2-Letter Words Starting with S

Shammas

Shamoy

Did a hair salon job

Hairdresser finds spectacles in small basket

Fake Irish jewelry (wordplay)

Fake jewelry (wordplay)

St. Patrick's Day symbols

Work as a tenant farmer

Work land for a portion of the harvest

Work another's farm

Sounds like a woolly jacket for 17 across for the night

Enclosure for farm animals or duck, almost Dickensian inside

Sheepcot

Rex and Fly, in "Babe"

Wool protection of a sort

Border collies, notably

Hope's fled for the pound

Pen for lambs, ewes, etc

Pound worth every penny to Bo Peep (wordplay)

Sheikdom

Arab chief's territory

Reportedly, disturb stupid Arab leader's territory

Husband in rebuilt home with kids, in part of Arabia

""Work composed of shells, or adorned with them.""

Sherlock

Soccer players often guard them

Tibias

Type of romance (on an ocean liner)

Like some short-lived romances

Transported by ship.

Shipload

Onassis, perhaps, captive in the sun (wordplay)

Transport magnate's shown ripe bananas

At sea, person with less time to find big fish in the main (wordplay)

Marine clams, destructive to wharves and boats

Shmooze

Shoaly

Capable of being upset by sudden occurrences

Stuffed by white, black can suffer trauma

Most likely to collapse

Most carelessly done

Least workmanlike

Wading birds.

Nile birds

Boot shiner (wordplay)

One who gives you a shine

Person whose work shines

Squeezes (into)

Tongue twisters (wordplay)

They're often tied up

Breakers at the most inopportune times

One working at court (wordplay)

Oxford man (wordplay)

Oxford's last worker (wordplay)

Shoepack

Shape-saving inserts

Shape-saving footwear inserts

Closet accessories

Former Japanese government

Shoofly

Events for the police blotter

Filmmaking activities

Criminal activities

Shouts about very regressive gunfights

Soccer game tie-breakers

Staples of Westerns

Sales ladies.

Shophar

Gets a five-finger discount

Pockets at the mall

Helps oneself, in a way.

Shopping

Shoptalk

Stilt, for example

Stilt, e.g

Dinah and Larry

Water's edge.

Where the sea meets land

Area subject to erosion

The area near the shore

Heading to land

Toward land

Drawers accept years with deficits

Date in trousers causing supply problems

Runs may cause them

Sweet biscuit - rat chokes (anagram)

Diminutive dessert (wordplay)

Rate shock (anagram)

More direct ways.

Drivers' local knowledge

Expeditious ways to produce crops

Cut down to size (wordplay)

Tenor performing in hut gets cut

Condensed thus, or the ends may be off

In gambling one who causes the odds to become less

Abridger

Want a little snow (wordplay)

What's missing from shower (wordplay)

Deficiency in whisky, perhaps a drop

Pet that doesn't need much brushing, say

Feature of a crew cut.

Result of a buzz cut

Speedwriting by worker of little stature

Girl Friday's forte.

Gregg's system.

English breed of cattle.

Deity enters tonsured cow

Durham cattle breed

List of final candidates

Place for a select group

Applicants selected from a larger group

Occasional quality of breath or stature

Characteristic of LaGuardia, Napoleon, etc.

Brevity

Ozzie Smith, for one

T-shirt (wordplay)

Brief pause (wordplay)

Cropped hairdo for radio band (wordplay)

Miniature white horse is on the air

Not a long farewell on the air

They ought to start to be armed, perhaps

They ought to begin to be armed

End of sobriquet

Shall

Winter emergency brigade.

Earth movers

Winter workers

One scoop of snow

Spade's capacity

Activity after a snowstorm

Winter-time chore

Digging out after a snowstorm

Cleared the driveway, perhaps

Hole in Amundsen's equipment gets dug

How crude shelter carried by sleigh was shifted (wordplay)

Duck person doing spadework

Duck swimming over shell

He clears the way while getting over shell shock

SHOWBIZ show business

What a flashy exhibitionist does in the ring

""Bread of exhibition; loaves to set before God; the term used in translating the various phrases used in the Hebrew and Greek to designate the loaves of bread which the priest of the week placed before the Lord on the golden table in the sanctuary. They were made of fine flour unleavened, and were changed every Sabbath. The loaves, twelve in number, represented the twelve tribes of Israel. They were to be eaten by the priests only, and in the Holy Place.""

Put on exhibit

Exhibited, as one's talent

Displayed to best advantage

Places for trophies

Display cabinets.

Displays what Latin teacher may do to class

Perhaps Annie drinks quickly, leading to clashes

Decisive confrontations

Moments of truth for downhearted performances

Some bathers

Criminal whose gang is getting clean

Post-game activity

Washing elephant's head in circus arena (wordplay)

Las Vegas entertainers

Whose sins could produce extravagance (wordplay)

Exhibitionism

Flamboyance

Prove knight maybe is a fine specimen

Exhibit western epic shot in Oxford, say

Example of excellence

Hearst Castle, for one

Beautifully furnished home

Lavishly furnished home

Showring

Places for displaying wares

Places to check out new models

Retail display areas

Shroff

Covering

Permanent business closings

Closings

Shylock

Quarantine locales

Infirmaries

Dior beads (anagram)

Dining room sight

Dining room piece.

Carnival attractions

Circus additions

Circus attractions

Sierozem

Like some growth curves

John Hancock, famously

Indicate a politician's one in agreement

Hire a conservative for proclamation party

One place for advertising

Advertiser's medium

Where business name may be displayed

Signory

Miss Italy (wordplay)

Miss cue on air - sorry!

