2-Letter Words Starting with S

SCRUMMAGE See Scrimmage. Scrimmage.

This tastes so good! (5 of the question)

Extremely appetising (colloq.)

Dee-licious!

""The young attached larva of Discophora in the stage when it resembles a hydroid, or actinian.""

Seaborgium

Seamanship

Seaminess

Secularism

Securement

Describing a type of rock

(Of rock) laid down by deposition

Sediment

Seducement

Segmental

Seismical

Seismogram

Earthquake measuring instrument

Instrument for registering earthquakes

Instrument registering earthquakes

Device recording our planet's movements

Measurer of earthquakes

Earthquake detector

""The mensuration of such phenomena of earthquakes as can be expressed in numbers, or by their relation to the co\'94rdinates of space.""

He goes to the dictionary.

""SEMAPHORE A signal telegraph; an apparatus for giving signals by the disposition of lanterns, flags, oscillating arms, etc.""

The science of meanings or sense development (of words); the explanation of the development and changes of the meanings of words; -- more commonly referred to as semantics.semantics.

AQUATIC an organism living in or near water

ARIDITY the state of being {arid=adj}

Arcs

CLASSIC a work of established excellence

DEIFIED deify

Semideify

Semidesert

""Pertaining to, or accomplished in, half a day, or twelve hours; occurring twice every day.""

DWARVES dwarf

Semilethal

Semiliquid

On the first and the 15th

Like some periodicals

About 24 times a year

Clergy students

Pastor wannabes

Future fathers

Seminarist

NATURAL a type of musical note

NOMADIC pertaining to a {nomad=n}

Semiology

Student of signs/symbols

""(used with a sing. verb) The theory and study of signs and symbols, especially as elements of language or other systems of communication, and comprising semantics, syntactics, and pragmatics.""

SEMIOTIC a general theory of signs and symbolism

POPULAR something pleasing

Semipostal

Like some hospital service

Like two-bed hospital rooms

Certain notes

Not quite out to pasture

Like many senior part-timers

Like some seniors in the workplace

SHRUBBY covered with shrubs

(Of worker) needing partial training

Such a worker houses journalist following murder

Semitonal

It only moves when towed

Vintage Tonka toy

Cab attachment

Semitropic

""A genus of fleshyleaved plants, of which the houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum) is the commonest species. Sempervivum tectorum) is the commonest species.""

Endless rest in maple syrup

Sensualism

So mawkish it drove me mad!

With tender, nostalgic or sad feelings

Moved by fond memories of the past

Separatism

Septicemia

Sequestrum

Sermonette

Sermonizer

Preaching the Word

Servomotor

Local communities

New villages

Isolated communities

""Pertaining to, or founded on, the number sixty.""

""Having sixteen leaves to a sheet; of, or equal to, the size of one fold of a sheet of printing paper when folded so as to make sixteen leaves, or thirtytwo pages; as, a sextodecimo volume. as, a sextodecimo volume.""

Shaggymane

SHAMANIST An adherent of Shamanism.

In brazen manner

Sheriffdom

Shipmaster

Shirtmaker

The wood of the shittah tree.

Superlative adjective

Character flaw, say

Defect in aspirin (wordplay)

A fault not long showing up

Barnum's forte.

Talent for skilful display

Theatrical skill

In a sigmoidal manner.

Signalment

Same as Fibrolite. Fibrolite.

Paul Revere, for one

Paul Revere profession

Fine metal worker

Similitude

Simplifier

Simplify

Simulacrum

Imitative acts

Counterfeit displays.

Simulcast

Sinsemilla

Skepticism

Skirmisher

Breaking out into fights

Scrapping briefly, risk rough Russian fighter holding part of leg

Sliminess

""Sing (= discipline) → Schlankheitsgymnastik f pl (= exercises) → Schlankheitsgymnastik f SMALLHOLDER (British) → petit cultivateur m hc_En_Fr() SNIPERSCOPE (Military / Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) a telescope with crosshairs mounted on a sniper's rifle""

Slipform

Floats in the air after mistake made by propellers

Meat stew

Hobo stew

Stew

Farmer who's short-handed (wordplay)

Minor farmer

Briefcase for an agriculturalist (wordplay)

Smallmouth

Smallness

Smallsword

Smaragdite

Smartness

Smattering

Fragments for Howard K.

Small broken pieces looked at together

A gazillion pieces

Zinc ore

Smokehouse

Chimneys

Smokiness

Smoothbore

Smoothen

Choice meal (wordplay)

Swedish-style hors d'oeuvres

Scandinavian-style buffet

Slowly burning

Having repressed emotions? That gives Sigmund role for sorting out

SNOWMOBILE

Dog sleds updated

Dog sleds updated

They make dog-sledders jealous (wordplay)

Relating to the study of group relationships

""Pertaining to, or of the nature of, sodomy.""

