2-Letter Words Starting with S

Subfamily

Subkingdom

""SUBLIMATE To bring by heat into the state of vapor, which, on cooling, returns again to the solid state; as, to sublimate sulphur or camphor. as, to sublimate sulphur or camphor.""

Bulimia's not unusually a diversion of sexual energy

The quality or state of being sublime; sublimity.

Sublimity

Submanager

MARGINAL anything in or on a margin

Pigboat manners

Underwater sailors

Drive home vehicle in reverse getting in with, um, Sydney's top crew down under

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

Submediant

""The act of submerging, or the state of being submerged; submersion.""

That can be immersed in or can remain under water: a submergible electric frying pan; a submergible research vehicle.

Small underwater craft

Submersion

To supply; to afford.

Some underwater trips

Presentations of expeditions below the waves (wordplay)

""A number or quality which is contained in another an exact number of times, or is an aliquot part of it; thus, 7 is the submultiple of 56, being contained in it eight times. submultiple of 56, being contained in it eight times.""

MUNITION to furnish with war material

Subnormal

""OPTIMIZE to make as effective as possible, also OPTIMISE""

Subprimate

Subproblem

Subprogram

SAMPLING a small part selected for analysis

Subsegment

""The act of subsuming, or of including under another.""

TERMINAL an end

""The integument of the under surface of the bell, or diskshaped body, of a jellyfish.""

""One who, or that which, succeeds to the place of another; that which is used for something else; a substitute""

Sudatorium

Any of a group of organic sulfur compounds containing the radical SO 2 NH 2 and including the sulfa drugs.

Abstract noun (-ity)

SUMMARISE

Summarizer

""SUMMARIZE To comprise in, or reduce to, a summary; to present briefly.""

""SUMMATION The act of summing, or forming a sum, or total amount; also, an aggregate.""

Second place, say

Seasonal vacation place

Garden pavilion for shade or recreation

Complete reversal of opinion Fig.

Trampoline stunt

Summertime

Summerwood

Sumptuous

Superbomb

A group intermediate between a family and a suborder.

Place something over something else

Place one over another

Place over

Superjumbo

Plural noun or verb form

Weekly shopping site

Weekly shopping site, for many

Grocery's descendant.

Supermicro

Celebs on runways

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Exceeding the average

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Supplement

Supremacy

SUPREME a rich cream sauce

SUPREME a rich cream sauce

SUPREME a rich cream sauce

SUPREME a rich cream sauce

Overcoming (obstacle)

Overcoming

Surrealism

Sybaritism

SYMBOLISE

SYMBOLIST One who employs symbols.

Symbolizer

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

Symbology

With exact correspondence of parts

Appearing as if reflected about an axis

Mirrored about an axis

SYMMETRIZE To make proportional in its parts; to reduce to symmetry.

Symmetrize

Likeable; sensitively designed

Showing fellow-feeling

Kindly ear to lend

Shared an understanding with shyest maid, trembling, keeping quiet

Shows compassion for missy - she apt to break down

Shared a sentiment

Supporter

Shares feelings (wordplay)

Sympetaly

Having a corolla of united petals

Agreeing in sound; accordant; harmonious.

Symphonist

Toastmaster.

Symposiast

Indicative (of a disease?)

Indicative, typical

Indicating disease

SYMPTOM a subjective indication of a disease

A saclike structure formed by nerve endings at a synapse that remains intact after homogenization of nerve tissue.

Take the plunge, say, and run out the net in this gear

The concurrence of events in time; simultaneousness.

Syncretism

Pl. syndesmoses (-s z) An articulation in which the bones are joined by a ligament.

An articulation formed by means of ligaments.

""The theory, plan, or practice of trade-union action (originally as advocated and practiced by the French Conf\'82d\'82ration G\'82n\'82rale du Travail) which aims to abolish the present political and social system by means of the general strike (as distinguished from the local or sectional strike) and direct action of whatever kind (as distinguished from action which takes effect only through the medium of political action) -- direct action including any kind of action that is directly effective, whether it be a simple strike, a peaceful public demonstration, sabotage, or revolutionary violence. By the general strike and direct action syndicalism aims to establish a social system in which the means and processes of production are in the control of local organizations of workers, who are manage them for the common good.direct action including any kind of action that is directly effective, whether it be a simple strike, a peaceful public demonstration, sabotage, or revolutionary violence. By the general strike and direct action syndicalism aims to establish a social system in which the means and processes of production are in the control of local organizations of workers, who are manage them for the common good.""

""Of or pertaining to synonyms, or synonymic; synonymous.""

Synonymist

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

Synonymize

SYNTAGMA a syntactic element

Systematic

SYSTEMATISE

The reduction of facts or principles to a system.

