2-Letter Words Starting with S

The stony corals; the Madreporaria.

Scrimshander

Scrumptious

Secessionism

Sectarianism

Sectionalism

Deposit that's tied into means testing

Little woman in new maisonnette settling down

Process of depositing tainted monies corruptly

""The science that deals with the description, classification, and origin of sedimentary rock.""

Segmentation

Earthquake measurer

Scientist whose work is on shaky ground (wordplay)

Of or pertaining to a seismograph; indicated by a seismograph.

Of or pertaining to seismology.

Certain earth scientists sit awkwardly in various slimes and goos

Seismometry

Semasiology

Semiaridity

Like some firearms

Firearm came out with its aim suspect

CIVILIZED civilize

Like Gershwin's orchestral works

No CID customer (anagram)

Rattle cut in half by silicon (wordplay)

Apprentice in an orchestra (wordplay)

Aware of a truck-trailer (wordplay)

Aware of a truck-trailer?

Partially aware of one's surroundings

Semidiameter

""EMPIRICAL Pertaining to, or founded upon, experiment or experience; depending upon the observation of phenomena; versed in experiments.""

""EVERGREEN Remaining unwithered through the winter, or retaining unwithered leaves until the leaves of the next year are expanded, as pines cedars, hemlocks, and the like.""

Semifinalist

LEGENDARY Of or pertaining to a legend or to legends; consisting of legends; like a legend; fabulous.

Semiliterate

Semimonthly

Semiparasite

Inflected form of PARASITIC Inflected form of PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

lasting more or less indefinitely

Lasting nearly for ever

These kind of membranes I peel off when less new

""POLITICAL Having, or conforming to, a settled system of administration.""

PORCELAIN Purslain.

""RELIGIOUS Of or pertaining to religion; concerned with religion; teaching, or setting forth, religion; set apart to religion; as, a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects, books, teachers, houses, wars. as, a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects, books, teachers, houses, wars.""

""SEDENTARY Accustomed to sit much or long; as, a sedentary man. as, a sedentary man.""

Inflected form of SYNTHETIC Inflected form of SYNTH a synthesizer

Inflected form of TONICALLY Inflected form of TONIC something that refreshes

Sempiternal

Sensitometer

Photography

Dispatched one, people agree, with feeling

Romantically directed, single males agree

Brazen quality

SIGMOIDOSCOPE

They beat transport strikes

Heavy hitters

People pretending to hold large advantage as heavy hitters

Reducing air resistance

Drag reduction technique

Slumpflation

Minor investors' allotments (wordplay)

Made sing behind tiny old fortress in little farms

Snowmobiling

Snowmobilist

Describing the interactions of communities and money

""The act of solemnizing; celebration; as, the solemnization of a marriage. as, the solemnization of a marriage.""

SOMATOLOGIC

Somatopleure

Of or relating to the perception of sensory stimuli from the skin and internal organs: the somatosensory area of the cerebral cortex.

Somatostatin

Variant of somatotropin .

Somatotropin

Going head over heels

Wild geraniums lost, rolling on the ground

As guilty woman dramatically did, walked out

Somnambulate

Somnambulism

Lady Macbeth and others

Dreaming Rovers failing MOT, lass is numb

Sleepwalkers

Somnifacient

In irregular bursts

In fits and starts

""A broad-spectrum antibiotic, C 14 H 24 N 2 O 7 , obtained from a species of gram-negative bacteria (Streptomyces spectabilis) or produced synthetically and used especially in the treatment of penicillin-resistant gonorrhea.""

Spectrometer

A spectroscope equipped with scales for measuring wavelengths or indexes of refraction.

Spermatocyte

Formation and development of spermatozoa by meiosis and spermiogenesis.

Pl. spermatogonia (-n - ) Any of the cells of the gonads in male organisms that are the progenitors of spermatocytes.

Same as Spermospore. Spermospore.

Seed-bearing plant

Spermatozoan

Spermatozoid

Sphygmograph

Spiritualism

Splenectomy

SPLENECTOMIZE

English word

Like a fair player

Playing the game fairly

Has a fair crack at The Greens and, of course, bows out gracefully

Sense of fair play

Spirit of good baseball.

Playing the game

Squeamish

Stablishment

Standpattism

Politically skilled and experienced

What diplomats should be.

Politically wise and far-seeing

Dulles' forte.

Political wisdom

Political skill

Man in charge at Waterloo (wordplay)

Man in command at Waterloo (wordplay)

He has training in being the boss

Solderer worked with metal forced through

Crushed or pushed through with overpowering force

Folly, in essence, with intricately remastered edging, overwhelmed

Stereoisomer

""With the stern, instead of the bow, in advance; hence, figuratively, in an awkward, blundering manner.""