Solacement

Past tense or past participle

Solemnify

Loses time in complicated ceremonies

""SOLEMNIZE To perform with solemn or ritual ceremonies, or according to legal forms.""

Solidarism

The act of solfaing.

SOMATIC pertaining to a {soma=n}

Any of a group of peptides produced by the liver upon stimulation by growth hormone that act directly on many cell types to stimulate growth.

Somatotype

Spring rolls (wordplay)

Takes a turn in the air

Tumbler's feats.

""SOMERSET to somersault, to roll the body in a circle, head over heels""

Somerset

To some indeterminate place; to some place or other.

""Causing or inducing sleep; soporific; dormitive; as, a somniferous potion. as, a somniferous potion.""

Somnolence

Somnolent

See antispasmodic .

Specialism

Speciesism

Heavenly photo

Travelling clock (wordplay)

Sonata instrument (wordplay)

It displays the going rate

Spermaceti

Pl. spermagonia also spermogonia (-n - ) A cup-shaped cavity or receptacle in which the spermatia of certain lichens and fungi are produced.

""A small sac connected with the female reproductive organs of insects and many other invertebrates, serving to receive and retain the spermatozoa.""

""Pl. spermatozoa (-z ) The mature fertilizing gamete of a male organism, usually consisting of a round or cylindrical nucleated cell, a short neck, and a thin motile tail. Also called sperm cell , zoosperm .""

SPERMICIDE

Spermicide

Any ground squirrel of the genus Spermophilus; gopher. See Illust. under Gopher. Spermophilus; gopher. See Illust. under Gopher.

""An instrument for measuring the curvature of spherical surface, as of lenses for telescope, etc.""

Spirometer

An instrument for measuring the volume of air entering and leaving the lungs.

Pl. splenectomies Surgical removal of the spleen.

A woman who speaks on behalf of another or others. See Usage Note at man .

A man who speaks on behalf of another or others. See Usage Note at man .

Those making rowdy brawls from fairy lights, perhaps (wordplay)

They often involve switching initial letters, as in the starred answers

Transpositions like "It is kisstomary to cuss the bride"

""Pl -nia [-nɪə] (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) the sporophyte of mosses and liverworts, consisting of a spore-bearing capsule on a short stalk that arises from the parent plant (the gametophyte) sporogonial   adj STADIOMETER (Mathematics & Measurements / Surveying) an instrument that measures the length of curves, dashes, etc., by running a toothed wheel along them [from stadio- , from stadium + -meter ]""

Sportsman

Female athlete or player

Female athlete

A woman who is active in sports.

Periods of seedings and plantings

Vernal occasions

Squamation

Squeamish

People in the same company shifting blame among countries

Nuisance at a POW camp (wordplay)

Uppers (wordplay)

Features of some caves

""STALAGMITE A deposit more or less resembling an inverted stalactite, formed by calcareous water dropping on the floors of caverns; hence, a similar deposit of other material.""

STALEMATE The position of the king when he can not move without being placed on check and there is no other piece which can be moved.

""An abortive stamen, or any organ modified from an abortive stamen.""

Noun (-ment)

Befitting a respected politician

""One who installs and repairs heating, ventilating, refrigerating, and air-conditioning systems.""

Defeated and then some

Whupped and then some

Overwhelming power, as used in politics

Political machine of a sort.

Crush opposition, politically speaking.

Bessemer-converter owners

Present participle or gerund

Stenotherm

Fairy tale characters.

Some remarried women

3-D pictures.

Drama ()

Stigmatist

""STIGMATIZE To mark with a stigma, or brand; as, the ancients stigmatized their slaves and soldiers. as, the ancients stigmatized their slaves and soldiers.""

Puts a bad rap on

Inspiring new enthusiasm

Animating, exciting

Imitative behaviour, over time, likely to provoke reaction

Process of arousal or goading

Model welcomes tip for tantric arousal

Nerve impulse cause

Invigorating.

Stimulator

STIMULATOR One who stimulates.

Serious whale ailment (wordplay)

Overeater's woe

Overeater's risk

Stomatopod

Stomodaeum

They build a nest on moss, perhaps

Blockheads (wordplay)

Certain builders

Stramonium

Up-to-date

Efficient when dealing with derailments

Efficient way to sort out derailments

Ship that's up a creek (wordplay)

Covering for a river bed

TGV, for instance

Makes more efficient

Maximizes efficiency

Streamside

Lights on posts, perhaps

Some crime deterrents

Road lighting

Stumblebum

In a stumbling manner.

""An expansion at the base of the style, as in umbelliferous plants.""

ASSEMBLY the act of {assembling=v}

Lowest floor of a building, sometimes

Subclimax

Subcompact

Subdermal

""The fourth tone above, or fifth below, the tonic; so called as being under the dominant.""

EMPLOYED employ