2-Letter Words Starting with S

How late-comers should conduct themselves

Soundness

Prepares a booth for recording

Rigs for recording

Soundstage

Sourcebook

Bass tubas used in marching bands

Instruments named for The March King

Parade instruments

""A storm, strong wind, or gale coming from the southeast.""

Southerly

Blow one's top in it (wordplay)

How independent nations function

Governs, yet somehow holds one dominion

It's signified by a crown

Pre-eminence

SOVIETIZE

Spallation

Greek dish having spinach and feta cheese in filo pastry

In Greek cooking, a filo pastry stuffed with spinach and feta cheese

English word

Adjective meaning resembling

See antispasmodic .

The common yellow water lily (Nuphar advena). Nuphar advena).

Speciation

Heavenly photo

One of Hulme's conjectures (wordplay)

Wall Street motivation

Son's embezzlement's a matter of conjecture

Market manipulators

Travelling clock (wordplay)

Sonata instrument (wordplay)

It displays the going rate

Pl. spermagonia also spermogonia (-n - ) A cup-shaped cavity or receptacle in which the spermatia of certain lichens and fungi are produced.

""Pl. spermatozoa (-z ) The mature fertilizing gamete of a male organism, usually consisting of a round or cylindrical nucleated cell, a short neck, and a thin motile tail. Also called sperm cell , zoosperm .""

Any ground squirrel of the genus Spermophilus; gopher. See Illust. under Gopher. Spermophilus; gopher. See Illust. under Gopher.

Sphenopsid

""An instrument for measuring the curvature of spherical surface, as of lenses for telescope, etc.""

""A bacterial cell whose cell wall is absent or deficient, causing it to have a spherical form.""

""A basic, long-chain, unsaturated amino alcohol, C 18 H 37 NO 2 , found combined with lipids in the brain and in nerve tissue.""

""SPICULATE Covered with, or having, spicules.""

Flowers.

Spinosity

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Microbiology) any of a group of spirally coiled rodlike bacteria that includes the causative agent of syphilis See treponema [from New Latin spīrochaeta; see spiro- 2 , chaeta ]""

SPIROCHETE

Spirochete

Spirometer

An instrument for measuring the volume of air entering and leaving the lungs.

""A guard in the front part of vehicle, to prevent splashing by a mud or water from the horse's heels; in the United States commonly called dashboard. dashboard.""

Splashdown

Splayfoot

Spleenwort

Splendid.

Pl. splenectomies Surgical removal of the spleen.

Splotchy

Don't invite them!

Wet blankets, figuratively

Wet blankets

Spokeshave

A woman who speaks on behalf of another or others. See Usage Note at man .

A man who speaks on behalf of another or others. See Usage Note at man .

Spoliation

Plural or third person singular

SPONDYL a {vertebra=n}

Spongeware

Money given to support an activity

Backing prison's posh refurbishment

The pledging of money to a fund-raiser

Abandon nasty pie, not properly cooked

Ability to act on impulse

Uninhibited or instinctive behaviour

Unrehearsed, awful panto's no use

Cause of Mr Krook's death

Middle of the resolution

Those making rowdy brawls from fairy lights, perhaps (wordplay)

They often involve switching initial letters, as in the starred answers

Transpositions like "It is kisstomary to cuss the bride"

Production or formation of spores.

Sporogony

""Pl -nia [-nɪə] (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) the sporophyte of mosses and liverworts, consisting of a spore-bearing capsule on a short stalk that arises from the parent plant (the gametophyte) sporogonial   adj STADIOMETER (Mathematics & Measurements / Surveying) an instrument that measures the length of curves, dashes, etc., by running a toothed wheel along them [from stadio- , from stadium + -meter ]""

Sporophore

Sporophyll

Sporophyte

""SPOROPHYTE In plants exhibiting alternation of generations, the generation which bears asexual spores; -- opposed to gametophyte. It is not clearly differentiated in the life cycle of the lower plants.gametophyte. It is not clearly differentiated in the life cycle of the lower plants.""

Sporozoite

Game shows (wordplay)

TV fare

Sportsman

Female athlete or player

Female athlete

A woman who is active in sports.

SPORULATE

""The act or process of forming spores; spore formation. See Illust. of Bacillus, b. Illust. of Bacillus, b.""

SPORULATE

With all eyes watching

Flexible point of departure (wordplay)

Jumping-off place (wordplay)

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

A small storehouse constructed over a spring and used to keep food cool.

Springwood

Squadron

Squamation

Squooshy

""Formerly, the chief magistrate of the United Provinces of Holland; also, the governor or lieutenant governor of a province.""

Worrisome economic period

Bad economic situation

Challenge for economists

Stagnation

One with an interest in (say) society

One with an interest (in something)

Part-owner, say

Tradesman may be a theatre-goer

""An abortive stamen, or any organ modified from an abortive stamen.""

