2-Letter Words Starting with S

Like some stockings

Like some nylons

Like pant legs

Appeared (to be)

Appeared to be

Came off as

Made red, maybe

He's mad (anagram)

Put in a ducking-stool, say

Hit with ectoplasm (wordplay)

Ghost-struck (wordplay)

Assaulted, a la "Ghostbusters"

Said "cheese," say

Lit up the room, maybe

Looked favorably (upon)

Had Marlboros, say

Prepared ham, perhaps

What you did outside of show, maybe

Formed a froth

Made bubbles, as an ocean wave

Made froth

Did some totting up

Recapitulated (with "up").

Tallied a total

Danced at Rio's Carnival, maybe

Competed in a ballroom, maybe

Danced at Rio's Carnival, perhaps

Tried a thousand pedals

Took a poll

Had a taste

Took to the cleaners

Taken to the cleaners

Took to the cleaners, so to speak

Scamp

Planned or plotted

Took part in a cabal

Plotted and planned

Covered with algae

Pretended to be, was not genuine

Put on a front

Overacted after start of show's put on

Used a wedge

S-shaped

Apelike.

Looked over quickly

Went over cursorily

Kind of milk

Limited too closely: Colloq

Counted every penny

Was very thrifty

Closed angrily, perhaps

Twice Frenchman in bad deals crashed

Shut the door, in a way.

Shed a few pounds

Dieted, with "down"

Dropped a size

Visited run-down areas

Hung out with the rabble

Visited a warren

Went 0 for 50, say

Declined abruptly, as stocks

Fell in a heap.

Kissed, so to speak

Had a slight trace of - hit hard

Bussed audibly

The emerald

Emerald.

Caused a stinging pain

Stung by shrewd journalist

Stung, like a cutting remark

Drunk (as a broken bottle?)

Mother's in the outhouse, drunk!

Broke; drunk (colloq.)

Practiced yellow journalism, perhaps

Made a mess, maybe

Under political attack, maybe

Smeek

Knocked someone out, say

Detected, as a rat (wordplay)

Fouled offensively (wordplay)

Went for the gold (wordplay)

Fused (ores)

Reduced to pure metal

Smerk

Wore a conceited smile.

Looked smug

Smiled sillily.

Ready to finger-paint, perhaps

Attired for work.

Did some decorative stitching

Like dirty eyeglasses

Messed up, as makeup

Exam for H.S. juniors

Smudged

Crushed, like missive in box (wordplay)

Hard-pressed to admit (wordplay)

Ready for mailing, maybe

Made tamales, maybe

Cooked me instead!

Like an angry lobster (wordplay)

Stopped (a flow)

Arose (from)

Arose or derived from

Stimie

Danced at the Savoy (wordplay)

Punctuated a huff, perhaps

Put one's foot down (wordplay)

(A) Assailed with darts, say

Ranted and raved

Rushed to an assault

Stum

Bewildered (on the way out?)

Out on the field, puzzled (wordplay)

Puzzled for an answer.

Frustrated, in a way

Having rough going

Unable to progress

An {addend=n}

Inundated in quagmire (wordplay)

Up to one's ears in

Having way too much on one's plate

Bee-haved (wordplay)

Teemed (like bees)

Like rock stars among fans

Greeted a royal, perhaps

Greeted with respect

Dickens title starter

Trout or whitefish

Got out fast Slang.

Left in a hurry

Beat a hasty retreat

Shouted - scared me stupid!

Reacted in horror, say

Jumped off the page, maybe

Was thrifty; economised

Was thrifty, economised

Used less than was needed

Scrum

Scumble

Getting very little rainfall

New Mexico, for example

Not quite Saharan

Partly bald

Like Edam or Gouda

Like Tilsit cheese

Like some cheese

Somewhat wild

Bone shaped like a certain seed

Seed-shaped cartilage

Walked awkwardly

Shuffled along.

The way one walked - just pretending to be wounded

Shammy

Shamoy

Vibrated, as a Model T

Shlump

Shot the breeze

Shrimp

Kept on the down-low (wordplay)

Boiled with rage (wordplay)

Immersed, cooked and gently boiled

Smiled when a spider got me agitated

Smiled in affected way

Had a silly smile

Took part in a giant event (wordplay)

Went downhill (wordplay)

Attacked the slopes, a la Street

Renter's bane

Irresponsible building owner

Ghetto figure.

Tarnished

Kissed and cuddled amorously

Played kissy-face

Got in a lip lock

Aggravated the mood's calmed

Used sandpaper on

Used a plane

Brought goods into country illegally

Did not do one's duty

Moved illicitly

Smutch

A fungus disease

Couldn't take questioning

Wriggled nervously

Writhed uncomfortably

Came from Hulu (wordplay)

Moved steadily or swiftly

Went with the flow

Pulled strings, maybe (wordplay)

Played rhythm guitar, say

Pulled some strings (wordplay)

Took a trip (wordplay)

Missed a step and almost fell

Made a slip

Somewhat humid

Sublime

Encompassed

Embodied

Summate

Spent July and August (at)

Spent July and August (in)

Visited a vacation house, maybe

Called (to attend)

Called (to court)

Commanded to appear at court (wordplay)

A marsh plant

Imagined to be the case

Thought to have speculated

Engaged in conjecture

Known as Smith or Jones, perhaps

Gave an epithet to.