Young lady from Rome (wordplay)

""Pl. signorine (-n , -n ) or signorinas Used as a courtesy title for an unmarried woman in an Italian-speaking area, equivalent to Miss.""

Standing directives for road-users

They may help one along the way

Aids during 2 initial jobs

""Of or pertaining to silica; containing silica, or partaking of its nature.""

See Siliceous. Siliceous.

Rubbery polymers

Caulk compounds

Organic compounds that could make soils nice

Plural or third person singular

Lung disease once known as potter's rot

Lung disease

A disease of the lungs caused by continued inhalation of the dust of siliceous minerals and characterized by progressive fibrosis and a chronic shortness of breath.

English word

Fiber-producing caterpillars

Grubby producers of luxury material

Moth larvae useful for making fabric

Siloxane

A sedimentary material consisting of very fine particles intermediate in size between sand and clay.

Certain sedimentary rock

Type of sedimentary rock

Siluroid

Dollars, in old slang

Dollars, informally

Dollars Slang.

Ecclesiastical traffickers

Simonist

Polished with wax

Simonize

Likeable, easy to get on with

On the same page

Of like mind

Idiot! It's easy to point!

Incorrectly spelt? I'm no dope!

Effortless weight (wordplay)

Machine for training, eg, pilots

Device replicating external conditions

Flight training equipment

Note sling, for one

Stolen gin (anagram)

Record's hundred and one (wordplay)

Chants in a certain cadence.

Where people lay gleefully at camp (wordplay)

Monotonous verses

SINGSONG a monotonous drone in speaking or reading

They might swallow structures

Water-created depressions

Natural depressions

He knows China

Quality or state of being sinuous.

In a wavy manner

Stray autobus bypassing the odd arch in a meandering way

Waves with regular curves

Stealing, as gasoline

Drawing: Seurat's and Ingres's first calling

It was critical for Ultra Nate

It might be sticky

It's a job to get one into a suit

Translating into English my abridged sex book

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

Closet occupants, perhaps (wordplay)

Closet hiders (wordplay)

Lost knees (anagram)

SKIBOB to travel in a sleigh-type vehicle over snow

Skiddoo

Skidoo

Non-slip surface of skateboard's child-resistant

Skijorer

Winter sport.

Winter sport

Mountain patrol vehicle

Winter transport

Skioring

Blue salad plant to rise suddenly!

Shoot up abruptly

Go through the roof

Going on one ski

Zigzagging through the course

Zigzag activity

Teen party, maybe

Stay with a friend, say

Preteens' party, maybe

English word

The Y in "Angry Birds" (wordplay)

No slights (anagram) - catapult (US)

Catapult - thin gloss (anagram)

False alibi (wordplay)

Chair upholstery item

False alibi?

Slipform

Relatives of half hitches

Ties related to half hitches

Boatswain's concern.

V-necks, for example

Some sweaters

Tops minimum amount of money invested in crafty solvers

Slipslop

Small flatfishes

Plum brandy, Tito's gift to Churchill.

Plum brandy.

Plum brandy

Acted like a baby, in a way

Talked like a toper

Licked, like a dog does

One who slobbers.

Slobby

A coiner of catchphrases

Ad agency specialist

Speaker of trite phrases

SLOGAN a motto adopted by a group

Most abhorrent to Felix Unger

Like a perfect sandwich of a sort (wordplay)

Most messy

Slopwork

Most splashy.

Offensive football players

Those with droopy carriages

Slouchy

""SLOUCH to sit, stand, or move with a drooping posture""

Showing bad posture

Sloughy

Slough

Certain labor protests

Economic declines

Delays

Ones going 50 in the fast lane, say

Laggards in a line

Dawdlers

Slowworm

Inviting or causing sleep

Left in total black, wake up incompletely, continuing to doze

Some inner city property owners

Owners of substandard properties

Reviled property owners

English word

Biter lurking in boy's bits

Informally, very small amounts

Smocking

Smoggy

SMOKE to emit a gas or vapour due to burning

A contrivance for turning a spit by means of a fly or wheel moved by the current of ascending air in a chimney.

Kind of tobacco

Like chewing tobacco

Like cleaner fuels

Adjective meaning resembling

Smokepot

The quality or state of being smoky.

Displayed suppressed anger

Didn't flare

Did a slow burn

Some amorousness

Loving display

Kissing Point's low feature finally submerging

Works with a plane

Gets even

Mollifiers

Descriptive of the best golf swing

Finest golf swing or playing surface

Having the fewest hiccups

Some 'mixed' drinks...

Frosty blender concoctions

Drinks of pureed fruit

Getting even for second low affair

Using sandpaper on

Small low object seen in evening out

Drenched in sauce

Her modest fancy will get stifled

Stifled, he stormed out

Burns slowly (var.)

Burns rot on board ship

Smokes, British style.

Reputed rattler bite remedy [2001]

Rattler-bite remedy, supposedly

Medicinal plant.

Get pictures at a bar (wordplay)

Cellphone creations, sometimes

Photo album collection

Bent boss I found corrupt and most haughty

New leisure pursuits in East End disrupting road, with most affected

Snobbism

Blocked at The Crucible (wordplay)

Restricted by O'Sullivan (wordplay)

In a real pickle

Most meddlesome

Most stuck-up

Maximally pompous

Most snobbish

Snoozy

Snoozle

Engaged in some ecotourism, maybe

Swam with the fishes, say

Went finswimming, maybe

Vacationer, at times

Certain underwater explorer

Club Med vacationer, at times

Snotty

Snouty

Drinks made from mushrooms (wordplay)

Increases at an accelerating rate

Rockets currently do within ship

White masses

Roadside accumulations for Hank and Tyra (wordplay)