2-Letter Words Starting with S

Picture or diagram showing items as though in 3-D

Sterigma

Stigmatic

""One believed to be supernaturally impressed with the marks of Christ's wounds. See Stigma, 8. Stigma, 8.""

Brand negatively

Malign

Stillroom

Quicker picker-uppers (wordplay)

Amphetamines, for example

They put pep in your step

Let us admit becoming excited

Provoked the senses

Psyched up

Ultimate play set in ship excites

Spurs on.

Time in training device may be encouraging man

Stockroom

Stomacher

Stomachic

Just barely tolerant of

Inflammation of the mouth.

A mantis shrimp, for example

STOMODAEA

Pl. stomodea also stomodaea (-d ) The anterior or oral portion of the alimentary canal of an embryo.

Stomodeum

Foundation builder, perhaps

Block manager (wordplay)

Oliver and Marsha's builder (wordplay)

Shelf-restocking sources

Pantries and tool sheds

Pantries, for example

Cut off, in a way

Held up by weather.

Cut off by the elements.

Tempest's quality

Tempestuous condition

Weather problem

STRABISM a squint

Morton's doctor's squint

Squint condition; Doctor of Utrecht (Beachcomber)

Muscular defect of the eye, rubs it, Sam's upset

Stramash

Stramony

""A poisonous plant (Datura Stramonium); stinkweed. See Datura, and Jamestown weed. Datura Stramonium); stinkweed. See Datura, and Jamestown weed.""

Plans various levels for The Stones

Starts game, playing with tactics

Machinations.

Arranged in layers

Streambed

Streamy

Streaming

Small runners struggle in last metres

Small brooks

Brooks

Make more efficient, perhaps

Reshape to make lean mister (wordplay)

Make more efficient

The land adjacent to a stream.

Illumination on post

Light illuminating road in town

Light malt Peter's brewed

Strewment

Strontium

Second-rate prizefighter

Clumsy clot, second to fall behind

Inept boxer

Superhero who flips out (wordplay)

Bonsai gardener's other job (wordplay)

She's a daredevil in movies

Some action film employees

Passenger car size classification (3,7)

Hertz option

Law distributing sandwiches for free (wordplay)

ECONOMY {thrift=n}

""One of the several primary divisions of either the animal, or vegetable kingdom, as, in zo\'94logy, the Vertebrata, Tunicata, Mollusca, Articulata, Molluscoidea, Echinodermata, C\'d2lentera, and the Protozoa; in botany, the Phanerogamia, and the Cryptogamia.""

Capable of being sublimed or sublimated.

Purified

Sublimate

Kind of TV ad technique

Below the conscious level

Like underhanded advertising

Deputy grabbed by Tuareg, an ambush backfired

""SUBMARINE Being, acting, or growing, under water in the sea; as, submarine navigators; submarine plants. as, submarine navigators; submarine plants.""

Member of the U.S.N.

Member of the navy

One's business is taking a dive

Quartet in Battleships puzzles

Products of Holland's imagination

Sea Wolf and Nautilus.

Submarket

MAXIMAL an element of a mathematical set that is followed by no other

""The sixth tone of the scale; the under mediant, or third below the keynote; the superdominant.""

Submerge

Submerse

Action of putting under water

Maneuver for the Nautilus

MINIMAL an element of a mathematical set that precedes all others

U-boat assignment (wordplay)

Oceanaut's journey (wordplay)

Undersea job (wordplay)

Meekly obedient

Writing 'Yours obediently' under a letter (wordplay)

Communication on warship that's prepared to surrender

Submittal

Submit

MUCOSAE mucosa

MUCOSAL resembling a {mucosa=n}

Submucosa

*Middling or worse

Ballesteros, initially 1 up, almost shot under par

OPTIMUM the most favourable point of any condition

""PRIMATE any of an advanced order of mammals, also PRIMATAL""

PROBLEM a difficult question or situation

PROGRAM to arrange in a plan of proceedings

SAMPLED sample

Subsample

SEGMENT to divide into sections

Low-down layer

Rub at smuts spoiling foundation

Underlayer

Capable of being subsumed.

Parts of a bigger picture

Secondary arrangements

Succumb

Spot for a Turkish bath

Images in a Clement Moore poem

Yuletide visions, a la Moore

S&P stock for kids on Christmas Eve (wordplay)

Sulfonium

Put briefly, tot gets angry when about to get out of bed

Summarise

Did a quick recap of

Digested

Recap writer, for example

Recap giver

Summarize

Compilations

Aggregates.

Summery

Adjective meaning resembling

Lasting three hot months

It's too hot!

Best season for adders (wordplay)

Adder having a stretch when it's warm

Wood that is produced during the latter part of the growing season and is harder and less porous than springwood.

