2-Letter Words Starting with S

Sextodecimo

Shamefaced

SHAMEFUL disgraceful

Shittimwood

Defects (eg of character)

Defects turning up in trousers

Limitations of concise US poet, it's said

Showmanship

Sillimanite

Some metalworkers

Parallels with IRA missile, it is broadcast

Resemblances is up to militaries on manoeuvres

It's much the same for one getting draws from matches

Simoniacal

A herb no longer tended? That's foolish

Type of interest objected to, being foolish

Simpleness

Simplicial

Simplicity

Simulcast

The quality or state of being simultaneous; simultaneousness.

Happening at the same time

Done at the same time

Occurring at same time

Skimpiness

Unsuitable nutcracker (wordplay)

R&B/rap duo Percy & MC (wordplay)

Big hitter trimmed hedge in prison

Slipstream

Stews: Slang.

Stews Slang.

(Economics) a situation in which economic depression is combined with increasing inflation [blend of slump + inflation ]

A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches. Breeches.

Landowners in arrangement to sell lord hams

Mini-farm, perhaps

Modest farming concern

Agricultural area, but less than a farm

Smarminess

Smithsonite

Smoothness

Bork bork borks, to the Swedish Chef

Scandinavian buffets

Smudginess

Smuttiness

Snowmobiler

SNOWMOBILE

SNOWMOBILE

Sociometry

Solemnify

Solemnness

Solmization

Somatology

Somatomedin

""The outer, or parietal, one of the two lamell\'91 into which the vertebrate blastoderm divides on either side of the notochord, and from which the walls of the body and the amnion are developed. See Splanchopleure. Splanchopleure.""

""A polypeptide hormone produced chiefly by the hypothalamus that inhibits the secretion of various other hormones, such as somatotropin, glucagon, insulin, thyrotropin, and gastrin.""

See growth hormone .

Somberness

Flipped

Somerset

Sleep

To walk when <?/sleep.

Sleepwalking

Not a consciously progressive type

One who is out and about

Peripatetic sleeper

Tending to produce sleep; hypnotic.

Farthest south.

Spasmolytic

Spectrogram

Apparatus measuring wavelengths

Scientific instrument

Instrument for measuring refractive indices

The measurement of light's properties

Vehicle-velocity indicators

Often-ignored dash displays

Indicators of velocity

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

""Pl. -cae (-s ) A receptacle in the reproductive tracts of certain female invertebrates, especially insects, in which spermatozoa are received and stored until needed to fertilize the ova.""

Same as Spermoblast. Spermoblast.

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 .""

""The male germ cell in animals and plants, the essential element in fertilization; a microscopic animalculelike particle, usually provided with one or more cilia by which it is capable of active motion. In animals, the familiar type is that of a small, more or less ovoid head, with a delicate threadlike cilium, or tail. Called also spermatozo\'94n. In plants the more usual term is antherozoid. spermatozo\'94n. In plants the more usual term is antherozoid.""

""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 .""

Spermophile

Spherometer

""An instrument which, when applied over an artery, indicates graphically the movements or character of the pulse. See Sphygmogram. Sphygmogram.""

Brings The Dead to life for the latecomers who have something to say (wordplay)

Brings The Dead to life for the latecomers who have something to say

Spirometry

Pl. splenomegalies Enlargement of the spleen.

Establishment.

STANDPAT resisting or opposing change

Pl. stapedectomies Surgical removal of the stapes.

Startlement

Steamfitter

Steaminess

They make pancakes (wordplay)

Vehicles used for compacting roads

Restore small model vehicles

Steamroll

Steelmaking

STENOTHERM

Stepfamily

One of a set of isomers whose molecules have the same atoms bonded to each other but differ in the way these atoms are arranged in space.

Drama ()

Drama ()

""A sterol, C 29 H 48 O, obtained from soybeans or Calabar beans.""

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

Stimulation

Tolerate some pain (wordplay)

Reasons for sick days

Results of overeating

Plural or third person singular

Stomatitis

Rough notes on army's type of manual labour

Storminess

Strabismus

Pl. stratocumuli (-l ) A low-lying cloud formation occurring in extensive horizontal layers with rounded summits.

Vehicles seen at Bonneville Salt Flats (pl.)