""One who forms a system, or reduces to system.""

""To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas. as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas.""

SYSTEMIZE To reduce to system; to systematize.

Baseball E-stats study

Sacramental

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a salamander; enduring fire.""

Spanish males engaged in art of commerce

Selling sand to Arabs for brewer perhaps in foreign police force is all the rage

The trick to selling small drinks to Joe from dispatch

Salinometer

Saltimbocca

""SALVATION The act of saving; preservation or deliverance from destruction, danger, or great calamity.""

Sanctimony

Disease and Illness

Formation of numerous sarcomas in various parts of the body.

SARCOPLASM

Sardonicism

""SCAPEGOAT A goat upon whose head were symbolically placed the sins of the people, after which he was suffered to escape into the wilderness.""

Scaramouche

People who cause fear or fright

Alarmists seeing Germans score in a frenzy

Scattergram

SCHEMATIZE To form a scheme or schemes.

Same as Schismatic. Schismatic.

SCHISMATIZE To make part in schism; to make a breach of communion in the church.

Schismatize

SCHISTOSOME

Schistosome

Shmaltzy

The classroom (anagram)

Teacher of fish (wordplay)

Instructor at Eton, say

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Schwarmerei

""Vegetable tissue composed of short cells with thickened or hardened walls, as in nutshells and the gritty parts of a pear. See Sclerotic. Sclerotic.""

Scleroderma

Sclerometer

Scopolamine

Men in charge of troops

Men in charge of troops

One who carves scrimshaw.

Scrimshaw

""Pl. scyphistomae (-m ) or scyphistomas A larva of a scyphozoan, consisting of an elongated and deeply constricted polyp that successively splits off minute, free-swimming medusas.""

Scyphistoma

SEAMLESS without a seam

Seamstress

The doctrine or policy of secession; the tenets of secession; the tenets of secessionists.

Adherence to religious groupings

""A disproportionate regard for the interests peculiar to a section of the country; local patriotism, as distinguished from national.""

SEDIMENT to settle in the bottom of a liquid

Seemliness

Division into parts

Seismicity

They record earth-shaking events

""A writing about, or a description of, earthquakes.""

Seismology

An expert at assessing faults (wordplay)

One who studies earthquakes

Earthquake scientist

Seismometer

""Of or pertaining to seismometry, or seismometer; as, seismometric instruments; seismometric measurements. as, seismometric instruments; seismometric measurements.""

SELFSAME identical

Semantical

Semanticist

Semeiology

ABSTRACT to draw away

Every half year.

ARBOREAL tree-dwelling

Junk mail a trucker might get (wordplay)

Form of estate agent's brochure (wordplay)

Advertising flier at a truck stop (wordplay)

Semiclassic

COLONIAL a citizen of a colony

Semicolony

Dusky state

Semideify

(Of houses) joined in pairs

Decide Thames could do for a house

Type of house

""Half of a diameter; a right line, or the length of a right line, drawn from the center of a circle, a sphere, or other curved figure, to its circumference or periphery; a radius.""

DOMINANT a controlling genetic character

One who's moved closer to a win

One in last four of a contest

One of last four left in competition

FINISHED finish

FLEXIBLE able to be bent

Fruits (spelled backward) + Repeat = (wordplay)

Elite stream inappropriate - one is coming in barely able to read and write

LUSTROUS reflecting light evenly and efficiently

Of or pertaining to a semimetal; possessing metallic properties in an inferior degree; resembling metal.

MONASTIC a {monk=n}

MYSTICAL spiritually significant

""Seedbearing; producing seed; pertaining to, or connected with, the formation of semen; as, seminiferous cells or vesicles. as, seminiferous cells or vesicles.""

Seminudity

""Half official; having some official authority or importance; as, a semiofficial statement. as, a semiofficial statement.""

""Same as Semeiography, Semeiology, Semeiological.Semeiography, Semeiology, Semeiological.""

Semiologist

Semiotician

Semioticist

""Having the anterior toes joined only part way down with a web; half-webbed; as, a semipalmate bird or foot. See Illust. k under Aves.as, a semipalmate bird or foot. See Illust. k under Aves.""

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

Of value but less than a gemstone

Like some gems

Not like a girl's best friend

Items attached to highway tractors

Warm, as a climate

Semiweekly

Sempervivum

Future duration without end; the relation or state of being sempiternal.

Sempstress

""An instrument or apparatus for comparing and grading the sensitiveness of plates, films, etc., as a screen divided into squares of different shades or colors, from which a picture is made on the plate to be tested.""

Photography

Of muscular response to nervous stimuli

Female minister? She's a fighter

Female in the forces

Wasp

A man who is a member of the armed forces.

Sexagesimal