Summiteer

Summitry

SUMMON to order to appear

Summons

Superbomb

Superfarm

Superfirm

Beyond a normal person's power

One with powers over the rest of us

He has power over the rest of us

English word

English word

Supermale

English word

Supermind

Supermini

One charging high runway fees (wordplay)

Iman, for one

Queen of the catwalk (wordplay)

Superpimp

English word

Extremely able female

Alter ego of Kristin Wells

Gifted female.

""A woman who performs all the duties typically associated with several different full-time roles, such as wage earner, graduate student, mother, and wife.""

Add to (something)

Flexible workers start to teach addition

Add to time given to flexible workforce

Overcame (an obstacle)

Overcame

Irrational art form

C 20 art movement

Art of subconscious imagery

A. A seasonally flooded bottomland with more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog.

Everglades, for example

Wet tracts

First to see exotic palm wands in marshes

Sugar-covered nuts, bonbons, etc.

A choice of courses or delicacies

Candy and the like

Swimmeret

Doing so well in water

With great ease

How Mark Spitz gets along

Lamb's try is possibly luxuriousness

Examples of deductive reasoning

""Of or pertaining to a symbol or symbols; of the nature of a symbol; exhibiting or expressing by resemblance or signs; representative; as, the figure of an eye is symbolic of sight and knowledge.as, the figure of an eye is symbolic of sight and knowledge.""

Represented; idly emboss (anagram)

Symbolise

Symbolism

Symbolist

SYMBOLIZE To have a resemblance of qualities or properties; to correspond; to harmonize.

One who symbolizes.

Symbolize

Symbol

Bilateral matches

My sister and me adapted and balanced appearances

Balance the proportions

Introduce regularity

As MPs, they jostled to accept one's support

Sympathin

Offer condolences to poor Amish types

Express fellow feeling

Show concern for leaders of Scotland Yard made to quickly touch on his point

""To have a common feeling, as of bodily pleasure or pain.""

Sympatry

Major musical works

Ships money abroad for musical works

Haydn is known as their "father."

Beethoven, notably

Eg, Beethoven

Soda-server is absorbing Mahler's First and Tchaikovsky's (or one of their ilk)

Of or pertaining to to symphysis.

Bones

One engaged with others at a banquet or merrymaking.

Symposium

(Attempted) reconciliation between different religions or philosophies

Try 'Secs.', 'Min.' variation for inflectional fusion

Synergism

Synonymy

One who collects or explains synonyms.

""SYNONYME a word having the same meaning as another, also SYNONYM""

To express by a synonym or synonyms; to give the synonym or synonyms corresponding to.

Nuts and bananas can be so described

Meaning the same

Having the same meaning

Syntagma

Methodical teams City's deployed

Methodical distribution of city's steam

Done methodically

SYSTEMIZE To reduce to system; to systematize.

Systemize

Being without system.

Like some wine

Relating to bread and wine taken in church

Bones in the head of religious significance

Small portable stoves.

Newts, for example

Newts and others

A salimeter.

Salmagundi

Pacific Coast fruit

""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.""

Salmonella

Italian dish

Italian dish which translates as "it leaps into the mouth"

Samarskite

Rest stops (wordplay)

Rest homes

Health resorts

Mental institutions

Sanitorium

SARCOLEMMA The very thin transparent and apparently homogenous sheath which incloses a striated muscular fiber; the myolemma.

Sarcolemma

Of or pertaining to sarcoma; resembling sarcoma.

Sarcoplasm

SARDONIC mocking

""Resembling a ladder in form or appearance; having transverse bars or markings like the rounds of a ladder; as, the scalariform cells and scalariform pits in some plants. as, the scalariform cells and scalariform pits in some plants.""

Boastful and cowardly character

Cowardly buffoon

Coward shows wound, having confronted a second superior rebel

An alarming person

One spreading worrying rumours

Spreader of frightening rumours

English word

Scepticism

Schematism

SCHEMATIZE To form a scheme or schemes.

Schematize

Divisive workers

Form a sect

""Any of several chiefly tropical trematode worms of the genus Schistosoma, many of which are parasitic in the blood of humans and other mammals. Also called bilharzia , blood fluke .""

Shmaltzy

Schmalzy

Schoolmarm

Young peers happily sharing a mistress (wordplay)

What U.S. needs more of.

Places of learning

3-R centers

Schooltime

English word

""A disease of adults, characterized by a diffuse rigidity and hardness of the skin.""

An instrument for determining with accuracy the degree of hardness of a mineral.

""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 .""

Tonto's equestrian role (wordplay)

Irregular must escort a troop leader

Organiser of a 5 of boys

Screaming

Scrimmager

""SCRIMMAGE Formerly, a skirmish; now, a general row or confused fight or struggle.""

Scrimshaw

Monastery room for writing