffer or endure; patient.

SULPHUR a non metallic element

Adjective meaning resembling

SUMMON to order to appear

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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

""Capable of being supposed, or imagined to exist; as, that is not a supposable case. as, that is not a supposable case.""

""Surplus; excess; overplus; as, surplusage of grain or goods beyond what is wanted. as, surplusage of grain or goods beyond what is wanted.""

SURVIVE to remain in existence

SWITCH to beat with a flexible rod

Buying guides (wordplay)

They're often in the field

Clerks.

""Pl. salmonellae (-n l ) or salmonellas or salmonella Any of various rod-shaped bacteria of the genus Salmonella, many of which are pathogenic, causing food poisoning, typhoid, and paratyphoid fever in humans and other infectious diseases in domestic animals.""

Like some sunken ships

""A fellow without breeches; a ragged fellow; a name of reproach given in the first French revolution to the extreme republican party, who rejected breeches as an emblem peculiar to the upper classes or aristocracy, and adopted pantaloons.""

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

That may be satisfied.

Building for teaching

Place of learning

Building used for teaching

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 .""

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.""

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.

Adjective meaning resembling

Having or evidencing a refined mind and wit.

SPORULATE