2-Letter Words Starting with S

Socket

Like an unexpected thunderstorm

Like later printings, often

Washday aids

Water additives

Chemical agents more frequently carried by ship

Toning down

Not getting hard to sing about this frequently

Getting not so hard to sing about this frequently

Wet and soft quality

Condition of being damp and heavy

Quality to avoid in a pie crust

English word

Onerous DJ (anagram)

Visited awhile

Al departed, therefore newspaper editor stayed temporarily

Temporary resident

Traveler, 7/4/1997

Mars

Map cases

Solanine

Solation

Job for an electrician.

Metal-shop activity

Joining senior in chorus

Most serious, to men less silly

Most serious

SOLEMN {serious=adj}

It may hang over a memorial

Measure of seriousness

Single idiot interrupting my serious mood

Observe with dignity

Experimenter's electromagnets

Reliability

""(Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) a type of intrazonal soil of arid regions with a greyish surface crust: contains large quantities of soluble salts [Russian, literally: salt marsh]""

Correct answers to puzzles

Lights can be liquid compounds

Correct answers to clues

Solvate

SOLVATE to convert into a type of ion

SOLVENT a substance capable of dissolving others

Impressive object or event (informal)

Flip side of 'Come Together'

Second-most covered Beatles song

Drowsy - lost on men (anagram)

Lent moons (anagram)

Sleepy without fast at last

Light classical pieces

Some Beethoven works

Short classical compositions.

Nightingales and wrens

Music-making fliers

Flighty vocalists

Glee club handouts

Hymnals, for example

Hymnals and such

Songfest

SONGFUL melodious

Anvil Chorus performer (wordplay)

Berlin, for one

Writer of popular numbers

Sinatra and Styne

Singers, stress-free, and about on key

Record makers.

SONIC pertaining to sound

Sonicate

Sonicate

Shakespeare, for one

One for fourteen a time

Youth by net always supports linesman

SONNET to compose a type of poem

Sonnet

Sonobuoy

Prenatal pictures

Sonorant

Sonovox

Soochong

The quality or state of being sooty; fuliginousness.

""Soppier , soppiest Soaked; sopping.""

High-sounding instrument

Instrument with the highest possible pitch

Instrument son on air plays with restrained piano (wordplay)

Sorption

The quality or state of being sorry.

Sorrow

Sortie

Drawing by lots

Prolonged, in music

Beyond the noted value, musically

Slowed musical passage

Souchong

Capable of being sounded.

How deep they are, by the sound of them

Sounds as if they may be deep

Perhaps the noises made by swinging the lead

Perhaps without the noise of th herd

That's the S I lent

So unless the daughter is in, it will be quiet

The strength of the noise

Stability.

It's set on the far right

Minestrone eater's utensil

Use this to consume consomme or chowder

Mutes on trumpets.

Southern

Southing

Dixie

Southron

Tourist shop purchases

Criminal is nervous, seeing relics

Tourists' take-home

Old gold coin

Monarch - old coin

Historical mystery novel by C.J. Sansom

""(Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) Printing a device on a linecaster for evening up the spaces between words""

Tiler's job

Job for some wall fixers

Good-for-nothings: Irish.

Good-for-nothings Irish.

Rascals taking naps sleep badly

Spancel

Spandex

Narrow mats for pictures

Architectural features above arches

Spandril

Spangly

Spangle

Spanking

Spanworm

Lack of fat

Very little cutting, calculating nicks

Mean to be doing it this way

In a frugal manner.

Shining with brilliant points of light

Pitch outside rec is not flat

Not still - like diamonds

Sparling

""A narcotic alkaloid extracted from the tops of the common broom (Cytisus scoparius, formerly Spartium scoparium), as a colorless oily liquid of anilinelike odor and very bitter taste. Cytisus scoparius, formerly Spartium scoparium), as a colorless oily liquid of anilinelike odor and very bitter taste.""

Speaking

Some fishermen's weapons

Arms factory (wordplay)

Chewing-gum flavor

Man with priest relaxed chewing gum

Samples of Pisces men

Typical examples of Pisces men

Pisces men make prime examples

Marking with bits of color

Speeding

Speering

Entrance, as through oratory

Having put on tie, shift grip

Fascinate

Bee activities (wordplay)

Qaddafi has a slew of them

Literate witches might be good at them

Spelunk

Cave man (wordplay)

Explorer of sorts

One exploring deeply (wordplay)

Like notes ready to be blown (wordplay)

Kind of income

Like money, there for using - hang staying in the black!

Spermine

""Pertaining to moss of the genus Sphagnum, or bog moss; abounding in peat or bog moss. Sphagnum, or bog moss; abounding in peat or bog moss.""

Sphagnum

Genus to which the tuatara, a New Zealand lizard-like reptile belongs

Sphenoid

Riddler endlessly chattering, loathing lost muscle

Muscle inclined to pinch with rest - stopped up

Body part in a "Wayne's World" joke used to get the other guy to say "What?"

Sphingid

Characteristic of hot food

Feature of Thai cuisine

Food critic's concern

Plant of the ginseng family

Aromatic East Indian plant.

