2-Letter Words Starting with S

""A woman who performs all the duties typically associated with several different full-time roles, such as wage earner, graduate student, mother, and wife.""

""The act of turning the hand palm upward; also, position of the hand with the palm upward.""

Supinator

SUPPLE to make {pliant=adj}

That which is to supply what is wanted.

What some pubgoers do (wordplay)

They back not opening wine during meals

Pros rest up after playing champions

Fair as player, holding up pro

and 26: Those apart from leads trip up with songs and act poorly

Providing help

Playful, keeping up with helpful intentions

Frisky about being at university, maintaining a loyal interest

""Capable of being supposed, or imagined to exist; as, that is not a supposable case. as, that is not a supposable case.""

*As it's widely believed

Assume, for the sake of argument... (inaccurate usage, to purists)

As at least some people think

Assumer's adverb

Massive edition kept in stock, by all accounts

Ignition-related radio-noise reducer

Eat iron and gold; it will stop interference

Adjective (-ic)

Like a mountain goat

Like mountain goats

Descriptive of certain walkers

Browse internet forums (wordplay)

Wavestorm products

Wave riders

Mathematics A function that is onto.

Overcame (an obstacle)

Overcame

SURROGATE A deputy; a delegate; a substitute.

Surrogate

Dour nurse working for department is besieged by her enemies

Encircled

Car ride smoother

Car's shock-absorbing system

Category of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Suspensor

Having power or effect of delaying

Eddie Rabbitt hit

Minute traces give grounds for doubt

Dubious, like the filth (wordplay)

Dishonest-looking suspect

Leery as Hoadly's old man

Swallower

To chant about glory is believing

Consent to hang about drinking

Gulping down

Swansdown

Outgrowths of a barked shin

They often fly out during an explosion

Don overwhelmed by weapons and oaths

Poor working conditions

Factories with low pay

Cheap factories

Tough workplaces

Sweetshop

Swinepox

Trick like Rickrolling

Oreo (wordplay)

Unexpected reversal, in slang

SWOONING the act of swooning

See Sweepstake. Sweepstake.

Swordplay

Swordtail

Weirdly a NYC psycho is licking boots

Servile flattery

Fawning obsequiousness

Psycho interfered with insects and parasites

Examples of deductive reasoning

Syllogist

SYLLOGIZE To reason by means of syllogisms.

Syllogize

""Of or pertaining to a symbol or symbols; of the nature of a symbol; exhibiting or expressing by resemblance or signs; representative; as, the figure of an eye is symbolic of sight and knowledge.as, the figure of an eye is symbolic of sight and knowledge.""

Represented; idly emboss (anagram)

Symbolise

Symbolism

Symbolist

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

One who symbolizes.

Symbolize

Symbol

Major musical works

Ships money abroad for musical works

Haydn is known as their "father."

Beethoven, notably

Eg, Beethoven

Soda-server is absorbing Mahler's First and Tchaikovsky's (or one of their ilk)

One engaged with others at a banquet or merrymaking.

Symposium

Places of worship.

""The blending into one syllable of two successive vowels of adjacent syllables, especially to fit a poetic meter; for example, th' elite for the elite.""

Composed of several carpels consolidated into one ovary.

Contemporaneous

""SYNCHRO a type of remote-control device, also SELSYN""

Offbeat (wordplay)

Cut short, as rhythm

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

Syncopate

Jazz addict.

""SYNDICATE The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a council, or body of syndics.""

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

Oh! Decency's different with eg 'New faces'

Use of 'Midas' for 'wealthy person,' for example

The study of the ecological interrelationships among communities of organisms.

Synkaryon

Synonymy

One who collects or explains synonyms.

""SYNONYME a word having the same meaning as another, also SYNONYM""

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

Nuts and bananas can be so described

Meaning the same

Having the same meaning

SYNOPSIZE

Synopsize

Poles divided by variable of light in outline

Pl. synostoses (-s z) The fusion of normally separate skeletal bones.

Same as Synosteosis. Synosteosis.

""SACCULATE SACCULE a small sac, also SACCULUS""

Sacroiliac

""A cloth under a saddle, and extending out behind; a housing.""

With good judgment

In a shrewd manner

Sailboater

SAILBOAT a boat with sails

Salacious

Buying guides (wordplay)

They're often in the field

Clerks.

One helping with wild salon sprees

Small drinks for each young man's agent

Staff member

A salimeter.

Salivation

Pacific Coast fruit

""Pl. salmonellae (-n l ) or salmonellas or salmonella Any of various rod-shaped bacteria of the genus Salmonella, many of which are pathogenic, causing food poisoning, typhoid, and paratyphoid fever in humans and other infectious diseases in domestic animals.""

Salmonella

Saltarello

Pertaining to dancing

Adapted for leaping.

Italian dish

Italian dish which translates as "it leaps into the mouth"

New unit at a loss for words of greeting

Letter openers

Greetings

""SALVATION The act of saving; preservation or deliverance from destruction, danger, or great calamity.""

Rest stops (wordplay)

Rest homes

Making binding

Fragrant Asian trees.

Tropical trees.

Birds found in semideserts

Pigeonlike birds

Little Leaguers, once.

Abounding with blood; sanguine.