STREAMLINE

""Pl. streptomyces Any of various actinomycetes of the genus Streptomyces, including several strains that produce antibiotics.""

New "wonder drug" from fungi

One of the "wonder" drugs.

Very old fossil in sedimentary rocks

Subbasement

Group reporting to a larger one

Group responsible for water-based craft has a job answering to others

Underground organisation possibly returns transport to council

Hyman Rickover's alma mater (wordplay)

""COMPONENT Serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent.""

Subdominant

Subeconomy

Situated immediately below the epidermis.

""Any philosophical doctrine which refers all knowledge to, and founds it upon, any subjective states; egoism.""

Sublimation

Subliminal

Of the lower jaw.

Submergence

Submersible

MICROGRAM

Of greatly reduced size

Subminister

Submissive

Submultiple

Submunition

NORMALITY Conformity with the norm; the state of being normal; the normal condition.

OPTIMIZED optimize

Suboptimize

Subsumption

""TEMPERATE Moderate; not excessive; as, temperate heat; a temperate climate. as, temperate heat; a temperate climate.""

Subumbrella

Succedaneum

Sulfonamide

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

Belvedere's type of school diets

Gymnastic Samuel strums then leaps about

SUPERBOMBER superbomb

""Eminent in a superior degree; surpassing others in excellence; as, a supereminent divine; the supereminent glory of Christ. as, a supereminent divine; the supereminent glory of Christ.""

Superhuman

Placed on top

Set over? Fantastic, I'm ready for my close-up!

Superimpose

Shops' excellent brand set to be changed

Places for groceries

Food stores

Adjective (-ive)

Superorgasm

Fabulous insurance payment (wordplay)

SUPERREAL

Realm of A-list celebrity (wordplay)

Very great fame

Position of great fame

""A stratum, or layer, above another.""

Supersystem

Spare plastic potty

Additional to what is required

Flexible in the mind, providing what's missing

Supplement

Supplement

Being above the threshold of consciousness or of sensation. Used of stimuli.

Supremacist

Suprematism

Suprematist

Beat first victim? Heard it can be done!

Burn-out male's battling can be overcome

Like something that may be overcome

Swampiness

Sycophancy.

Symbolical

A system of coinage in which a unit of currency is pegged to a combination of two or more metals in fixed proportions.

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

Sympathetic

SYMPATHISE

Sympathizer

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

Symposiarch

SYNAPTOSOME

Synaptosome

Synchronism

SYNDACTYL

Syndicalism

Synonymity

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

Synonymous

SYSTEMATISE

Systematise

Systematism

Systematist

""SYSTEMATIZE 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.""

One who systematizes.

Systematize

SYSTEMIC a type of pesticide

""An instrument for ascertain the quantity of saccharine matter in any solution, as the juice of a plant, or brewers' and distillers' worts.""

A saccharimeter.

""A genus of budding fungi, the various species of which have the power, to a greater or less extent, or splitting up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid. They are the active agents in producing fermentation of wine, beer, etc. Saccharomyces cerevisi\'91 is the yeast of sedimentary beer. Also called Torula. Saccharomyces cerevisi\'91 is the yeast of sedimentary beer. Also called Torula.""

A mild Socrates (anagram); priestcraft

Priestly devotion admits oracles must be reinterpreted

In a sacrament manner.

Enjoyment of a painful relationship (wordplay)

Person in a painful relationship!

Painstaking (and giving) type might crack his cat as moods vary

Salesmanship

Salmonberry

""Pl. salmonelloses (-s z ) Infection with salmonellae, marked by intestinal problems and fever and caused especially by eating certain improperly stored or undercooked foods.""

""Pl. salmonelloses (-s z ) Infection with salmonellae, marked by intestinal problems and fever and caused especially by eating certain improperly stored or undercooked foods.""

Salvationism

Holier-than-thou

Making a show of being morally superior

Spreading unction's aim, so unctuous

Extreme republican principles; the principles or practice of the sansculottes. sansculottes.

Scalariform

Destroyer of reputation

Purveyor of dirt about others

Person spreading malicious gossip

Scapegoatism

Schematical

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

Abelard's thing

New Catholics miss medieval sort of philosophy

Primly pedantic

People who teach fish experts (wordplay)

By whom one gets informed in form

Who may be in the classrooms, working (wordplay)

Schussboomer

Sclerenchyma