Aromatic root

""SPIKE to fasten with a long, thick nail""

Spilikin

Another name for the jackstraw in the game of jackstraws

That's Tablet Number One, in a skin. Get it out without disturbance

Jackstraw

Spinach

Spindler

Built more like Ichabod Crane

Longer and thinner

More thin and frail

Lean and lanky.

Lean and lanky

Slender.

Fine snow driven by the wind

Spray blown along surface of sea

Spray blown from the crests of waves

Yellow invertebrate (wordplay)

Chicken partially boned (wordplay)

Invertebrate chicken (wordplay)

Adjective meaning resembling

Spinelle

Quality of being spiny.

Sail suited to Shane Warne (wordplay)

Racing yacht's large triangular sail.

Sail that looks kinda like a parachute

Science fiction novel by Timothy Zahn

Web-making part of a spider

Spider's organ

Metallic trimmings

The quality or state of being spiny or thorny; spininess.

Snip tress (anagram)

Hip publicists (wordplay)

Relatives of bachelor girls.

Having spinules; minutely spiny.

Like prices during inflation

Twisting

Secretly carrying (away)

Making leave (with "away")

Secretly carrying (off)

Receptacles for tobacco chewers

Loogie containers

Napa buckets

Climbing mountains, clamber over group leader displaying ...

Splat

""Displaying, or affected with, spleen; angry; fretful; melancholy.""

Spleeny

Illustrious.

Splashed out having received loan! That's brilliant!

Shining

Breathtaking features

Brilliancies

Odds on usurer heard to show richness

Show way to spend our pound inside

Half-hearted hostility and dismal dazzle

Pencil set (anagram)

Being irritable, select pin differently

There's a splice around the cross net

""A pouch, as for tobacco.""

Sharp frogments of wood

They can get under your skin

Antipodean novel gives us the shivers

""Consisting of splinters; resembling splinters; as, the splintery fracture of a mineral. as, the splintery fracture of a mineral.""

Splint

Divulging secrets, and leaving

Like some headaches

Dividing

Splodge

Splosh

Splurge

""A mineral of a white to yellowish, purplish, or emeraldgreen color, occuring in prismatic crystals, often of great size. It is a silicate of aluminia and lithia. See Hiddenite. Hiddenite.""

""One who serves a cause or a party for a share of the spoils; in United States politics, one who makes or recognizes a demand for public office on the ground of partisan service; also, one who sanctions such a policy in appointments to the public service.""

SPOILS spoil

Wheelwright's representative (wordplay)

Official voice of the cyclist (wordplay)

Representative at press conference

Representatives of groups.

Some spin doctors

Party leaders.

Spondaic

Most moist and soft

Sponsion

Brought to you (by)

Was an angel

Like Web "articles" that are really ads

Spontoon

Spooling

Charge for a snog with a bird (wordplay)

Large wading bird

One may be roseate

Spoonful

Spoony

Spoonful

""Pl. sporangia (-j - ) A single-celled or many-celled structure in which spores are produced, as in fungi, algae, mosses, and ferns. Also called spore case .""

The growth or development of an animal or a zooid from a nonsexual germ.

""Any of numerous parasitic protozoans of the class Sporozoa, most of which reproduce sexually and asexually in alternate generations by means of spores. They are frequently transmitted by bloodsucking insects to different hosts, where they cause many serious diseases, such as malaria and coccidiosis.""

A parasitic one-celled animal

Rower perhaps left in ship by crew

He is active

He engages in physical games

Guys who fish or hunt, say

Club members, maybe

Hunters and anglers.

For giving it a twist, it's wet at last

Tearing ligaments

Lying with limbs flung out

Spreading out in an ungainly fashion

Lying untidily

English city in stretching

Afterthought about county town expanding

Opening out

Sprig

English word

Springal

South African symbol

A jumper for the South African side

South African animal

Seasonably named dogs.

They're bound to be dogged

Some spaniels

A spaniel without one is more resilient

More elastic

More likely to bounce back, more like May might you say (wordplay)

With elasticity

Bound to come up after 10 across, perhaps

Summers are bound to follow this with the gin

Rained a bit

Caused umbrellas to open

Made umbrellas necessary

Device for lawn owners.

Device for watering

"Let-us-spray" device

Does lawn work

Candy or cone topping

Barely rains

They are quick

Writer on board for runners

Running types!

At top speed.

Action at a track

Going full tilt

Spritz

In season, blossoming (wordplay)

Growing rapidly.

Fresh growth.

Most spirited

Squad

Squadron

Squalene

Squall

Spends thoughtlessly

Wastes

Crushing game in golf

Crushing something so that it becomes flat

Suppressing

SQUAT to sit on one's heels

Sedentary occupation (wordplay)

In a crouch

Squawk

Making mouselike noise

Squeal

Avoidable K. P. chore.

Avoidable K.P. chore

Compressing, crushing

Squeg

Squib

Squid

Squinch

Tenses up, as muscles

Squinny

Squinny

Squinny