Sanitation

Sanitorium

""A fellow without breeches; a ragged fellow; a name of reproach given in the first French revolution to the extreme republican party, who rejected breeches as an emblem peculiar to the upper classes or aristocracy, and adopted pantaloons.""

Soapy

Saponifier

Saponify

Saprophyte

Feeding or growing upon decaying anomal or vegetable matter; pertaining to a saprophyte or the saprophytes.

SARCOID a disease of horses

SARCOID a disease of horses

SARCOLEMMA The very thin transparent and apparently homogenous sheath which incloses a striated muscular fiber; the myolemma.

Sarcolemma

Of or pertaining to sarcoma; resembling sarcoma.

Stone coffin with carvings

Sculpted coffin

Pyramid box

Sarcoplasm

SARDONIC mocking

In the manner of a tailor.

In a tailored style

Saturation

John Coltrane, for one

One blows it by running into shop

Bill Clinton or Lisa Simpson, at times

Metal framework used when 4 down

Temporary structure for building workers

Tubular structure erected round building

""Resembling a ladder in form or appearance; having transverse bars or markings like the rounds of a ladder; as, the scalariform cells and scalariform pits in some plants. as, the scalariform cells and scalariform pits in some plants.""

Scallopini

Scaloppine

Put the blame on

Boastful and cowardly character

Cowardly buffoon

Coward shows wound, having confronted a second superior rebel

An alarming person

One spreading worrying rumours

Spreader of frightening rumours

Scatology

One who wastes; a spendthrift.

Broad and unorganized

Lacking focus

""The art or act of representing a body on a perspective plane; also, a representation or description of a body, in all its dimensions, as it appears to the eye.""

Scherzando

The quality or state of being schistose.

""Any of several chiefly tropical trematode worms of the genus Schistosoma, many of which are parasitic in the blood of humans and other mammals. Also called bilharzia , blood fluke .""

Schizocarp

Adjective (-ic)

Schnorkel

Student's craft (wordplay)

Student's joint award (wordplay)

Finance provided for academic merit

People in college, for example

Thomas Aquinas and others, philosophically

Pedantry

Commentating on ancient literature

Backpack fillers, often

Kid's backpack contents

First grader, for example

First grader, e.g

Some Little Women taught at St Trinian's

Building for teaching

Place of learning

Building used for teaching

Schoolmarm

Young peers happily sharing a mistress (wordplay)

What U.S. needs more of.

Places of learning

3-R centers

Schooltime

Schoolwork

German folk dance (Scotch in German)

Dance similar to the polka

Polka-like, 19th century German dance

A scissor-tailed flycatcher.

""A disease of adults, characterized by a diffuse rigidity and hardness of the skin.""

An instrument for determining with accuracy the degree of hardness of a mineral.

SCLEROTIZE

A genus of venomous myriapods including the centipeds. See Centiped. Centiped.

""A thick, syrupy, colorless alkaloid, C 17 H 21 NO 4 , extracted from plants such as henbane and used primarily as a mydriatic and sedative, and to treat nausea and prevent motion sickness. Also called hyoscine .""

Scorching

They show runs

Point holders

Directors in twenties indicate the state of play

Ball-game official

Summer (wordplay)

Game official

Of or pertaining to scoria; like scoria or the recrement of metals; partaking of the nature of scoria.

Scorpaenid

Scoundrel

Outdoor skills take Signal Corps seawards on carbon floats

Scouther

Tonto's equestrian role (wordplay)

Irregular must escort a troop leader

Organiser of a 5 of boys

Monastery room for writing

Scrollwork

Scrootch

Scroungy

This tastes so good! (5 of the question)

Extremely appetising (colloq.)

Dee-licious!

""An American grape, a form of Vitis vulpina, found in the Southern Atlantic States, and often cultivated. Vitis vulpina, found in the Southern Atlantic States, and often cultivated.""

""The young attached larva of Discophora in the stage when it resembles a hydroid, or actinian.""

Scyphozoan

Seaborgium

SEASONAL occurring at certain times of the year

Football defense groups

Subordinate persons.

In a secondary manner or degree.

In a provincial manner.

Into chunks

Seditious

Apartheid, say, upset Saint George

Saint George's unexpected detachment

A keeping apart

""Something claimed or taken by virtue of sovereign prerogative; specifically, a charge or toll deducted from bullion brought to a mint to be coined; the difference between the cost of a mass of bullion and the value as money of the pieces coined from it.""

Seigniory

Seignorage

Seismogram

Earthquake measuring instrument

Instrument for registering earthquakes

Instrument registering earthquakes

Device recording our planet's movements

Measurer of earthquakes

Earthquake detector

""The mensuration of such phenomena of earthquakes as can be expressed in numbers, or by their relation to the co\'94rdinates of space.""

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

The science of meanings or sense development (of words); the explanation of the development and changes of the meanings of words; -- more commonly referred to as semantics.semantics.

On the first and the 15th

Like some periodicals

About 24 times a year

NOMADIC pertaining to a {nomad=n}

Semiology

Student of signs/symbols

""(used with a sing. verb) The theory and study of signs and symbols, especially as elements of language or other systems of communication, and comprising semantics, syntactics, and pragmatics.""

SEMIOTIC a general theory of signs and symbolism

POPULAR something pleasing

Semipostal