Stichomythia

Stichomythy

Stigmasterol

""With a stigma, or mark of infamy or deformity.""

""The art or process of calculating the atomic proportions, combining weights, and other numerical relations of chemical elements and their compounds.""

""Large balls or rolls of dark cloud which frequently cover the whole sky, esp. in winter, and give it at times an undulated appearance.""

English word

Streptomycin

Stromatolite

STROMATOLITE

Technique for literary criticism

Units joined to make a larger product

BITUMINOUS Having the qualities of bitumen; compounded with bitumen; containing bitumen.

""COMMISSION The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating.""

Where many testimonials are given

Subcomponent

A subordinate department; a bureau. See the Note under Bureau. Bureau.

""EMPLOYMENT The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed.""

""GOVERNMENT The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil, church, or family government. as, civil, church, or family government.""

Subjectivism

Sublimeness

MANDIBULAR Of or pertaining to a mandible; like a mandible.

Inflected form of MILLIMETER Inflected form of MILLIME a coin of Tunisia

OPTIMIZING optimize

Wonder drug

Summability

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

Summersault

Sumptuous

Powerful mainframe hardware

Very powerful calculator

Powerful data processor

Adjective (-al)

English word

Noteworthiness above others

Superfamily

""SUPERHUMAN Above or beyond what is human; sometimes, divine; as, superhuman strength; superhuman wisdom. as, superhuman strength; superhuman wisdom.""

""SUPERIMPOSE To lay or impose on something else; as, a stratum of earth superimposed on another stratum. as, a stratum of earth superimposed on another stratum.""

""Pl. supermajorities A specified majority of votes, such as 60 percent, required to approve a motion or pass legislation.""

English word

SUPERMINIS supermini

Supernormal

Surplus to requirement

Extra staff member

Actor in a mob scene

Piers Morgan: 'US run a highly organised community'

Superpremium

Superrealism

Adjective (-ic)

English word

SUPERSALES supersale

Superstardom

Theory in physics

Supplemental

Extra plastic pieces one used in test

Added to complete or make up a deficiency

Extra ten twists occupying Archer, the contortionist (wordplay)

SUPPLEMENTER supplement

Supplement

Supremeness

Skill at fencing

Skill with a blade

Sycophantism

Symbiotical

The act of symbolizing; symbolical representation.

Symmetallism

Symmetrical

Pl. sympathectomies Surgical removal of a part of the sympathetic nervous system.

Opposing the physiological effects caused by stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system: a sympatholytic treatment.

SYMPATRIC

SYMPHONIC Symphonious.

Symphonious

Synchromesh

Syndactylism

A chronic disease of the spinal cord characterized by the presence of fluid-filled cavities and leading to spasticity and sensory disturbances.

A chronic disease of the spinal cord characterized by the presence of fluid-filled cavities and leading to spasticity and sensory disturbances.

SYSTEMATISE

Systematizer

""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.""

The act or process of systematizing; systematization.

English word

Saccharimeter

Saccharometer

Sacerdotalism

The doctrine and use of sacraments; attashment of excessive importance to sacraments.

One who holds the doctrine of the real objective presence of Christ;s body and blood in the holy eucharist.

Sadomasochism

Sadomasochist

Sansculottism

Sources of rumours corrupt Congressman is holding boy back

SCHEMATIZE To form a scheme or schemes.

Schismatical

Scholasticism

Schoolmaster

Teacher in college married, I emphasise

No answer in classroom? It's she that's upset

She might take form displayed in Cosmo, shirtless

(Physics / General Physics) Physics a device for observing ionizing radiation by the scintillations it produces in a suitable material

English word

Seamlessness

Sedimentation

""The science that deals with the description, classification, and origin of sedimentary rock.""

SEISMOGRAPHER seismograph

Seismography

Selfsameness

See semantics .

Semiautomatic

AUTONOMOUS Independent in government; having the right or power of selfgovernment.

""Of or pertaining to half of a century, or a period of fifty years; as, a semicentennial commemoration. as, a semicentennial commemoration.""

""COMMERCIAL Of or pertaining to commerce; carrying on or occupied with commerce or trade; mercantile; as, commercial advantages; commercial relations. as, commercial advantages; commercial relations.""

CONDUCTING conduct

Semiconductor

Semidarkness

Semiofficial

Semiological

Semiporcelain

Problematical situation to bore chaps in group half slouching around (wordplay)

Sempiternity