2-Letter Words Starting with S

Swound

Came together, as nerve endings

A cell found in the embryo sac of a seed plant

Uneasy phone discussion not entirely conveyed

Syringe

State of the blessed (wordplay)

Has Robin been canonised (wordplay)

Nick's status (wordplay)

Salinize

""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.""

Shod like Felix Randal's horses (wordplay)

So shod and everything has Des up around there

The first sign of sun and everyone on England's coasts is wearing summer gear

Composure if dragon's in a whirl

Composure in trying circumstances

Coolness under pressure.

Made clean

Stains die out, when clinically cleaned

Made clean? Is instead corrupted

Made clinically clean

Like hotel toilet seats

Cleaned up

Disinfected

What the dressmakers saw (wordplay)

Material valued for cabinetmaking

Can solicit to cut down tree

Of or belonging to the Saturniidae.

Walked casually into sea, turned rough

Walked casually

Strolled with relative on Sunday - and shot deer!

Scandal

Hunted for scraps

Ragpicked

Did some foraging

Monosyllabic word meaning "cadged"

Co-eds rung up and cadged

Uncultivated area

Made a deep-in-concentration face

Crushed noisily

Compacted

Scunner

A seashore.

Put in the bin!

Roped off, perhaps

Cut up at being forcibly treated

Ten gems Ed sorted and divided

Divided like an orange.

Cut into parts

""NOMAD a wanderer, also NOMADE""

Given life, perhaps

Judged the merits of.

Making scene, tend to be condemned

In all the right places

In order

Like some inaugural ball dresses

Sung to (from below window)

Did a number on (wordplay)

Went a-courting, perhaps

Repeated a certain number of times.

Like septuplets

Disposed of round flat note like sisters of chalk cliffs

Made a point of (wordplay)

End with phrase specially honed

Brushed up

Shinney

Cut down to size (wordplay)

Tenor performing in hut gets cut

Condensed thus, or the ends may be off

Speedwriting by worker of little stature

Girl Friday's forte.

Gregg's system.

Shunpike

Left on the bench, perhaps

Out of action, say

Kept from active participation

Gestured behind the stumps (wordplay)

Shown design fault, set about everyone

Flagged down variable

One place for advertising

Advertiser's medium

Where business name may be displayed

Meant

Polished with wax

Sinicize

Let up

Eased

Dragged through the mud, maybe

What Mrs. Slipslop did.

Attacked the good name of

Made glossy

Smoothed.

Made neater by tradesmen

Wised (up)

Got wise, with "up"

Long-necked bird allied to cormorant

Plant used as an astringent

Informal name for bistort, also describing its twisted roots

SNEAKER one that {sneaks=v}

Laughed, in a way.

Laughed in undignified fashion.

Queen in Dickens novel laughed

Giggled, British style.

Laughed disrespectfully.

Laughed derisively

Snivel

Blocked at The Crucible (wordplay)

Restricted by O'Sullivan (wordplay)

In a real pickle

Engaged in some ecotourism, maybe

Swam with the fishes, say

Went finswimming, maybe

Go downhill fast (wordplay)

Treasury Department panel (wordplay)

Way to go... downhill

Stuck at home, maybe

Stuck home, perhaps

Ski jump from Whittier (wordplay)

White expanse

Walked at a ski resort

Like later printings, often

Onerous DJ (anagram)

Visited awhile

Al departed, therefore newspaper editor stayed temporarily

Sonicate

Sonnet

Dixie

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

Spancel

Entrance, as through oratory

Having put on tie, shift grip

Fascinate

Spelunk

Plant of the ginseng family

Aromatic East Indian plant.

Aromatic root

Brought to you (by)

Was an angel

Like Web "articles" that are really ads

English word

Rained a bit

Caused umbrellas to open

Made umbrellas necessary

Squinch

Squinny

He may convey properties

Person moving theatre props

Theater crew member

British armed reconnaissance car.

One whose quarry is sought and abused (wordplay)

Hunting dog

Got stuck in a rut

Was in a rut

Hit the doldrums

Placed where the 28 across are perhaps

Posted there online, perhaps

Posted in a position

How Edward the loyal stopped the flow

Arrested resolute pressman

Increased in price

Made a higher grade

More inclined to be made like this

Like letters on a crate, maybe

Like sign letters, perhaps

Lettered with a form.

To the rear

Finds feet somehow, given support

Added starch to

Got more formal

""Stramonium. See Jamestown weed, and Datura. Jamestown weed, and Datura.""

""A name given to several kinds of wood with an unpleasant smell, as that of the F\'d2tidia Mauritiana of the Mauritius, and that of the South African Ocotea bullata. F\'d2tidia Mauritiana of the Mauritius, and that of the South African Ocotea bullata.""

Stonish

Stouten

Choked to death

What Othello did to Desdemona

Choked and killed

Added at the end

Journalist became a member and was added afterwards

Subpena

Extended under or opposite to

Suction

Summons

Sunbathe

Red from rays

Bright red in summer

Suffering from overexposure to the source of light

Brown junior soundly beaten (wordplay)

Like many bikini models

Bronzed, in a way

Environmental program since 1980

English word

Supinate

Hung over (wordplay)

Hung out after seeing red!