Called Smith, for example

Symbol

""Like, or pertaining to, the Salmonid\'91, a family of fishes including the trout and salmon. Salmonid\'91, a family of fishes including the trout and salmon.""

Doggedly hurried for a single (wordplay)

Raced, in a way

Played tag, for example

Schlump

Schmeer

Schmoos

Chewed the fat

Worked the room

Talked casually

Like or pertaining to the Mackerel family.

Hurriedly took flight when beaten

Wandered at last to get eggs like this

Eggs whisked and stirred

Ten gems Ed sorted and divided

Divided like an orange.

Cut into parts

DOMED dome

Between solid and liquid

""NOMAD a wanderer, also NOMADE""

Stiff, but not inflexible

Somewhat inflexible

A bit firm in consistency

Like jelly or paste

Like grease or yogurt

Did a hair salon job

Made a flash

Shone fitfully

Gleamed faintly.

Polished with wax

Feigned, imitated

Pretended to be excited with temperature dropping

Must I deal with one that's so pretending (wordplay)

""SJAMBOK in South Africa to strike with a whip, also JAMBOK""

Logged Z's

Burdened dragging pole, so rested

Son, given heavy responsibility, slept

Made neater by tradesmen

Wised (up)

Got wise, with "up"

Would this elude a gardener (wordplay)

Would this elude a gardener?

Learned superficially

Dabbled in

Dabbled

Displayed suppressed anger

Didn't flare

Did a slow burn

Drenched in sauce

Her modest fancy will get stifled

Stifled, he stormed out

Sodomize

Any of the four haploid cells formed by meiosis in a male organism that develop into spermatozoa without further division.

Wasn't confident, say

Emulated Mel Tillis

Spoke like Bob Newhart

Ran wildly, as a buffalo herd

Ran wild, as cattle

Made off frightfully fast

Traveled in a certain kind of ship

Put up with

Most upset having hurt bore

Stood

It holds water

It holds running water

Rock locale

Underwater mud grebes churned up

Completely covered by liquid

Under water

Developing buds seem to have resistance under water

Yielded (to a superior force)

Presented, as evidence

Gave in and proposed

Yielded (to pressure)

Summons

English word

Waterlogged area

Symbol

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

SCRUMMAGE See Scrimmage. Scrimmage.

Deposited into a bank

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

FITTED fit

Half liquid; semifluid.

SACRED consecrated or holy

Spoke from the pulpit

Preached

Very modest, bashful

Showing guilty embarrassment

Red, perhaps

Made plain.

Made easier

Made easy

Engaged in a minor conflict

Slipform

""A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.""

Eliminated rough edges

Society decayed and harboured bad emotions

Dignified

Somerset

Took Tal to a tie

Brought to a standstill.

At an impasse

Let us admit becoming excited

Provoked the senses

Psyched up

A mantis shrimp, for example

Cut off, in a way

Held up by weather.

Cut off by the elements.

Purified

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

SAMPLED sample

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

Did a quick recap of

Digested

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

Overcame (an obstacle)

Overcame

Represented; idly emboss (anagram)

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

SYSTEMIZE To reduce to system; to systematize.

SCHEMATIZE To form a scheme or schemes.

Scrimshaw

DEIFIED deify

Not quite out to pasture

Like many senior part-timers

Like some seniors in the workplace

(Of worker) needing partial training

Such a worker houses journalist following murder

The wood of the shittah tree.

Simulcast

Choice meal (wordplay)

Swedish-style hors d'oeuvres

Scandinavian-style buffet

Past tense or past participle

Somerset

Defeated and then some

Whupped and then some

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

Up-to-date

Efficient when dealing with derailments

Efficient way to sort out derailments

EMPLOYED employ

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

Shared an understanding with shyest maid, trembling, keeping quiet

Shared a sentiment

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

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

(Of houses) joined in pairs

Decide Thames could do for a house

Type of house

FINISHED finish

""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.""

A herb no longer tended? That's foolish

Type of interest objected to, being foolish

Slipstream

Flipped

""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.""

OPTIMIZED optimize

Placed on top

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

Supplement

SYSTEMATISE

""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.""

CIVILIZED civilize

As guilty woman dramatically did, walked out

Solderer worked with metal forced through

Crushed or pushed through with overpowering force

Folly, in essence, with intricately remastered edging, overwhelmed

Summersault

Hit hard

SPLENECTOMIZE