Stanchion

Like the cold seafood seller (wordplay)

Aloof, with pets in it (wordplay)

Piscine kiosk (wordplay)

Standpoint

Starboard

Starflower

Starvation

Structures at Albany, Trenton, etc.

Capitols

Statoblast

Statoscope

Statutory

Staurolite

Of or pertaining to staurolite; resembling or containing staurolite.

Defeated and then some

Whupped and then some

Overwhelming power, as used in politics

Political machine of a sort.

Crush opposition, politically speaking.

""Body, Human""

""Body, Human""

Overaction of the sebaceous glands.

Man in Bethlehem (wordplay)

Bridge builder

Sort of dinosaur

Dinosaur with bony plates along the back

Godzilla, in part

STENOBATH

Tool for the working girl.

Secretary's forte

Shorthand writing

Limited to or able to live only within a narrow range of saltwater concentrations. Used of aquatic organisms.

Stenotherm

Stenotypy

STENOTYPE

STENOTYPE

Relative by marriage

Relative to walk with hassle round river

Upset Herbert's top relative

Tropical climbing plant

Fairy tale characters.

Some remarried women

3-D pictures.

A flat representation of a 3-D original

Three-D picture

3-D picture.

Twin-channel sound

Device offering 3-D viewing

It provides outstanding images

Three-D viewer

Viewing in 3-D

""A method in neurosurgery and neurological research for locating points within the brain using an external, three-dimensional frame of reference usually based on the Cartesian coordinate system.""

Conforming to stock idea

Conforming to a stock image

Tired Tory with deep-set disorder

""One who stereotypes; one who makes stereotype plates, or works in a stereotype foundry.""

Hackneyed expressions, for example.

Sees pottery cast in moulds

Film heroes, often

Like a stock image

Conventional

""A substance that irritates the nasal and respiratory passages and causes coughing, sneezing, lacrimation, and sometimes vomiting.""

It can pick the beat up (wordplay)

Medical instrument that scoops teeth out

It will find a broken heart

STEVEDORE One whose occupation is to load and unload vessels in port; one who stows a cargo in a hold.

Drama ()

DES.

Stiletto

Process of arousal or goading

Model welcomes tip for tantric arousal

Nerve impulse cause

Stimulator

STIMULATOR One who stimulates.

Condition of an agreement

Condition to an agreement

Condition attached to an agreement

Stipulator

""STIPULATOR One who stipulates, contracts, or covenants.""

Stitchwort

Wholesale plant grower or cattleman?

Dealer with bulls and bears.

Cher (wordplay)

Stockfish

Ranch owner (wordplay)

Reader of "quotations."

Owner of funds in a company

Stretch fabric for making bandages etc

Stretchy fabric

Former finance worker

Warehouse worker

Stockpiler

Storing up

Retailer's task - shoplifting (wordplay)

Evaluation of unsold goods

Stolidity

Serious whale ailment (wordplay)

Overeater's woe

Overeater's risk

Stomatopod

Stomodaeum

Secret society member in an episode of "The Simpsons"

Secret society member in an episode of 'The Simpsons'

Stonefish

They build a nest on moss, perhaps

Blockheads (wordplay)

Certain builders

Used delaying tactics

Held things up

Hindered big-time

One playing for time

One who is continually evasive to block progress

Defensive batsman, one playing for time with one wicket in hand

Like once-popular jeans

Stoniness

They have seconds

Many timers

Main Street lineup

They've got the goods

Depositories

Repositories

Local retailer, maybe

* Mom or Pop, maybe

Stockholder (wordplay)

Storksbill

Panels illustrating film scripts

Movie-planning sketches

Movie-planning pictures

Librarian, for one.

Narrator (possibly a liar?)

What is a talesman (wordplay)

Stoutness

Stramonium

Government headed by military chiefs

Soda jerk's boutonniere (wordplay)

Soda jerk's boutonniere?

Abstract noun (-ity)

With great exertion

Paralysed by industrial action

Affected by industrial action

Strikeover

Flashing lamp effectively freezing motion

Strobotron

Chests of a sort.

Places for valuables

Chests.

Keeps

Forts

Stuccowork

""STYLIZE to make conventional, also STYLISE""

A mode of writing or tracing lines by means of a style on cards or tablets.

""An expansion at the base of the style, as in umbelliferous plants.""

""The act of understanding, or supplying, something not expressed; also, that which is so understood or supplied.""

CATEGORY a division in any system of classification

Plural or third person singular

Subcolony

Subcompact

Outsource, as part of a job

Farm work out

Get extra help, as a builder

Contrary in an inferior degree.

Below a part of the brain

Subcounty

DECISION to win a boxing decision

DIRECTOR one that {directs=v}

Relief rupture unit

Suburban neighborhood, often

Smaller section

""The fourth tone above, or fifth below, the tonic; so called as being under the dominant.""

Subduction

EMPLOYED employ

Subjection

""The act of subjugating, or the state of being subjugated.""

Subjugator

""Act of subjoining, or state of being subjoined.""

Subkingdom