Hung after a red card!

Long drawn-out

Kept going, supported

Supported; kept going

Waterlogged area

Strip of fabric to absorb perspiration

It encircles an athlete's forehead

Bit of workout gear

Equal-ized (wordplay)

Eligible to be called up

Made less sour

Pig's head (wordplay)

Gurth, in "Ivanhoe"

Tender of pigs

SAILPLANE

Consecrated

Being converted, dies in fact as a saint (wordplay)

Holy.

Permitted or penalized

Imposed punishment of a kind that's permitted

Permissible

Clog material (wordplay)

Huarache material (wordplay)

Tree used for making footwear (wordplay)

Played down, say

Used crude force

Obstructed, outmanoeuvred

Inserted between.

Was hidden plastic, encasing canine opening, like a filling (wordplay)

Converted (a fat) into soap

Scandal

SCIENTIZE

""Of or belonging to the suborder Scorpaenoidei, which includes the scorpion fishes and rockfishes.""

The movie industry; Hollywood.

Not new - part of watch!

Watch! It goes around (wordplay)

Used to be found on watch (wordplay)

Deposited into a bank

SENSITISE

Made more aware

Sentinel

Spoke from the pulpit

Preached

Impressed a sailor without his knowing!

Eastern city editor may be impressed

Coerced into crewmanship

Squeezed (into)

Shotgun

Past tense or past participle

SIGNALISE

SIGNALIZE To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish.

Marked with roadside pointers

SLOGANIZE

Eliminated rough edges

Yellow-flowered North American plant of the daisy family

Got out of hand

Got out of control

Expanded rapidly.

Like some tall mountains

Like a white peak

Tired about absence of throne, like some in high places (wordplay)

Snowplow

Dignified

A soundingboard.

Going from the Bronx to Brooklyn

Headed to Dixie - or stuck there (wordplay)

Spancel

B..O..U..N..D (wordplay)

Give the letters a leap - how enchanted!

Absorbed by B-O-U-N-D, perhaps

English word

Cracked lips, tender perhaps

Broke into small, sharp pieces

Fragmented

A fountain or source.

""Young, usually soft wood that lies directly beneath the bark and develops in early spring.""

Past tense or past participle

Formed defense groups, of a sort

Played ducks and drakes with

Frittered away

Recklessly wasted

Written using a cut out mask

Depicted horse carrying knight about poorly

STENOTYPE

STOCKING a covering for the foot and leg

Cut off, in a way

Held up by weather.

Cut off by the elements.

Distressed when pressed to accept a note

Like some circumstances

Characterized by poverty

Stranger

Keep firm grip

Defensive position taken by a wrestler

Fastness of dogs left North exhausted

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

Summoned as a witness

It's taken away from rough brute's hand

SULFONATE

SUPERVENE To come as something additional or extraneous; to occur with reference or relation to something else; to happen upon or after something else; to be added; to take place; to happen.

Supplant

Overcame (an obstacle)

Overcame

Surprint

Dour nurse working for department is besieged by her enemies

Encircled

Offbeat (wordplay)

Cut short, as rhythm

Unusually stressed church council welcomes chapter and head (slightly later)

Sold to several publications

Like a lot of crosswords? Cryptic, yes - addict tackles any number

SYNOPSIZE

Cleaned, in a way

Cleaned but good

Smoothed, as a wooden surface

Got ready to put on a new coat

Smoothed, as wood

SCANDALISE

""SCANDALIZE To offend the feelings of the conscience of (a person) by some action which is considered immoral or criminal; to bring shame, disgrace, or reproach upon.""

Schnorkel

SCRUTINISE

""SCRUTINIZE To examine closely; to inspect or observe with critical attention; to regard narrowly; as, to scrutinize the measures of administration; to scrutinize the conduct or motives of individuals. as, to scrutinize the measures of administration; to scrutinize the conduct or motives of individuals.""

""SENSUALIZE To make sensual; to subject to the love of sensual pleasure; to debase by carnal gratifications; to carnalize; as, sensualized by pleasure. as, sensualized by pleasure.""

Sentinel

English word

In need of stenographers

Not having enough staff

Without enough staff

SILICONE a silicon compound

SLENDERIZE

Hammer or Spade

Sherlock, for instance.

Detective with a nose for crime fighting

Sloganeer

Snapshot

Past tense or past participle

Flexible point of departure (wordplay)

Jumping-off place (wordplay)

If you're here, you'll take a dive

Protected from fire by a water system.

Protected from fire by a water system

Stanchion

Any rove beetle.

Used delaying tactics

Held things up

Hindered big-time

Like once-popular jeans

Up-to-date

Efficient when dealing with derailments

Efficient way to sort out derailments

Paralysed by industrial action

Affected by industrial action

LICENSED license

Not good enough!

Inferior underwater vehicle ideal

Falling short of some prescribed norm

""To be very abundant or exuberant; to be more than sufficient; as, the country superabounds with corn. as, the country superabounds with corn.""

Be responsible for the management of

Manage when turnips need cooking

Control, manage

Almost convinced, melted and yielded to temptation

Carriage mostly stopped, carried on, gave up

Gave in

Suspender

Suspicion

SYNCRETISE

SYNCRETIZE

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